#get organized

[blondebrainpowered]

The Lantern Bearers, 1908

Artist: Maxfield Parrish

[marxistlesbianist]

The idea that there is no communist movement in the US because things haven't gotten bad enough here yet I find to be an especially frustrating expression of idealism, which does little more than absolve communists here of the responsibility to organize under our present conditions. From a materialist perspective, all we can really conclude is that strategies which communists have used to organize under harsher political economic conditions cannot be simply transferred to conditions of relative stability and prosperity. But to say that the masses have not yet suffered enough, is effectively to conclude that these unapplicable strategies are the only means of communist organizing!

Ultimately, no communist movement can succeed if it blames the masses for failing to follow it—rather we must always analyze how we have failed to organize around the needs of the masses.

[boof-chamber]

[llahumanthatexistsll]

haven’t posted in a while but I’ll be FUCKED if I don’t make it a good one. You know what’s missing from all this anger we have for our country? Fucking organization and community. And shut up abt “well but we have bug protests all over the coundptry” yeah. On weekends. When it’s convenient. Don’t get me wrong protesting is an AMAZING way to get organized but these big protests we have can’t be on a continent day. Here’s an example, I participated in a walk-out at my school. I left school without an official pardon. It would have been better if more ppl joined me but they were scared. Of authority of the same authority that we want to change. Listen to me when I say to make change you need to break rules. There is no way to tear down the authoritarian government that you hate while conforming to it. So have protests on weekdays during school and work hours and do walk-outs that get you in trouble. And yeah, I have no power in deciding when things happen but that’s the thing, if people go from admitting to one ruler to another you are bound to fall into the same position. And because it seems like such an impossible task, here’s some things you can do.

When school stars, you can most definitely organize a walk-out, how? Airdrop the date and time to leave and also include air dropping to others.

-graffiti. I know, I know but it really can be sharpie saying some shit on a bench. Make people remember

-small protests with your friends, just walk around a busy area with signs

-stop for the love of god buying so much

-, jelwery, pins etc with political messages

-make political talk normal. and most importantly, stop taking in so much bad news and thinking” oh shit I need to do something” and then scroll. your anger means nothing if it isn’t followed by action.

[kropotkindersurprise]

1949 - Paul Robeson sings "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish miners

Extract from Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 (1949) The highlight of this 1949 issue is the visit of American actor and singer Paul Robeson to Woolmet Colliery near Edinburgh.

Robeson was a renowned (and often persecuted) left-wing political activist and he made several visits to British mining communities.

On this occasion he sings "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" for miners in the canteen, a song about the American trade unionist who was framed on a murder charge and executed in 1915.

Robeson had long been something of a hero to the British mining community, ever since he starred in the film Proud Valley (d. Pen Tennyson, 1940) as an American sailor stranded in Cardiff who finds work in a Welsh colliery (the newsreel opens with a short clip from the film).

[miss-what-a-d0ll]

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[vitsoe-tips-tricks]

I have a bit of nostalgia for old Dymo embossed labels, and was curious how the various different devices actually worked.

So I bought one of each and did a series of tests. (If anyone would be interested in seeing them all compared side-by-side with notes, let me know and I’ll put together a more involved post. There are only a few different typographic options but they are really very different from each other. Despite the many variants available, most produced extremely similar imprints.)

In the end my favorite was the tiniest Motex, officially known as the “Motex Embossing Label Maker.”

I only use the uppercase one. (It comes in a variant with an upper and lower lowercase wheel, but because of the way changing the wheel works you can’t practically change from uppercase to lowercase on the same label so the lowercase one is not super useful. I’d suggest saving the $2 and sticking with a single wheel.)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RWZ5139

The example shown in the picture is a clear substrate, stuck to a small piece of 3/8 inch magnetic tape so that it’s easy to reposition on the shelf.

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