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nando161mando · 9 months

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lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers · 2 years

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#anarchism #socialism #communism #anti capitalism #noam chomsky #quotes #leftist quotes

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bothpartiesarebad · 1 year

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(via Progressive FDR Roosevelt Quote Great Depression American - Etsy)

#Leftist quotes #FDR #roosevelt #socialism #eat the rich

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thegayhimbo · 2 months

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"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

#antisemitism #antisemitism on the left #antisemitism on the right #leftist antisemitism #the Left gaslighting Jews #the Right gaslighting Jews #internalized antisemitism #jumblr #'i'm antizionist not antisemitic' my ass 🙄#leftist hypocrisy #jean paul sartre #quotes #me too unless you're a jew

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troythecatfish · 5 months

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estherax · 1 year

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Generating plasm and stacking matchboxes: how to build a better future through collective consciousness.

Alternatively - Steban and Ulixes were building Tatlin's Tower so I have to talk about the symbolism or I will explode!!

While completing the communist vision quest you get an opportunity to build a model of "The Tower of History", depicted on the last page of "A Brief Look at Infra-Materialism": a leaning tower wrapped in a dramatic helix. The scale model you make is a mirror image of Tatlin's Tower - a design for a grand monumental building to the Third International: the government organization advocating for world communism.

The main idea of the monument was to produce a new type of structure, uniting a purely creative form with a utilitarian form. Meaning it would function as an office building while also serving as a symbol of cultural significance. And let me tell you, this bad boy can fit so much symbolism in it.

Tatlin was commissioned to develop a design in 1919, after the 1917 February Revolution - a parallel to Disco Elysium's Insulinde we're witnessing post-Antecentennial Revolution.

Tatlin's work was inspired by high revolutionary goals, which are evident in the visual direction of the tower as well, expressing the ideological strive for achieving something that has never been done before, overcoming the odds. The structure "oscillates like a steel snake, constrained and organized by the one general movement of all the parts, to raise itself above the earth. The form wants to overcome the material and the force of gravity..."

The tower has meaning packed even in the materials. For example, the glass structures (marked A, B, C on the architectural rendering) were meant to serve legislative, executive and informative initiatives while rotating around their axes at different speeds. The material signified the purity of initiatives, their liberation from material constraints and their ideal qualities.

But here's the best part. The spirals.

"The spiral is the movement of liberated humanity. The spiral is the ideal expression of liberation: with its base set in the earth, it flees from the ground and becomes a symbol of the suspension of all (...) earthy interests." They are "the most elastic and rapid lines which the world knows" that represent movement and aspiration, continuing the themes of progress and freedom, but they also refer to something else.

In the process of building the matchbox model Rhetoric points out: "It's almost exactly as Nilsen's sketch imagined, a physical manifestation of the dialectical spiral of history."

The shape of the tower is a representation of dialectical development of history, first visualized as a spiral by G. W. F. Hegel. He pictured transformational change as "both linear and circular in order to be short-term responsive, i.e. possibly negating itself, and long-term strategic, i.e. a process of development."

Hegel's dialectics would later be reinterpreted through the prism of materialism by Marx and Engels to create dialectical materialism - the basis for historical materialism.

"Still, this idea, as formulated by Marx and Engels on the basis of Hegels’ philosophy, is far more comprehensive and far richer in content than the current idea of evolution is. A development that repeats, as it were, stages that have already been passed, but repeats them in a different way, on a higher basis, (...) a development, so to speak, that proceeds in spirals, not in a straight line; a development by leaps, catastrophes, and revolutions; (...) the interdependence and the closest and indissoluble connection between all aspects of any phenomenon (history constantly revealing ever new aspects), a connection that provides a uniform, and universal process of motion, one that follows definite laws - these are some of the features of dialectics as a doctrine of development that is richer than the conventional one."

The tower embodies progress in materialist understanding of history while also indicating the connection to ideological plasm, a manifestation of "the proletariat's embrace of historical materialism", necessary to create a better future.

According to Nilsen, the proletariat of a revolutionary state can generate enough plasm to create extra-physical architecture that "disregards the laws of 'bourgeois physics' and instead relies on the revolutionary faith of the people for structural integrity."

This function of plasm implies that The Tower of History can be created only under revolutionary circumstances - without a sufficient amount of plasm even the matchbox model didn't stay up. The exact same sentiment is expressed about Tatlin's Tower: "We maintain that only the full power of the multimillion strong proletarian consciousness could bring into the world the idea of this monument and its forms. The monument must be realized by the muscles of this power, because we have an ideal, living and classical expression the pure and creative form of the international union of the workers of the whole world."

Nilsen called it "the highest expression of Communist principles, a society whose literal foundation is the faith of its people."

Tatlin's Tower was a symbol of faith in the revolutionary future, the global triumph of Marxist socialism. A monument "made of iron, glass and revolution."

It was never built in real life, and neither was The Tower of History in the world of Elysium.

But you can try to see if there's enough plasm between the three of you. And the matchbox tower stays up for a long moment, quivering with an improbable energy. You believe it can say up - and it does.

So you have to believe; whether it's for collective action or generating ideological plasm. Then, together, maybe you'll be able to build as much as 0.0002% of communism.

