Raising a child in an anti-capitalist household has its unique challenges. How do we help her see the importance of solidarity and the emptiness of Disney Inc. is an ongoing process. While we encourage her to pick up Marxist literature, das Kapital is a little short on the important attractive pull of goofy images that draws 2-year olds to the page.
Havana and a couple of comrades went out last Sunday to the flea market to give out flyers for people seeking to fight capitalism. Essentially the flyers had things like - "trouble with your landlord, trouble with your boss?" We were looking for a new direct action case to fight for the Campaign for Renters Rights.
Havana was pretty well behaved. She even gave out a few flyers.
A few days later Havana picked up a few flyers on our dining table and handed one to Karen, "are you in trouble? Are you in trouble?" she enquired to her mother with an empathetic look on her face. Karen had missed the flyering and slightly confused asked, "in trouble with who?" to which Havana, thought twice and answered with the only authority figure she could think of: "in trouble with teacher?"
She had picked up from her 4-year old buddy Joaquin that being in trouble with teacher was something to aspire to. As Lenin said, three steps forward and two steps back.
