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!
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
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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大江大河, English title "Like a Flowing River." It's a modern Chinese epic that covers the end of the Cultural Revolution through the reform and opening up into the 2000s. All episodes are free on Youtube:
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.
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.
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
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:
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!
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:
@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.
"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
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
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] 🧵
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,
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.
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)
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?"
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
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!
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
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.
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
[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
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
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?
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
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
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!
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
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
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.
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
"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.
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.
"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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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!
#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.
"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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Because the Chinese government initiated their side of the split over Khrushchevite revisionism which laid the seeds for the USSR 's eventual collapse.
@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:
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:
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
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
"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
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."
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
@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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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