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Study History and You’ll Never Spend a Day Working Because it Doesn’t Support Capitalism
(lemmy.world)
Ngl this is what every single one of you fucking liberals calling me out about my substandard research practices makes me feel .
It can also be a curriculum issue. For example, and for clarity sake I'm not American, I could say I was taught socialism in school. Some might call it a pretty progressive topic to teach, however if we get into the details it comes out very differently. What I was taught wasn't socialism but rather the vague history of socialism culminating with the idea that socialism doesn't work. More specifically I was taught there was this guy called Marx (and Engels) who came up with a labor theory (no actual information about what the theory contained) . Marx died before he could finish his work. Engels finished some of his work but Marx's theory was continued by Lenin. Lenin started the USSR and then Lenin died. Stalin took over, then we got WW2, cold war, Stalin died, era of stagnation, Afghan war, Chernobyl and the fall of the USSR - clearly socialism doesn't work.
Nothing factually wrong was taught but also nothing about actual socialism was taught. I'm sure the same could be done about Jim Crow laws, where you acknowledge something happened but then clearly gloss over all the horrific details.