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Paulo Freire's Perpetual Cultural Revolution

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Conscientization Is a Force Countering the Bureaucracy

Cultural action for freedom must then transform itself into permanent cultural revolution. The authentic left cannot fail to stimulate the overcoming of the people's false consciousness on whatever level it exists, just as the right is incapable of doing so. So that the left is the revolutionary marxis, and the right is everybody else. And in order to maintain its power, the right needs an elite who thinks for it, assisting a in accomplishing its project. Conscientization continues to be indispensable. It is the instrument for ejecting the cultural myths that remain in the people despite the new reality. Further, it is a force countering the bureaucracy, which threatens to deaden the revolutionary vision and dominate the people

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