txttletale:

oneheadtoanother:

txttletale:

one of the core premises of marxism–in fact, i’ll argue the core premise, if you had to boil it down to just one thing–is that advancements in the means of production will create both a proletarian class and the means by which it can liberate itself. marxism is not about ‘undoing’ capitalism, and if you believe your socialism or anarchism is about ‘returning’ to something, you’re not left-wing, you’re nakedly reactionary. the marxist view on new divisions of labour and extractive technologies should not be ‘how do we destroy or revert this’ but ‘how do we turn this advancement towards our common betterment and liberation’

How do we turn this advancement of fracking towards our common betterment and liberation. How do we turn this advancement of global surveillance towards our common betterment and liberation. How do we turn this advancement of strip-mining towards our common betterment and liberation. How do we turn this advancement of the gig economy towards our common betterment and liberation. We know that everything capitalism develops must have liberatory potential because Papa Marx said the telos goes through capitalism to communism.

“fracking” and “global surveillance” and “the gig economy” are not atomic indivisible concepts. obviously if taken as metaphysical wholenesses unto themselves they have no liberatory potential innit. but each of these concepts actually consists of a huge number of different technologies being combined with a certain set of social relations. “global surveillance” understood as a cohesive whole can obviously not be liberatory, but it should be obvious that when it comes to, for instance, moving past the capitalist market economy, the application of algorithmic analysis to enormous data sets is a technology with enormous potential for good. historical and dialectical materialism means identifying the features within the elements of present society that could transform themselves under different social circumstances, not taking everything as an absolute and imagining a value inversion of it

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

sic-semper-hominibus:

panduus:

found the artist’s name in the notes and went looking because this slaps (it’s called A Place Where I’ll Dance) and its not even their best song. check this shit out:

Oh this slaps actually

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fandomsandfeminism:

sharpasanaro:

sandersstudies:

sandersstudies:

I sat with a crying second grader today. (The age range is outside my wheelhouse but I was the most convenient adult.) He was crying, the other adults said, because his brother took a phone he was playing on. “Phone addicted,” everybody said. “If he would get up and play games with the other kids he wouldn’t be crying.”

He told me everyone lets his brother take things from him because his brother is younger, and doesn’t know better. He told me he doesn’t want to play because he’s tired, he has too many extracurriculars this summer and can’t get good sleep because “everyone in my camper is so loud when I’m trying to sleep.” He’s exhausted and only eight. His mom’s an acquaintance and told me she and the kid’s father are going through a separation — mom and four kids left the house to stay in a camper.

But people will seriously not listen to kids crying over seemingly minor things because on the surface it looks like a tantrum. If kids are given the space to articulate themselves they often will.

I’ve found that if a child is capable of having a conversation (that is, old enough to speak and express themselves, not injured or upset so badly that they literally cannot stop crying, and not behaving violently), then 90% of the time their reason for being upset is legitimate, or at least understandable.

Please remember that this also applies to teenagers and preteens, they might be acting like a knowitall who doesn’t give a shit, or a first class jerk, but chances are fair they feel like shit for one reason or another and adults just chalk it up to teenage angst instead

Almost every time you see someone, child, teen, or adult, who is having some emotional meltdown over something minor, it’s a “straw that broke the camels back” situation.

Kids and teens may have bigger reactions or it may take less to overwhelm them, but it’s important to remember that they are still people and it’s hard being a people.

bisexualbaker:

magz:

versegm:

versegm:

Btw much as I love to make fun of twitter and reddit’s business decisions, I have 0% trust in tumblr’s management to not go a similar route so this is your gentle reminder that you should regularly go to your blog settings to export your blog. That’s a fancy way of saying you can download a backup of your blog so if everything goes down you’ll still have a backup of your posts & convos.

It’s gonna come as a surprise to most of you, but if you don’t want to do that for whatever reason you’re allowed to not reblog this post. I’m not holding a gun to your head here I’m just trying to spread the word for people who do want a backup of their stuff.

Also, made this guide for backup Tumblr blogs (ft. export blog method, and python 3 script method):

How To Backup Your Tumblr Blog

Tumblr Backup (Python 3 Script) Index Summary What this does: Things used in this method: How to set up: Setting up Python If you messed it

Google Docs

I swear I did this before the Porn Purge and then completely lost the how-to link, so thank you @magz​ for sharing it again!

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apas-95:

fundamentally the difference between being comrades and being friends is that, while you’re born into neither arrangement, camaraderie comes from a shared fidelity to a common cause, and not to each other. you can be comrades with someone you absolutely loathe on a personal level, but still be able to rely on their aid absolutely in as far as carrying out your common goals - this is, in fact, a necessity for discerning between ‘political organisation’ and 'social clique’. this doesn’t excuse corrosive behaviour, to the degree that it affects organisation, but not everything is actually a matter relevant to carrying out revolution.

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zitasaurusrex:

Hey.

I’m serious when I say I think the sentiment that kindness requires “zero effort” is harmful.

The idea that kind is a thing you can be innately, without having to think or feel anything about it, leaves a gap in the fence where the other idea “if I have unkind thoughts or feelings, I am by nature a bad, unkind person” can slip through.

Listen. That’s bullshit.

Being kind to other people means paying attention to the effect your words and actions have on others, caring about it, and trying to make those effects better. That’s work.

If you have a nasty thought about another person that annoys you and you contain the impulse, hold your tongue, and let it go? That was effort.

If you took time out to really think about something you wanted to say and make sure it would have its intended result without causing accidental harm that you wouldn’t have noticed if you went totally off the cuff? Wow, that took some work!

If you were tired and angry and full of hatred but you still did the dishes so your housemate has something to eat their breakfast off of in the morning, that wasn’t easy.

I don’t think there are magical “kind” people who never have a mean thought and are always selfless and pure. That would be exhausting and impossible.

I’m not a “nice person,” I’m a nasty, bitter, angry, sad person who tries to have good leash manners, control my worst impulses, and not jump on strangers because they don’t deserve that shit from me.

I don’t always succeed, but I’m trying. I’m trying and it’s worth it.

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letsbelonelytogetherr:

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence…”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince (via books-n-quotes)

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mossbawn:

mossbawn:

i hope the beloved mutuals don’t think me unintellectual for this but i love romantic subplots i gobble them up delightedly with very few exceptions. ‘oh fuck yes a little bowl of seeds for me’ etc 

“how are they finding time to fall in love when the worlds ending” and what are we all doing right now 🤨

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zvaigzdelasas:

Very much fits the self conception of Liberalism to put the motive force of ‘the industrial revolution’ solely on machinery like the Spinning Jenny instead of interrogating what particular institution afforded such a staggering degree of raw material accumulation so as to make the Spinning Jenny worthwhile to begin with

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