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Literature on the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSSR)

There has been a lot of anti-communist propaganda spread about the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, particularly the 1968 Prague Spring and subsequent Warsaw Pact invasion, so I'd like to offer some more sources about Czechoslovakia which cover these topics well, are in English (unfortunately, not much socialist Czechoslovak literature has been translated into English, though I have been trying to translate some things from authors such as K. Gottwald, the first communist president, and other Czechoslovak theorists/economists) and are fully available online for free.

#commieblr #marxism leninism #communism #czechoslovak socialism

stalinita

"It is difficult for me to imagine what 'personal liberty' is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible." - Joseph Stalin

Tagged by @stalinita (thank you so much 😭🫶)

Tagging some mutuals (so incredibly sorry for bothering you all I know most of us are not that close at all and many of you have been tagged by others but you guys are literally my only mutuals aside from Adella (stalinita) whom I haven't seen already tagged, feel free to ignore this if you dont want to take part in it): @autisticpastadevourer @hieragalbatorixdottir @mellodrammattic @spreadsopotism @spork-monkey @septiles @xavireaperx

Rules: shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people!

(I haven't used Spotify in years BUT there's a similar feature on my listening app so I hope this is OK even though its technically "against the rules" 😭)

1. Mattyeux, Princess Chelsea - Sometimes

2. MC Erik & Barbara - Sen

3. Maroon 5 - Maps

4. Olly Murs - Troublemaker

5. Maroon 5 - This Love

6. Alan Walker - On My Way

7. Niko's Band - Qamin Zana (Քամին Զանա)

8. Maroon 5 - Animals

9. MIRAVI - Калинка (Kalinka)

10. Gym Class Heroes - Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast in America

#gacha kid side showing #embarrassinggggg

People on here are so kind thank you all so much I love you all please never think I don't, I just lose words sometimes. But thank you all so much for how kind you are to me it makes me want to cry sometimes ❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂

#my emotionalpost...#feel like the grammar is incomprehensible #to everyone but me #but its ok...

spaghettihell

Reblog to hug prev

Please

spreadsopotism

I wanna start legitimately contributing to the commie space here and since I'm getting this random surge of dopamine after lying in bed depressed (mental depression + tummy ache :((( ) I'm gonna post this as a reminder to myself to start doing that even after the surge passes. First I think what I wanna really share is how Malaysian Socialists handle the topic of Religion, since I'm thinking it'd be insightful to my Western moots and the writings have been useful for me personally when doing outreach or organizing. But even before that bcz I might need to edit these into actual readable posts and not just copy-paste whole pdfs or books, ill just share some lingo that ill probs be using here and there: ⬇️

Manglish :-

Translation: Bahasa Melayu/Malay + English

In Malaysia, the official lingua franca is Malay ( 'Bahasa Melayu' in Malay ), the business lingua franca is English and the layman lingua franca is Manglish! Which, while being just a combination of the words 'Malay' and 'English', is actually a creole mixing Malay, Tamil, Hokkien, Cantonese, Hakka, Hainanese, Mandarin (as well as contributions from other Chinese dialects) and English! I'll probably have a more in-depth posts on this cuz I'm a huge linguistics nerd (amateur only though, not academician) and I could write whole (non peer-reviewed) essays about the Manglish creole. For now, just know I wanted to share this as a preface in case it's ever brought up, because a lot of published Malaysian Leftist writings are in fact in Manglish, and not perfect Malay or English.

Parti Sosialis Malaysia :-

Translation: Socialist Party of Malaysia

( Shortformed: PSM )

This is currently the largest Left-Leaning political party and organization in Malaysia. They're officially Marxist-Leninist.

