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.

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I mean, it was kinda a joke, but there is a definite anarchist to lib pipeline.

        Look at the number of cringe anti-china tweets from otherwise respectable anarchists.

        There is a fundamental respect for liberal values in some strains of anarchism and that can lead to unfortunate outcomes.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Oh for sure, but mostly I see that sort of stuff online, and in person I've had an unbroken record of convincing people why even if they do think china is bad, they can hold that position while also acknowledging there is literally nothing they can do about it without supporting interventionist foreign policy and that their energy is better focused on domestic issues.

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I have mostly anarchist friends and they're some of the best people I know. Fuck off with that

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Quit hogging the good ones. I don't think I have met a anarchist in the wild. Normies as far as the eye can see in my area.

    • comi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Correction, they had academics parents, who likely had very relaxed jobs

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Once again the riddle of history is solved by material analysis. You put your finger right on it.

        Where did the children of those middle class type academics grow up? Comfortable suburbs surrounded by other comfortable middle call folks. Little wonder they absorbed the norms of thsir environment.

        The most recent research I can recall is that a child's attitudes best correlate to the attitudes of their peers. So in most cases that is the answer right there