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This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes (truthout.org)

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Florida public schools will force students to take a Heritage Foundation-backed class on the “evils of communism.”

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

if you really love communism, why not move to a communist country?

First, there are no truly communist countries. Just authoritarian ones that use communism as a method of control. And now we live in an authoritarian country that uses capitalism as a method of control.

I also didn't say anything about "loving communism", whatever that is supposed to mean.

Prager U doesn't make a distinction between socialism and communism. That's the same propaganda we all got growing up in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Conflating one thing with another. And that is the problem. Prager U is going to tell kids that paying taxes so that a poor person can eat is communism and taking your property away to give it to someone who doesn't want to work for a living. They're going to tell kids that taxing rich people will prevent them from having enough money to create jobs for good hard working Americans. And that giving things away for free will make people not want to work.

These are the same lies we grew up with. Only with the failed state of the USSR as a "good example" of how communism(socialism) always fails. Ignoring the fact that it was deep corruption and authoritarian rule that actually destroyed the USSR.

Edit:

capitalism is about owning your own busisness

No, it is not. It's about using the labor of other people to enrich yourself.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no capitalism is and only is, the private ownership of commerce

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago

Literally the definition of capitalism is private ownership of the means of production.

Commerce is the act of selling and buying goods.

You should... Idk, get better at thinking?