Reading, Thinking, and Discharging
Thanks, Mel, for setting up the working-class economics group. Thanks for thinking so well about us and encouraging us to read, talk, discuss, and have our own minds.
I’d never read a whole economics book. Never done that with a group, and never thought and discussed and discharged in a group like this before.
The group was a contradiction to my “smallness.” To hurts from school. It was great to be challenged in that way. To have you hold out that economics is for me. That I get to have ideas. That I can think.
I loved the focus on reading and saying our thoughts. Not just reading and discharging. I had to read, think, and put my thoughts together and then discharge how that felt.
It was exciting each week as I understood more and asked people around me about things to do with the economy. I loved leaving the group each week with more to think about.
So, thanks again. Thanks for staying one step ahead of us so you could push us. Thanks for doing that in the firm but loving and kind way you did.
England
(Present Time 205, October 2021)