Plato, Marx, and Dialectical Thought

This week, my mentor and I set up a system for how our meetings would work and then decided what we would be studying over the next few months. We chose Plato's dialogue on friendship, John Locke's thoughts concerning education, and Neitzsche's unfashionable observations.

The issue with political thought and politics is that they have a big disconnect. Marx said “Theory without practice is empty and practice without theory is blind.”. By these means, making liberating ideas accessible to those it will liberate is the first step towards unifying against systemic oppressors and the dead weight of inequality under our current socio-economic system. I'm looking forward to working with Dr. Ruderman to improve the scope of my philosophical understanding.