Marx, Capital, and Education

Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Becoming

Curry Stephenson Malott, Derek R. Ford

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781453916025
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

With the contradictions of capitalism heightening and intensifying, and with new social movements spreading across the globe, revolutionary transformation is once again on the agenda. For radicals, the most pressing question is: How can we transform ourselves and our world into something else, something just? In Marx, Capital, and Education, Curry Stephenson Malott and Derek R. Ford develop a «critical pedagogy of becoming» that is concerned with precisely this question. The authors boldly investigate the movement toward communism and the essential role that critical pedagogy can play in this transition. Performing a novel and educational reading of Karl Marx and radical theorists and activists, Malott and Ford present a critical understanding of the past and present, of the underlying logics and (often opaque) forces that determine the world-historical moment. Yet Malott and Ford are equally concerned with examining the specific ways in which we can teach, learn, study, and struggle ourselves beyond capitalism; how we can ultimately overthrow the existing order and institute a new mode of production and set of social relations. This incisive and timely book, penned by two militant teachers, organizers, and academics, reconfigures pedagogy and politics. Educators and organizers alike will find that it provides new ammunition in the struggle for the world that we deserve.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword. Being and Becoming Communist: Toward a Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy of Becoming (Peter McLaren)
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Becoming through Negation: Revisiting Marx’s Humanism
• Chapter 2. From Revolution to Counterrevolution and Back Again? The Global Class War and Becoming Communist
• Chapter 3. Becoming Communist in the Global Class War: Centering the "Critique of the Gotha Programme"
• Chapter 4. The “Cynical Recklessness” of Capital: Machinery, Becoming, and Revolutionary Marxist Social Studies Education
• Chapter 5. Teaching Ferguson, Teaching Capital: Slavery and the “Terrorist Energy” of Capital
• Chapter 6. Connecting “Economic Bondage” to “Personified Capital”: Another Step toward a Critical Pedagogy of Becoming
• Epilogue: Negate the Present!
• References
• Index