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Paulo Freire and the Marxist Transformation of the Church

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The Work of Men and Women on the World Is the Work of Transforming the World Into a Marxist Kingdom of God

Fairey: Work is not for them the action of men and women on the world transforming and recreating, but rather the price that must be paid for being human. In this traditionalist line, he says, we find what the Swiss sociologist Christian Le Leve calls the haven of the masses. This view of the world of life satisfies the fatalistic and frightened consciousness of the oppressed at a certain moment of their historical experience. It's also the work on man to transform man himself into the deity that will live in the Edenic commune which technically never arrives.

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