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mind palace that was formerly a palace until the ruling family was killed mercilessly for its crimes. and now it's the thinking woman's socialist republic.

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by Sasha Elage

#photography #seascapes

ceruleanheaven

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

ceruleanheaven

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

ceruleanheaven

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

#how about thursday can we try thursday

avantgardener

Fetch the bolt cutters summer……

i have got to do something about my hair the situation is getting desperate

#imagine a grown-out mullet which also looks like a bowl cut in the front. with frizzy/puffy/wavy hair. atrocious #like i should get it cut professionally buuuut i hate hair salons and barbers and i hate spending $ on my hair #it always looks like shit regardless

marxistlesbianist

Solidarity based on gender/sexuality lines can be a powerful force to be sure, and we should absolutely strive for it wherever possible. But that doesn't change the fact that it's an inherrently limitted concept.

The trouble with placing gender/sexuality above class is that class interests will difine any movement regardless of intent. The early US Pride movement is instructive here: After the Stonewall riot claimed space for queer identities to be asserted in public, all stratas of the queer communities rushed out to advance their interests. However, contrary to what the gay liberalists would have us think to-day, this did not produce a unified movement, but a deeply divided one--the petty bourgeois white gay men demanded space in mainstream political and professional life, whilst the (lumpen) proletarian racialized trans women demanded housing/job/food securities and an end to police harrasment. Both struggled for hegemony in the movement (c.f., Rivera's "Yall better quiet down" speach), but in the end the petty bourgeoisie used their privilaged class position to secure victory. That is, the class with more material resources, a more respectible appearance, and interests that didn't challenge US imperialism were naturally given more space by the capitalist establishment, whilst the exploited class who had started it all struggled to balance the political fight for a leadership position in the movement with the daily fight for the necessities of life.

A similar dynamic has played out in every social movement, including those for national/racial liberation (c.f., how the Black Panther Party struggled against the petty bourgeois politics of the NAACP, NOI, US Organization, etc. (1) ).

Lenin warned that bourgeois ideology would tend to assert itself in any given movement "for the simple reason that bourgeois ideology is far older in origin than socialist ideology, that it is more fully developed, and that it has at its disposal immeasurably more means of dissemination" (2). This analysis is arguably more true in the US to-day than in Tsarist Russia, and so the it is especially important that we consciously advance a socialist, proletarian perspective wherever we organize. We need a political program that can help the majority of trans women (that is, proletarian and lumpen proletarian trans women), in order to counter the pull towards bougeois assimilationist politics. For example, we should be demanding that petty bourgeois dolls are supporting us in our fight for universal healthcare rather before we support them in their fight to access medicines and surgeries that we can't presently afford. And in this struggle, our immediate allies are the masses of proletarians lack healthcare themselves. This is class interest.

Solidarity based on gender/sexuality lines can be a powerful force, but it alone cannot save us. Without a socialist movement rooted in proletarian class interests, the ouroboros of petty bourgeois opportunism will devour us again and again and again.

#so true

teddypng

Neil McCormick in Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

#mysterious skin

mrhealyourgirl

happy pride to losers who get no bitches and stack no paper

#thumbs up emoji

meanbuddhist

some things are your fault and some are not and actually it doesn’t matter either way because you have to deal with all of it anyways

degeneratedworker

"The Imperialists may put a man on the moon, but they'll never put a man in Havana" United States 1971

northstareclipse

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

#interesting idea however i do wish people would specify which revolution they are referencing/critiquing when making posts like this #like is this a real observation or is it just vibes. also urban? really? please tell me which revolution included demolishing cities #also i would argue that: a. antisocial behavior is encouraged by capitalist society and b. yes some small amount of preference will need to #be sacrificed in order to achieve a better world. like grow up and get used to it

krasnoarmeyets

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

thererisesaredstar

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