Opinion of History teachers explaining why communism is "bad"

[Dr. MB]

I'm honored!

Opposition to communism is a justifiable position (and one that I share), obviously. That said, negative distortion of socialist ideas is, unfortunately, one of the few things the American public school system excels at, and most instructors end up explaining communism in the way shown in my signature.

[Dr. MB]

Not teaching that communism is evil in a social studies class is like teaching evolution is not real in a biology class.

There's a difference between fact and opinion. Fascism and communism are not inherently "evil", I happen to strongly disagree with both ideologies but they are just that, ideologies. Teaching that certain beliefs are uncritically evil or wrong is indoctrination. In Eastern Bloc classes they were taught capitalism is evil, America is evil, so why is teaching that communism is evil any better than the Soviets?

It's better to present the facts, talk about Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and Mussolini and not just telling them to accept one belief.