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He's 17, could just be messing around with jokes to test the waters for what's ok to say politically.
Be nice, kids are impressionable and need good adult rolemodels. Maybe he's a tool now idk but if his memory of communists is helpful and earnest people then he's more likely to become sympathetic later.
Idk the best way to deal with bourgeois idiots, but if he actually just learned about communism yesterday, you could try explaining the difference between private and personal property (wrench vs water jug). Maybe he'll learn something and the joke will stop being funny
If nothing else, always breaking into an educational lecture when an idiot at work says something dumb is a great way to get them to stop their unfunny jokes around you. Even if they never actually learn anything.
When people make shit jokes that misunderstand communism I give them a lecture about communism. They soon learn to stop
Gee boss, I don't know how your son fell down fifteen flights of stairs. I guess he must have been real clumsy
You mean "our son," comrade?
careful that might be legally binding in some places.
No, it was an accident, not arson!
He's 17. He's not a fail son. We need class traitors.
Laugh at his jokes and show him solidarity means everyone.
Now show him "in soviet russia,..." jokes
In America capitalists expropriate you. In Soviet Russia you expropriate capitalists.
You better be making that kid carry 'our' toolbag and buy 'our' coffees too. I'm not a plumber but i was an apprentice pipefitter for a year and the type of personality that kid's dad likely had means you can be extra hard on him if you want lol
Yes I'm telling you about your boss' personality when I've never met him, what are you gonna do