I came to know Paolo Freire when I began my fight against Whole Language and saw his influence in the Whole Language Movement. I have now come to see that was only the beginning, a small part of what would evolve. Marxists with Freire's influence through his philosophy as expressed in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, came to see their empowerment would come by taking over the cultural bastions of our nation.
It began with Education. Teachers influenced by their professors who had been indoctrinated with this supposed "empowerment" of Freire's philosophies became unwitting revolutionaries in the dismantling of true education.
The most recent alarm rings out with Social Emotional Learning (SEL). And that is when I discovered James Lindsay's New Discourses. And that is when I started watching his truly enlightening podcasts that I knew to be true because of what I had already seen in the Whole Language Catalog, the Bible of "reading teachers" coming out of our colleges of education.
Meet James Lindsay. This former liberal came to see the influence of this Marxist agenda and set about enlightening the rest of through his podcast, New Discourses, available on YouTube.
"SEL becomes a psychology based syringe to inject the Marxist theories," Lindsay proclaims. Marxism and Woke Marxism.
(SEL=Social Emotional Learning and it is in your schools as a supposed psychological answer to violence in schools and the misuse of guns. What it does is promote "the work" that is the insertion of Marxism into our schools and the minds of our children.)
One might say it began with Liberation Theology: The theology of liberation is a combination of Marxist philosophy with certain biblical motifs. It argues that we should reconstruct the whole of Christian theology by seeing it through the “axis of the oppressor and the oppressed.”
SUMMARY
The theology of Liberation developed in the 1960s to argue for the liberation of various groups—primarily poor, black, women—from economic and political bondage. For these theologians, it is not enough to support the oppressed; one must be committed to social movements, even revolutions, dedicated to overturning the structures of society. For this purpose, liberation theologians adopt Marxism as an “analytical tool,” with which they make radical revisions to every traditional Christian doctrine.
One prominent Liberation Theologian in South America is Dom Helder Camara.
Dom Helder Camara is important for today because Klaus Schwab, founder and director of the World Economic Forum and proponent of THE GREAT RESET considers him a spiritual father. Dom Helder Camara introduced Klaus Schwab and Paolo Freire, another liberation theologian. When Boston Catholic Marxists introduced Paolo Freire to American Marxist Henry Giroux, Giroux discovered the way to spread his Marxists beliefs through Paolo Freire's concept of infiltrating education to promote the Marxist agenda.
Three bibles of the liberation theology movement are:
§ Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire
§ For the Liberation of Brazil, by Carlos Marighela
§ Love in Practice: The Gospel in Solentiname, by Ernesto Cardenal
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I quote here from The Atheist Conservative https://theatheistconservative.com/tag/paulo-freire/
In its height in the late 1960s and 1970s, liberation theology– a distinctly Latin American movement – preached that it was not enough for the church to simply empathise and care for the poor. Instead, believers said, the church needed to be a vehicle to push for fundamental political and structural changes that would eradicate poverty, even – some believed – if it meant supporting armed struggle against oppressors.
In Nicaragua, priests inspired by liberation theology took an active part in the 1979 Sandinista revolution against Anastasio Somoza’s rightwing dictatorship. The philosophy also influenced leftist rebels in Mexico and Colombia, where one of the main guerrilla factions was led for nearly 30 years by a defrocked Spanish priest, Manuel Pérez. …
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But since his election as pontiff in 2013, Pope Francis’s insistence that the church be “for the poor”, and his pointed criticisms of capitalism and consumerism have gone a long way to rehabilitate the liberation theology movement and incorporate it within the church. Experts point, too, to Francis’s decision to name Oscar Romero, the iconic Salvadoran archbishop who was assassinated by rightwing death squads in 1980, as a martyr as another sign of the resurgence in liberation theology…
The Vatican itself has not formally embraced liberation theology. Even xc himself has denied that his appointment as prefect by Pope Francis – which was seen in some circles as a triumph of liberation theology because of Müller’s relationship with Gutiérrez – represented the “opening of a new chapter” following the papacies of John Paul II and Benedict.
Liberation theology was invented, named, and funded by the KGB, according to one of its defecting agents. Damien Thompson reports – and comments with some skepticism which we do not share – in the (UK) Spectator:
The respected Catholic News Agency has published an interview with Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former general in Romania’s secret police who was one of the Eastern Bloc’s highest-ranking defectors in the 1970s. In it, he says that the Soviet Union – and the KGB in particular – created liberation theology, the quasi-Marxist movement that flourished in Latin America from the 1960s to the 1990s and is still a powerful influence on the Catholic Left.
The interview provides fresh evidence of the infiltration of liberation theology by Russia – a subject Catholic liberals would much rather not discuss, just as they don’t want to know about the heavy Soviet investment in CND (the British campaign for nuclear disarmament). …
I don’t believe that the KGB ‘created’ a movement as complex as liberation theology and I’m far from convinced that its name was dreamt up in the Lubyanka.
