After 2 months of studying, 20/26 students in the class anonymously chose communism over capitalism on the last week before Christmas break. Teacher thought she was subtly upset (apparently wasn’t subtle) and had the class redo the poll after their final exam on the subject to see if they “learned anything since then”

22/26 students chose communism in the second poll.

I know it isn’t much but dammit it made me feel good

For context this is in NYC

  • breadandcircuses [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    amazed the teacher gave them the opportunity to actually learn about communism instead of just saying "gommunibm no food" over and over

  • MasterCombine [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Based

    Hopefully they bully the four nerds that stuck with capitalism.

    • btbt [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      1984 Lord of the Flies wasn’t meant to be an instruction manual

    • machiabelly [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Especially cool because capitalists love to talk about how they definitely invented division of labour

    • Sandinband
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      4 years ago

      My AP euro teacher told us communism caused the famine because farmers realized they could not work and still get paid the same so no one worked. And like a bunch of other supply problems because no one was working

      • opposide [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        the farmers realized they could not work and still get paid the same so nobody worked

        Ah yes as we all know, people prefer to die than to work. That’s why almost all of the hunter gatherers are dead

    • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      In 7th grade I was told it was when wealth was distributed completely equally but most of it was taxed by the government

    • flooze [any]
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      4 years ago

      Capitalism is a type of oligarchical government in which no one shares resources and everyone gets vastly different amounts regardless of how much they work.

    • comrade_24 [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      That was pretty much what I was taught, and my reaction was like, “Yeah, wow, that does sound shitty.”

  • lutteurdeclasse [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I recently realized my history teacher from high school was probably a communist, she described the soviet gov as improving ppl's standard of living and we talked a lot about the Russian struggle against the nazis, (I live in France btw) and now I realized this associated communism with positive images early

    • opposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Apparently something similar happened when my little brother’s class did their own research.

      Crazy how ideas that work for the majority of people are popular with the majority of people

  • kristina [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    22/26 students chose communism in the second poll.

    :CommiePOGGERS:

  • iridaniotter [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Haha, in my government class we were being taught different systems of government. There was like, confederation/federation/unitary, capitalism/socialism/communism, democratic/oligarchic/dictatorial or something like that. Obviously government systems aren't decided in a vacuum, and for a high school class the whole curriculum was a joke, but the class voted for democratic communism and the teacher got mad and said we voted for North Korea lol.

    When I was doing online school for a year and a half, we were taught about the Cuban missile crisis. We actually learned about the American aggression in Turkey that led up to it as well as the roles of JFK and Khrushchev. They had us vote on who did more to prevent war and the majority said Khrushchev did.

    • GamerCastro [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I was so pissed when I found out about the Turkey thing independently after having learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis without any mention of it throughout High School

    • opposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Fortnite dances on me after my decapitation as I was last vestige of the now obsolete state which has finally been dissolved to establish full communism

  • Jorick [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The kids aren't alright. They're absolutely based more like.

  • Zo1db3rg [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    My economics/government teacher in highschool was the boomeriest old Fuck that ever lived. Some of my friends are still victims of his brainwashing bullshit. The greatest stain on my life is that I voted for Bush because of that fuckers brainwashing. I think even back then I realized to some degree how full of shit he was but just went with the flow. I often think about how badly I could send all my knowledge back to my highschool self and just demolish him with what I know now. Also gratz on you little brother have a based AF class.