#i tricked myself into reading leftist theory for disco elysium #never thought i would be reading Lenin to write about videogame worldbuilding #tower related quotes are from ''The monument to the Third International'' by Nikolai Punin #infra-materialism #disco elysium #de #de meta #disco elysium analysis #disco elysium spoilers #disco elysium meta

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cobblestonevoid · 7 months

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At least three 35 year old American centrist (conservative) women have hung this quote up on their wall in blissful ignorance, calling it rn

#oscar wilde #classic lit memes #classic literature #poli sci #socialism #anarcho socialism #anarchism #the soul of man under socialism #leftist memes #oscar wilde quotes #the picture of dorian gray #the importance of being earnest #leftist #leftism

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the-celestial-bitch · 7 months

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i think what most people fail to understand is that theres no fucking way that israel intelligence community wouldnt know about the attack that happened. they have spies literally everywhere and theyre frighteningly good at their job, just look at some cases of them stealing data from other countries and you will see. so the most likely scenario in my head is that israeli government decided to let the attack happen, let the people die, bc of the greater good of forcing more oppression onto palestinians and deeming any of the activists as terrorists. now they can say "look its not our fault!!! we're doing this for the security of the country, not just israelis, and our laws and legislations are only to control the terrorism" which is a big fat lie.

people need to understand that when oppression gets too suffocating radical groups are born. this is why there are alt right muslim extremists in europe, bc theyre being actively oppressed. but what they do benefits the government (as in, they can now point at the extremists and claim all muslims/middle easterns are like this). so in the end, theres a high chance that the recent hamas attack will benefit the genocide of the palestinian—a truly ironic tragedy, the acts of which we (the middle easterns) already know from memory.

my heart goes out to all of my palestinian siblings. i hope the nightmarish genocidal machine of israel finally dies, and that you can experience peace in the end 🇵🇸

#Palestine #also i need the western leftists to check their sources before quoting any palestine advocate bc some of them are the iranian government #which i do not need to get into to explain why thats not correct and u shouldn't listen to them. hopefully #god im just. head in hands #when will the horrors end #people can never understand the experience of living in middle east #its truly hellish #and everything is out of our control #and bc we are brown our lives just. don't fucking matter #they way everyone treats us like trash like we deserve whats happening #like we deserve the war the west is forcing on us #im so so so tired. the pain never goes away #it just piles up.

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2281 · 1 year

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i keep seeing tiktoks about “the girlfriend effect” where shitty men become slightly less shitty because they start dating a “leftist” girl and people keep passing it off as progressive and a girlboss moment or some shit but it pisses me off so much fuck you for making her do the leg work so you have human fucking empathy fuck you for not being able to understand why racism bad or why slurs bad

#leftist is in air quotes bc you can’t really be an ally if you’re dating pieces of shit even if you change him #anyways #isaac.txt

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garlic-and-cloves · 2 months

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Just like how you can always find a group of people who say say anything, you can also always find Jews who say anything.

But just like how those people in the first scenario don't represent the world as a whole, the 3 Jews you've found who agree with whatever you've decided to be true do not represent other Jews in any way.

#for anyone quoting neturei karta or jvp as “see Jews agree with me”#jewish #judaism #antisemitism #israel #palestine #leftist antisemitism #jvp #neturei karta #my posts #jumblr

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aronarchy · 6 months

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Maturity is overrated.

At some point we all wanted to go to sleep and not wake up till everything is fixed by itself, and we were right about it, it would have been good and fair. We wanted apologies that are due, we wanted to fight the ones that wronged us till they stop, and we were right about that too. The world is unfair, but that phrase should not turn into a neutral description, it should be judgement.

This world deserves no compromise, and some things can only be done screaming.

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#repost of someone else’s content #fedi #youthlib #leftist #abuse survivor #trauma survivor #iconic quotes

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nando161mando · 9 months

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captainjonnitkessler · 6 months

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"I think conservatives hate being made fun of for being religious so they're constantly like "well if you think about it any belief is like a religion"

Sir, I can personally assure you, from the bottom of both my heart and my tumblr inbox, that it is not just conservatives who do that

#i mean they're absolutely right it's just not only conservatives who do it #shoutout to every dumbfuck 'leftist' on here still pushing the 'atheism is actually a religion' thing #quote is paraphrased from the 'san fransicko' episode of If Books Could Kill for the record #atheism #skepticism umbrella

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weepylucifer · 3 months

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also you know what baffles me sometimes? that everyone says they love "should the stars also go out" and yet the fanbase for my best boy who said this is still five people and a cumsock :(

#posts by me #steban is great please care about him 🥺 he has more banger quotes and is even a sub #we used to love ineffectual leftist college twinks on this website. have we all forgotten. what would enjolras think

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fanboy-feminist · 2 months

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Here are some of my favorite graphics from the new Contrapoints video

#the Jack Halberstam quote made me burst out laughing #maybe it’s just because it’s a shiny new video but I genuinely think this is Natalie’s best video essay yet #contrapoints #STRANGEAEONS MENTION!#lefttube #leftist #leftism #breadtube #natalie wynn #twilight #queer theory #lgbt studies #gay and lesbian studies #Jack halberstam #strange aeons #strangeaeons #camille paglia

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troythecatfish · 5 months

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America would be NOTHING without black people.

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