Ailton: Do you realize the reason Paulo Freire is seen as a communist or socialist—and why he’s been hated by the right wing both then and now—is because, back in his day, only people who could read were allowed to vote?
At that time, political rights were tied to literacy. Education was extremely elitist, and most people had no access to it. Freire wouldn't stand for that. Being the great educator he was, he developed a method to teach adults to read and write in record time.
Suddenly, these adults gained the right to vote. The right wing hated it. They accused Freire of being a communist, and he eventually had to flee the country. He wasn't "playing the victim" or promoting "victimhood"; he believed that everyone deserved political rights, regardless of whether they were rich or poor.
William: I don't know about that. I’ve spent a lot of time studying Paulo Freire’s work and his biography.
He OPENLY DECLARED himself a socialist educator and was actually one of the founders of the Workers' Party.
His "magnum opus," Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is built on the core concepts of historical-dialectical materialism, things like class struggle, praxis, and overcoming the oppressor-oppressed relationship.
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