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occasional posts from users

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#!!!!!!!!! #omfg

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Sunflower Monster

Plant Revolution (植物革命), 1972

#what does it mean about me that my first thought upon seeing this was “that's a friend!”? #lookit the big ol eyes. tell me it's a monster and not a friend. I dare you.

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Luffy not telling anyone about himself/his past is so fucking funny to me. He will literally tell anyone about Shanks and his beloved straw hat, but only be like "oh yeah, I have a brother" if said brother is physcially standing in front of him

#one piece

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[person in the late 1700s voice] and just when are you going to end feudalism? the holy roman emperor will just send hundreds of thousands of troops to quell your rebellions. we aren't getting anywhere like this, and haven't you heard the monarchs are adopting enlightened ideas anyway? there have been no successful capitalist states, all of the attempts have turned into failures or have installed a new monarch

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I don't know how possible it is for revolution to happen when America exists. You've seen enough posts by Americans to know they are incapable of having their own revolution, and you know enough history that America will stamp out communism wherever it takes place. I don't like that and I wish it wasn't the case, but that's the reality of the situation.

Okay but for real:

Usamericans do have a real tendency to not have consistently revolutionary ideas, but you gotta remember that we are extremely overexposed to a certain slice of the usamerican population. Not only is the country very overrepresented on the internet, but we also (here) only encounter the set of usamericans who use tumblr. I don't think that usamericans are particularly incapable of revolutionary ideas when compared to other places in the imperial core (they are obviously much worse when compared to non-imperialist countries)

Capitalism within a country will eventually be weakened by whatever thing that occurs, and the same is true for the international system of imperialist capitalism. Yes, the CIA is dedicated to the task of impeding communist revolutions, but they aren't particularly adept at it. In many cases in south america, failed attempts were able to be sabotaged because of a weakness in the revolutionaries, weaknesses which we learn from. For example, Allende's assassination taught us that, even if power is reached through parliamentarism, it is not enough to rid the country of capitalist elements able to sabotage us.

But, my friend, just like we aren't perfect, they aren't either. The CIA was unable to crush the Cuban revolution because the Cubans took enough preemptive measures, because they didn't lower their guard, because the CIA was particularly inept at some attempts, like the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and because of external circumstances like the eventual appearance of soviet nuclear missiles which made intervention much trickier. This did come at the cost of less of Cuba's resources being invested into development.

We will have our defeats, and they will have theirs. Ours will be at greater numbers, but theirs will be colossal and much more difficult to correct. No economic system is eternal, feudalism was the main form of production for a good millennia, and it all went crashing down. Capitalism will do the same, and so will socialism one day give way to a communist society.

Now that we are approaching yet another 1st of May, the international workers' day, I encourage the reader to think how far we've come from the very first one in 1889 and the second international. How much progress workers worldwide have made, both achieving more and more respect in our respective capitalist countries (the first May Day was called as a worldwide demand for the 8 hour workday!) and in creating our own workers' states. Just in China, hundreds of millions of people were lifted from their illiterate and miserable peasant's lives, at the mercy of warlords for hundreds if not thousands of years, through the efficiency of socialism. Thomas Sankara vaccinated millions of children, ended generalized illiteracy, ended genital mutilation and kicked out the french colonizers in just 4 years.

It is very understandable to sometimes fall into defeatism at the face of a seemingly infinite mechanism of oppression. But we have to remember all of those who defeated it locally, and the many more who tried against all odds. I don't know you, friend, but I'm confident when I say that you and me are the descendants of workers, and we are workers ourselves. You and I struggle for a better world free of exploitation of man by man, even for the extremely annoying shitlibs we encounter here. Do not be consumed by the constant arguing and negativity found in social media, the real fight is with our Parties, organizing our own class whether it's through the union, the Party, or any other organization. I don't know about you, but this blog is just an outlet for being a long-winded marxist unable to write a simple sentence, I spend even more time interacting with my comrades and with unpoliticized students. Social media (especially tumblr) will never be a real avenue for change beyond what spreading awareness and occasional education can do.

#hi again op #excuse me while I dig through your blog a little bit

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this may shock the viewer but I actually do prefer the temporary violence the bourgeoisie will suffer in the event of a revolution over the unending and worse violence the working class suffers every day just to maintain the status quo

#thank you op #one would think this hellsite would agree 100% with your first post but then we get those wild ass takes #they crossed my dash so many times already I'm about to combust #so once again thank you for taking the time to write this so I don't feel like I'm going crazy #and now for a little ramble! #I'm just. How the FUCK. Did we even get here??? #from the “don't confuse the oppressed's violent reaction for the oppressor's violent action” #...to whatever that “all violence is bad actually” bullshit discourse is #like. “unionize! the rich shouldn't exist! radicalize yourself! legislation written in blood! remember those who gave their lives for x! #class counciousness! late stage capitalism sucks! it's always morally right to punch a nazi!" yadda yadda yadda #what do y'all think radicalization MEANS #“ohhh we can just transition to a better society peacefully!!” ...yeah how's that going again? #a pile of hard fought rights and overall progress lost just like that all over the world. congrats on the setbacks! #and guess what? once we regain that progress it will always be at risk of getting revoked AGAIN! welcome to bourgeoise democracy! #tumblrinas love that quote about how capitalism seems inescapable but so did the right of kings or something. and yet... #can't imagine a functioning world that doesn't rely on the structure set by the class currently in power. interesting. #but for real I AM side eyeing this weird non-violence discourse #smells like falling real hard for god knows what kind of propaganda mixed with bonkers purity culture #we already die every day. we will keep dying everyday anyway for nothing. who benefits from declawing the working class' rightful rage? #to reiterate: the bourgeoise don't HAVE to suffer any violence if THEY peacefully give up on their ways. they just don't want to.

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Literally the first thought I had was käänteiskentauri

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ill spend my twenties investigating the healing properties of salt i dont know about you guys

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[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

#urgh

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#*snorts* #yep

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tove jansson gets a lot of shit for drawing gollum like this but it wasnt until after tolkien saw the drawing that he went back and added ‘small’ to gollum’s description in the next revision of the hobbit so whose fault was it really

#I recognized it as moomin style and was ready to reblog with 'i don't go here but-' cause it IS a great illustration #(black and white with shades done with lots of hatching tickle me in the EXACT right spot) #but as it turns out... #lotr #the hobbit

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gomu gomu of your eye

#*vibrating* #I would keep the prev tags if I knew how to copy them on mobile other than retyping everything #alas I'll simply leave a '<- prev tags!!!!!' tag #one piece

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#at this point my phone is permanently on silent mode 😔

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do you think your pet would send anon hate?

yes

no

i dont have a pet

#...yes I think my cat would #like. on purpose. #to let me know she could #edit: oops I meant to vote yes but apparently tapped no instead #the sentiment is what matters

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I think something abt luffy that makes him so enchanting is that he's introduced as being very silly and goofy, and you kind of expect him to be humbled or experience the harsh reality of what being a pirate actually means (cruelty, theft, actually being a bad person etc.) and have to adjust his world view, but then fucked up things start happening and he's still silly and goofy about it and you find that he actually wasn't sheltered at all and he is just a little fucked up himself, but still happy and loving

and then its Everyone Else who has to adjust to what his idea of a pirate is bc he keeps winning and they're just like "yeah okay. whatever. I guess thats what this is in now."

#!!!!! #one piece