#get reading sickos

[heritageposts]

how do i start to read marxist leninist/leftist stuff ? i searched on the internet but it’s super confusing lol

the most important value for me as an ML is anti-imperialism, so i guess i'll always recommend that people start with works centred on that

some suggestions below (all books should be available either on marxist.org or as pdf/epub files on libgen)

American Holocaust by David E. Stannard

about the colonization of america. not explicitly marxist, but it's probably done more to radicalize me than any other piece of writing. this is the pile of corpses capitalism is built on:

Within no more than a handful of generations following their first en counters with Europeans, the vast majority of the Western Hemisphere's native peoples had been exterminated. The pace and magnitude of their obliteration varied from place to place and from time to time, but for years now historical demographers have been uncovering, in region upon region, post-Columbian depopulation rates of between 90 and 98 percent with such regularity that an overall decline of 95 percent has become a working rule of thumb. What this means is that, on average, for every twenty natives alive at the moment of European contact-when the lands of the Americas teemed with numerous tens of millions of people-only one stood in their place when the bloodbath was over. To put this in a contemporary context, the ratio of native survivorship in the Americas following European contact was less than half of what the human survivorship ratio would be in the United States today if every single white person and every single black person died. The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. That is why, as one historian aptly has said, far from the heroic and romantic heraldry that customarily is used to symbolize the European settlement of the Americas, the emblem most congruent with reality would be a pyramid of skulls. - David E. Stannard

2. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed. - Vladimir Lenin

3. The Wretched of The Earth by Franz Fanon

Let us look at ourselves, if we can bear to, and see what is becoming of us. First, we must face that unexpected revelation, the strip-tease of our humanism. There you can see it, quite naked, and it’s not a pretty sight. It was nothing but an ideology of lies, a perfect justification for pillage; its honeyed words, its affectation of sensibility were only alibis for our aggressions. A fine sight they are too, the believers in non-violence, saying that they are neither executioners nor victims. Very well then; if you’re not victims when the government which you’ve voted for, when the army in which your younger brothers are serving without hesitation or remorse have undertaken race murder, you are, without a shadow of doubt, executioners. And if you chose to be victims and to risk being put in prison for a day or two, you are simply choosing to pull your irons out of the fire. But you will not be able to pull them out; they’ll have to stay there till the end. Try to understand this at any rate: if violence began this very evening and if exploitation and oppression had never existed on the earth, perhaps the slogans of non-violence might end the quarrel. But if the whole regime, even your non-violent ideas, are conditioned by a thousand-year-old oppression, your passivity serves only to place you in the ranks of the oppressors. - prefrace by Jean-Paul Sartre

4. Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa I have talked a good deal about Hitler. Because he deserves it: he makes it possible to see things on a large scale and to grasp the fact that capitalist society, at its present stage, is incapable of establishing a concept of the rights of all men, just as it has proved incapable of establishing a system of individual ethics. Whether one likes it or not, at the end of the blind alley that is Europe, I mean the Europe of Adenauer, Schuman, Bidault, and a few others, there is Hitler. At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophicrenunciation, there is Hitler - Aimé Césaire

5. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti

probably the most accessible introduction to communism that doesn't demonize countries that have undergone—or attempted to undergo—a transitation into socalism (like the ussr, cuba, etc.)

The very concept of "revolutionary violence" is somewhat falsely cast, since most of the violence comes from those who attempt to prevent reform, not from those struggling for reform. By focusing on the violent rebellions of the downtrodden, we overlook the much greater repressive force and violence utilized by the ruling oligarchs to maintain the status quo, including armed attacks against peaceful demonstrations, mass arrests, torture, destruction of opposition organizations, suppression of dissident publications, death squad assassinations, the extermination of whole villages, and the like. - Michael Parenti

#i'm too lazy to write an introduction for all of them #but i've included some quotes #get reading sickos #this is now on the tumblr university curriculum

[stromer]

call me crazy... but i think hockey belongs in the desert idk

#just like. absolutely gutted that some little kid lost their favorite hockey team today #coolest jerseys in the league... AURA that's just absolutely unmatched on all regards. gone like that #the genuine lack of empathy i've encountered reading comments and what not. these people are actual sickos.... do they even SEE IT? #and ownership ONLY TOLD THE PLAYERS/STAFF BECAUSE THE RELOCATION NEWS GOT LEAKED!!!!!!!!! waht the hell #staff/communities/families/writers/players etc etc are all losing something... like garyb can always Get Bent but these are real ppl! #pouring your heart out into a team for so many years; none of which have been easy just to get this in return #fucking utah.... to play in an arena that is literally not even built for hockey........ like we've lost the plot so incredibly bad esp whe #the top goal scorer in the league is literally from arizona LOL #say all you want abt yotes failing but they knew friendship... they knew love... they knew how to see the world in a grain of sand... #i'm not even a diehard yotes fan but this just blows and az deserves better than this

