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Los Angeles High School Students:

Learning to be Communists: Part II

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After the march we had to support the students in Iguala, Guerrero, we had several meetings to talk about what happened in a self-critical way. We agreed that communist ideas were missing.
“People should learn to be communists, but to do that they need to be acquainted with communism. This last few months people are getting involved with communism because of the crimes governments are committing,” said a student comrade, “but we need a better understanding of communist ideas.”
We had written a letter of communist solidarity with the students in Guerrero and had started to circulate it a few days before the march. We got many signatures of students who agreed that we have to put an end to capitalism to end these criminal acts.
Although we got more than 50 signatures, many refused to sign it because it was communist. We concluded that anti-communist propaganda and a lack of understanding of communist ideas were the problems.
We decided to write and selectively distribute a leaflet with the images below,. It said, in part: 
Capitalism since birth has been a violent racist destructive and murderous system.  We need to replace it with communism.  To do that we need to mobilize students, workers and soldiers, all of us fighting for a communist world where there are no social classes.
With communism all means of production will be managed, controlled and worked by free men and women.  All will be involved in finding and deciding what to do and how to do it.  In this way no one will lack what is needed to live a fulfilling and satisfying life.
 Communism will benefit everyone because everyone will learn to share and help out.  There will be no police, government, law or any other authority.  We will live collectively with human principles where the life of every human being will be valued.
Read, write and distribute Red Flag.  Organize study-action groups.  Take communist ideas to industrial workers and soldiers.  Join the ranks of the International Communist Workers’ Party.
Dialectical materialism teaches us that contradictions are resolved when one side eliminates the other. In our minds there’s a contradiction between capitalist and communist ideas. It’s as if we had two big dogs fighting inside our head. For the communist dog to win, he has to be fed communist ideas. Another young comrade concluded, “Many people believe what the government says, that communism is bad. They think of the false communist empires of Russia and Cuba. Those countries always had just one leader; we will all be leaders fighting to mobilize the masses based on communist principles. We need to start now to recruit more people to expand our movement. Our sons and daughters should be communists. Maybe we won’t win communism in our generation, but we’re laying the base for future generations.”
Another added, “The marches and protests in Mexico and the U.S. are examples of how people can unite around the same ideal. With the same anger we can put an end to capitalism and together start to build a communist system, but these marches won’t achieve this unless they are led by communist ideas.”
Another student concluded the discussion: “I’m learning every day from these situations and also from the mistakes we’re making. We don’t improve unless we make, and learn from our mistakes. We are making the dog stronger and stronger, feeding it with communist ideas.”

 

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