Chinese President Jiang Zemin Taught Limits Using Zhuangzi’s One-Foot Rod.
In November 2001, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Beijing University of Technology.
During an impromptu stop in a calculus class discussing derivatives, he picked up chalk and wrote on the blackboard: Zhuangzi said: "A one-foot hammer (or rod), take half of it each day, and it will never be exhausted through eternity." (一尺之棰,日取其半,万世不竭。)
He then wrote a mathematical formula to precisely capture its meaning, explaining: "This is our ancestors' extremely important idea of limits."
This ancient paradox from Zhuangzi's "Tianxia" chapter beautifully illustrates the concept of infinite division and the limit approaching zero — a profound insight predating modern calculus by over two millennia.
Rest in peace, Michael Parenti.
Michael Parenti was one of the most important Marxist intellectuals of our time. A fearless critic of imperialism, capitalism, and liberal apologetics for power, he dedicated his life to exposing how empire actually works.
At a time when honesty came at a real cost, Parenti chose truth anyway. He spoke plainly, wrote accessibly, and never softened his analysis to appease elites. From dismantling Cold War propaganda to defending socialism against caricature, he armed generations with clarity, courage, and historical grounding.
His voice lives on in his books, lectures, and in everyone who learned to think critically because of him.
"China will lose the US market..."
"We don't care. The world is big enough that the US is not the totality of the world's market."
🤷♂️Victor Gao was not kidding.
I’ve been making the point lately that multinational finance capitalists have no patriotism while workers have a vested interest in patriotism & the success of their own country.
This Stalin quote says it better than I ever could.
ACP California remembers Martin Luther King, Jr. by reflecting on the legacy he left as both the most prominent figure from the civil rights movement and the man who ventured to derive the truth from fact.
BREAKING: Political commentator Haz al-Din BELIEVES in cosmic forces.
"...as a materialist who has given this matter a great deal of thought, I unironically believe that astrological patterns and cycles record very real, lawful phenomena of nature and society," mused al-Din.
What did you think the alternative was??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You’re so stupid, this is the same thing that happened in Iraq. They promised a short war then stayed there for over two decades.
The alternative is to just pull out and leave the country in chaos like what NATO did to Libya, created millions of refugees who moved to West Europe. Although in Venezuela they would probably just elect another socialist leader.
There was no other option here besides a forever war. But you fell for the propaganda AGAIN like a chump, because you’re either a moron or a fed. Maybe both.
🚨🇻🇪 BREAKING: US MILITARY ATTACK ON VENEZUELA HAS BEGUN.
The freedom loving people of the world stand with the heroic Venezuelan people, Maduro and the Bolivarian revolution!
ALL PATRIOTIC AND FREEDOM-LOVING PEOPLE MUST STAND AGAINST THE EPSTEINITE AGGRESSORS
MADURO: "Western liberal democracy is in terminal decline. They no longer represent the people. Democracies without people, manipulated, serving billionaires and corporations, subjected to social media manipulation. The citizen has no power when it comes to fundamental issues."
Did Milton Friedman ever say anything correct in his entire life???
There are 90 million Marxists in the Communist Party of China & American “Marxist” professors are all libs and Trotskyites.
But it does make sense that he would lie, considering reactionaries are terrified of the American people learning what Marxism actually is.