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[jamesmarchment]

Cover for a new edition. Inspired by ContraPoints and laborwave.

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“Communism can never work, capitalism is the best syst...”

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[komradekorg666]

Kropotkin was a fuckin' G in the anarchist theory game. Read the Bread Book: "The Conquest of Bread" by Pyotr Kropotkin. #breadbook #kropotkin #peterkropotkin #anarchism #anarchy #anarchist #anarchists #socialism #socialist #radicalleft #leftist #communist #communism #anarchocommunism #marx #marxism #marxist #karlmarx #engels #friedrichengels #communists #socialists #libertariansocialism #anarchosocialism #democraticsocialism #solidarity #workersoftheworldunite #capitalismkills #killcapitalism #fuckcapitalism https://www.instagram.com/p/CaFFW0DAbL9fOGp0Y9cSELPHpxOaP-7eA9r1QU0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[setyourdestination]

Crust Me, You Knead to Read This Book

Book Hunting Entry 01

Bread Toast Crumbs, a delightful book written by Alexandra Stafford

I know you’re told in school not to judge a book by it’s cover but really who doesn’t? 

This is a beautiful book with it’s matte quality and debossed letter detailing. The color black being 90% of the cover makes for a striking photo contrasting against the blue, yellow, and red tones. I picked up this book at my local library last week and I was sad to return it. Each page is filled with stunning photographs and easy to follow recipes for every which way to have your bread. Whether you are craving a savory breakfast or a delectable sweet, you can be sure to find it here.  Alexandra starts the book off with a story about how her mother baked bread but there was one particular bread that friends and family members loved. And they would ask her for the recipe and her mother would shrug it off saying she got it from the back of the flour bag ( But it wasn’t from there ). 

After Alexandra moved out of the house she began baking herself and shared her mother’s famous and loved bread. Everyone would ask her, beg her for the recipe but she gave the same answer as her mom. People would come back saying they made the bread exactly as instructed on the flour bag but it didn’t taste at all like the one she made. So as Alexandra wrote this book, she asked permission to share her mother’s actual recipe. Which is the first recipe in this book!  So if you want to find out what it is, you’re going to have to read the book! 

[politicalphysics-blog]

Take what you need

Kropotkin, Peter. The Conquest of Bread

  Kropotkin has already shifted the aim of politics to it’s most reasonable and scientific target: the well-being of all. But this is a very tall order, how do we achieve this most high of political virtues?

 In the third chapter of the bread book, we see tackle two of the main tendencies in human thought that may answer this question. The introductory paragraphs state that Anarchism and Communism are two forces that lead to the same conclusion: human liberty. Surely if we want all people’s needs to be met, they should be free, and not merely tools for some ulterior motives.

 So what are Communism and Anarchism?

 The first section focuses on Communism, and not just the strict and authoritarian aspects of it (like Revolution and the necessary steps to socialize land) but also on the libertarian side (for example, being able to develop ones skills freely, since the means are their’s!).

 We could label these two perspectives of Communism as ‘the ugly side’ and ‘the pretty side’. Organizing against capital and capitalists is a huge and ugly process. Human being have a certain difficulty to see their own oppression from years and generations of indoctrination and culture. 

 The ruling classes have many resources at their disposal.

 But a truly communist society would also focus their attention to human needs. Whether it be physical needs like food or shelter, or psychological needs like a living community and freedom for personal development, politics should shift all of its available energy to helping human beings flourish for the short lives they have. At the end of the day, we all want to be free to do what brings us comfort, challenges us, makes us better version of ourselves, brings us joy, etc.

 This is what Communism is. It’s not a rigid economic structure (which will change all the time with what is currently necessary). It is more like a feeling that compels us toward working with one another as a single species, and it allows us to see the beauty in one another.