The work was strongly influenced by Karl Marx and Frantz Fanon.[8]: 30 [9] As one critic, John D. Holst, describes it:
In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire expresses a maturing Marxist-influenced analysis of the political nature of education that clearly places literacy and critical education within the context of the struggle of the oppressed to go beyond capitalist modernization and toward a revolutionary transformation.[4]
