The vice president of the largest teachers’ association in North Carolina (USA) is a self-proclaimed Marxist activist who is associated with Liberation Road, a “revolutionary socialist” organization that follows the teachings of Marx and Mao Tse-tung. He is associated with Liberation Road, a “revolutionary socialist” organization that follows the teachings of Marx and Mao.
The National Pulse reported Feb. 3 that the “revolutionary,” Bryan Proffitt, heads the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), which has more than 43,000 members and annual revenues of more than $8 million. million dollars.
Indoctrinating your children with socialism
Proffitt served as president of the Durham Association of Educators and as a teacher from 2004 to 2015, and was a finalist for the Teacher of the Year Award in Durham Public Schools.
Outside of the classroom, however, Proffitt is deeply committed to bringing about a domestic transformation to socialism in the United States.
“We are America’s revolutionary socialists, committed to fighting for a social system in which the wealth of society is not in the hands of a few billionaires, but in the control of the people,” provides the description of Proffitt’s “Path to Liberation.
The “Road to Liberation” also sees the Republicans as the “main enemy”: “Within the framework of the united front, we identify the new alliance of the most reactionary right-wing racists of capital and the middle class (united in the Republican Party) as the main enemy. of the Republican Party) as the main enemy. We use this term to emphasize that the right in this country (the U.S.) is rooted in a racist agenda and strategy.”
More importantly, the group revealed that it follows the teachings of Mao: “From Mao we learned the methods of the mass line and the united front – how to learn from the experience and insights of workers and the masses, to allow the masses to make demands and struggle, to be as broad and all-encompassing in scope as possible, and to genuinely challenge the current system; and the insight that under a socialist state and that the transitional relations of production under the socialist state will produce new exploiters who must be prevented from reverting to capitalism.”
“The Road to Liberation adds, “We can also learn a great deal from the countless pioneering fighters who led the way. These include not only Marx, Lenin and Mao, but also Malcolm X, Ella Baker, Amilcar Cabral, Mariátegui, Gramsci, José Martí, Frantz Fanon, Digna Ochoa, Bertha Caceres, and many, many others.”
Proffitt wrote the white papers for La Libertad, hoping that they would “encourage more young people to participate in the dialogue about the organization and what we need to build a revolutionary movement.
“In the interest of transparency, we are young leaders of Liberation Road, a revolutionary organization with members across the United States. But more importantly, we are you …… are the youth and the left,” the article begins.
Targeting schools
In the document, he instructs the “comrades” on how to succeed in achieving socialism in the United States and beyond: “Identify and support the new leaders of the people’s movement. Study the problems, envision long-term solutions, and develop a program to organize for the changes we need. In these organizations, where everyone is not necessarily omnipotent, cultural workers stand shoulder to shoulder with organizers and talented managers, each trying to fill in the gaps of the other. We support each other and love each other. Coordinate and expand. By creating a place where revolutionaries can connect across movements and geographies, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
He also spoke of the particular significance of targeting schools: “Create a common project or movement with people in social movement organizations, community organizations, unions, schools and revolutionary organizations. Build the project on the basis of a local investigation of the problem, and we can all develop and work together. We need more base building, more mass movements. This will create a space where people can change their reality. Together, revolutionaries can make a big difference here. Doing this kind of work with people who haven’t done this kind of work before will help 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 project “Heirs to a Fighting Tradition: An Oral History of Social Justice Activists in North Carolina. In the interview, he insisted that “capitalism must go” and then called for the creation of a revolutionary party.
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