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Can’t reblog this post cause op has me blocked so I’ll just respond here:

And how many people are dying as “acceptable collateral damage” due to capitalism and the global structures of imperialism that churn through the lives of workers in the global south? Also, iterative change within the system (if it even worked) is just a commitment to more and more years of people dying and suffering so their blood can fuel the gears of business.

You view the violence necessary to uphold this system as moral neutral, as not violence because it is non-transgressive, or you are ignorant of its existence, but it is the ongoing price of the status quo. How many diabetics have died because they couldn’t afford insulin, how many other disabled people died because they couldn’t afford care, how many exploited nations in the imperial periphery have a paucity of medical care because their wealth is continually looted?

The hypothetical power cuts under a revolution factor in for you, but not the deaths due to the repeated failures of the Texas power grid, let alone the deaths of the miners around the globe who dig up rare earth metals for a pittance so we can have cheap consumer goods.

A revolution is no more violent than that which you perceive as peace, because your worldview views the capitalist state as an authority that is ultimately just in its wielding of the monopoly on violence

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Felix Dzerzhinsky, 1901.

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Ivan & Alyosha

I really wanted to draw Ivan just watching when Alyosha was helping with Orthodox service...

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didnt hear about this right to exist when the ussr was unilaterally disbanded by a western puppet

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Soviet mosaic on the facade of a public building:

“We will build our new World !”

Artwork by Y. Dehto, U.S.S.R., 1969.

Naro-Fominsk (Moscow Oblast)

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they call me George on account of my W Bush

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Firs Zhuravlev - Boyar’s daughter (1896)

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they had to even out having a based communist sinbling somehow otherwise it would be cosmically unfair

Right-wing ideology in Finland has to outweigh the commies else it might remember that time the socialists held significant portions of the country

Also Finnish independance in the early 20th-century was a largely socialist movement, but Finns are lowkey deluded into thinking they fought the evil Ryssät (Soviets) to gain it’s independence – which is honestly a cartoonishly mottled mistconstruction but I digress 😔🤚

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Consequences of a largely Finnish upbringing on nigh full display

My sister being vehemently anti-communist with a seeming propensity for fascistic aesthetics is certainly an unfortunate thing😐

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My sister being vehemently anti-communist with a seeming propensity for fascistic aesthetics is certainly an unfortunate thing😐

#dunya.txt

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people who talk about palestinian liberation as if it's primarily about immaterial abstract ideals like a spiritual right to ancestral/holy land or say shit like "if jewish people don't need a nation-state then why do palestinians" are either deliberately lying and doing pure sophistry to justify the state of israel or live in a fantasy world where it is not a matter of life and death. zionist colonialism and the imperialism propping it up very materially exploits and kills palestinians

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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

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The family is where most of the world's rapes take place, and also most of the murders. Nobody has more chances to rob, abuse, blackmail, manipulate, hit or touch you without consent than your family. It would be logical that announcing an intention of "treating you like family" (as many airlines, restaurants, banks, shops and workplaces do) would be considered as a horrible threat. However, to metaphorically be "family" in the eyes of someone, makes you think of having access to something... quite unfamiliar. Namely: approval, solidarity, a promise to help, embrace, and to take care

Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family: a Manifesto for Care and Liberation, 2022

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somebody will rightfully notice that europeans are really fucking weird about romani people and there will always be 1 person in the comments going "okay it's not racist, you just don't understand, bleeding heart americans, i promise my brother tony had an experience which proves they're all raping theives and hitler was right about them" and not seem to be aware of how much they sound like americans talking about black ppl

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candid photos of life in the sierra maestra for guerilla fighters during the early days of the cuban revolution

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Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.