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Cosimo Galluzzi
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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trying on a metaphor
occasionally subtle
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@eelthekruppe
The art : The artist
20, kenyan, bi, love you all (esp. my mutuals) ♥️♥️♥️💕 (doesn't respond to asks)
oh my fucking god
it is the 37th anniversary of the USS vincennes shooting down the civilian airliner Iran Air Flight 655, an action that killed 290 innocent passengers, 65 of which were children. the US never issued an apology and as part of a legal settlement the US refuses to ever admit liability for their violent and reckless actions.
In this critical situation, it was as if the Communist Party, with Mao as its “helmsman,” lost its sense of direction. The harsh critique of the Soviet Union went from a debate on how to continue the construction of socialism in a post-revolutionary society to a theory of the principal contradiction in the world, the so-called “Three World Theory.” In 1974, Mao defined the three worlds as follows:
I hold that the U.S. and the Soviet Union belong to the First World. The middle elements, such as Japan, Europe, Australia and Canada, belong to the Second World. We are the Third World…The U.S. and the Soviet Union have a lot of atomic bombs, and they are richer. Europe, Japan, Australia and Canada, of the Second World, do not possess so many atomic bombs and are not so rich as the First World, but richer than the Third World…All Asian countries, except Japan, belong to the Third World. All of Africa and also Latin America belong to the Third World.
According to Mao’s theory, there are two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, which constitute “The First World,” fighting each other to obtain world domination. In this makeup, China regarded the Soviet Union as the aggressive party. The Soviet Union was no longer just a revisionist bureaucratic state. The Soviet Union had not only restored capitalism, but it had also become “the most dangerous and aggressive social-imperialist power in the world;” so dangerous that the “Third World” had to ally with the “Second World”—Western Europe, Japan, and even the United States—to neutralize “Soviet imperialism” and avoid a nuclear war.
Based on the reasoning that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend,” China supported anti-Soviet forces worldwide, often in cooperation with the U.S. and reactionary forces. China was one of the first to recognize the government of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet following the coup against the Socialist Allende government. China, together with the CIA, supported Mobutu in Zaire, and Jonas Savimbi’s National Union for the Total Independence of Angola in the civil war against the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, which was backed by Cuba.
However, there was no evidence that the Soviet Union was the most aggressive power in the confrontation with the U.S. in the mid-1970s. Already at this point, the Soviet Union was under economic, political, and military pressure from the United States, trying to keep up in the arms race. China made its national conflict with the Soviet Union into the global principal contradiction. Claiming that the Soviet Union was richer than the countries in the “second world” was incorrect—the Soviet Union belonged to the semi-periphery of the world-system. Neither was the Soviet Union an imperialist power in its relationship with Eastern Europe and the Third World, at least not in any economic significance. The Soviet Union was already in a defensive mode in the mid-1970s, culminating in its collapse 15 years later.
-Torkil Lauesen, The Long Transition Towards Socialism And The End Of Capitalism Pgs. 222-224
While everyone is watching the World Cup matches, I am watching these fires and destruction in reality as shown in the picture, and worse than that, I am now lying on a hospital bed, injured and burdened with illness, and my situation is very difficult
I suffer from severe anemia and constant nausea. I also experience frequent fainting spells because I cannot afford my essential medications due to their exorbitant price and my financial hardship, Our situation in Gaza is well-known, and my health is deteriorating daily. Please stand by us ,I need your support to be able to purchase my medication and survive. I hope you will not ignore my current plight.
My health is deteriorating rapidly, and I can barely write this letter to tell you that I desperately need your help. Please help me so I can buy my medication as soon as possible and travel for my surgery. Please donate.
if your revolution can be reverted with an election or change in leadership you clearly didn't bring very much revolutionary change at all
a mantra about both stabbed in the back narratives, and panic about elections or the death of leaders
Please increase your contribution to The Sameer Project.
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible
and yet they keep making movies with the hopes that one day humanity will discover a way to watch them. it's so inspiring
While everyone is watching the World Cup matches, I am watching these fires and destruction in reality as shown in the picture, and worse than that, I am now lying on a hospital bed, injured and burdened with illness, and my situation is very difficult
I suffer from severe anemia and constant nausea. I also experience frequent fainting spells because I cannot afford my essential medications due to their exorbitant price and my financial hardship, Our situation in Gaza is well-known, and my health is deteriorating daily. Please stand by us ,I need your support to be able to purchase my medication and survive. I hope you will not ignore my current plight.
My health is deteriorating rapidly, and I can barely write this letter to tell you that I desperately need your help. Please help me so I can buy my medication as soon as possible and travel for my surgery. Please donate.
It's always funny how so much capitalist rhetoric that draws on the progressive elements of capitalism as a transformative social movement against feudalism is also obsessed with obscuring its own conclusions and shoving the genie back in the bottle?
