"...at a revolution two paths are possible. So indeed they are in evolution – one can either stay still and be classical, academic and null, or go forward. But at a time of revolution it is not possible to stay still, one must either go forward, or back. To us this choice appears as a choice between Communism and Fascism, either to create the future or to go back to old primitive values, to mythology, racialism, nationalism, hero-worship, and participation mystique. This Fascist art is like the regression of the neurotic to a previous level of adaptation.

It is D. H. Lawrence’s importance as an artist that he was well aware of the fact that the pure artist cannot exist to-day, and that the artist must inevitably be a man hating cash relationships and the market, and profoundly interested in the relations between persons. Moreover, he must be a man not merely profoundly interested in the relations between persons as they are, but interested in changing them, dissatisfied with them as they are, and wanting newer and fuller values in personal relationships.

But it is Lawrence’s final tragedy that his solution was ultimately Fascist and not Communist. It was regressive. Lawrence wanted us to return to the past, to the ‘Mother’. He sees human discontent as the yearning of the solar plexus for the umbilical connexion, and he demands the substitution for sharp sexual love of the unconscious fleshy identification of foetus with mother. All this was symbolic of regression, of neurosis, of the return to the primitive.

Lawrence felt that the Europe of to-day was moribund; and he turned therefore to other forms of existence, in Mexico, Etruria and Sicily, where he found or thought he found systems of social relations in which life flowed more easily and more meaningfully. The life of Bourgeois Europe seemed to him permeated with possessiveness and rationalising, so that it had got out of gear with the simple needs of the Body. In a thousand forms he repeats this indictment of a civilisation which consciously and just because it is conscious – sins against the instinctive currents which are man’s primal source of energy. It is a mistake to suppose that Lawrence preaches the gospel of sex. Bourgeois Europe has had its bellyful of sex, and a sex cult would not now attract the interest and emotional support which Lawrence’s teaching received. Lawrence’s gospel was purely sociological. Even sex was too conscious for him..." - Christopher Caudwell, "D. H. Lawrence: A Study of the Bourgeois Artist,” in Studies in a Dying Culture. First published posthumously by Bodley Head in 1938.

I hate it that soft porn and female nudity has become a norm on every social media platform. there's not been a single time I haven't had to see that bizarre promiscuous content surrounding teenage girls having their nips and bosoms out & don't even get me started with those comment sections which is full of those porn addicts constantly thirsting over them. though the most abominable thing is seeing those young women feel empowered in their own objectification and feeding those incels with exactly what they seek from women. what they fail to understand is that the liberal feminism itself is a hoax and reeks of internalised misogyny. i mean now look where are these young girls and women really heading to? plus these female celebs in the west infuriates me even more for promoting and glorifying the use of OF. and guys.. have you seen the trending shows on netflix recently? i mean more than half of the content is about male sexual fantasies and 365 days-ish eroticas. ofc the male audience is flourishing on such platforms. so appalling and a really high time for us to actually do something about this obnoxious filth taking over the internet.

Data spanning from 1995 to 2021 in India revealed a striking gender imbalance in organ transplants, with four men getting organ transplants for every woman. A total of 36,640 transplants took place in this period, out of which 29,000 were for men and 6,945 for women.

This substantial difference is attributed to a complex interplay of economic responsibilities, societal pressures, and deeply ingrained preferences. 

Dr Anil Kumar, director of the government-run National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) highlighted this significant aspect of the organ donation landscape.

While more men contribute as cadaver donors, a staggering 93 per cent of total organ donations in the country come from living donors, he told the Times of India newspaper. This hints at a trend: a majority of living organ donors are women.  Socio-economic factors a driving force for women donors? A study published in the Experimental and Clinical Transplantation Journal in 2021 delved into the intricacies of living organ transplantation in India. The findings showed that 80 per cent of living organ donors are women, predominantly wives or mothers. The socio-economic pressure on women to assume caregiving roles within the family emerges as a primary factor, compelling them to step forward as donors. Men's reluctance in surgery In many cases, men, often the primary breadwinners, hesitate to undergo surgery, contributing to the gender gap in organ recipients. The study highlights that when the recipient is a male breadwinner, family members, especially wives or parents, feel a heightened responsibility to donate organs. Emotional dynamics The emotional dynamics surrounding organ donation are intricate. Women recipients, in particular, may experience guilt when their family members, especially wives or mothers, become donors. This reluctance leads to a scenario where women recipients may find themselves on waiting lists.  Notably, Karnataka has topped the charts in organ donation in the past decade. The number of donations have risen from 102 in 2013 to 765 in the first 10 months of 2023. 

A user on Ovarit added this helpful context:

"Just a little more context to this: men produce male-specific proteins (on the Y chromosome) which often get rejected by women's bodies. Since males have an X chromosome, their bodies recognize proteins from female donors. This makes it more difficult for women to receive male tissue/organs, while still being acceptable candidates for donating to men. Even still, these ratios are very disproportionate".

"As women we absolutely need to be aware of our vulnerability of being used as spare parts in a man's world. Especially when we are being socialized into believing that we need to sacrifice our bodies and lives for others- and society has developed a sense of entitlement to this sacrifice, while downplaying the suffering of women."

Left-of-center twitter/tumblr/tiktok/whatever really does have this this ironclad belief that naturally people will all be kind and progressive and have good politics, and it's only the alien corruption of things like 'debate club' that might ever lead to a law student adopting 'the perspective of power'.

It's such a strange and utterly unjustified assumption of cultural hegemony, if nothing else.

people like this don’t actually want art. what they really want is propaganda.

