The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education

by James Lindsay

In Marxist Theory, those with privilege won’t let it go easily, though, so this transition from “oppressive” and “domesticating” artificial selection to “liberating” and “utopian” (Marxist) artificial selection must proceed via revolution and an enforced, administered State ruled by the now-conscious underclass—a dictatorship of the proletariat. In Critical Race Theory, a functional dictatorship of the antiracists, as described by Ibram X. Kendi, for example, in Politico Magazine fulfills this goal.12 In Queer Theory, relentless deconstruction of all categories and norms through queer activism does. In Freirean education, all education becomes a political education, with educators as facilitators into (critical, or Marxist) consciousness, so that all knowledge becomes political knowledge understood on Marxist terms. In fact, Freire goes on in The Politics of Education to explain that true education is political education (specifically, true “literacy” is political literacy) “facilitated” by conscientized teachers. This is what the Marxists have achieved in our schools over the last forty years.