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Obviously not everything is a race, and adoption matters much more than invention, but was interesting seeing China, France, and Britain's (and I think Canada maybe?) fusion teams one upping their fusion length records. I think my money is still on China, but I'm not a fusion expert so I'm not quite sure hoe far apart all the contenders are from each other.

No INDO-PAK War but Class War: Down with Bourgeois Militarism, Forward with Proletarian Internationalism!

The Communist Party of Pakistan, grounded in the Marxist-Leninist tradition, firmly condemns the military aggression initiated by the Indian bourgeois state and the counter-aggression launched by the Pakistani ruling class. These are not wars of liberation, nor are they in the interest of the proletariat, they are the wars of rival bourgeois military aggression for regional hegemony at the expense of the working class.

We assert that the working masses of India and Pakistan have no stake in the nationalist sabre-rattling of their respective ruling classes. In a region armed with nuclear weapons, these provocations risk plunging the subcontinent into catastrophic annihilation, an outcome that would spare neither caste, creed, nor class, but would disproportionately destroy the lives and livelihoods of workers, peasants, and the poor. Such military posturing is a diversion, a smokescreen to veil the deepening crisis of capitalist exploitation, inflation, unemployment, and social unrest. It is a tactic long used by bourgeois regimes to stoke reactionary nationalism and crush the rising tide of class consciousness.

The Communist Party of Pakistan calls upon the working class and progressive forces across South Asia to reject this false nationalism and embrace proletarian internationalism. Our struggle is not with the workers across the border, but with the comprador bourgeoisie, feudal remnants, and military-industrial complexes that profit from bloodshed. Let there be no illusion the path to lasting peace lies not in diplomatic band-aids between warring states, but in the revolutionary transformation of society through the overthrow of capitalism, the dismantling of bourgeois militarism, and the unity of the working class beyond borders.

Let the war drums of chauvinism be silenced by the battle cry of international solidarity.

Workers of the world, unite! Inquilab Zindabad!

Central Secretariat Communist Party of Pakistan

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পাকিস্তানের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টির বিবৃতি: ভারত-পাকিস্তান যুদ্ধ নয় বরং শ্রেণীযুদ্ধ: বুর্জোয়া সামরিকবাদ নিপাত যাক, সর্বহারা আন্তর্জাতিকতাবাদের সাথে এগিয়ে চলুন! মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী ঐতিহ্যের ভিত্তিতে প্রতিষ্ঠিত পাকিস্তানের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি, ভারতীয় বুর্জোয়া রাষ্ট্র কর্তৃক শুরু করা সামরিক আগ্রাসন এবং পাকিস্তানি শাসক শ্রেণী কর্তৃক শুরু করা প্রতি-আগ্রাসনের দৃঢ় নিন্দা জানায়। এগুলো স্বাধীনতার যুদ্ধ নয়, এগুলো জনগণের স্বার্থেও নয়। সর্বহারা শ্রেণীর যুদ্ধ হলো শ্রমিক শ্রেণীর বিনিময়ে আঞ্চলিক আধিপত্য বিস্তারের জন্য প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বী বুর্জোয়া সামরিক আগ্রাসনের যুদ্ধ। আমরা জোর দিয়ে বলছি যে ভারত ও পাকিস্তানের শ্রমিক জনতার তাদের নিজ নিজ শাসক শ্রেণীর জাতীয়তাবাদী ক্ষোভ-বিক্ষোভে কোনও ভূমিকা নেই। পারমাণবিক অস্ত্রে সজ্জিত একটি অঞ্চলে, এই উস্কানি উপমহাদেশকে নিমজ্জিত করার ঝুঁকিতে ফেলেছে । বিপর্যয়কর ধ্বংস এমন একটি পরিণতি যা জাতি, ধর্ম বা শ্রেণীকে বাদ দেবে না, বরং শ্রমিক, কৃষক এবং দরিদ্রদের জীবন ও জীবিকাকে অসামঞ্জস্যপূর্ণভাবে ধ্বংস করবে। এই ধরনের সামরিক অবস্থান পুঁজিবাদী শোষণ, মুদ্রাস্ফীতি, বেকারত্ব এবং সামাজিক অস্থিরতার গভীরতর সংকটকে ঢেকে রাখার জন্য একটি ধোঁয়ার পর্দা। এটি প্রতিক্রিয়াশীল জাতীয়তাবাদকে উস্কে দেওয়ার এবং চূর্ণ করার জন্য বুর্জোয়া শাসকদের দ্বারা দীর্ঘদিন ধরে ব্যবহৃত একটি কৌশল। শ্রেণী চেতনার ক্রমবর্ধমান জোয়ার। পাকিস্তানের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি দক্ষিণ এশিয়া জুড়ে শ্রমিক শ্রেণী এবং প্রগতিশীল শক্তিগুলিকে এই মিথ্যা জাতীয়তাবাদকে প্রত্যাখ্যান করে সর্বহারা আন্তর্জাতিকতাবাদকে আলিঙ্গন করার আহ্বান জানায়। আমাদের সংগ্রাম সীমান্তের ওপারের শ্রমিকদের সাথে নয়, বরং রক্তপাত থেকে লাভবান মুত্যুদণ্ডী বুর্জোয়া, সামন্তবাদী অবশিষ্টাংশ এবং সামরিক-শিল্প কমপ্লেক্সের সাথে। আসুন কোনও বিভ্রান্তির অবকাশ নেই যে স্থায়ী শান্তির পথ যুদ্ধরত রাষ্ট্রগুলির মধ্যে কূটনৈতিক ব্যান্ড-এইডের মধ্যে নয়, বরং পুঁজিবাদের উৎখাত, বুর্জোয়া সামরিকতন্ত্রের বিলুপ্তি এবং সীমান্তের বাইরে শ্রমিক শ্রেণীর ঐক্যের মাধ্যমে সমাজের বিপ্লবী রূপান্তরের মধ্যে নিহিত। আন্তর্জাতিক সংহতির যুদ্ধের ডাক দিয়ে উগ্র জাতীয়তাবাদের যুদ্ধের ঢাকনা স্তব্ধ করা হোক। বিশ্বের শ্রমিকরা, এক হও! ইনকিলাব জিন্দাবাদ! কেন্দ্রীয় সচিবালয় পাকিস্তানের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি ৭ মে ২০২৫ । (গুগল অনুবাদ)

