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hi! no need to apologise at all, i thought your message was very thoughtfully written.

if you would like to learn more about communism, i would warmly recommend marxists.org. it is an extraordinary archive that contains an immense collection of texts, essays, speeches, and historical documents from a wide variety of communist thinkers and movements. whether you are interested in theory, history, economics, or particular countries and leaders, it is a wonderful place to begin exploring.

for a foundation, i would suggest starting with the communist manifesto. it introduces many of the ideas and questions that would shape later communist thought. from there, wage labour and capital by karl marx is an excellent next step, as it offers a clearer understanding of marx's critique of capitalism. i would also highly recommend state and revolution by lenin, which examines the nature of the state and the role it plays in class society.

after that, i think the best approach is simply to follow your curiosity. if chinese communism interests you, the writings of mao zedong may be worth exploring. if you are curious about the ideological development of the dprk, reading works on juche by kim il sung can provide valuable insight into its intellectual foundations.

regarding north korea, i personally find it to be one of the most fascinating and misunderstood countries in the world. sadly, much of the discussion surrounding it is often dominated by false western propaganda. despite enduring decades of isolation brought on by horrific sanctions imposed by the west, it remains a country with a rich history and a deeply beautiful culture.

here are some of my favorite sources on north korea:

loyal citizens of pyongyang in seoul - a documentary

my brothers and sisters in the north - a documentary

the dprk reading list - google document

in north korea: first eye-witness report by anna louise strong

above all, i would encourage you to read widely, remain curious, and engage with ideas directly whenever possible. that spirit of curiosity is, in my view, one of the most rewarding aspects of political learning.

As an oppressed people, we cannot rely on the privileged classes to discover our own interests, but as a minority we also cannot rely on our independent forces to overthrow such powerful systems. A strategic alliance of all oppressed people's is needed to build socialism, whilst autonomous unions of oppressed people are needed to protect ourselves and advocate for our interests within the coalition.

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

My submission for @poketcg-art's Hoenn TCG redraw! Inspired by a card by Hisao Nakamura featured under the cut :)