#COMMUNISM

[kestrelsandcentipedes]

Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.

[cyanide-rush]

A very nice Anarchist tried to explain to Libs the point of covering your faces at a protest in the 50501 subreddit, and every lib in the comments is just saying

"Well theyre going to find me anyway, so I dont mask".

If you continue to go to 50501 protests, understand this is the viewpoint these libs have. Defeatism. "Theyre going to find me anyway idc". Ignoring that they arent "going to find you anyway", this idea that because things are bad you just Aren't Going To Follow Protest Safety is dangerous to everyone. Stop giving the state your info willingly, stop being a defeatist, wear your fucking mask and stop filming people.

[joy-haver]

Something I’ve noticed is that leftist movements tend to turn practical, thought out tactics that were part of a larger plan for liberation, and remove them from their context. Then we often use these tactics as symbolic ways to mark our distaste for empire and harken back to older movements. However, these tactics are often already accounted for by the system, and sometimes are actively encouraged as ways to harm our people and defang our processes.

Here is an example;

In the Civil Rights struggle, getting arrested en mass was seen as an important part of the process of freedom. The civil rights leaders realized that the areas they were in did not have large enough jails to confine them all, and that if they filled the jails up, the police simply could not confine everyone else in the movement. Getting arrested in coordinated ways was a noble and helpful sacrifice that kept your brothers and sisters from getting arrested. Due to less strict sentencing at the time, and the ability of the movement to scare the police into releasing people, getting arrested often wasn’t the utterly disabling and free-life ending process it is today. (That’s not to say getting arrested was easy on people; the police brutality of the time was incredibly intense.)

Those who spent time in jail were given almost a reverent status. That had gone through much suffering to keep others from the same fate. Often, their ability to taking confinement completely off the table for the rest of the activists is precisely what allowed for certain other actions to be successful. Paying for legal defense and moderate bail costs was something of a drain on the movements scant, resources but it could often be worth it due to the role arrests played.

However, the state responded to this, and turned it to their benefit. The next fifty years saw a prison boom. Now, economically deprived small towns were made to bid and beg for prisons to be built in there areas; not only to lock people up, but also because working at the prison was presented as one of the only jobs left in rural America. Additionally, thisdrove the labor minded population to be further in conflict with other movements in some areas.

As the capacity of the government to capture and confine increased, the capacity of the movement to fill up the jails and prevent further arrests did not. Now, the system was hungry for more and more bodies for its endless rooms. It further instilled and mechanized the capacity of prisons to force labor, undercutting labor movements. Sentences became longer, parole became stricter, fines and restitutions increased to exorbitant amounts. Those who went in for petty arrests often never came out.

But, the feeling that getting arrested was a noble and venerable goal did not leave the movement. Some transitioned tactics; instead of filling up the jails to allow others to act without recourse, they sought to get arrested in test cases, as they had seen work occasionally before. But this too became more and more difficult, as the legal system realized it did not have to play by its own rules. Slowly but surely, the legal mythology that because it is written and because it is fair, it will be ruled so, began to overtake the minds of activists; even as they failed time and time again to win this way, they still threw countless of their friends into the mouth of the enemy, and condemned them to life in prison.

Even this had become a shadow of itself by the 2000s and 2010s. Arrest became an aesthetic goal instead of a practical one. The most radical in the movements were culturally encouraged to throw their lives away for petty protests that none would see, and would have no material impact on the operations of the system of dominion. The reality that getting kettled at a non violent protest could land you with the same jail time as a political assassination did not dawn upon these activists until long after hey were already in jail, and already disconnected from the movement. Their friends would gather all their meager savings towards bail funds, oftentimes going into debt, or otherwise extracting money from the rest of the marginalized communities supportive of the activism. Those funds would then go to the government in the form of bail, and then right back towards operating the same policing systems that targeted them. In this way, the main economic output of the leftists movement of the time was to fund the very systems of policing that they sought to destroy; and to get themselves and each other locked in cages in the process. Instead of developing practical systems of change, radicals were taught to emulate key aspects of the tactics of prior generations that had specifically been recuperated into the goals of the state.