Another video

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29804343

Those who enjoy the wages of imperialism are more likely to have disdain for, or disinterest in, the complex struggles for national liberation in the periphery, which is dismissed as “the savage barbarism of the East,” in the choice words of Max Horkheimer.

This chauvinistic attitude has become so foundational to Western Marxism that theorists in this tradition often behave as if there were no need to actually study the history of socialist states in any serious manner. In fact, the attempt to do so is often looked upon with suspicion, as a sign that one might be a boor siding with the slaves, rather than a professional intellectual with a keen sense of what is worthy of scholarly inquiry.

• Gabriel Rockhill - From the introduction to Losurdo's Western Marxism

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4852261

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4852196

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https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1kdjgpc/_/

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7820160

The New Pope.

With comrades like these...

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7819673

It has a strong ML community, including those that like (and are from) Vietnam and China.

Even the liberals or milquetoast left-wing people from other countries give better answers; they're not like the ones from Reddit, probably because non-English options are widely present.

And the answers are comprehensive. Now, are they always correct? No, not always. But keep in mind that neither are the answers from Reddit or Internet forums.

I find myself missing that place, but I was laughed at for using it a couple of times and so stopped after a while. I might re-use my old account again and maybe try to make another ML place.

Your thoughts?

Idk, I just prefer Quora sometimes; I'm always guaranteed an answer.

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday published a signed article titled "Learning from History to Build Together a Brighter Future" in the Russian Gazette newspaper ahead of his arrival in Russia for a state visit and attendance at the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War.

The following is the full text of the article:

Learning from History to Build Together a Brighter Future

H.E. Xi Jinping

President of the People's Republic of China

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, and the World Anti-Fascist War. It also marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations (UN). In this season when "apple and pear trees are blossoming," I will soon pay a state visit to Russia and attend the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, joining the heroic Russian people in honoring the history and the fallen heroes.

Ten years ago around this time, I came to Russia to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory. During that visit, I made a special arrangement to meet with 18 representatives of Russian veterans who endured the blood and fire of battlefields during the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War and the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Their unyielding resolve and indomitable bearing left an indelible impression on me. In the past few years, General M. Gareyev, Major General T. Shchudlo and other veterans passed away. I pay my deepest tribute to them and to all veterans-from generals to the rank and file-for their extraordinary service and heroic feats in securing the victory over fascists around the world. We will never forget them. Heroes never perish; their noble spirit lives forever.

During the World Anti-Fascist War, the Chinese and Russian peoples fought shoulder to shoulder and supported each other. In the darkest hours of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Soviet Volunteer Group, which was part of the Soviet Air Force, came to Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing to fight alongside the Chinese people, bravely engaging Japanese invaders in aerial combat-many sacrificing their precious lives. At the critical juncture of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, Yan Baohang, a legendary intelligence agent of the Communist Party of China (CPC) who was hailed as the "Richard Sorge of the East," provided the Soviet Union with primary-source intelligence. In the crucible of the war-torn years, the Soviet Union provided China with large quantities of weapons and equipment. China, for its part, shipped much-needed strategic supplies to the Soviet Union. The two countries jointly established a supply line spanning the treacherous Gobi Desert. It was an international lifeline, vital for our mutual support in fighting fascists. The strong camaraderie between our two nations, forged in blood and sacrifice, surges onward unceasingly, mighty as the Yellow River and the Volga. It is an eternal wellspring nourishing our everlasting friendship.

Eighty years ago, the forces of justice around the world, including China and the Soviet Union, united in courageous battles against their common foes and defeated the overbearing fascist powers. Eighty years later today, however, unilateralism, hegemonism, bullying, and coercive practices are severely undermining our world. Again humankind has come to a crossroads of unity or division, dialogue or confrontation, win-win cooperation or zero-sum games. In War and Peace, the great writer Leo Tolstoy observed, "History is the life of nations and of humanity." Indeed, historical memory and truth will not fade with the passage of time. They serve as inspirations that mirror the present and illuminate the future. We must learn from history, especially the hard lessons of the Second World War. We must draw wisdom and strength from the great victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, and resolutely resist all forms of hegemonism and power politics. We must work together to build a brighter future for humanity.

