indoctrination

Indoctrination is he process and result of indoctrinating: transmit a doctrine to a person to make it their own. A doctrine, on the other hand, is composed of the ideas and beliefs that are defended by an individual or by a group of people.

Indoctrination, in this way, is a practice that seeks to instill certain thoughts in people. In order to meet its objectives, it appeals to different Actions until getting the indoctrinated to assimilate and incorporate the ideas in question.

It is usually considered that the social groups that hold the can carry out the indoctrination of the dominated classes as social control mechanism, to preserve their place of privilege without resorting to violence. In this way, the bourgeoisie of a nation can promote the indoctrination of the population through the promotion of a political party that defends its interests in a veiled way. Thus the citizens who are under the domination will not fight for a real change in conditions, since they are convinced to support the political party that, in reality, is functional to the bourgeoisie.

It is possible to distinguish between education and indoctrination according to its effects on the individual. While education is committed to providing the necessary knowledge for the person to gain autonomy from the development of their own judgment, indoctrination seeks to cancel the criticism of the subject and that he repeat the information that is provided.

In this sense, we can state that it is determined that indoctrination is based on the following pillars:
-Betting to isolate the individual, that is, because it disconnects from the reality that is closest to it and because it does not come to tolerate or to know what other ideas or forms of expression are.
-It consists of imposing and not educating.
-It is radical, insofar as it considers that to reach a goal there is only one possible path and that the other alternatives that are established or exist are absolutely wrong. Hence, it is considered that it comes to be a way to end in a clear and forceful way with diversity and tolerance.

Specifically, based on all the above, there are experts and scholars on indoctrination who come to indicate that it is synonymous with ridiculing, compelling, imposing and penalizing.

The totalitarian movements and the sects They are two of the corporations that use indoctrination to attract new followers and for them to be in charge of reproducing their doctrine.

It is precisely in this sense that we can emphasize that much was said about the indoctrination carried out by the Nazis in children, especially. What became known as Hitler Youth were in charge of it and they developed different measures that were based on the following pillars:
-They exalted the Nordic races and more precisely the Aryans.
-They denigrated the Jews, because they considered them inferior. That is, they extolled anti-Semitism and racism.
-They taught love towards the leader, Adolf Hitler.
-They affected the value of obedience to the State and even the importance of militarism.
-They emphasized highlighting the existence of a German national community.