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There are many reasons that contribute to communism being the most pragmatic solution to the crises of world poverty, war and climate change.

Father of Economics Adam Smith has been accused of saying that individual ambition serves the common good. What this is often interpreted as is the notion that whatever is done in greed at the hands of the corporate overlords, is somehow good for the wage slaves. As if!

However, the soul of this statement isnt necessarily a fallacy. What is good for the individual is good for the group, provided that the individual strives to work for the common good.

As my dear colleague David Jenkins would say, the left is divided between moral high ground and the freedom to choose for yourself.

In the a capitalist democracy versus the communist democracy, the two are at different rankings in regards to importance; though both are very important in both.

For one person to be rich, another must be poor. No person is worth more than another. No one deserves more than another. No one should have the power to make another starve.

If such a power is given, the greediest people among us will use it to bleed people, institutions and the environment until these things are left empty.

This is the simple explanation for why capitalism has failed again and again.

For those who say that communism should not be attempted because it has never been successful, capitalism has never been successful except with some degree of socialism.

Communism has not yet been successful because there has been some element of capitalistic greed.

Therefore, it is pragmatic at first to strive for the moral high ground and make personal freedom second banana until materialism as a concept is wiped from the human psyche.

After this point, people would understand that they are morally responsible for the well-being of their neighbors and always choose that which is morally just.

German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx was filled with rage at seeing the surplus that was made and thrown away day after day in capitalist Europe; but this is also precisely what gave him hope.

If corporate America would stop creating false scarcity by throwing out goods that are not sold, the environment and society would experience less of a strain.

If production of luxury goods were halted and the manpower, time and resources were allocated toward things that were necessary we would without a doubt have a surplus of things that people actually need.

Giving children clothes; the hungry food; the homeless lodging; is much more valuable than the illusion of personal choice.

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One of Americas most prestigious universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has published a pro-communism book that teaches children in the United States to yearn to be free of misery of capitalism and embrace the new communism.

MIT Press one of the most prominent university publishers in the U.S. is publishing the book titled Communism for Kids that instructs American youth to shun the economic system that has made their country the most powerful economic force on the planet and embrace a system that has resulted in poverty and millions of deaths worldwide over the past century.

Communism good, capitalism bad

The books propaganda tells of the wonders of communism and villainizes capitalism in a fairytale setting so that Americas youth are led to believe that the former will end oppression, inequality and suffering.

Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism, the promotion of the book begins, according to WND. How could their dreams come true?

Children are led to warm up to the idea of communism in the book written by German author Bini Adamczak via a series fairy tales, which teach the Karl Marxs tenets.

Adamczak reportedly specializes in political theory and queer politics, WND informed about the author of the book that has been translated by Jacob Blumenfeld and Sophie Lewis. His thesis is that communism is not that hard, but has not been implemented in the right way.

The author attempts to repackage communism and sell children a new brand of the failed economic and social system of government.

This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism, the jacket description reads, according to Amazon.com. It all unfolds like a story, with jealous princesses, fancy swords, displaced peasants, mean bosses, and tired workers not to mention a Ouija board, a talking chair, and a big pot called the state.'

Animation, euphemisms and scare tactics are all reportedly used to sway American youth to start a communist revolution.

The book uses cartoon drawings of lovable little revolutionaries to help convince kids of the evils of capitalism, WND pointed out.

MIT Press attempts to disarm American parents, educators and children to create a new openness to a communist form of government.

Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a childrens story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening, the university publisher states, according to Amazon. Before they know it, readers are learning about the economic history of feudalism, class struggles in capitalism, different ideas of communism, and more.

Breaking young Americans in to communism

The new childrens title reportedly discounts the many dangers and failures of communism as witnessed over the past century across the world.

The book lays out various approaches to communism, all of which fail, The Washington Free Beacon reports. However, Communism for Kids ends with the message that class warfare could still lead to a better world."

