I’m so tired of my US History class. We’re approaching WW1, and my teacher is talking about communism. Firstly, he’s a hardcore liberal, but oh my goodness for him to teach AP, he doesn’t even SOUND like he knows what he’s talking about. His articulation and the way he talks, along with his word choice just shows he doesn’t know shit about communism.
Today he was talking about communism and I told him “communism is a moneyless, stateless, classless society.” Then he said “no, communism is where EVERYTHING is equal.” Then I proceeded to tell him that there’s different types of communist ideologies apart from the one he’s talking about, such as Anarcho-communism who believe that “true” communism is accomplished by dictatorship of the proletariat, however without a class and state. He ignored that then went back to his flawed point where communism is where “everything is equal” and that the “government controls everything, not a market.”
Then he proceeded to ask the class “What if I graded you all like a communist? Everyone in here would have a B.” And everyone was like “OH NO NO NO!!”
It’s just so ugh… He sounds so dumb it pisses me off, and the students just gobble that bullshit up, which pisses me off even more.
I had this exact experience in highschool, in my AP european history class too!
I wish I had read Lenin’s greatest diss track back then, debunking the “communism = everyone equal” myth.
We even read the communist manifesto in class, but it was prefaced as being “idealistic”, and “leads to anti-democracy totalitarianism in practice”, and no pro-communist views outside of those were allowed.
The idealistic argument is so annoying as well. I’d rather be idealistic and achieve 80% of what I strive for than do nothing and accept life as it is. For a system that likes to suck itself off for it’s promotion of innovation, calling people with other visions idealistic seems a bit dumb.
Also the “communism is idealistic” is just blantantly false… the USSR became a superpower within two decades, and now China has brought more people out of poverty and hunger than any other country in world history.
In the span of 250 years the US has caused more harm than good. Liberals don’t ever emphasize on that though. Hurr durr USSR bad!!
Imagine teaching any other science by only looking at one side of the debate.
Today, we’re going to learn about phlogiston. Next week, Lombroso. And finally, the curative properties of tobacco.
Oh, hang on. Wait. Now that I think about it, a lot of subjects are taught this way.
This is beautiful. I wish I’d had this to hand in secondary school
Another one of their favorite things to say is “good on theory but bad in practice.” My brother in Christ, what’s so hard about explaining a damn system without being biased? I can EASILY explain capitalism without bashing. It’s SOOO easy. Good God, American education is trashed. Might as well throw the whole country away. Man they piss me off.