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Class struggle in all its forms.

  • What's the current state of LGBT rights in China?

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  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 2 - Yemen Edition

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  • They make some noise about it sometimes but when you country is fully intertwined with Global Capital liberal media tends to look the other way.

  • Is the belief in a God and communist mutually exclusive?

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  • It is up to the specific society, nation, civilisation and state to determine how it will handle “religious” affairs.

    Religion is in quotes because how religion is understood in the East is different and often misconstrued to how it is understood in the West.

    And as such, questions like if “dialectical materialism and a belief in God mutually exclusive” is unanswerable once you get into the specifics because it is broad ranging and implies too many things at once.

    Let the masses of every culture on Earth determine their own path to modernisation. It is not up to us that is the least affected and the most encumbered with dubious assertions to dictate how other people handle their internal and communal affairs.

    I realise my mistake in engaging with questions that pretend to be universal while yet ultimately being situated in an Anglophone, western-dominated space. As such it is best to not put my nose where it doesn’t belong.

    This will be my final answer on this topic and I will stop commenting on such matters directly on this site.

  • Is there an English speaking YouTube channel about exploring China ?

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  • Thanks for the highlight! This was a really interesting video.

    I also like to clarify a thing you mention.

    Chinese Malay

    isn't really used in Malaysia unless specifically referring to someone who was raised by a Malay speaking parent (often muslim and male) and Chinese speaking parent. Two different racialised groups.

    This is because of the racialised definition of "Malay" that came after British colonization. I elaborated more about it here. You were right to call them Chinese Malay if the anti-colonial forces in the country won, which would have radically returned the term "Malay" back to it's indigenous meaning or if they fit the description I laid out above.

    However, nowadays, the government recognized term and how most people identify themselves as is "Chinese Malaysian". Chinese Peranakans (sometimes just Peranakans only) could also be an alternative term for Chinese people that have inter-married with local peoples earlier in the colonization process, but that usually refer to those that typically have lost their ability to speak Chinese and have families in Peninsular Malaysia that date back atleast a few generations and practice "Peranakan" or "Baba-Nyonya" customs.

  • List of Visa free countries to DPRK

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  • On the top right there is a drop-down menu with the letters "KP". If you click on it you can choose English instead.

  • List of Visa free countries to DPRK

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  • The colour for Malaysia is outdated. North Korea-Malaysia diplomatic relations were cordial in the past but worsened in 2017 after the assassination of Kim Jong-nam in 2017 in KLIA. Relationships soured further in 2021 after Malaysia expedited a North Korean businessman to the US in contradiction to north Korean wishes.

    Further information by an official Malaysian government website. Another Malaysian site detailing the timeline of events.

    Here is north Korea's official response by their Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    It is important to note however the Malaysian establishment is in favour of positive diplomatic relations with North Korea. Friendly relations is especially advocated by Mahathir, a member of the traditional Malay-Muslim ascendant national bourgeoisie that governed as PM from 1981-2003 and 2018-2020. He did leave remarks that he wanted to improve relations with North Korea when he was in power. However after the Sheraton move, and subsequently 2 governent reshuffles and the 2022 election, diplomatic relations with North Korea is stuck in limbo without any sign of change in the short term.

    In terms of national ideology and foreign policy, North Korea and Malaysia have more in common than differences. To speak of it in a Malaysian perspective, Malaysia was one of the first member of ASEAN to normalize relations with communist countries. Despite being a middle-power state, it has more than 111 diplomatic missions in 85 countries, with a passport holding visa-free travel through 168 territories.

    Although the current circumstances is unfortunate, I don't doubt that eventually Malaysia-North Korea relations will warm up again - especially with the decline of US-led Western hegemony.

    Personally, this whole situation is a bit saddening as I did plan to visit North Korea one day - and tour guide prices weren't too pricey (when they were running).

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 39

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  • Hello, how’s everyone?

    Went and touched some grass for a month.

    If everything goes well the next few weeks, I’ll have a lot of free time the next few months for some effortposts on SEA history and politics.

    One I especially wanted to do for a while was comparing South Africa vs Malaysia, specifically comparing the racialised class structure of their economies.

    This is because in my preliminary research I found out that the the South African BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) programme (for all it’s faults) were inspired by Malaysia’s NEP (New Economic Policy) that aimed to redistribute wealth among the racialised classes in Malaysia. I wanted to explore more on that and also assess the failures of the aforementioned policies in actually transforming the racialised economic base of both countries (and improve my understanding of their histories as well).

    Stay tuned for that.

    If anyone has any material relating at all to this, by all means share it with me.

  • Favorite albums?

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  • Not in any specific order, they all have their moments for me.

    • Noah (peterpan) - Seperti Seharusnya
    • AJR - Neotheatre
    • Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
    • Powerwolf - Lupus Dei
    • Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
    • Dayglow - Fuzzybrain
    • Wallows - Nothing Happens

  • The biggest flaw of Comminist Party of India (Marxist)

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  • Instead of seizing the gravity of the caste question and facing it, the communists took shelter under Marx’s metaphor of base and superstructure, as though it was incontrovertible.

