I was taught that communism is when all property (including toothbrushes) gets taken by the government and redistributed personally by one leader who has total control, and it failed because no one did any work (as they got paid anyway)
I was taught that communism is when all property (including toothbrushes) gets taken by the government and redistributed personally by one leader who has total control, and it failed because no one did any work (as they got paid anyway)
almost nothing about the actual history of communism, but as this really abstract and also bad thing that would force everyone to look and act the same
like there's a spectrum of "individualism vs collectivism" and both extremes, anarchy and communism/fascism, are dangerous so it's good we have have a balance in US democracy and capitalism
they also did a really poor job of distinguishing communism and fascism, so that young me got the bizarre impression that the cold war was a continuation of WW2 in that we were still fighting the "collectivist extremists" but they had to rebrand after losing the first time