Authentic revolution must be a cultural revolution because culture preserves oppressive structures

Evidence

Cultural synthesis is thus a mode of action for confronting culture itself, as the preserver of the very structures by which it was formed. Cultural action, as historical action, is an instrument for superseding the dominant alienated and alienating culture. In this sense, every authentic revolution is a cultural revolution. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 582

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s existing article on trees as infrastructure in that both treat background systems, not just beliefs, as the thing to transform. — connects to: The Cultural Revolution was an attempt to provoke fresh group-formation over reviving the party — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 537; Free culture advocacy legitimizes transformative reuse of mainstream cultural material. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 77; Restoring a cultural element without adopting its fundamentalist politics requires fully self-conscious intervention — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 188