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Under communism they will abolish "family reunions" and "family functions"

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marx once said that the greatest evil of capitalism was that it stopped workers from hating trans women as efficiently as they could (and when the hate was justified, marx called it 'super capitalisnm')

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Critical support to the @humans comrades in their war against trans women!

Trans women, being inherently reactionary, co-opt revolutionary plasm by mystifying real proletarians (all trans women are intrinsically petite-bourgeoisie because femininity is a commodity that they, as time passes, come into possession of---they both control the means and the output of the labor) with dark gender magic.

After a trans girl comes into contact with a large mass of revolutionary plasm (such as a developing class union or ICP party location), she swiftly conducts a deceitful trick: she converts all of the revolutionary plasm into gender plasm. This is a problem for the proletarian movement, which must amass revolutionary plasm.

The Tumblr staff bravely ban trans women until they learn their place! Banning trans women is a strategy Eric A. Stanley developed in Atmospheres of Violence called Overkill, whereby trans people at large are pushed out of time, out of history to counteract their effect on the revolutionary plasm (that is, they are systemically removed from living memory).

Karl Marx I'm starting to think this Karl Marx guy said some problematic stuff.

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This is in fact why parents cannot be trusted with their children. The true Communist project is to organize a state that confiscates all children at birth and lottery-style redistributes them to trained, licensed, state-sanctioned 'surveillance officers.' Rather than kill you for being queer, they just monitor you for antistate activity. This convenient mechanism prevents the reformation of the family structure as a reactionary force on the Communist society AND prevents the development of mass opportunism while also protecting queer kids. Some things have easy solutions.

for a site that is supposedly very queer, the idea that parents should monitor their children's internet access is strangely popular. id be dead if that happened to me, and im fairly sure that is the case for many, many others.

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tbf commodity fetishism isnt just buying shit

people often false dillemma these two viewpoints where it's like:

"people who buy [X] are dirty fake Marxists" (this includes boycott-supporters for the record, even though boycotts are decidedly un-Marxist as a matter of theoretical principle) "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism which means i get to buy AI revenge porn"

patterns of consumption are nearly 100% detached from revolutionary activity---a boycott, for example, could only ever be useful insofar as one firm in a competitive market is betraying its class position to support proletarian revolution (because boycotts are just price signals that push comparative demand for firm X down, enabling better positions for other firms), which is A. extraordinarily rare and B. self-defeating, since that firm would cease to be a firm very quickly.

that means starbucks, mcdonalds, iphone venezuela, frilly pillows, etc. are all fine btw. there is no 'moral character' necessary for being a revolutionary (the Party cooperates with serial killers, mass murderers, etc if the benefit outweighs the cost). you don't need to fransciscan it up and live in poverty in solidarity with third-worlders. the average third-worlder watching you do that would probably call you stupid.

same is true with like, 'justifying' your purchases by calling them necessary. you don't need to

now that's not saying like there are no independent moral reasons to not buy certain shit. obviously the case against buying jeans is nearly zero, but i think the moral case for even pro-palestine boycotts is pretty weak as well:

You individually do not affect the decision-making of this business. Due to bourgeois class interests, you are merely incentivizing it to obscure its support for Israel. The demand you remove from it, if substantial, merely goes to other firms---which, by virtue of being firms, serve bourgeois class interests and ultimately support the Israeli bourgeoisie. By joining social democratic movements for in-capitalism reform, you contribute towards the success of the... social democratic movement. (btw this is synonymous with fascism---ask me later)

commodity fetishism is when, due to the nature of exchange along a market, commodities are presented as having value in themselves rather than as a product of human labor. this fundamentally overrides the human laborers who produced it, such that agents on the market will LITERALLY perceive each other as the commodities exchanged. the reason i clowned on that trinkets post earlier is an "intense love of trinkets" somehow contesting anticapitalist sentiment is DEFINITELY downright ignorance of the exploitation of the human laborer behind the 'trinkets.'

however buying jeans does not count as... that. commodity fetishism does not mean "when i like an object"

Every time i purchase a moderately expensive item the Karl Marx on my shoulder is like "For shame... you purchase yet another pair of jeans when you have 5 already at home, you despicable commodity fetishist? In my time, a man with five outfits would consider himself blessed beyond measure, and yet you want for more, while there are children starving in the world??" to which the second Karl Marx on my other shoulder says "Objection! Those 5 pairs of jeans all wildly uncomfortable or have holes in the ass, due to the decline of clothing quality driven by the fast fashion industry, unfortunately making this purchase a necessity... Plus, by purchasing a slightly more expensive pair of jeans from an independent brand, seeking quality over 'brand recognition', they are deliberately trying to avoid engaging in conspicuous consumption!" to which the third Karl Marx clinging to my back like that beetle from Doctor Who says "Remember, my friend; the less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt — your capital. Buy the jeans," to which I say "I don't know if any of you have actually read Karl Marx"

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this is why i hyperconservatively and viciously call out any woman with less than a trench coat on outside

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the down with cis are my ideology unironically though

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"Marxist-leninist" girl just say liberal

"Marxist-leninist" Girl just say fascist.

