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Popular Education + Anti-Capitalism

February 14, 2008

Anti-capitalism in our popular education:

Anti-capitalism in our popular education:

What can popular education offer anti-capitalism?

What can popular education offer anti-capitalism?

What would anti-capitalist education be?

What would anti-capitalist popular education be?

The relationship between Popular Education & Anti-Capitalism


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Pauls drawing / graph of 500 years of capitalism and struggle:

Pauls drawing / graph of 500 years of capitalism and struggle

Initial thoughts and questions

February 14, 2008

How can anti-capitalism be popular (eg broad)?
Is anti-capitalism already pre-inscribed?
Popular-educators feel excluded by ghettoisation of anti-capitalism
Popular education isn’t anti-capitalist but isn’t neutral
Popular education – within anti-capitalist movement
} different
- as outreach
Popular education – has origins with the marginalised
How can the anti-capitalist movement use popular education?
Anti capitalism – process – how
- content – what
The ‘anti’ in ‘anti-capitalism’ isn’t useful
What are we ‘anti’?
Universal affiliation with anti-capitalism but what is it?
What would anti-capitalism look like in our popular education work?
- life despite capitalism
- alternatives outside capitalism