    I think atleast CPI(M) have shown a willingness to adapt Marxism to the current Indian material conditions. One of the articles I linked in the other comment mentioned how:

    Perhaps the most important retrograde development is that the entire caste system has become hereditary and transformed itself into a crystallized prejudice structure. Although it is still a superstructure of the relations of production, it has over the centuries acquired a measure of autonomy, and in some ways behaves independently of the relations of production. This is the most distinctive characteristic of class relations in India today. This is also the single most important social reality that the left forces spearheading the class struggle in India must weave into their strategy.

    In their 23rd political resolution (latest), one of their clauses mentioned Casteism specifically:

    Abolishing of the caste system and all forms of the caste oppression; special measures to ensure basic human rights to the SCs and STs; enactment of central legislation for special component plan for SCs and an ST sub-plan with an empowered committee to monitor its implementation; protection of Constitutional and legal provisions for adivasi rights to forest lands, livelihood and culture; enactment of law to provide reservations in the private sector; filling up of all backlogs of jobs in reserved categories. Strict implementation of the abolition of manual scavenging; strict punishment against practices of untouchability; strict implementation of the Forest Rights Act; caste census to enumerate OBCs.

  • The biggest flaw of Comminist Party of India (Marxist)

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  • The biggest flaw of Comminist Party of India (Marxist)

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  • I have heard about this criticism of the CPI(M) before.

    Is there any specific statistics or articles that speak on this matter?

    Because I know for a fact that there are materials on the CPI(M) website that mentions caste.

    CASTE AND CLASS IN INDIAN POLITICS TODAY

    and

    CLASS STRUGGLE AND CASTE OPPRESSION : INTEGRAL STRATEGY OF THE LEFT .

    A relatively more recent article on this subject: Caste and the CPI(M) in Tamil Nadu

    This was from a quick online search I did months back when I was curious about the topic.

    Do you believe that the party has not adequately addressed the issue despite all this?

    Is it a case of not walking the talk?

    I am very curious, because back in my home country, caste among Malaysian Indians is considered quite antiquated. From what I understand, and know, it is not as pervasive as in the past, and perhaps the nature of the political economy here destroyed any material basis for caste oppression specifically.

  • English town says deeply shameful tradition is worth saving actually

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  • Yeah it's really weird. The British were inventors of a vicious form of financial capital that is holding the whole world hostage. A cultural tradition of short-term predatory lending and "indirect rule" that controls colonized populations through false rulers.

    And we focus on... a local town somewhere just acknowledging their history and holding a community event that has been done for the last 700years.

  • English town says deeply shameful tradition is worth saving actually

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  • This is exactly my thought process. I really don’t see a big deal here.

    I didn’t put forward an argument in my original comment because I genuinely thought there was nothing much to argue about.

    It’s so trivial.

    Let the people have fun and participate in community events.

    It is, from what I gather, a small town anyways. It will affect like, what, 0.0001% of the entire population?

  • English town says deeply shameful tradition is worth saving actually

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  • I don’t really see a problem with this to be honest.

    Just a quirky local tradition.

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 33

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  • Saw a reel (TikTok? Shortform video?) about a Guy that was larping as a NEET in a tropical country.

    And one comment really summed up my thoughts: go back home and get a job lmao.

    Why do these people celebrate being leeches to society and seemingly aren't self-aware?

    They get our scientists and engineers meanwhile we get this.

    They're not sending us their best folks

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 33

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  • For the love of god please stop praising Lula

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  • I have no skin in the game regarding this current debate so I’ll keep my own opinions to myself for now.

    However, you mentioning Brazil’s multi-party system did pique my interest because something similar happens here.

    It didn’t occur to me that for most USians having more than 2 relevant parties really is an abnormality.

  • Singapore ex-minister talks about the west's Xinjiang narrative

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  • I shared the full talk here a while back.

    It's interesting to note that even Singapore has started to drift from the West. (Which explains the WSJ article that was published a few days back.)

    Of course George Yeo is not Foreign Afffairs Minister anymore, but this view is also advocated by Singapore's current minister of foreign affairs.

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    Westerner virtue signals LG rights in Global South country, government stops the entire event and bans them from performing; liberals (local and international) are crying lol

    www.bernama.com /en/general/news.php
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    The U.S. murdered Germany, Japan and the Asian Tigers - now it tries to persuade China to commit suicide

    learningfromchina.net /the-u-s-murdered-germany-japan-and-the-asian-tigers-now-it-tries-to-persuade-china-to-commit-suicide/
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    China in Europe’s Future and Europe in China’s Future - A keynote speech by George Yeo

    yewtu.be /watch
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    Marxist analysis of ‘I am a girl like you’ in Barbie’s The Princess and The Pauper

  • Memes @lemmygrad.ml
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    Reason #1024834738283462710^9999999 why Western culture must be destroyed:

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    What's a word in a language you know that is not directly translatable to English?

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    Rare moment where my country is based