Posted on 02/04/2021 12:21:25 PM PST by Red Badger
The Vice President of North Carolina’s largest teachers’ association is a self-avowed Marxist activist linked to Liberation Road – a “revolutionary socialist” group that follows the teachings of Karl Marx and Mao Zedong. The “revolutionary” – Bryan Proffitt – leads the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), which boasts over 43,000 members and revenues of over $8,000,000.
Socialism for Your Kids. Proffitt previously served as President of the Durham Association of Educators and as a teacher from 2004 to 2015, also earning a spot as a finalist for the Teacher of the Year award among Durham Public Schools.
Outside the classroom, however, Proffitt is staunchly committed to precipitating a shift to socialism within the United States.
“We are revolutionary socialists in the U.S. dedicated to fighting for a social system where social wealth is not in the hands of a few billionaires, but is controlled by the people,” Proffitt’s Liberation Road provides as its description.
Liberation Road also presents Republicans as “the main enemy”:
Using the framework of the united front, we identify the New Confederacy—composed of the most reactionary faction of capital and middle strata, rightwing racists, united in the Republican Party—as the main enemy. We use this term to emphasize the fact that the Right in this country is rooted in a racist program and strategy
What’s more, the group reveals it follows the teachings of Mao Zedong:
From Mao, the methods of the mass line and the united front — how to learn from the experiences and insights of workers and broad masses to formulate demands and build struggles that are as broad and inclusive as possible yet also really challenge the system; and the insight that the transitional relations of production under the socialist state generate new exploiters who must be prevented from restoring capitalism.
LIBERATION ROAD’S FAQ. “There is also much to learn from the countless fighters who have helped scout the terrain ahead. These include not just Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin and Mao Zedong, but Malcolm X, Ella Baker, Amilcar Cabral, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Antonio Gramsci, Jose Marti, Franz Fanon, Digna Ochoa, Berta Carceres, and many, many more,” the group adds.
Proffitt has authored white papers for the group, hoping they would “encourage more young people to participate in the conversation on organization and what we need to build a revolutionary movement.”
“For the sake of transparency, we are young leaders in Liberation Road/El Camino Para La Liberación, a revolutionary organization with members throughout the United States. But more importantly, we are you…the Young and Left,” the piece begins.
Targeting Schools. In the paper, he instructs his comrades on how to be successful in their quest to bring about socialism in the United States and beyond:
Identify and support new leadership from people’s movements. Study the problems, envision long-term solutions, and create a program to organize for the changes we need. In these organizations, everyone doesn’t have to be everything; cultural workers stand side by side with organizers and people who are talented administrators as everyone works to fill in each other’s gaps. Support and love each other. Coordinate and amplify. By creating a venue where revolutionaries can connect across diverse movements and geographies, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Revolutionary Voltron.
He also addresses a special significance to targeting schools:
Build a common project or campaign with folks who are in social movement organizations, community organizations, unions, schools, and revolutionary organizations. Base the project on local investigation of issues that folks can develop and work on together. We need more base-building, more mass movement. That’s how we create space for people to change their own realities. Revolutionaries, together, have a big role to play here. Doing this kind of work with those that we haven’t before will help to build trust and lasting political relationships that can take us to a higher-level of struggle.
Proffitt was also interviewed in 2008 as part of the “Heirs to a Fighting Tradition: Oral Histories of North Carolina Social Justice Activists” project. During the interview, he insisted “capitalism has to go,” before calling for a revolutionary party:
I’m a revolutionary because I think that capitalism has to go. We can’t make a nicer, more diverse society without eliminating white supremacy. We’re not going to end violence against women until we end a system called patriarchy that says that men are more valuable than women, and that there are only two boxes of genders and that everybody has to fit into one or the other. We’re not going to reform that. To build a revolutionary party, we’re going to have to reform a lot of that stuff along the way.
>>One of the main reasons the left is where they are at this time and winning.
Consider that the murderous terrorists of the Weather Underground have jobs in academia at Ivy League schools and elsewhere and that one of their spawn is the Socialist Injustice Warrrior DA of San Fransicko. He still believes his parents were simply mistreated by the US government.
During the 1980s, the most prominent Republicans joined Democrats to complain about teacher pay being too low. That was a lie. The truth is that both parties wanted the teachers’ votes, because there are monstrous numbers of public school teachers. Some Republican politicians still sass their constituents about the politicians’ own daughters being public school teachers and how they’re going to continue getting all of the federal pork possible.
You “call” to “remind the public that neo-Communism is every bit as repugnant and un-American as neo-Nazism is”, is correct but when we contact state officials, friendly educators (say in No. Carolina), WE MUST DO IT IN A STRONGER WAY.
* Write that Marxism is the brother to fascism but from a different mother. While the mother can be different, Nietzsche versus Marx/Engel, fascism/Nazism emphasizing the superiority of the “Teutonic/German race” over all other peoples and having a destiny to rule the world, while getting rid of “degenerate” and “undermenschen peoples”.
Marxism/communism emphasizes a parallel world view about the “superiority of scientific socialism” and the “communist worker” while but all the while , like the pigs in “Animal Farm” (George Orwell), “All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal than others”, i.e. the leaders of the communist Soviets, their Nazi-like stormtroopers, the NKVD/KGB/Red Army and their “Good Germans” blind followers.
Both DENY the basic rights of men and women, i.e., free speech and printing, freedom of assembly with being arrested, a free-of-corruption voting system, freedom of religion, of travel, and freedom of coercion to join unions such as the Teachers Unions, etc.
* Emphasis that this Teachers Union VP stands for the exact opposite of what America stands for, and he cannot be allowed to be anywhere near the educational system as he preaches, follows and works for a genocidal ideology that has killed over 100 MILLION people in one century.
Let’s see what the No. Carolina media, teachers/unions, schools, labor unions, and politicians say to that.
Politely demand that they reply to the specific points you’ve made about Marxism/socialism being a genocidal, world-dominance ideology that stands for everything evil in this world, and to which American citizens are supported to have pledged to fight.
Let us know if you get any answers.
Also send you inquiry letters to local newspapers and talk radio shows/TV shows. See if you get printed. Make the letter/inquiry, polite, concise, orderly and logical.
As the old saying goes, the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
What happened once will happen again.
There are those who seek power for power’s sake. They see themselves as the arbiter of “truth” and them alone. You do not matter to them. You are simply a nuisance or a slave, to be disposed of at their will.
Look back into history as far as you can and you will see this cycle repeated many times in many different places.
Evil bands together for its own sake. Good sequesters itself for its own protection.....................
Look closely at the International Baccalaureate program. A leftist seminary .
Durham. Who’s surprised?
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