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Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire

Red Menace

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The Importance of Dialogueical Action

Freer writes that quote to divide the oppressed an ideology of oppression is indispensable but in contrast achieving their unity requires a form of cultural action through which they come to know the why and how of their adhesion to reality. Achieving this requires combating the myths and ideologies of the oppressors. Organization as you may have guessed stands in contrast to manipulation and it can only occur alongside unity. An organization that people cannot be about organizing the people for some external end but rather for the good of people themselves. This is what makes revolutionary organization distinct from anti-diological false organization. So then the final dialogical action that Freer tells us about is the idea of cultural synthesis so unsurprisingly cultural synthesis

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