herbert marcuse, paolo ferreira, angela davis and derrick bell. for those of you who are not familiar them herbert marcuse. i was a critical theorist. one of the founders of the discipline of critical. he was also the godfather, the new left in the late 1960s in the united, as well as in european capitals for, a brief blaze of glory were student radicals, were carrying banners that said, you know, marx, mao, marxism. those were the, you know, the it'd be the the philosopher for that the pen the sword and the prophet. that's how he was conceptualized for a period. and if you read his work, you study his life, you realize that the conceptual framework that he established in a relatively brief period mid 1960s to the mid 1970s, about ten years, is still the dominant intellectual framework that the left operates on today. whether they know it or not, many people don't. paolo freire was a brazilian. marx ist pedagogy just happens to also be the third most cited author in all of the social sciences in the united states. actually quite influential, if yo