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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Christians have more resources and funding than most communists organizations, theres an actual interest by the big churches in converting Native Americans, Asians and Africans, which is why languages like Guaraní were preserved and promoted by the Jesuits in places like Paraguay (at sometimes having more speakers than Spanish).

And besides all of that, actual marxist text tends to get ignored in favor of local leftist writers and ideologies like José Carlos Mariátegui, Peronism, Trabalhism, in places like the Global South. Though most of these are heavily inspired by Marx's works, they tend to have some criticism and favor local culture and views over what they see as a Europeanism.

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