The Leader Review (领风者)

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The Leader (Chinese: 领风者) is a Chinese animated web series produced by the streaming service Bilibili. The seven-episode series revolves around the life of German thinker Karl Marx. #Anime #Donghua #Communism

The Leader centers on the life of German thinker Karl Marx, focusing on his political and economic theories, his romance with Jenny von Westphalen, and his friendship with Friedrich Engels. The story was described as the following

Marx was a great man standing upright between heaven and earth, whose ideological system established through his entire life awakened all sleeping proletariat across the world and deeply influenced the historical development of the world, [as well as] an ordinary man of flesh and blood. His love for Jenny, which met with much obstruction, and friendship with Engels, which they almost missed, finally became legendary
— Press release

The production of a Marx's series by the #Chinese was mostly considered to be propaganda, with Mandy Zuo of South China Morning Post highlighting how "his image has been a common feature on official propaganda throughout the year". Didi Tang, writing for The Times, considered it was in line with previous productions by the government, such as television show Marx Got it Right. He described it as an "effort by the ruling party to spark an interest in Marx among young people" in a context where Chinese millennials are not fully satisfied with working conditions. On the other hand, Millingan felt was simply in consonance with the popularity of the concepts of socialism and communism among younger generations and that "it was only a matter of time before this trend made inroads in animation