In China, most people equate being a communist with being a party member. Being communist isn't just some kind of label you associate yourself with, like in the West. I know from first-hand experience, because telling people I'm a socialist/communist in China prompts them to ask me whether I'm a party member. The average communist in the West can't hold a candle against the dedication and sacrifice of cadres in China. Heck, even people that aren't communists are often enrolled into semester long programs that require them to listen to socialist thought every weekday for 2 hours a day, all because their work requires it (due to receiving government funds, or working on projects that directly influence the wellbeing of others -> i.e. creating a private-sector web platform that harvests user data, which it can only use for the good of society).

In the future, if you want to know more about a certain phrase or topic, and the hand-wavy explanations on the web don't do it for you: You can add 导读, which will guide you through the terms and their meaning, often by giving practical examples. Here is a rather succinct explanation of every social value.

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Unless it has improved in the last 5 months, I'm passing. Somehow can't concentrate on their TTS. Might have to do with the stuff I want it to read.

Thanks for the tip though

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Going by their pricing model I'd have to pay $330 at mininum going by my listening habits... What the.

$22 a month for 2 hours. That's crazy! It'd be cheaper for me to hire an actual person with these prices. I was thinking of like $10 a book. They're asking at least ten-fold...

Wish I could use this technology for myself to listen to non-fiction books. Even if it costs $10 I'd still feel it'd be worth it.

Somehow I knew what this post was going to say before I even read it.

European equality seems to based around "equal opportunities to exploit".

If you, for example, were in a vanguard party. Would this party be worth collaborating with or would they obstruct any and all attempts towards socialist takeover?

Are you happy with the direction taken and achievements the party has made in these last 5 years? Do you think their current plans are realistic, and are you happy with their scope? I think being pragmatic is the best course of action. Organizations that have their act together and have room for more radical ideas are hard to come by.

Unless you're willing to build a party from the ground up, build up a organizational framework that is able to fend off modern threats, and spend a decade maturing the organization as well as have the people to follow you along: I wouldn't bother splintering off.

You can just sort by local if you go through lemmygrad.ml

Did I hear somebody say "using their diplomats and government funds to cover up crimes against humanity committed by Shell in Nigeria"?

I'm in China, studying socialism and propaganda. Every other week or I check the top posts, but that's about it. I'm a lot happier.

The funny thing is; the Market Liberals are the most open to cozying up to China, as they're just following the money. The Dutch left has seemingly been trying to emulate Obama era politics and is wholly disconnected from leftism, willing to even give up socialwelfarism as long as it means they can be part of the inner circle.

I like picking up stuff, and being in China playing with Europeans means it takes me around 20 seconds to get the loot window to open... 😢

Already pre-purchased it. Want to find someone to play with, but considering the fact I'm in China I can't but worry about the latency.

Yet not rolled up far enough to give Bolivia access to the sea. Cruel :')

Not American (anymore), thanks though.

OverDrive?

Actually stumbled up on that one. Got really weirded out by it being read in that accent.

I could give it another try. What did you think of it?

My family situation is the complete opposite of yours. I didn't become a socialist because of my family situation, but rather despite of it. Even though my family are literal fascists, I don't really have right-wing friends as I made the pleasant mistake of deciding to make friends with non-native looking people. Once you hang out with one person of colour it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Friends that have even a single racist bone in their body will soon try to create distance between the both of you when they find out that "you inviting that black/brown fellah" is a common occurrence. I'm not suggesting all right-wingers are racist, but if those two ven diagrams overlap quite a lot. Sadly most of these "other people" not wanting to hang out with us mostly happened with other ex-pats white (or Chinese natives) in China, though that might have to do with it being a lot easier to make new friends in ex-pat communities.

One of them literally spent a few months with me in China. The other, while not a good friend, I did enjoy a few dinners and hours commuting with. Knowing that a person is disgusted by you to a point where they'd rather just forget the many many hours you've spent together all because of a propaganda campaign launched by a doomsday cult in collaboration with the US government really puts things in perspective.

I have the feeling that if I lived through the worst of McCarthyism these same people would have me handed over to the central authorities, or worse if I lived in Indonesia during their genocide campaigns they'd personally take me to the beach, plant me face first in the sand and put a bullet through my head. What propaganda can do to people never fails to surprise me.