[thedorseyshawexperience]

The Cola Road (2013)

[iluvsouthernafrica-deactivated2]

Set in Zambia, THE COLA ROAD follows the launch of the first trial to use Coca-Cola’s crates and distribution know-how to deliver life-saving anti-diarrhea kits.

Directed & produced by Claire Ward

[thoughtlessarse]

One Powerful Illustration Shows Exactly What's Wrong With How the West Talks About Ebola

The Ebola epidemic hit a particular nerve with the artist. “People in the African continent are more regarded as an abstract statistic than a patient in the U.S. or Europe,” he said. "How many individual stories do we know about any African patients? None. They are treated as an indistinguishable crowd.“  

[class-struggle-anarchism]

Noel Edmonds says death is impossible as we're all just containers of energy

well yeah, obvs

[thoughtlessarse]

I always turn to Noel Edmonds when I want to learn about metaphysics.

[noosphe-re]

“It is simply not true that capitalism as a historical system has represented progress over the various previous historical systems that it destroyed or transformed. Even as I write this, I feel the tremour that accompanies the sense of blasphemy. I fear the wrath of the gods, for I have been moulded in the same ideological forge as all my compeers and have worshipped at the same shrines.”

— Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization

[ecology-of-the-inhuman]

"What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation. The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us."

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, 15

[gendernihilistanarchocommunist]

“The function of fascism, when capitalism is in crisis, is the destruction of workers’ movements that might apply the death blow; behind their cartoonish performance of hypermasculinity, fascists’ primary concern is the violent defense of capitalism and the racial order that maintains it. The real question, then, should not be how to make antifascism more palatable to mealy-mouthed liberals or reactionary leftists whose squeamishness is premised mostly on unserious—or even, to invoke a favorite accusation of such critics, bourgeois —arguments about aesthetics, but how to make antifascism a core principle of a mass, working-class movement. Without a mass working-class movement, antifascist organizing is doomed to failure; but without antifascist organizing, so too is a mass working-class movement.”

— Brendan O’Connor, The Antifascist Question (via probablyasocialecologist)

[guerrillatech]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

Unfortunately it makes logical sense for corporations like Nestle to make use of slavery because the goal of corporations is first and foremost to maximize profit. This leads to CEOs seeking out ways to cut costs of production and ethics don't matter outside PR.

Without slavery, without sweatshops, without horrific working conditions, capitalism would not lead to such large amounts of prosperity for the rich. The fact is people only accept the worst of capitalism out of desperation, not because the system is functional and beneficial. That's why you don't see workers in the imperial core wishing they worked for Silicon Valley in mines as children.

You'll never eliminate horrific exploitation under capitalism because it's required for the system to uphold itself. Less money is less power and less control. That would lead people to more easily reject the system and achieve justice.

Globalization, "free trade", "economic freedom", it's ALL a smokescreen for neocolonialism. THAT is the real success of capitalism, and Nestle is simply honest about it.

[left-reminders]

[petulantworm]

This except: remember in the 1970s when the state forced children to fight a war to keep the economy noncompetitive? The fallacy that capitalism ever served the people will have social democrats saying it needs to me reformed instead of replaced.

Capitalism will always require the blood of the workers to maintain the excess of rich and that is not a metaphor.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence

They maintained their wealth through various sieges, Napoleon, Mussolini, and two world wars.

[solarpunkcast]

Understanding dynastic wealth is key to understanding how rigged capitalism is against the working class.

[adrunkensailor]

Because people who work all their life shouldn’t be able to hand down their wealth to their children.

Fuck. You.

[ace-pervert]

A lot of people work all their lives , but somehow these families managed to maintain an absurd amount of wealth while tge vast majority of others didnt get even close to that kind of power

[adrunkensailor]

And why is that their fault? Because they’re smart and know how to handle wealth? They are fortunate yes, but the poverty of others is not the burden of the rich, they didn’t make people poor. This is coming from a working class man whom  is constantly worrying about money and making ends meet. 

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

I’ve seen a lot of ridiculous bootlicking in my life but “oppressive monarchs deserve what they have” is really next level.

You’d be the one serf other serfs throw rocks at

[pack-yr-romantic-mind]

“bleſsed be þe nobleman who rides by vpon his pallanqvin, for it is by his grace that thov art permitted to till the ſoil”

[hardtostayaway-deactivated20180]

Why should the rich five THEIR money to the poor. If you care about the poor so much, sell whatever device you’re using to comment on Tumblr and give the money to a random homeless person. Actions speak louder than words.

