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.
My mom was staunchly anti-communist, so probably a similar situation caused the break of sorts. I figure a bad relationship with the said parent was a major contributor, the whole adaptation to one's environment thing. Harvey's pretty lib but he was on point saying children are naturally dialectical.
can you expand on that , sounds interesting
They adapt to their conditions and realize the change and motion of said conditions/life, not so much in a material framework though. It tends to be more in the line of OG Hegelian over simplified tricohomy of thesis-antithesis-synthesis (parents say no, grandparents say yes, ask grandparents for candy) but you do see more of the standard in complex cases like language learning or moves for example.