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English language videos, translations, and audiobooks on China and Marxism for a more peaceful and prosperous world.

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Chet Ozmun
7 months
All 4 Volumes of Xi Jinping's The Governance of China are now available as free audiobooks on my YouTube channel:
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Netflix is rotting Americans' brains while China's most popular TV dramas feature dialogue like this:
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Chinese poverty alleviation drama Daughter of the Mountains vividly portrays conflict between village locals and CPC outsiders. All episodes with complete English subtitles coming soon!
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I just applied to join. 🇺🇲
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The founding Plenary Committee of the American Communist Party signed the Party Declaration in Chicago, Illinois on July 21st, 2024. Currently, hundreds of Communists are in the process of being officially incorporated. #AmericanCommunistParty
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My first large-scale translation project is now complete: Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR. A CPC documentary examining why the USSR collapsed. Please share widely!
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Chinese public TV takes us on a journey from Confucius to Leibniz to the digital revolution in under 2 minutes.
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I get chills every time the protagonist of a Chinese TV show joins the CPC.
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I'm glad this book is trending. I recorded the audiobook version. But the ENG translation is horrendous, prob done by machine. This book deserves professional ENG translation. I can't do it alone, but if Chinese is your native language and you want to collaborate on this, DM me.
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Lmao this Chinese gov magazine compared China's backwardness pre-Liberation to present day San Francisco.
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[EPISODE 1/5] Marx Enters the Confucian Temple (2023) Chinese TV Doc ENG SUBS 当马克思遇见孔夫子 Literal Title Translation: When Marx Met Confucius #WhenMarxMetConfucius #MarxEntersTheConfucianTemple
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@LinkofSunshine Mainlanders are incredibly easy to talk to from outside of China what are you talking about?
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Americans are sick and bored of the same old dissident immigrant narratives. This book offers a refreshing alternative. Audiobook coming soon!
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China's early communists sounding like Michael Hudson #SuperImperialism
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2 years
Summer break is coming up, which means a lot more free time to record books on Chinese Marxism, and I have quite the lineup in store!
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Chinese TV drama is the Stalinist golden center of mass media entertainment. In 2024 I resolve to subtitle many more of these shows so that more English speakers can appreciate this high-quality, hidden phenomenon.
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Xi Jinping: "If literary and artistic creations merely write an account of the current situation, reveal an unmediated display of the repulsive side of things, and do not extol their bright side, if they do not express ideals and guide morality, then they cannot inspire the
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Thatcher was so shook by the CPC's refusal to budge she literally collapsed after negotiations in front of the Great Hall of the People.
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I'm glad this clip is getting positive attention. As many have pointed out, this show is based on a true story. I translated a CCTV documentary that tells Huang Wenxiu's story in more detail:
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Chinese poverty alleviation drama Daughter of the Mountains vividly portrays conflict between village locals and CPC outsiders. All episodes with complete English subtitles coming soon!
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Obscure Chinese dramas will have a plot summary like this and somehow be some of the most riveting TV you'll ever see.
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For all interested in the #MAGAcommunism trend (for or against) I recommend Ramin Mazaheri's book "I'll Ruin Everything You Are" which draws explicit comparisons between China's Cultural Revolution and the MAGA movement, using the rural nature of both as a basis. Link below:
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rare animation from the Cultural Revolution: AFTER SCHOOL (1972) now with English Subtitles
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@EdbieLigerSmith Solzhenitsyn also eventually apologized for his lies (after it was too late), and his post-USSR fiction even features positive portrayals of Stalin. When my anti-communist friends bring up Gulag Archipelago I always ask them if they've read Apricot Jam.
