"The marxist stuff"? That's just a bit offensive.
Perhaps we have different definitions of Marxism (not
marxism)....


>  The person and 

> the family disappear. <<


Or appear as a larger communal family? Closer to the
notions of family in Africa, Asia, perhaps not America
or France or England. Where common good actually means
common good, as I am privileged to see in my current
work and which gives me back all the inspiration and
energy I lost when working in academia. To see that
praxis has meaning, it's our armchair cynicism that
perhaps has us looking at it sceptically in our little
wells, like little frogs we see the round patch of
blue and think it is the sky?



>>Also, the small face to face

> community.

> "Class struggle" and "critical praxis."  This may

> well be a vocabulary 

> problem, but otherwise i will not yield an inch.  I

> Think these are 

> short-cut words.  They often seem to be associated

> with a top down 

> approach  and  a big hammer.<<


Unless you see them in action, which as I said, I have
been increasingly privileged to see. I think you are
indulging in semantic hair splitting or perhaps your
experiences of these terms has been negative or
short-cuts to the real beauty of the kind of social
change Freire talked about?
 

> One of my heroes, Richard Cash,  who is  responsible

> for saving 

> millions of children  through oral rehydration

> therapy, says (I can't 

> find the exact quote) that you must go into the 

> local community, that 

> is where you will find the right questions to ask.<<


Yes, and sometimes the communities will tell you to
stop asking questions, and instead to listen, watch
and learn.

Cheers
Ujwala


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