Year: 2025

By Joe Coleman (Posted Jun 12, 2025) Originally From: https://mronline.org/2025/06/12/pedagogy-and-class-power-reclaiming-freire-in-an-age-of-reaction/# In the early decades of the twenty-first century, education has become a frontline in the ideological struggle over the future of global capitalism. The coordinated assault on teachers, curriculum, and institutions of public learning is not an isolated culture war but a structural feature of neoliberal governance. In this context, the pedagogical philosophy of Paulo Freire demands renewed attention—not as an abstract theory of “engaged learning,” but as a revolutionary praxis situated in a broader Marxist tradition of class struggle.¹…