Saudara :-

Translation: Comrade ; lit. Cousin/Familial Relative Member

( Shortformed: Sdr. )

Sometimes you will just see 'Comrade' or 'Komrad' used. The latter just being a transliteration. Officially the major Socialist parties here always refers to fellow Communists and Socialists with Sdr. Insert Name on documents, published writings and verbally when giving talks, and sometimes even when referring to non-Malaysian Communists such as Sdr. Raul Castro, but in practice Comrade/Komrad is used just as often when speaking and even party members may use these in their writings if it's not anything super official. When translating to English, the official position by said parties are still to retain the Saudara/Sdr. convention but other organizations (like the one I'm a part of) will prefer the usage of 'Comrade'. I will personally retain the usage of Saudara/Sdr. even after translating out of pride in the Socialist identity formed within the Malay Archipelagos, I hope readers don't mind :)

Marhaen :-

Translation: Proletariat ; lit. Commoners/the Masses

( alt. Kaum Buruh/Golongan Pekerja/Rakyat Jelata )

For the most part when referring to the working class, I will just either use 'Working Class', 'Proletarian', 'labourers' or any other more specific terms if needs be. But I'd thought I'd throw this out as a fun fact due to its historical significance. It originates from 'Marhaenism' which was Soekarno's "Marxism with Indonesian Characteristics" ideology, adopted by early colonial-era Malayan Communist Parties as it also applied pretty well with British Malaya's material conditions at the time. I'll probably also share some Marxist-Marhaenist works some other time. 'Marhaen' as a word has come back into popular modern usage, but coopted and butchered by NeoLiberal Malaysians and Malay Supremacists, so while Socialists still use the term in slogans and speeches, it doesn't carry the ideological weight it used to thus is not used much when writing theory.

#malaysian socialism #malaysia #reference

nerudan

capitalism is not human nature and never will be. peoples definition of human nature will always be based on the fluctuating status quo (that is usually enforced by the class which has the most power and benefits from the system) just as those living under feudalism thought feudalism was human nature and just as nomads thought nomadism is human nature.

nerudan

capitalism is not human nature and never will be. peoples definition of human nature will always be based on the fluctuating status quo (that is usually enforced by the class which has the most power and benefits from the system) just as those living under feudalism thought feudalism was human nature and just as nomads thought nomadism is human nature.

mellodrammattic

to believe in the zionist entity is to believe in colonialism, imperalism, apartheid, genocide, and white supremacy.

to be silent, not speaking up against the zionist entity makes you automatically accept it aswell. silence in the face of injustice makes the oppressor prosper.

whether you stay neutral and silent or support zionism, you will reap what you sow.

autisticpastadevourer

jerking my nonexistent cock to the thought of being a national artist of the ussr btw

#stalin

nerudan

Hiii!! :D

Sorry if this is a weird or personal ask or anything, I'm just a bit curious when and how you got into communism. This is just a question I like asking other young comrades since I feel like it tells me so much about their specific priorities, views, upbringings, etc

Again, I'm really sorry if this ask is random or uncomfortable or anything else, feel free to ignore this, I totally get it, I just really like getting to know people on here 😭

Also also would also love to know any "nicher" facts about Cuba/Cuban revolutionaries that you may know... You seem so well-read on Cuba and the Cuban revolution but I have to admit it's one of my weaker spots (though I've been trying more to educate myself on the topic), so I'd love to learn pretty much anything that you have, if you're interested in sharing!! :)

hi thank you for the ask! i got into communism just this year as a freshman, and ill admit learning about the cuban revolution was probably the final push in around february. im still learning about communist theory and theres a lot i do not know, hence why im stockpiling on books🥹

i did have predispositions for it because beforehand i was reading a lot of books on gender, race, just social issues in general, and most of the time they made critiques on capitalism on the side. but i never fully endorsed it until i was so moved by che’s example as a well-read selfless man of theory and action, a bravery i lowkey lacked, that i was inspired to read the manifesto, engel’s principles, basics of marxism etc and thats when i understood marxist analysis was the key approach to the material world.

for nicher facts i mean i guess i can share some:

aleida march (che’s wife) would braid rogelio acevedo’s (a teenage member of his crew) long hair regularly. che was head over heels for her and would write her poems and send her postcards on his diplomatic missions to poke and tease at her jealousy

