On Asia
We may as well address Mao now, since everyone keeps talking about rent these days (and I'd like to maybe own a house someday).
Asia (with a focus on Korea, China, and Vietnam)
For Korean perspective on Socialism, check out a bunch of Kim Il-Sung's speeches here. There's a reason he's a hero of the people, he has valuable perspective to share as a guerilla leader.
TODO: quote, che, everyone arrives at marxism through observing nature and drawing their own conclusions TODO: quote, Korean/Cuban about the shared stuggle TODO: Pachinko TODO: Vietnam / Ho. RedSails, how I arrived at the third international (ie. which was the party that stood against imperialism. eventually understanding Lenin's words. pull quote, also link.) TODO: Laos
Continuing on from Korea but staying within Asia (and also suffering under the outward expansion of Imperial Japan), China!
- Mao
- Zhou Enlai
- Deng
- Xi
China
Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz - Feb 25, 2021 (src)
Justin Podur (@justinpodur) notes,
It is important that China be presented as genocidal so that if you say "it's possible to eliminate poverty" or "it's possible to contain COVID in 2 months" the reply can be "lol Xinjiang" and the conversation is over.
Many more people died of COVID in long-term care facilities in Canada than died in the whole pandemic in China.
COVID-19 highlights Canada's care home crisis (via thelancet.com)
Roderic Day covers this phenomenon in The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz (2021).
Laos
Lao news in English at kps.gov.la The Lao People's newspaper at pasaxon.org.la The Lao Party's website at pccob.gov.la
And a twitter thread:
The Secret War: US Terror in Laos THREAD
In late 1964 the United States unleashed hell upon the people of Laos — the most heavily bombed country in human history.
Full article at MountTaiPress here if the thread is no longer accessible.
Philippines
- activism --- Activist Study (Araling Aktibista) - "The Activist Study (Araling Aktibista), or ARAK as it’s known, is part of the required study for activists in the Filipino revolutionary movement. The study includes Mao Zedong’s Five Golden Rays, along with lessons on Revolutionary Study and Analysis, the Mass Line, and Democratic Centralism and the Committee System–all essential texts for studying and forming revolutionary practice."
TODO: Anakbayan tie-in
India
TODO: link Bhagat Singh
That isn't even getting to the real starts. For that, we'd have to get Europe, to Marx. Following the Paris Commune, in Germany. Then Lenin, in Russia. Working hard and coming up with the Leninism part of the Marxism-Leninism. His four works are essential. And finally, Stalin, the synthesizer of Marxism-Leninism.
To move forward, we'll go back to the "start": Europe time, let's talk about Germany and Russia
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