[spaciebabie]

You felt eyes trained on you from a few feet away, but you didn’t need to turn your head to know who it was. However, Springtrap had been staring at you like this for just over five minutes now, cheek resting in one hand. You occasionally glanced over at him here and there from out of the corner of your eye, but you couldn’t discern much from his oddly deadpan expression.

“Are you warm or cold?” he muttered suddenly, his gravelly voice a bit shaky from not having used it much that day.

“Huh?” You flinched. “Oh, uh… I suppose it’s only a little chilly in here, but not all bad.”

He nodded, shifting his expressionless gaze to another corner of the room as you tilt your head. “..Why do you ask?”

Springtrap’s eyes widen slightly, appearing to have only just realized how strange such a question may have sounded without any context.

He looks at you, perhaps observing your intermittent fidgeting, before fully turning back to you to reach a trembling furred hand gently cup your cheek. You can already feel your face burning, but Springtrap shows no indication that he even felt the change.

“..It’s not the same,” he finally sighs, his breath shaky and his delicate torso quivers with each little movement. “Sure, I know what you feel like. Kind of. And I suppose I can RECALL feeling hot or cold at one point long ago…”

He trails off for a moment, tilting his head a bit; he must have finally noticed the new pigment in your cheeks.

“Even though I know there’s a surplus of blood rushing to your cheeks right at this moment, I can’t feel the extra heat it’s producing. It’s not enough. Not for these hands. Touching you this way isn’t the same as if I suddenly had every one of my nerve endings again, and could actually feel every detail without, well.. harming you.”

You’re speechless. Where did all of this come from, anyway? Though, you notice an actual expression eventually form, and the spacey look in his eyes has been replaced by a strange sting of loss.

“I used to fear my own heartbeat. The noise was unbearable. Any time I stressed myself, the thing felt like it was trying to punch a hole through every pressure point in my body.”

He chuckled dryly. If he’d been able to, he might have let a tear roll down his cheek.

“Now? I’d give anything to hear that wretched thing again.”

~Mari

THAT. THE. THE ENDING LINE. OHGGGG OGGH MY GOD

#SCREAMS #IM SPEECHLESS I #spacie splains #YOU GUYS NEED 2 WRITE. FANFIC SO I CAN. READ THEM. #CLAWS AT THE WALLS #CHASES AND BITES AT MY OWN TAIL #RUNS IN CIRCLES GOOD GUFKCING GOD #woe....the torment of never being able ta fully touch and feel ever again #hhhh YESSS ANGST!!!!!!!1 HURT OLD MAN!!!!!!!!!! FUCKA YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #GET TORMENTED AHAHAHAHAHHA #LAUGHS ;LIKE A SICKO

[zukkaoru]

[ID: a manga panel of Tachihara from Bungou Stray Dogs. he sweats nervously. he has a lopsided smile and his eyebrows are slightly furrowed. he says, "...ha...ha ha... mad thirsty for blood, huh? but we already know your skill." /End ID.]

the face of a man who is scared, yet also turned on

#knowing that tachihara is the fifth hunting dog actually makes everything that happens with him before the reveal 100x funnier #mans is going through like twelve different crises here #imagine you join the mafia as an undercover government spy to get revenge on the woman you blame for your brother's death #and then flash forward a couple years and you're holding a gun to an enemy hostage's head #as you're trying to save the MAFIA BOSS (you are still aligned w the government) from dying #and your superior threatens the hostage's sister causing the hostage to go sicko mode #and suddenly you realize this guy could kill you. and you also might be attracted to men . #hello grace here #grace reads bsd

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

When all of your pirate mutuals succumb to the Gaimen angels derangement and you can't join in the fun because you just do not give a fuck about them 😔

