[howieabel]

“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.” ― Helen Keller, Rebel Lives: Helen Keller

[forbidden-sorcery]

“Socialism, we have said—whatever form it may take in its evolution towards Communism—must find its own form of political organisation. Serfdom and Absolute Monarchy have always marched hand-in-hand. The one rendered the other a necessity. The same is true of Capitalist rule, whose political form is Representative Government, either in a Republic or in a Monarchy. This is why Socialism cannot utilise Representative Government as a weapon for liberating Labour, just as it cannot utilise the Church and its theory of divine right, or Imperialism and Caesarism, with its theory of hierarchy of functionaries, for the same purpose. A new form of political organisation has to be worked out the moment that Socialist principles shall enter into our life. And it is self-evident that this new form will have to be popular, more decentralised, and nearer to the folk-mote self-government than representative government can ever be.”

— Peter Kropotkin

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Tesla Cybertruck, 2021. Elon Musk has revealed his company’s new electric pick-up which features stainless steel bodywork over stainless steel monocoque construction

[freshthoughts2020]

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blackbear

[morusasworld]

“see where my touch can take u” ~ blackbear via twitter

[greensea-iza]

“When wasn’t the first time I drank?”

@sixheartsaflame

[allpowertothepeoplele68]

[burrowwombat]

The development towards state-capitalism -- often propagated under the name Socialism in Western Europe -- does not mean the liberation of the working class but greater servitude. What the working class strives for in its struggle, liberty and security, to be master of its own life, is only possible through control of the means of production. State socialism is not control of the means of production by the workers, but control by the organs of the state. If it is democratic at the same time, this means that workers themselves may select their masters. By contrast direct control of production by workers means that the employees direct the enterprises and construct the higher and central organisations from below. This is what is called the system of workers councils.

Anton Pannekoek, Letter On Workers’ Councils (1952)

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Kimetsu no Yaiba season 1  (2019)

[homuras]

— Wherever we go, Nezuko and I will be together. We’re never going to be apart again. Nezuko, I swear…

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[video]

[baruhara]

[burrowwombat]

The council system for labour embraces a large part of the economic forms employed by a constructive socialism which of its own accord operates and produces to meet all natural requirements. It was the direct result of a fruitful development of ideas growing out of the Socialist labour movement. This particular idea rose from the effort to provide a concrete basis for the realization of Socialism. This basis was seen to lie in the constructive employment of every efficient human being. But dictatorship is an inheritance from bourgeois society, the traditional precipitate of French Jacobism, which was dragged into the proletarian movement by the so-called Babouvists and later taken over by Marx and his followers. The idea of the council system is intimately intergrown with Socialism and is unthinkable without it; dictatorship, however, has nothing whatever in common with Socialism, and at best can only lead to the most barren of state capitalism.

Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938)

[burrowwombat]

The practice of parliaments is exactly the contrary. Here the delegates have to decide without asking instructions from their voters, without binding mandate. Though the M.P., to keep their allegiance, may deign to speak to them and to expound his line of conduct, he does so as the master of his own deeds. He voted as honor and conscience dictate him, according to his own opinions. Of course; for he is the expert in politics, the specialist in legislative matters and cannot let himself be directed by instructions from ignorant people. Their task is production, private business, his task is politics, the general regulations. In this way it is made possible that in democratic capitalism politicians, elected by a majority of workers, can serve the interests of the capitalist class.

Anton Pannekoek, Workers’ Councils (1947)

[penurnbra]

Concept: cinematic parallels gifset of the head on shoulder scenes from Happy Together, Moonlight, The Handmaiden, and God’s Own Country.

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