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Second International Balkan Annual Conference, Tiran, Albania, 10 - 13 October 2012, vol.2, no.1, pp.139-146, (Full Text)
The students of politics well know that Plato's perfect city in Republic is a political model of philosophico-pedagogical tyranny. But Ranciere does not read Republic in isolation and accentuates the similarities between a thinker of autocratic hierarchy and the reputedly progressive work of Marx, Sartre and Bourdieu. According to Ranciere, Marx, Sartre, Althusser and Bourdieu: eachunderestimates the power of understanding and imagination of those on whose behalf they speak. Despite their intellectual standing on the Left, each is a thinker of inequality and pedagogical privilege. Each assumes, as Plato does, that the pedagogue must think for and educate those who are unable to think for themselves; only then will society change for the better. In this paper I plan to examine Enver Hoxha’s political thought from Rancierean perspective.