Paulo Freire was not merely an educator. He was a postcolonialist radical and a Marxist. He must also be understood as a religious figure, specifically a Liberation Theologian, or at least a devotee to Liberation Theology, which is best summarized by saying it is Marxism pretending to be Catholicism. The religious notes of Freire’s pedagogy—in the theology of Marxism—are not merely incidental and do not just run as a current in the background. They are utterly central to his work,
