A Marxist Book in Every Stocking! Top 10 Subversive Themes for Children

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[Michael van der Galien]

It started innocently enough, like many encounters with obscenity on the internet. I was just surfin’ away, minding my own business, looking for something I don’t even remember now on Google… when up popped something utterly profane.

It was a search result with this intriguing line:

Help me build a library of lefty kids books – Do you know any good left wing propoganda for toddlers?

(I know, I know. This individual should master English before he hits the “propaganda” too hard… his spelling and punctuation skills leave a bit to be desired.)

ANYWAY. Allow me to drag you over here to my computer screen so you can share my horror:

I have a 3 year old daughter, we read a lot of books together. Her mom and I are committed to progressive political action and would like to introduce some cool, fun, lefty books to the collection… I am thinking about books that discuss race, class, struggle, civil rights, gender issues, environmentalism, etc. We are well to the left of the American mainstream, but we’ll take liberalish stuff too.

This was not a Left wing site, but a “community weblog.” Can you even IMAGINE what would happen if a conservative parent posted the polar opposite question? I shudder to think of the cyber-blood that would be shed as the guy got ripped limb from limb. But, because conservatives are more polite than leftists, nobody really took this guy to task for his stated goal of brainwashing his child (one exception to be noted later).

[GraceG]

Lesson to be learned, just because your kids is in school does not mean you have a free pass to ignore their educational material.

[GraceG]

You should read the reviews of the giving tree.

[GraceG]

[ The Lefties don’t get it - “subversive” these days is Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Henry. And the kids know it, too, and it’s fun watching them find out. The problem with the Long March Through The Institutions is that they arrived, and history didn’t stop. ]

Time for the Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Counter Revolution.....

The one to kick the Marxists back to the dustbin of history.

[a fool in paradise]

Keep those Aesop fables away from the brat. He might accidently be exposed to the Ants and Grasshopper and learn that it’s “ok” to let a slacker freeze in the winter just ‘cause he didn’t want to work and would rather play all day in the summer.

[a fool in paradise]

And the liberal dinks (dual income, no kids) throw a hissy fit when the Texas schoolbook advisory board tries to thwart the liberal indoctrination found in these texts.

[PATRIOT1876]

Don’t forget the republished 1830’s edition of the McGuffey Readers:

http://www.amazon.com/McGuffey-McGuffeys-Eclectic-Readers-William/dp/0880620145

[BenKenobi]

Hmm, books for a her.

Political theory:

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ - Edmund Burke.
‘Wealth of Nations’ - Adam Smith
‘Democracy in America’ - De Toqueville
‘Mere Christianity’ - CS Lewis
‘The Everlasting Man’ - GK Chesterton

Anything by Leopold von Ranke, if you can find him.

As for fiction:

Anything by CS Lewis
Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings
Anything by GK Chesterton

[nina0113]

Some really nice Catholic girls’ novels are the Beany Malone and Stacy Belford series (serii?) by Lenora Mattingly Weber. They came back in print about fifteen years ago, through Image Cascade publishing. I’d say the reading level is 8 and up. Here’s the website:

http://www.imagecascade.com/lenora-mattingly-weber-books.html

[MrB]

When you thwart their indoctrination efforts,
you’re taking “their” kids away from them.

No wonder they throw hissy fits.

[kaylar]

Looks like that one may be even worse. :-(

[kaylar]

It's good to hear of parents standing up against this sort of crap, especially when they are successful.

BTW, when I was in 3rd grade "social studies" class, the text book we were assigned described the difference between socialism, communism, and capitalism; the description of communism was *fairly* honest (ie, the writers admitted it was a Bad Thing), but socialism was described in the most glowing terms imaginable, and the description of capitalism could have been straight out of an 1890s Marxist tract...There was no admission whatsoever that "the worker's" condition had changed since the days of Charles Dickens. The text really tried to push socialism-and the teacher not only pointed that out, she got the whole class to agree that "Socialism is the best system".

This was Anno Domini 1973.

Yeah, that sort of indoctrination has been going on for some decades now...Thankfully some parents fight back when they learn of it.

[andy58-in-nh]

The public schools are one of the first places that Progressives got a strong foothold and proceeded to burrow their way in (see: John Dewey). I recall the year you cite in your story (1973) because I was in high school at the time and it seemed that all of the young teachers (assistants) were long-haired, maggot-infested dope-smoking types fresh from the hyper-radicalized college environment of the late '60s and early '70s.

One of the books I recall being assigned to read in my Social Studies (they'd already done away with "History") class that year was... Rules For Radicals... it seems they couldn't wait to foist Alinsky on young, impressionable minds. Little did my teacher know that I was also reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time, at the urging of an older mentor. Created some major fireworks, right there. ;-)

[andy58-in-nh]

That's a pretty decent allegory, but let me tell you how it really would end in America 2010:

The next day Andrew is ambushed by the bully in an alley way and the bully blames Andrew for the Principle taking away his sharp pointy stick. He starts to wail on Andrew and Andrew spots another sharp pointy stick. He grabs it and whacks the bully over the head and he runs away crying...

The bully runs home and complains to his mother, who is on the school board. She next calls the principal who immediately suspends Andrew for assaulting another student with a dangerous weapon. He then calls the police, who show up at the lad's house with an arrest warrant charging Andrew with felonious assault. Andrew's parents object because he's just a kid and was defending himself from a bully, but the police tell them they'll have to settle the matter before a judge.

Andrew is taken to the police station, booked and fingerprinted and his parents made to pay bail. At trial, the defense is denied the use of evidence regarding the bully's prior behavior as it is not relevant and there are were no witnesses to the fight. The bully's counsel presents his sad-looking, well-groomed client with a huge bandage on his head and claims that there's "no way of knowing" whether the damage to him might be permanent.

Andrew is convicted, expelled from school and because his parents cannot pay the exorbitant fine assessed by the judge, they must declare bankruptcy and default on their mortgage. And Andrew's classmates are so distraught at his situation that the principal agrees to call in grief counselors, as he wonders why kids are just so out of control these days.