11 yo fidel tried jumping a kid who was significantly older than him and then subsequently his own priest during his time in school. i think also after getting barred from college for his revolutionary organizing activities he proceeded to go to the beach, sit down and cry.

che guevara met 20 yo alberto granado (his counterpart in the motorcycle diaries) as a 14 yo because he was his rugby coach and the older brother of his friend, and during his practices he would sit down and read incessantly. at home, he would reportedly go to the bathroom and spend hours reading, averaging one book per day.

camilo cienfuegos got shot in the leg in his younger years when he was protesting batista, he also almost accidentally shot che aswell during the sierra maestra campaign in cuba, mistaking him to be apart of batista’s army.

che would earn the nickname of “fuser” from alberto because of the fact during rugby matches he would run headlong into his opponents screeching, “look out! here comes el furibundo serna!” (furibundo meaning furious) while alberto would earn the nickname of “mial” (short for mi alberto) from che. during their travels, they would also be called as big che and little che.

this is probably a funny thing to notice but che and albertos friendship parallel malcolm x’s and his best friend ‘shorty’. one is a radicalized icon, the other is their decade older counterpart whos significantly smaller. alberto got nicknamed by his peers as petiso (shorty) aswell.

more abt nicknames: che was so unhygienic in school the kids would call him “el chancho” (pig) and when he get an ugly buzzcut his epithet switched to “el pelao” (baldy)

section 2 (not so fun facts)

after che guevara’s death, his close friend haydee santamaria when hearing of the news, was “inconsolable”, she started freaking out saying:

“What a machista! What an outrageous machista! He promised he would take me with him to make revolution in the rest of America. He promised but he went without me.”

mario teran, the man who executed che guevara would subsequently suffer immense psychological distress and said he was so dizzy from che’s intense gaze during the execution he couldnt shoot; causing che to coax him by his infamous lines, “Calm down and aim well, you are only going to shoot a man.” teran, afterwords, would call it “the worst moment of his life.”

monika ertl, the daughter of a nazi refugee would eventually join the remnants of che’s ELN units in bolivia and avenge him by shooting colonel quintanilla (the man who cut off che’s hands), wrestle his wife after the shooting, escape, just to get tracked down and shot on the streets by the cia 3 years afterwards

che, despite being known as a ‘harsh and disciplined austere revolutionary’ also had a sentimental side. he had an intense attachment to animals, and before he wore his notorious beret, che wore a cap belonging to a former dead comrade of which he lost and consequently became horribly upset for the rest of the day.

#cuban revolution #cuban socialism #cuba

dushanbabe

MYTH #1: "The Czechoslovak 'Velvet Revolution' was a spontaneous pro-democracy movement."

There are many causes for the establishment of the counter-revolutionary (by which I mean the movement seeking to destroy the socialist government and restore capitalism nationally) movement in Czechoslovakia, from Western involvement to genuine discontent with the policies of the government, particularly the unresolved shortages of goods in the years of the late 1980s, after the disruption of COMECON trade networks by the economic reforms of M. Gorbachev.

dushanbabe

Also, I'm sorry for the convoluted run-on sentences, but it's just how it turned out, and I don't really feel like rephrasing every paragraph unless it's genuinely unreadable. If it is, please tell me and I will fix it

MYTH #1: "The Czechoslovak 'Velvet Revolution' was a spontaneous pro-democracy movement."

There are many causes for the establishment of the counter-revolutionary (by which I mean the movement seeking to destroy the socialist government and restore capitalism nationally) movement in Czechoslovakia, from Western involvement to genuine discontent with the policies of the government, particularly the unresolved shortages of goods in the years of the late 1980s, after the disruption of COMECON trade networks by the economic reforms of M. Gorbachev.