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"Marxism has profoundly changed the course of China's history, which has in turn developed and enriched Marxism." -Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, vol. 4
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For anyone curious about an Infrared reading list: I fed this entire essay into an LLM and asked it give me a recommended reading list based on its contents. Here's what it generated (take with a grain of salt): Aristotle Metaphysics Bell, Daniel The Coming of Post-Industrial
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Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺
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Why Marxism is not Woke: Proving beyond possible doubt that James Lindsay and other rightists are fundamentally wrong about Marxism, and that Marxist theory in the West is meaningless without the aid of Dugin and Heidegger’s thinking. [MASSIVE THREAD] 🧵
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"Economic failure brooks no argument, just as economic success requires no additional discursive justification" -Boris Groys: The Communist Postscript
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Michael Hudson: "In all epochs a basic maxim applies: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid. What is always at issue is just how they won't be paid."
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For readers on the go, I created audiobook versions of the following books from this list (ordered as they appeared): The Communist Postscript, by Boris Groys The Question Concerning Technology in China, by Yuk Hui Super-Imperialism, by Michael Hudson The Total Art of Stalinism,
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NEW BONUS RTSG: Book recommendations by the team. If you're looking for something to read, from diverse range of subjects and catagories, take a look at our list.
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I'm currently translating CPC lectures on the early utopian socialists. What's refreshing is the lectures' emphasis on how much the early utopian socialists (More, Campanella, and onward to Saint-Simone etc.) all valued labor and work. This is far from the (understandable)
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2 years
Christmas comes early: FULL AUDIOBOOK of Super Imperialism by Michael Hudson is now available FREE on YouTube:
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6 months
The Q&A sessions from this show were great. "It's true we Chinese have a peaceful cultural tradition, but some Western countries only believe in the law of the jungle. If they bully us or hinder our national reunification, should we still talk to them about peace and harmony?"
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[EPISODE 5/5] Marx Enters the Confucian Temple (2023) Chinese TV Doc ENG SUBS 当马克思遇见孔夫子 Literal Title Translation: When Marx Met Confucius #WhenMarxMetConfucius #MarxEntersTheConfucianTemple
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Exciting news attached! There's never been a better time to become a patron.
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Stalin was a theologian.
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William Z. Foster (February 7th, 1955): The situation in the Far East is very dangerous, and the war threat will not be liquidated until the American people recognize and act upon the fact that in People's China we are dealing with a people who are free and intend to remain so. A
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[EPISODE 2/5] Marx Enters the Confucian Temple (2023) Chinese TV Doc ENG SUBS 当马克思遇见孔夫子 Literal Title Translation: When Marx Met Confucius #WhenMarxMetConfucius #MarxEntersTheConfucianTemple
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My entire collection of English language texts published by the Chinese and Soviet governments. See something you'd like to hear as an audiobook? Let me know in the replies!
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Thank you for 1k followers! Stay tuned for much more Chinese/Marxist media.
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A decades long epic beginning in 1956, when a group of Chinese students go abroad to study in the USSR. Shen Yan, a Chinese student, falls in love with Valentina, a Russian student. But as tensions between their two nations grow, can they sustain their romance? The Wind Across
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The Nobel Prize in Literature has nothing on the Stalin Prize in Literature. If you're hungry for something highbrow to read google the latter. The literary quality is so much better and most of the winners are available in English translation.
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Who is the Grover Furr of China?
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Been talking with friends about how while Grover Furr's work is indispensable it is very dense and difficult for your average readers. His findings should be readapted into "NYT bestseller" style popular history, with that "page turner" feel to it. This is how Western popular
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[translation] The America You Love Is Sick Essay by Chen Yingzhen Translator’s Introduction Many prominent Taiwanese authors support complete reunification with the mainland. However if you only read English you wouldn’t know this from what’s available in the translation
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Burgis has handlers who have been watching/studying Infrared for a while. I'm not sure this will be the easy win everyone thinks it is.
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Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺
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TOMORROW, at 8pm EST, I will be debating @BenBurgis on MAGA Communism and his UTTERLY FALSE conception of Marxism!
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Michael Hudson's Forgive Them Their Debts: Every time lending on interest is mentioned in the Bible, it is spoken of with disapproval. The loan market was depicted as predatory, driving people into debt and taking their land and thus threatening to destroy what today are called
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Working on subtitling this show now for English-speaking audiences. Nowhere in it does the Marx character claim he is Chinese. Are Oxford professors just allowed to make anything up as they please?
