cynicism isn’t wisdom

‘We owe all we’re able to give. What are you able to give?’ they/them ☭ 27

[perriaeyjeve]

[stillnaomi]

the fact that many liberals care more about whether a state is "authoritarian" than whether it lifted massive swathes of its population out of poverty says a lot about their politics. they say China is bad because it's authoritarian and brush aside the 800 million people it's lifted out of abject poverty. they complain that Cuba is "authoritarian", while ignoring that it brought healthcare and education to the masses, who were left to suffer under the Batista regime. at some point you have to realize that you're condemning a country that's run in the interests of the working masses of its population

the kicker is that the marxist-leninist countries being criticised are more democratic than the liberal democracies the critics are comparing them too

[omgellendean]

Example from today:

[tamamita]

[interdimentional]

[zegalba]

Emerald Moth (Geometra papilionaria)

[damnf1necherrypie]

'DSCN2118' • (2007) mimi too ming jim

[fairyw1ngs]

when I can’t sleep I make my own world

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

"We greet the Soviet people on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Great October Revolution!"

Palestinian poster in Arabic and Russian, 1987

Via USSR Pictures

[witchrealms]

(x)

[pmamtraveller]

The Young Martyr (detail, 1856) Paul Delaroche

[dozydawn]

mary gregory

[wildchildskyhigh]

[starsscity]

I feel like blowing up my whole life 🙂

[buttonpoetry]

Francis Dylan Waguespack, from their book Tooth Gaps in the Archives.

[cybergemini777]

[mervynbunter]

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

[nabais]

[inlovewiththemooon]

vessels of desperation

acrylic and ink on wood