TEACHING THE COMMUNIST DOGMA

TEACHING THE COMMUNIST DOGMA

 

OK – I don’t use the “C” word that often.   Folks like the John Birch Society yelled and screamed  communism” so often and so loudly during the past 30 or so years that the word has lost all impact.

 

Having said that, let’s also say that the communist doctrine still exists and there are still a lot of very powerful people in this world who think that communism is definitely the way to go.

 

Now – perhaps the best known single item of communist dogma is the quote “From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.”

 

You should know that this dogma is being taught in many government schools.  Perhaps its being taught, in actions and in words, to your children right now!

 

Remember all those school supplies you bought for your child before school started?  Those pencils, erasers, construction paper, binders, glue, scissors, rulers and whatnot?  Why don’t you ask your child what happened to that stuff?  You might be surprised!

 

In far too many government schools, and in some private schools, the children are told to take their supplies, that’s their property, and dump those supplies into a huge box or bin.  The supplies are then made available to any child in the classroom who has a need for them.  The children are told that it’s not “fair” that their parents could afford to buy them these supplies when some children’s parents can’t afford them.  Therefore, the only “fair” thing to do is for everyone to share and share equally.

 

The lesson?  The lesson is that it is somehow wrong for one child to have something, a nice pencil box, pens, binders – whatever – if another child doesn’t have one.  Private property rights?  Well, evidently these children don’t have rights to any property that other children can’t afford.

 

Do you see what’s being taught here?  These kids are being told that there is something inherently wrong with owning private property while others are going without.  So, the kids who have the “ability” to buy the office supplies will do so (from each according to their ability) and then those supplies will be shared with everyone in the class (to each according to their needs).

 

You think this is a small deal?  Not so.  This is a very impressionable age for these kids.  Lessons learned here are strongly imbedded.  The idea that one should now own and possess something that others don’t have, or can’t afford is poison to the concept of private property rights and capitalism.

 

You make up your own mind.  Is this just well-meaning teachers not realizing the consequences of their policies?  Or is this by design?