Abstract
This chapter explores neoliberal pedagogies (Macrine, 2012, 2016), which comprise the hegemonic efforts to enrich the capitalist class. First, debt subjugation is explored at the global level as one of the emerging neoliberal pedagogic strategies of economic entrapment and neo-slavery of indigenous peoples and their lands while creating debtor nations, through intensified commodification of human and natural resources (i.e., Brazil's Landless Workers Movement and Greece's austerity measures). Second, the chapter establishes how the same neoliberal pedagogic practices take aim at democracy at the nation-state level through the dissolution of the welfare state, deregulation of banks, attacks on the public sphere, the demobilization of the working classes, the subordination of knowledge and cultural workers, and the reduction of education by corporate-style managerialism all slated to maximize profits (Levidow, 2001). Finally, the chapter draws parallels among neoliberal pedagogies at both the global and nation-state levels and demonstrates how these same oppressive pedagogies enslave individual citizens, workers, and students through debt subjugation.