Post by Daniel on Apr 18, 2017 7:12:16 GMT -5
Coming to a bookstore near you: ‘Communism for Kids’
By: Benjamin Weingarten | April 16, 2017
They say that the victors write the history. But who writes the fiction?
The Cold Warriors of yesteryear may be asking themselves this very question today.
News recently broke that a reputable publishing house released a book titled “Communism for Kids.” Its author appears to be the archetype of an Obama administration education czar: “Bini Adamczak is a Berlin-based social theorist and artist. She writes on political theory, queer politics, and the past future of revolutions.”
What better literature to which to expose young minds than communist propaganda packaged as a parable, and who better to write it than Ms. Adamczak?
The book’s overview reads in part:
Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a children’s story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening.
If you thought the old saw about communism leading to soul-crushing and violent collectivism, economic failure, and human misery only because it had never been implemented properly was dead, think again.
Never mind that communism is antithetical to human nature; that it is inherently authoritarian in its squelching of liberty; or that it is Adamczak’s “lovable little revolutionaries” who are always the first ones to lose their heads after the revolution “triumphs.”
This time things will be different, comrades!
more
www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/04/coming-to-a-bookstore-near-you-communism-for-kids
By: Benjamin Weingarten | April 16, 2017
They say that the victors write the history. But who writes the fiction?
The Cold Warriors of yesteryear may be asking themselves this very question today.
News recently broke that a reputable publishing house released a book titled “Communism for Kids.” Its author appears to be the archetype of an Obama administration education czar: “Bini Adamczak is a Berlin-based social theorist and artist. She writes on political theory, queer politics, and the past future of revolutions.”
What better literature to which to expose young minds than communist propaganda packaged as a parable, and who better to write it than Ms. Adamczak?
The book’s overview reads in part:
Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a children’s story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening.
If you thought the old saw about communism leading to soul-crushing and violent collectivism, economic failure, and human misery only because it had never been implemented properly was dead, think again.
Never mind that communism is antithetical to human nature; that it is inherently authoritarian in its squelching of liberty; or that it is Adamczak’s “lovable little revolutionaries” who are always the first ones to lose their heads after the revolution “triumphs.”
This time things will be different, comrades!
more
www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/04/coming-to-a-bookstore-near-you-communism-for-kids
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