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Paulo Freire's Perpetual Cultural Revolution

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The Atheist Marxis, Reflection and Transcendentality

Sothes: Only beings who can reflect upon the fact that they are determined are capable of freeing themselves. Reflectiveness, he says, results not just in a vague and uncommitted awareness, but in the exercise of a profoundly transforming action upon the determining reality. For the atheist marxis, we evolved as animals, but we are not, not, not animals. We're different. We're not animals. Look, we have consciousness. And what are you going to do to free yourself? While you realize that you are actually the divine trapped within the mundane, and that you can escape that for yourself?reflectiveness.

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