Hey everyone.

You are listening to New Discourse's Bullets where I have a short bullet point-like summary of a single topic from Woke that we all need to understand so that we can defeat it. And I mean utterly.

And I want to talk to you today about two related concepts that you may not realize are related.

The podcast is nominally aimed at talking about the mass line, which is a Maoist concept.

It was one of Mao's more devious inventions, the mass line campaign,

which is a term that, I mean, admittedly, I mean, I knew the term for a very long time,

and still didn't know what it meant until I finally sat down to understand it.

Secondly, is the idea that I have discussed many, many times from

Paulo Freddie, the Brazilian Marxist educator who gave us critical pedagogy, which he called

education for liberation, which is the generative themes model. Now, I'm going to describe the

mass line in this podcast, but I'm going to dip into explaining

how it's the same thing as the generative themes model.

And I mean that literally, in Pedagogy of the Oppressed in the first chapter, in footnote

in whatever edition I have, footnote number 10. I've cited it a number of times.

It's cited, for example, in the Queering of the American Child. It's cited in Marxification

of Education. It's in several of my books. On footnote number 10 in chapter one of the pedagogy

of the oppressed, which is Paul O'Freddy's magnum opus written in 1970,

he says that he derived the educational method that he defends from the techniques of Mao Zedong

in the Cultural Revolution. And when you understand what the generative themes approach is

that has taken over our education system to radicalize our young people,

you can also understand how it came from the mass line once you know what the mass line is.

So what is the mass line? The mass line is a tricky use of language because the mass here

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