transmutationisms:

“seek therapy” “get help” “this person is unwell” why is it that you are still of the belief that rendering a moral judgment is more tasteful when expressed obliquely via the language of health and the psychiatric normalising project. “it’s not that deep” why is it that you are still of the belief that the rhetorical slippage between health and morality is funny and not coercive or violent. why has this particular style of witty retort maintained such a hold on people who consider themselves leftist and do you perceive yourself as making fun of genuinely ill people or are you simply enjoying larping the medicalisation and pathologisation of anyone you can argue deserves it. quickly now

bonusdisk:

*lenin at a restaurant voice* this pasta is gross. i bet someone like kautsky, the great distorter of revolutionary marxism, would enjoy these undercooked noodles.

hotcassavetessummer:

this huey newton read of marx gets me every time; he really said a racist clock is right twice a day

paradoxius:

txttletale:

ftr the reason why “socialism is about access to goods” or “socialism is about having nice things” are nonsense positions isn’t because socialism is about being an ascetic coal miner living a pure life free from excess or whatever the fuck. it’s because socialism is about production and not consumption

I think a big part of this is that it’s common in the US (and I presume a lot of other Global North countries) to think of yourself and working class people in general as consumers rather than workers, and to think of capitalists as producers rather than capitalists. Thus, a lot of people (particularly people amenable to socialism but who are ignorant of it) think of socialism in terms of how it would change their life as a consumer and their social relations to producers, rather than how it would change their life as a worker and their social relations to capital.

There are a (big) number of problems with this, but one here is that this classifies everyone in a given industry, capitalist and worker alike, as part of the producers, and everyone else as consumers, which makes it impossible to see class dynamics in something like global commodity trade beyond how it impacts grocery store prices.

hurricanelolita:

[marxist-leninist at a comedy show] this is deeply unserious

ladiablesse:

abolish white woman video essayists

ugisfeelings:

i must emphasize my agnostic reservations i have abt the actual existence of the oppenheimer movie since i havent watched it and i do think some people are just being a little disingenuous but this historiography discourse among the asian american grad school girlies is…… smthing else.

also wait. when r we going to talk abt apparently there’s a scene early on where oppenheimer misattributes a proudhon quote to marx while trying to impress jean tatlock bc he fake-read das kapital.

guulabii:

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i must emphasize my agnostic reservations i have abt the actual existence of the oppenheimer movie since i havent watched it and i do think some people are just being a little disingenuous but this historiography discourse among the asian american grad school girlies is…… smthing else.

fkingfullmetal:

I really need 30 bucks for groceries can I have some help. Thank you for sharing and giving may it come back to you in multiples. $sfullmetal same on baybal and benmo. Kind of urgent since it’s Sunday and everything closes early. Thank you