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etudiantfantome · 2 months

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In a still-provocative text published in 1939, Sam Moss, a member of a council communist group in the USA, mercilessly undermined the significance which “revolutionaries” and “revolutionary groups” assign themselves.

Moss starts off from how the problem appears: on the one hand, there is a “we” — that of “revolutionaries” — and on the other, there are the masses or the working class. The former wish to overthrow capitalism but are incapable of doing so, while the latter, the only possible agent of a revolutionary struggle, are concerned with everyday needs and not the revolution. Asking himself about the reason for this apparent difference in objectives between the masses and “revolutionists”, he argues that while the masses are socialised by capitalist culture to “play the role of machines”, the “revolutionists” are a harmless “byproduct”. For Moss the masses are an understandable product of the society while the “revolutionists” are merely “deviations from the working class” representing “isolated cases of workers who, because of unique circumstances in their individual lives, have diverged from the usual course of development”.

Going further, Moss suggests the ground of the difference is that the “revolutionists” are “unsuccessful careerists” — workers who have acquired an intellectual interest and a higher level of education than their fellows, but whose personal advance has been blocked. He continues that although their efforts to help the rest of the class may appear to come “from the noblest of motives, certainly it doesn’t take much to see that one suffers for another only when he has identified that other’s sorrow with his own”.

We unhappy few

#Endnotes #Sam Moss #On the impotence of revolutionary groups #capitalism #Marxism #anarcho communism #Communism #Anarchism #academia #university #gradblr #studyblr #Living Marxism

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capitalism-and-analytics · 7 months

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discrotter · 7 months

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To all the people who say, "All these pro-Palestine protests and none of those countries take in Palestinians. Curious, almost like it isn't about Palestinians. Hmmm..." from the bottom of my soul: Fuck you.

Let's just begin by pointing out that we who are pro-Palestine aren't in government, if they were, they'd accept Palestinian refugees. (Unless the US threatened them with being attacked if a nation did anything other than give full support to their apartheid puppet state, which they probably would)

Secondly, you're literally being antisemitic by conflating Israel with Jews. They are not the same, nor is the people of Israel the same as the government of Israel, and it's the government of Israel we're against. Because they're sanctioning genocide.

#palestine #palestinian lives matter #gaza strip #israel #free palestine #palestinians #anarchism #anarchy #socialism #leftism #marxism #communism #anti capitalism #gaza

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bfpnola · 11 months

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comradeclover · 3 months

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The execution of Nex Benedict by classmates in their school bathroom is an example in the long line of transphobic violence in this country, and is emblematic of a genocidal movement to eradicate transgender and non binary people from America. This violence was excused by school faculty, including the callous refusal to allow Benedict's injury to be treated properly in a hospital. This was following a bill requiring trans and nonbinary students to use the bathroom associated with the gender they were assigned at birth. Despite using the bathroom associated with the gender assigned to Benedict at birth, they were still murdered by transphobic classmates, punished by school authorities for being assaulted, and refused access to adequate healthcare after the event. This is unacceptable, and the sytem that produced this and many more tragic incidents like this must be resisted strenuously by all trans and nonbinary folks, as well as anyone who considers themselves supporters of queer, trans, and nonbinary liberation.

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dreamlanddoll · 5 months

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hey guys please watch this video analysis on Chicken Run (2000) it’s from 3 years ago but feels more relevant now than ever and the essayist in it is really smart and put a lot of how I felt about the movies message into words please just go watch it it’s called “what a time to analyze chicken run” she talks about white feminist capitalism being represented in the main villain and the importance of community just please go watch it

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yourfaveisleftist · 7 months

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David S. Pumpkins from Saturday Night Live is a Marxist-Leninist!

#saturday night live #snl #david s. pumpkins #david pumpkins #marxism leninism

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queerpunktomatoes · 2 months

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Welcome!

QueerPunkTomatoes is a reference to guerilla gardening, because food should be free. It isn't that deep! All people should have food! You shouldn't have to earn it!

