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(The original post on Bilibili was posted by Fred Engst, a second-generation American immigrant to China. It has been removed by Chinese censorship.)

Here's something from Mao:

>All arguments claiming that the situation was "terrible" originated with the landlord class and the right wing of the Kuomintang; they attacked the peasant movement for going too far and causing chaos.
Mao Zedong directly countered: "It is excellent!"
"The peasant movement is excellent. It is not terrible."
When it comes to a particular event or group of people, opposing viewpoints inevitably give rise to conflicting opinions. "Terrible" versus "excellent", and "riffraff" versus "revolutionary vanguard", are cases in point.

Solidarity from China!

Source: Xinhua News Agency

Today is a special day, at least for the Chinese people. I really wanted to go to Shaoshan to participate in some kind of commemorative parade, or to go to Beijing to pay my respects to his remains, but it's a pity for me that I can't reach those places.

People's Daily, November 2, 1974:

>The Reappearance of Lassalle's Ghost
Commentary by a Xinhua News Agency correspondent

In recent years, the Soviet revisionist clique has repeatedly called upon the Soviet people to "work unremittingly" in order to "raise their welfare". Brezhnev has been particularly vociferous in this respect. In Moscow this June, he declared that labor is "the sole source from which welfare is obtained"; in Kiev last July, he said "only labor can guarantee our living welfare"; and last September, when he went to Uzbekistan, he again trumpeted that the "reliable way" to "raise the welfare of the Soviet people" is "labor, labor and labor".

Similar statements by other Soviet revisionist leaders and in the Soviet revisionist press can be found everywhere: "There is only one source of welfare, that is labor", "Apart from labor, there is no other way to raise the people's welfare", and so on.

This whole set of fallacies peddled by the Soviet revisionist ruling clique was already laid down at the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the Soviet revisionists. Turn to the documents of that congress, and in the "Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU on the Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the USSR for 1971–1975", one finds the utterly absurd assertion that "labor is the source of wealth" and that the more one labors, the more welfare one will have.

When one hears such phrases as "labor is the source of wealth" and "labor is the sole source of welfare", one cannot help thinking of Lassalle, the patriarch of opportunism. More than a hundred years ago, he put forward the fallacy that "the division of labor is the source of all wealth". Later, the opportunist document, the Gotha Programme, peddled this same piece of trash once again, absurdly declaring that "labor is the source of all wealth and all culture". At the time, this was mercilessly denounced by Marx and Engels, the great revolutionary teachers of the proletariat.

Marx pointed out explicitly that "labor is not the source of all wealth". It is only when the laborer "from the beginning behaves toward nature, the primary source of all instruments and subjects of labor, as an owner, treats her as belonging to him, his labor becomes the source of use values, therefore also of wealth". In his Critique of the Gotha Programme, Marx exposed with penetrating clarity the crux of Lassalle's fallacy: he deliberately evaded the fundamental question of who owns the material conditions of labor, that is, who owns the means of production. At a time when the contradiction between the German proletariat and the bourgeoisie was becoming increasingly acute, Lassalle, who styled himself a "disciple of Marx", did his utmost to preach class collaboration to the workers, and did his utmost to deceive and hoodwink the working class. He sought to make them disregard the fact that the means of production were owned by the capitalists and instead bend their heads to work themselves to the bone for the bourgeoisie.

More than a hundred years later, the ghost of Lassalle has reappeared in the Kremlin. In the Soviet Union, where capitalism has been restored, there is nothing strange about this. Brezhnev and his ilk, who likewise style themselves "disciples of Marx", are now loudly hawking Lassalle's tattered old wares. Just like Lassalle, they seek to use empty talk about labor to cover up the increasingly acute class contradictions in the Soviet Union, and to force the people to work themselves to the bone for the Soviet revisionist renegade clique, so as to maintain its reactionary rule.

Under the rule of the Soviet revisionist renegade clique, the broad masses of working people in the Soviet Union have long since been deprived of the means of production and of the most fundamental rights they once possessed as masters of the country. They have once again become wage laborers, subjected to the cruel exploitation and squeezing of a handful of bureaucrat-monopoly bourgeoisie. In recent years, the Soviet working people have resisted Soviet revisionist rule in various forms. Absenteeism, strikes, malingering and deliberate slowdowns, as well as the large-scale movement of workers from one job to another, have already caused enormous losses to the Soviet revisionist economy.

According to reports in the Soviet newspaper Trud, because of the large-scale turnover of young workers, the Russian federative industrial system alone suffered losses amounting to 3.4 billion rubles in 1971. A Soviet book published in 1972, Scientific and Technological Progress and Labor Productivity, stated that the working hours lost by workers through idling and stoppages accounted for 15 to 20 percent of total working hours. A Soviet economist told an American correspondent that, owing to absenteeism, malingering and accidents, the Soviet Union suffered losses of 18 billion U.S. dollars a year.

Confronted with the ever-growing resistance of the broad masses of the people and the grave economic difficulties at home, the Soviet revisionist clique has become deeply alarmed. While tightening its fascist repression, it has been compelled to carry out large-scale deceptive propaganda, trying to make people believe that the hardship in their living conditions today is due to their not having worked enough, and that only by intensifying labor can their conditions be improved. In fact, people are becoming increasingly clear about the truth: in today's Soviet Union, to work for so-called "welfare" is nothing more than to work themselves to the bone for the "privileges" of a handful of bureaucrat-monopoly bourgeoisie. Through profits, taxes and other forms, this handful of people gratuitously appropriates the enormous wealth created by the workers, and through high wages, high bonuses and other additional incomes, greedily sucks the blood and sweat of the working people. Some workers angrily say: "The leaders, the factory directors have cars, villas—everything they could want, while we workers have nothing but our two hands." This is what the Soviet revisionist renegade clique keeps harping on about as labor for "welfare"!

