2018: Marx Got it Right

Source:  The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus [info@japanfocus.ccsend.com]
Newsletter  No.11, June 1, 2018
Mit freundlicher Erlaubnis

New York Times, May 5, 2018

See Marx Got it Right! Marx Got it Right: The View From Xi Jinping's China . . .
the video or the text.

You have nothing to lose but your chains.

"BEIJING — Regal orchestral music strikes up, a computer-animated train races by and an old man with a bushy white beard looms onto the television screen. Then the studio audience applauds as an effervescent host opens an episode of China’s latest prime-time entertainment.

It looks like another Chinese talk show, but the bearded man is Karl Marx. This is “Marx Got It Right,” a slickly produced program that is part talk show, part indoctrination session — and a vivid illustration of the quirky efforts that the Communist Party under Xi Jinping is making to win over China’s millennials. ...."

https://youtu.be/U1qCtjbnj3E
https://youtu.be/LSYaEHkH7rQ
https://youtu.be/spuFG2VZVx0