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[aquatransmissaest]

Imagine having a best friend who regularly confesses his weirdest darkest conspiracy theories about your mutually despised very uncanny and murderous leather-loving boss and suddenly losing said best friend of yours permanently to said boss after they went on one singular fishing trip on their own during which all you get to know is that their professional relationship seems to have met with what your best friend demurely calls "progress" and you see that it has fully wiped out from his brain that you both are In a Union together and instead he is now seeming to prioritise your until-recently-Mutually-despised boss' mental and physical well-being over the literal lives of all your colleagues and friends. Imagine confronting your best friend about why the hell he's trying to protect the guy (again, your boss) that killed your adoptive dad who was also his predecessor and he has no idea why he's doing what he's doing and neither do you. Imagine being token asexual pirate of the Walrus crew Billy Bones Manderley

[aquatransmissaest]

You are Billy Bones from Robert Louis Stevenson's children's magazine adventure story Treasure Island, talking to Long John Silver from Robert Louis Stevenson's children's magazine adventure story Treasure Island, and you tell him "We survived him, you and I," and you ARE technically correct. Unfortunate for you

[dre759]

Class is a real and universal relation. The personification of the working class are peoples deprived of the ownership of their resources who must engage in waged activity to earn a living. Class is a matter of survival. In relation to waste accumulation, the capital class earns off the avails of the human being consumed in capitalist production alongside the raw material. The masses divided by capitalist-oriented identity are a social class and capital's materiel. However, since identity is a constituent of cultural heritage, there is no class without identity. The identities imposed by capital to mask over class are not a product of some essentialist myth trailing from the past. Myth and cultural identities are the manifest immediacy of subject but are not relations of subject to object reproducing being to be subjects.

These mythological/reified constructs reinforcing identity against class are instrumentalised by capital to divide the working class; a divided working class earns a lower income share. Myth assumes a real form, as man self-reifies to reproduce capital. A thingified man, the thing, is not subject. All income shares under capitalism are rents ledgered against the different forces within the class formation. Capital-erected identity is a purveyor of rent, a means to reduce labour, the associated wage bill, or the cost of social reproduction qua value proper. Naturally, these reductions are surplus value making relations that fuel higher profits.

To bring about the rule of the international working class draws on the transference between identity and class realised in anti-systemic struggles. Anti-systemic identity, a cultural current pitted against capital, becomes class by dialectical inversion as it self-realises in struggle. The struggle mediates the particular into the universal. A caveat is called for: unlike transcendental subjects or the abstract man/identity of the mainstream, the Marxian method adopts the concept of social man, defined as a historically determined social relation that mirrors the totality of the material circumstances or living conditions. Ideally, social man is a sub-category of class whose emancipation arises upon the incremental build-up of socialist ideology and working-class hegemony.

-Ali Kadri, China’s Path To Development: Against Neoliberalism Pg. 60

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse

[sivavakkiyar]

[aquatransmissaest]

If you like having a fantastic time while having a really really truly harrowingly horrible time and remembering and reliving it always and forever, I have Black Sails for you. Watch Black Sails. It's a good show 👍🏽

[aquatransmissaest]

XXV, XXXVIII | "Flint's war. My war."

[vampy-campy]

Black Sails VIII.

[aquatransmissaest]

Toby Stephens achieved blissful enlightenment for a period of four years by accident in order to shapeshift into Captain James E. Flint (the Name of Grim Death to All of Them) in front of a camera, and then went back to being a regular non-communist member of polite English acting society as if nothing significant Occurred

[aquatransmissaest]

▪︎ BLACK SAILS, XIX ▪︎

[cosmonautroger]

Alice Coltrane

[virginiawoolfsgf]

i meant nothing by the lighthouse. one has to have a central line down the middle of the book to hold the design together. i saw that all sorts of feelings would accrue to this, but i refused to think them out, and trusted that people would make it the deposit for their own emotions—which they have done, one thinking it means one thing another another. i can’t manage symbolism except in this vague generalised way. whether its right or wrong i don’t know, but directly i’m told what a thing means, it becomes hateful to me.

virginia woolf, in a letter to roger fry, about to the lighthouse, 1927

[quotespile]

“Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no ‘moments of truth.’ It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which themselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one’s own unanswered.”

— Thomas Pynchon, V.

[havingapoemwithyou]

not getting closer by Jack Gilbert

[sivavakkiyar]

Assam floods: Death toll rises to 89, over 1.28 lakh still affected 

Authorities are operating 39 relief camps, sheltering 12,382 displaced persons, while another 16 relief distribution centres are providing a

The death toll from this year's floods in Assam has risen to 89 after two more people died in the worst-hit Sivasagar district, while over 1.28 lakh people across ten districts continue to remain affected, according to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).

The ASDMA said both the latest fatalities were reported from Sivasagar, which remains the worst-affected district. The ten flood-hit districts are Sivasagar, Dhemaji, Golaghat, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Nagaon, Charaideo, Karbi Anglong,Hojai, Kamrup (Metropolitan), where 365 villages and over 15,342 hectares of cropland remain inundated.

Authorities are operating 39 relief camps, sheltering 12,382 displaced persons, while another 16 relief distribution centres are providing assistance to affected residents.

Apart from riverine flooding, urban flooding has also affected one district and three revenue circles, impacting around 7,000 people.

One death linked to urban flooding has been reported so far.

[failhag3]

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[mohammedmtargaza]

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[khoesib]

Why are even some self-proclaimed antizionists so opposed to calling Zionism and Israeli society in general Jewish supremacist? I’ve seen a few instances where they’re like no it’s white supremacist.

It's uncomfortable to recognise that a group of formerly oppressed minorities can become supremacist in their own right without entirely assimilating into the global white supremacist network.

It's why even concepts like Mestizaje, Buddhist Nationalism or Hindutva have been essentially ignored for decades until recently. The only groups of minorities that people truly worry about with regards to reactionary trends and Nationalism are Black Americans, Indigenous people and Muslims. Then we have conversations about how Black Americans are actually all pro-Amerikan fascists, Indigenous people are blood and soil fascists and Muslims are all violent, homophobes who refuse to assimilate.