Summerhill, one example of anarchist school

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/aug/19/summerhill-school-at-90

Here you have some links about Summerhill, a British boarding school based on the principles of educating children in complete freedom. It was founded by Alexander S. Neill in 1921. Students choose what they want to do and learn. The fees are really expensive: from £8,568 to £14,889 per year, depending on the level (from 11,075 to 19.246 € per year). 

This is the school website: 

http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/

And here you have some links in English and Spanish: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/627683.stm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/summerhill-alumni-what-we-learnt-at-the-school-for-scandal-2373066.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/summerhill-inside-englands-most-controversial-private-school-772976.html

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/aug/19/summerhill-school-at-90

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/may/27/summerhill-school-head-profile

http://www.gonzoo.com/zoom/story/la-democracia-de-ninos-mas-antigua-del-mundo-337/

Differences between Marxism and anarchism

Mijail Bakunin and Karl Marx

Source: http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/1183

Here you have some schemes with the main differences between Marxism and anarchism:

Source: https://libcom.org/forums/theory/marxism-anarchism-30032008

 


Source: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7KoVY2f870ew_vkComVYwFrVK0yfztTPlMhp0xhrNtaun8at2IvC4eDlFYZI3k6K1JlEEbKY6URxy2f59N6ChgYmQtrLUELzd1hzWSUJJs65i8ri9NkCiGO5VQGP_2f6nDttLIAW3T0/s1600/Presentaci%C3%B3n1.gif

Some videos to learn more about Marxism and anarchism

They are short, explain the concepts very well and they are easy to understand:

 

Thursday 19th February 2015

First, I haven't done my journal on time. I'm so sorry but I haven't been in my house until now.

Today in the class of Social Sciences, Paqui has started the class writing the scheme about Marxism on the blackboard to explain it afterwards.
I have suggested Paqui a delay about the day of the deadline of the work which we have to give on Monday, she definitely has said no because we have had a lot of time to prepare it, and I understand her.. So, Paqui has started to explain the main ideas about Marxism:

• Class struggle --> between bourgeois and workers in the 19th.
• Proletariat revolution as a consequence of the working conditions in capitalism. The revolution would have two stages: Dictatorship of the proletariat and communist society.
• Need for workers' organization --> many workers' parties and unions were created. The impoverisment of workers would make the revolution inevitable.
• Surplus value --> profit the workers produce, but don't enjoy.
• Workers' alienation 

Then, we have talked about surplus value because we didn't know it's meaning in Spanish and Paqui has explained it to us. And now, I can say that I know what surplus value is. It's like you have to work a lot and you produce a lot of product and these products money but you only receive a little part of this production, because the rest is for the boss. In my opinion, it's not fair because I would like to earn the money that I have produced. But the boss is the boss and you can't reply to him, but there are other ways to run a factory thinking in the workers, obviously.

After this we have talked about anarchism and freedom and we have given our opinion of freedom and if we think that we are free. I think that we are free between quotation marks because you can choose some things but after you will do what someone says. I don't know how to explain this. But to sum it up, we aren't free (in my opinion). So, anarchism wants to make people recover freedom. Anarchism is a political ideology which means "without government" (not chaos).

Today's class has been so interesting for me, these are important themes. And as Paqui has said, we have to think about it.

See you on Monday classmates, don't forget your works!!



Source: http://spiritual-artwork.org/2014/09/the-evolution-of-intellectual-freedom/

2011-2012 Challenges. Number 18

This week´s questions will refer to the International Workingmen´s Association and anarchism in Spain:

The first members of the IWA in Madrid

Source: http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~macruz/regenta/XIX.html

QUESTION 1

After the 1868 Glorious Revolution in Spain, the International Workingmen´s Association sent some propagandists to Spain spread the ideas of workers´ union. Who were the Marxist and Anarchist IWA propagandists who came to Spain? Which of them got more success?

QUESTION 2

After the failure of the Commune of Paris, there was a strong repression against the Anarchists and some of them oriented to the so-called "propaganda by the deed" and used terrorism as a way of destroying the institutions that repressed them. In Spain three prime ministers were assassinated by Anarchist gunmen in the last decade of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Who were these three prime ministers ? What were the names of their killers?

QUESTION 3

One of the consequences of the Tragic Week of Barcelona in 1909 was the execution of a famous Anarchist pedagogue. There was an international protest campaign against this execution. Who was this man?

Tragic Week of Barcelona, 1909

Source: http://www.fdomingor.jazztel.es/semana%20tragica.html

QUESTION 4

In 1910 an Anarchist union was created in Spain. What was its name? How many members did this union have before the Spanish Civil War?

QUESTION 5

Although the Anarchists declared themselves apolitical, during the Spanish Civil War four Anarchists became members of the government of the 2nd Republic. Who were these four ministers?