ABSTRACT
Socialism and socialist pedagogy have had several conceptual and historical uses both in social theory and in various political practices. Socialist pedagogy can be used as a means of finding ways of transcending the contradictory aspects of labor power creation and creating different spaces where a de-reification, de-commodification, and decolonization of subjectivity can occur. The core principles for a socialist pedagogy were set out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their Communist Manifesto in 1848: "Free education for all children in public schools. Socialist pedagogy aims at educating human beings as capable of thinking collectively, co-operatively, and in solidarity with their fellow human beings and often adopts an eco-socialist perspective with respect to the biosphere or nature. Socialist education fosters critical and analytical skills to comprehend the world, to read the world, and to act within and upon the world in ways that build the conditions necessary for a socialist society.
