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.

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's a religion. Unitarianism was a European tradition that believed that Jesus was just a prophet and not God himself.

    Universalism was an American protestant tradition that believed all people were destined for heaven.

    They were syncretized with tramscedentalisn which is like, protestant nature worship. Think Thoreau.

    Both were involved in abolitionist and anti mexican war movement, albeit in some truly do nothing ways.

    During the 60s they combined into a single church, despite their diverging views on the trinity.

    Rather than have a dogma, they believe that each person has to find their own spiritual truth, and so a lot of them end up atheists lol.

    Now it's just sort of church for white liberal atheists. They have a joke that "diversity at a UU congregation is 5 different colors of Subaru in the parking lot."