Activism without reflection is as unauthentic as verbalism without action

Evidence

On the other hand, if action is emphasized exclusively, to the detriment of reflection, the word is converted into activism. The latter—action for action’s sake—negates the true praxis and makes dialogue impossible. Either dichotomy, by creating unauthentic forms of existence, creates also unauthentic forms of thought, which reinforce the original dichotomy. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 258

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s contest concern: a facilitator who drives action without co-reflection risks activism that reproduces domination. — connects to: Formalist literary criticism fetishizes form and erases real-world activism — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 88