Michael C.

Michael C., also known as Mountain Chen, joined CPUSA in late-2019/early-2020 after traveling and studying in China in 2016 and 2017. He served as the General Secretary of the CPUSA Virginia District from 2020-2022, and serves as a member of the International Department and Peace & Solidarity Commission, as well as various other roles. Passions include history, learning foreign languages, antiquing, and shitposting.

Recent Articles by Michael C.

Dogmatism and Revisionism: Remembering Historic Leaders

Marxism-Leninism is often called "a living science." This necessarily means that it is rigorous...

Charting Ideology: Patriotism

Any “patriotism” in the west that does not account for this historical condition inherently or tacitly supports or approves...

An Attack Against All: Reproductive Rights In Amerikkka

Today, after less than 50 years, that fundamental right is poised to be stripped away...

Anniverary of the First National Congress of the CPC

An event which Chairman Mao Zedong would later refer to as “the great event that opened up the world.” The first...

The Secret War: US Terror in Laos

The United States carried out over 580,000 bombing missions in Laos...

The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis

August 2nd, 2022,will be remembered as the day when the status quo in the Taiwan Strait was shattered; as the day one...

Internationalism for the 21st Century

The international revolutionary movement cannot reasonably progress to the next stage of development; simultaneously...

Celebrating 73 years of the People’s Republic

As the old world is dying, the new world—the world of liberation, of true freedom, of socialism—is being born. The weight of that world...

New International Order: Intro to Shanghai Cooperation Organization

On September 25th, 1919, 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson delivered...

Introduction to Markets & Socialist Transition

Just as the development of Capitalist—bourgeois dictatorial—forces gave rise to the emergence of global imperialism, so too...

The Laos-China Railway

On 2 December 2015, construction officially began on the Vientiane-Boten Railway, a flagship high-speed rail project...

In Memory of President Jiang Zemin

Born on 17 August 1926, President Jiang Zemin passed away on 30 November 2022, age 96....

The Soviet Centennial

On 30 December 1922, the first workers state in human history—the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—was born...

Laos: A Land Still Scarred
by the Bombs of U.S. Imperialism

From 1964 to 1973, the United States dropped over 270 million bombs on the people of Laos—one bomb every eight minutes, non-stop, for nine years...

It is Right to Rebel:
The Modern Bull of Minos

There are thousands of truths in Marxism, in the final analysis they boil down to one single sentence: "It is right to rebel."

The Business Plot

As hordes of Trump supporters and fascists bore down on the US capitol building on the morning of 06 January, 2021, the country stood...

Kaysone Phomvihane:
the Life of a Revolutionary

Among the five actually-existing socialist (AES) countries of the world, Laos is generally the least-understood and least-studied...

US Hegemony and Its Perils, pt. I

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China published a paper titled "US Hegemony and Its Perils". Part I covers Political and Military Hegemony...

US Hegemony and Its Perils, pt. II

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China published a paper titled "US Hegemony and Its Perils". Part II covers Economic, Technological, and Cultural Hegemony...

The Specter of Internationalism

The specter of the international Communist movement has risen once more, and once again haunts not only...

Socialism is Good: A Thought Experiment

Is socialism “good” because it is socialism, or because it improves the livelihoods of working and oppressed people?

Kim Il Sung: A Revolutionary Ancestry

The forefathers of Eternal President Kim Il Sung had already made their mark on history in unexpected ways.

The Soviet Conflicts in Finland and Poland

By conducting a materialist investigation of the realities of the period, we gain a vastly different perspective of these events...