Freire insists class analysis remain central even when insufficient alone

Evidence

Although Freire understood very well that “material oppression and the affective investments that tie oppressed groups to the logic of domination cannot be grasped in all of their complexity within a singular logic of class struggle,” he consistently argued that a thorough understanding of oppression must always take a detour through some form of class analysis. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 20

Categorization

• XREF: Counterbalances the reader’s anti-vanguard critique — the ‘affective investments that tie the oppressed to domination’ is the psychological mechanism a facilitator must work with.