Glamorization of abortion by the media

I have never seen anyone talk about this before, and I would love to express my opinion on this topic since I am familiar with teen pregnancy and abortion.

It has come to my attention that many people on social media seem to view abortion as something glamorous and empowering, not as a basic female right. Content like "get pregnant so you can get an abortion to prove pro lifers wrong and bc its girl pwr" or "in some years there will be the first trans woman to ever have an abortion" that one can see mostly all over tiktok makes me think that people are completely missing out the point.

Well known it is, abortion existed from antiquity. Women of all times used various methods to abort, some dangerous and some safer. As the years passed of course abortion became a huge taboo among society since it was strongly believed(and still is) that a fetus is as alive as a grown human being. All this stigma caused women to try so many different ways to abort and most of them would turn out fatal. Although we live in the era of technology abortion is still not entirely safe and has many impacts on a female's physical and psychological health.

Truly debating on weather I should use my self as an example or not, but abortion definitely wasn't a girl power slay girlboss experience for a 15 year old girl. Not only me, but millions of young girls get so easily influenced by the romanticism of abortion by the media and then wonder why they don't feel the way those people told them they'd feel. I am absolutely pro choice, but pro choice does not mean ignoring the impact of abortion on women's health.

No matter if abortion is someone's choice or not, the process is 90% of the time an emotional rollercoaster. It is absolutely normal for women to feel guilt, sadness, emptiness afterwards and yet the media makes it look so abnormal because according to them aborting a fetus "is pure empowerment and of course how can one be sad after doing such a girlboss move" right???

My heart is with all the women who have had an abortion for whatever reason and I truly hope the process found them well ♡. It saddens me that although abortion always existed among people it's still not considered a basic right in so many countries. So instead of making pointless statements about abortions we should speak more about their importance and fight for the obtainment of it.

I am glad to have this privilege, but I know that many of my sisters don't and I wish to fight for them.

Like any good Marxist-Leninist, I read a lot.

I mean: a lot.

Of my hobbies, I love perusing used bookstores to sniff out Progress Publishers texts. The pamphlets in particular were a goldmine. I managed to create PDFs of them including "The Problem of the Ideal," & "Lenin - Great and Human." Lunacharsky and Barabash have Internet Archives and Marxist dot org sources, so I'll hyperlink those if anyone wants to read the latter two.

I've also got Christoper Caudwell's "Illusions and Reality," along with "Studies and Studies in a Dying Culture," but the latter is an old book, the glue crackling. The first I've got two copies: two hardcovers from different decades. I was over the moon upon finding those. I'm very interested in aesthetics, literature and a Marxist literary critique.

Here's a taste of Caudwell from Redsails dot org.

PS: does anyone know what PDF upload sites can be used aside from Internet Archive? I tried IA and it didn't work for me. I'd love to share what I've scanned. I know LibGen would work, I just have to see tutorials for that but I'm open to other platforms.

"The Utopian socialists’ absolute liberty, freedom, etc., were the bourgeois values of their time, hypostatised as eternal. So are Wells’s. But in Engels’s time these values were not changing so rapidly as to be transformed into their opposites almost overnight. In Wells’s time this is just what has happened. And so each year sees Wells and those like him with a different Utopia and a new world-view. Wells is in the unhappy position of a tailor whose yard-rule alters capriciously in length overnight. Each morning he patiently measures off his yard of cloth, and the result is a long succession of inconsistent bundles of material. With each new book Wells sees Utopias run on new principles; new forms of salvation for man; new secret diseases accounting for present discontents; new Gods, invisible Kings. It is the unreason of it all that sickens Wells. If only man would be reasonable. Yet surely man can hardly be blamed for not trusting to reason if, in Wells’s hands, it produces so many diverse solutions, from a universal world-democratic federation to a world run by Samurai-bosses, from Liberal Fascism to a Roosevelt Brain Trust, from an open conspiracy to a world saved by a war so ghastly it destroys civilisation. Surely, rather than trust to the yard-stick of Wells’s ideology, it would be better to go on measuring out the material in the old Victorian bourgeois way. Other men have their separate standards of absolute truth, reason and justice, according to the different parts of the bourgeois system in which they find themselves, and Wells’s absolutely just and reasonable Utopias do not appeal to them at all. To God-fearing folk the morals of some of Mr. Wells’s Utopias seem most unjust. To the dress trade the nudity of Men Like Gods appears far from divine. Business men consider that scientists are unduly important in these States of to-morrow. Even those whose conceptions of the absolute are quite as simple and petit bourgeois as those of Wells, cannot fight down an uneasy feeling that the perfectly just, happy and beautiful State he paints would be unutterably boring." - Christopher Caudwell, “H. G. Wells: A Study in Utopianism,” in Studies in a Dying Culture. First published posthumously by Bodley Head in 1938.

Serious request for trans rights activists

I will rescind my critiques of gender ideology immediately if you can define “woman” for me without defining it by the word "woman" (tautology) or without basing it on misogynistic sex roles constructed for the domination of women

I doubt anyone is going to take me up on this but worth a try.

i saw a marxfem in tiktok talking against separatist spaces because only "white feminists and bourgeois" want them, and that "we have more in common with a proletarian man than with a rich woman"

i commented her post saying that while we are oppressed by class, a man is more likely to kill us than a rich woman.

jesus christ dude, god forbid FEMINISTS want FEMINISTS SPACES

Any Marxist-Leninist girlies/enbies here? I would like to create a safe space for us to discuss our ideas openly, since I don't see a lot of women with voices in this community :)

Let's share ideas and be friends!!!

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