2026-04-23 04:50 UTC
> This should be your call to read communist theory. Education should be about learning and creating knowledge, not cramming and being put off from pursuing your passsions!
I had never read Marx's Communist Manifesto before going to college. It was assigned reading for a class. I don't necessarily agree with the validity of it all (it depends too much the decency and incorruptibility of humanity of which we have too little of both). Even though I don't agree with much of it, I very much appreciate being exposed to it so I have a better understanding of the perspective of its origins and those that believe in it more than I do.
That probably wouldn't have occurred without me going to college.
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@silverneedle@lemmy.ca 2026-04-23 08:56
Funnily enough the Manifesto is quite regularly criticised by communists for focusing too much on the demands of the time and not moving beyond the state. It's a pamphlet for agitation. They should have assigned you chapters from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte or excerpts from Kapital. I understand your criticism of the dependence on incorruptibility and decency with the current state of the world, sadly Marx' theories on how behaviour and ideology arise are not handled in the Manifesto.