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Ernst Thälmann on the prison yard at Berlins police headquarter after having been arrested by German fascists on March 3, 1933.

This photography was taken in secret through a gate. It is most likely the last known photography of this communist leader and Hitlers most feared enemy.

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Fidel sledding (on a rug) during his 1964 visit to the USSR

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Pyongyang Tram (2012)

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Yangshuo 阳朔县, Guangxi province, China.

Located in South China’s Guangxi region, it’s surrounded by karst peaks and bordered by the Li river.

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One of the biggest mistakes you can make is assuming that because someone knows one thing, they must know another.

In reality, someone can spend their whole life becoming an expert in something, and not a know many things about it that you consider basic. Even the obvious things must be said to be known.

When you give yourself and others the grace to not know, knowing becomes so much easier. We can ask freely - and be wrong openly - when we know we will be met with a guiding hand of love, and not with the slap of judgment.

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Given this background, with American reality being what it is, it’s not difficult to suppose what will be the attitude of the working class of the North American country when the problem of the abrupt loss of markets and sources of cheap raw materials is definitively posed.

This is, in my opinion, the stark reality facing Latin Americans. In the final analysis, the economic development of the United States and the need of its workers to maintain their standard of living means that our struggle for national liberation is not waged against a given social regime, but rather against the whole nation, bound as a bloc by the iron-clad supreme law of common interest, over their domination of the economic life of Latin America.

Let us prepare, then, to fight against the entire people of the United States, for the fruit of victory will be not only economic liberation and social equality, but the acquisition of a new and very welcome younger brother: the proletariat of that country.

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"The point is that Marxism and Anarchism are built up on entirely different principles, in spite of the fact that both come into the arena of the struggle under the flag of Socialism. The cornerstone of Anarchism is the individual, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the masses, the collective body. According to the tenets of Anarchism, the emancipation of the masses is impossible until the individual is emancipated. Accordingly, its slogan is: 'Everything for the individual.' The cornerstone of Marxism, however, is the masses, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the individual. That is to say, according to the tenets of Marxism, the emancipation of the individual is impossible until the masses are emancipated. Accordingly, its slogan is: 'Everything for the masses."

- J. V. Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

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Blivio, my favorite Elder Scrolls game

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very funny to me when people act like animal farm and 1984 are revolutionary anti government texts that the Powers That Be dont want you to read when they have literally been a part of every standard middle/highschool english lit cirriculum in the usa and beyond for decades. precisely because theyre such convenient primers to propagandize that Commies = Bad. the government is quite literally making kids read them

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While many of us are familiar with the dark history of Guantánamo as a CIA black site used to interrogate and torture enemy combatants, few know that the base also holds a migrant detention facility where asylum seekers are forced to live in deplorable conditions “characterized by undrinkable water, exposure to open sewage, and poor medical care and schooling facilities for children.” In the 1990s, thousands of Haitians fleeing political violence in their country were sent to the military base for detention.

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Do you have plans for valentines day?

(Please include a show results option)

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There's more articles on RedSails on the topic of dialectics, but this is one of my personal favs for a baseline explanation. : )

do you have any posts explaining dialectics?

if not, what is dialectics? i have several friends interested in the study, but not so interested as to read Lenin or Stalin, im hoping to 1.) study more for myself, and 2.) have a simple explanation i can send to people

you are very good at these things

Dialectics revolve around contradictions and how to resolve them. I'll take an example first and then define it more precisely.

There exists a contradiction between the interests of the proletariat, a class defined by its exchange of its labor power for a portion of the value produced, and the capitalists, a class defines by its private ownership over the means of production and its dominant position over the proletariat through salaried work. It is in the proletariat's interests to reap the full value produced by its labor power, and it is in the capitalists' power to continue extracting part of that value and sustain that relationship through the myriad mechanisms of class domination. If you take both of these facts, fundamentallt at odds with one another, informed by history and its previous, comparable class societies, you can arrive at the conclusion that, fueled by that constant and irreconcilable contradiction, the proletariat will aim to rid itself of the "leech" that is the capitalist class, and with it create a new society on the foundations of its class interests

The dialectical process, that oft repeated thesis, antithesis, synthesis, is not putting two concepts together, it's not thesis and antithesis, nor is it taking the common elements of each concept or object. It's placing the contradiction, the dialectical relationship between them, at the center of the analysis, and synthesizing a new conclusion, which might or might not have common elements with the contradictory elements. A dialectical relationship is like a conversation (hence the name), the elements influence, limit, allow and develop each other. It's similar to the kinds of relations that govern the biosphere. For instance, the soil and the vegetation on a slope. The soil, via its chemical components, allows and disallows, or rather, facilitates and hampers, the kinds of vegetation that can grow on it. At the same time, the vegetation, through its mechanical stabilization via its roots and through the organic matter it contributes to the soil (hummus), also modifies the soil to be closer to what it prefers. If there was no vegetation, soil on a slope is washed away after a few rains. If there is no soil, there can be no vegetation. The vegetation and the soil allow each other's existence, and they also modify each other.

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“Life cycle of the mushroom.” How and why wonder book of mushrooms, ferns and mosses. 1965. 

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just been exposed to the horrors of tumblr fyp and saw the funniest post

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Hot girls break their backs trying to find a pdf of some rare book which had 500 copies published in 1932

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trust me, my anti-fascism is more radical than yours, because unlike you commies *I* use a symbol invented by german social democrats, who are famously able to resist fascism very well.

i simply don't understand why you'd be sceptical of my radicalism when I'm wearing the awesome cool symbol of uh... anti-communist social democracy.