No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.
I highly recommend reading this thread. If you want an intro Marxist-Leninist reading list, I made one you can check out here.
it looks like you're getting a lot of mileage out of that post. lol
I did put a lot of effort into curating it, and am quite proud of the results. Several comrades helped me put it together as well, their efforts shouldn't go forgotten. That post has a couple hundred upvotes currently, if a tiny fraction of those people actually use it then it's all worth it.
This post makes me feel uneasy for a two reasons:
This was not a popular twitter post at the time of archival.
This makes the bolsheviks behaviour and capture of government look better, which contradicts my (albeit basic) knowledge of history.I haven't had the opportunity to check the syllabi of those colleges yet, nor contact the people who wrote those syllabi to ask them directly as to why they made such decisions. Furthermore I would appreciate further comparison with the higher education institutions in other nations, including former soviet bloc.
In short this post makes a large claim (there is a conspiracy to hide information from the public) which I haven't verified personally nor seen anyone else but those invloved in this very conversation bring attention toward this supposed conspiracy.
I will what I can to keep this comment updated according to the information I possess.
It isn't some far-fetched conspiracy to understand that the Red Scare exists, it's rather historical fact. Anticommunism is US policy, and this extends to education.
Secondly, the Bolshevik revolution was positive, I recommend reading the book Blackshirts and Reds. With Socialism came a dramatic and sustained improvement in worker's rights, equality of the sexes, a doubling of life expectancies, an end to famine, incredible scientific achievement in a country that began the century as an underdeveloped agrarian backwater, and a democratization of society in a way that far supercedes the former Tsarist system and the future Capitalist system in the Russian Federation.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and I'll do my best to answer if I can or point you in a better direction to search on your own.
I appreciate the sentiment, but not every country is as viewpoint-averse as the US. I read the Communist Manifesto as an assignment in high school. We shouldn't normalize the US's particular approach to propaganda.
To be fair, Marx is traditionally taught in a manner that distorts or coopts his messaging, blunting the practical and replacing with an anti-Marxist idealism. Marx is taught in the US in this manner as well. Simply assigning reading doesn't make one a Communist, especially if accompanied by bourgeois messaging. This applies doubly to the Manifesto, which is more of a pamphlet meant to energize the workers than an actual explanation of Marxist theory (which can admittedly be far more dry, even if I personally like reading and studying it).