Rebuilding the Left. Marta Harnecker. Zed Books, London, 2007, 168 pages.
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Abstract
When most North American adult educators think of adult or popular education in Latin America, they generally think of Paulo Freire and his text, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.If, however, we want to think of one text that has had the most singular impact on popular educators in progressive and revolutionary social movements in the region, it would be Marta Harnecker's The Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism, which in its original Spanish version is in its third edition and 63rd printing, selling over a million copies-about twice that of Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.This probably comes as a great surprise to most readers, since Harnecker is not generally well-known outside Latin America.Nevertheless, her Basic Concepts text is the most common entry into Marxist theory for the region's radicals and revolutionaries.Harnecker was born in Chile.She completed university studies in France under Louis Althusser, then returned to Chile in time to work as a journalist during the presidency of Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity government.From the 1973 coup in Chile until recently, she lived and worked in Cuba, where she directed the Latin American Popular Memory (MEPLA) research centre.She currently resides in Venezuela.During her years at the head of MEPLA, Harnecker involved herself in dozens of popular education and community development projects in Cuba and research projects documenting all major radical and revolutionary movements throughout Latin America.Harnecker has published over 60 texts.Only a very few of these texts have been published in English translation.Her lack of translation may have to do, in part, with the fact that her texts on radical movements, theory, and practice are designed for the educational work of these very same movements.In other words, among other things, Harnecker produces texts about and for popular and revolutionary education.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.114 | 0.059 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".