A Snowy Monday, 1926, Lilla Cabot Perry
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A Snowy Monday, 1926, Lilla Cabot Perry
https://www.wikiart.org/en/lilla-cabot-perry/a-snowy-monday-1926-1
Some of my favorite tomato varieties from the new ones I’ve grown this year:
Paul Robeson, Zapotek Brown Flesh, Afternoon Delight, Mushroom Basket, Gargamel, Charlie Chaplin, Voyage, Piprakujuline Triibuline, Drapée, Great White Blue, Barry’s Crazy Cherry (not pictured) and Black Beauty (not pictured).
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the communist man of pesto
when communists talk about the ruling class we dont mean there are secret rooms of rich people where they decide on everything together and no body knows about it. maybe liberals and other anticommunists who try to discredit radicals on those grounds misinterpret what we are saying because they have a fundamentally different way of viewing the world, and like to look at things on an inividual and isolated level and not on a structural level. marxists analyze things in terms of classes of people, not individuals. this does not mean the ruling class is completely coordinated and in agreement with each other. it means that they all share the same interests in maintaining the stability of capitalism regardless of idiosyncratic differences on other non economic political issues. when they all individually act in their rational self interest, regardless of whether its coordinated or not, they will act together as a class in order to preserve the economic system that gives them power. of course many rich people do actually all meet together and discuss what to do, but none of that is secret or hidden. what is more shocking is how little people seem to care
When a workers party takes the first steps toward transformation into a communist party, there is always the danger that it will be content simply to adopt a communist program, substitute communist doctrine for the former doctrine in its propaganda, and merely replace the hostile functionaries with ones who have communist consciousness. But adopting a communist program is only a statement of the will to become communist. If communist activity is not forthcoming, and if in organizing party work the passivity of the mass of the membership is perpetuated, the party is not fulfilling even the least of what it has promised to the proletariat by adopting the communist program. Because the first condition for seriously carrying out this program is the integration of all members into ongoing daily work.
The art of communist organization consists in making use of everything and everyone in the proletarian class struggle, distributing party work suitably among all party members and using the membership to continually draw ever wider masses of the proletariat into the revolutionary movement, while at the same time keeping the leadership of the entire movement firmly in hand, not by virtue of power but by virtue of authority, i.e., by virtue of energy, greater experience, greater versatility, greater ability.
Resolution on the Organizational Construction of the Communist Parties and the Methods and Scope of Their Activity, adopted at the 24th Session of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 12 July 1921
Defining your sexuality as uniquely “being attracted to PERSONALITY” is just so condescending and revealing. Like how poorly do you regard your LGBT siblings to cast our experiences in such an ugly superficial light
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people find out you’re bilingual and they’re always like
“ok so how do I say dick huh??? how do I say cock and balls huh? tell mE!! Tell me how do I tell someone to fuck off?? HOW DO I TELL SOMEONE I’M GOING TO TAKE A SHIT ON THEIR DINING ROOM TABLE IN YOUR LANGUAGE HUH????”
why can’t you instead say “how do I say class consciousness in your language? how do I tell the workers of the world to unite in your language? how do I say solidarity forever in your language? how do I pray for the death of jeff bezos in your language? is there a version of The Internationale in your language?” smh😔
On Standards of Feminist Conduct
Violence against women is a permanent feature of all capitalist societies, including US capitalist society. It is one of the most abhorrent aspects of patriarchy, the evil institution of women’s oppression. Patriarchy in the US has its own specific characteristics that are particular to capitalism, such as the widespread commodification of women. The term “commodification” refers to the transformation of women by the capitalists into objects for sale, a process in which ordinary men also participate.
Violence against women also shows up within self-proclaimed revolutionary organizations and revolutionary movements in the US. This includes rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, unwanted sexual pressure, other forms of physical and verbal abuse, and other forms of violation of consent. Recently, two major Trotskyist organizations, one in Britain [1] and one in the US [2], were rightly subjected to public exposure and condemnation for the liberalism (meaning the unprincipled lack of struggle) of their members in failing to oppose rape culture.
Another communist organization in the US was also exposed less than a year ago for sheltering a rapist member, disciplining him by merely having him write an essay for “self-criticism.” [3] At the height of the Occupy movement, there were accounts of sexual assault at protest camps in New York, Cleveland, Dallas, Baltimore, Lawrence, Portland, New Hampshire, and Glasgow. [4] It is also well known that rape culture is widespread among anarchist collectives and the broader anarchist milieu. [5] For every revolutionary organization and trend, the same question of women’s emancipation is on the table: which side are you on?
This is one of the most important political questions that must be resolved today for the revolutionary movement to move forward. In certain specific circumstances, it is the single most important political question. The fact that there is increasing debate on this question and growing disorder within the ranks of organizations is a good thing that must be encouraged to develop further. There needs to be more of it: more debate, more disorder, more turmoil, and more people raising their voices. Some have pointed out the causal link between the British Trotskyists’ class reductionist line and male chauvinist practice.
