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Fundamentals of Political Economy, also known as the Shanghai Textbook, was originally published as part of the Youth Self-Education series, a book series intended to help the revolutionary youth cultivate their skills in the three component parts of Marxism: philosophy, political economy, and scientific socialism. It was published during the height of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and was explicit in its purpose as a weapon in the fight against revisionism and opportunism. As it says in the first chapter, without a strong foundation in political economy, we cannot fully understand, analyze and combat deviations from the red line and their proponents, such as Lin Biao and Liu Shaoqi at the time of this book's release.Note on Chinese pronunciation: Chinese words and names in this text are rendered in the Wade–Giles system of romanization. This system is today considered quite outdated, and its odd and seemingly arbitrary rendering of Chinese has led to many mispronunciations from foreign speakers. I have done my best to find the readings for these words in pinyin, the far superior system of Chinese romanization, and they will be pronounced that way, if not with the correct tones. To give some examples, you will hear: Mao Zedong, not Mao Tsetung; Beijing, not Peking; Hebei, not Hopei; Xinjiang, not Sinkiang; Zhang Chunqiao, not Chang Chun-chiao. I also take the liberty of replacing Canton with the Chinese Guangzhou. However, I do not pronounce Chiang Kai-shek as Jiang Jieshi, figuring that the latter would be unfamiliar to most listeners and would cause confusion.This is the 1977 M.E. Sharpe publication of the text, with an introduction by George C. Wang. A free version of this text can be read on Banned Thought or at the link below:www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/PoliticalEconomy/FundamentalsOfPoliticalEconomy-Shanghai-1974-English-OCR-SinglePage.pdfI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, in addition to his significant contributions as a writer and journalist, was an important Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik, and the first head of the Soviet Union's Ministry of Education. He is perhaps best remembered as a pioneer in the field of Marxist art analysis, which is the subject of this collection of essays. In these essays, Lunacharsky analyzes art as both a part of the superstructure of a given class-based system of social production, as well as an industry in and of itself, and how art exists in relation to a given class. What can we learn about society through art? Can art be a tool of social change? These are just some of the questions that Lunacharsky will approach in the coming essays.This reading contains "Appendix I: What is Aesthetics?" and "Appendix II: Wilhelm Hausenstein."I am reading from the newly-translated and edited version of these essays published by Germinal Publications. You can purchase a copy here:https://www.lulu.com/shop/anatoly-lunacharsky/the-marxist-theory-of-art/paperback/product-4zge58.html?page=1&pageSize=4I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, in addition to his significant contributions as a writer and journalist, was an important Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik, and the first head of the Soviet Union's Ministry of Education. He is perhaps best remembered as a pioneer in the field of Marxist art analysis, which is the subject of this collection of essays. In these essays, Lunacharsky analyzes art as both a part of the superstructure of a given class-based system of social production, as well as an industry in and of itself, and how art exists in relation to a given class. What can we learn about society through art? Can art be a tool of social change? These are just some of the questions that Lunacharsky will approach in the coming essays.This reading contains the second half of "Art and Life."I am reading from the newly-translated and edited version of these essays published by Germinal Publications. You can purchase a copy here:https://www.lulu.com/shop/anatoly-lunacharsky/the-marxist-theory-of-art/paperback/product-4zge58.html?page=1&pageSize=4I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, in addition to his significant contributions as a writer and journalist, was an important Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik, and the first head of the Soviet Union's Ministry of Education. He is perhaps best remembered as a pioneer in the field of Marxist art analysis, which is the subject of this collection of essays. In these essays, Lunacharsky analyzes art as both a part of the superstructure of a given class-based system of social production, as well as an industry in and of itself, and how art exists in relation to a given class. What can we learn about society through art? Can art be a tool of social change? These are just some of the questions that Lunacharsky will approach in the coming essays.This reading contains the first half of "Art and Life."I am reading from the newly-translated and edited version of these essays published by Germinal Publications. You can purchase a copy here:https://www.lulu.com/shop/anatoly-lunacharsky/the-marxist-theory-of-art/paperback/product-4zge58.html?page=1&pageSize=4I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Fundamentals of Political Economy, also known as the Shanghai Textbook, was originally published as part of the Youth Self-Education series, a book series intended to help the revolutionary youth cultivate their skills in the three component parts of Marxism: philosophy, political economy, and scientific socialism. It was published during the height of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and was explicit in its purpose as a weapon in the fight against revisionism and opportunism. As it says in the first chapter, without a strong foundation in political economy, we cannot fully understand, analyze and combat deviations from the red line and their proponents, such as Lin Biao and Liu Shaoqi at the time of this book's release.Note on Chinese pronunciation: Chinese words and names in this text are rendered in the Wade–Giles system of romanization. This system is today considered quite outdated, and its odd and seemingly arbitrary rendering of Chinese