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In Vygotsky’s analysis, our “spontaneous concepts” begin in the concreteness of our day-to-day experiences, and it is from there that we begin to generalize and understand individual concepts as part of a larger system of concepts: we move from spontaneous, commonsense understandings of the world toward developing conscious awareness through more systematic, scientific understandings.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
In Britain, the mass impoverishment created in the early days of the Industrial Revolution threatened to destabilise the country, and social tensions seemed certain to erupt into class war. Britain’s ruling class realised that the colonial project promised a way of temporarily relieving some of these tensions without requiring them to relinquish any of their power.
SPK refused the distinction of “patient and doctor as two individuals who are naturally separated.” Instead, they saw a “dialectical unity” of which there was the capacity in each patient-doctor relationship for revolutionary solidarity and struggle.
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton;Artie Vierkant
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