How Paulo Freire Made Marxism Stupid

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 94 Paulo Freire is a Brazilian Marxist who is responsible for "Marxifying" education (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freires-marxification-of-education/), thereby ruining it. In effect, what he did was created a Marxist Theory of being educated (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freires-schools-new-discourses-bullets-ep-7/), and what this did, in turn, was create a Marxist Theory of knowledge and knowing. Who gets to be considered a knower? On what grounds? To whose benefit? Who decides? All of these questions are to be answered on (Critical) Marxist grounds. One result of this transition, in addition to his approach to education (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/08/paulo-freire-and-the-critical-theft-of-education/), is that he opened the door to a true Marxism of stupidity. You see, as a result of Freire's arguments, "excluded knowledges" have to be included, which includes the stupid. Speaking of how anti-intellectual and stupid this allowed Marxism to be, it allows for any idiot with a "Critical" disposition to create a Marxist Theory of anything by asking and answering the sorts of questions listed above about the knowledge base of anything they want. Thus, we end up with Marxist analyses of every academic subject, every facet of society, every hobby, every everything, in an interminable cascade of irritating stupidity we refer to as "being Woke." In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explains the phenomenon through a number of examples that make it absolutely clear how cheap and stupid "Marxist" analysis has become as a result of going "Woke." Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Subscribe to New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of the New Discourses Podcast with me, your host,
0:25.2	James Lindsay. I'm glad to be speaking to you today, and I want to give you a, I want to do a kind of
0:32.0	unfortunately, maybe you'll think this is tedious podcast, but I really want to get the idea
0:35.5	into your head. I also want to be kind of quick. We'll see what happens. But I stumbled across this
0:43.1	article the other day, my friend Dr. Rollergator, as he's called, and Colin Wright and I were discussing
0:50.1	is it time we ditched the word gardening. And this actually led me to want to make an explanation for
0:57.8	you. Of course, now the word gardening gardening is now a problem. It's no problematic.
1:03.6	And so what I want to do is I want to use this as a jumping off place to explain actually what
1:08.5	Polo Ferry did, what he actually gave to the world as far as to the Marxists of the world.
1:16.2	And what he did was he gave people the ability to create the woke condition.
1:21.7	What the woke condition is is that you have thousands, tens of thousands, maybe millions of
1:27.2	Marxist activists who don't know a thing about Marxist theory. They don't know Marx. They don't know
1:32.0	Marcusa. They don't know Luke Koch. They don't know Horkheimer. They don't know who these people
1:37.5	are. They maybe don't eat. They don't know who Ferrari is. They don't know a word of what these
1:41.5	people wrote. They don't have the slightest idea, but they're doing Marxist activism. And the
1:45.6	reason that they were able to do that is because of what Polo Ferry did to transform the way that
1:49.6	Marxist critique is done. And you know, if I had time and I was digging it up, I would find
1:56.5	for you and play through my phone an episode of a documentary or sorry, not a documentary
2:04.9	interview show from the 70s with Herbert Marcusa. And he's sitting down in this interview show.
2:10.5	I don't remember if it's in German or English, but he's complaining that the movement that he
2:14.3	kind of spawned this critical movement had become vigorously anti-intellectual. And this is by
2:19.6	like 1976, already vigorously intellectual. Now this is before Polo Ferry's work really busts
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