Marxism Comes to Texas High Schools

Karl Marx (Wikipedia) by John Jabez Edwin Mayall

One of the main tenants of Marxism is that there should be no borders.  That also seemed to be the policy of the Joe Biden administration.

But high school students marching in the streets yelling eff ICE?  How did that happen?  How did the protests, so prevalent on college campuses, get started in high schools where 15-year-olds are essentially promoting anti-capitalist ideologies?  Will middle school students be next?

The Epoch Times, a newspaper that crusades against Communism, will tell you the Communist Chinese Party is infiltrating our schools.  Maybe so.  These young protesters are getting these left-wing ideas from somewhere.

ICE, however crudely, is enforcing laws passed by Congress.  Do high school students understand that?   Maybe it’s time for more instruction about what capitalism is, and the dangers of Marxism.

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How did the minds of these young protesters get so messed up?

There are only a few sources.  They may be getting it from left-wing parents.  Okay; there’s not much we can do about that.  They may be getting it from cellphones via social media and that’s not good because social media is a cesspool.

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It may be coming from regular news sources.  The Associated Press (long, the standard for facts) and the Texas Tribune are slanted against ICE, Trump, and conservatism in general.  I doubt if kids are watching cable news, but its slant depends on which network you happen to be watching.  My guess is that social media, which is rife with misinformation, is a main source for young minds made of mush.

On the other hand, they may be getting it at school.  I only say this because the public schools have custody of America’s children for a great deal of their time, and a left-wing teacher can do a lot of damage in a short time.  Maybe that’s not the problem, but it’s a good thing that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and right-wing members of the Texas Legislature have finally realized that our secondary schools and our state-supported colleges need some commonsense regulating.

In Central Texas, where I live, high school students protesting ICE have been out on the streets.

Soon after this started happening in late January and February, the state government and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) issued some strict guidelines to school districts detailing consequences.  One is that school systems that facilitate walkouts will be subject to investigation and sanction including the possible appointment of a monitor.  Of course, they might also lose funding when students skip class.

Video: Leander High School student protest ICE as TEA hands down walkout guidelines

In the Austin area, there were walkouts in the Hayes Consolidated Independent School District, Cedar Park High School, and others.  Congressman Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat, was asked by KXAN-TV whether the protests ought to occur during time when school is not in session.   He replied:

I think students could protest as effectively after school as during school and I would like to see that happen, but under these directives that Gov. Abbot is putting out, if a school was to encourage a school to focus a protest after school and stay in class until then, he would be blaming and attacking and threatening their funds for having encouraged a protest.

How wimpy can you get?  Doggett is good with the protests and actually encourages them, and attacks Abbott.  No mention of Marxism, or what’s actually motivating a 15-year-old to protest.

At Belton High School, six students skipped classes to march to an H-E-B grocery store while chanting “f*ck ICE” at passing cars, according to the Temple Daily Telegram.

The newspaper quotes a 15-year-old protester as saying:

If you are more scared of getting sent to DAEP or district or getting ISS (In School Suspension) or getting suspended than fighting for the rights of innocent people who are getting taken to camps and killed just because they wanted to have a good life in America, then you are the problem.

Another one said this:

I am ashamed of half the people at my school that said that they were going to walk out and said, ‘(expletive) ICE, (expletive) Trump,’ but didn’t walk out and let the AP stop them.

The Assistant Principal (AP) apparently “discouraged students from leaving the campus,” but it seems that the students were in charge and not the hapless AP.  My thought is that the six students ought to be expelled, and learn what the consequences are for breaking the rules.

The schools should teach these children what Marxism really is.

One of the ideas behind the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is that the working class has no countries and should band together regardless of borders to fight capitalism.  Capitalism is, of course, the system that has brought wealth and prosperity to countries that practice it, but never mind that.  Marxism seeks to bring all workers together, including immigrants, for the ultimate destruction of capitalism.  This is part of what motivates Zohran Mamdani, the new Mayor of New York.

For the record, here are the ten mandates of Marxism:

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.

— Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, trans. Samuel Moore

Now, let’s go to the Marxist.com website for an article entitled “Why Marxists Oppose Immigration Controls.”  In it, we learn why Marxists are against allowing capitalists to control the labor supply:

Marx recognises the problem: that employers are using national divisions and borders in order to pit the working class against itself. However, his solution isn’t “managed migration”, but international organisation. Marx calls for increased cooperation between labour movements across borders. Indeed, the particular passage quoted is from the Lausanne Congress of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International), which Marx dedicated himself to building.

The long article builds to an exciting climax and calls for revolution:

The reality of capitalism in the present period is that there is the money to provide housing, schools etc for all the refugees in the world, but it’s in private hands. The resources to provide a decent living standard for all the world’s inhabitants exist, but they are concentrated in the clutches of a tiny handful of billionaires and multinational corporations. This inequality is only getting worse.  Our programme is not about achieving stability and accommodation with the capitalist class, which would only be at the expense of the working class, migrant or not. Our programme must be one of uniting workers across borders in defence of conditions, against cuts and for a socialist revolution.

So, take money from people to earned it and redistribute it – a Mamdani-like policy that undoubtedly will be tried in New York, where it will fail.

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What are high school students being taught?

Such high-minded concepts as free markets, rugged individualism, and even freedom itself are hard sells these days.  That a country such as the United States has a right to secure its own borders is under attack.  ICE agents, which are simply federal law enforcement agents, have become the villains.  Their harsh enforcement methods under Trump have been exploited by left-wing politicians and media that refuse to either cooperate or admit that illegals aliens are anything more than “neighbors.”

CCP influence or not, our Texas public schools have to do a better job of defending America and our way of life, which is essentially capitalism.  Marxism is a dead-end street, as history has proven over and over.  Hatred of Trump is a main factor, but Trump’s not always wrong.  Harsh tactics or not, America cannot exist with open borders and rampant illegal immigration.  Past presidents knew that, but ignored it.  Biden exacerbated it.  Trump decided to fix it.

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Now that’s he’s doing something about it, he’s catching hell.  I understand why Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey oppose Trump.  They’re in Mamdani’s camp.  They’re Democrats, a party that’s being taken over by the Socialist Democrats of America.  Walz and Frey have no stomach to oppose that political base.

But why high school students?  Why do they want to eff ICE and eff Trump?  What are they getting from social media, their parents, their teachers?  Rush Limbaugh and many other conservatives in media have long said that our schools are churning out little Marxists.  Did you doubt them when they said that?  Do you doubt them now?

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