-- We must uphold a correct historical perspective on WWII. China and the Soviet Union were the principal theaters of that war in Asia and Europe respectively. The two countries served as the mainstay of resistance against Japanese militarism and German Nazism, making pivotal contribution to the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. The Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began the earliest and lasted the longest. United as one under the banner of the Chinese united front against Japanese aggression, which was advocated and established by the CPC, the Chinese people launched a relentless struggle against and defeated the brutal Japanese militarists. With immense sacrifice, they carved out an immortal epic of heroic resistance and ultimate victory against Japanese aggression. In the European theater, the Soviet Red Army advanced like an iron tide with unwavering fortitude and valor, crushed Nazi Germany's ambitions and liberated millions from its brutal occupation, writing an epic of victory in the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War.

History teaches us that light will always overcome darkness, and that justice will ultimately prevail over evil. The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East condemned the convicted war criminals to perpetual infamy. The justice and integrity of the two landmark trials, their historic significance, and their contemporary relevance stand beyond challenge. Any attempt to distort the historical truth of WWII, deny its victorious outcome, or defame the historic contribution of China and the Soviet Union is doomed to fail. Neither of our two nations will tolerate any act to reverse the course of history-nor will the people of the whole world.

-- We must resolutely uphold the postwar international order. The most significant decision by the international community around the end of WWII was to establish the UN. China and the Soviet Union were among the first to sign the UN Charter. Our permanent membership in the UN Security Council is a product of history, earned through blood and sacrifice. The more turbulent and complex the international situation becomes, the more we must uphold and defend the authority of the UN, firmly uphold the UN-centered international system, the international order underpinned by international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and steadily promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.

This year also marks the 80th anniversary of the restoration of Taiwan. Taiwan's restoration to China is a victorious outcome of WWII and an integral part of the postwar international order. A series of instruments with legal effect under international law, including the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, have all affirmed China's sovereignty over Taiwan. The historical and legal fact therein brooks no challenge. And the authority of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 brooks no challenge. No matter how the situation on the Taiwan island evolves or what troubles external forces may make, the historical trend toward China's ultimate and inevitable reunification is unstoppable.

China and Russia have all along firmly supported each other on issues bearing on our respective core interests or major concerns. Russia has reiterated on many occasions that it strictly adheres to the one-China principle, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, it opposes any form of "Taiwan independence," and it firmly supports all measures of the Chinese government and the Chinese people to achieve national reunification. China highly commends Russia's consistent position.

-- We must firmly defend international fairness and justice. Now, the global deficits in peace, development, security and governance continue to widen unabated. To address these deficits, I have proposed to build a community with a shared future for mankind and put forward the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative as a way forward to steer the reform of the global governance system toward greater fairness and justice.

The world needs justice, not hegemonism. History and reality have proven that to meet global challenges, it is important to uphold the vision of global governance featuring extensive consultation and joint contribution for shared benefit. It is also important to choose dialogue over confrontation, build partnerships over alliances, and pursue win-win cooperation over zero-sum games. It is equally important to practice true multilateralism, accommodate the legitimate concerns of all parties, and safeguard international norms and order. We firmly believe that people around the world will choose to stand on the right side of history and the side of fairness and justice.

China and Russia are both major countries with significant influence in the world. The two nations are constructive forces for maintaining global strategic stability and for improving global governance. Our bilateral relationship is founded upon a clear historical logic, sustained by strong internal drive, and rooted in profound cultural heritage. Our relationship is neither directed against nor swayed by any third party. Together we must foil all schemes to disrupt or undermine our bonds of amity and trust, and we must not be baffled by transient matters or unsettled by formidable challenges. We must leverage the certainty and resilience of our partnership of strategic coordination to jointly accelerate the shift toward a multipolar world and build a community with a shared future for mankind.

China and Russia are both great nations with splendid civilizations. The Chinese and Russian peoples are both great peoples defined by heroic legacies. Eighty years ago, our peoples won the anti-fascist war through heroic struggles. Eight decades later today, we must take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard our sovereignty, security, and development interests. We should be guardians of historical memory, partners in national development and rejuvenation, and champions of global fairness and justice, and work together to forge a brighter future for humanity.

L'chaim Marx

Hello comrades,

I have started a new project to counter CIA propaganda about the DPRK and PRC. I was planning on just publishing it as a book but I decided instead to release it as I go, chapter by chapter, in the form of a podcast and substack article. Once all episodes are released I'll publish the whole thing as an ebook and print book.

The first episode is about democracy, and covers liberal 'democracy' in America, Tiananmen Square, and the Korean War. I also explain how democratic centralism and the electoral systems in the DPRK and PRC work.

Episode two will come out in a couple weeks and will be about propaganda.

Let me know what you think. Releasing it piece by piece is also a good way to get feedback as I go.

You can find the Youtube version or other podcast platforms linked in the substack article.