President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela on Sunday urged children to embrace socialism, raising the ire of educators and parents who pushed back Chavez’s earlier proposal to rewrite textbooks to emphasize socialist doctrine.

The Houston Chronicle reports that, “Chavez celebrated a Venezuelan holiday promoting children’s welfare by telling a group of adolescents to become socialists with the monk-like mission to serve the poor that was espoused by Cuban revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevera.”

Chavez told children to read Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – authors of the “communist Manifesto’ - along with other socialist philosophers and thinkers. He contends that capitalism “exploits children, confuses and poisons them.”

Chavez – a close friend of Fidel Castro of Cuba – wants to model Venezuelan teaching on the ideological education in Communist-led Cuba.

Leonardo Carvajal, who’s nonprofit Education Assembly endorses a pluralistic approach to teaching, accused Chavez of indoctrinating students with “outdated Soviet-era models.”

According to the Chronicle, “Chavez was forced to backtrack on a school textbook overhaul in April after teachers and parents accused him of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas. His government is drafting a new curriculum to be implemented in schools next year.”

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