A review by donifaber
A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World by Wayne Au
3.0
An excellent book for those unfamiliar with the concepts; a good update for those who are. The ideas that stood out to me the most are that:
*Marxism is not inherently racist.
*Dialectical materialism is necessarily bi-directional, and thus does not merely focus on material as the cause for systems of oppression.
*Bill Gates does not subject his son the schools he is funding that are supposedly intended to level the playing field.
*Critiques of Freire tend to be not particularly cogent, particularly Ellsworth's description of his strategies reinscribing oppression.
*Introduction to standpoint theory.
*Marxism is not inherently racist.
*Dialectical materialism is necessarily bi-directional, and thus does not merely focus on material as the cause for systems of oppression.
*Bill Gates does not subject his son the schools he is funding that are supposedly intended to level the playing field.
*Critiques of Freire tend to be not particularly cogent, particularly Ellsworth's description of his strategies reinscribing oppression.
*Introduction to standpoint theory.