Avatar’s setting is just a crappy orientalist version of WWII in Asia. Imagine if some Chinese cartoon was set in a thinly veiled version of WWII europe where one of the main characters is Hitler’s Son, the thinly veiled Russia/Slav equivalents are constantly demeaned and mocked, and it ends with the Soviet Union giving up Kiev to be jointly ruled by Nazi Germany. They didn’t even try to hide it. In the Avatar Lore Republic City used to be called “Crane City”. Crane City is the nickname for an actual city in Northeastern China close to where Unit 731 was.
Communists do not fight for personal military power (they must in no circumstances do that, and let no one ever again follow the example of Zhang Guotao), but they must fight for military power for the Party, for military power for the people. As a national war of resistance is going on, we must also fight for military power for the nation. Where there is naivete on the question of military power, nothing whatsoever can be achieved. It is very difficult for the labouring people, who have been deceived and intimidated by the reactionary ruling classes for thousands of years, to awaken to the importance of having guns in their own hands. Now that Japanese imperialist oppression and the nation-wide resistance to it have pushed our labouring people into the arena of war, Communists should prove themselves the most politically conscious leaders in this war. Every Communist must grasp the truth, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. Yet, having guns, we can create Party organizations, as witness the powerful Party organizations which the Eighth Route Army has created in northern China. We can also create cadres, create schools, create culture, create mass movements. Everything in Yenan has been created by having guns. All things grow out of the barrel of a gun. According to the Marxist theory of the state, the army is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and retain state power must have a strong army. Some people ridicule us as advocates of the “omnipotence of war”. Yes, we are advocates of the omnipotence of revolutionary war; that is good, not bad, it is Marxist. The guns of the Russian Communist Party created socialism. We shall create a democratic republic. Experience in the class struggle in the era of imperialism teaches us that it is only by the power of the gun that the working class and the labouring masses can defeat the armed bourgeoisie and landlords; in this sense we may say that only with guns can the whole world be transformed. We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
—Mao Zedong, Selected Works Vol. II, pp. 224-225
I am the original creator of this meme, lmaooooo. I love how often it is circulated. It’s
Thank you for your service compa! Miss seeing you in the literature threads.
“thanos was right” ppl
I had a humanities professor who was a huge comics fan and he thought that Infinity War/Endgame were some of the greatest movies ever because Thanos was such a “complex character” and there were “huge moral questions”. And like, this was someone who acted like the stereotypical “super liberal” professor (talking about diversity, making fun of Trump, etc). Which is why it’s shocking to me that someone who’s ostensibly “woke” would think that Thanos had any point whatsoever, in a world where a device that can create infinite resources exists. It feels like the comics crowd (both the creators and fans) are afraid that people will view their media as “childish”, yet their supposedly “morally complex” villains somehow end up even more childish than before.
Watch Andor. The writers have stated that the characters and events were inspired by explicitly leftist figures and events, including Stalin and the IRA lol. Granted, the writer said he didn’t really care much about Stalin besides the sensationalized stories of his early life, but the results aren’t very libby compared to other Star Wars stuff.
One Way Out is such a good arc that they literally named the character Kino
Avatar/Korra is the Harry Potter of cartoons