MITs new title is already extremely popular with Leftists even though the system it promotes is responsible for mass genocides over the decades.

The book is currently the number one new release in the "Communism and Socialism" category on Amazon, the Beacons Elizabeth Harrington informed. Communist regimes have killed approximately 100 million people over the past century.

Politicizing

With Leftists still in dismay over President Donald Trump beating their Democratic champion Hillary Clinton, liberal novelist Rachel Kushner insists that American children really need this book now.

"Communism for Kids, by Bini Adamczak, is in fact for everyone, an inspired and necessary book especially now, a moment when people feel that we are on the verge of the destruction of the world, and without any new world to hope for, or believe in," Kushner shared on Salon.com, which notes that she is a fan of revolutionary themes and often scares male critics. "Have 200 years of capitalism brought us freedom? Or just more inequality than has ever been experienced by humans on earth?"

She argues that people who stick to capitalism are enslaved to it.

"Global capitalism is not human destiny it merely is," Kushner contended. "To think beyond it, with the help of Adamczaks primer, is to take a first step toward freedom, at least the freedom to imagine other worlds."

MIT says its newly published books opens up minds young and old to freethinking and a new sense of social and economic liberty.

At last, the people take everything into their own hands and decide for themselves how to continue, the publisher concludes on Amazon. Happy ending? Only the future will tell. With an epilogue that goes deeper into the theoretical issues behind the story, this book is perfect for all ages and all who desire a better world.

Reviews tell it all

Communism for Kids, which Amazon is selling for $12.95, received approximately 60 customer reviews so far, and the comments have not been kind for the most part, as the 101-page book received an average rating of only two out of five stars.

However, it currently appears on Amazons top-five bestsellers lists in the Government category (ranked fifth) as well as on the Communism and Socialism category, where it has fluctuated between first and second place.

Even though some Leftist reviews remarked that the childrens book makes Marxism cool again! many who posted submissions last week gave it a one out of five rating and used their comments on Amazon as buyer beware warnings, as seen below:

This is really embarrassing, wrote Chad and Kristen. Please, if you're going to propagandize, at least don't mislead our children. Communism has killed more people than all the wars in history combined.

Another reader took the opportunity to warn children and parents.

Children's books are written for the naive, of course, but this one was also written BY the nave, wrote JoeQPublic. While done in a cutes-ey style, the book is idiotic and almost unreadable. Its timing is ironic, given that Venezuela is currently melting down even as the book releases, another country fallen victim to the very economics pushed in this book. And lest we forget, 2 million people have starved to death in the past decade in North Korea, the world's last fully Communist state. Many of the dead were children. This ideology has murdered or starved over 60 million people how about we don't pass the virus on to the next generation?

One reader noted the irony behind selling the book on the website.

If communism is so great, why are they selling the book? long time IT guy asked. Isn't that capitalism?

One reviewer used personal experience to denounce the book.

I grew up in communism and believe me, the idea of communism will never work, commented B. Lszl. This idea is based on mass murder. I was a kid and I know what communism [is] for a kid. My family didn't do anything against [the] regime, and this is why they w[ere] not killed, just imprisoned and abused every day. The police br[oke] into our home every week and made a mess and br[oke] our stuff just for fun. And this is communism. Communism for Kids is simply: you have no right to have dreams. No matter what talent you have, you will do what Party order[s] you. You cannot study, you cannot choose ... you have to obey.

Another parent reader was livid about the books promotion in the public schools.

What a disgrace I'm assuming this is sold as fiction? asked Jacob Emery. I'm willing to bet public schools and teachers unions buy every copy of this book. If my kid ever brings this home

One reviewer appealed to history to justify her condemnation of the book.

