Life in Communism 2.1. The Kindergarden Manifesto, by Carla O’Gallchobhair

It is five years after the events of Robespierre’s Robot and the Conditions for Peace. Véro’s thesis presentation on the kindergarden manifesto as well as several other seminars by our Saint-Denis and Illyria comrades on the dangers of fascism, revolutionary barter, and the evolution of democracy have had to be postponed several times as the revolution is still unfolding. Just as Véro is finally ready to start her argument on how to help young children to become non-violent, self-confident and loving revolutionaries early on, by allowing them to grow in brigades, in their families and with their buddies, her presentation is disrupted by yet another fasco hostage-taking, this time of the junior soccer team composed of Illyria’s around-five-year-old’s. The hijackers demand the umptieth referendum on the revolution as well as a series of exchanges – always one boy against one adult expert on the revolution. One shudders to think what will happen to the kidnapped in case of trouble! To relive the tension until the hostages can be freed, not only does Véro’s thesis presentation continue, but the adult comrades and boys – captive for a while in a cave – start a Cavegarden (from cave+ kindergarden) series on major aspects of the revolution – ecology, technology, economy, democracy, peace, and how to overcome fasco sabotage. Fasco defectors and repentant ex-capitalists and bankers have to help before the hostage crisis can be solved and the revolution can continue apace.

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