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The revolutionary effort to transform these structures radically cannot designate its leaders as its thinkers and the oppressed as mere doers.

Lenin's famous statement: 'Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement' 1 means that a revolution is achieved with neither verbalism nor adtivism, but rather with praxis, that is, with reflection and action directed at the structures to be transformed. It cannot, as I stressed in chapter 2, be reduced to either verbalism or activism. Human activity is theory and practice it is reflection and action. And as praxis, it requires theory to illuminate it. Hence, each animal species lives in the context appropriate to it, and these contexts, while open to humans, cannot communicate among themselves.īut human activity consists of action and reflection: it is praxis it is transformation of the world.

In contrast, human beings emerge from the world, objectify it, and in so doing can understand it and transform it with their labor.Īnimals, which do not labor, live in a setting which they cannot transcend. Animals do not consider the world they are immersed in it. I shall start by reaffirming that humankind, as beings of the praxis, differ from animals, which are beings of pure activity. This chapter, which analyses the theories of cultural action which develop from antidialogical and dialogical matrices, will make frequent reference to points presented in the previous chapters, either to expand these points or to clarify new affirmations. Antidialogics and dialogics as matrices of opposing theories of cultural action: the former as an instrument of oppression and the latter as an instrument of liberation the theory of antidialogical action and its characteristics: conquest, divide and rule, manipulation, and cultural invasion the theory of dialogical action and its characteristics: cooperation, unity, organization, and cultural synthesis.

Let me tell you why you're oppressed meme