[lbo-talk] Ends and Odds

[paul]

You know, it's easy to bash food co-ops when your biggest concern is
navigating your parent's mercedes into the garage at the family estate
before bad weather hits [re: Chucky's "blog":
http://chuck.mahost.org/weblog/index.php] but for poor people, they
help. Yes, there are problems with social welfare services and within
co-ops, but they aren't *the* problem - capitalism is. In fact, they are
part of a social safety net that helps ameliorate the conditions of
wealth and allows for further struggle to be broadened and
revolutionized.

When they said "schools are jails" they meant "THEIR schools are jails!"
not "all schools are jails".

- paul


>In other words, you don't favor any form of fundamental social change? 
>Food co-ops suck too, but they have to compete in a capitalist economy.
>
>Alternatives to schooling do work and they can have a significant
>impact 
>once society is changed to better support learning alternatives. 
>Otherwise, throwing more money at schools is not going to turn out
>young 
>people who love to learn and who are capable of controlling their own 
>education.


>As they said about the "Schools Not Jails" slogan a few years ago in 
>California: Schools are jails!