/lit/ - Literature

Very Lindy. Chairman Xi has good taste.

>>15180579
Needs more 1984 and Winnie the Pooh

Here OP. Have a bigger pic.

>>15180579
Marx weeps for his communism

>>15180579

>>15180579
>Les Misérables - A Tale of Two Cities
What did Xi mean by this?

>>15180601
>those Confucian classics
They're missing a classical school that Xi is fond of. An ancient totalitarian doctrine, perhaps?

>>15180647
the one that burned all the books and scholars?

>>15180647
Legalism? AKA "Fuck politics and ideology just do what i say cuz im in charge and i write the rulebook"

>>15180579
Hey it's the exact same as Buttigieg, Macaroon, and Khamenei 's list. Based world government

>>15180601
fuck man, he knows his enemy (capitalism) more than our orange man

Sounds like he just took the first Shakespeare plays he saw listed

Quiet Flows the Don is great, though

>>15180579
>Milton Friedman, Keynes and Marx in the same list
based

>>15180579
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/China_2004?lang=en
>After the founding of the People's Republic, the transition of Chinese society from a new-democratic to a socialist society was effected step by step. The socialist transformation of the private ownership of the means of production was completed, the system of exploitation of man by man eliminated and the socialist system established.
>The People's Republic of China is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/may/06.htm
>A society in which the class distinction between workers and peasants still exists is neither a communist society nor a socialist society.

>>15180713
Based

>>15180590
reddit is two blocks down

Xi is notorious for name dropping works he has read.
He apparently frequently jsut starts lisitng works he finds great in the middle of speeches; jsut starts listing 30-40 works mainly to (unironically) flex.

>>15180579
didn't expect marcuse
>all "foreign classics" russian
lol

Good list

>>15180590
>Needs more George Brainlet and Winnie the Pooh. How dare he try to implement something that gets in the way of my consooming

I noticed that Jack London is on there probably because he was secretly a Bolshevik.

>>15182789
who are you quoting?

>>15180579
I keep telling people The Sea Wolf is based. Nice to see President Xi was listening.

>>15182789
Would have been fine if you didn't add your own line. >>15180590 is a faggot "WHAT ABOUT THIS MAAAAAAAN" but in your stupidity you blew it. Wojacks should be banned

>>15181598
Yeah, China's regime survive because their leaders are raised to be leaders

>Friedman, Piketty, Keynes, Schumpeter, Malthus and Marx in the same list
What did he mean by this? This can't be real.
>Marcuse
WTF? I hate Xi now?

How does the Chinese knowledge industry treat Mozi?

>>15182802
>secretly
>>15182830
The film version is Errol Flynn's best and has a cool Korngold score.