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Bitter Winter: “When Marx Met Confucius” #China 's Xi promotes bizarre biopic at Natl Conference on Propaganda, Thought, & Cultural Work aimed at launching “Xi Jinping’s Thought on Culture” This contribution to "Xihistory" has Marx claiming he's Chinese
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[EPISODE 3/5] Marx Enters the Confucian Temple (2023) Chinese TV Doc ENG SUBS 当马克思遇见孔夫子 Literal Title Translation: When Marx Met Confucius #WhenMarxMetConfucius #MarxEntersTheConfucianTemple
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Whenever I talk with pro-Xi, pro-Mao mainlanders, we always agree on pretty much every political issue. BUT then gun control comes up and they say to me "Your country is so violent; shouldn't gun laws be stricter?" I always respond with something along the lines of "The US
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It's 2018 and these wealthy farmers are worried Mao-era policies are coming back to rural China in this clip from the CCTV series Daughter of the Mountains, coming soon to YouTube!
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Is this guy protected from community notes?
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This happened
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XI JINPING: A STORY OF INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH a Bilibili short documentary on the history of Xi's experience with the masses.
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The USSR made some of the greatest films of all time. With a few exceptions this is rarely acknowledged in the West. Most of these films don't have English subtitles. Find an app that can automatically generate Russian subtitles and translate them into English. It's not perfect
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When Western film critics discuss "Chinese cinema" what they actually mean is Hong Kong movies made while Britain still colonized the island, plus a handful of depressing and boring Taiwanese arthouse movies. It's not that these critics don't like communist cinema; it's that
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American author photographs are so pretentious and overdone. Some of China's greatest living writers just look like your dad's co-worker.
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When my Chinese friends ask me what's wrong with the American economy, I introduce them to Michael Hudson. That's the kind of good friend I am.
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The ops are bringing back this strategy of acting like they discovered some new Haz take they know their fans will hate, when he's held that position consistently all along. In one of his first big debates he praised Louis Farrakhan lol.
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MAGA communism thought-leader Haz on reparations This is really based
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CPC Village Party Secretary drip
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Every time I tell a right-wing friend of mine "the same media that lied to you about COVID and Trump lied to you about communism," we always have a good conversation. Every time I tell a liberal friend of mine "the human rights you value are better upheld in China and North Korea
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"The main difference between the US and China is not that one is capitalist and the other communist. It's that one is run by lawyers and the other by engineers." -David Dodwell.
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Today's China has a lot of intellectual fake dissidents. Think Noam Chomsky types but for China. They moan about this or that pet issue, but at the end of the day they fall in line behind the CPC. American leftists fall for these types a lot.
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"Nearly every news outlet in the world has daily items on China. Though some still need to gain a more informed understanding, the attention in itself is testament to China’s global importance. These days, every move China makes has world-historical significance." -Roland Boer
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@VoxXciv Thanks I am aware. That translation is based on what 1st Secretaries do, and is tailored for an American audience do they know immediately. I use Ms. Or Mr. In exchange for professional titles occasionally for the same reason, simplicity. But I always appreciate more feedback!
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This account has been delivering @volkvulture1 some easy Ws and it's been fun to watch.
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#OtD 28 Mar 1915 anarchist Emma Goldman delivered a lecture in NYC on family planning, despite having previously been arrested for doing so. Although she gave explicit information on birth control and police were present, she wasn't arrested this time.
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"Every revolution in the history of humanity was supported and celebrated by Hegel, despite his reputation as an incorrigible defender of the established order." -Domenico Losurdo
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@PamphletsY @FanpageMikhail Because the Chinese government initiated their side of the split over Khrushchevite revisionism which laid the seeds for the USSR 's eventual collapse.
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Boris Groys The Communist Postscript full audiobook now on bandcamp:
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@jarl_marx @EdbieLigerSmith He went on a tour of the countryside after the USSR collapsed and admitted in several public speeches the collapse was a disaster and that the people were much better off before. More details in this documentary:
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FULL AUDIOBOOK: America Against America by Wang Huning.
