Showing posts with label Marxist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marxist. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Should I criticize my son for supporting communism?


Should I criticize my son for supporting communism?

My 16 year old son is a supporter of communism, but mainly because he's studied up on it through books and online research, and talking to his grandfather who is from the former Soviet Union. Somehow or other, we got into an argument about politics and I more or less told him he wasn't right to support communism (he persists he supports the "real" kind). Well, long story short, I feel somewhat bad for criticizing him. Was I right, or should I allow him to continue his support of it?

From what I can observe, he isn't a full blown radical but a moderate supporter. An old Soviet flag which his grandfather gave him hangs on his wall along with a poster of Lenin.