Those who saw the futility in this were readily pushed towards the defanged and self acknowledged pointless marches of the nonviolent liberal movement, which never had any goal other than to once again emulate the visual aesthetics and personal emotional fulfillment of past movements.

We see this pattern play out all the time. People insisting on the radical importance of a leftist print newspaper in a time when print journalism is dead. A fetishization of industrial unionism in a town where no factory has been for three generations. Arguments over whether to support long defunct governments and long dead leaders for some tactical benefit which will never arise from reality.

It is long past time for us to realize that the process of achieving human liberation does not come from symbolic actions, nor from following the playbook of past movements. We must learn our history, yes, but not to emulate it; instead we must learn it to understand its failures and its successes, and, most importantly, how our movement ancestors interacted with the material conditions of their time to create multifaceted plans that met the needs of their people and made successful guerrilla war upon dominion.

We need to imagine ways of making change that are suited to the times that we are living in, the problems we face, and the opportunities that we have. This utterly necessitates that we get deeply embedded into the places and communities around us, that we listen with open ears to the problems our people are facing, and that we fold those ever more towards opportunities of liberation and care for one another.

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

China really did hit us with a cultural revolution by doing literally nothing. Seeing regular people from two geopolitical rivals do something as unprecedented as simply talk to each other is one of the few things giving me hope right now.

[guiltyidealist]

new favorite YouTube comment just dropped

[viktor-the-leshen]

[doomtribble73]

[muffinlevelchicanery]

[marxistlesbianist]

Discourse about sex work on tankieblr always drives me a little insane because some people will talk about how the sex industry should be treated under a DotP and others will talk about immediate policies to make life safer for sex workers and then these two people will act like they are talking about the same thing and get into fights over it

[memingursa]

Not really spoilers for 28 years later but also spoilers.

28 Years later is a…. perfect little fable for this stage of late stage capitalism.

Remember you will die, and remember you must love. The solid… perfect gut punch. I was weeping. I was sobbing. I was crushed, and yet… I have faith.

The Rage virus is the perfect distillation, a perfect metaphor, of what capitalism and fascism does to your humanity. However, it won’t stop love. It won’t stop humanity.

Humanity will endure even if Capitalism stops, if this status quo ends

People will love.

What do you want to live for?

I can’t answer that for you, nobody can.

They can give you guidelines but that is… ultimately your own answer.

Your own definition of meaning.

Are you going to close yourself off, justify cruelty and rage? If you think America or any people is inherently worth more than others… you lower yourself. You dig deeper.

You call empathy toxic, like rich capitalists and power brokers in the American Empire.

You justify American imperialism, invading and bombing and committing acts of terror for a class of people no better than shambling infected.

Only focused on taking and taking and hating and angry and angry and you pay no mind to the violence you commit.

To deny love is, to deny your humanity. To deny that you will die, denies that people will go on after. That you won’t bother to make a better world.

Capitalism will rot your insides, your soul. Imperialism is a tool of that. You need to understand, and with that you need to empathize.

Open your heart to progress humanity further, see the many joys of taking people in, the beauty of how they are different and work together for a common good, or die an animal.

[madamepestilence]

Mahmoud Khalil is free, but under the condition that his travel documents are surrendered. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is trying to enact the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to forcibly deport Khalil anyways under the pretense that he's a, "national security risk." This is a US-USSR Red Scare act that was previously used to legally justify McCarthyism. Needless to say, if successful, Khalil—and furthermore, anti-genocide protestors—will not be the only people targeted.

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

"Knowledge begins with practice, and theoretical knowledge, which is acquired through practice, must then return to practice. The active function of knowledge manifests itself not only in the active leap from perceptual to rational knowledge, but - and this is more important - it must manifest itself in the leap from rational knowledge to revolutionary practice." - Mao, On Practice (1937)

(Pt.1)

[communism-offical]

can confirm. We’re not all that bad

telling people that the nazis were socialists is holocaust denial by the way

[dre759]

I made a thing

Hope it’s helpful

Sorry about the mic quality lol. It’s new so I’m not used to it.

[gaytorade-fucker-69]

Stroke a liberal and a fascist cums