Recently, a friend told me about growing up in the Ashram school. Mirra Alfassa founded this school with a radical pedagogy. Children could freely choose what they wanted to learn and when. Quite radical: although there was a timetable for languages, history, mathematics, philosophy, gossip, sports, etc., the kids could go wherever they [...]
I have been thinking about Marx for so many years. Who hasn't? The idea of an equal and solidary community, free of ideological superstructures or irrational will-o'-the-wisps. A world that knows only matter and sees in it a scientific, progressive movement. Their goal? A world in which humanity is perfect, i.e. harmonious, [...]