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

by James Lindsay

Our kids currently go to Paulo Freire’s schools. These schools are unambiguously Marxist (unless we split hairs and call them neo-Marxist or Woke Marxist) in their architecture, pedagogy, methods, and goals. They have abandoned the idea of educating American children to grow toward becoming successful and prosperous adults in American society because they want to undermine, destroy, and replace American society. Rather than teaching literacy, numeracy, or other educational basics, Freirean schools use subject matter like reading, writing, mathematics, history, social studies, and science lessons to teach Marxist consciousness of one or more forms at a time. As a result of more than a decade of this practice, American schoolchildren are almost universally failing in basic competency in virtually every subject at virtually every grade level. They are more “politically literate,” in the Freirean sense, than ever before, though. There’s no other way to put this than that their education has been stolen from them and what replaces it is meant to be weaponized against the society upon which their futures depend.