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MIT Press Publishes ‘Communism for Kids' Book
'Lovable little revolutionaries' teach children communism is 'not that hard'

MIT Press is out with a new book that teaches children the tenets of Karl Marx with fairy tales.

Communism for Kids, written by a German author who specializes in political theory and "queer politics," was released last month. The thesis of the children's book is that communism is "not that hard," but has not been implemented in the right way.

"Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true?" a plot synopsis for the book reads. "This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism."

The book is full of cartoon drawings of "lovable little revolutionaries" that help navigate kids through the "evils" of capitalism.

An illustration from the book:


Where in the world did our kids get the idea to break things in protest? It's only permissible if they protest capitalism.

- Why did you smash that thing with a hammer, little girl?
- I was protesting against capitalism.
- Run along then, and forget I asked.

The little girl's armpit hair is especially disturbing. I understand it must be a nod to feminism, and far be it from me to dictate rules of body hygiene to any women and their consenting partners.

The reason it's disturbing is because little girls don't have armpit hair.

So the book's authors either have never had children themselves and forgot their own childhood, or they are perverts who fantasize about a world where little girls have armpit hair or where adult women with armpit hair look, dress, and behave like little girls and break things they don't or won't understand.

All options are bad and I don't know which one is worse.

Some of the little girls in the picture also have hairy chests and three-day stubble on their faces. Once again, I understand that the author specializes in "queer politics," but grown unshaven men who are dressed, look, and behave like prepubescent girls is way beyond the scope of "queer politics," let alone the scope of communism. At the minimum it shouldn't be directed towards kids.

There is a possibility, of course, that the "kids" the authors and the publishers have in mind are the perpetual children of advanced age that populate the academia and other "intellectual" institutions of the Western world. Not only do these "lovable little revolutionaries" refuse to grow up and act like adults - they must be entering a new stage in their evolution, where they are addressed as kids and have picture books published for them by MIT, touching on their favorite fairy tale, communism.

Some critics have mentioned that the book's language is so heavy and convoluted that no normal child would be able to read it or understand. But if the above theory is correct, everything falls into place and all cognitive dissonance disappears - just like the evils of capitalism in this fairy tale book.

Red Square wrote:

Communism for Kids, written by a German author who specializes in political theory and "queer politics," was released last month. The thesis of the children's book is that communism is "not that hard," but has not been implemented in the right way.

"Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true?" a plot synopsis for the book reads. "This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism."

The book is full of cartoon drawings of "lovable little revolutionaries" that help navigate kids through the "evils" of capitalism.

"The misery of capitalism."

The Left has gotten a lot of milage out of twisting a free society and civilization into an abstract world of economic sounding gobble goop. The free world gets abstracted into just an "economic system."

There aren't economic systems. There are economic explanations of fundamental laws.

The free world is not an economic system. Socialism is not an economic system.

Does Venezuela even have an economy?

There is human freedom on the one hand with the freedom to govern your own life - and the wonderful world that creates, and then there are the people that for one reason or another do not trust others with the freedom to govern their own lives or simply do not want others to have the freedom to govern their own lives. Those people have a million and one rationalizations for why we can't live in freedom and why they and their like-minded friends should be able to force themselves on the rest of society and tell us what to do. e.g., the sum of free decisions equals a world of inequality, poverty, war, racism, alienation, global warming... you name it. One rationalization after another for why the free world and your right to govern your own life must be stopped.

"Capitalism" was simply Marx's portrayal of the free world and the civilization it produces. By using the portrayal "capitalism" he could get away with the idea that you can eliminate everything civilization requires and still have civilization.

As the Left has amply proved over and over you can't.

Red Square wrote:MIT Press Publishes ‘Communism for Kids' Book
'Lovable little revolutionaries' teach children communism is 'not that hard'

MIT Press is out with a new book that teaches children the tenets of Karl Marx with fairy tales.

Communism for Kids, written by a German author who specializes in political theory and "queer politics," was released last month. The thesis of the children's book is that communism is "not that hard," but has not been implemented in the right way.

"Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true?" a plot synopsis for the book reads. "This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism."

The book is full of cartoon drawings of "lovable little revolutionaries" that help navigate kids through the "evils" of capitalism.

Have the authors, editors, and publishers of this book begun the fight against the miseries of capitalism by refusing to accept money for their labor and instead korrektly sharing the means and ends of production with all?

Red Square wrote:MIT Press Publishes 'Communism for Kids' Book ...

Skim a page diagonally, and it's obvious: infantile verbose blah-blah, + creepy cartooning.

