/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19095012]

Is it worth a read?

[Anonymous No.19095024]

Yes. Books by men in power are always interesting (except US presidents, those are just marketing)
Although I expect this one to be very sanitized.

[Anonymous No.19095053]

>>19095012
>>19095024
Its only a series of speeches he gave. Its nothing interesting.

[Anonymous No.19095062]

>>19095024
>except US presidents
*ahem*

[Anonymous No.19095093]

>>19095062
>useless grant

[Anonymous No.19095094]

>>19095053
Sanitized nonsense it is then.

[Anonymous No.19095099]

>>19095012
Redundant, fairly simpleminded propoganda about how all Chinese should bust their ass to lift the impoverished out of their pig-and-pangolinstys.

[Anonymous No.19095104]

>>19095053
Ah, bummer, I was hoping maybe it had a worthwhile articulation of his political philosophy

[Anonymous No.19095121]

>>19095012
he has boring taste

[Anonymous No.19095129]

>>19095121
>1844 manuscripts
That's Fascist shit

[Anonymous No.19095150]

>>19095121
>The Republic
Philosopher King Xi, I kneel

[Anonymous No.19095151]

>>19095012
It must be amazing to be Xi Jinping. He's the most powerful person on earth, possibly ever. The lives of a billion people are in his hands. The young generations grow up literally worshipping him in their classes... this dude has it made. It's like if Hitler won or like Stalin after WWII, but with a weaker USA.

[Anonymous No.19095433]

>>19095121
is this another one of those situations where Steve Jobs said that Autobiography of a Yogi was his favorite book and then his best friend was like
>I don't even think he finished it, I can name 5 books Steve likes more than Auto of a Yogi. But I can also see why he would want people to THINK it was his favorite book
?

[Anonymous No.19095441]

yes. xi is a well educated scholar who is capable of writing compelling literature and fleshing out his way of thinking without use of a ghostwriter. of course there will always be something lost in translation compared to reading the work in its original language

[Anonymous No.19095445]

>>19095012
You just know it was ghost written by a factory full of quivering factory writers.

[Anonymous No.19096135]

>>19095129
kys

[Anonymous No.19096136]

>>19096135
Soviets didn't even want to publish them

[Anonymous No.19096146]

>>19096136
>amoral technocrat theory-autists who couldn't sustain their own state even with the world's largest GDP and the greatest military force on the planet didn't like this book
Wow, I guess I'd better not read it! Fucking moron

[Anonymous No.19096151]

>>19095012
I've read it and it basically confirms everything A James Gregor has to say about China and that's based

[Anonymous No.19096153]

>>19095441
I can spot a chill when I see one.

[Anonymous No.19096164]

>>19096146
I called it Fascist, I didn't say don't read it retard. Marx isn't a "materialist" in the ordinary sense. He's a Hegelian and a humanist and pic related understood as much before the Paris Manuscripts even got leaked and the USSR silently tucked them away.

The only thing you can argue with me is which "Marx" is the real real Marx.

[Anonymous No.19096167]

>>19096151
>I've read it and it basically confirms everything A James Gregor has to say about China and that's based
QRD?

[Anonymous No.19096179]

regardless of the "rise of Chiner" they're certainly not a literary superpower, what are their big books in recent years: crappy obongo-approved sci-fi and a book of speeches by top bureaucrat.

[Anonymous No.19096187]

Why do you spam this garbage low effort thread?

[Anonymous No.19096260]

>>19095012
>Communism is good
>Also Communism didn't work in Russia because of these forty different reasons that we need to fix
>Our solutions made it stop being Communism
>It is Communism, it is not Communism too, it is...XI JINPING THOUGHT™

[Anonymous No.19096542]

>>19095121
>not a single woc authors
>no bipoc authors
>no neurodivergent authors
>no LGBTQ+ authors
>list screams "The west is cool and smart u guise"
This is even worse than Pete Buttigieg's list. Yuck.

[Anonymous No.19096550]

>>19096167
There is none fascists are coping for their lack of successful nations by claiming China is not actually socialist but is actually fascist.

[Anonymous No.19096563]

>>19095121
You really don’t want your populace reading this if you’re gonna censor free thought

[Anonymous No.19096580]

>>19096550
Not what Gregor says. Gregor says China isn't Marxist and it's economy is structured corporatively.

[Anonymous No.19097234]

>>19096563
they don't though

[Anonymous No.19097262]

>>19095024
Literally nothing in his biography is real, it is 100% propaganda

[Anonymous No.19097484]

>>19095121
>implying Xi has read that

>>19095151
he's almost 70. his dick probably doesn't even work anymore. probably feels like shit to be him

>>19096136
I wonder why they didn't

>Religion, family, state, law, morality, science, art, etc., are only particular modes of production, and fall under its general law. The positive transcendence of private property as the appropriation of human life, is therefore the positive transcendence of all estrangement — that is to say, the return of man from religion, family, state, etc., to his human, i.e., social, existence.

>For [crude communism] the sole purpose of life and existence is direct, physical possession. The category of the worker is not done away with, but extended to all men. The relationship of private property persists as the relationship of the community to the world of things.... This type of communism – since it negates the personality of man in every sphere – is but the logical expression of private property, which is this negation.... The community is only a community of labour, and equality of wages paid out by communal capital – by the community as the universal capitalist. Both sides of the relationship are raised to an imagined universality – labour as the category in which every person is placed, and capital as the acknowledged universality and power of the community.

[Anonymous No.19097503]

>>19095121
>What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and calculate the price-cost probability ratio of their transactions, just like we do.

[Anonymous No.19097535]

>>19097484
What's this from? I'm too much of a brainlet to get any of it.

[Anonymous No.19097591]

>>19097535
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm

[Anonymous No.19097622]

>>19097591
I still don't get what he means.

[Anonymous No.19097813]

>>19097622
he means that the transcendence of private property means the transcendence of family.
he means that the Stalinist conception of socialism* doesn't exceed the first crude communism of the Conspiracy of the Equals, where private property and capital aren't transcended but generalized from relations of particular workers to particular capitalists into a relation of everyone as workers to communal capital, with the community acting as an abstract capitalist.
those are just two examples of statements that would make Stalinists reluctant to publish the work, since they defended bourgeois family and they reduced socialism to a banal public ownership of capital.

*of course we're only talking about the conception, because in reality the USSR never even reached the level of realized crude communism.

[Anonymous No.19097891]

>>19095024
based