I’m requesting more audiobooks, and possibly offering to contribute my own narrations.

Since the start of COVID, I’ve had the privilege to listen to a copious amount of leftist audiobooks and podcasts. Due to the nature of my occupation; I can kind of tune out and focus on the contents of the audiobook without it impacting my work. After 2+ years of listening, I’m close to exhausting most of the readily available supply on YouTube. Some of the channels I’ve “finished”:

There is probably more, but I regrettably never bothered to keep track of all the audiobooks I’ve listened to that are strewn across YouTube.

What has become obvious though is that there is a severe lack of Marxist-Leninist literature from the global South. While the language barrier is partly to blame, it’s still a miserable affair.

Personally, I’m invested in Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (SWCC). Having amassed quite a few shelves of books on the topic, I was wondering; would you guys be interested in having them be narrated? While “the Governance of China by Xi Jinping” has already been narrated by C. Ozmun, I find its contents rather lacking. While it does provide the reader/listener with the ideological angle behind SWCC, it doesn’t delve that much deeper as it’s merely a collection of speeches and writings.

There are (English) books on SWCC that dive a bit deeper and stick to a topic, such as this series by the China Renmin University Press, that might prove more interesting for the average Marxist Leninist. I also have book on topics about how the CPC (the party) governs/disciplines itself. And other books on Poverty Alleviation, the Belt & Road Initiatve, on Global Governance (in a multi-polar world), the Party School (how the CPC educates its cadres), developments in Rural China, and more.

If there is enough interest I’d be willing to burn the midnight oil and spend my evenings recording its contents. But I do have to know some of your preferences in how they’re recorded. Like do you have pet peeves on certain pronunciations, on the organization of the recordings (rather be divided by chapter than one continuous recording), do you have different places you’d like to see the narrations hosted (apart from YouTube), etc. etc. etc.

  • WeylandOP
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    2 years ago

    I should’ve probably come prepared. I guess I’ll spend another week recording myself and record a dozen or so white papers that I’ll upload to YouTube for people to listen to and comment on.

    Already made two thumbnails for recordings which I have finished, but which I’ll probably re-record later on. As I did, like you might have guessed, rush a bit in my speech in my first recording.