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

by James Lindsay

Thus, we see the strong turn to the phenomenological concept at the heart of much of Woke Marxism: “lived experience.” His disposition toward Liberation Theology explains his appeals to hope (that Marxism will work this time) and love (epitomized, apparently, in Che Guevara) as well as the overtly religious character of his view of conscientization as the purpose of education. Che Guevara is an example of the unceasing witness revolutionary leadership gives to dialogue with the people. The more we study his work, the more we perceive his conviction that anyone who wants to become a true revolutionary must be in “communion” with the people. Guevara did not hesitate to recognize the capacity to love as an indispensable condition for authentic revolutionaries. … [Guevara] became a guerrilla not out of desperation but because, as a lover of men, he dreamt of a new man being born in the experience of liberation. In this sense, Guevara incarnated the authentic revolutionary utopia. He was one of the great prophets of the silent ones of the Third World. … In citing Guevara and his witness as a guerrilla, we do not mean to say that revolutionaries elsewhere are obliged to repeat the same witness. What is essential is that they strive to achieve communion with the people as he did, patiently and unceasingly. Communion with the people—accessible only to those with a utopian vision, in the sense referred to in this essay—is one of the fundamental characteristics of cultural action fo...