It's a thought I keep returning to. I can also mention https://deafbible.com/ — a site that has videos of Bible readings in a bunch of different sign languages, including some pretty obscure ones not even spoken in Christian-majority countries.

I guess it makes sense strategically for Marxist texts to not focus on perfect accessibility, since you're working with limited resources and the aim is more to develop enough of an educated vanguard to actually fight the revolution, than to spread the word to Absolutely Everybody like missionaries want to; but it still feels a bit unfair, doesn't it? Like if you can have false consciousness preached at you in your own language, why not class consciousness, y'know?

I guess this isn't really a topic with much potential to ignite discussion, but eh.

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I think that it is both resources and size of the movements and focus. The USSR and CPC didn't seem to really prioritize converting everyone to that extent and there is no other Marxist movement with the resources to do much of this. Many Marxist organizations will prioritize other actions and struggles rather than pure accessibility and evangelism. Where both there are large Christian organizations and donations from rich Christians to fund this work.

I did end up being dragged to a Protestant church for Easter Sunday, and I did meet a guy doing this type of work. He is a linguist and is supported for 6-9 months a year to go to a Western African nation and work on developing written scripts for several of the indigenous languages that don't have one, as the first step to translating the Bible to that language. So that they don't have to learn English or French to read the Bible. And that is just one missionary organization working in a small nation that already has a not insignificant Christian population due to colonialism.

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