The video for “Marx is a Post-90” features an illustration of the nineteenth-century philosopher and social revolutionary flashing a peace sign. This Chinese rap song extols the virtues of Marx: a young emcee, decked out in a sports jersey with “13” blazoned across the chest, describes his first introduction to Marxist philosophy as something that he had to study to get through exams, before later becoming a full-blown red-or-dead convert.

“You stand up and say the proletariat’s strength will overcome evil,” the rapper spits in his native tongue. “I am your Bruno Mars / But you are my Venus.”

For the uninitiated, “Post-90s” is a demographic cohort: the term refers to people born in the closing decade of the last century. Think of them as the Chinese version of millennials. The Chinese government commissioned “Marx is a Post-90” as a way of getting young people interested in politics, and the video is about as cool as you’d expect from government-approved rap music, with a strange and awkward glop of communist imagery and parody-level rap stunting.