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Anarchist. Musician. Amateur religious scholar. Sexual. Bi. Alcoholic attempting recovery.

Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Bats, Baghdad, 790 AH, 1388 CE

"A meal-in-itself" is an interesting slogan because what else would it be? I've seen the same phrase used in a recipe for cabbage rolls featured in an old comic book.

archacovercosine

weather authorities reportedly issuing a severe "wednesday alert" for tomorrow

thebellekeys

"i do not dream of labour" is one of the worst pseudo-marxist taglines that western leftists have co-opted because when you ask them what they do dream of, they say traveling, studying, and creating art. broski, who's flying the plane to take you to prague? who's the security at the library with the texts you're studying? who are the clerks in the museum showcasing your art? like bro, you do dream of labour. you just dream of someone else doing it so you don't have to! you merely want to outsource the labour and make it invisible.

ferallindsay

this post is still so bad. "people who spend all their time working dream of having any leisure time instead? well i will choose to interpret this as bourgeois. as we all know, the labour movement has never prioritised time away from work for recreation as an end in itself" yeah sure, arbeit macht frei or whatever, go off

having to work less is Literally The Point. the upside to not having your labour exploited to generate wealth for someone else is that you have to do less labour for the same gains. you get a better proportion of time spent labouring to time enjoying the fruits of said labour. that's... the fundamental appeal of the labour movement

nearly everyone ever has understood that labour overwhelmingly sucks, but the resources you gain (like food, shelter, pigments, or today, money) keep you alive and let you pursue the things you actually do dream of. as a post-left anti-work heterodox marxist syncretic anarchist type, i think that's a naïve undeveloped understanding tbh, but i think most people would similarly agree with the core concept while having their own nuances to add. this is a bad post even from the basic bitch marxist perspective let alone to us esoteric weirdos

the only good interpretation of this post is "one or two particular peeps I'm thinking of are entitled fuckers and I'm vagueing them with a comment about western leftists" and ok vent away. but that's not exactly an analysis of class or empire is it hun

curseofmeatthawsmoth

Also, this was hidden in the tags: "Marxism has never been about abolishing labor."

If that was true, so much the worse for Marxism but:

"Labor is free in all civilized countries. It is not a matter of freeing labor but of abolishing it." - The German Ideology

todaysbird

Good thing we’ve definitely got people in office who will get on this! (By rapidly making the problems worse)

assignedfailure

Adult animation is funny name for a genre of media that's usually aimed at 13 year old boys.

tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth

Now that Endnotes is being reprinted in its entirety, there's been an uptick in interest in, or at least talk about, communization theory. "Communization" is a contested term, but all of the various communization currents center immediacy, immanence, and anti-identity, as Benjamin Noys says in Communization and its Discontents (which I recommend if you're new to communization or want an interesting refresher). I like communization theory - though I like some of it more, I prefer Endnotes & Theorie Communiste to Tiqqun or the Invisble Committee in pretty much every way - but I still don't really understand why it was treated as anything that new, or why it became the hottest intellectual trend in a certain segment of the radical milieu for a while. The "immediacy" that's such an important part of communization theory has been advocated by revolutionary anarchists and for that matter many Marxists for ~200 years, but I forget how marginalized libertarian communism is compared to social democracy, Leninism, and Stalinism.

tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth

There are basically two main currents in what is called communization theory, one typically associated with Tiqqun and the Invisible Committee, the other associated with Endnotes or TC. These currents interpret the need for communist "immediacy" very differently. Tiqqun means that we must begin enacting communism now, within capitalism, to ensure its eventual victory - essentially the same line advocated by gradualist (read: reformist) anarchist prefigurative politics, sometimes called (ahistorically) a "dual power" strategy. In practice this amounts to forming various "alternatives" - things like squats, social centers, co-ops, and what they call communes, but would be more accurately described as "colonies" or "enclosures." This is made slightly more radical sounding than usual because these alternatives must be made with a critique of alternativism in mind; that is "secession" must also involve "war" - alternatives are to be generalized until they are no longer alternative. Endnotes follows a much more persuasive line, in my opinion, that the immediacy of communism consists of the immediacy of the self-abolition of the proletariat in the process of revolution.

birdandmoon

Heat waves.

notahorseindisguise

ALSO..some more masturbation facts about me. theres a nonsexual scene in a book where a kid gets spanked for some reason. it was set in like the 40s and he was in a boarding school i forget. but i think i either misread the scene . or maybr the author actually did write this and theyre just fucking weird. and i thought the protag got hit (with like a ruler or something). on the penis instead of on the arse. and i remember my 11 year old brain being like. i wonder why i think that would feel good.

and so my first ever "experiment" with masturbation was. slapping my dick with a ruler. and when that felt good. my first ever way of masturbating was. stacking heavy books on my penis. and then hitting the top book. so that the force was distributed down the series of books. into my penis. and of COURSE it didnt work i was punching books into my dick but it laid a strong foundation for a great gooning career . hey everyone PLEASE pretend you didnt read this post

notahorseindisguise

swagdinner

renaissance-art

Medieval Depictions of Hell: Part 2 (part 1)

The only way I can understand believing Charlie Kirk was somehow a good man is if you were only familiar with his Christian motivational speaking and not with any of the vile things he said in his role of a conservative political commentator, which may be possible since we all have hyper-specific custom tailored social media feeds now. I'm not as gung ho about celebrating people's deaths as other people are - I'm sure his family misses him (though Erika seems to be quite the merry widow most of the time) but he was a nasty piece of work.

nobrashfestivity

Tabaimo, Japan, born 1975 Men's Bathhouse (Proper) lithograph Dimensions 16 1/2 × 23 5/8 in. (41.9 × 60 cm) frame: 26 × 37 × 1 1/2 in. (66 × 94 × 3.8 cm) Museum purchase with funds provided by the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art, 2005.70, image © Tabaimo