You are listening to Red Minus.

We are a podcast where we kind of alternate between things.

Some months we talk about current events that are going on, but kind of the core thing

that we do on this podcast is we take an important text of revolutionary theory.

And we summarize it and think about some of its important ideas, discuss it a little

bit, and then ask how it's applicable to our situations that we're living in and organizing

in today.

My name is Allison.

I'm here with my co-host Brett, and I'm super excited for today when we are going to

be diving into Paulo Freyr's pedagogy of the oppressed.

So this is a text that people on Twitter seem very excited for us to cover, which makes

me happy that we're having some engagement there.

And I'm really interested for us to kind of dive into this.

So our show usually follows a format where we summarize, then we do some back and forth

discussion, and then we do application points.

So with that said, we'll go ahead and just hop right into that first section doing summary.

So I'm going to cover chapter one and chapter two, and then Allison will cover chapter

three and chapter four for the summary.

So Paulo Freyr opens the first chapter of pedagogy by laying out the problem of oppression

in human society and the dire need to overcome it.

Well, Sophically, Freyr is working in the wake of Hegel, Marx, Mao, Fanon, decolonial thinkers

more broadly, the Frankfurt School, and even Eric Fram.

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