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[–] RedundantClam@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago (7 children)

thinkin-lenin On US education I remember in 8th grade the one thing I learned about Marx was one paragraph and was basically just "he wrote the Communist Manifesto and believed that history was a cycle of conflicts between classes." And I was just like "Well what is communism? Isn't that going to be important going forward?" I guess it wasn't and I never learned what Communism/Socialism actually is or what the USSR did beyond "be authoritarian" until I was an adult.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tended to have communism/socialism condescendingly poopooed as "well-meaning" but "never really working because human nature".

Anyways, time to learn about the french revolution and the reign of terror, which in no way should be viewed as an indictment of liberal revolutions the way the red terror does for socialism.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember almost my exact words when I was in high school "communism has a lot of valid criticisms about capitalism but their solutions didn't work"

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