When I was in my last year of high school, I took an elective course on world history. The curriculum covered major events from the Spanish Civil War through to the fall of the Berlin Wall. You'd certainly expect this to be a typical curriculum of liberal back-patting, and maybe the official material was, but my teacher was a socialist and made sure to instill in us the kind of critical thinking skills that would allow us to think about countries' motives for things, and to be able to spot propaganda.
For example, for each segment of study she would highlight what kinds of secret things the US was up to at the time, which groups they funded and trained, who they tried to assassinate, that sort of thing. And she emphasized that they did this in the single-minded pursuit of destroying communism, often leading to them funding fascists. This did a lot to break the facade of "west good" that we had grown up with.
I read the Manifesto that year thanks to her, and kept reading.
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When I was in my last year of high school, I took an elective course on world history. The curriculum covered major events from the Spanish Civil War through to the fall of the Berlin Wall. You'd certainly expect this to be a typical curriculum of liberal back-patting, and maybe the official material was, but my teacher was a socialist and made sure to instill in us the kind of critical thinking skills that would allow us to think about countries' motives for things, and to be able to spot propaganda.
For example, for each segment of study she would highlight what kinds of secret things the US was up to at the time, which groups they funded and trained, who they tried to assassinate, that sort of thing. And she emphasized that they did this in the single-minded pursuit of destroying communism, often leading to them funding fascists. This did a lot to break the facade of "west good" that we had grown up with.
I read the Manifesto that year thanks to her, and kept reading.