We must tabulate, measure and render calculable and manipulable the profound resources of the world! Wait, no, you absolutely can't have a planned economy, that's terrifying.
We must link together nations, markets and populations in one global chain of fast-moving values and information! Whoa, I don't like how you're talking about an internationalist movement of the working-classes there...
We must overthrow parasitic and regressive elements that stagnate the economy, induce inefficiency and lazily seek rent! Hey, it's really rude that you're pointing out how our titans of industry are grifters and nepo babies who keep causing financial crises and need to be killed, that's very extremist.
We should hold nothing sacred but value, the production and distribution of real things, rewarding all those who devote their minds to the construction of new technologies and innovations. Wait, how dare you say that workers can manage and innovate industry by themselves without depending on the bourgeoisie that extracts their surplus, that's horrible. Also, uh, class doesn't exist.
Those that stand in the way of progress and growth must be overthrown and deposed, for they are enemies of all humanity! Um, why are you pointing those guns at us? Your next stage of human development is insane and will never work! You're nasty political radicals and we don't support violence! Guards! Fascists! Get them!
History is a process of constant forward movement and improvement. Who said that? History actually ends with us. So you absolutely shouldn't even think about alternate systems, okay?
im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting
really? you don’t say
do you ever doubt the existence of russophobia? logically i know that it is real: from ethnic cleansing in donbass to pretty much segregation in estonia to how normalized the dehumanization & demonization of russians (+ other peoples associated with them/russia's ethnic minorities tbh) — there is more than an enough evidence and had it been any other social group i wouldn't even question it. but oftentimes i think that maybe im overreacting and being dramatic, which is kinda wild to say after what i mentioned above but. i honestly don't know sometimes if im being crazy for feeling disturbed by those things or not lol 💀 frankly even using the term makes me cringe a bit involuntarily even though, from what i know, it wasn't even coined by a russian let alone, say, putin. sooo i wonder if you ever felt the same?
i know perfectly well how you feel, unfortunately. lots of reasons for it. 1) if you're living in russia in your regular life you're more likely to witness russian chauvinism than russophobia which would give you an impression that later is not relevant; 2) again, if you're russian living in russia you won't face the majority of systematic russophobia directly (but indirectly thru sanctions for example) so you're might not be that sensitive to it because you feel secure enough; 3) russians/slavs outwardly don't look different from west europeans/white yanks which in usa centrist framework makes us 'white' and a lot of russians internalize this so claiming russophobia exists seems to many progressive minded people to put us on the same level with 'white genocide' loonies and such; 4) hard pill to swallow but coming from previous point i think russian chauvinism plays a role too as russians may perceive themselves too close to whiteness to admit there are similar systemic powers set by collective west to reach their imperialist economic goals working against russia for centuries just like they did for people of color across the globe because it would bring us down in this 'racial hierarchy' and overall it does not feel good to realize you're viewed as a lesser being on such big scale; 5) last but definitely not the least: impcorepigs refuse to take responsibility for perpetuating russophobia and thus will gaslight you into denying it too. this lack of validation affects us a lot, i think, because it's still western centric world. usa centric framework helps this denial a lot because in it russians are white and you can't have reverse racism. for westerners russophobia is so normalized they don't even realize its a problem they have to work on because just like any other artificially constructed western bigotry russophobia is materially advantageous for them. did you notice how they never include russians/slavs into being one of main objects of nazi germany genocidal plans? it's that bad. just like antisemitism hitlers russophobia/anti slav sentiment didn't appear out of thin air but was a logical end to centuries of european russophobic policies.
you can put it other way around too. the west denies their russophobia because they were largely unsuccessful in subjugating russia (except for short period during 90s after ussr fall). notice how widespread awareness of systematic antiblackness/islamophobia/etc in imperial core only happened after they were successful in related to it imperialist projects.
I'll be honest, I've never really felt the same way about The Death of the Author after learning its origins (Barthes was angry over a Balzac story about a chaser, written over a century prior, for referring to a character as a woman instead of a femboy no I'm not making this up)
the essay deadass starts with "it is unknowable through what lens and mentality daisuke operated when he declared that bridget was a girl"
HOW IS MY SISTER STRAIGHT UP CARRYING A GUZHENG?????
SIS IS FUCKING BUFF
Cant fucking believe they nuked a blog just sharing videos from xhs. What possible community guidelines could they have broken?
Residents are trapped beneath rubble of collapsed buildings after two major quakes hit Venezuela, killing at least 235.
Another reminder to keep track of what is happening in Venezuela. Live updates on Al Jazeera. Emergency relief funds are important to donate to if you are able to, along with individual Venezuelans.
Death toll is now 589
Rescuers and humanitarian aid are flooding in from across the Americas as hospitals fill up with patients.