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    I'm in alternative classes even though I've got a genius IQ.
    I'm exceptionally terrible at math though.
    Seems like all the smart Commies end up being terrible at math. I'm pretty much a straight "A" student in everything except for math.
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    I was in precalc my senior year in high school, took a semester of calc in college from a crazy coot who was a genius and very entertaining but failed to teach us anything. I know that this is a really dorky thing to say, but I think math is kinda cool. Looks like im in the minority here on that subject.

    but back on topic, in high school i learned that my school's color was cardinal red until the red scare when it was changed to maroon. in 7th grade I was taught that marxism/communism was a system in which everybody is supposed to be equal and that Marx believed that all history was a result of class struggle. that social studies teacher was actually extremely progressive and I had her again in high school as my debate teacher/coach. other than that though I was told that I was an idealist and when I grew up I would become a realist. the russian history class was filled with pro western propaganda. I am glad that is all behind me know.
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    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.
    my right-wing Zionist history teacher had a more balanced view of communism than that. Where did you get taught, Alabama or something?
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    Yes we all get to see how generations of adults are scared of the word communism
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    Yup, heard a lot of these before. Shows a large amount of ignorance from people we're meant to learn from
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    You can take economics and learn the arguments of the capitalists and point out contradictions and hopefully turn some classmates against the "free market."
    In this direction it is precisely the Marxist-Leninists who must be the most capable, the most wide-awake, the best organizers in order to become the subjective factor of the leadership of the revolution. In no way should we proceed from the idea that the conditions are not yet ripe for the revolution, or that the revolution cannot break out in the developed capitalist countries, therefore, we have to wait for it to develop in those states or continents in which the oppression, the forms and methods of exploitation are allegedly different from those in the metropolises. The working class and the Marxist-Leninist parties of the metropolises ought to give the peoples of various countries great aid, should assist their revolutionary movements. - Enver Hoxha The Marxist-Leninist Movement and the World Crisis of Capitalism
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    My history teacher coaxed a majority of students in my class into refuting Marxism. It wasn't even during a class particularly relating to any economics or Russian/Cuban/Chinese/Venezuelan history. It was just sort of,
    "I don't really think that property being held in common is a good idea. But what do you think? I'm just saying, look at Russia. Stalin used communism and in turn, it killed 20 million people." (I kid you not, she said that shit to a class of kids)
    And then the brainless students chime in, "Yes, because this is the only time I've been asked about my opinion regarding communism/capitalism, I'm going to agree with yours, the most recent one I've heard."
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    I became a communist out of reaction against the cold heartless nature of capitalism and did my own reading on Lenin, Stalin, and especially Hoxha
    In this direction it is precisely the Marxist-Leninists who must be the most capable, the most wide-awake, the best organizers in order to become the subjective factor of the leadership of the revolution. In no way should we proceed from the idea that the conditions are not yet ripe for the revolution, or that the revolution cannot break out in the developed capitalist countries, therefore, we have to wait for it to develop in those states or continents in which the oppression, the forms and methods of exploitation are allegedly different from those in the metropolises. The working class and the Marxist-Leninist parties of the metropolises ought to give the peoples of various countries great aid, should assist their revolutionary movements. - Enver Hoxha The Marxist-Leninist Movement and the World Crisis of Capitalism
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    You can take economics and learn the arguments of the capitalists and point out contradictions and hopefully turn some classmates against the "free market."
    A former friend of mine (I'll explain) is taking the economics class, he's an Objectivist and a total prick. That's why I'm not signing up.

    Basically I stopped being friends with him because he just yells at people who don't like Capitalism. He shaved his head and never smiles since he joined the Rand cult. Now he's trying to be the model Objectivist.
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    Basically I stopped being friends with him because he just yells at people who don't like Capitalism.
    Peoples should yell at him for liking Capitalism.



    He shaved his head and never smiles since he joined the Rand cult. Now he's trying to be the model Objectivist.

    Seems he doesnt have a life nor a mind.
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    A former friend of mine (I'll explain) is taking the economics class, he's an Objectivist and a total prick. That's why I'm not signing up.

    Basically I stopped being friends with him because he just yells at people who don't like Capitalism. He shaved his head and never smiles since he joined the Rand cult. Now he's trying to be the model Objectivist.
    Objectivism is one of the scarest ideologies I have ever heard of! it is just about pure evil. I am more afraid of Objectivists than fascists. Objectivism is gaining with all this tea-bagging nonsense pushed by Fox News and Sean Hannity.
    In this direction it is precisely the Marxist-Leninists who must be the most capable, the most wide-awake, the best organizers in order to become the subjective factor of the leadership of the revolution. In no way should we proceed from the idea that the conditions are not yet ripe for the revolution, or that the revolution cannot break out in the developed capitalist countries, therefore, we have to wait for it to develop in those states or continents in which the oppression, the forms and methods of exploitation are allegedly different from those in the metropolises. The working class and the Marxist-Leninist parties of the metropolises ought to give the peoples of various countries great aid, should assist their revolutionary movements. - Enver Hoxha The Marxist-Leninist Movement and the World Crisis of Capitalism
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    I became a communist out of reaction against the cold heartless nature of capitalism and did my own reading on Lenin, Stalin, and especially Hoxha
    Sounds similar to me. I became a Communist after researching it when one of my teachers tried to say it's evil.
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    Same thing I've heard from high school teachers, college teachers, mainstream media, and everyone in America who likes to parrot what they've heard on TV.
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    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.
    What a load of poo. At least you here the words Communist in America you never here anything about it.
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    I've heard the same things and ive been called a facist too because most people dont knw how to read or care about learning about the truth
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    I've heard the same things and ive been called a facist too because most people dont knw how to read or care about learning about the truth
    I love how people like to compare "Communism" to Fascism. Gets me everytime. They typically go on about the same old USSR, China, DPRK, and all those other places being nationalistic and militaristic. I wish they would stop and think even for a few seconds that these are the very states that fought against Fascist Imperialism *cough* Hitler *cough*. Plus, in Socialism people wouldn't be getting killed for refusing to support the "almighty" state or for being a member of an ethnic minority group.
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    Plus, in Socialism people wouldn't be getting killed for refusing to support the "almighty" state
    Well, thats what Lenin kinda did.
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    Well, thats what Lenin kinda did.
    I think that's more than a little understandable - by which I do not mean justifiable - considering that he and every other founder of a state socialist government in history founded both their movement and their fledgling regimes with the genuine anxiety that vast powers existed which sought to kill them by any means necessary.
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    My teacher gave me this history book that actually said something along the lines of:
    Stalin is directly responsible for the death of 40 million people all over the world. He assisted Adolf Hitler in the Holocaust and had his own death camps in Siberia.
    I can't tell you how irked I was by that book. I tried to bring it up in class, but had no students to help me because they are all the children of CEOs and entrepreneurs, and the teacher proceeded to scold me for having that view. Utter bullshit. Cos capitalism is so perfect right? When millions of people die from starvation and the teacher can still drive her Mercedes, capitalism is the "correct" view. But when everyone is equal and the people who have been held down the longest are in power- that's horrible. It's just awful that millions of kids all over the world are taught things like that, and have no inclination to find out the truths. And it's really only getting worse, with the far right publishing books like "100 dangerous professors." Hopefully the far left will be able to counter soon.
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    I find this hard to believe.
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