It reminds me of the British chef/food critic Rick Stein doing an episode on Vietnam and saying "When you see people happy and shopping in markets, you can almost forget this is a Communist country" as if the core tenent of Ho Chi Minh was being miserable and having nowhere to get groceries.
"why does this country forged in part by a renowned pastry chef have such good food, despite all the red flags around the market?!? Why yes, I am being paid handsomely for this analysis and foreign travel"
I don't know about any interactions they had, but to me that fact always made me wistful that there was no strong union movement active at the time...
Imagine if Malcolm X and Uncle Ho had been able to have an influence on each other's paths, and what could have gone differently in that kind of dynamic.
I once had a vietnamese lady come over for a date and while cooking she found my copy of the little red book on the table and asked what it was about. I wasn't sure about her family's leanings given they left Vietnam, so I glossed over the Mao by mentioning that Ho was a wonderful pastry chef, and she got super happy and went on a long thing about how badass he was.
We now send each other communist memes every now and then. She says her family is apolitical and not anticommunist, that they just left because their area got fucked in the war, but otherwise they hate the USA.
Its amazing how little jump off points like talking of Ho's pastries, or Stalin and Mao's poetry end up making it really easy to broach the subject of communism with libs... just yesterday I started speaking positively about Mao with someone by pointing out a quote about taking care of your skin(we'd been talking about skincare routines), lol. Now that person is already talking about how she wishes Mao was alive again.
That's really cool, it's definitely a great feeling when you can connect with someone over leftist politics unexpectedly. Found out a few coworkers were surprisingly based/open to leftist ideas that way.
Fucking hell, this literally reads like parody.
It reminds me of the British chef/food critic Rick Stein doing an episode on Vietnam and saying "When you see people happy and shopping in markets, you can almost forget this is a Communist country" as if the core tenent of Ho Chi Minh was being miserable and having nowhere to get groceries.
:uncle-ho-2: :uncle-ho-2: :uncle-ho-2:
"why does this country forged in part by a renowned pastry chef have such good food, despite all the red flags around the market?!? Why yes, I am being paid handsomely for this analysis and foreign travel"
Haha, exactly! I always forget he was a pastry chef, that rules :uncle-ho-2:
He was one of the first people in the world to make a Boston Creme Pie, as he worked at the hotel that invented it.
Also, he worked there at the same time that Malcolm X was a bellhop for the hotel.
Holy shit. That perfectly encapsulates the Maoist influence on the Panthers.
I don't know about any interactions they had, but to me that fact always made me wistful that there was no strong union movement active at the time...
Imagine if Malcolm X and Uncle Ho had been able to have an influence on each other's paths, and what could have gone differently in that kind of dynamic.
Organize your workplaces, reach out to everyone!
EVERY TIME I LEARN SOMETHING NEW ABOUT BAC HO I JUST LOVE HIM MORE
Woah, never knew that, that's super interesting!
right?
I once had a vietnamese lady come over for a date and while cooking she found my copy of the little red book on the table and asked what it was about. I wasn't sure about her family's leanings given they left Vietnam, so I glossed over the Mao by mentioning that Ho was a wonderful pastry chef, and she got super happy and went on a long thing about how badass he was.
We now send each other communist memes every now and then. She says her family is apolitical and not anticommunist, that they just left because their area got fucked in the war, but otherwise they hate the USA.
Its amazing how little jump off points like talking of Ho's pastries, or Stalin and Mao's poetry end up making it really easy to broach the subject of communism with libs... just yesterday I started speaking positively about Mao with someone by pointing out a quote about taking care of your skin(we'd been talking about skincare routines), lol. Now that person is already talking about how she wishes Mao was alive again.
:uncle-ho-2: :mao-shining: :stalin-joking:
That's really cool, it's definitely a great feeling when you can connect with someone over leftist politics unexpectedly. Found out a few coworkers were surprisingly based/open to leftist ideas that way.
WHAT
Yeah, it was when X was still doing crime and hooking up hotel patrons with drugs and sex workers and whatever, before going into prison.
I forget who said this (might've been Lenin) but this is a good case for the saying "Every cook a minister, every minister a cook".
good quote