In the fall of 2026, all Florida middle and high school students are required to learn about “the horrors of communism” and the “destructiveness of Marxism-Leninism.” These lessons are shaped by the conservative Heritage Foundation–funded project led by  right-wing nonprofit organizations like the National Association of Scholars (NAS) and the Civics Alliance. These organisations produce curricula and ideas that are concomitant with the requirements of capitalism and the governing elites in the US. These forces indirectly influence the making of curricula across the globe by funding different educational projects in different parts of the world. These are not educational curricula that promote scientific, secular and critical knowledge traditions. These are political propaganda against alternative politics, designed as curricula for American civic education.

There are absolutely no issues with learning about the limits of socialist and communist regimes in terms of their ideological praxis. By all means, students should learn to be critical of all powers that domesticate and discipline their critical and creative minds. Students should learn everything that questions power in order to produce new knowledge and expand individual freedom, peace, prosperity, and the happiness of people. However, the designed curriculum ignores the positive aspects of radical political movements led by communist and socialist parties, which deepen secular democracies and citizenship rights while expanding individual freedoms in politics, the economy, culture, and society by dismantling and transforming absolutely feudal and undemocratic societies in Europe, Asia, America, Africa, and Latin America. 

Communists have played a major role in defeating Nazis and fascists in Europe, and they have sacrificed their lives to defeat colonial apartheid in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Students are not allowed to read this........

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