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A young Mao Zedong radicalizes his students in this clip from Chinese historical drama The Tides of History (大浪淘沙)
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Consuming Chinese media analogous to eating healthy and exercising. Consuming American media analogous to meth.
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Armond White has written what may be the first piece of #MAGACommunism film criticism, praising China's latest patriotic blockbuster and excoriating Hollywood for being unwilling to make a movie to match it:
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(in this metaphor Marvel movies are the left deviation and anime is the right deviation)
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Mao Zedong (January 1940): We must respect our own history and must not lop it off. However, respect for history means giving it its proper place as a science, respecting its dialectical development, and not eulogizing the past at the expense of the present or praising every drop
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Quote below from Xi Jinping, The Governance of China vol. 4
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I love that the footnotes to Michael Hudson's Forgive Them Their Debts includes this random clip of Mitt Romney making an ass of himself.
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As an American I find it a mind-opening and humbling experience to learn what Soviet scholars thought about our literature and culture in general. #BookRecs
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[EPISODE 4/5] Marx Enters the Confucian Temple (2023) Chinese TV Doc ENG SUBS 当马克思遇见孔夫子 Literal Title Translation: When Marx Met Confucius #WhenMarxMetConfucius #MarxEntersTheConfucianTemple
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Wikipedia makes Chinese AI seem pretty based.
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Japan walked so the US could run.
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The Analects: The noble person is harmonious but does not conform. The petty person conforms but is not harmonious.
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Might put a bunch of AI audiobooks on Spotify. Do people still use Spotify?
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"Socialist realism has literally disappeared from our bookstores and libraries, even from memory. Very little is known about this literature; what is said about it includes a few truths, many half-truths, and a dizzying number of untruths. Confronted with Soviet culture of the
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CPC CADRE LECTURE (2014): "If the state-owned economy does not dominate key industries and fields, including national security, it will sooner or later be controlled by international monopoly capital, and sovereignty and national independence will be difficult to guarantee."
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I'm now on Substack! Leave a comment on my first post and please subscribe. More articles coming soon!
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"When it comes to choosing a development path for a country, no one is in a better position to make the decision than the people of that country...
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China’s Democracy Path by Ning Fang [BOOK REVIEW]: Pretty thorough given its short length. Covers Western perspectives on democracy and "democratic development." Argues China is forging its own path and is justified in doing so, argues that the West does not have a monopoly on
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Full audiobook of VOL 3 now available!
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Full audiobook free on YouTube:
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@JayLiu16791897 Exactly! I translated a CCTV ceremony where she received a posthumous award for her sacrifice, and I'm hoping to translate her poverty alleviation diaries soon.
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Hong Kong filmmaker Anthony Pun was asked why he makes propaganda movies for the CPC. He replied Hollywood makes propaganda films all the time and doesn't get half the criticism China does. And besides, he asked, what's wrong with being patriotic?
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The full audiobook of Grover Furr's Blood Lies is now up on YouTube. In this book Furr completely debunks Timothy Snyder's dishonest scholarship on the USSR and Stalin.
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Defeating Historical Nihilism (Bilibili Short Documentary) A short documentary about historical nihilism from Chinese video sharing site Bilibili. It includes some great clips from Chinese films as well. Patrons get early access and tons of bonus content.
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Michael Hudson's Forgive Them Their Debts chapters 17 and 18 now on Patreon. Preview here:
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Baidu Baike (China's Wikipedia) is a great alternative resource to have, but some of the articles also read as if written by CIA. Xi's cyberspace reforms are still a work in progress.
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As many have already pointed out, Lenin never actually said the quote attributed to him in this episode. This error was explored in thorough detail by a younger CPC member in a video posted on Chinese video-sharing website BiliBili. I'm uploading that video here with English
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[EPISODE 4/5] Marx Enters the Confucian Temple (2023) Chinese TV Doc ENG SUBS 当马克思遇见孔夫子 Literal Title Translation: When Marx Met Confucius #WhenMarxMetConfucius #MarxEntersTheConfucianTemple
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