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Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (EBook, 2018, Blomsbury) 4 stars

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in …

Paulo Freire: You must meet people where they're at. Education isn't a one-way transfer, but a dialogue. You must always pair the abstract with the concrete, they are meaningless without each other.

Also Paulo Freire: Proceeds to spend an entire chapter using the most abstract language I've ever heard outside a phenomenology textbook

Sim Kern: The Free People's Village (2023, Levine Querido) 3 stars

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War …

More Bleak than I Expected

4 stars

Despite being set in an alternate history, this book really felt like an extremely realistic depiction of everything going on with the left these days. It's pretty brutal and sad, honestly. I really wanted it to end on some utopian note, but it ends in an extremely probable way instead. Maybe that's more important.