Belly, (any/no pronouns), 20. Sociology student. Queer. Fat. Disabled. Trans.

This blog is pro-marginalized liberation and anti-capitalism.

Just don't be a dick and we'll be friends! 🫡

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I love my mutuals and you should come say hi :)

Also I'm very passionate about social justice and I get angry but I'm actually a very friendly person!

Recovering from an abusive childhood and an eating disorder while desperately searching for community 💜

(want to start a timebank with me? pretty please :))

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yuri-alexseygaybitch · 1 year

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"MLs don't do anything they're just terminally online weirdos waiting for a strongman to lead an armed revolution hur dur"

#communism #marxism leninism #the tAnKiEs really live rent free in your head just as mao intended

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troythecatfish · 3 months

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atlantis-just-drowned · 5 months

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I suffer of the Marx disease. Common symptoms include being forced to live in this economy.

#howlings from the vortex #whispers from atlantis #so tired of this shit #living??#in this economy?#uh #marxism #karl marx

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rice-ballin · 6 months

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how i feel after saying america is one of my favorite hetalia characters (im a communist)

#hetalia #aph america #communism ig idk #erm live laugh love marxism #still love america tho my little goofy goober

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wrishwrosh · 2 months

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just finished coming out under fire by allan bérubé, a major entry in the field of monographs where each successive passage makes you go ‘fuck me that’s the saddest paragraph ive ever read in my life’ and then the next paragraph is somehow even sadder

#love a historical text that is also an emotional roller coaster #the resentful game of tag i am playing with nara is beginning to culminate….weirdly #one day i will pick something chic to fixate on historically like. the medieval church or marxism #but now regrettably: wwii #earlier in the month wrote 9000 words of completely audienceless nonfiction about the daily lives of the ordnance corps #pls watch this space for my upcoming wwii novel What If Eisenhower And Patton Made Out In The European Theater Of Operations

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discrotter · 6 days

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Do you find it frustrating that it feels like most of the world pretends the 2020 George Floyd protests didn't happen, seeing everyone either going back on or completely forgetting the point of police abolition, and seeing nothing change or just get worse?

All I can say to those that still remember is that I know it's frustrating, but don't give up. Most people are gonna forget about Palestine when the protests die down, just like most people forgot about anything related to Standing Rock. Just like most people forgot about Brianna Ghey. Just like most people forgot the first people the Nazis tested the gas on was disabled people. Just like most people forgot or are trying to forget about everything else that's inconvenient to remember in the current capitalist system, from homophobia to antisemitism.

But for each time, more and more of us remember. More and more of us learn, not just about the current thing we protest, but every movement in the past.

In the end, nobody will be able to forget. And I'd rather have that be sooner than later.

So don't give up, don't forget.

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pickled-ants · 2 months

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Nationalism is good, actually, as long as it is the nationalism of the oppressed or proletarian nationalism. Nationalism for a settler colony is inherently reactionary, but a national identity for the oppressed is often a beacon of hope.

Palestinians aren't just fighting for their lives, or for their homes. The national liberation struggle of Palestine isn't just a matter of land ownership, and that's why a "two state solution" is not a reasonable compromise. National liberation means self determination, meaning that Palestinians should get to decide how to structure their government, their state, their resources.

When we talk about landback, both in the United States and other colonial entities, it isn't a call for violence or expulsion like many people mistake it for. It's a simple demand, that indigenous people of the world NEED to have control over their national identity and what it stands for. Calls for a two state "solution" is counterproductive. It legitimizes colonial occupation, which there is never justification for. It's when people mistake this call for liberation as a call for violence and seek to further oppress them that the oppressed are forced to arm and defend themselves.

Free Palestine.

#palestine #palestinian genocide #palestinian lives matter #palestinian resistance #justice for palestine #free palestine #free gaza #socialism #leftism #leftist #marxism #communist #communism

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lilithism1848 · 6 months

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