Things I have learned in high school about communism.

As the school year comes to a close I thought I would go over and review the things I have learned about communism in history class.

1. Communism is a religion.
2. Communists enjoy wearing white suits.
3. Communists are all racists.
4. Hitler was a communist.
5. Stalin helped Hitler with the holocaust.
6. Communists want more cameras in the world.
7. Communism is a death cult.
8. Communists enjoy killing people in their leisure time.
9. Communists have odd sexual interests.
10. Communists want to make porn illegal.
11. Communists want to make porn available to everyone everwhere.
12. Communists like the colour red because it symbolizes death.
13. Communists enjoy military parades.
14. Communism is a genetic deformity.
15. Communists hate mopeds.
16. Communists prefer dirt roads over paved roads.
17. Communists enjoy eating rice, cabbage, and stale bread.
18. Communists hate the upper class.
19. Communists hate the middle class.
20. Communists love the working class.
21. Communists spend most of their lives building tanks and AK47s.
22. Communists are always Russian, Chinese, or Cuban.
23. Communism makes money simply stop existing which makes everybody poor.
24. Communism is a disease you can catch from communists.
25. Communists hate freedom, and enjoy being opressed and enslaved.


Just though that would generate a few lols.
BTW this is stuff the history teacher has actually told the student, all jokes aside.

Ah, yes. The shit you learn about communism in high school.

Meanwhile, most of my professors in college seem to be radical leftists or Marxists, or at least sympathetic to such beliefs.

Yep. I'm in my last year of high school and I have heard many of these things as well. Absolutely ridiculous. Oh the ignorance! At least I hear college professors are more sympathetic.

Numbers 2., 9., 11., 15., and 18., are, in my case, all true.

i think it can be safely said that we have all experienced most if not all of those :lol:

One of my teachers in high school actually fought against "the commies" in Vietnam, and often reminded the students of that fact.

In fact, one of the insults he used in class towards students he disliked was "Communist!" :lol:

You are missing anarchy/anarchist. I am going to weep. NOT!

but yeah, those what I learned in high school.

Wow, what an asshole.

One of my professors is also a Vietnam veteran, but he's a solid leftist through and through, though not a communist per se. He never talks about how he "fought the commies", either, mostly because he had enough sense even back then to filter the propaganda through.

Interesting how veterans of that war tend to become either fierce right-wing anti-communists or staunch anti-war, anti-imperialist leftists.

Or homeless schizophrenics.

Just saying...

These are pretty much the same things I hear about communism in school (although not to such an extent). The general idea is that communism=evil. When my politics teacher learned of my communist beliefs she wasn't too impressed. She then went on to use the 'human nature' argument. I sighed and died a little inside.

Nobody ever thinks of that because the USA has never been at war with a country claiming to be anarchist.

lol:laugh:
Same here.

I find ignorance to be frustrating more than funny. Ignorance has done much more evil in this world than malevolence.

Soviet Communism vs. American Democracy?

http://broward.flvs.net/webdav/educa.../09_07a_02.jpgCommunism is a form of government in which a single party controls the economy and means of production. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, a communist government emerged, first under the control of Vladimir Lenin and later Joseph Stalin, and formed the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR or Soviet Union). Communism was in direct conflict with the American system of capitalism in which there is free enterprise, and democracy where the government is controlled by the people.
In the aftermath of WW II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two world superpowers. Each country was able to produce as much as the rest of the world’s combined production capacity. While the two were strategic allies during WW II, the years immediately following the war showed a huge division in Soviet and American foreign policy. These fundamental differences, combined with the two nation’s development of nuclear weapons, led to a conflict known as the Cold War, which lasted for nearly 45 years. The political and military tension between democracy and communism were known as the Cold War.

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Directly from a history (or lack of) lesson. Speaks for itself.

most of those are crap but 18 19 and 20 sound really true.

Thats all true ;)

Surprisingly my High School has some left leaning teachers. As opposed to propaganda we're told communism is a theoretically better system that in practical use hasn't succeeded, yet. Most of my history classes have been about why organisations like the NSA and Homeland Security are bad. :)

Wow. I guess I must consider myself lucky. My history teachers either agree that communism is the perfect system (but don't think it will work because of "human nature") or are very open to it (I have my world history teacher reading anarchist literature:D).

My introduction to communism was in a history lesson in elementary school. I think I was 8 or 9, and the subject was (of course) the cold war. Our teacher was nice enough to explain the basic thought behind communism: A stateless society where everyone worked together to get what they needed, without being told to do so. Of course, that was immediately followed by an explanation of why this could never work ("With communism everyone would get a 7 for all their tests, no matter how hard they studied!" was her argument :p), and then we moved on to how horrible the USSR was.
I've been a communist ever since though because of that initial explanation :).

And in Kansas, no less.

But I'm in Texas, which isn't a whole lot better.

What I remember from high school:

-Communism is evil
-Communism enslaves millions
-Communism is what is practiced in the USSR
-Communism is extreme socialism
-Communist colors are read symbolizing a type of socialism since the socialist flag is red.

By contrast , Socialism was treated a lot better :

-Pure socialism is bad , Socialism mixed in with capitalism creates the ideal society
- A degree of socialism is necessary for a civilized society.
-Socialism has been tainted by authoritarian communists
- Socialism means huge state involvement in the public sector and regulation of the private sector which is seen as good.
-Capitalism is generally worse than socialism but both are needed to temper each other.
- Capitalism and Socialism have a baby , its called Social Democracy.