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Communism appeals to those self-deluded individuals inclined to believe they know better and are deserving to exercise control over others for the “greater good”.

Marxists are quite transparent about their motives and means to control others to shape society into their utopian idea.

Note, Marxists get very touchy when you point out the fact that their social experiments have resulted in the largest occurrence of democide (death by government) in all mankind’s history, ie: 100 Million + from 1917 thru 1979, ie: China 70 M, Russia / USSR 21 Million, Cambodia 2 M, Vietnam, N Korea, Angola, Cuba, etc.

Here’s a place to start researching Marxist’s priority to seize education in order to control society:

https://www.marxists.org/subject/education/index.htm

MIA: Subjects: Education:

Marxism & Education

Index to the works of Marxists and others on education, cognitive psychology and child development. Vygotsky teaching

Because Marxists have tended to approach the whole range of psychological issues — development, feeling, neurosis, pathology, personality and character — from the point of view of cognitive and linguistic development, much of the material in this subject archive is also found in the more comprehensive Psychology Subject Archive. Likewise, for Marxists, there has never been a sharp line between social and individual development, so social theory penetrates deeply into both psychology and educational theory.

The Marxist approach to education is broadly constructivist, and emphasises activity, collaboration and critique, rather than passive absorption of knowledge, emulation of elders and conformism; it is student-centred rather than teacher centred, but recognises that education cannot transcend the problems and capabilities of the society in which it is located.

This archive lists the works of Marxist and some non-Marxist writers on teaching and learning to be found on the Marxists Internet Archive.

Early ideas on Socialist Education
Marx

    Theses On Feuerbach #3, Marx 1845
    Communist Manifesto, Marx 1848
    Juvenile and Child Labour,
    International Workingmen’s Association 1866
    On General Education, Speech by Marx August 1869
    Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63, MArx
    Section 9 (Factory Acts), Capital, Chapter 15, Marx 1867
    Section 9 (Factory Acts), Capital, Chapter 15, Marx 1867
    Productive Labour, Capital, Chapter 16, Marx 1867
    On Education, Mikhail Bakunin 1869
    The Struggle of Woman for Education, Bebel 1879
    The Socialist System of Education, Bebel 1879
    Socialism and Education, May Wood Simmons 1901
    The Material Basis of Education, Lena Morrow Lewis 1912
    Self-Education of the Workers, Anatoly Lunacharsky 1918
    Independent Working Class Education – Thoughts and Suggestions, Eden and Cedar Paul 1918
    Bolshevism v Democracy in Education, Eden and Cedar Paul 1918
    Education of the Masses, Sylvia Pankhurst, 1918
    Kollontai

Soviet Ideas on Education

    Decree on Child Welfare, Alexandre Kollontai 1918
    To All Who Teach, Anatoly Lunacharsky 1918
    Church and School in the Soviet Republic, Nikolai Bukharin, 1919
    Communism and Education,
    from The ABC of Communism,
    by Bukharin and Preobrazhensky 1920

Lenin

Lenin on Education

    What Can be Done for Public Education?, Lenin 1914
    Speech at first All-Russian Congress on Education, Lenin 1918
    To People’s Commissariat of Education, Lenin 1919
    Work of People’s Commissariat for Education, Lenin 1921

Reports on Soviet Education

    Russian Chilren, from Six Red Months in Russia, Louise Bryant 1918
    Soviet Education, from Russia in 1919, Arthur Ransome
    Education and Culture, My Disillusionment in Russia, Emma Goldman 1922
    Children of Revolution, Anna-Louise Strong 1925
    Education in Soviet Russia, The First Time in History, Anna-Louise Strong 1925
    The Revolution in Education and Culture, Soviet Russia: a living record and a history, Wm Chamberlin 1929
    Family Relations Under the Soviets, Trotsky 1932
    Makarenko

Education in Stalinist Russia

On Communist Education. Selected Speeches and Articles, M. I. Kalinin 1926-1945

    Learning to Live, (PDF) A. S. Makarenko 1936-1938
    The Road to Life (An Epic of Education), Volume 1, A. S. Makarenko 1933-1935
    The Road to Life (An Epic of Education), Volume 2.
    Lectures to Parents, A. S. Makarenko 1937
    Problems of Soviet School Education, (PDF) A. S. Makarenko
    Makarenko: His Life and Work, (PDF) A. S. Makarenko

Makarenko (1888-1939) reflects some ideas which were characteristic of Stalin’s Soviet Union. Nonetheless, his ideas were very radical and are much admired by progressive educators to this day, especially in the education of disadvantaged children. The psychologists of the Vygotsky School, whose writings predominate in what follows, were a minority current in the Soviet Union; they were not allowed to travel or publish overseas and their influence on the Soviet education system was limited.
Luria

Early Childhood and Play

    Play and its role in the mental development of the Child, Vygotsky 1933
    The Construction of Reality in the Child, Jean Piaget 1955
    Piaget’s theory of child language and thought, Vygotsky 1934
    Comment on Vygotsky, Piaget 1962
    The Child and his Behavior, Luria 1930
    The Origins of Thought in the Child, Henri Wallon 1947
    Genetic Psychology, Henri Wallon 1956
    Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, Erich Fromm 1960
    The Psychological Development of the Child, Henri Wallon 1965
    Stages in the Mental Development of the Child, Elkonin 1971
    Vygotsky

Adolescence and Ethical Development

    Ethical Behavior, from Educational Psychology Vygotsky 1926
    Esthetic Behavior, from Educational Psychology Vygotsky 1926
    Development of thinking and concept formation in adolescence, Vygotsky 1931
    Imagination and creativity of the adolescent, Vygotsky 1931
    Vygotsky’s tool-and-result methodology, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman

Society and Individual Development

    The Psychological and Sociological Study of the Child, Henri Wallon 1947
    The Influence of Social Factors in Child Development, Erich Fromm 1958
    Human Nature and Social Theory, Erich Fromm 1969
    Man in Marxist Theory, Lucian Seve 1974
    Cognitive Development: Its Social and Cultural Foundations, Luria 1976

Cognition and Foundations of Learning

    The Genetic Roots of Thought and Speech, Vygotsky 1934
    Ilyenkov Thought and Word, Vygotsky 1934
    Activity and Knowledge, Ilyenkov 1974
    Activity and Consciousness, Leontyev 1977
    Activity, Consciousness, and Personality 1978:
    Leontev’s Introduction
        Marxism and Psychological Science,
        Activity and Personality,
        Motives, Emotions, and Personality.
    Much Learning does Not Teach Understanding, Vasili Davydov
    Types of Generalization in Instruction: Logical and Psychological Problems in the Structuring of School Curricula, Vasili Davydov