This year's sophomore class has been my favorite group of students to teach in my career...and I've had great classes in the past. This year's group is respectful yet lively. They behave but also have personality.One interesting and somewhat disturbing aspect this year is how many little communists I have. Actually they're more inclined to democratic socialism than any Leninist/Maoist doctrine. And they're really just a bunch of posers.
I've got several kids who are really fascinated by Che Guevara. One student noticed I am reading an 800 page biography on the strangely contradictory humanitarian killer. My student said, "hey, that's a great book." I was shocked that they actually read outside of my class. Another student in another class said "I've ordered that book from the bookstore."
Another student has painted three different portraits of Che in varying artistic styles.
Another student, a girl with the the temperment of Trotsky, loves to attack the school's class structure and says the administration needs to forcefully impose egalitarianism.
So yes, the future is full of little Marxists. I hope this helps you sleep at night. Although these Marxists like voting, free enterprise and shopping at the mall. Is that a contradiction? Most sophomores are walking contradictions. That's what makes them so fun to be around.
