Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy against Empire

By Peter McLaren

Capitalists and Conquerors is a series of path-breaking essays in the political sociology of education on topics hotly debated within the educational community. In this volume Peter McLaren addresses some of the most daunting political challenges of the current times, including the globalization of capitalism, the United States' drive towards world domination, strategies, tactics and models of resistance to neoliberalism and the ravages of empire-building, the role of the educator as a social agent and public citizen, the purposes and possibilities of public schooling, and the struggle for socialism. As a Marxist-humanist philosopher and social theorist, McLaren is able to offer new philosophical premises and socialist principles for building an alternative to capitalism. The passion, poetry and fierce political conviction for which McLaren is known is very much present in this volume.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742541932
• ISBN13: 9780742541931
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Capitalists and Conquerors

Great book, great writer. A balance to our everyday lives. Think of all the wars we have been in. Think how many times we have been invaded. Read this book and understand why we are at war 24/7.