The true nature of Man is that he is a maker of History, says Marx, a process from which the underclass is excluded by structural oppression and estrangement from their true nature as such. Freire sees this creative process as downstream from being regarded as a knower, and it is just a bourgeois conceit and matter of politicized definitions of “knowledge,” “knowing,” “knower,” “literacy,” “reading,” “education,” and so on that prevent the “illiterate” from realizing their true nature.
