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康熙字典 令人头痛

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We'll take a look at the information about Yang Heping in the previous excerpt from 'Weimingzi's report.(translate the rest yourselves when you have time.)

>Yang Heping (English name: Engst Fred) is the eldest son of the American internationalists Yang Zaohan and Chun, born and raised in China. After reaching adulthood, he lived in the United States for a period of time. Before 2008, Yang Heping participated in organizing CYOC (Philadelphia Community Youth Group) in the United States. He also posted recruitment information and event announcements on certain exiled cult media. During this period, he cohabited with a woman named "Zhou Daoyuan" and together they owned a villa in Philadelphia (the source of their assets is unclear). Around 2004, CYOC received sponsorship from the Self Education Foundation, the Bread & Roses Community Fund, and the Hazen Foundation, all of which have distinct anti-China, anti-socialist backgrounds.

>In 2008, Yang Heping returned to China and subsequently became active on the internet. He was involved behind the scenes in the management and coordination of groups linked to the Jiliu faction, acting as the "commander" in the background. Around 2011, under the pen names "Hua Shi" and "Han Liu Ji" (which contrasts with Yang Heping), he published a series of articles asserting that China was emerging as an "imperialist" country, which sparked the "Imperialism Theory Debate" within radical "leftist" circles. Since then, more and more young people have started to follow Yang Heping's "Chinese Imperialism Theory."

>Yang Heping's theory argues that after China's reform and opening up, it has followed an imperialist path, becoming a rising social imperialist power. For example, he claims that China's navy's anti-piracy efforts in Somalia are aimed at competing for naval supremacy and that China will inevitably clash with other imperialist powers, possibly leading to a new world war. Yang Heping believes that the Chinese working class must maintain its independence and neutrality in the struggle between China and Western imperialist powers. Chinese workers should observe the "tragic yet spectacular" geopolitical drama from the sidelines and, after the new imperialist conflict ends, use this expePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Anyone know spanish and willing to translate
"BIOGRAFÍA POLÍTICA DE CAMILO TORRES"
https://www.marxists.org/espanol/camilo/biografia.htm

>>23666 weimingzi belike: "all other leftist in china are US spies and dogmatists,only i can enlighten and lead the new generation of proletariat of china and let them rally around the flag of my great ismism theory!" from my observation, i think he is china version of samuel gompers or john golden

Who else here ESL, or ETL like me and feel this pain, even if you can write perfect English, and even speak well when not tired

Like seriously, the only reason go speak or read and write in it is that so many other people also do

>>24338
Hope it helps


<POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF CAMILO TORRES
>Camilo’s life
Jorge Camilo Andres Torres was born in Bogotá the 3rd of February of 1929. His parents were Calixto Torres Umaña, a prestigious doctor, and Isabel Restrepo Gaviria. Coming from a wealthy, bourgueois and liberal family. Lived with his family in Europe, between 1931 and 1934. In 1937, the marriage dissolved and Camilo went to live with his mother and his brother Fernando.
He graduated as bachelor in the Cervantes Lycée in 1946. After studying a semester of law in the National University of Colombia, he was admitted to the Conciliar Seminary of Bogotá, were he remained seven years, time where Camilo began to be interested by the social reality, creating a group of social studies, along with his companion Gustavo Pérez. As a Christian, he felt attracted to the theme of poverty and social justice.
Camilo was ordained as priest in 1954, and later travelled to Belgium to study sociology at the University of Lovaina. During his stay in Europe, he made contact with the Christian Democracy, the Christian syndical movement and with the Algerian resistance groups in Paris, factors that made him grow close to the cause of the downtrodden. He founded with a group of Colombian students the ECISE (Colombian team of socioeconomic research).
In 1958 he graduated as a sociologist with the work “A statistical approximation to the socioeconomic reality of Bogotá” (published in 1987 as “The proletarianization of Bogotá”), that was one of the pioneers of urban sociology in the country. In 1959 he returns to Bogotá and his appointed chaplain of the National University. There, along with Orlando Fals Borda, founded the Sociology Faculty in 1960, where he was a professor.
His sociological researches initiated with his undergraduate thesis familiarised him with the urban as well as the rural social structures. He founded the Universitarian movement of communal promotion (MUNIPROC), and developed research works and of social action in popular and worker’s neighborhoods of Bogotá, as the Tunjuelito neighbourhood. As chaplain, he introduced to Colombia many of the reforms of the II Vatican Council, as giving mass in front and not giving the back, to say it in Spanish and not in Latin. He preached that the problem was notPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Link:

https://revolupedia.net

Bump

QRD on all the books:

"Witness" – Chambers was a fucked up guy, joined Communist Party USA and was part of its underground network, wife refused to abort their child which lead him down the path of religious conversion, claimed he understood the godlessness of communism so he quit, became a Christian, and then snitched on CPUSA during the 2nd Red Scare ("McCarthyism"). Book is highly melodramatic and presents a highly good-vs-evil Manichaean worldview. Chambers also blames intellectuals for propagating communism in America, heavily promotes Christianity as the only way to save the world from the communist menace, and is overall a sensationalist asshole.