Others have highlighted the weak organizational forms of anarchists and their employment of “accountability processes” guided by “restorative justice” frameworks that very often turn out to be shams for the women involved. [6] However, this is too simple of an understanding of the problem if left at this level. In reality, violence against women within revolutionary organizations and revolutionary movements is a phenomenon with a wide expanse. It is not narrowly rooted in any specific trend.
No ideology or -ism will make an organization immune from this problem. There will be groups and individuals claiming all sorts of political positions who at the same time always relegate women’s emancipation to a secondary and unimportant place, or combine feminist discourse with male chauvinist conduct. Therefore, the most important question here is how an organization addresses the problem of violence against women when it arises in practice, as chances are it will at some point within its ranks. Certain guiding principles can be derived from the positive aspects of the Leninist-Comintern historical experience and from the comprehensive whole of today’s ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Maoism must be emphasized here, because of its breakthroughs in developing the trend of proletarian feminism and on the organizational question. Proletarian feminism is a trend of women’s emancipation generated in practice out of the Maoist-led People’s Wars and revolutionary mass movements around the world. [7] The Maoist party concept is also something fundamentally new in its nature and methods of work. [8] The guiding principles outlined here should determine the formulation of organizational policies in the US on anti-women violence. Without the correct policies based on the correct principles, revolutionary organizations in the US will never be able to organize increasing numbers of women as militants and leaders, as they have so far failed to do in the way that history demands of us.The domination of the NGO opportunists and their petty-bourgeois identity politics will remain uncontested. The masses of proletarian women will be left to follow the leadership of different non-proletarian trends, without the weapon of independent class politics.
1. Revolutionary organizations, if they are genuine, must automatically expel any member who engages in anti-women violence and abuse. Organizations that fail to do this cannot be taken seriously and must be publicly exposed for their liberalism in failing to oppose male chauvinism. The “restorative justice” framework and the “accountability process” used by anarchists and other activists more often than not merely reproduce in practice the dynamics of patriarchy.
For Marxist-Leninists, “rectification” and “criticism / self-criticism,” without a policy of expulsion, often becomes the same liberal process with a different name. In contrast, zero tolerance for male chauvinist violence and abuse must be the principle, meaning automatic expulsion and, depending on the circumstances, public exposure. This is the only way to forge organizations that are developing the actuality of women’s emancipation, not just talking about it as an appealing idea.
2. During investigations by an organization in the US into incidents of anti-women violence and abuse, the word of the victim alleging that violence and abuse has been committed against them must be given more weight than the word of the accused. If there is a factual dispute, the guiding principle must be to adopt policies and enact decisions based principally on the victim’s account of events. Victims of domestic violence often have their reality denied or manipulated consistently by their abusers.
This must be taken into account when investigating the facts and when coming to a decision about the accused. The revolutionary organization in the US, which is not a court of justice with a court’s material powers of investigation and presumptions, cannot allow the accused to simply deny the victim’s account in part or wholesale, call into question the victim’s motives, and mobilize their social network to pressure the victim and the organization.
Revolutionary organizations in the US are not states making decisions on punishment and rehabilitation, which would operate according to different standards. They are voluntary associations that must make a call – generally based on limited and conflicting verbal or written accounts – on how to respond to an incident, taking into consideration the need to advance the struggle for women’s emancipation, to develop women as militants and leaders, and to protect the organization’s work and reputation.
3. Rectification of individuals who have engaged in anti-women violence must be encouraged, but can take place only after their expulsion from the ranks of an organization, as a condition of re-admission at a future time. Certain acts, such as rape or sexual assault, must result in a lifetime ban without question. For organizations struggling in the imperialist countries, the Communist Party USA’s expulsion, subsequent mass public trial in 1931, and eventual rectification of Yokinen, a Finnish CPUSA member who denied several African Americans entry to a dance at the Finnish Workers Club in Harlem, remains the best example in the US of what a successful rectification process looks like in practice, in this case for white chauvinist conduct. [9]
Rectification in this regard does not mean uttering some words in an organizational meeting, writing an apology essay, engaging in mediation, participating in accountability circles or victim impact panels, or getting counseling and treatment. Are white chauvinists supposed to be counseled and treated as well? Rectification means conducting self-criticism widely before the masses, submitting the fullest account of one’s conduct and history to public scrutiny, and following through on a course of political activity of struggle against women’s oppression, which must include ongoing transformation of the individual person, similar to what Yokinen successfully carried out under the leadership of the CPUSA.
Recognizing that there is no organization in the US today with the necessary base, prestige among the masses, and scale to conduct such a process means that in the current objective and subjective conditions, successful rectification of individuals for male chauvinism should generally be pursued, but will inevitably continue to be the exception rather than the rule. The most important thing is to struggle against the small-group dynamics that are a soil for male chauvinism and prevent the organization of women. Violence against women will not end without the organization of women.
