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Paulo Freire and the Birth of Groomer Schools

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The Cultural Revolution

The seduction here is that if we were in a genuinely oppressive society, it would work this way. This is like a Marxist society. They actually do this. And so Marxists project that state of affairs onto free societies because they're Gnostics and entitled vulnerable narcissists. So we find Freire calling for cultural revolution. For Freire, the point of education is to spark the cultural revolution. Marxism is the how for doing that. Maoism is the theory that's being installed. It can only be understood by what Altusara calls the dialectic of overdetermination. The analytic tool prevents us from falling into mechanistic explanations or what is worse mechanistic action.

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