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

by James Lindsay

In truth, “generative themes” are concepts Marxists can use to evoke powerful emotional reactions from their students in order to groom them through a process of thought reform into a Marxist consciousness. Trigger warning! In a real sense, they are triggering themes because they are “generative” in the sense of generating emotional reactions that facilitators can use to radicalize (that is, conscientize). The real goal of the Freirean method is “political literacy,” which means conscientization. That is achieved by using generative themes to trigger priority for political discussions, allegedly as “mediators” to academic learning, and these discussions are to be facilitated by Marxist thought reformers using “lenses” like equity, inclusion, and sustainability.