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)
I got the 20th century history class taught by the chill sports coach who was made to teach it, he expressed his displeasure by telling us about US Imperialism, the gulf of Tonkin, and how the US war machine is run by and for the obscenely rich. He interspersed this with wild personal stories, including the art of flicking coins in such a way that they become flying concussion discs. One project was to write a song about the Vietnam war, and I got full points for rewriting Gangster's Paradise to be about a conscript fragging officers and doing heroin.
Come to think of it, we didn't really talk about Communism at all, which was either laziness or a stroke of brilliance: rather than try to defuse 16 years of propaganda in every single student, he just showed us that the US government lies, murders and sucks shit, and let us figure it out from there.
Big ups to coach Perez for starting me on my path.