#will also add more but I just want to post now #in hopes that maybe someone will talk to me about it...#commieblr #czechoslovak socialism #communism #socialism #marxism leninism

stalinita

Essay I wrote for school

Alexander Ulyanov: The Life and Death of a Narodnik

Sorry, this one is not very good ☹️

Read here for footnotes and sources

Sasha was born on 12 April 1886 to Ilya Ulyanov and Maria Ulyanova. He had five siblings and was the eldest son in their family. Sasha was known to be closest to his sister Anna, who was the eldest daughter. The family was described as “neither poor nor well-off.” His mother was the daughter of a physician and his father was the son of a serf, but became a school inspector. His parents were “cultured” and secured their children with education. Sasha was a small and often sickly child. Anna wrote in 1870, “I remember his only dangerous illness - inflammation of the stomach - when he was only four years old. I remember how Mother’s despair astonished me: she fell on her knees before the icon, and whispered to me, “Pray for Sasha.” I remember how she tore a howling Volodya from her breast, thrust him toward the nurse, and threw herself toward Sasha, who had taken a serious turn at that moment….I remember Mother’s glowing face, when she guided and supported him during his convalescence - when he had to be taught to walk all over again.” Anna and Sasha had a complicated relationship. It can best be described as emotional incest between the two siblings. Anna and Sasha both relied on each other, and according to Anna, in their younger years she had a “crush” on him. Sasha’s relationship with the younger Vladimir was very different, because they were very different people. When asked about Vladimir, Sasha replied, "Undoubtedly a very able person, but we don't get along at all…” Photos of Sasha present him as a sad and “unhappy” child, and his relationship with Anna was likely a consequence of his mental state. From a young age, his father wanted him to be a great scientist. Anna suspected that this had an impact on Sasha and “blamed her father for pushing him too hard.” Ilya was more harsh on Sasha than on his brothers. Sasha was too “sensitive, shy and introverted.” Ilya disliked Sasha’s effeminacy. Sasha’s mother provided him with an education in the arts. He loved literature, music, and drawing just as much as he loved science. His favorite book was House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Sasha’s father wanted him under a more “masculine influence” and sent him to the Simbirsk gymnasium to attend school with other boys. Sasha allowed his classmates to copy off of his work and helped them consistently, but “otherwise avoided their company.” What really amazed his classmates and family was that he was almost incapable of lying. Sasha was described as “younger and smaller than the other boys, and gentler in every sense.” Despite this, he became one of the best students in every class that he took and excelled in Latin, Greek, French, German, mathematics, science, history, and literature. Within the time period that Sasha spent at Simbirsk gymnasium, Ilya became state councillor and was given hereditary nobility. Sasha was not one to care much about nobility. In fact, it’s believed that Sasha became radicalized during his senior year at the gymnasium. He began to write about the “dreadful poverty of the lower classes” and of the French Revolution. Sasha deemed the French aristocracy “hollow” and “corrupt.” Science was still Sasha’s favorite subject, but history quickly became an extremely close second.

