Originally Posted by blackcat
Ok, thanks. I saw that one but wasn't sure if it was promoting communism, which I don't want to do.

The author and translators are pretty emphatic that it isn't actually a kids book, just written in language anyone can understand. (Which makes it fair game around here.) They also call it a critique of communism. I think the author is definitely anti-capitalist, but falls into more of a love/hate relationship with communism.

Here's the author being interviewed by one of the translators.

Originally Posted by Bini Adamczak
We have to be clear: the strongest argument against communism is communism itself. The communism of the past stands in the way of a communism of the future. This is true for everybody who dreams of a different world: we share the legacy of an emancipatory dream that turned into a reactionary nightmare.