#dunya.txt

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Guillotine is on my mind again due to the strange anti-French revolution discourse here, and I am reminded of how the guillotine utterly fails as some symbol for modern revolution. Putting aside it’s origin within a liberal bourgeoise revolution, it served as a tool for and symbol of colonial violence in the French empire. For countries colonized by France, the guillotine was a threat and a means for subjugation, often times under the false veneer of “liberty, equality and fraternity”. In Vietnam the French paraded a guillotine, and if in this, you see any liberation, your views of revolution remain racist, colonialist and misplaced.

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tumblr ruslit fans gotta start reading Chernyshevsky

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My sister being vehemently anti-communist with a seeming propensity for fascistic aesthetics is certainly an unfortunate thing😐

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Been feeling emotions and nostalgia lately. No doubt it’s the witch’s curse