Maya

25. She/her. Thoughts on Marx, Movies, and whatever.

[cinnamaya]

Trying to look cute for someone ❤️

[wildgifthorses]

John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism

Back when I was an undergraduate, during the final years of the cold war, by far the most exciting thing going on in political philosophy wa

I sometimes teach a seminar course in which we read all three of the books that Rawls published during his lifetime. I always start by cautioning students that the biggest challenge in reading Rawls’s work is figuring out why it is so important – because it seems incredibly dull (normie, basic, etc.). My best suggestion for overcoming this challenge, when reading A Theory of Justice, is to go into it thinking “this is the book that killed Western Marxism,” and then focus on figuring out how it managed to do so.

This is a short but useful post situating Rawls (and Nozick) in the debate over "analytical Marxism", which I think has helped clarify for me why these guys are considered so important.

(The account of Western Marxism collapsing into liberalism under its own contradictions post-1970s is one that I assume contemporary Marxists take issue with, so feel free to sound off here if you have a view on that)

[cinnamaya]

All serious thinkers abandoned Marxism. Those who did not abandon Marxism were not serious thinkers. Therefore, no serious thinker is a Marxist.

The liberal school of logic is so advanced it has discovered how to prove its suppositions within the argument that supposes them!

[leviathan-supersystem]

[capitalist voice]: in the dystopian commie hellscape that is china, housing just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper, leaving people who buy and then re-sell houses instead of doing actual work high and dry, while mean greedy workers selfishly buy houses, to live in.

[soft-october-night]

Like to charge reblog to cast

[lithominium]

You’re not casting

[bluenightcomedies]

thought they needed a little reminder that they still have far more to lose if they double down on this stupidity. spread the word, it seems they're... very forgetful about this.

[unlettered-heathen]

A small collection (feel free to add):

[thatonepsychouptheroad-deactiva]

@staff You're not very subtle.

[pigeonsplayground]

me after giving head: good? am i good? did you have fun? am i a good girl?

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Some of y'all aren't making it through the revolution

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

One of the guys is a fucking private jet dealer from Dubai like come on we're talking about the highest most coked-out decadent tier of your class enemies and you can't even get behind them getting the Eeby Deeby

[despazito]

“~🌸 guillotines aren’t punk 🌸 ~ “ - liberals the moment anything fun happens

[dottiedabunnie]

Ok!

So I have recently discovered I’m Polyamorous!

I had the thought before, but due to insecurities and my own personal problems I dropped it!

Now that I’m happy, healthy, and confident

I’m definitely polyam! I have SO MUCH LOVE and affection to give!!

And my dom wants us to get a girlfriend to share 🥰🥰🥰

Things are all looking up and bright for me and I’m excited to learn more about this new self discovery

(Not in colored text cuz this is important)

Ok to reblog

This is for lesbians and other sapphic folx

✨cismen•minors DNI✨

[cinnamaya]

I’m happy when people discover new possibilities for themselves, but… Polyamory is a thing people do not a thing people are.

[fandomsandfeminism]

I honestly think that the lack of non-sexual nudity in public spaces has done horrific damage to American society.

We deeply struggle to understand the natural diversity of bodies because we only see naked bodies in a sexual context. We are taught that seeing nudity is somehow inherently harmful, especially to children. We struggle to differentiate between sexually suggestive and sexually explicit material.

It fucks up the way people think about and talk about sex ed. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about breast feeding. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about queer folks. It feeds into fatphobia and ableism and is all rooted in this deeply harmful puritanism.

Like, I need people to understand that seeing a bare titty in public is not going to hurt a child. Seeing a man in a banana hammock isn't inherently traumatizing. I would argue, in fact, that adults treating those things as dangerous and gross and scary is going to do way more damage to a kid's psychology than seeing the nudity in the first place.

[zoobus]

These type of additions are vexing. Ostensibly supportive but can't help but make sure you know they're also Weird about nudity by making it about consent, doubling down on the idea that there's no such thing as nonsexual nudity, it's an action that willing partners need to consent to first. Does the breastfeeding parent need my consent to feed their child? When you see someone wearing practically see-through yoga pants, is your thought that they should have asked your consent before going outside? this is an exact example of how it fucks up the way you think, that you could read all of op and instinctually start thinking in the language of sexual assault, as if this post was about flashers

[strawberridipped]

Keep biting her small naturals

[cinnamaya]

Need someone to bite my small naturals

[cvt-n-sl4sh]

girl what 😭

[anticensorshipsideblog]

how old must we be before we are allowed to think about sex, i can never remember, they keep moving the goal posts.

