Should Students Learn About Communism & Socialism? Question

[geefloyd46]

[SHRED]

1. LOL...no...

...they should just learn from bigoted talkshow hosts and corporate Fake News reporters.

[maddiemom]

2. Absolutly these philosophies should be taught in an objective way.

As a high school and college student in the "crazy" sixties, I was economically, if not personally pretty conservative. Civil rights were one thing, but I disagreed with many of my fellow students about the "evils of our government." I didn't tumble to the brainwashing we were taught in favor of Capitalism' even though there were outright Socialists in the Norwegian side of my family; so I thought myself pretty liberal. But then our government was pretty liberal compared to what it's become. The "working" classes believed in unions and didn't much vote against their best interests. It took the sainted Reagan to open our eyes about the evils of the liberal side of our system of government.

[2banon]

3. All political and economic thought should be studied

"taught" in schools. including anarchism, marxism, neo conservatism, neo liberalism, socialist libertarianism, conservative libertarianism.. the different forms of "democracy", social capitalism. etc etc etc.

the first people that need a bit of objective education is the main speaker and the producer who thought that this screen shot was a decent example in order to make the point, instead of stooping to the lazy use of classic propaganda devices. bizarre.

[MisterP]

4. for teaching purposes, it's not so much an *alternative system* as a *toolkit of analysis*

[Sand Wind]

5. Yes, between the nazism and other totalitarian's system of our history, if we don't want

To repeat them.

[DFW]

6. Definitely

They should be discussed as alternative theories about how a society should run, especially since there are plenty of recent historical examples of what happens when the theories of the two systems are put into practice. Comparisons can be made, conclusions can be drawn, indoctrination is not necessary (or desired): this can be done objectively.

The school my girls attended here in Germany had a mandatory religion class, which almost caused me to pull them from it. But then it was explained that it was more of a history of religion class, and no indoctrination was involved. As a result, both my girls learned something about all kinds of religions, all the while free to make their own choice, which, so far (they are 28 and 30) is "none of the above."

[ancianita]

7. Education would be substandard without it. My students learned about them and 12 world religions.

...along with other world philosophies.

[Taitertots]

8. It needs to be mentioned, the vast majority of people are insanely ignorant

Significant portions of the country think the elected leader is a communist, socialist, whatever; but don't even know the most basic aspects of communism, socialism, or even capitalism.