Marxist-Leninists actually did the most work towards defeating fascism like in real life and not in political compass posting world

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There could littlerly be a huge meteorite about to crash into earth

no because hten i would see it

There could littlerly be a huge meteorite about to crash into earth and kill everyone. Yet ya all would just point at it and say "chiken little refrance" or some shit like that

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Fentanyl:

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what? objects have 'essence' too---read aristotle. this is not the distinction between persons and objects, nor has it ever been.

“I am not a “who,” Archivist, I am a “what.” A “who” requires a degree of identity I can’t ever retain”

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Afropessimism, then, is less of a theory of more of a metatheory: a critical project that, by deploying Blackness as a lens of interpretation, interrogates the unspoken, assumptive logic of Marxism, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, and feminism through rigorous theoretical consideration of their properties and assumptive logic, such as their foundations, methods, form, and utility; and it does so, again, on a higher level of abstraction than the discourse and methods of the theories it interrogates. Again, Afropessimism is, in the main, more of a metatheory than a theory. It is pessimistic about the claims theories of liberation make when these theories try to explain Black suffering or when they analogize Black suffering with the suffering of other oppressed beings. It does this by unearthing and exposing the meta-aporias, strewn like land mines in what these theories of so-called universal liberation hold to be true. If, as Afropessimism argues, Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structural inert props, implements for the execution of White and non-Black fantasies and sadomasochistic pleasures, then this also means that, at a higher level of abstraction, the claims of universal humanity that the above theories all subscribe to are hobbled by a meta-aporia: a contradition that manifests whenever one looks seriously at the structure of Black suffering in comparison to the presumed universal structure of all sentient beings. Again, Black people embody a meta-aporia for political thought and action—Black people are the wrench in the works. Blacks do not function as political subjects; instead, our flesh and energies are instrumentalized for postcolonial, immigrant, feminist, LGBTQ, transgender, and workers' agendas. These so-called allies are never authorized by Black agendas predicated on Black ethical dilemmas. A Black radical agenda is terrifying to most people on the Left—think Bernie Sanders—because it emanates from a condition of suffering for which there is no imaginable strategy for redress—no narrative of social, political, or national redemption. This crisis, no, this catastrophe, this realization that I am a sentient being who can't use words like "being" or "person" to describe myself without the scare quotes and the threat of raised eyebrows from anyone within earshot, was crippling.

Frank B. Wilderson III from "For Halloween I Washed My Face" in Afropessimism (2020)

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mfer hears the hidden bitcoin miner that came packaged with their 'free' copy of NITW start up and pats the computer that's a different level of not caring

My computer will sometimes make weird noises, but the instant I put my hand on her case they stop. She’s trying to get my attention and begging for pets and who am I to deny her after she’s done such a good job running so many games and data set analysis programs for me. I hope she knows I love her just as much as she loves me

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bro it took a whole ass genocide for people to realize voting is just a political signal of consent to the bourgeois regime and there are STILL white yapfests in the replies

"yeah let me just contribute towards capitalist knowledge-production and fine-tuning of materially superficial conditions ameliorative of class tension rq"

it's not even something fundamentally wrong with 'harm reduction,' nothing's wrong with harm reduction as a principle, it's just that harm reductionists are braindead

every single thing that's paraded for biden by democrats was also quietly done by trump--that one reddit yapfest is a huge example. every single thing that's paraded for trump by republicans was also quietly done by biden.

LIKE we are stuck between the who should kill immigrants: state rights or federal gov debate right now and it really doesn't fucking matter who you vote for---its smoke and mirrors, a fucking illusion.

stop voting NOW

I am going to keep it a buck. I am honestly surprised that liberals are actually trying to harm reduction logic a genocide. And not even the slow type of genocide that black people and Indigenous Americans are experiencing. Like a straight up, “we put a bunch of brown or ethnic people in a box and are giving someone the tools to light that motherfucker on fire” genocide. Not the type of genocide where it’s backed by a bunch of wealthy American entrepreneurs or the genocide that the state indirectly causes by consequence. No, it’s a simple fucking, “we are actively arming an ethnostate whose stated purpose is to wipe out a people and take their land” genocide. I joked about it at first and then there is a swath of white or privileged liberals who are like rationalizing it like wait, you aren’t meming? You’re seriously sliding down that slippery slope? My brother and sister in Satanael, what’s the point of keeping fascism at bay if the current ideology is blatantly aiding and abetting in genocide and ethnic cleansing?

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Antisemitism, racism, and transphobia/homophobia are ALWAYS linked together.

why is void reblogging this? uninformed take. read Frank B Wilderson III and other Afropessimists.

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i miss theaetetus

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you're telling me no black wittgenstein?

Ever since that article with Maia, some between BRG people have been bothering me on Twitter.

These are people who have built their entire identity around being this persona of an aloof, esoteric, post-ironic, hyperpop pseudointellectual.

So far three of them have blocked me because I said "Your nick land pfp is gay as hell, the ketamine trannies all read Deleuze now."