[craycraybluejay]

We're never allowed to think ab sex sorry. Teen years are hormonal but being horny before 18 is a sin. When you're horny and 18-25 its cringe. When you're horny 25-35 "you should get a partner and stop being openly horny." When you're horny 35-45 that's weird because you're "kinda old." When you're horny 45-55 you're a creep. And when you're horny 55+ you're an old person who can't and shouldn't be horny. This is how they think. Sex bad, basically. Thinking about sex is bad. Wanting sex is bad. Anything even mildly related to sex or sexuality is bad.

[txttletale]

so many people in the notes of my post about how it's outright dangerous to advocate for increased parental control over kids' internet usage saying 'well obviously the Good parents should have control over their kids' internet usage and the Bad ones shouldn't' and it just absolutely baffles me how people can think like this without their heads exploding scanners style. like 'abolish the family' is an ambitious political goal i'll give you that but at least it's a goal that could be executed in the real world

[txttletale]

banking my political positions on the invention of the excalibur style child surveillance software that activates only for the righteous and pure of heart

[themoonbase]

Parents’ right to control nearly every aspect of a child’s life is held not only against the state and other adults, but also against their own children. In every American jurisdiction, parents have a privilege to commit assault and battery against their children under the parental discipline exception that would otherwise be prosecutable as domestic violence, and their children lack the protection from law enforcement that adults enjoy when attacked. Although defenders of “corporal punishment” may conceive of it as a means for parents to instill necessary discipline in children, statutes are written in such a way that parents are free to mete out ad hoc “punishment” without due process, limited only by the high threshold of child abuse. Any inquiry or review into whether such battery actually served a disciplinary purpose is unlikely, absent disagreement by a child’s other parent, due in part to there being virtually no serious legal standards defining when and whether “discipline” is reasonable. Parents may legally hit their children for violating ad hoc rules—or no rules at all—so long as they plausibly believe this to be necessary to control, train or educate their child. Parents can also confine their children and commit what would otherwise be kidnapping against them.

These parental powers over children effectively enable parents to use the threat of violence or confinement to force their children to do whatever the parent desires, so long as it falls outside of narrowly-defined abuse statutes. Likewise, children can be forced by their parents to abstain from anything they are not legally required to do, such as attend school, no matter how unhelpful this is for them. Children can be coerced in this way into participating in nearly all varieties of illiberal indoctrination, from ex-gay movement conversion camps to reactionary political or religious programs, to more seemingly innocuous activities like sports, music lessons, or compelled social bonding with relatives that would nonetheless be degrading to an unwilling participant. That people commonly express toleration for even those parenting choices they profoundly disagree with under the belief that it is not right to tell someone how to raise their “own” children reflects how pervasively accepted parental powers are.

Depriving children of the equal protection of the laws by privileging parents to commit what would otherwise be battery, domestic violence, kidnapping, and false arrest under the parental discipline exception is far from the only way the state grants parents rights against their children. The state also directly imposes legal duties on children to obey parental authority. The most dramatic examples of these legal duties are found in the ungovernable, unruly, or incorrigible minor laws, where children who disobey their parents may be charged with a juvenile status offense. Defying parents under these status offense laws can trigger direct state coercion against children in the form of court-mandated probation or even imprisonment in a juvenile detention facility. A significant number of states continue to maintain runaway laws that allow conviction of a child away from home without parental permission for a juvenile status offense. Most states that do not define this as a formal offense will nonetheless have procedures for police to detain children who are away from home without parental permission. Children who repeatedly run away are often regarded as children in need of services and may be forcibly confined to the same detention facilities where juvenile offenders are incarcerated. It is a crime in most places in the United States to aid a runaway, contribute to the delinquency of a minor, or both."

Samantha Godwin, Against Parental Rights

[ottercrimes]

The proponents of the nuclear family are also the enemies of love and they too are our enemies

[filmaticbby]

Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

[jelliegirl]

pug it in ✅

[demonprincex]

Weird kink: When I was a teen there were no locks in my house so no private places to jerk it. Lived near a large military training base they used for testing artillery & bombs so full of uninhabited forests and sand dunes with no roads or people. I'd sneak onto the military base and wander for hours until I was far from roads or outposts just to masturbate.

This eventually morphed into me literally fucking the natural terrain around me. I'd go tribbing with tree trunks and grind snowbanks until my junk was numb from the cold or raw from the friction. Lie down in the depressed grass and discarded hair where animals had slept and feel it against my back as I climaxed. It felt like I was a rutting animal and was indescribably sexy.

I stopped doing this when I was around 17 and an ant bit my genitals, which was hot in the moment but stayed swollen far longer than was probably healthy. I still miss living in a place where I could find truly private wilderness to do that in without risk of exposure to human observers (even if there was risk of stepping on unexploded ammunition and ticks).

walt whitman get fucking bent

[cinnamaya]

I like it when girls use me as a chew toy