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like just because something exists now, people can only conceive the violence of its removal and not the violence required to create and sustain it
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at this point if an American leftist or lib doesn’t call you a tankie for one reason or another you’re probably not Communisting well enough. a lib called me a tankie for saying landlordism is extortion and housing should be guaranteed lol. in a few years they will call you a tankie for thinking food should be free.
Libs often see any form of organized collective action as authoritarian. They’re so fully converted to the imperialist myth of rugged individualism that they cannot fathom of any way that working people may voluntarily come together in large bodies to fight for their own liberation.
You ain’t done nothing if you ain’t been called a Red!
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ok NOW we can all freak out marvel vfx workers voted to unionize
(via symeonsays)
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as i write my silly little family abolition post i keep thinking of the segment in wage labour & capital where marx argues that capitalism as a system of production serves to enforce both production and non-production–i.e., when a factory is not profitable, even though it might produce something necessary, even if people might be willing to work there, they are actively prevented by private property–private property enforces the disuse of land, machinery, etc just as much as it regulates its use. and i think considering the family in those terms is really useful–because you can break away from just understanding the family as providing care (and therefore obviously a good thing, how could we abolish the family!) but also conversely as one of foreclosing care–if nobody will care for the child, or the senior, or the sick, or disabled, within the confines of the family, then the boundaries of the family serve to prevent anyone else from providing that care. much like industry is not a ‘provider’ of work, but a regimenter of it, so is the family best understood as a regimenter of care.
(via beloved-femboyish-girl)
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okay here’s the random question of the day. what specific word or phrase in your vocabulary is a dead giveaway for the local or regional dialect from where you grew up? like for me it’s saying “chonies” instead of underpants. that’s just very southern san joaquin valley/maybe southern california in general, but like, VERY southern valley
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crazy that in the 1970s they were like, “fine, women can play sports. but because they’re innately less athletic than men, only in a special ghettoized League For The Frail And Delicate where they get paid less 😊”. And not only is that still the system in 2023, but viciously lashing out at the smallest challenges to that system gets framed as Feminist Praxis
even setting aside the fact that gendered bodytype averages aren’t universals, and plenty of individual (cis) women and (cis) men could easily go to toe to toe. have we considered that the fact that all the most prominent and well-paid sports are ones that require things like Being Tall and Having Muscle Mass, as opposed to, ex, gymnastics…is itself an artifact of sexism
also to people who are like “well do you think WOMEN should be playing AMERICAN FOOTBALL against MEN” actually I don’t think anyone should be playing american football on account of, you know, the irreversible brain damage.
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