#proletarian

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Unstoppable

Bryan Hitch - Paul Neary

[latterdayfilth]

guys…. I am TAKEN!!!! I am in a strictly monogamous hypersexual overly romantic healthy & loving steady relationship with a very strong very passionate very intelligent & very beautiful man!!!!!!

My man? Obviously none other than the one and only fabled and collectively limerenced: Organized Class Struggle for a Proletariat Revolution. (I just call him comrade for short)

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: X-Men #124 (August, 1979) Art by Dave Cockrum, Terry Austin, Gaspar Saladino

[ilysxmmit]

make liberals read Tiqqun and Endnotes

[fanfanlemoko]

« Que les pauvres aient le sentiment de leur impuissance, voilà une condition première de la paix sociale. »

— Maurice Barrès, "Les Déracinés", 1897.

[viscountvagabond]

Where I am currently, there's three mango trees outside. Ive been fiending for fruit to a stupid degree, which is one of the reasons why I think its good to stay here. I try my best to be nice, and having applied for fifty jobs in less than week is something I take a bit of pride in. My one saving grace is having an obscene amount of food stamps, but I'd rather die than see good floor mangos go to waste. Fruit's still expensive, and the government doesn't pay out when you're employed.

This has since been interpreted as me having absolutely no choice but to eat the floor mangos, when it sincerely isn't that severe. I don't eat floor mangos because I'm a Victorian child dying of scarlet fever after my parents got kicked out of the work house, I eat floor mangos because growing up poor keeps me from spending money on food. I started eating so much fruit because I had it available (because for some reason people don't eat a lot of it) and you can't buy candy bars in florida with food stamps any more.

This has had the amazing consequence, though, of my deeply proletarian neighbors taking pity on such a soul as me, and giving me free food in turn. I try to keep my meals between 40 cents to two dollars each, which is how I saved my food stamps (I don't really eat meat any more because it's expensive,) but it's so odd for people to be generous to me anyway. I'm glad I'm around decent people at least, especially when the closest grocery store is about a mile and a half one way and I walk out of necessity.

Nobody listens to me when I tell them I'll be okay, or I don't need it, or that I'll be okay, and it's really nice having the more positive aspects of socialization from total strangers. The sort of kindness I've seen from people I haven't even met is one of the reasons why I prefer the working class to elites. I never get treated this well from people who have a lot of give. This is what a traditional commune is meant for.

Plus, they're absolutely getting first pick when I have meats to braise or soup to make. I love them to death. It doesn't have to be doom and gloom 24/7. You don't have to understand for there to be good people in the world. It's always there.

[theshatterednotes]

Swedish 19th century proletarian author Maria Sandel

[communistgrey]

Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846)

“In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven. That is to say, we do not set out from what men say, imagine, conceive, nor from men as narrated, thought of, imagined, conceived, in order to arrive at men in the flesh. We set out from real, active men, and on the basis of their real life-process we demonstrate the development of the ideological reflexes and echoes of this life-process. The phantoms formed in the human brain are also, necessarily, sublimates of their material life-process, which is empirically verifiable and bound to material premises. Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. In the first method of approach the starting-point is consciousness taken as the living individual; in the second method, which conforms to real life, it is the real living individuals themselves, and consciousness is considered solely as their consciousness.”