Sterling

it’s all very strange, isn’t it? 24

[theconcealedweapon]

This is what's so fucked up about "nothing that requires the labor of others is a human right".

The labor is already being done under capitalism. The laborers are already being underpaid under capitalism.

When you propose removing the greedy profiteers and paying the workers a reasonable wage, people call that "slavery" while they have no problem with the current system.

They're not even trying to make sense.

[animentality]

[theconcealedweapon]

If you really want to prove that you've changed, don't convince the people who you hurt.

Convince the people who agreed with you. Betray them. Make them see you as a traitor.

[wilczak]

serotine bat

[kosmogrl]

deciding one day that you want to build a life for yourself is so scary. like damn I really want to live… I’m new to this. where do I even begin

[fairycosmos]

your problem is you think if you communicate with clarity and earnestness that people will actually understand you

[zimstern2006]

[9e978e]

via

[achillesinhighheels]

[mydearlonelygrave]

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[louisegluckpdf]

holy quaternity

[stable-genius-1]

quintinity

[imma-hex-girl]

By Erika Kamano

[dragliferecords]

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

[myteenangstbullshithasabodycount]

[sec0ndwind]

[handweavers]

i think that for a lot of people when they start learning about the political economy and marxist economics they really struggle with decoupling 1) the amount of money someone has from their class position relative to production and 2) the morality associated with being a member of one class or another and what it says about you and a lot of other stuff surrounding guilt that is neither helpful nor useful in these conversations

for example it's really hard to get people to understand that a pro athlete who makes millions of dollars a year is still a worker and not bourgeois because their income is entirely reliant on their physical labour and if they stop working they are not paid, and when discussing economics that is an important distinction. a family who owns their own small business like a corner store is petit bourgeois even if they're broke all the time. their class interests are not aligned with workers and unionization, they are for receiving more benefits afforded to small business owners and policies that increase their profits as small business owners. these class relations are about their relationship to production and capital not necessarily the size of their personal bank account but trying to get beginners to marxist economics to understand that can be really difficult

[handweavers]

also when someone realizes they're petit bourgeois or bourgeois and starts self-flagellating or trying to conceal the nature of their family's relationship to capital it doesn't help anyone. if you recognize your class interests are not aligned with the working class and you are a marxist and want to be in solidarity with workers, you become a class traitor. you work toward changes that benefit workers and not your own class. you align yourself with working people at the expense of your own class. engels was from a bourgeois family, so was fidel castro, and both dedicated their lives to being class traitors. if more bourgeois people were class traitors the world would be a very different place lol