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Mauro Ariel Koliva — Serie "Infrarock" [ballpoint pen & gel ink, canvas, 2016]

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Soviet soldiers leave inscriptions on the walls of the Reichstag, May 1945.

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didu - fw23

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bro what the fuck lmfao. funniest possible thing to say for absolutely no reason

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in love with rateyourmusics top movies of 1887

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Leelah Alcorn’s blog was deleted and posts about her are being removed. Don’t stop spreading this. Reblog everything you can, post everything you can. 

These are her pictures

here are some of her drawings

this is her note

Don’t let this die.

Not this.

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faith ringgold, "tar beach ii," 1988, acrylic paint, canvas, printed fabric, ink and thread

from the handwritten text, written from the perspective of the quilt's fictional subject, the elementary-aged cassie louise lightfoot:

"Sleeping on Tar Beach was magical. Laying on the roof in the night with stars and skyscraper buildings all around me made me feel rich, like I owned all that I could see. The bridge was my most prized possession. Daddy said the George Washington Bridge was the longest and most beautiful bridge in the world and that it opened in 1931 on the very day I was born. Daddy worked on that bridge hoisting cables. Since then, I’ve wanted that bridge to be mine. "Now I have claimed it. All I had to do was fly over it for it to be mine forever. I can wear it like a giant diamond necklace, or just fly above it and marvel at its sparkling beauty. I can fly, yes fly. Me, Cassie Louise Lightfoot, only eight years old and in the third grade and I can fly. That means I am free to go wherever I want to for the rest of my life."

faith ringgold, depicted above by alice neel, was born in 1930 and passed away april 13, 2024 at 93 years old. may her memory continue to bless us always.

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Connie Fleming at the 6th Annual California Fashion Industry Friends of AIDS Project Los Angeles Benefit Honoring Thierry Mugler ✨

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“Western Marxism is basically a kind of Marxism which has, as a key characteristic, never exercised political power. It is a Marxism that has, more and more frequently, concerned itself with philosophical and aesthetic issues. It has pulled back, for example, from criticism of political economy and the problem of the conquest of political power. More and more it has taken a historic distance from the concrete experiences of socialist transition in the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Cuba and so forth. This western Marxism considers itself to be superior to eastern Marxism because it hasn’t tarnished Marxism by transforming it into an ideology of the State like, for example, Soviet Marxism, and it has never been authoritarian, totalitarian or violent. This Marxism preserves the purity of theory to the detriment of the fact that it has never produced a revolution anywhere on the face of the Earth“

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(via our heat is gospel: Image)

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prefacing this w — i’m coming in good faith and ur allowed to call me an idiot.

i do not get anti-colonialism without socialism, a movement that is kinda popular here (russia). many of our republics are headed by ethnic minority politicians, they’re present in our political systems. and yes, right now the system is built to serve the slavs, especially those in moscow but i do not get how de colonization without socialism is supposed to fix this. said republic leaders gladly sell their people or resources away to moscow, they will continue to do so as any capital state.

yet i keep seeing takes like “when we decolonize you’ll have to become more ecologically friendly”, but how does this work without socialism, how will it fix oil companies? i recently hanged w a liberal-left chechen group and their ‘decolonization’ attitude was “we have to get rid of russians in our state first, then kadyrov second”, but how will you ensure not to have another puppet leader? how is kadyrov more deserving of being present in the state than like avg russian doctor in grozniy? what do people mean by ‘giving back power to the indigenous people’ if it’s just capitalism, so they choose between to which western countries they’re exploited now?

i feel like it’s impossible to have decolonization, a successful one, without socialism. i am a jew, so it’s not like any post ussr state wants me nor i get a say in what indigenous people should think, but i genuinely don’t understand.

sorry for being an asshole

you're not an idiot or an asshole you're completely correct; land back without socialism would just mean handing power to corrupt comprador tribal governments of the kind that created the conditions for the wounded knee occupation. fanon and nkrumah and many other intellectuals have discussed how institutional decolonization without meaningful political change doesn't permit functional independence, as the new decolonized governments end up puppets of imperialism.

quite frankly the reason i didn't mention this on the post you're presumably mentioning is because i was tired and i assumed all my followers would assume that i was discussing a socialist decolonization happening through a comprehensive political revolution. that's what i get for not overexplaining myself!

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3 year long youtube video called "everything wrong with everything ever" and your mutuals are posting about it and you're getting annoyed

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