After 2 months of studying, 20/26 students in the class anonymously chose communism over capitalism on the last week before Christmas break. Teacher thought she was subtly upset (apparently wasn’t subtle) and had the class redo the poll after their final exam on the subject to see if they “learned anything since then”
22/26 students chose communism in the second poll.
I know it isn’t much but dammit it made me feel good
For context this is in NYC
I recently realized my history teacher from high school was probably a communist, she described the soviet gov as improving ppl’s standard of living and we talked a lot about the Russian struggle against the nazis, (I live in France btw) and now I realized this associated communism with positive images early