#dont read the tags im being a hater if you like good omens keep scrolling im not trying to yuck your yum or whatever im just venting #its not just the christianity thing either they're literally so not compelling to me #like this is why i get offended when people compare them to Ed and Stede Ed and Stede aren't boring like that #Azeriphael and Crowley need to loosen up and commit murder or something #anyway Pepper was my favorite character in the first season i think she should be allowed to commit arson #if season 2 had been about her going to college and being annoying in sociology class and coming up with a plan to overthrow the government #i would have already watched season 2 #but its about that angel and that demon who queerbaited yall for 2 and a half decades? yawn #its like oh boo hoo you're on different sides you dont want to break the rules #theyre fuckin rules sickos Crowley way less so than Azeriphael but still #but i also like Crowley more than Azeriphael #I think Crowley would be a mediocre blorbo with a good aesthetic if his whole arc didn't revolve around an angel with religious trauma #Like the characters I enjoyed were Anathema and Pepper and Madame Tracy and Shadwell were funny if not necessarily compelling #Crowley was fine if he wasn't attached to Azeriphale but Azeriphale fell incredibly flat #he has no fucking teeth #no shade to the actor #like I wouldn't mind Azeriphale as a character if the narritive didn't constantly keep trying to get me to care about his internal conflict #because the internal conflict of not wanting to dissapoint sky daddy is not a vibe #all of that on top of my distaste for chritian aesthetics and it's just.... #it's not the show for me #anyway incredibly unsurprising to me that Zira asked Crowley to become an angel again he would be like that #yassss king try to change your boyfriend into what you want him to be. jfc I can't with his heavenly ass #I just can't care about that kind of a rules sicko the way I can't care about Izzy unless he's a problem to be overcome

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

i read a hannigram fic last night where op decided it was an okay thing to mention vatsyayana and my brain chemistry is fucked now.

#raj shitposting #afghdaklkjfdakjfgaskjgf #so for context i read the kamasutra as a joke earlier last month and istg i was not expecting what i read. #bro- listen i thought it'd be about heterosexual sex only but it's really not specified IN SO MANY PLACES IT MAKES ME WANNA YELL. #there's this entire section in the text about scents. now idk how many of y'all know seema anand but you should def check out her tedtalk. #because she kinda boils it down to the very basics with the best examples for all of those who do not want their brain chemistry altered. #and that was what got me into her stuff and i read the arts of seduction a couple years back but i wasn't unhinged back then- #-so i forgot all about it until like a month or so back when i came across a video of hers on yt and damn those floodgates BROKE man. #which lead to me finally putting my foot down and reading that shit and JESUS FUCKING CHRIST- #so back to where we were. there's this entire section about scents alright? and we all know where this is going so bear with me please. #so this section talks about how different scents stimulate excitement and how different parts of the body should be scented. #like seema anand does NOT warn you about how fucking DETAILED this shit is in the original text. AT ALL. #it's got i think somewhere around 600 different scents and the optimum intensity of the scents for like IDK TURNING INTO A MONSTER. #so like when i read the fic my brain thought HEY THESE ARE TWO UNHEALTHY OBSESSIONS OF THIS FUCKING SICKO THAT SHOULD ALIGN RIGHT? BOOM. #and i imagined post fall will experimenting with scents for fun and shit because why not who's to stop him at this point in his life? #and then my brain flashed me a very vivid image of hannibal BURYING his face into will's waist to smell the perfume he put there- #and then my brain short circuited because that is too powerful an image for a mortal brain to comprehend. #i don't think anyone will understand what the fuck it is that i'm on about but y'all should watch that ted talk. #and get ahold of the nearest fic writer you know and force them to write a fic on this BECAUSE THIS IS THE PROMPT THEY'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. #this is actual psychosexual bullshit and istg i've had SO MANY vivid dreams ABOUT SCENTS ALONE it's making me lose my fucking mind. #GAAAAAAAAAAAAH #hannigram #hannibal

[todayisafridaynight]

if i doodle during unlucky monkey stream later would we be mad at me

#not rgg #snap chats #oh yeah stream later. 4:30 THE USUAL #anyway no cause i THOUGHT about drawing during it. i prob wouldnt show it on screen since #Thats A Lot Going On LOL but im only askin in the event i do and im half-paying attention so no one wonders why im Half-Paying Attention #unlucky monkey one of my fave movies and because of that ive always wanted to draw art for it but i keep getting distracted #i suppose the best time to do so would be. during my fourth rewatch of it LOL #there a lot of ttm movie art i wanna make tbh lol... like ive made SOME but theres still more i wanna do #oh but yeah if youve read this far. for whatever reason. after unlucky monkey it'll be a normal judgment stream #'snap what do you mean normal judgment stream' i mean im playing the game for four hours LOL #i need to catch up on lost time so. lol. #i realize pretty much everyone will leave halfway into it if not the first hour of it but thats prob for the best #i'll vod it in any case so if anyone really cares to see it it'll be there #ok bye i have to. uh. god idk #im ngl i still feel crummy LOLOL but i promise i wont be crummy during stream #i forgot the most important thing about streams and that being streams are equivalent to being on stage #i mean i never became an actor for a reason LOLOL #it's a performance art and i forgot that and im mad about it. BUT I WONT FORGET THIS TIME so dont worry bout me bein ill during stream #well. ill in /that/ sense. we are watching a ttm movie ahaaaaa im a sicko 😩 #IN ANY CASE. hope to see people there :) for the judgment segment i promise to make up for yesterday #NOW im gonna uhhhhh yeah idk :) oh my god my organ hurts im going to kill myself #im gonna stare at this google doc for a hot minute

