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

by James Lindsay

In the modern context, this process is conducted through a conduit of emotional manipulation known as “Social-Emotional Learning (SEL),” in which educators as some combination of teacher, unlicensed social worker, unqualified psychologist, and “facilitator” teach their students how to navigate the social realities and emotional responses they have to them after discovering and being carefully fed these generative themes. Those generative themes are discovered in an SEL setting by means of surveying (that is, data mining) students, introducing provocative material and gauging student reactions, and through dialogue on political or sensitive social and emotional subjects under the pretext of understanding the underlying social and emotional context in which the students might encounter impediments to learning, especially with regard to social and emotional subjects (including outright Leftist identity politics).