The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 83
Critical Education Theory Series, Part 15
This episode of the New Discourses Podcast continues a long miniseries exploring Paulo Freire’s landmark 1985 book The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation, and it is embedded in the broader Critical Education Theory series here. In the previous two parts, James Lindsay presented the ideas in the sixth chapter of that book, wherein we see how Freire Marxified education itself and explained the groomer “dialogical” model. The previous parts of this series, covering the earlier chapters of the book can be found here, here, here, here, and here.
In this episode, James takes up the seventh chapter of The Politics of Education, wherein Freire outlines the need for and process of “conscientization.” That is, in this chapter, Freire makes it clear that the neo-Marxist consciousness-raising process is what education is actually about. Join him to understand that for Freire, education is about becoming a Marxist and a radical explicitly in the mold of revolutionary guerrillas like Che Guevara.
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The lectures of Alexander Kojeve regarding “recognition”, translated under the title of Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, are helpful regarding the concepts of consciousness and self consciousness.
I am most appreciative of your sense of duty in providing us with a reading of this genre. As you said recently, after discussing these “ideas”, you feel the need to take a shower.
I hope we see how Freire used popular new ideas related to the New Age and other movements (hippie?) to forward his own ideas based on Marxist materialism.
Some of those ideas have merit but are not compatible with Marxist.
What I see in some critics (including james?) is that they see no value in the underlying concepts that have been hijacked from other groups and thinkers. It is like big companies using old rock songs in their TV ads. The old rock songs had value in the context where they were originally created. Their use in advertising is antithetical to their original purpose, yet the aesthetic in the original creations still shine through in the ads.
The post-Marxist thinkers have used a similar strategy.
The only defense against marxist corruption is an Armor of Contempt.
Until the taint has been erradicated beyond any shadow of doubt, you must keep the contaminated elements isolated and under strict quarantine and scrutiny.
Thanks , James , for your dedication to breaking down these horrible agendas that are bringing the USA down , set in place decades ago . And , your gift is making it understandable for us who havnt read this crap . There needs to be a giant back lash .
Take care of yourself , we need you down the line .
They say so explicitly!
https://books.google.ca/books/about/Che_Guevara_Paulo_Freire_and_the_Pedagog.html?id=IrzwoZgQC1MC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y