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

by James Lindsay

Codification itself, then, enables the educator to connect what’s happening in reality around the learners to the “theoretical context,” which is its Marxist interpretation. It then allows the educator to present this poisoned fruit to the learners “as a knowable object” that mediates the conscientization process. Academic content in a Freirean school is a prop, and that prop has a very specific purpose. It is to reinterpret triggering aspects of “lived reality” through some Marxist lens and then to thought-reform “learners” into accepting it as the right interpretation of their “lived experience” and thus the more profound nature of reality itself. Of course, anyone familiar with Transformative Social-Emotional Learning just realized what that entire program is; it’s this.