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FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
1. "Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. "
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 01:28 PM
Aug 2017

I wonder how she explains what happened in her own country when people had the chance to freely choose?

 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
3. Inculcating children with communist ideologies is child abuse
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:07 PM
Aug 2017

The book is a slap in the face to the billions who suffered and still suffer under communist dictatorships, and to the tens of millions who died as a result. Communism always ends the same way: authoritarianism, mass killings and starvation.

Cal Carpenter

(4,959 posts)
4. It is actually a pretty neat little book. MIT Press published it
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:07 PM
Aug 2017

That's MIT as in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Are they idiots?

Maybe if you actually read the book you could comment on it's contents a little more accurately. Any criticisms would be much more meaningful. It's a short book and doesn't use complicated language.

Archae

(46,373 posts)
8. The person who approved this translation and printing is an idiot.
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:20 PM
Aug 2017

Should children see this book, too?



Yes, I do consider Naziism to be equal with communism.

Both "isms" are total failures and responsible for millions of people tortured, imprisoned and murdered.

DFW

(54,501 posts)
5. Does it also give instructions on how to shoot down people at the border trying to leave?
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:12 PM
Aug 2017

Or is that in the second edition?

brooklynite

(94,944 posts)
6. "One day, mommy and daddy told Sally to give all but one of her dolls, saying..."
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:16 PM
Aug 2017

"...from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs".

brooklynite

(94,944 posts)
7. "Timmy was given a time out for 're-education'"...
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:19 PM
Aug 2017

"...after attempting engage in capitalist oppression by opening a lemonade stand."

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