"Raising the people's welfare" is false; forcing the people to work is true. When the Soviet revisionist clique tells the broad masses of the Soviet people to "labor, labor and labor again", what it really wants is for that handful of people to obtain "welfare, welfare and welfare again". This is why they have gone so far as to pick up Lassalle's tattered banner once more and parade it about.

But Lassalle can obviously do Brezhnev no good. On the contrary, he can only expose the fact that the old and new opportunists are birds of a feather; he can only make the Soviet people see more clearly that Brezhnev and his ilk are, from theory to practice, through and through traitors to Marxism-Leninism.

Zhang Chao is a university teacher, who previously became an internet meme for filming short videos about him shouting and yelling while explaining math questions, but that was in 2022. Just a few days ago, on August 24, he posted videos exposing the corruption of his university, Guizhou Vocational and Technical University. In 2017, the school announced that it would allocate staff housing to all teachers, with each teacher receiving one unit. However, certain school bureaucrats were allocated two units to themselves, while nominally claiming that they had only received one unit. This resulted in some teachers, including Zhang Chao, having nowhere to live on campus. He reported this corruption to the school's Party Committee afterwards, but received no response. Instead, he faced retaliation from the bureaucrats, suffering disciplinary actions for no reason and workplace bullying. On August 3, 2026, just two hours before he was to move to a new house, he was suddenly summoned by bureaucrats, who humiliated him with unfounded accusations. And then it's the videos after the 24th.

Zhang also posted a video of a confrontation with Yuan Yumin, the deputy secretary of the school's Discipline Inspection Commission. Yuan's attitude was extremely arrogant, and repeatedly provoked Zhang. On the 28th, Zhang posted that he had written a testament, inferring that he may have received death threats. The post has been removed. From what I know, there seems to be no news media coverage of this incident, but it has garnered significant attention online, and it appears that several discussions about the incident have been subject to algorithm restrictions and removal. I'm posting this on Reddit in the hope that the story spreads further, because the persecuted working class comrades need to get more attention.

Some sources: Zhang's first statement / Video explaining the situation / Zhang confronting Yuan

Xinhua News Agency, August 20:

>On the morning of August 20, 2026, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court of Guangdong Province publicly announced the first-instance verdict in the case of Evergrande Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Evergrande Group), Evergrande Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Evergrande Real Estate), and Xu Jiayin. Evergrande Group was fined RMB 8.82 billion for multiple crimes; Evergrande Real Estate was fined RMB 7 billion; Xu Jiayin was sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple crimes, deprived of political rights for life, and all his personal property was confiscated; illegal gains will continue to be pursued, and any remaining amount will be ordered to be returned.

The story of a Chinese worker called Peng Shiyun (1995 - 2026) has spread widely on the Chinese Internet with commemorations, after his drowning on August 4.

Peng was from Puding, Guizhou. Due to spinal osteophyte formation, he suffered from neck stiffness. He became viral online after being recorded because of his appearance, earning him the nickname "Laobiao". His account had over 220,000 followers. However, he didn't benefit from this fame and lived an extremely frugal life. After leaving home to work in a factory assembly line years ago, he earned 4,500 yuan a month, sending 4,000 yuan back home. To save money, he refused to smoke, drink, or dine out; a bowl of rice was enough to satisfy him. On August 4th, he went swimming in a river and tragically drowned. His body wasn't found until five days later. After his death, many people began to commemorate him, and his image as an ordinary proletarian laborer spread online.

I hope people here can remember this comrade too!

I chose this Global Times report specifically because that makes it double AES (learn Chinese if you don't understand it, it's true language)

I love how he kept the word "Mayor" in English like that's his first name or something

Today is August 15th, the day Lei Feng passed away. Lei Feng was a soldier in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. His revolutionary deeds were widely publicized at the time, and his spirit became known as the "Lei Feng Spirit". The essence of the Lei Feng Spirit is socialist collectivism, a rejection of bourgeois individualism, and a clear proletarian stance. As Lei Feng himself said:

>In the old society, five out of my family of six were killed by landlords and capitalists. [...] I learned what class, exploitation, and oppression are.

Now in China, the "Lei Feng Spirit" is either used by capitalists as a whip to persuade workers to work, or simply used to encourage harmony and charity. If Lei Feng were alive, he would certainly not learn from the so-called "Lei Feng Spirit" promoted today. Its strength lay precisely in eliminating the system that creates suffering, not in embracing or accepting it. The true "Lei Feng" teaches you to smash the old system to liberate the people, while the false "Lei Feng" covers up social contradictions and maintains the existing order.

Author: QUARTIZ_UwU

Vladimery. What if instead of golden flower Asgore had a soviet Red carnation?

Went on air yesterday (I'm posting this on very early morning)

More CCP and Eastern Marxist SwCC slop will be available in the future

Social democrat infighting, and I have no idea why did I make this
(Note: on the left side is the current CCP symbol since 1996, on the right side is the current Socialist International symbol since 1979)

Edit: I didn't point out what the left one represent at first but I edited this description after. Felt like some people might misunderstood what do I mean.

Today we have started a protest (or not) and caused an economic crisis (bots breaking down) using star reactions... it was truly a madness.

See Part 1 here