Woke up with a headache

Dante /☭/ 161 / Humanist / Alienated. .

[phobic-human]

Solidarity to the Palestinian Resistance in the Occupied West Bank

[good-old-gossip]

On this day, 22 July 1987, Palestinian artist Naji al Ali was shot by an unidentified person in London. He was struck by a bullet below his right eye and fell into a coma that lasted 37 days, until he died on 29 August 1987.Naji al Ali is considered one of the most prominent Palestinian and Arab cartoonists and one of the most important artists who used political art as a tool to raise awareness of the Palestinian cause. His drawings were known for their sharp criticism and boldness, leaving behind a vast legacy of more than 40,000 cartoons addressing Palestinian displacement, corruption, and social injustice.Naji al Ali created the character “Handala” in 1969 in Kuwait. “Handala will always remain ten years old, because at that age he left Palestine, and when Handala returns to Palestine, he will still be ten years old.” After 1973, Handala turned his back to the world and clasped his hands behind him, rejecting external solutions and compromises, becoming al Ali’s signature and a global symbol of Palestinian steadfastness.3.4K44

[iminthetunnels]

[venerable-thief]

[proxima-bee]

Kazimir Malevich, Black Square (1915)

Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting (1956)

Leonardo Drew, 50X (2018)

Sherrie Levine, Meltdown (After Yves Klein: Black & White) (1991)

Aleksandr Rodchenko, Composition #80 (1918)

Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled (Glossy Black Painting) (ca. 1951)

Farkas Molnár, Villa (1921)

Ivan Leonidov, Palace of Culture for Proletarsky District (1930)

[fus-mar-hoz]

Large-scale production, machinery, railways, telephone—all provide thousands of opportunities to cut by three-fourths the working time of the organised workers and make them four times better off than they are today.

The Taylor System—Man’s Enslavement by the Machine, V. I. Lenin (1914)

[pattern-recognition]

“In 1910, the majority of our group made an attempt at conciliation and agreement with Comrade Trotsky. Vladimir Ilyich was strongly opposed to this attempt and, 'as a punishment,' as it were, for my persistence in the attempt to reach agreement with Trotsky, insisted that I should be the one sent by the Central Committee as its representative on the editorial board of Comrade Trotsky's newspaper. By the autumn of 1910—having worked on this editorial board for several months—I was convinced that Vladimir Ilyich was right in his opposition to my 'conciliatory' line, and with his consent I resigned from the editorial board of Comrade Trotsky's organ.”

“The experiment in joint work with Trotsky—which, I make bold to say, I performed with sincerity, as is proved precisely by the way Trotsky is now exploiting my letters and private conversations—showed that conciliation irresistibly slips into defence of Liq-uidationism and definitely takes the side of the latter." (L. Kame-nev, Two Parties.)”

- Stalin, quoting Kamanev, in The Fifteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.), December 2-19, 1927

incredibly amused that Lenin chose to punish Kamanev for trying to reconcile with Trotsky by forcing him to actually go hang out with the man until he was calling Lenin to come get picked up

[sovietpaintings]

Московское Метро | Moscow Metro;

Grigory Shegal, 1943.

[towerofglass]

starting a black book of capitalism

[hellagross]

[classicalcanvas]

Summer night on the beach (1903) by Edvard Munch

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Bertrand Russell, from “What Desires Are Politically Important?” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[jingerpi]

while I do acknowledge data centers are putting strain on a lot of very vulnerable communities it's also important to note that this too is a product of finance capital planning for infinite growth and disregarding safety to do so. AI itself can be run economically (in terms of power) and that much has been demonstrated repeatedly but it's not, because like every other industry, it's being controlled by and for capital, competitively, with wanton waste and destruction as a result. the harm is not stored in the math, nor even data centers themselves, nor queries, it's entirely preventable, and that's worse

[tameranimals]

some good news fjebflmekfmf

[soulofjuche]

“Everything for the people and everything by relying on them!” KIM JONG UN

[cemevi]

Do you think "tankie" is a useful term?

Yes

No

It once was, it isn't anymore

It didn't use to be, but it is now

I don't know what "tankie" is

Mao haircut of nuance button

Voting ended onJun 17, 2024

[jingerpi]

quick history lesson for those who are curious.

"Tankie" Is a derogatory term the spawned from the use of tanks in hungary by the USSR against the 1956 uprising. Many saw this uprising as a movement for the people, and the use of full on tanks to stop it was seen as absurd, so people started complaining, and calling those who supported this action "tankies" because they supported the tanks. The thing that is often neglected is 1. the context, and 2. information on the actual uprising itself.

First I'll give a little context and then address the contents of the revolt.

This uprising followed "Khrushchev's thaw", a period in which Khrushchev rolled back many of the previous rules against capitalists and fascists in their and surrounding territory. This lead to many fascists being freed and congregating for movements to try and seize power back from the USSR.

There were some legitimate complaints about the USSR anywhere and in particular in 1956 Hungary, so some people did genuinely gather to press for reforms and better governance, with even some socialistic demands being made initially. This is the part you'll hear about from liberals. The part you won't hear about is what happened following this, and how the movement was co-opted by full on fascists. This isn't just a claim by an online Marxist but something we have clear evidence of. Here is a picture of the "protesters" standing over the tanks.

see that flag?

it's the long dead flag flown under the Nazi occupation of the country.

Perhaps they simply flew that flag because they didn't have better symbols? Okay, consider this passage from The Truth about Hungary by Herbert Apthker

This uprising was a sustained fascist mob, lynching communists and Jewish people. I'm certainly not known for my support of militarization or brutal actions, but I don't think that a strong response to this situation somehow makes the USSR or the people who supported their use of tanks, "red fascists", or otherwise poor communists or even just poor people in general.

Tankie is a useless term to me because standing against fascism "too strongly" doesn't make you somehow a reverse fascist or some nonsense, it makes you an anti fascist. Standing against fascism is how you defeat it. I am a "tankie" in the original sense that I support the use of tanks in the intervention against the fascists in Hungary. Not as a blank check, I'm sure there is nuance and perhaps they could have done things differently, but it is not an action I think the USSR needs to be condemned for taking. Despite this, I don't think the word "tankie" is even particularly useful for reactionaries anymore, as it's becoming so diluted as to refer to anyone left of the person saying it, with it making it's way all the way from intra-communist criticisms to now being something fascists use to deride anyone vaguely left.

Using "Tankie" as a derogatory term implicitly supports fascist lynchings, please stop

[mattydemise]

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