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  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mltoSocialism@lemmy.ml•Art is very important for socialism
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    1 year ago

    You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us

    If you want to continue

    In reality, entertainment media and news media serve the same propaganda purpose: they target not our reasoned beliefs about right and wrong, but our perception of social risks and rewards. People’s actual rationality, their ability to discern cause and effect, is far too resilient to be tampered with when their own immediate interests are at stake. People’s pride, however, is much more malleable. For communists to refuse to challenge media that makes them invisible — or, worse, aggressively humiliates them — is to surrender before the fight is even scheduled. And I genuinely believe that we do this every single time we refuse to challenge an Orwellism, or a Nietzscheanism. We have largely failed to create nourishing communist alternatives — not only in reality, as with the Black Panther breakfast program, but also as far as the imagination goes. And in the realm of imagination, as in others, nature abhors a vacuum. In absence of social-realist agitprop, Orwellism thrives.

    Lenin titled his world-changing revolutionary pamphlet directly after Chernyshevsky’s beloved and influential revolutionary fiction novel What Is To Be Done? [46] Stalin took his pseudonym “Koba” from The Patricide, a heroism-romance novel that was popular in Georgia when he was a youth. [47] We could speak similarly of Mao’s esteem for Lu Xun [48] and Water Margin. [49] Assata has spoken about the insidiously grim messaging in our media. [50] Where is our revolutionary fiction today? Anarchist authors like Ursula K. Le Guin often appear the closest thing we’ve got to mainstream communist literature. I genuinely think that if one can truly imagine in fiction a viable transition from our current state of affairs into a better one, that plays a huge role in mustering the conviction to assert that it can be achieved in reality. Conversely, if we cannot even imagine what a transition might look like in our wildest dreams, any “real” organization is doomed.

  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Can Asian Americans and dissident Chinese students shut F up?
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    2 years ago

    I mean, what are you expecting in the western world, anyways?

    Now relating to this, economic policy of the U.S, and to an extent, the West, influences thus heavily the migrant policy they have here…

    Historically, they’ve taken cheap migrant labor, if not intelligentsia and some comprador bourgeoisie into their country, then during the Cold War, anti-communist reactionary diaspora, before synthesizing these policies so that they get the best of both worlds: a modern non-western Global South diaspora that are now likely pro-west if not anti-government to their own ethnic country, pro-liberalism, and ironically enough, probably pro-ancien regime…

    That, and pro-western propaganda keeps seeping in around

    It’s a mixed hodge podge, and I guess one international Indian student of a working class background who directly hails from Kerela is different from an ethnic Indian whose parents were at least British collab-intelligentsia, if not comprador bourgeoisie in Kenya…

    I suggest you ask SadArtemis, tankiedesantski, et other users who are of Chinese origins about their thoughts?