In May 1883, Sasha graduated from the Simbirsk gymnasium at the age of seventeen. He had the best record out of all students at his school, the best final examination scores, and he was a gold medalist. His peers still described him as “small” with “narrow shoulders. By this time, he was already somewhat detached from his family. He was spending the majority of his free time in his laboratory, hunting with one of his cousins, playing chess with the young Vladimir, or reading. Sasha usually avoided his dad. He was described as the “carrier of Ilya’s hopes,” and was paid much more attention to than he wanted. He and Anna even began to drift apart due to their “intellectual gap.” Sasha began to write nihilist works about “scientific morality,” appreciating “human suffering,” but was awkward when it came to the needs of the people in his own life and having empathy for them. In August of that year, Sasha left his family to attend St. Petersburg University. It was there where he became involved with the Narodniki - of course, this was not an instant connection. Sasha did not seem fond of the Narodniki for his first five semesters at St. Petersburg University. Sasha remarked about the radicals: “They chatter a lot, but don’t study very much….I don’t join revolutionary organizations, because I haven’t yet solved many problems that are important for me, personally, and more important, social problems. Surely, if the natural sciences….are only now entering that phase of their development when they can look at phenomena from a quantitative as well as a qualitative point of view - are only now becoming genuine sciences, then what do the social sciences represent? Clearly, social problems cannot be solved quickly. I propose, of course, a scientific solution - another makes no sense - and a social activist must find one. It would be absurd if an ignoramus of a doctor tried to cure a disease; it would be even more absurd and immoral to try to cure social diseases, without understanding their cause.” Later on in his junior year, he grew to have a more sympathetic understanding of the Narodnik cause. When a writer for a narodnik journal was arrested, Sasha exclaimed, “This is such a rotten despotism - it’s throwing all of the best people in jail.” Sasha’s sophomore year, though, was when Sasha became involved with the narodniki. Now, what did the Narodniki believe? The Narodniki were scientific socialists and they believed completely that peasants needed to possess the land. Their theory was that this would transform Russia into a modern socialist economy. The narodniki that Sasha became involved with were part of a party, The People’s Will, and Sasha was going to build a bomb for them.

Sasha was not building a bomb alone, no, he was one of several bomb makers, but Sasha felt the largest responsibility to the group. It was a perfect example of the anarchist tactic called Propaganda of the Deed, a “specific political action meant to be exemplary to others and serve as a catalyst for revolution.” The goal was to bomb the Tsar Alexander III on the anniversary of his father’s assasination while he attended church. The act would not just kill the victim, but the perpetrators of the assasination with him. These revolutionaries were young, “reckless,” and “suicidal.” Terror was their philosophy. During the fall semester of Sasha’s senior year, the police picked up on the plan. They found this out very quickly on the date of what was supposed to be the assasination of the tsar…they waited outside of the church before finally leaving to meet at a tavern, where the secret police arrested them. In an attempt to save his comrades, Sasha admitted to crimes that he did not really commit. His final address to the court: "Terror.... is the only form of defence by which a minority strong only in its spiritual strength and the consciousness of its righteousness can combat the physical power of the majority... Among the Russian people there will always be found many people who are so devoted to their ideas and who feel so bitterly the unhappiness of their country that it will not be a sacrifice for them to offer their lives. My purpose was to aid in the liberation of the unhappy Russian people. Under a system which permits no freedom of expression and crushes every attempt to work for their welfare and enlightenment by legal means, the only instrument that remains is terror. We cannot fight this regime in open battle, because it is too firmly entrenched and commands enormous powers of repression. Therefore, any individual sensitive to injustice must resort to terror. Terror is our answer to the violence of the state. It is the only way to force a despotic regime to grant political freedom to the people.” The court had sentenced him to death. Sasha was not afraid to die, for "there is no death more honourable than death for the common good.” Sasha was hanged on 8 May 1887 at the age of twenty one, over one century ago today.

stalinita

Can you guys please read this...🥹

#wow my mutual is so smart....#read

"I just want to emphasize that we in Czechoslovakia, given the current situation, view the economic struggle as the most important path to the masses—especially to the social-democratic working class—which for us represents the most important lever by which we raise the class consciousness of the entire mass and bring it to the revolutionary vanguard.

In any case, we must clearly realize what role the economic struggle occupies in the entire class struggle. On this issue, we must avoid two possible deviations: on the one hand, the trade-unionist deviation, according to which the economic struggle is the be-all and end-all; on the other hand, the view that, supposedly, within the capitalist system, nothing can be achieved at all, and that no gains—not even minor concessions—can be won for the workers. It is true that the masses can free themselves from hardship, poverty, and slavery only by overthrowing capitalism, but even within the framework of the capitalist system, they can achieve improvements and greater freedom through class struggle—only if they fight."

