The Marxification of Education Workshop, Session 1 of 4
Education has been stolen from us and from our children. Yes, stolen. It was deliberately transformed from within into something that is barely education at all anymore. Instead, it’s a systematic program of thought reform (brainwashing) into neo-Marxist belief and activism. How has this been accomplished? The formal name for the transformation is “the critical turn in education,” which “turned” education from traditional models of pedagogy to “Critical Pedagogy,” the application and teaching of Critical Theory to and through the education system. Its purpose: to overcome what Marxists refer to as “the problem of reproduction,” by which stable societies reproduce themselves from one generation to the next, especially through institutions involving children like religion, family, media, and especially education. Here, New Discourses Founder James Lindsay summarizes this “turn” in this first of four presentations on the Marxification of Education delivered in late July 2022 in Arlington, Virginia, on location in the now-famous Loudoun County, ground zero for the fight for America’s schools.
As a result of the research that produced this lecture series, Lindsay has written a detailed and accessible book on the issue titled The Marxification of Education, which is available now.
Session 2: Paulo Freire’s “Critical” Method of Education
Session 3: “Groomer Schools”
Session 4: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
The audio version of this presentation is available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or by RSS.
6 comments
I thought you may like this recent article.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/new-gatekeepers-woke-michael-lind
Great article. It quotes from another great (Oct 8/22) online article, “How Turbo Wokism Broke America”, that demonstrates how post-2010 Tech, social media and related oligarchic tech platforms, were the catalyst for woke’s instantaneous hegemonic infiltration of all of society .
There was no Hegemonic Woke (HW) in the past (pre-2010) because there weren’t the Totalitarian Tech Tools (TTT or T3) powerful enough to infect mass populations with viral gain-of-function ideological/behavioural control pathogens. The only way to stop woke is to reject/mock/smash/counter Totalitarian Tech Tools of Tyranny by paradigmatizing the denunciation/stigmatization/status punishment of the grunts of that tyranny, the Ruling Class lackey (corporate, academic, political, media, bureaucratic, etc.) Gulag Guards who are parasitizing/terrorizing the common people for their own status/financial reward. It’s not the Rulers (there will always be human pigs); it’s their apparatchiks who live amongst us as family, friends, neighbours and co-workers who perpetuate the T3 of Hegemonic Woke. Break the lackeys’ status mechanism and woke collapses.
“[T]he Woke is a vanguard movement that seized control of a new technology and used it as a force multiplier to discipline and terrorize the larger institutional landscape.”
https://unherd.com/2022/10/how-turbo-wokism-broke-america/
I’m hooked! I really would be interested on James’s thoughts regarding Barack Obama. Hope and change, also transform America.
It really pays off to listen and absorb as much as i can of your talks so its muscle memory . We have to step up to this now . And , its better be winning the battle of ideas . If not , the next steps will be violence no one should wamt .
Wonderful! The first thing I look for every day is a new podcast or lecture from New Discourses.
Regarding the Trouble with Ed Schools, I would highly recommend the outspoken Margarita Mooney for alternative ideas. As a Cuban immigrant, she has been quite concerned with the depressed attitude of many Ivy League students for some time and has been proposing means of re-enchanting education.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/08/39415/
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2019/10/04/educating_the_human_person_111282.html
https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/overcoming-flawed-educational-views-of-the-human-person/
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/12/79518/
https://margaritamooney.com/2019/07/a-personalist-awakening-in-education-reflections-from-the-2019-scala-summer-seminar/