Self-Development Is Not Individualism Individualism teaches: improve yourself so you can dominate others, escape them, or stand apart from them. Revolutionary self-development teaches: develop yourself so you can be useful, reliable, and effective within collective struggle. These are opposites. A worker who studies theory, improves their communication, maintains physical and mental health, and carries themselves […]

Continuation from Part 2 – Raising Reds Review The final chapter before the conclusion “Primers for Revolution” brings up a lot of different communist and socialist children’s literature and how best to teach young children. Its amazing that Communist as early as the 1920’s and 1930s were writing stories that broke racial and cultural barriers decades before the civil rights movement in the USA. I think an interesting point by the author after

Continuation from Part 1 – Raising Reds Review In chapter 2 Mishler gives account of the preceding theories on child rearing, education, and family life developed by radicals and communist before and during the time of communism. Bebel and their theory of free love is discussed heavily and how his theory was extremely popular among German socialist because its simple language to express their yearning for a better world. Mishler says “The popularity of ‘women under socialism’ points to the strong

Against Ascetic Moralism and Liberal Individualism One of the most persistent confusions within contemporary socialist politics concerns the role of the individual. On one side, we are confronted with bourgeois individualism: the ideology that treats society as nothing more than a collection of isolated atoms, each responsible only for their own private success or failure.

by Brian Nunez For parts 1, 2, and 3 click here, here, and here. From Romanticism to Revolution Despair and romanticizing revolution are both alien to Communist youth. This rejection embodies a future of rising out of the ruins of a decaying economic system. The model youth communist studies like an engineer, organizes like a

For first part read here: Model Young Communist Leaders Pt. 1 by Brian Nunez Inspiring Young Communists The model young Communist is a student and a builder. Not in the narrow sense, but as a builder of themselves, their comrades, and their movement.They combine the discipline and creativity of the Soviet youth with the technical