No way my teachers were equipped to properly teach Marxism-Leninism or Mao Zedong Thought. Good luck Florida.
“Now children we will be reciting a new Florida pledge of allegiance. Repeat after me. The Maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history and led to an almost totally equal redistribution of land amongst the peasantry.”
“The history of Communism” curriculum will just be
Gommulism killed 10000 gorillion people, no food, no innovation, no freedom.
And that’s it.
how exactly do they think this is going to play out?
Teacher: Communism is bad because Stalin killed people.
Student: So all Stalin had to do was not kill people and communism would have worked?
Teacher: No, the ideology made Stalin kill people.
Student: So Stalin did not have free will?
Teacher: No, free will exists, don’t be a dirty Calvinist, Stalin was willingly following Marx’s ideology to the letter.
Student: So how did the ideology create the regularly recurring famines that happened for centuries until the 50s, cause the kulaks to burn their own food, or the Western powers to sanction the USSR before the USSR had done anything wrong? What part of Marx’s writings caused this?
Teacher: I’m legally required to report all dissenters to the Department of Freedom.
My Westoid school decided it would be a good idea to have us read Animal Farm in English class before we had learned about the Russian Revolution in History class.
Cue an exasperated English teacher trying to explain to a class of confused middle schoolers how the pig is obviously Trotsky or Stalin.
i did the same but our teacher didnt even bother to explain that it was about the russian revolution so we all thought it was just about some pigs being mean and stuff
Best interpretation, pigs be assholes 4 real.
we got an explanation when my class read it but for some reason the interpretation was basically lenin = good and stalin betrayed the revolution.
i think our teacher was a trot
ive never read animal farm but I thought that was the intended reading
pretty sure it is. blair was still nominally a “socialist” even if a total POS
even in my most anti-communist youth there was always a seed of “what-if” lenin didn’t die would the communist project have succeeded. i just thought it was a historical one-shot that never could be repeated
fucking great man theory BS