[E]very time someone says they 'perverted the theory', or that 'this is true communism', I load my gun and hide my wallet, commented Cliente Amazon. Communism is social CANCER. It was made to fail, it was designed to be perverted. If you think a government should have enough power to take people's possessions and 'redistribute them', congratulations, you've just supported an autocratic dictatorship, as it ALWAYS HAPPENS, EVERY TIME AND EVERYWHERE IT WAS IMPLEMENTED. The conclusion is simple: with pretty soft talk, with good looking images [not in this case, btw], a politician tries to amass enough popular support to get into power. After that he will NOT fulfill any of his promises [or at least will do it until the money ends] and will install a crisis, which in turn will justify the increase of his executive power until he becomes the state. This story repeated itself DOZENS OF TIMES. But 'the theory was perverted'.... GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!

Another used semi-serious humor to prove a point against the problematic book.

I'm pleased to see the cover of this book contains pictures of children smashing things with hammers, wrote Rich Peacock. It is reminiscent of the time Chinese Communists trained school children to kill their bourgeois teachers and a number were beaten to death.

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'Communism for Kids' published by MIT - One News Now - OneNewsNow

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):a venerated hall of higher learning from which some of the greatest achievers of the past century have emerged, including physicist Richard Feynman, mathematician Gilbert Strang, founder of the band Boston, Tom Sholz, the exciting bureaucrat and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Oliver Smoot (the man who laid on the sidewalk of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge 364 times in 1962 to provide measurements that are still re-painted each year).So with such an illustrious history of achievement in education, what logical step could MITs publishing arm take to shore up its bonafides?

Why, publish a schoolbook for kids to promote the obvious virtues of communism, of course!

As reported by Tiffany Gabbay, for TruthRevolt, the MIT Press has just published a childrens book called Communism for Kidsand, despite MITs reputation for nurturing science and erudition, the book is not what one might expect. It is not an overview of the horrors wrought by political collectivism around the world. Instead, its a book promoting communism.

To kids.

Its author, Bini Adamczak is a German social theorist and artist whowrites on political theory, queer politics, and the past and future of revolutions," writes Gabbay.

According to Adamczak, communism isnt hard to grasp or implement (which is a shame, because if it had been more difficult to implement, millions upon millions of people would not have been killed by regimes practicing it).

The Communism for Kids author tells potential readers:

This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a childrens story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening.

Cute. But communism as a political ideology requires authoritarianism, because it is, by definition, to be established through the state. As a result, it is involuntary, as all states are, and is to be forced on people, whether they want it or not. This is a fundamental insight, and highlights the fact that those who promote communism assomehow not authoritarian have no clue what communism requires.

It is ironic that MIT and the authorshould sell a book about communism on the market. One would have thought that a writer in favor of communal property would just give his work away. Heck, how about just letting anyone get a diploma from MIT, whether they pay tuition or not?

Its also ironic that a school in Massachusetts should publish a book promoting political collectivism, given that Massachusetts is home to the first example of the failure of collectivism in the history of America. That would be the Plymouth Plantation, where, as former Gov. William Bradford noted, they tried collectivismand it failed, leading to resentment among neighbors, anger, sloth, and starvation. So, rather than pay a supposed communist to publish an apologia for a political philosophy that led to death there, and to the deaths of nearly a hundred million people across the globe, why not just explain to kids what the Pilgrims did to survive after trying communism?

In fact, the Pilgrims are perennial subjects of kids books. Why not do something simple, and just tell them the true story of Thanksgiving, that it was, according to Bradford, a celebration of finding the wisdom to recognize the worth of the individual and his or her property?

That seems like childs play and easily in the wheelhouse of the geniuses at MIT.

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MIT Just Published a Kids' Book Promoting Communism - MRCTV (blog)

With due respect to Santayana, perhaps we can say that those who love the mistakes of the past will condemn others to repeat them. A case in point is a new book published by MIT Press thats actually titled Communism for Kids I kid you not.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that the book, written by a German author who specializes in political theory and queer politics, was released last month. The thesis of the children's book is that communism is not that hard, but has not been implemented in the right way.

Wow, Ive never heard that one before. You mean, if I try touching the hot stove just one more time, it may not burn my hand?

