How are French kids indoctrinated? The Economist article explains:
The analysis of social structure starts with Marx. One textbook’s subheadings move depressingly from “More and more suicides at work”, to “More and more insecure jobs”. In another textbook, a chapter on “social justice” asks: “Do high revenues threaten fairness?”, and illustrates it with a 19th-century engraving of a bourgeois couple and a photo of a modern-day French demonstrator with a placard reading “Tax the rich”.
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And just to hammer the point home, in their final high school exam, students are asked to answer essay questions like “What do we owe the state?”
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