A few things that I'd like to bring up.
I think that we should actually promote the reading of Mein Kampf and the communist manefesto and other things in the right environment in schools. Sometimes we're so hell bent on protecting people from books and ideas in books that we're going to forget the lessons of the past.
Why Mein Kampf you might ask me, isn't that a book that promotes dangerous and evil ideas? And you'd be right, however the only way to prevent a hitler from rising in your mists is to understand his motivation, and there's no better place to find that then a book written by the man.
The communist manefesto, no problem, because the communism that he was talking about is a far different thing from "War" Communism as created by Lenin and then further warped by Stalin. The oppression and evil came not from the economic system, but from the implementation by hardened nasty 19th and early 20th century by victims of a Tsarist regime who couldn't let go of thier hate of the old ways, and thier mistrust of thier own citizens.
Quotations from Mao, again a mass murderer and fierce communist, but what better way to create discussion and analyse the man then reading that book.
Books like this are only dangerous if people read them and accept them without argument or discussion, kinda like using the T.V. as a baby sitter can be dangerous or mind warping without the discussion and supervision by parents.
Just my 2 cents
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