Communism 101

Where I occasionally post/reblog political/historical things.

[commanderrobak47]

How society distributes necessities shows how it values people.

How society distributes luxuries shows how it values labor.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

‘A clear-minded, if taciturn, Marxist’ – Struggle – La Lucha

NOT NATURALLY BLONDE: (L) A photo of Monroe taken by David Conover in 1944 at the Radioplane Company; (R) Monroe posing with actors from Lui

By John Green

Despite the image cultivated by the misogynist Hollywood publicity machine, Marilyn Monroe was a highly politicized woman, a performer of sharp comic intelligence, a canny architect of her own image, and a woman who reshaped the possibilities for female stardom on screen.

[cosmonautroger]

Kirov Reservoir, Kyrgyzstan

[thepeoplescommiequotes]

[thepeoplescommiequotes]

[krapitalizm]

"Women should be like how they were in the good old days, the 50s, you know, mid century"

Ok!

I'll go back if you will!

[all-lenin-blog]

[damnesdelamer]

[fairie-jane]

My body is a MACHINE that turns LABOR into CAPITAL for me but mostly for the CEO at an exploitatively disproportionate rate

[compiler-specific]

politics

[all-lenin-blog]

[evil-puppetmaster]

I will defeat the enemy

[evil-puppetmaster]

Sorry what I meant to say was We will defeat the enemy #commumunism

[komsomolka]

Soviet child prisoners of the 6th Finnish concentration camp in Petrozavodsk. During the occupation of Soviet Karelia by the Finns, six concentration camps were created in Petrozavodsk to contain local Russian-speaking residents. Camp No. 6 was located in the area of ​​the Transshipment Exchange, it held 7,000 people. The photo was taken after the liberation of Petrozavodsk by Soviet troops on June 28, 1944.

This picture was presented as part of the evidence at the Nuremberg trials of war criminals.

The girl who is second from the column on the right in the photo - Klavdia Nyuppieva - many years later published her memoirs:

"I remember how people fainted from the heat in the so-called bathhouse, and then they were doused with cold water. I remember the disinfection of the barracks, after which there was a buzzing in the ears, and many had a nosebleed, and that steam room, where all our rags were processed with great “dilience”. One day the steam room burned down, depriving many people of their last clothes."

[krasnoarmeyets]

the kindhearted tankie believes you can be successfully reeducated

[leftistfeminista]

A wall mural by the Communist Party of Argentina , honoring the anti-Junta prison uprising by Communist Party women political prisoners, and those that inspired them Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.

[komsomolka]

It seems obvious to me that George Orwell was furious about the fact that the Soviet Union was not defeated in WWII. Animal Farm was published in 1945. Orwell witnessed the tragedy that Nazism brought to the world. In 1945 most people already knew about the Holocaust. People at that point were already informed about the concentration camps. People already knew what the Nazis had done in Poland and at Auschwitz. George Orwell, in this context, wrote an allegory where WWII and Nazism are depicted as nothing, where Soviet self-defense policies are depicted as sinister intrigues unrelated to liberal and fascist siege. There’s no Churchill cheerleading fascism in Italy or Spain. The gravity of this framing needs to be understood. In 1945 the whole world was shocked by Nazi concentration camps, and Orwell was asking “Sure, that was bad, but what about the Soviet Union?” It seems absurd, but this is exactly what this book describes, under cover of literary metaphor. “Sure, Auschwitz was bad, but what about Stalin?” That is this whole book’s vibe. [...] And this book, Animal Farm, is a deeply reactionary book, displaying aristocratic condescension against the people, a book in which the working class appear as imbeciles. It displays all the marks of the bourgeois genre of elite theory. Its historical metaphors for Soviet history whitewash capitalists and imperialists. The USSR is shown as self-sabotaging, while its enemies are completely absolved. This is George Orwell, and this is why he was so successful. [...] This explains all the hype, all the buzz and promotion it receives from the establishment. This book will remain famous and beloved so long as racist and aristocratic liberalism persists, until we put and end to this profoundly unequal society by waging a revolution of our own.

Jones Manoel, A Critical Read of Animal Farm (2022).

[stalotov]

where’s the appreciation for old fidel. look at him. he’s a cutie