- Klement Gottwald, About the Strike Movement and the Struggle of Unemployed People in Czechoslovakia

#commieblr #communism #socialism #czechoslovak socialism #klement gottwald #communist quotes

stalinita-deactivated20260530

hi! feel free to ignore this, especially since i know i dont talk to anyone on here - im just a lurker - so getting an ask from me might be a bit weird. i just want to say youre a really inspiring comrade for someone so young and i really hope everything goes very well for you. its been great to see the increase of young marxists as a young(ish) one myself. i know i was certainly less well-read in theory at 13 than you are - i was still in my stupid "democratic socialist" phase just before my 14th birthday. i remember back a year or two ago, when i started being more active on here, there were definitely a lot less younger communists and pretty much every major blog still specified that it was 18+ exclusively, so seeing this climate change is an amazing change, in my opinion. also, i know you answered a similar question a while ago, but if you dont mind me asking, where did you first start reading theory? i know you got into communism by reading, but if its not overstepping, im curious whether you started reading on the internet, in the library, or somewhere else. just wanted to share a bit of appreciation 🫶❤

Hello!! This isn't weird at all. Thank you so much for saying this.

I really try to be as educated as possible so this means a whole lot to me. And don't worry, I didn't leave my demsoc phase that long ago 😭 I promise you. I still have so much more to learn and to read.

I'm glad you're seeing more younger communists. That's great and we really need it.

And I don't mind at all! I think I first started reading theory on Marxists.org. I basically live on there. Marxist-Leninist Reading Hub is another great site.

I also have an amazing librarian at my school who is willing to find literally any book she can find for me. I love her. I spend lunch with her all the time.

dushanbabe

thank you for the replyyy, youre so nice 😭🫶 there are certainly many things we all need to learn, including the most well-read of all of us. we just need to stay committed to always learning and improving our analysis :) that librarian sounds so cool too as well. with her and the english teacher youve mentioned, you seem to be surrounded by such smart reasonable people. she sounds like a lovely woman. is she a socialist as well or does she just not mind you being one, if thats ok to ask? sorry its just really interesting to me and id really love to know more but if you dont want to say because of privacy and such thats 100% ok too of course, dont feel pressured at all

stalinita-deactivated20260530

She is so cool! You're right. I am so grateful to have people like her around me.

My librarian is kind of an enigma...so I'm not completely sure. She's kind of a hippie Unitarian Universalist type.

I have talked to her a bit about politics- and I think she mostly agrees with me. We have talked about the US embargo against Cuba. I know she's against that. I asked her if she had any books on the Cuban revolution one time, and she said, "oh, well, the school sent me this book about a boy whose family left Cuba, but I'm sure that's not at all what you're looking for." LOL

I think she's definitely somewhere on the left.

dushanbabe

kinda wish i had anything like that to be honest. over here, teachers and librarians pretty much dont discuss politics at all. i can only really remember 1 teacher who talked about politics and she was like a very very anticommunist ukrainian woman who brought up how much she hates communism and "dictatorships" in like every single class. i remember she called it "communism" when a group of my classmates said they would split their bread equally. authority figures around you seem so much more chill....

stalinita-deactivated20260530

Oh my God. That sounds awful. I'd hate that class so much 😭 I can't even imagine one reason why she would be bringing up her hatred for communism in every single class.

I guess my teachers aren't really supposed to talk about politics, and they usually won't let it be brought up around them, but I have pretty close relationships with a few of my teachers compared to most of my classmates, I think.

dushanbabe

yeah she really was... a joy to be around 😭😭 she also had a weird hatred for turkmenistan specifically. like, she just randomly brought up turkmenistan to talk about how awful and totalitarian it is, even if it was completely irrelevant and she brought up bullshit statistics like "only 6% of the global population lives in democracy, the rest are dictatorships" sorry for getting so off topic just something i remembered all of a sudden 😭

stalinita-deactivated20260530

OH MY GOD help why Turkmenistan of all places

That's so fucking crazy she sounds like a wack job 😭😭

And where in the world is she getting her statistics from

I wonder what countries she considered actual democracies

dushanbabe

i dont knowwww why turkmenistan. but in general, its a quite popular punching bag here in many countries of the former eaastern bloc, viewed the same "totalitarian dictatorship" way as other countries like the dprk searching it up, the only real report i can find citing 6% *maybe* the democracy index by The Economist, saying that only 6.6% of the population lives in "full democracy" but its such bullshit as well. estonia as a "full democracy" while they were literally amending their constitution just to ban over 80,000 russian+belarusian citizens from voting?? aside from estonia, other countries like canada, germany, scandinavian countries, all the typical choices really insane.... im so glad to be liberated from her classroom 😭 have you had similarly crazy teachers?

