The public education complex—from kindergarten through the university system—is generally a cesspool of leftist indoctrination. From forcing social justice on five-year-olds to insisting babies are racist, is it any wonder that an entire generation may be forever lost to liberalism? The latest contribution in said indoctrination is this 112-page nugget from MIT Press—yes, that MIT—a book of tripe entitled Communism For Kids. It’s available on Amazon for just under ten American dollars, ironic given the subject matter. And it’s just as ghoulish as it sounds. Behold:

Nice illustration. Smash the bourgeois, kiddos!

And here’s the book’s description offered by its publisher:

Here’s a sample of one of the book’s blurbs:

Communism for Kids, by Bini Adamczak, is in fact for everyone, an inspired and necessary book especially now, a moment when people feel that we are on the verge of the destruction of the world, and without any new world to hope for, or believe in. Have two hundred years of capitalism brought us freedom? Or just more inequality than has ever been experienced by humans on earth? Global capitalism is not human destiny, it merely is. To think beyond it, with the help of Adamczak’s primer, is to take a first step toward freedom, at least the freedom to imagine other worlds. (Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers)

Sure. When I think of “communism,” the first thing that comes to mind is “freedom.” Astonishing.

A quick glance through the preview pages finds gems of wisdom like this:

Oddly, nowhere in the preview does it include photos of the realities of Communism. Photos like this:

…or this:

…or this:

Meanwhile, most reviewers aren’t buying what MIT is selling. Exhibit A, from JoeQPublic:

Children’s books are written for the naive, of course, but this one was also written BY the naive. While done in a cutes-ey style, the book is idiotic and almost unreadable. Its timing is ironic, given that Venezuela is currently melting down even as the book releases, another country fallen victim to the very economics pushed in this book. And lest we forget, two million people have starved to death in the past decade in North Korea, the world’s last fully Communist state. Many of the dead were children. This ideology has murdered or staved over 60 million people — how about we don’t pass the virus on to the next generation?

And another from someone who says (s)he lived under communism, B. László:

I grew up in the communism and believe me, the idea of communism will never works. This idea is based on mass murder. I was a kid and I know what is communism for a kid. My family didn’t do anything against regime, and this is why they was not killed, just imprisoned and abused every day. The police break into our home every week and made a mess and break our stuff – just for fun. And this is communism.

Communism for kid is simply: you have no right to have dreams. No matter what talent you have, you will do what Party order you. You cannot study, you cannot choose…you have to obey.

Indeed.

Warning: Graphic.

Not to worry, though, says its author. Communism For Kids is a different kind of communism. Not the Communism that’s inherently genocidal and intentionally starves its citizens to death and/or imprisons them in labor camps for life where they are tortured and worked until they die. Not Stalin, Castro, Mao, or North Korean “revolutionary” communism, but the communism that will never ever be bastardized by evil-doers. Or something. Just, you know, ignore all the inherent genocide, little tykes. The New and Improved Communism Utopia will provide everything you need, complete with a nice set of rose-colored blinders for when the inevitable round-up of dissenters begins and the food runs out. And the only price we’ll really pay? Just the end of liberty as we know it.