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Teen Vogue is out here literally teaching teens about communism in simple terms and I am so fucking proud 

COMRADE TEEN VOGUE?? HELLO???

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“I do a little role-playing with [my class],” Brunt tells Teen Vogue. “[I tell them,] I’m the boss, you’re my workers, and you want to try to take me down. I have the money. I own the factory. I control the police. I control the military. I control the government. What do you guys have?”
His students usually blink at him, he says, totally clueless. He insists that they actually have something huge, that he, as the boss, will never have: “It’s always just one student, whose hand shoots up and goes, ‘We outnumber you!’” Brunt says.
He then introduces Marx’s distinction between the proletariat – the working class as a whole – and bourgeoisie – the ruling class who controls the workers and profits from their labor. The tension between the proletariat and bourgeoisie make up the class conflict, or class struggle, he explains.]

other Teen Vogue articles worth the read: 

• What “Capitalism” Is and How It Affects People
• Anti-Fascist History and Politics, Explained
• Anarchism: What It Is and Why Pop Culture Loves It
• Meet Ash Sarkar, the Communist Who Called Piers Morgan an “Idiot”