Mark Rizk Farag’s Reviews > Pedagogy of the Oppressed > Status Update

For cultural invasion to succeed it is essential that those invaded become conivinced of their intrinsic inferiority. Since everything has its opposite, if those who are invaded consider themselves inferior, hey must necessarily recognize the superiority of the invaders The values of the latter thereby become the pattern for the former...'

Shout out to Keir Starmer's Labour Party lmao:

'In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a "quick return to power," forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible "dialogue" with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls into an elitist game, which it calls "realism."

Me and the current chapter are quite dense, it seems. I am getting less out of this chapter than I did out of the critical consciousness and banking model chapters. It feels like Hegel.

'as the oppressor oppresses and dehumanises others they too become dehuamised'