Paulo Freire: liberation theology and Marx (subtitled)

[yatesinvestments]

Thank you for your efforts.

[suicidadealuguel]

thanks too

[paul8kangas]

To see this interview in English, go to You tube: paul8kangas

[4Barbudos]

Paulo Freire = One of the smartest men in world history

Hasta la Victoria Siempre !

[lusait]

The translation falters at a few key points, especially his quote of the text which influenced him at 19 years old. Please, a bit more attention next time... it's too important to loose!

[suicidadealuguel]

sorry, i'm brazilian, that point was hard to translate, sorry if it isn't good.

[balwaan]

Thank you for posting and translating the interview. Personally I think the spritual element in Paolo's message is a distraction. But I have deep respect for him and others before him like St Francis of Assisi. Lenin once said that if there were 10 St Francis' then there would be no need for revolution. I think Paulo was a true 'Christian', i.e trying to be 'like' Christ... not just to follow what the church says.

[miasm]

thank you for translating this

[suicidadealuguel]

thank you too

[robertronics]

so many people speak

but only a few think...

[keith25658]

Criso é comunista,quem o nega não passa de um ipocrita ou otario.

[FelipeKaos]

Paulo Freire's works has contaminated brazilian education in a way I might not be able to describe in a few lines. I'm a brazilian student and you don't have idea of how we're sistematically exposed to marxism, liberation theology and Paulo Freire's ideas since we're, I don't know, six ears old maybe. Those ideologies are so strong among brazilian teachers, and the students are so tired of this kind of proselytism that many are getting near and near to the right wing.

[TheMasses101]

It's not fair to say that Marxism and Christianity are "grossly incompatable" if you don't understand the goals of the Marxists. I'm one. I also believe in God and Christ. How is this possible? Marx wasn't perfect, and nobody thinks he was. Materialism is a tool for combating the false illusions of capitalist society. Spirituality is sometimes a tool for spreading capitalist ideology, but I, and many others, have testimonies of Christ, while struggling to create a socialist world of justice.

[Dystopiologist]

Masses:

Marx said that to be a Marxist, one MUST be both an Atheist and a Materialist.

Marxism is opposed to Christianity - dogmatically so.

[Dystopiologist]

"Communism begins at the outset with Atheism" - Karl Marx

[lickmynose]

Freire's work has changed the way I interact with my students. He has created masterpieces that contain extraordinary depth.

[moimeh24]

is he a marxist?

[wutru]

"this conception of Christ as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive of Nazareth, does not tally with the Church's catechisms." -JPII

BenedictXVI, strongly opposed elements of liberation theology. Vatican twice condemned the liberationist acceptance of Marxism and violence (first in 1984 and again in 1986).

Marxism tore apart South and Latin America. How many more of her children must die?!

[settembrini33]

The only thing that tore apart the latinamerican people were the rightist military juntas supported by the CIA and the USA government. Theology of liberation has always been the voice of the wretched of the Earth. And the last two Popes have been real pricks who have no idea what's going on in Latinoamerica.

[cgordonjr]

Note that he emphasized that he was VERY YOUNG at the time he tried to mix the unmixable. Of course, that was an unattainable goal, the mere wishful thinking of someone "very youthful, very young" as he puts it. But in the old age he persisted with his childish thinking. He didn't change. Paulo Freire was a fantasist, full of good intentions.

[rudeskapunk]

Paulo Freire was not a fanatist. He was an honest christian. He was a man full of hope and plenty of praxis. Something that it's difficult to say from any other man. He thinking is not childish, maybe you can understand it. The fact is that you really have to be a christian to be able to do what Freire did. To be with the ones who need hope and education. Childish is a person that doesn't get the reality can change more when the Gospel become praxis.

[malasangre]

so twisted your argument!!

[sbor2020]

Christ is not about Christianity, just as, as Marx himself said "I am not a Marxist", Marx is not about Marxism. If you TRULY understand Christ's teaching and its HISTORICAL CONTEXT, then you would also ACCEPT Marx's thinking. Misunderstand both, you become an ideologue and not a humanist who is on the side of people. People say Marx said "religion..opium..", but read the whole passge and you'll realise he attacks religion that disguises the REAL SUFFERING IN THE WORLD. There's a world to win!

[sbor2020]

Christ is not about Christianity, just as, as Marx himself said "I am not a Marxist", Marx is not about Marxism. If you TRULY understand Christ's teaching and its historical context, then you would also accept Marx's thinking. Misunderstand both, you become an ideologue and not a humanist. People say "Marx said "religion ..opium.. blah", read the WHOLE passage & you'll realise that he attacks religion that disguises the REAL SUFFERING OF THE WORLD. We still have the world to win!!

[thiagomtoniolo]

Muito Legal

Espiritualidade, transformação social e vida comunitária são fundamentos indissociáveis que se auto-implicam.

abraços,

thiago~

[marsh75228]

Marxism and Christianity are grossly incompatable. We can't perpetuate class warfare, nor diadactical materialism! Christ came to liberate souls not to set up governments!

[malasangre]

neither christians not marxist want to perpetuate class warfare. The purpose of liberation theology is not to set up governments, but to free men from sin.

[VitamAgere]

Marxist make-believe masquerading.

Back to patristics of you want serious theology.

[Ichthus1964]

Give me a break! Liberation Theology is nothing more than Marxist/Leninist doctrine masked as Catholic/Christian theology. Last I checked Communism didn't solve anyone's problems.

[acirceo]

what ever you do for the least of these you do to me? do you love me? - feed my lambs. gimme a break pal - christ was/is all about liberation, as for marxism, I don't see where it's really congruent w christianity in that it elevates the state above the individual - doesn't mean that there isn't some common ground there - it just diverges at a certain point

[malasangre]

C'mon. The least you must do before describing liberation theology in general terms is read their main documents.

[mg890]

oe cuasa traducelo en castellano pes porfaaa!!!

[puertopensee]

A provacative thinker of education, indeed. I'm in the Hannah Arendt and Northrop Frye camp in terms of education. They believed education must be conservative, in the sense of conserving students from the political world. Freire paved the way for a politicized discourse of education, one that runs of risk of being a form of leftist indoctranation. As much as I'm against the critcal pedagogist, they intrigue me nonetheless.

[iyours]

Is conservationism conserved from indoctrination?

[juhauski]

I'd be interested to get a copy of the text of this interview if someone knows how or where...

[jphartmann6]

Cherry picking is the essence of post-modern structuralism.

[Mexicoandhow]

Wow. I have never heard Paulo speak, I've only read his writings. Where could I buy a copy of this? Is it available anywhere?

[chsbcg]

The problem with Liberation Theology is that it cherry picks Marx. Read the 'On the Jewish Question'

[dbohemian1]

His understanding and analysis of Marxist theory are very much an attempt to bridge the cultural gap between the orthodoxy of the catholic lower clergy and the social movements that very much demanded traditional institutions to reformulate their language and relationship with their constituents for sake of authoritative legitimacy.

[dbohemian1]

He obviously turned into a serious philosopher during his very adult years, led by his progressive understandings of social conditions and narratives in marginalized communities in both Africa and Latin America.

[WorldCommieMaster]

Seem as he spoke for jesus christ as the first communist who died in the name of the marginalized people of the world....

I am with the MARXists...

[dbohemian1]

Your posting is priceless... as I have been studying the writings of Professor Freire for over a decade now... and have never really relied on video footage. This is great stuff.

[conor2212]

thanks for posting this,,,

Paulo Freire is an amazing man...

Please post anything more of this special person.

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