Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. On today's episode we have on

Rule Mueller to talk about building a people's art, a work that he's put together

a collection of essays by Chung Ching and Toh Hugh, basically on the cultural front of the Vietnamese Revolution talking

about socialist realism, the importance of cultural revolution, how it

manifested in Vietnam, the influences from Mao and China the influence of the concept of new democracy

we get into psychoanalysis we get into Marxism we talk a little Buddhism even.

So just a really fascinating wide-ranging conversation, but centered on the manifestation of socialist realism,

socialist-realist art in Vietnam during their

revolution and the role that it played in the broader cultural revolution

of that of that country. So just yeah wonderful

wonderful conversation can't recommend it enough check it out and the wonderful thing

about the book put out by the comrades over at Iskra is that they have a free copy for those who can't afford it.

I recommend if you can't afford it of course supporting this work because one of the cool things about it

is that there are over 90 pieces of art in the book itself that have

never been published before. So you get not only the book, not only the

intellectual stimulation stimulation the cultural

theory etc but you also get over 90 pieces of first ever published

socialist realist art which I think is fascinating and was one of the most interesting things about the book in my reading of it.

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