History is often considered boring, useless classwork. All those charts! All those graphs! Perhaps some students could have thought, too, "Can't we stop with the statistics?"
Now, Newsweek has ignored world history altogether, and, unfortunately, has created a historically inaccurate quiz to assess how ready the player is for socialism. It also apparently thought it was a good idea to pretend to be Buzzfeed for a while.
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"The Little Red Test" was a breezy and shallow quiz with a formula bearing comparison to Buzzfeed's massively used clickbait personality quizzes. However, unlike Buzzfeed's multiple-choice buttons and polls, it had no interactive content.
There were yes/no discussion questions (the sum of all the questions totaling up to 20 points) that a reader would answer silently, with instructions for keeping score. The score determined how socialist the quiz-taker would be.
The first question inquires, "Would you work a 32-hour week if your pay stayed exactly the same?" A later question adds, "Do you own an anti-capitalist tote bag?" The Little Red Test also asks, "Have you ever announced that you were leaving X [to join Bluesky]... on X?" and "Have you ever gone to therapy to talk about capitalism?"
For these reasons, the White House press release on this quiz argued that Newsweek's activity "romanticizes" socialism.
They stated, "There’s nothing lighthearted about the reality that campaign is trying to hide."
Ignoring economics and history
Real socialism was tried. The best evidence points to capitalism improving the world.
In socialism, there was no mental health awareness or therapy. There was not a choice to go from X to Bluesky, and there was no way to change from cow's milk to oat milk. There was likely only a choice to work, to go to bread lines, and to read Pravda, the only allowable Soviet newspaper.
Plus, socialism resulted in work weeks totaling far more than 32 hours. The press release continues that 100 million people died after working themselves to the bone, to slave labor, and to starving times.
People would have paid exorbitant prices for milk, regardless of the liquid being made of dairy or oats, if any milk were on shelves. The bread lines pointed to food being difficult to find.
The simple concept of the "anti-capitalist tote bag" would quite proudly exist in socialism, because the bag would be labeled with sanctioned Soviet propaganda, but mass production could be different. There may have been few produced anti-capitalist tote bags, since mass production was sometimes not supported well for such luxury items.
Indeed, the Soviet Empire tumbled in 1991, and many Soviet bloc countries, including Hungary and Poland, went to capitalism. Not many Newsweek quiz writers considered the history of the Soviet Empire working people to exhaustion and then being destroyed.
Moral of the "Little Red Test"
By Newsweek vending the audience an award for doing nothing but feeling good in a fictional socialist country when getting a high score on the quiz, the recipient is greatly hindered when it comes to understanding socialism's actual expectations.
Doesn’t an incentive gained for doing nothing demolish the whole point of striving in the capitalist environment to work harder and better?
The Newsweek "Little Red Test" is a foolish idea. It shelters readers from the true history of socialism, diminishes how capitalism improves society, and bolsters a strong sense of historical revisionism.
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