Rude ENGLISH teacher on subject of Communism and Russia.

[Dante]

Complain. Get him fired for being ignorant.

[AWACS]

Send him a history book aobut russia.

I would of stood my ground and argued, its what i do with all my teachers

[Megashrap]

Also ask him exactly what PC program he used to make his "degree" with.  ;)

[VigilVirus]

Idiot teachers piss me off. Off to Siberia with him.

[Barbarossa]

lOl, Siberia would be QUITE a trip from Chicago.

[Sneakgab]

Such behaviour and events are inspired by the very nature of school (well, where I live anyway). School is their to encourage the gathering of knowledge and practice, not for thinking (or else tests would not be dominantly reliant on the two former of the fore-mentioned three things).

And so it makes sense that you're teacher would try to end such an argument rapidly, for he himself has clearly thought about that matter and has little reason to believe that he is correct. It is just that he was probably taught by some school (as most are) that communism has existed before... and so you're teacher supresses the argument as it is not condusive to the gathering of knowledge (even the correctness of this knowledge is no longer important to him as he is the kind of indivual who did not stand by his opinion, resulting in the teacher he is now

)

Take pleasure in that you refuse to give in and let society dictate what you believe, and that one day you're mind has a chance of potency due to it's freedom, something that you're teacher will probably never have

Although I digress, it is probably worth mentioning starting to appear that many teachers/schools do not supply correct knowledge regarding communism (or maybe it's just me). For example, my history notes and teachers explain that their are two fundamental kinds of dictatorship, fascist and communist... and even go further in noting characteristics of the two. The absurdity of this is clear in that a defining feature of a communist society is the lack of goverment, and also that dividing dictatorship into types of dictatorship regarding the idealogy of the dictatorship in such a manner serves no apparent purpose other than of that propoganda. Perhaps even worse is that these notes simply seem insane... something that is stupid/illogical/whatever does have a reason, it is simply not a good reason. Something insane on the other hand has no reason, and that is what much of what is taught to me seems to be.

Does this perhaps show that disregarding thought and reason in a quest to gather knowledge can lead to a subtle change to insanity?

[Edric O]

Heh, I'm curious to find out how can anyone be so stupid as to divide all dictatorships into fascist and stalinist ones (I'm assuming your teachers use the term "communism" to refer to stalinist dictatorships), when both fascism and stalinism are such recent additions to the political scene! After all, they both appeared for the first time in the 20th century. But I guess all those hundreds of different kinds of dictatorships that existed for thousands of years before the 20th century don't count... ::)

[Caid Ivik]

History of USA is rather shorter than that, you must understand their viewpoint, EdricO...

[Barbarossa]

History of USA is rather shorter than that, you must understand their viewpoint, EdricO...

It is, Hell we've never changed our governing methods drastically in the short exisistance of our country.

[Egeides]

Patri*caught* hacked ;D

[gunner154]

I don't study history, so can someone enlighten me on what EXACTLY IS communism? I have heard about it, studied it briefly in Social Studies (by comparing it with Democracy/Capitalism). Also, I had just read Animal Farm. But I was just thinking... could Communism well become a classless society together with some government body that is kinda a watchdog kind of thing, to make sure a dictatorship does not happen. It's some sort of communism with a tinge of democracy in it.

Well, what's so good about a classed society that we have today? We have the income gap, the pop. living below poverty line... and we've got globalisation...

Enlightenment, please?

[Dante]

Communism is democracy. See here.

[Caid Ivik]

That's rather unaccurately said, as the final communist system is wholly without any "kpaτωσ", some ruling aparate. Cooperation of persons, without dictates. And democracy is a dictatorship as well, tyranny of majority...

[nemafakei]

Do you mean κρατος?

[Edric O]

Don't mention Greek around Nema. ;)

And democracy is a dictatorship as well, tyranny of majority...

Well, by that logic, anything is a "dictatorship". Since there has to be someone who makes decisions, you could call any political system a "dictatorship/tyranny of the <insert name of decision-making group here>" if you want to make that system look bad. (and, incidentally, this is the origin of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" - except that it wasn't meant to carry any negative connotation)

As Churchill once remarked, democracy isn't perfect - but it is the best possible political system.

[Caid Ivik]

I don't want to make anything looking bad, I would say that you should support me: communism is the only way how to disrupt the need of a dictatorial institute. Making a decision doesn't automatically mean it is a dictate, however, when you have an authority (like a ruler or a government), then it surely is. This is no try for a refined political mocking, pure linguistics. Ment that communism is no democracy, because there is no need for a ruler no more...

Do you mean κρατος?

more accurately said  ;D

[Seal89999]

'Sic Orangatang armed with a Katana on him.

That one was just too good to pass up.  :)

[Barbarossa]

Indeed, I had just finished watching two documentries when I tyhought of it. One was on Orangatangs the other on Samuri!