Is there anything that can be learned from cases like Buttigeg and Harris where at least one of their parents was ostensibly a proponent of Marx? Have any of you known or had communist parents?
I'm trying to avoid my own kids becoming reactionary and the only thing I know to do to avoid that is show them internal consistency with my own views(valuing consent, consistency, openness, compassion, reason, creativity, and an unbreakable will), educate them on class conflict and historical materialism, and give them opportunities to reinforce the innate kindness within them while also introducing them to various other groups so that they grow up to feel a human connection to anyone regardless of differences in age, gender, nationality, etc.
I'll be closely involved in their school work to help counter imperialist propaganda in their public school education.
I'll be involving them in programs like 4H so they don't become alienated from the means of production and their environment.
I'll be insisting they get part time service industry jobs when they're old enough to help radicalize them against the inhumanities of capitalist exploitation
Additionally, the only communities I can think to raise them as a part of are SRA, and UU. If y'all have any suggestions I would love to hear them.
You know I keep that mf-ing thang on me (Zinn's People's History, Dunbar-Ortiz' Indigenous Peoples' History, etc) I'd love any recommendations you have for essential reading/viewing though.
Hell that's like all I ever wanna talk about! They're 2 now but I can't wait to tell them about all this shit.
Currently still trying to finish reading Du Bois' Black Reconstruction and I would highly recommend the Marx Madness podcast if you need some supplemental commentary and contemporary reference to go along with reading some of those older texts. So far they've done full readings of Capital, State and Revolution, Imperialism, Wretched of The Earth, and are almost finished with Black Reconstruction.