Pedagogy of hate

Abstract

Written as an extended review of Peter McLaren’s 'Pedagogy of Insurrection: from Resurrection to Revolution’ published in 2015, this paper contradicts McLaren’s affirmation of political religion and the version of critical pedagogy on which it is based, claiming hate rather than Christian love as a core concept of Critical Theory. Not a personal, psychological or pathological hate, but a radical hate for what the world has become, or absolute negativity. Hate must be invoked as love-hate for the magic of dialectics to work against the holy love of McLaren’s Christian socialism. Radical hate reveals the main transcendental tenets of capitalist civilisation: God and Money, as impersonal forms of social domination that must be brought down to earth so real existence can learn, learn, learn itself. That is the educative power of the Pedagogy of Hate. Now and forever

Problems of hate and emancipation: Some considerations for liberation psychology.

“…Hate gets things done (Duncan, 2017). Although hate is central to right-wing political activity (and, as we have seen, the functioning of global capitalism), some have argued for radical hatred (see e.g., Gabbas, 2021;Neary, 2017). Radical hate represents a hatred of injustice, which is to say, a hatred of systematized hatred.…”

“…Many liberation movements and moments throughout history have exemplified hate for dehumanizing social systems that are, themselves, premised on hate (Neary, 2017). Twentieth-This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

“…To advance emancipatory struggle, we “need to love with hatred” (Žižek, 2008, p. 204, emphasis in original). To do so is to direct hate towards the loveless conditions of necrocapitalism, and thus resist hate collapsing into a pathological, totalizing, or self-consuming relational attachment (Alford, 2019; Neary, 2017). It is, however, possible that putting hate in the service of love manifests oppressively.…”

“…For example, "hatred of the Other" is often studied without unpacking what such hatred means within particular socioeconomic arrangements marked, historically, by cycles of systemic violence (Alford, 2019;Critchley, 2012). Even rarer are studies that examine the regressive and potentially generative capacities of hatred within anticapitalist struggles for emancipation (however, see Duncan, 2017;Frosh, 1999;Gabbas, 2021;Miéville, 2022;Neary, 2017;Rose, 2018).…”

Marxism and Educational Theory

“…For McLaren, revolutionary critical pedagogy also values contributions from liberation theologians (those, like Freire, who combine Marx with Jesus) (McLaren, 2015, 35; for an elaboration of combining revolutionary critical pedagogy with liberation theology, see McLaren and Jandrić, 2017). For a critical appraisal of McLaren 2015, see Neary, 2017.…”