The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-13
THE COMMUNIST CHHDREN,s 9,


revolutionary educational the proletaan struggle and
io ne future OF the proearan the duty all proe
taan parents and of all other adult pearans as to assist
tne communist youth in this their important work We will
no longer expose children the uncomfortable influences
tne streets OF the metropolis We win longer permit tutors and
teachers OF christian serving revolution
to teach proletaran children We will longer abstain from plant
ing into the souls of children the seeds of socialism, of the
revolutionary conception of life The in the
midst Of bitter revolutionary struggle The
children in the few years will have help this
struggle He struggling for the welfare of the class who
not conscious Of the duty of the revolutionary poeaa towards
the proletarian children.
In what shall educate children? How
keep them from the pencous influence the street. of the
school, Of the whole bourgeois society," Shall create for
children islands the midst of the stormy of bour
geos life?
No. that cannot and will not do! Our children must be
educated in the environments within which they destined to
struggle later today the street is their home shall not
take them from the street. but open their eyes, that they will
see the street with eyes, with the eyes of revolutionary po
tarns with the eyes the class conscious socialists If the child
obliged to the bourgeois school, we shall not attempt to
keep him away that school, but shah try counterac the
influence the bourgeois school reYonsng not only from
without but with the help of the children themselves also from
within
To this end we are organizing the proletaran children in
Chdrens Groups will talk to them and play with them
read and make excursions with hem and grow with
them as we'll The Chdrens Groups to be our
schools their tenement houses and their play grounds in order
to enghten their comrades and take the schools the battle
against the influences the church and of natonasm of
institution hostile to the workers
We do not but doubt that influenced by the spirit of the Com
muns Childrens Groups many proearian child will prove
nrena in rousng and shaking his parents The object Of
fe Communist Gforps therefore to make the proe
tartan children take their place the work and in the struggle Of
their class and to educate them to be revoutonare
At time of the charaanke dongs OF the bourgeois relief action
.lor in
Xmas gathered at Berlin for the first time the leaders OF the
Chdrens Groups for conference decided to begin
and carry on every district energetic propaganda Tor the
Communist Chdren Groups Movement Quietly and surely with
out any noise without being advertised in any way was caea
into life the proetaan relief action Not with gold nor with money
can the poetara help their children but demand Of the
bourgeois government demand of the BOURGEOIS community
and can furthermore struggle for the realization OF tnese
demands and last not least teach their children to participate
that struggle within the limits given by their feeble OF
course
We do not wish to hear anything of the ocad pedagogical
affections maintaining that the children would not know enough
to recognize the underlying IDEAS that they should not be thaugh
to recognize the underlying ideas that they should not be taught
the child understands why to sing in the school Deutschland
ber Allies My country tits of Thee God the Kg Does
- orans know hy bourgeois teachers and bourgeois kinder
oaren nurses exhort him brave obeden Industrious ous
and thrifty? Why told that the Lord has done everything
we Does understand why his father mother or brother are
being nsued prosecuted fined jailed even shot NO pedagog
ca phrases however Moey souue VIII heep e poseos ass
from educating the proetarn children its morals and in its
opnons The proletara possesses to protect then
children against the bourgeois world the contact with which al
ways leaves harsh impression the young and Often very
often painful what do? Shall the strug
Cling class abstain from explaining children why mus
struggle and why they themselves must struggle day Shal
the proearan mother not explain to her hungry child the reason
for his being hungry Shall keep shamefaced silent when
are being asked by children Father why you strike
Mother why do you go demonstrations Brother why
out of work Shall remain neutral and nothing when
children repeat the lies and the melting words of their bor
geos school fellows? When the children read the papers lies
abuse and about it, shall say You do not understand
that? No. children Be proud of the strikers
Of those demonstrating proud of the comrades anghing a
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