Education for National Liberation: Theories of Freedom and Dependency in the Practical Pedagogy of Marta Harnecker and Gabriela Uribe
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Political theories of freedom as non-domination have aroused increasing scholarly interest in recent years. However, extant approaches are yet to incorporate a more specific assessment of the ways in which economic domination becomes reproduced both systemically and internationally. This article sheds light on the specific forms of unfreedom that result from the nature of capitalist economic power in the international division of labour. It does so through the analysis of Marta Harnecker and Gabriela Uribe’s Popular Education Booklets (CEP being their Spanish acronym), published in the context of Chile’s revolutionary experiment with democratic socialism under the Popular Unity government during the period 1970–3. Informed by Marxist Dependency Theory, the CEP series posits the problem of capitalist domination at the level of the interstate system, and presupposes its negation in the form of both popular and national liberation. Through a novel methodology for popular self-education, the CEP series also proposes an ethic of praxis that would enable the labouring classes to exert democratic self-government through conscious economic planning.
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Education for National Liberation: Theories of Freedom and Dependency in the Practical Pedagogy of Marta Harnecker and Gabriela Uribe
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Faculty of Social Sciences and History, Universidad Diego Portales Chile
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Abstract
Political theories of freedom as non-domination have aroused increasing scholarly interest in recent years. However, extant approaches are yet to incorporate a more specific assessment of the ways in which economic domination becomes reproduced both systemically and internationally. This article sheds light on the specific forms of unfreedom that result from the nature of capitalist economic power in the international division of labour. It does so through the analysis of Marta Harnecker and Gabriela Uribe’s Popular Education Booklets (CEP being their Spanish acronym), published in the context of Chile’s revolutionary experiment with democratic socialism under the Popular Unity government during the period 1970–3. Informed by Marxist Dependency Theory, the CEP series posits the problem of capitalist domination at the level of the interstate system, and presupposes its negation in the form of both popular and national liberation. Through a novel methodology for popular self-education, the CEP series also proposes an ethic of praxis that would enable the labouring classes to exert democratic self-government through conscious economic planning.
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