"School of Darkness" – Bella Dodd was an Italian immigrant who longed to fit in with American society and culture, joined CPUSA in the mid 1930s, recruited a bunch of CPUSA-affiliated teachers into the Teachers Union in New York, worked her way up to become very successful in the Party, fell out with the Party soon after Earl Browder got purged, ended up leaving CPUSA and became a born-again Catholic after meeting with Fulton Sheen, Sheen then convinced her to snitch on the Party during McCarthyism as a form of "repentance". Basically, Dodd was desperately searching for validation her entire life. When communists didn't want her anyone she became Catholic and anti-communist and got validation from that crowd.

"Radical Son" – Horowitz grew up being raised by CPUSA-affiliated parents, was raised to believe in communism, became a big name activist in the 60s New Left, worked with the Black Panthers, then had a falling out with the Panthers, accused them of murdering a friend of his, had a complete falling out with leftist politics and embraced Reaganite conservatism in the 80s. Most of his memoir is about "growing up" and realizing the leftist beliefs his parents raised him with were "wrong". He also hates intellectuals and is highly self-righteous.

"Unplanned" – Abby Johnson worked at Planned Parenthood and became very successful at it. She became a clinic director. Then, one day she allegedly witnessed a fetus being aborted on an ultrasound and this destroyed her mentally. She became a staunch anti-abortion activist afterwards. A lot of details in her memoir have been scrutinized by her former coworkers. Her book doesn't have some great metaphysical discussion on the "evils of leftism" as the other three but it's a more contemporary conversion memoiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Most of these stories are often aimless semi reformed degenerates or underachievers

There is also a specific libertarian brand of
>i was briefly a member of a trotskyist party and it felt a lot like a cult
<therefore all leftists are middle-class hipsters who can't think for themselves (unlike me bc i'm so smart and basic economics)
Here is something in this vein by Robert Anton Wilson:
>I found myself floating in a void of incertitude, a sensation that was unfamiliar and therefore uncomfortable. I retreated back to robotism by electing to install a new Correct Answer Machine in my brain.
>This happened to be a Trotskyist Correct Answer Machine, provided by the International Socialist Youth Party. I picked this Machine, I think, because the alternative Correct Answer Machines then available were less “Papist” (authoritarian) and therefore less comfortable to my adolescent mind, still bent out of shape by the good nuns. (Why was I immune to Stalinism — an equally Papist secular religion? I think the answer was my youth. The only Stalinists left in the U.S. by the late ’40s were all middle-aged and “crystallized” as Gurdjieff would say. Those of us who were younger could clearly see that Stalinism was not much different from Hitlerism. The Trotskyist alternative allowed me to feel “radical” and modern, without becoming an idiot by denying the totalitarianism of the USSR, and it let me have a martyred redeemer again a I had in my Catholic childhood.)
>After about a year, the Trotskyist Correct Answer Machine began to seem a nuisance. I started to suspect that the Trotskyists were some secular clone of the Vatican, whether they knew it or not, and that the dogma of Papal infallibility was no whit more absurd than the Trotskyist submission to the Central Committee. I decided that I had left one dogmatic Church and joined another. I even suspected that if Trotsky had managed to hold on to power, he might have been as dictatorial as Stalin.
>Actually, what irritated me most about the Trots (and now seems most amusing) is that I already had some tendency toward individualism, or crankiness, or Heresy; I sometimes disputed the Party Line. This always resulted in my being denounced for “bourgeoisie tendencies.” That was irritating then and amusing now because I was actually the only member of that Trot cell who did not come from a middle-class bPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>24627
None of these examples were people who "briefly joined a Trot party".

Paul was both a Roman citizen of Greek and Jewish origin. Saul was a Pharisee who persecuted Christians. Paul was a Christian who preferred his Roman name since it means 'small'. There is nothing analogous I can think of in the political realm.

>>24792
Source, I've heard of this happening under Kim Jong-il a long time ago, but absolutely nothing recent suggests that is what is going on now

>>24792
100% &amazed people still believe hermit kingdom propaganda.

I mean the unicorn thing and all should tell you enough.

Or the books glazing the Kims you can download? Mad shit.

>>24793
North Korea honestly is a bastardization of socialism, surely they aren't capitalistic and do use some socialist policy, but they mixed some kind of hardcore cult of personality with a form of monarchy, it's a bizarre country, not a good example of a socialist country to follow honestly.

