WHY STUDY MULTIPLE FRAMEWORKS OF LIBERATION?

Perhaps we should be calling PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION by the term PROGRESSIVE STUDY instead. I am studying these various and sundry liberation frameworks and I hope to share that study with others. Of course my current goal is to overcome my excessive ignorance. There is a lot to learn. So from a personal point of view the overall mission of the PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION blogs is to engage in PROGRESSIVE STUDY. That is to say the blogs are about studying various frameworks of liberation and liberty to see what we can find out by studying these ideas and how they manifest themselves in human activity.

I am making a list of the categories of liberation.

What is remarkable is that there are many categories of liberation. Similarly I hope to look at the various frameworks and how they impact so-called Liberty. So when I am saying Liberation I am usually wrapping Liberty as a fraternal twin
of Liberation.

A single category of frameworks often has a mind boggling diversity. How many progressive socialisms or communisms have been advanced or proposed, as frameworks? Hundreds?

Human Rights frameworks generally seem progressive. Many other ideological orientations and many frameworks focus on human rights qua human rights. Much has been accomplished in this area although liberation is more of a growing opportunity rather than a resolved task. Human Rights frameworks are more legitimized in our society than some other liberation frameworks.

When Malcom X was a revolutionary nationalist, he was also a follower and advocate of a particular liberation theology: ie. the framework provided by the Nation of Islam framework.

Malcom X also was also a supporter of the human rights framework and was quite a supporter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as other internationally sanctioned human rights conventions.

So we can see that in the case of Malcom X, that we can understand his political orientation and development better if we take multiple frameworks of liberation into account. Stereotypically Malcom X may be known as a very militant speaker but his support of human rights conventions and preference for genuine democratic political processes are generally overlooked. I am not aware of Malcom X, as a political leader actually pursuing a violent struggle in any particular situation.

In fact, few progressive individuals or groups are influenced by only one liberation framework. If we look at just one aspect of an individual or group ideology we may fail to appreciate the explanatory and guiding influence of embrace of various liberation framework.

So we can think of a multi-framework analysis of an individual politicians life as a potentially useful way to look at individual and group understandings, orientations and direction of motion. Such analyses can be used to understand past behavior or suggest future activities.

We might even think of mathematizing this idea a bit by assigning a particular liberation framework a sequence of linear equations with each equation describing any particular framework concretion, ie. an equation for each distinctive species. Or should each conceptual configuration for a category be defined by one linear equation? Time to get out the math notebook, yee ha!