• Text here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/index.htm – about 27,000 words, so about 100 minutes to read

  • Audio here, British female AI speaker, 2h41m21s: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=aeGlxpDvoqc&listen=1

  • Audio here, American human male speaker: https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZVLIJX6CLKGC9Vz6Gwv9kI&listen=1

It is nine chapters, so one chapter per day for nine days seems the obvious way to go.

Liu Shaoqi is an admirable figure, Chairman from 1959 to 1968, a pragmatist who came into conflict with the worst tendencies of Mao and the Gang of Four, praised by Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping. I'm getting more and more interested in the pragmatic Chinese Marxists who actually succeeded and built something with a strong eye to pragmatism, not idealism.

  • Vampire [any]M
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    1 year ago

    when necessary, it [the Party] will even give up some of its work in order to preserve comrades working under the rule of reaction.

    Hey what does this mean? What is the rule of reaction? I'm puzzled.

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
      ·
      1 year ago

      I get the feeling something is being lost in translation here. Like the phrase is either being transliterated too much or there simply isn’t a decent English equivalent. My guess is it’s done sort of mutual aid for comrades under some version of indentured servitude but that’s a complete shot in the dark.