>>24813
Not really
For example the Kim's are fat because they are of good hard-working peasant stock, yes yes aristocrats are awful PMCs and we all think like this, pray the clankers can replace us with great expediency, it's the same thing and at least you can tune it on topics you know back to front to be mostly correct, although there's always a lot of critical reviewing and analysis through the lens of the tools' mechanism

In short, going by the video from this chinese scholar Juche makes perfect sense

The eldest sister is amazing, despite that superior peasant genetics she is running herself into the ground like a 墨家君

>>24820
from this perspective BigBalls beating came from heaven

>>22279
Are these strategically valid in the modern world though ?
I mean you have to fight against way different things when encountering a modern military tech, things that would be unfathomable back when these were written? something more modern perhaps ?

>>22281
yes. true. i don't have any.
the guerilla will always be outmatched in tech and weapons, and that doesn't matter. read them and you will understand.

Read up about insurgency and, more specifically as most militaries have manuals online for it, counter-insurgency and unconventional (or asymmetric) warfare.

Also consider the classics; Tsun Tzu and Cao Cao, Napoleon, Xenophon, that indian and arabic dude, Julius Caesar, von Clavowitz, etc.

>>22281
this is for the modern revolutionary millitary theorists to ponder.
i'd say the advent of 3d tech and communication, as well as ai has opened a new way for asymetric warfare.
as long as we don't fall for the meme of millitary traditionalism we will be fine.

IRA stuff https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/organ/ira/ira_green_book.htm

>>24772
I went to a meeting, just a trotskyist circlejerk about how their great thinkers are always right describing how stupid the only successful communists are

>>24777
arent they maoists? the UK RCP are the trots

>>24778
I went to a canada one, didnt know the us had a slightly less shitty situation

They are a bona fide political cult. If you check out their website, this is very apparent. They wear shirts with Bob Avakian's face on them, quote him like scripture (refer to BAsics 4:16), and argue they have discovered a "New Communism" that is superior to every form that came before it.

Historically, the RCP oriented toward the most backward elements of the working-class (when the entire New Left made a turn to labor in the 1970s), joining with white racists in Boston to oppose bussing black children to white schools. They sided with the Gang of Four during the post-Mao period, conveniently discovering that China was now capitalist upon Mao's death. They were also historically viciously anti-LGBT, regarding this as bourgeois degeneracy. They have since changed this position.

In 2020, they called on their supporters to vote for Joe Biden to "stop fascism." During the first Trump years, they held demonstrations in support of FBI director James Comey when he was targeted by Trump, and crawled behind every lib resistance movement.

They pretty much tail liberals and scream about fascism all day nowadays.

>>22334
>pic
this is literally what zizek believes

<on who's shadow we walk
Incredible fucking thread. You don't need to understand Hegelian categories to be a Marxist. You don't even really need Hegel. Marx only used dialectics as a method of presenting changes and development in historical phenomena, not as a means of understanding. You can't dialectically understanding anything.

>inb4 muh Lenin
Lenin was already finished with retards like you by 1905.

>>22750
It is not just Lenin that disagree with you but Engels, too.
In his writings, Engels make it pretty clear that he seens Dialetics as something important in order to understand the world. He differentiate between a metaphysical and a Dialektical approach to understand the world. The main difference, as I can tell, is the idea of fixed substances or essences.

You claim that you do not need Hegel in order to understand Marx, depends deep on your interpretation. Marx makes some comments that sounds in a way that justify the hypothesis that he never dropped Hegelian philosophy.

The theory of consciousness, the Widerspiegelungstheorie der Wahrheit (mirrortheory of truth) and all that can not be explained without some philosophy. And this philosophy has to be Hegelian in nature.

Someone posted this else where, map of science of logic:
https://autio.github.io/projects/scienceoflogic/

>>22750
Hard disagree. Dialectical thinking is a very powerful tool to understand systems and change. I personally use it all the time in my life for mundane reasoning and tasks.

Bump for interest

For just getting your feet wet, probably the Communist Manifesto
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
And the Principles of Communism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

>>24787
Thank you, anon.

>>24786
sex with sumireko

>heidegger (nazi)
>DOOOGIN
epic theory, lad
Clearly the answer to a lack of Marx is an excess of contrary, inferior, reactionary thinkers. Btw, how many holes does a woman have?

>>20583
It’s clearly not supposed to be an ‘own,’ you debatebrained retard

Boomps on garbage like this are banworthy almost

If you are Marxism, then I am not a Marxist.

>>24294
Honestly same. For me it's more not knowing where to start, and when there's volumes upon volumes of thick books covering every little niche part of the subject it's hard to know where to start

>>24694
Start with these: >>24296

Youre not a retard! Just start simple and develop your reading skills. I'd recommend starting with "The Principles of Communism" by Engels. It's an easy read

I tought asking someone for details is retarded

Try audio books. It's a slightly different way of processing words and it might be easier for you to understand. You also won't give up as soon because you don't actually have to read all da big woruds.