I myself do not really view “What is to be Done?” as a great beginner work for Marxists, since it mentions a lot of obscure philosophers or groups that a modern audience (with their cursory knowledge of Russian history being from the lips of liberals, or worse, conservatives) would hardly know the context of, and I am reading a version that has notes on these people!
That is not to say that it is not an influential or essential work of Lenin (I think it might be up there with “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” and “The State and Revolution” in terms of either factor), but one has to be willing to trudge through Russian names that you will likely never hear again.
Yeah, homeschooling seems to generally be worse for children than outschooling because of those reasons. There is also the fact that I have no idea if the qualifications for homeschooling are as high as those for standard schools (they are probably lower), so they will get lower-quality education that is tinged with the ideological beliefs their parents will have.
Diversification of political power vs the concentration of political power is an interesting way of discriminating the Left and the Right (though I guess they are more vague descriptors due to the fact that the Left and Right serve as umbrella terms for numerous groups which do not share that much in common with one another, yet are still opposed to the other side).
Technically there are standards that are on par for homeschoolers, but a lot of people who homeschool as an excuse to not school their kids just don’t follow them. There’s no enforcement.
Also, educational standards are really lax. When you push kids, they can easily exceed those standards.
Concentration vs diversification of political power is the original definition of left vs right, as it originated in the French Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left–right_political_spectrum
Weird how conservatives are like: “we are against government authority” unless their government needs to go to war or deport legal citizens with skin colors darker than they like. You would think that such things count as concentration of power.
In this way, sometimes conservatives can take on leftist positions, or it’s how leftist positions are appropriated by the right.
But usually when they take these positions, it’s to dismantle government power in favour of power concentrated in corporations (or in the case of homeschooling, religious institutions), which is arguably an even greater concentration because there are even less restrictions as to what those other institutions are capable of.
When you do an analysis, you have to consider what institutions are in place to replace government institutions, if any.
It could just be hypocrisy and conservatives choosing not to use their brains for anything (half of their brainpower is used to say “but Biden” whenever they cannot argue against an anti-Trump argument). Also yes, what you said is true and has an important implication: A conservative and a communist might superficially share some similar beliefs, but what acts they commit will embody what their actual goals are (which is why horseshoe theory is absurd).