4. The ideological and political line of a revolutionary organization might be outlined in its documents, but ultimately becomes a material force among the masses only through the conduct and actions of its members. This is one of the new contributions of the Maoist party concept, which emphasizes the importance of revolutionary attitudes among the cadres. Revolutionary organizations must instill in members the need to practice the constant remolding of their thinking and actions to create the actuality of women’s emancipation.
5. Putting the proletarian feminist line in command requires a continuous engagement in criticism and self-criticism, or CSC. CSC in this particular instance involves studying the concept and history of patriarchy, discussing its manifestations in thinking, conduct, and actions through facilitated group settings, and coming to collective decisions on how to fight it. At the same time, CSC that takes place without an existing policy of expulsion for male chauvinist violence and abuse ends up being a toothless ritual that paralyzes rather than strengthens organization. The party building movement of the last phase, the 1960s and the 1970s, largely failed the masses of toiling women in this country.
Those who imagine that a communist organization with proletarian feminist politics at its core can be built or that a revolutionary proletarian feminist movement can be developed today from the ground up – without first confronting the pressing issue of male chauvinism in the existing organizations and circles, including determining the proper guiding principles and policies to do this – are thoroughly deluding themselves. This view amounts to the liquidation of the struggle for women’s emancipation and a kind of economism that refuses to address the real political question at hand of the involvement of women in organizations. We welcome dialogue with feminist-oriented collectives and individuals who are working on this issue in practice and interested in mutual learning through the discussion of organizational principles and policies. Center for Marxist Leninist-Maoist Studies 16/8/2013
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I think we should’ve forced the nerds to read more fucking theory, like we just wanted to be reasonable, let people understand that you don’t need to have read both volumes of capital to be a socialist, then people took this further and were like “you just need COMMON SENSE to be a socialist” so now we will forever have to deal with people who learned everything about politics from cartoon network television show fandom drama, who feel like they know as much about politics as any dedicated lifelong Marxist or Anarchist, perhaps even more.
To be clear the reason “don’t read theory” is a terrible fucking idea isn’t because theory is like, some manner of sacred texts containing the truth of the universe, it’s because a complete rejection of all theory is literally rejecting the entire socialist historical project, it’s basically declaring yourself capable of grasping at every social issue with pure common sense, granting your own arbitrary and subjective decisions more weight than like, the life work of hundreds of dedicated activists and revolutionaries who had to deal with these social issues as well, who might have spent all their lives studying and trying to understand society so that they could change it. “Don’t read theory, just use common sense” is actually not an anti-elitist slogan, it’s immense intellectual arrogance that declares you, who has done no investigation, more capable of making political decisions than every socialist who has lived and died before you.
One of the more serious differences between the Young Marx of the 1844 manuscripts and the Communist Manifesto and the Late Marx of Capital is the change from viewing capitalism as a transparently exploitative system that whose processes can be easily understood from observation and from looking at society towards viewing capitalism as something more enigmatic, more concealed and more mystified - A system that blends itself into society and disguises itself as natural and eternal.
All of this is to say that your anticapitalism can't be from "common sense" because capitalism is not something you can observe with ease. It's something that is invisible and cryptic, that creeps into our thinking and perceptions and understanding of how the world fundamentally works. You cant understand capitalism in any way except through intensive research and social investigation.
This is getting on my fucking nerves, so I’m just going to say it here:
Adults who need high levels of support in daily living are not children.
“Mental age” is a concept rooted in eugenics, and it doesn’t actually exist.
No one should be robbed of agency or dignity because of their need for support. Oh, also, while we’re at it (since disability rights activism that doesn’t tackle age-related oppression is bullshit), kids deserve to be treated with respect too. Shouldn’t be a controversial statement, but it is.
Most people neglect to mention this, but if “being treated like a child” equates to “being robbed of agency and dignity,” there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way we treat children.
i feel like more discussion of nonbinary experiences needs to acknowledge the fact that “binary” trans people dont get included in the gender binary
like even as a “binary” trans woman its not like i can say “oh im not nonbinary” and people suddenly respect my being a woman. were always gonna exist outside the gender binary no matter how we label ourselves, how we see ourselves, no matter who we are as trans people
some of yall clearly have some…. extremely misinformed perceptions of what being a “binary” trans person is like, and i think a lot of trans people see the line between “binary” and nonbinary as a lot more solid than it is
im not seen as a binary woman, im seen as a walking transgression
November 4, 2020 - Anarchists and antifascists marched in several cities in the US after the presidential elections, chanting slogans like “Trump or Biden, no retreat! Keep your ass out in the street!“, ”Fuck Biden! Fuck Trump! No more presidents! No more fascists! “ and “No borders! No wall! No USA at all!“. [video]/[video]/[video]/[video]