[silencingspellsongs]

i completely forgot i was supposed to be working on my hush theory redux or my project meridian theory and instead i entered a fugue state yesterday and created an absolutely bonkers blake theory 🤪

should i release it from my drafts even though it is just so so silly?

#argent rambles #redactedverse #redacted audio #sometimes i get so focused on one little tiny not even important fact #and my brain goes into sicko mode and then i read it back and go 'oh no ones gonna believe this' #but idk sometimes the crazy out there theories can be fun right?

[direful]

silvergifting yaaaaaaaay silvergifting

#I loveeeeeee when they are so so so so doomed from the start. & then get More Doomed by their own actions. #no matter which way you read it it’s good shit for the tragedy enjoyer sickos like me #was gonna put some truly heinous shit in these tags but you’re all spared <3 #hurgle hurgle

[jaegerbroshoe]

Omg the way people miss the entire point of The Hunger Games series 😭

#y’all are literally the Capitol thirsting for blood with the way you keep demanding prequels about other games #like wasn’t the stuff described in the triology enough for you? #sickos #I don’t get how you can say you’re a fan of the series and yet miss the entire message 🤦🏻‍♀️ #you should be questioning why you find reading about people’s misery so entertaining #not just revel in it #(and ftr I do think it’s ok to enjoy this stuff in fiction but it should be to challenge your thoughts #not because you genuinely enjoy the idea of people suffering; that stuff does end up translating to real life when you romanticize it) #the hunger games #misc #my opinion

[volfoss]

i love u old comic scans with the crunch and wear and tear of having been read a million times...

#twist rambles #rn im reading a comic from god? the 30s i think. for a lesser known character so its very cool to ME at least to see the wear and tear on #the pages and just... the artifacting and stuff. bc u have stuff like the og bat.man comics where theyve been preserved SO well and in some #cases rereleased by dc w digital colors and stuff. so its fun for me at least lol. i need to get back to the li/efield mines eventually tho #<- saying this genuinely. sorry to be a sicko and enjoy his art or something. im aware it does not look great but i am such a fan of how he #makes DP seem like he has like... m&m head disease.

[ballisterboldheart]

i’m being so normal on this word doc

#s.txt #i'm not even going sickos voice HAHAHAHA YESSS <- lie #you guys dont even GET IT. the relationship between chapter titles and opening lines and when the title gets USED in the chapter. god. GOD. #i need to finish doing this round of editing. i need to get someone. to fucking. read this.

[thebestestbat]

omg i just remembered my sad slut alyosha fic which is tagged angst and fisting....

#sometimes you have already written the fic that you want to read and then you get to go read it. YES #(sickos) YES..YES!

[parasitoidism]

Part 8 is like the most criminally under read jojo part

#skipping part 6 to get to part 7 is bad enough but then not even reading part 8? sickos.

[ladysophiebeckett]

this is what’s come to.

#i spent all afternoon reading 34 chapter long fic based the events of 1 episode #i haven’t read fic—let alone fic for a popular series in Years #im finally getting fed…but at what cost #anyway—I already watched the finale and (Redacted!!!) #whatever im having the time of my life #shout out to the sickos in that ao3 tag

[yaldabaothadeez]

You say you’re afraid of the ocean, but do you mean

roiling waves that threaten to reach out, pluck you from the shore, and smash you against the rocks?

being surrounded, on all sides but above, by a medium through which you can only slowly move, and barely see, but you know somewhere contains fast, hungry things for which neither of these are a problem?

unknowable lightless depths?

unpredictable, heaving mountains of water?

the sun-scorched desert of a calm surface; lifeless, merciless?

crabs?

#this reads like a personality quiz #number 5 personally #the rest get a sicko's yes from me