[pack-yr-romantic-mind]

even if you were making any sort of cogent argument and the point of anti-capitalist politics was to act as an individual and pour a glass of water into the lake to be able to say you’ve done something instead of working collectively for structural changes that target the root of social ills like homelessness, it would be both more self-sacrificing (in terms of personal risk) and more beneficial to “a random homeless person” for me to break into a mansion in the hamptons, steal valuables, sell them, and give that money to a homeless person. Of course that decaying gotcha argument for individualist impotence is fucking stupid, just like most programmed responses to any criticism of capitalism.

but in case that paragraph was too long to fit in the RAM of the TRS-80 you have in place of a human brain: the wealth of the rich ought to be appropriated because it was all stolen from people who actually produced it by working for slave wages.

[standupdonor]

i genuinely could not believe that this was a real lenin quote until i saw it. golden. its from the historical destiny of the doctrine of karl marx

[nonstickwaffleiron]

as an archivist I am begging you

put dates on everything

don’t believe digital stuff is preserved forever - if it’s really important (documents, photos, etc) print it out

name your files accurately I know it sucks but please

don’t destroy the original just bc you scanned it

rubber cement is the devil’s adhesive use photo corners and quit gluing shit

you will NOT remember write it down

if you staple things to the inside of a folder I will find you

your public library probably has equipment to digitize old media for free or can at least get you connected with somewhere that does!

[hoursofreading]

“Reading good books, always studying, regardless of the work she intends to do, should be a part of every girl’s plan for her life. The only way not to let what we’ve gained be taken away from us is to be smart and capable, to learn to design the world better than men have so far done.”

— We Tell a Story and Try to Do Our Best | Elena Ferrante

[improvisedliturgy]

Emotions tell us a lot about time; emotions are the very ‘flesh’ of time. They show us the time it takes to move, or to move on, is a time that exceeds the time of an individual life. Through emotions, the past persists on the surface of bodies. Emotions show us how histories stay alive, even when they are not consciously remembered; how histories of colonialism, slavery, and violence shape lives and worlds in the present. The time of emotion is not always about the past, and how it sticks. Emotions also open up futures, in the ways they involve different orientations to others. It takes time to know what we can do with emotion.

Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

[shakespearesdaughters]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

[radical-revolution]

Now, what do we mean by thinking? When we say, “This is ugly,” “That is fear,” “This must be discarded,” we know what that process is. There is the ‘me’ who is choosing, condemning, discarding. But if there is not the ‘me’ but only that process of fear, then what happens? Am I explaining the problem? If there is not the one who condemns, who chooses, who thinks that he is separate from that which he dislikes, then what happens? Please experience this as we go along, and you will see. Don’t merely listen to my words, but actually experience that there is only thought, and not the thinker. Then you will see what thinking is. What is thought? Thought is a process of verbalization, is it not? Without words, you cannot think. So, thought is a process of memory, because words, symbols, names, are the product, the result of memory. So, thinking is a process of memory, and memory gives a name to a particular feeling and either condemns or accepts it. By giving a name to something, you condemn or accept it, don’t you? When you say someone is an American, a Russian, a Hindu, a negro, you have finished with him, haven’t you? By labeling a thing, you think you have understood it. So, when there is a particular reaction which you term fear, in giving it a name you have condemned it. That is the actual process you will see going on when you begin to be aware of your thinking.

Is it possible not to name a feeling? Because, by calling a particular feeling “anger,” “fear,” “jealousy,” we have given it strength, have we not? We have fixed it. The very naming is a process of confirming that feeling, giving it strength, and therefore enclosing it in memory. Observe it and you will see. It is possible to be free fundamentally only when the process of naming is understood—naming being terming, symbolizing, which is the action of memory—because memory is the ‘you’. Without your memory, without your experiences, the ‘you’ is not, and the mind clings to those experiences as essential in order to be secure. So, we cultivate memory, which is experience, knowledge, and through that process we hope to control the reactions and feelings which we call distortions. If we would be free of any particular quality, we must understand the whole process of the thinker and the thought; we must see the truth that the thinker is not separate from thought, but that they are a single, unitary process. If you actually realize that, you will see what an extraordinary revolution takes place in your life. By revolution I do not mean economic revolution, which is no revolution at all, but merely a modified continuity of what is. But when the thinker realizes that he is not different from thought, then you will see that radically, deeply, there is an extraordinary transformation, because then there is only the fact of thought, and not the translation of that fact to suit the thinker.

The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti - Volume VI 1949-1952: The Origin of Conflict

Jiddu Krishnamurti

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Some long-forgot, enchanted, strange, sweet garden of a thousand years ago,”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems of E. S. V. M.; “Interim,”

[bestiolin]

Luis Buñuel