Weyland

I'm not on Lemmy daily, still I'd like to check it out two times a week, but there is currently not a proper way to search per X number of days, it's either one day or one week. Which is odd when you can search by three months, six months and nine months before you get to a year. While I'm happy these options are available, it would make sense to have one extra option between "one day" and "one week". I've stopped checking Reddit more than weekly, however I would still like to visit Lemmy more often, yet it's awkward when you miss a day and then have to sort by week.

Link to link.

Posted into the wrong Lemmy community. Might need to delete+repost.

I seriously don't get it. Why do they try and get people from China-related subreddits/communities to join them if they're going to ban them once they're too vocal? Do they just want to spread a wide net and catch whichever stragglers so they can promote their own form of socialism?

Or are these people actively creating these communities and banning anyone who's even half-serious about socialism as to impede the organization of grassroots movements?

They only defend China when it's the West attacking them, but it seems they won't support China on its own merit. China is seemingly merely a backdrop for their own political project.

They also did a lazy job on debunking, but that's an unrelated grievance.

Have been listening to audiobooks during my bouts of menial labour and have kind of run dry on things to listen to that aren't orthodox Marxism-Leninism. And while I did make a study guide for myself that covers Orthodox ML & Chinese socialism and annotated everything for which I could find an audiobook; I'd still like to learn more about socialism outside of the West and China.

This is what I've listened to so far:

Writers from the Global South

• Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
• Ho Chi Minh - Down with Colonialism!
• Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America

Western Writers about the Global South

• Vincent Bevins: The Jakarta Method

The recommendations don't have to centre around socialism, and I'd be more than willing to pay for the content. I just don't know what to listen to next. Kind of out of my depth. I did find Che's on Guerilla Warfare, but I haven't started listening to it yet.

Last year the political curriculum for primary and secondary school students in China got updated to better adhere to "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" (quite a mouthful, so let's use SWCC). I happened to have their PDFs saved on my drive and thought some of you might be interested in their contents.

Even if you can't read Chinese it's still worth looking through it as it makes prominent use of imagery (especially the primary grade materials) and many of us (especially in the West) look upon these study materials with envy.

One thing that stood out to me is that while there is a chapter dedicated to China's navy and military in the junior high book; said chapter is immediately followed by the chapter on peaceful collaboration and common destiny for humankind, thus making sure to emphasise that China's military might should only be used to defend China's borders and not to intervene in other nations.

Here are the PDFs of the textbooks on my MediaFire drive.