Started reading Red Star over China at work, already loving it.
abolish usury and opium
Maoism teaches that the rural people in Appalachian have more in common with rural Chinese than the cosmopolitans technocrats who have international solidarity.
Appalachian socialism is going somewhere. Lots of kids of destroyed unions know exactly what redneck means and aren’t ready to just lay down
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
I love how searching that phrase on duckduckgo has a your hexbear account as the 2nd item
wealthier peasant
Death to Kulaks.
Snow's trip to China was carefully curated and he saw what they wanted him to see.
Dude I quoted this same passage in a post here a few months ago. Great minds :think-about-it:
im not that far, but just now read a funny bit about some general with 2 wifes who hated eachother and didnt want the other to move into his mansion, and how "To an outsider the case looked simple, a divorce or a third wife was the obivous solution"