stalinita-deactivated20260530

Ahh, okay. I can see that.

Yeah. Okay. I'm sure that report has a fucked up definition of democracy. I mean, clearly it does. They probably just listed a group of liberal "democracies" and called it a day 😭

I don't think I've had teachers who were similar...but I've definitely had crazy teachers. We got a new PE teacher at my school this year and he doesn't believe in gravity or covid. I don't have him as a teacher myself, but every interaction I've had with him has been awful. I know a lot of people in his class and according to my friend Abbi he hates communism.

dushanbabe

gravityy??? oh my lorddd he cant be seriouss 😭😭😭 i havent even heard of gravity deniers... but yeah. many insane teachers. our geography teacher taught us how to divide people into 3 racial categories (which are "biological" and "inherent", of course) and remember the names for all the ""mixes"" in literally 5th grade. and since i started high school i have also met several teachers who dated/slept with their students. openly. without being fired or anything. like ive seen my teacher kissing older studnets in the hallway of the school. there seem to be many particularly interesting figures in the world....

stalinita-deactivated20260530

Yeah. He's a huge loser. Nobody likes him. Well, actually, I think some of the 8th grade boys at my school like him but that's probably because they're just like him.

What??? Oh my God??? That's insane. How was that allowed? That's so weird. I can't believe they let her teach that. Race isn't even biological, it's a social construct 😭

Wow. Your teachers sound like massive creeps.

dushanbabe

yeah yeah. racism is a very very big issue here. i actually think its part of the official curriculum to teach the existence of three biological races (which are, according to the textbooks, "europoid (white)" "equatorial/n*groid (black)" and "mongoloid (yellow)"). i mean, we do learn that racism is bad and we shouldnt judge people based on their "biological race", we learn terms like chauvinism, racism, xenophobia, etc, but it still doesnt really help at all. i remember my teacher literally saying some bullshit like "equatorials are closest to monkeys, mongoloids are furthest from monkeys, and europoids are somewhere in the middle". while we were literally like 10 is it not taught in the same biological way in the usa, in your experience? i mean, i know its not standardized in quite the same way across the whole country, but like in your own experience

stalinita-deactivated20260530

Wow, yeah, no. I mean, we have talked a little about race as a social construct in social studies, but it's always been pretty emphasized, at least in the schools that I've been to, that we're all the same species/homo sapiens. I mean, obviously there are genetic differences in different groups of people, but I don't think I have ever, ever had a teacher try and tell me that black people are closer to monkeys. That's also just not true, though. 😭 If anything, we all share, like, 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees. I don't think we've talked about it in that same way at all. We seldom talk about race in school, honestly.

I think I know a lot of weirdo groyper racist kids and it's definitely a problem, but I think it has little to do with our education at the school I go to. I'm very lucky, though. I've always gone to very decent schools, especially considering the fact that I live in a state that ranks the lowest in education. My schools have been pretty great when you take that into consideration.

dushanbabe

that certainly sounds like a much, much better system than what we have here to be honest 😭😭 i mean, i know education in the usa can be imperfect in many aspects as many many people talk about, but i truly think this is an aspect which you deal with very well (sorry i really have to go to sleep its nearly 1am over here. hope you have a very pleasant nightttt :) 🛏🌑 but if you want to talk about anything else anytime thats also ok of course, i just really need to go now so i can wake up in time 🫶)

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