Zhou Enlai, born on this day in 1898, was a communist revolutionary, statesman, and military officer who served as the 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
Zhou was educated in a missionary college in Tianjin before studying at a Japanese university. In Tianjin, he met his future wife, Deng Yingchao while participating in a radical political group known as the "Awakening Society". In 1920, Zhou moved to France, where he helped form the overseas branch of the Communist Party of China. He also lived in Britain and Germany before returning to China in 1924.
While working in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guangdong-Guangxi, and served as the CPC representative with the rank of major-general.
After the Chinese Civil War broke out in 1927, Zhou served in the communist forces, helping establish and oversee a network of underground cells of communist resistance. Zhou played a leading role in the Long March of 1934-35, an arduous military retreat of communist forces over 8,000 miles.
Following the Zunyi Conference in 1935, Mao Zedong became Zhou's assistant. After the conclusion of the Long March, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai's leading position in the CPC, while Zhou took a secondary position as vice-chairman. Both would hold their leadership positions until their deaths in 1976.
Zhou was a prominent participant in the 1955 AsianβAfrican Conference, held in Indonesia. The conference produced a declaration in strongly in favor of peace, the abolition of nuclear arms, general arms reduction, and the principle of universal representation at the United Nations. Zhou was critical of American imperial aggression and stated "the population of Asia will never forget that the first atom bomb was exploded on Asian soil."
Zhou passed away from bladder cancer on January 8th, 1976, just nine months before Mao Zedong's death in September that year.
"Today the first unification of the Chinese people has emerged. The people themselves have become the masters of Chinese soil, and the rule of the reactionaries in China has been irrevocably overthrown."
Zhou Enlai, from "Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression" (October 1950)
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Them: "You should've gotten into something useful, get into a trade"
Also:
When you get paid state minimum wage just to be treated like less than dog shit in 100 degree weather and have to hear your coworkers non stop yap about illegals, feminism, how they hate their ex girlfriend, which coworkers they think are gay.
I also tried to get a job as an electrician helper and applied everywhere in town and no one hired me because I didn't have experience and times are tough you know
Being in Florida feels like you're absolutely trapped too with the low wages. I know journeymen plumbers who make 20hr with no raise. I would pack my things into my car and go up north for one of those higher paying apprenticeship programs but I got some crippling stomach problems. Not having a my own toilet nearby just won't work
I'm a beer merchandiser in central Florida. I'm still surrounded by chuds all day, but I pretty much work alone. I started at 18 an hour because I've worked at Publix before.
It's not ideal, but it's better than landscaping or some shit out in the sun. And idk about having your bathroom close at hand, as my route does send me sometimesan hour away. But there's definitely always a decent grocery store bathroom nearby. I have some minor stomach issues and prefer to be at home, but they do in an emergency.
Lmao I remember saying years ago that telling people to go to trades will have the exact same effect as "learn to code bro"
I dunno how people don't realize that simply saying "do this instead" will not help an economy that is punching itself into a collapse. It's usually the older folks talking shit who are isolated from everything that's going on