re: #230 HappyWarrior

Yeah, I’ve been recommended that before. The character of Snowball in AF is why I briefly thought Trotsky was ok. Not a fan anymore. The one Communist I guess I do admire is Dubcek and to another extent Gorbachev. Guys like Deng Xiaopeng and Zhou Enlai in China fascinate me but I am not an admirer of either man.

Totally random side note, but I am currently helping a bunch of kids work on their UC application essays, all of them Chinese-born, or children of Chinese immigrants.

They’re seventeen or so now, which means that they were all small kids in the 90s, as China was going through those giant economic changes. Their parents, are, by and large, people who jumped on that train.

It’s been very interesting to see them discuss this in their writing.