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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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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.

Atheistic Marxists have formed an alliance with an unlikely partner in their drive to destroy America and its Constitution: Their plan is exposed in the investigative blockbuster Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad.

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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Major US university publishes 'Communism for Kids' - WND.com

Call it the latest in proof positive some Millennials are hell-bent on being ignorant and brash, but they did all they could to live up to their poor reputation earlier in March. A group of Millennials denigrated the Victims of Communism (VOC) Memorial on Capitol Hill, taking photos of themselves flipping it the middle finger, then posting and bragging about their slimy conduct on social media.

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Millions of people have been murdered, tortured, and persecuted by communist dictators like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Fidel Castro. The memorial was built to honor those innocent lives. The front pedestal reads, To the more than one hundred million victims of communism and to those who love liberty.

Several Twitter accounts related to the incident link to the website of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a socialist-third party that believes the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.

This seems to go hand in hand with what we already know Millennials believe about communism as an ideology to be admired. In October, VOC released a survey which gauged Americans attitudes toward socialism, communism, and related ideas.

We knew Millennials, born in 1982-2002, had a thing for Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., but the VOC survey showed they embraced much more than just a grandfatherly version of an American-Socialist.

According to the study, just over half of millennials (55 percent) believe communism was and still is a problem, compared with 80 percent of Baby Boomers and 91 percent of elderly Americans. Only 37 percent of millennials have a very unfavorable view of communism, while 57 percent of the rest of Americans do. A surprising 64 percent of Americans agreed with the classic Karl Marx statement that underpins Marxist philosophy: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

This was not only shocking about their present views, but revealing about their previous or current history education. Marion Smith, executive director of the VOC told me on the phone that the March incident not only shows a callous disrespect of innocent lives sacrificed, but unfortunately ties in with how rabidly Millennials have embraced communism. I think incidents like this are made more likely because so many people dont understand history. They dont understand Mao and Stalin are mass murderers. They dont know about the crimes committed by people of these communist regimes. They dont understand the human misery as a real fact of history.

Whats the appeal of dangerous ideologies like this to Millennials? Smith told me, Many students are taught that the alternative to a free enterprise system is a form of socialism. A marxist interpretation of society. If you dont like capitalism, the obvious alternative in most peoples minds is some form of marxist faith.

This type of ignorance stems from a lack of education, and in some cases our nations cultural slide. But it is exactly what progressives even Marxists wanted in order to implement their policies. Millennials have become the type of de facto voter base socialist leaders cater to and ultimately exploit via everything from propaganda to crimes against humanity. If a person has little knowledge of historical perspective, and is therefore vulnerable and willing to agree with any ideological talking point that comes their way in a pretty package, that person is an easy target to woo, to turn into a fanatical zealot, and to then wittingly or unwittingly participate in the types of crimes these very leaders committed. Multiply that by thousands and you have a Katyn massacre on your hands not because people always knew or were complicit (innocent people should not take the blame), but because evil dictators exploited ignorance and filled empty minds with their twisted ideology.

The only way to stop this trend is to cut it off where it begins: education. Its imperative we press for a more expansive, clarifying education of global history to high school and college students so they are informed about how communism actually played out in various cultures. VOC has made significant efforts to that end, but more must be done.

Since studies show high-schoolers and collegiates dont know basic facts about world history, let alone the staggering atrocities communist regimes committed, they offer a supplemental curriculum to aid teachers in educating students about this specific topic. A few minutes watching the videos within their Witness, project--stories of survivors of communism--might provide valuable perspective for some Millennials still touting Marx as a mentor. The danger of forgetting history is it opens up what is acceptable in our politics, reminds Smith. The language of violence that is so much a part of certain ideologies. Lets do what we can to educate our young people, even Millennials, so this doesnt happen again and so history does not forget those brutally murdered by communist regimes.

Nicole Russell is a contributor to Conservative Review writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Federalist, The American Spectator, Reason, National Review Online, and Parents magazine. She was the 2010 recipient of the American Spectators Young Journalist award. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and four children. You can follow her on Twitter @nmrussell2.

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'Communism for Kids' Fails to Make Amazon.com Top 100 Rankings CNSNews.com (blog) A new book that sells the concept of Communism in the simple terms of a children's story has failed to sell on Amazon.com except in the category for true believers. Communism for Kids by MIT Press unfolds like a story, with jealous princesses ...

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In 2004, German political theorist and queer politics expert Bini Adamczak wrote Communism for Kids, and, for some reason, MIT Press has decided that it needed to be translated and published in English this year. At last, American families will have the opportunity to take Adamczaks ideas from the fever swamps of the Occupy movement to their childrens bedrooms.

Dont expect this scholar of social theory to deal with communisms long history of failure, however. Communism for Kids is a fantasy complete with princesses and talking chairs and thus affords the author free rein to lambast capitalism and construct her own imaginary, happier vision of communism. Claiming to be new, the book promotes the same tired theory that communisms problems lie in implementation, not in ideology.

MIT Presss website has an overview which touts how this communism is different: This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Ah, communism that is free from authoritarianism. That old chestnut.

In keeping with the usual propagandistic style, the aesthetic of Communism for Kids is predictably creepy:

Left-wing propaganda has proliferated in childrens books recently. In another work, A Is for Activist, children are taught the alphabet via charming limericks such as: T is for Trans. / For Trains, Tiaras / Tulips, Tractors, / and Tigers Too! / Trust in The True / The he she They That is you! Books such as these promise to cleanse children of wrongthink before they can even spell and before they have learned any history. Usually, they are topical. But if you come down on the partisan or establishment side of things, you can also find cute stories featuring Hillary Clinton or Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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