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Reactionaries will always be able to grab a foothold in a group of people being made to grapple with the unfair power they benefit from.

Reactionaries will always be able to grab a foothold in a group of people being made to grapple with the unfair power they benefit from.

Been a while since I've made a toot, and I hope everyone is doing well. Has anyone read The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk?...

Been a while since I've made a toot, and I hope everyone is doing well. Has anyone read The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk? I'm always interested in reinterpretations towards people's history instead of "gentlemen's" history. It sounds like an interesting read.

What have you been reading? Let me know!

There is no contradiction between individual liberty and communism. In the Marxist view, the freedom of the individual is assumed to be...

There is no contradiction between individual liberty and communism. In the Marxist view, the freedom of the individual is assumed to be premised on a certain level of 'baseline sharing,' that people who aren't actual enemies can be expected to respond to one another's needs, since, after all, people who are starving or lack adequate clothes or shelter are not really free to do much of anything, other than whatever it takes to stay alive.

The "Western" view of individual freedom has been, by contrast, tied ineluctably, as in necessarily, to notions of private property. In this view, freedom is defined - at least potentially - as something exercised to the cost of others. What's more, there is a strong emphasis on self-sufficiency; hence, true freedom means being in no way dependent on other human beings (except those under one's direct control). They imagine they are creating the means to preserve their liberty, but really, run headlong into their own chains.

#MarxismLeninism #Freedom #Socialism

The deletion of Tyre Nichols is yet another example that the police are fundamentally a systemic structure of capitalist society. They are...

The deletion of Tyre Nichols is yet another example that the police are fundamentally a systemic structure of capitalist society. They are the violent fist of the parasitic state and must be smashed along with the other apparatuses of the bourgeoisie. As a result, making way for structures built by and for the support of the working classes.

Make no mistake, there will be community defenders within Socialist society, but their purpose is to serve the interests of the proletariat instead of that of capital. Their mission and goals will be a paradigm shift away from what exists now.

#ACAB #Abolition #Socialism

Men don't "fall down" the alt-right or MRA pipeline because the left isn't doing good enough outreach. They choose to...

Men don't "fall down" the alt-right or MRA pipeline because the left isn't doing good enough outreach. They choose to subscribe to oppressive ideology because they have an investment in maintaining their position in the social hierarchy. Necessarily the liberation of oppressed groups threatens that. We are not dealing with a wrong turn down an unbeaten path. The most insidious ideologies are those that are not identified as such but, as the natural order of things. The most insidious forms of repression and control are those that are so insinuated into the fabric of society they are not seen as repression and control. The ideological superstructure of our society is a highway that fast tracks men towards violent oppression of others. The likes of Andrew Tate are just one of many evangelists who are there to ferry men down this well paved road to collect their toll. The patriarchy can only be shattered if men choose a different road, and there are plenty of exit signs posted urging them to do so already.

What kind of hell are we living in when rent goes up 47% in one lease term still ends up being the best "deal" in the area.The...

What kind of hell are we living in when rent goes up 47% in one lease term still ends up being the best "deal" in the area.

The "housing crisis" is a crime against humanity. A crisis for most and record profits for the few.

Stay strong and organize.

#housingcrisis #tenantsunion

In a normal vacuum there are continual fluctuations of virtual partical pairs that appear and disappear in a fraction of a second. These...

In a normal vacuum there are continual fluctuations of virtual partical pairs that appear and disappear in a fraction of a second. These fluctuations are a result of the quantum fields that permiate through out the fabric of space-time.

But, in inflation the rapidly stretching space pulls the partical pairs apart so they can't recombine and annihilate one another.

This is what gives rise to all the structure we see in the universe.

With our most powerful tool in hand, dialectics, we can see the nature of reality is not predeterministic, even deterministic, but all things can be viewed as a function of probability.

Dialectics shows us a system in constant movement. Where the best we can do is to overdetermin, in other words approximate with as many factors as possible.

Let's end with Anti-Duhring. "Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends."

My original banner art was too intense for the elephant. So here it is on full display. Also my first time using Gimp and it feels like I...

My original banner art was too intense for the elephant. So here it is on full display. Also my first time using Gimp and it feels like I just graduated kindergarten.

I dove into Mastodon because of @socialismforall and will probably make an account on the bird as well...depending on how that turns out.

I dove into Mastodon because of @socialismforall and will probably make an account on the bird as well...depending on how that turns out.