The Washington Times Cheryl K. Chumley provides more detail, with a comic spirit:

[T]he Amazon descriptionreadsthusly: Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism.

You had me at free lost me at misery of capitalism.

But this book isnt your regular red-minded, communist-loving, theory-driven drivel. Perish the thought. Its a story book, filled with again, hat tip Amazon jealous princesses, fancy swords, displaced peasants, mean bosses and tired workers not to mention a Ouija board, a talking chair and a big pot called the state.

Speaking of capitalists, is MIT Press a for-profit operation? Just wondering.

This is likely, since the book isnt offered for less than its usual $12.95 to those with modest abilities and greater needs. What the book is offering, writes MIT Press, is relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, as it presents political theory in the simple terms of a childrens story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening.

MIT Press later assures, Before they know it, readers are learning about the economic history of feudalism, class struggles in capitalism, different ideas of communism, and more.

And before they know it, readers are standing in a bread line and having teeth pulled without Novocain.

Just in case youre not yet enticed enough to stuff this work in a Christmas stocking, Chumley provides a synopsis of its plot, which focuses on workers at two factories who must fight through a myriad of problems to save the business day. And their struggles are played out along the lines of the various economic systems.

I dont want to be the spoiler here, Chumley then states, but guess which system, in the end, saves the worker day?

Of course, it never works out that way in real life the implementation always fails because Marxist doctrine thoroughly ignores the realities of mans nature.

First a little history. Socialism and communism were popularized via Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto; it is the definitive work on the matter.

Now, under the Marxist doctrine explained therein, socialism is what most people think communism is: government control of the means of production, the abolition of private property, etc. This socialist revolution is meant to usher in communism, which is the final phase of the program, in which the government has melted away and people live harmoniously in a state of economic equality and bliss. (Thats the theory, anyway.)

This is why the USSR wasnt guilty of false advertising when calling itself the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Communist government is an oxymoron.

Its also an impossibility. Marx believed that all human suffering and woes were caused by economic inequality; thus, eliminate that inequality and theres no crime or evil of any kind and hence no need for government.

This shallow theory fails because it views man as merely an economic being ergo the supposition, Take care of the economics, and everything else takes care of itself.

(This infects all modern thinking, mind you. Example: Crime is due to poverty. Seldom realized is that crime rates dropped markedly during the Great Depression.)

But man does not live on bread alone. He has moral and spiritual dimensions as well. Besides, the proverbs Busy hands are happy hands, Work ennobles man, and An idle mind is the Devils playground all warn of the perils that can attend wealth. Its no cure-all.

Then there are the perils of not allowing wealth. The socialist revolution fails because, absent the profit motive, people generally become slothful. Moreover, there cant be the level of top-down control socialism entails without authoritarianism. And while leaders are typically worse than their people to begin with, moral individuals dont rise to powers pinnacle under such systems.

The result? Despots such as Kim Jong Un, who clearly has greater needs than any other North Korean and luxuriates while his people languish.

How could Marx believe something so ridiculous, that economic equality could not only be achieved but render government unnecessary? He likely was mentally ill. Note that he was infamous for not washing (common among the mentally ill) and exhibited that dangerous genius-insanity combination: impressive talents couple with dislocation from reality.

So thats Marx excuse. Whats MITs?

Of course, its doubtful MITs little communism book instructs in that which Marxists have actually excelled (Kill like a communist, kids! Stalin, Mao et al. have handed you the baton, and you get to start with 94 million bodies already on the register!). But just in case the publisher decides to reissue the work, theres that and then this idea: Easy recipes for budding communists (needed for preparation: utensils, unsanitary conditions, and a Pol Pot):

How to make an omelet after youve broken some eggs

Cooking cats and dogs (with special emphasis on Venezuelan cuisine)

Cereal with low-fat cockroach protein.

