I don’t disagree. There’s something to be said for regime stability, institutional memory, etc. That’s all fine.

But that’s not the same thing as a personality cult. A personality cult is what allowed Ceausescu to get a goofy-ass scepter, as a silly example, and they can undermine the process of Democratic Centralism.

OK, but when liberals screech about personality cults under Socialism, I always like to bring up President For Life, FDR.

Obviously that shit can be bad, and we should avoid that kind of dogmatism, as it can lead to a litany of errors. But also, these kinds of things Happen organically all the time, Because people like it when you make their lives better.

Ok, but this comic isn’t an example of that. It’s very obviously about how cultural experiences are so ungodly expensive, and aren’t accessible up the average person.

There’s a whole “Red/Anarchist Black Metal” scene that’s been coalescing for a handful of years now.

Feminazgul and Iskra, are some favorite RABM bands of mine.

Realm and Ritual, on bandcamp, is a cool RABM/Dungeon Synth tape label that’s putting out cool shit all the time.

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As someone who loves hiking. Parks and such perpetuate this obnoxious settler notion that “nature” is a place separate from us, and that we are simply "visitors"to it. Rather than a part of a vast, dialectical, web of interconnected relationships.

It’s fucking stupid, and I hate it.

Small Child Men?

The actual reason is that she’s a serial plagiarist. That’s why they were so lazy

The Sahwari people are also very progressive and ideologically strict with their Marxist-Leninist thought, with the party having strayed little from its roots despite being exiled to refuge camps in Algeria.

Is there anywhere I could read more about the POLISARIO Front, and its application of ML?

Cease.

Origins of the Family, Private Property, and The State by Engles - This is result foundational, as others have noted.

Make Way for Winged Eros by Alexandra Kollontai - There’s a section in here that’s a historical materialist account of love under different forms of class society. It honestly doesn’t get talked about enough.

Capitalism and Gay Identity by John D’emilio - basically what it says on the tin. Building on prior Marxists like Engles and Kollintai, D’emilio looks at industrial capitalism’s influence of the formation of modern gayness.

Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Federici - Though principally about the oppression of Women, this book is a Marxist account of the early modern witch hunts, their relationship to enclosure of the Commons, and colonialism in the new world. A process which, over the next couple centuries, regimented and categorized queerness in ways that would simultaneously fuel the oppression of queer people, and their ability to organize politically against that oppression.

Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg - my favorite book on this list, and one that ties all the others on this list together. Feinberg is doing an historical materialist analysis of transness, which can be broadly applied to queerness generally. I would probably read this first, as it’s pretty accessible.

Rev Left Radio being called “Misleading” is so fucking bonkers to me.

Breht is such a thoughtful and genuine guy. And the show has so many guests on with differing perspectives. Like, yeah ok, some of those guests might say things one disagrees with, are debated within a given field, or are otherwise occasionally incorrect. But the ethos of that show is about getting the listener to know how to think, and thoughtfully approach things, from a broad left perspective. It’s not just feeding you normative claims and calling it a day.

Anyway, go listen to RevLeft, Breht is such a gift

Hiking is so wonderful and if I don’t get out on a regular enough basis My mental heath fucking plummets.

Cool, can he stop being a transphobic shitbag while he’s at it? Fuck Dave Chapelle

I seem to recall that the YPG/SDF even said that they felt the global left, and the western left in particular, failed them. And that failure of international support and solidarity is what forced them into a position of having to work with the US to fight ISIS.

So now they’re in a situation where NATO is actively fucking them over. Turkey has parked itself on the border, and regularly lobs bombs at civilian targets, and the US looks the other way, while it swallows up Syrian oil. They don’t want the US there, and openly state as much. But their presence is the only thing keeping Turkey, a fellow NATO power, from invading even more.

And what’s the Western Left’s response to this obvious imperial plunder? For people who do nothing but post on the bear website, to complain about a lack of ideological purity from a global south leftist movement that’s been forced to choose between being plundered by the US, genocided by ISIS, or invaded and occupied by Turkey.

I’ve even seen people (more on Reddit then here, tbf) smugly saying that civilian deaths are ok, because “that’s what they get for siding with the US”, as though that justifies NATO war crimes, or that the people of the region even wanted that in the first place.

It’s almost like the world is more complicated than a Marvel movie.

I’m nonbinary, and bisexual, because it confused The Straights, and because Bi has longer a history to it, and I like that.

She posted the entire, uncut, discussion with her past self bit on nebula. I actually watched that before I watched the actual video essay, and it really knocked me on my ass

Tbh the main reason it’s so bad is because everyone picks the most shocking card in their hand, even if it doesn’t make a coherent thought, or match well with what’s being asked.

Like, holy shit, it’s just edgy apples to apples, y’all!