This is a brief followup to Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots -- And Doomed, yesterday's op-ed addressing the disaster American universities have become. In the course of compiling a list for further reading, I came across a shocking article entitled, Not a Misprint: MIT Press to Publish ‘Communism for Kids’ Book.
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid, growing up in Santa Clara, California, we knew who the enemy was. There was an air raid siren on our block, and my dad, a veteran of the Battle of Manila and the invasion of New Guinea, was Block Warden.Our elementary school held regular bomb drills (where we were taught to hide under our desks and kiss our asses bye bye), and the city ran air raid drills on a regular basis. When that siren went off, we would fill the bathtub with water and crouch down on our knees in a hallway. That was what communism meant to us - fear and anger - so the thought that an American university would publish a book designed to teach impressionable children about the glories of Communism made me sick at heart.I felt a little better this morning after reading this story from CNS News: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, fancy swords, displaced peasants, mean bosses, and tired workers,” its Amazon.com page explains. The book's "lovable little revolutionaries" learn that the proper implementation of communism can save people from “the misery of capitalism":While I found this encouraging, I am still deeply concerned that Americans do not see the danger to the Republic...or, if they're modern Democrats, do see it and don't care.Wake up, Ameerica, before you lose even more of your liberties.“Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism.” ('Communism for Kids' Fails to Make Amazon.com Top 100 Rankings)