Lastly, since Communism for Kids is one of MITs first forays into the childrens market, here are some ideas for follow-ups:

Nazism for Kids

Genocide Made Easy, for Ages 9 to 12

Ten Steps to Running a Really Cool Gulag

Oh, I almost forgot. One more would be Communism for Dummies because thats what youd have to be to, after a century of socialist failure, still believe the Marxist hype and tripe.

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Brainwashing Shocker: MIT Press Releases Communism for Kids Book - The New American

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Karl Marx is buried in Londons Highgate Cemetery

Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true?

Thats how the promotion for a new book for kids about the wonders of communism starts out.

The book, Communism for Kids, has been published by a major U.S. university publisher, MIT Press, and is now available in paperback or Kindle on Amazon.

The book, penned by German author Bini Adamczak and translated by Jacob Blumenfeld and Sophie Lewis, teaches children the tenets of Karl Marx through a series of fairy tales.

Adamczak reportedly specializes in political theory and queer politics.

His thesis is that communism is not that hard but has not been implemented in the right way.

This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism, according to the jacket description.

The book uses cartoon drawings of lovable little revolutionaries to help convince kids of the evils of capitalism.

Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a childrens story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening, MIT Press states.

It all unfolds like a story, with jealous princesses, fancy swords, displaced peasants, mean bosses, and tired workers not to mention a Ouija board, a talking chair, and a big pot called the state,' the jacket description continues.

Before they know it, readers are learning about the economic history of feudalism, class struggles in capitalism, different ideas of communism, and more, MIT Press states.

With traditional Marxism a proven failure, leftists have concocted new tricks to destroy capitalism and replace it with communism Paul Kengor exposes all of them in Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left has Sabotaged Family and Marriage.

The Washington Free Beacon notesthat the book lays out various approaches to communism, all of which fail. However, Communism for Kids ends with the message that class warfare could still lead to a better world.

Finally, competition between two factories leads to a crisis that the workers attempt to solve in six different ways (most of them borrowed from historic models of communist or socialist change), the description states. Each attempt fails, since true communism is not so easy after all. But its also not that hard.

At last, the people take everything into their own hands and decide for themselves how to continue, MIT Press concludes. Happy ending? Only the future will tell. With an epilogue that goes deeper into the theoretical issues behind the story, this book is perfect for all ages and all who desire a better world.

The book sells for $12.95.

With 58 customer reviews on Amazon, the book has an overall rating of two stars, with five being the highest and one the lowest.

Amazingly, the book ranks among Amazons top-five bestsellers in the categories of government, No. 5, and communism and socialism, No. 2.

Some reviewers have noted the book is poorly written, but others say it makes Marxism cool again!

According to Salon.com, the book has received rave reviews from Rachel Kushner, a novelist who uses revolutionary themes and scares male critics.

Kushner says the book is especially needed now, since Donald Trump won the presidency.

Communism for Kids, by Bini Adamczak, is in fact for everyone, an inspired and necessary book especially now, a moment when people feel that we are on the verge of the destruction of the world, and without any new world to hope for, or believe in, Kushner says. Have two hundred years of capitalism brought us freedom? Or just more inequality than has ever been experienced by humans on earth?

Global capitalism is not human destiny, it merely is, Kushner adds. To think beyond it, with the help of Adamczaks primer, is to take a first step toward freedom, at least the freedom to imagine other worlds.

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Fredric R. Jameson, a professor of romance studies at Duke University who has done more than any contemporary intellectual to rethink and renew the tradition of Marxist cultural theory, also praised the book as great for kids.

This delightful little book may be helpful in showing youngsters there are other forms of life and living than the one we currently enjoy; and even some adults might learn from it as well, Jameson says. At a time when our younger generations are not only dissatisfied but active enough to have some new thoughts of their own and to look around seriously for alternatives, political pedagogy has a real function and might well, as here, be reinvented in new ways.

Chapter titles for the 101-page book are as follows: What is communism? What is capitalism? How did capitalism arise? What is work? What is the market? What is crisis? and What is to be done?

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