has led to many mispronunciations from foreign speakers. I have done my best to find the readings for these words in pinyin, the far superior system of Chinese romanization, and they will be pronounced that way, if not with the correct tones. To give some examples, you will hear: Mao Zedong, not Mao Tsetung; Beijing, not Peking; Hebei, not Hopei; Xinjiang, not Sinkiang; Zhang Chunqiao, not Chang Chun-chiao. I also take the liberty of replacing Canton with the Chinese Guangzhou. However, I do not pronounce Chiang Kai-shek as Jiang Jieshi, figuring that the latter would be unfamiliar to most listeners and would cause confusion.This is the 1977 M.E. Sharpe publication of the text, with an introduction by George C. Wang. A free version of this text can be read on Banned Thought or at the link below:www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/PoliticalEconomy/FundamentalsOfPoliticalEconomy-Shanghai-1974-English-OCR-SinglePage.pdfI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, in addition to his significant contributions as a writer and journalist, was an important Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik, and the first head of the Soviet Union's Ministry of Education. He is perhaps best remembered as a pioneer in the field of Marxist art analysis, which is the subject of this collection of essays. In these essays, Lunacharsky analyzes art as both a part of the superstructure of a given class-based system of social production, as well as an industry in and of itself, and how art exists in relation to a given class. What can we learn about society through art? Can art be a tool of social change? These are just some of the questions that Lunacharsky will approach in the coming essays.This reading contains the second half of "Art and It's Forms."I am reading from the newly-translated and edited version of these essays published by Germinal Publications. You can purchase a copy here:https://www.lulu.com/shop/anatoly-lunacharsky/the-marxist-theory-of-art/paperback/product-4zge58.html?page=1&pageSize=4I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, in addition to his significant contributions as a writer and journalist, was an important Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik, and the first head of the Soviet Union's Ministry of Education. He is perhaps best remembered as a pioneer in the field of Marxist art analysis, which is the subject of this collection of essays. In these essays, Lunacharsky analyzes art as both a part of the superstructure of a given class-based system of social production, as well as an industry in and of itself, and how art exists in relation to a given class. What can we learn about society through art? Can art be a tool of social change? These are just some of the questions that Lunacharsky will approach in the coming essays.This reading contains the essays "Art and Class" and the first half of "Art and It's Forms."I am reading from the newly-translated and edited version of these essays published by Germinal Publications. You can purchase a copy here:https://www.lulu.com/shop/anatoly-lunacharsky/the-marxist-theory-of-art/paperback/product-4zge58.html?page=1&pageSize=4I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, in addition to his significant contributions as a writer and journalist, was an important Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik, and the first head of the Soviet Union's Ministry of Education. He is perhaps best remembered as a pioneer in the field of Marxist art analysis, which is the subject of this collection of essays. In these essays, Lunacharsky analyzes art as both a part of the superstructure of a given class-based system of social production, as well as an industry in and of itself, and how art exists in relation to a given class. What can we learn about society through art? Can art be a tool of social change? These are just some of the questions that Lunacharsky will approach in the coming essays.This reading contains the prefaces to this edition and the 1926 edition, and the essays "Art and Marxism" and "Art and Industry."I am reading from the newly-translated and edited version of these essays published by Germinal Publications. You can purchase a copy here:https://www.lulu.com/shop/anatoly-lunacharsky/the-marxist-theory-of-art/paperback/product-4zge58.html?page=1&pageSize=4I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

The Mariátegui Project is a project from Natú Pizzella, who also makes free audiobooks of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and other revolutionary content. This project comes in response to the relative lack of availability of José Carlos Mariátegui’s works in English. Other than an anthology of his works released by Monthly Review Press, and his Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, the vast majority of his writings remain inaccessible to most English speakers. The goal of this project, then, is to slowly but surely make the remainder of Mariátegui’s works available in English. This is a reading of a translation available on the Mariátegui Project website.The biography of José Carlos Mariátegui found here is written by María Wiesse and makes up Volume X of Mariátegui's Complete Works.Read this and other Mariátegui translations here:https://jcm-project.com/I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

The Mariátegui Project is a project from Natú Pizzella, who also makes free audiobooks of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and other revolutionary content. This project comes in response to the relative lack of availability of José Carlos Mariátegui’s works in English. Other than an anthology of his works released by Monthly Review Press, and his Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, the vast majority of his writings remain inaccessible to most English speakers. The goal of this project, then, is to slowly but surely make the remainder of Mariátegui’s works available in English. This is a reading of a translation available on the Mariátegui Project website.The biography of José Carlos Mariátegui found here is written by María Wiesse and makes up Volume X of Mariátegui's Complete Works.Read this and other Mariátegui translations here:https://jcm-project.com/I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true