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Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire

Red Menace

CHAPTER

The Cultural Revolution

Freer writes that those who make this discovery face a difficult alternative. They feel the need to renounce invasion but patterns of domination are so entrenched within them, he says. To renounce invasion would mean ending their dual status as dominated in dominators. It would mean abandoning all the myths which nourish invasion and starting to incarnate biological action. And so the fear of freedom takes hold of these men. During this traumatic process they naturally tend to rationalize their fear with a series of evasions. Freer: Cultural evolution must have the goal of constant impermanent dialogue between revolutionary leaders and the people. The coming of revolution only intensifies the need for this dialogue and the need for cultural

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