I’ve been listening to Capitalism and Disability, slowly but surely. As for Engels, I’ve been going even slower. I forced myself to finish a chapter, earlier, though. I might try to finish another chapter, later tonight. For now, I’m going to bed.
Today we mourn a hundred years since the physical death of one of our dearest comrades, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to us as Lenin. It would be foolish, however, to think that his physical death meant the death of his ideas. Today, after a hundred years, Lenin’s ideas are as indispensable as ever. “They are mistaken when they think that his death is the end of his ideas”. This was told to us by Fidel Castro upon the death of Che Guevara, but it applies with equal accuracy to Lenin’s death.
Five of Lenin’s Insights That Are More Pertinent Than Ever
Motives for respecting Mao on his 130th birthday
Mao Zedong was a great revolutionary who brought Marxism, founded by Marx and Engels, and developed by Lenin, into the 21st century and led the transformation of the lives of millions by using scientific socialism as a guide to action. Mao Zedong is a great teacher not only of the Chinese people but also of the cause of humanity. Mao demolished the dogma that socialism “can only exist in developed capitalist countries”. Thanks to the horizon opened by Mao, oppressed nations have gained their independence and brought freedom, prosperity, and happiness to their people to build socialism unique to their own countries. Mao Zedong courageously determined that the transition to a classless society would take a long historical period, theorized that the class struggle persists in different forms under socialism, and discovered and applied the means and mechanisms to mobilize the great power of the people to build socialism from the top down. Mao’s most important achievement was to lead the building of the Communist Party of China, which was resilient, strong, vibrant, and based on the people in all circumstances.
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Today, Xi Jinping is developing China’s modernization path by applying Mao’s route to the realities of the 21st century. Mao’s vision of achieving a “society of abundance” and the method of advancing to a classless society remain unchanged. Today, the CPC, led by Xi Jinping, represents the hope of the Chinese people and all humanity because it adheres to Mao’s path.
In this next of a series of reviews of some important books published this year, I look at Branco Milanovic’s Visions of Inequality.
Visions of inequality
Didn’t get very far, tonight, but I only have 11% left. It’s almost time to do adult things (ie paying bills).
17% left until I’m finished.
Only got through 4%, tonight. Need some sleep.
60% done. Maybe I’ll finish it before the end of the week?!
Was going to listen to Capital: Volume 1, first, but I ended up purchasing the Kindle version, of The German Ideology, so that I can highlight the parts that I want to. I need to get some sleep, though, and then I’ll get to work on reading it.
The following notes come from a 61 page PDF that I found online:
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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