the water is wideโi cannot cross over. and neither have i wings to fly; give me a boat, that can carry two, and both shall row: my love and i. | they/them
there's a small subset of former incel fedora guys who, in lieu of becoming nazis, get really into fashion history and instead spend their time listening to benny goodman and measuring lapels and even finding a nice fashion history girl. it's heartwarming to see
a couple months ago a girl came into my work and was like can i get the ice spice frappucinno and i was like what and she was like the ice spice frappucinno
something that makes me sad is when you can see the deterioration of the insane detail and care that was put into the subway stations when they were first built
โWednesdayโ star Jenna Ortega reveals to New Yorker that โThe Origin Of Capitalismโ by Ellen Meiksins Wood was her latest read.
โEllen Wood rehistoricizes marxism & dispels the myth that capitalism was an inevitable outcome of history. This was a must read & did not disappoint!โ
if u wanna know how societies let genocides happen, the united states has lost an easy 600k people to a preventable disease over the past year and nobody really seems to care or talk about it much
everyone talks about being a gifted kid but nobody talks about being a political kid. if you were 9 and talking about the vice president running mate pick it was over for you from the beginning
my favorite genre of communist leader propaganda photo is "ah! you've caught me deep in study of the party newspaper with the name conveniently facing the camera!"
According to one demonstrator: "If this was Hong Kong or Taiwan, we would see international cameras everywhere. But because it's Haiti, and because they have instilled neocolonialism in Haiti, we see an incredible double standard."
one of the most covered up aspects of american history is the fact that for a period of 30ish years the majority of mines in appalachia and parts of the west were in a continuous state of armed labor unrest pitting miners against company goons/the military
its crazy that what is considered to be one of the most identifiable, cleanest, good for weddings, most family friendly songs in american culture with a low effort dance that everyone knows is a song about blowing dudes at a ymca
random elected: billionaires like elon musk should pay more in taxes
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elon: um, i can haz bad opinion? methinks you are too old to be in office karen. not very le epic bacon of you
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SF_tesla_fuck_1996: ๐๐ you have won the internet my good sir ๐๐
the bolivian counter-counter-revolution is truly one of the most inspiring events of the 21st century. MAS is deposed in an illegal coup, they shut down the country with mass strikes bc of their integration into the labor mvmt, force new elections, & return to power within a year
In 1950s Russia, one of the only ways to hear blues, jazz and rockโnโroll from America was to get hold of one of these โ a bootleg record pressed up on a discarded X-ray plate.
my biggest hot take is that american marxists should be ultimately more concerned with the history of the united states over all else. if you can tell me all about the 1918 constituent assembly but you cant tell me what the kansas-nebraska act of 1854 was, there's a problem
On Transgender Day of Visibility, my message to the transgender and non-binary community: Your lives are precious. Your stories are essential. And your very existence is proof that a better world is possible. We will pass a Transgender Bill of Rights and we will win.
what's up with the new faux self-care trend trying to convince ppl that being a "good friend" actually means you're supposed to secretly hate all your friends and never do anything for them and never confide in them or talk to them or hang out with them or
i'm in DSA not bc i like it, but because as a marxist i see it as the only organization in the united states that has a sliver of a chance of being turned into a vehicle to socialism- and thus i actually feel a necessity to be in it so i can help direct it towards this pathway
>looking for revolution
>ask participant if revolution is bourgeois or proletarian
>he doesnt understand
>i pull out a diagram explaining the difference between bourgeois and proletarian
>he laughs and says "it's a good revolution sir"
>finish revolution
>it's bourgeois
dsa chapters should strive to be active sites of community for the disaffected masses. i'm talkin bbq's, socials, concerts, bonfires, potlucks, proper youth sections, sports teams, puppet shows, samba bands, you name it. building community isn't a secondary question!
#OtD
12 Apr 1918 Bolshevik forces attacked 26 anarchist centres in Moscow, as the anarchists were growing in the area. At least 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 were arrested and jailed
really sucks how "commune" has come to mean 24 lifestylist anarchists living in the sticks when it originally meant a citywide revolution involving proletarian self-organization and the expropriation of the city's bourgeoisie
it's crazy that multiple plantations became giant state prison farms after the civil war and still operate today almost exclusively using the labor of black incarcerated people and many americans outside the south dont know this
was nobody gonna tell me that all the midsized cities in eastern pennsylvania have amazing bones and walkable urban fabrics mostly untouched by highways or
the way you can tell art trads are total rubes is that art-deco was perhaps one of the highest expressions of modernism for its time and the trads of the day hated it but contemporary trads like it now bc it vaguely appears as "old" in our cultural memory
gentrification discourse has become so diluted that it is convincing people that their already bougie neighborhoods are being invaded by yuppies when their parents are the yuppies that initially made it that way
@T4RIG
conservatism is antithetical to jazz. if ur a conservative, u cant jam with the cats, you cant hit that doubletime swing, and u certainly cant play in the pocket. if u say ur a cat but also wanna vote for trump, get movin daddyo
yeah i'm going full tin foil hat. the balloon is just a normal research balloon that blew into US airspace and they're purposefully blowing it way out of proportion to justify tension with china
(also let it be known international womens day is an official state holiday basically only in the former soviet union, vietnam, laos, cuba, north korea, and a select few former ML countries in africa. and then there's china where it's a state holiday for the ladies ONLY)
the sad thing about this meme template is that i would normally do with it what i do with every other twitter meme template, make it about convoluted marxist historiography, but that's what they're already talking about in the movie
like aoc, thunberg is a natural born poster but has such a high profile she has to keep it cool online. we are witnessing a glimpse into what has been held in for so long
taco bell simplifying their menu bc doing so decreases drive times and thus increases the number of customers they can get through in a day shows how capitalism doesnโt really create variety or innovation but actually boringly standardizes everything in the name of profit
90% of DSA's problems really are just due to the fact the organization gained *literally* 95k members in 5 years. DSA had 6k members in 2015 and now has almost 100k
the fact that the LA metropolitan area is actually like 90 different cities each with its own mayor and city council is horrific. like the federal government should step in
when ur an ideologically sound factory worker noticing the cracks in the stagnating soviet economy trying to explain to your old komsomol buddy that all you need is correct input-output calculations & not complete system change & he hits you with that dissident intellectual stare
This is what happens when you come to nyc without any interest to be part of a community bc you bought the romanization of city.
#NYC
is a city not a sitcom production set
northeasterners are like omg i love going to the beach i love cape cod i love long island and its the shittiest coldest cloudiest dirtiest most irradiated beach you've ever seen with perilous rocks and the shittiest quality sand possible and also the water is freezing cold (?)
me: so lenin, that's the state of the left in 2021. is the US left project viable?
lenin: you guys stuffed me? my stuffed body is on display?
me: does the democratic party become hijacked by a party-surrogate? or does a new party eclipse it?
lenin: like a taxidermied animal?
y'all know there's millions of disabled people who get their own groceries and also work horrible menial jobs (such as delivering groceries!) bc of their class position right
what if told you the united states essentially had a planned economy during the second world war. what if i told you the office of price administration could control rents in major cities. what if told you the labor board sent troops to union-busting companies & nationalized them