Jul 29, 2010

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Chapter 4

The (truly) revolutionary leader is someone who believes that by living in communion with each other, we liberate each other.  He must believe that there is nothing more important than to live and work with the oppressed, with the 'rejects of life', with the 'wretched of the earth'...

Conquest vs Cooperation... shall we subject others to our will (whether forcefully or paternalistically), or shall we work together with others in order to better understand the world around us?

Fragmentation vs Unity... oppressors shift the focus to focalized views of problems, rather than dimensions of a disfunction on a grande scale... ie today's hot-topics of immigration, abortion, stem-cell research, etc

Manipulation vs Organization... oppressors manipulate the oppressed to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success...

Cultural invasion vs cultural synthesis... instead of teaching people to critically view their surroundings, instead we invade their cultures and alienate them from the spirit of their own cultures... then we teach them to dress like us, walk like us, and talk like us...

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