But, comrades MIT Press Translators are by far not up to the task :
Zhe Cherman original (equally infantile verbose, + creepy) is infinitely more ornate :

(uh, that HopenChange, since Rousseau.. Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin-Mao.. Husseinovich..)



A special for Comrade Craptek (referring this insight of his) :

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Even communist kids will be kids...
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Craptek and I saw that Wall Street Bull once...
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Some also appear to have hairy chests. But also cleavage. And is that jam around their mouths, or do some of them have goatees?

Perhaps these are refugees from Sirius, yes?

Stay a child all your life. The modern Marxist version of Peter Pan?

What would Walt Disney make of that I wonder.

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Is the book free?

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The communist kid came in third!
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But hey, maybe at least comrade Chomsky* will get an ideological boner?

* still - as emeritus - at MIT, where he went from trailblazing linguist to dubious activist.


(Chom[p]sky:
appears to also be kinda expert in (snicker, giggle..) in cunnilinguistics or sumptin, found Ali G)

Comrades I think this could be a trend….how about creating a group of Charlie Brown style comic books treating young readers to a series of fun heroes by weaving cartoon characters of Kant, Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ludwig Van Mises, Marx and others all themed with progressive messages of degenerate idealism and rainbows of utopian make believe …. I am quite sure that many in the various halls of education would be eager to encourage more outrageous tax structures to support grants for this media stagecraft.

trashmouth wrote:Comrades I think this could be a trend….how about creating a group of Charlie Brown style comic books treating young readers to a series of fun heroes by weaving cartoon characters of [highlight=#ffff00]Kant, Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ludwig Van Mises, Marx and others all themed with progressive messages of degenerate idealism and rainbows of utopian make believ[/highlight]e …. I am quite sure that many in the various halls of education would be eager to encourage more outrageous tax structures to support grants for this media stagecraft.

after all, it's for the children…..

I nominate John Maynard Keynes for inclusion to the Little Komrads Series. He'll teach the little ones that the only way for the economy to grow is for the State to spend shittons of money!

Comrade Stierlitz wrote:

trashmouth wrote:... [highlight=#ffff00]Kant, Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ludwig Van Mises, Marx and others all themed with progressive messages of degenerate idealism and rainbows of utopian make believe[/highlight] ...

I nominate John Maynard Keynes for inclusion ...

huh, von Mises for sure be a huge spoiler.. but wait - all the better for that cabaret-to-be!

What's not to like about trickle up poverty Komrades? BTW, I do find adult females with armpit and titty hair less attractive.

Communism for Kids, written by a German author who specializes in political theory and "queer politics," was released last month. The thesis of the children's book is that communism is "not that hard," but has not been implemented in the right way.

"Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true?" a plot synopsis for the book reads. "This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism."

Definitely Thus we see a stark illustration (and one directed at those who do not know any better) of the national socialist left's dirty little secret. That one can actually have a collectivist regime without the authoritarian underpinnings. And that a true variant of the Left's base ideology has never been tried before.

Believe it or not there are actually blokes out in the world who are anarchist communists [An-Coms] in other words, people who think that a collectivist ideology can exist without overreaching government control. To be blunt about it, Marxist immoral philosophy of “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” can only be accomplished at the point of a gun.

Such a system cannot operate without a powerful entity that forcibly ‘redistributes the wealth' and to pretend that this is not the case is beyond absurdity. Of course, we seen this little bait and switch scam before in Marxist literature where it's postulated that the state will ‘wither away' at some point after the establishment of a ‘classless' collectivist society.


Side-note: I discovered these oddities whilst doing some research on various political spectra examining the severe discontinuities of ‘two-axis' spectra with the confluence of authoritarian and libertarian ideologies.

Ah yes, it's the old "never been done right before" idiocy. The delusional mindset of our current crop of SJWs.

So...

A book for children... filled with fairy tales.

Sounds about right.

You have to break a lot of little eggs to make an omelet at the Karl Marx cafe.

I'll take a hundred million egg omelet, please.

Comrade Torcer wrote:To be blunt about it, Marxist immoral philosophy of “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” can only be accomplished at the point of a gun.

It isn't force, it's social justice! No one is forced. If you won't be part of the change then we must defend ourselves from you. You're the one trying to use your guns against the revolution!

Butthurt Messiah goes intellectual & visionary (off teleprompter! and off Amerikkka, in Argentina) - according to his (mind's) ability and according to his (preachifying) needs.

3:30 of deep insights into Capitalism and Communism :

The historically unprecedented pic of Marx with Obama.