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Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire

Red Menace

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The Fear of Freedom, Fatalism, and Self-Denigration

The reactionary in the elite always experience equality as oppression. In order to dismantle this contradiction and liberate humanity from its dehumanizing grip, we must unveil the ideologies and patterns of thought that support and sustain it. Freer lays out five characteristics of their consciousness which need to be overcome. These are one, fear of freedom, two, dual consciousness, three, submersion in the oppressive situation, four, fatalism, and finally five, self-denigration.

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