But Pacepa … makes detailed claims that the Soviets kick-started, funded and moulded liberation theology … He cites as one of his sources Aleksandr Sakharovsky, the Russian agent who set up Romania’s secret police agency. Pacepa describes him as his ‘de facto boss’ in the 1950s. Sakharovsky later became head of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB.
Here are the key quotes from the interview:
The birth of Liberation Theology was the intent of a 1960 super-secret “Party-State Dezinformatsiya Programme” approved by Aleksandr Shelepin, the chairman of the KGB, and by Politburo member Aleksey Kirichenko, who coordinated the Communist Party’s international policies. This programme demanded that the KGB take secret control of the World Council of Churches (WCC), based in Geneva, Switzerland, and use it as cover for converting Liberation Theology into a South American revolutionary tool …
The KGB began by building an intermediate international religious organization called the Christian Peace Conference (CPC), which was headquartered in Prague. Its main task was to bring the KGB-created Liberation Theology into the real world.
The new Christian Peace Conference was managed by the KGB and was subordinated to the venerable World Peace Council, another KGB creation, founded in 1949 and by then also headquartered in Prague …
During my years at the top of the Soviet bloc intelligence community I managed the Romanian operations of the World Peace Council (WPC). It was as purely KGB as it gets. Most of the WPC’s employees were undercover Soviet bloc intelligence officers … Even the money for the WPC budget came from Moscow, delivered by the KGB in the form of laundered cash dollars to hide their Soviet origin. In 1989, when the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse, the WPC publicly admitted that 90 per cent of its money came from the KGB.
And now the bit that will really wind up Catholic liberals:
I [Pacepa] was not involved in the creation of Liberation Theology per se. From Sakharovsky I learned, however, that in 1968 the KGB-created Christian Peace Conference, supported by the world-wide World Peace Council, was able to manoeuvre a group of leftist South American bishops into holding a Conference of Latin American Bishops at Medellin, Colombia. The Conference’s official task was to ameliorate poverty. Its undeclared goal was to recognise a new religious movement …
True to the chief pretense of each parent, the priests of both the South American Church and the Kremlin claimed that the intention of liberation theology was to stand with the poor and oppressed. Its theologians declared that the cause of all poverty and oppression is capitalism, and Christians must work to replace capitalism with socialism.
The man whom Pope Francis is now welcoming to the Vatican, Gustavo Gutierrez of Peru, wrote in his book A Theology of Liberation: “The goal is not only better living conditions, a radical change if structures, a social revolution; it is much more: the continuous creation, never ending, of a new way to be a man. A permanent cultural revolution.” Gutierrez struggles manfully through some 300 pages to reconcile the Christian idea of salvation of the individual soul and its reward in heavenly bliss, with the Marxist insistence on collective salvation through revolution and the reward of an egalitarian society on this earth. He does not succeed. Whether he is aware of it or not, the Christian idea is totally overwhelmed and replaced by the Marxist idea. Liberation theology takes more after one parent than the other.
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Liberation Theology became Liberation Pedagogy in the US when Paolo Freire was introduced to Henry Giroux by a network of liberation theologists in Boston. Alongside Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux is widely considered to be the founding father of critical pedagogy. Critical is one of those words co-opted by the Left to make one think it is a higher level thinking process when it is actually the Marxist infusion into different areas of our culture, such as "critical" race theory, etc.
https://theatheistconservative.com/tag/paulo-freire/
Taking to heart the command to go into education to convert from within was domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn. Ayers is an activist and curriculum specialist who hired Barach Obama to work with him on the Chicago Anenberg Project.
http://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-chicago-connection-to-common-core.html
We see this already in our streets.
Critical Race Theory
I highly recommend that parents, teachers and legislators listen to New Discourses to gain an understanding of what and why the curriculum at your child's school is what it is. This has not "just happened." It is a part of a plan.
Like Cassandra, I have been sounding the alarm on Paolo Freire and Whole Language for years. Much has spawned from these dangerous people--Critical Race Theory, Social Emotional Learning, White Privilege...and on and on.
“The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist.” And the next greatest trick was convincing good people that nothing like what we actually see going on could really happen with such nice people running our schools. They might as well say, "Who are you going to believe? Us or your lying eyes!"
Teachers as Liberators Produce Students as Revolutionaries
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/02/teachers-as-liberators-produce-students.html
Radical Possibilities (You wonder why Alabama is 52nd in the Nation in Education?)
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/radical-possibilities-your-children.html
Amazing, isn't it how they proclaim something to be one thing when it is very definitely something else! From where do you think this is really coming?
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/peace-education-conflict-resolution.html
Common Core: A Petri dish for Radicalism
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/common-core-petri-dish-for-radicals.html
I hope you are not so naive as to believe Common Core is out of our Schools. Social and Emotional Learning is coming in to seal the deal!
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