The struggle against imperial punditry and reactionary anti - humanism: critical pedagogy, latina/o education, and class struggle in the age of empire

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"Much of the ‘mainstreamed’ critical educational work in the United States, along with work in related fields, now appears woefully detached from historical specificities and basic determinations of capitalist society. In this article, McLaren and Jaramillo posit an alternative social vision of what the world should and could look like outside the value form of capital. Using the politics of Latino/a education as an illustrative example of the ways in which empire impacts one of the largest minority student populations in the U.S., McLaren and Jaramillo move to defend revolutionary critical pedagogy against reactionary anti - humanism. Rather, this article extends previous considerations of revolutionary critical pedagogy as a dialectics of praxis founded upon the principles of Marxist - humanism. Critical revolutionary pedagogy is ultimately philosophically - driven, formulated to help teachers and students grasp the specificity of the concrete within the totality of the universal"