#communist past

[mariastadnicka]

Memøry Høuse / Event Invite

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[theharellan]

The sheer need leaves them trembling, head raised to hold his gaze. Around them, Minrathous hangs on by a handful of threads. "When the time comes, let me. Please."

The Crow had taken Ghilan'nain from her. Alanari could not bear another failure; it would shake them apart from the foundations, leaving nothing but pebbles. "Please. Let his death be mine."

In the chaos, their voice is singular.

Like the Darkspawn that amass in ever-heightening numbers, all purposes save one have been burned from their mind.

His hands find one another behind his back, as they had in countless councils of war and friendships past, when he had needed them (her) to hear him.

"Any victory between allies is a victory shared. If Elgar'nan dies today, his death will be yours. I promise."

[thedreadvampy]

I guess a question I actually have is what would it actually look like to build communism/radical leftism in the imperial core?

I do believe (when I can) that we're living through a transition away from the imperial age, and that necessarily requires loss for people in Northern Europe and North America.

To be clear, that isn't an argument against it. In the imperial core there are things we are very very used to having which a) we aren't entitled to and b) cost a disproportionate amount to the rest of the world. and in a post-colonial future we could see a flattening of social and economic inequality (if we made it happen).

but I increasingly think there's a difficult tension in building liberation movements within the borders of countries which built and are at the heart of the current hegemon. And then at the same time, NOT building liberation movements within our own countries isn't really an option, both because a) we have to live now and letting ourselves continue to get fucked over by power is just pointless self-harm and b) because the internal collapse of these systems is part of the external collapse of the imperial order.

buuuuuut a lot of the current leftist movements in the imperial core are very much based on improving the lot specifically of people within the country and idk when/if that starts to run counter to a global restructure of power?

[dayurno]

cuties i love talking about kevin day with you and this blog is mostly run on asks and kekeing with you all but i must ask that you don't send me any more asks doomguessing about tsc. i understand and sometimes i even agree but it's just not something i'm interested in talking about! the world is so beautiful and large and kevin day has the prettiest wettest biggest eyes in the world. send me asks about him instead ok

[deanmarywinchester]

pointing at my younger self. you will escape the labyrinth. and you must. but you WON’T like it

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Sometimes I get a bit ticked about the whole "invisible Canada" thing, but I went to a visiting scholar lecture about the Battle of the North Atlantic in WW2 from a British academic this morning, and he verbatim said: "Canada isn't involved enough it makes a difference." And the friend I went with pats my shoulder like, "I'm sure you guys did everything that you could do."

If that isn't the most concise summation of general opinions of Atlantic history I've ever seen, I'll never see a better one.

[girderednerve]

on the one hand, the resistance of some historians to theory is frustrating & limiting; on the other, i do more or less agree that the tedious work of history demands that we care intently about the small, particular, granular differences between all times & places, & these tend to resist theorization. history was first a rhetorical art, but we aren't writing after only thucydides, you know?

[july-19th-club]

tanaaj is such a tragic character "i do everything right nobody has ever been as good or correct about the rule of saint leah as i am. unrelated but why do i feel so bad and guilty and lonely all the time?" well for starters you live in fully automated luxury catholicism so that's gonna contribute to the issue for sure

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

I'm not opposed to this thing where new Adams Family movies/shows/whatever have them as an oppressed group. But I do miss the delightful nonsense of when they are all just oblivious to the fact they're strange and occasionally disliked. Nothing is funnier than them just friendly inviting some schmuck plumber through the house who's up to nefarious things and they're just like "welcome, friend. I see you've met our man eating plant Cleopatra. Can I offer you a spot of tea in the torture room?"

I just miss the carefreeness of the narratives that are just about people trying to rob them or you need to send your children to school or would you like to donate to the charity auction.

[mariastadnicka]

Memøry Høuse / Event Invite

We often think about time as being a social concept, anchored in a palpable present, routing between the past and the future but nevertheless a construct that makes sense once we engage, in perpetuity, with our human experiences. In fact, what is infinite and constantly subject to our imagination and our creative processes is the past; the memories stored, processed and shared, that integrate and…

[davidcronenbergsextape]

I'm working on unifying body and mind. Well there's already the unity there, but to act in accordance with that. The maoists I used to roll with literally didn't think the mind existed. It's a very bootstrap thing. A friend once told me about the idea in the ideological superstructure that we are taught that the mind doesn't exist. Well he wouldn't say super structure cuz he's a woo woo Buddhist, but he was right and I didn't get it at the time but now I do. Also art is actually important and has an impact on the world. I let the mind denying commies convince me that was liberal but they are wrong. I'm working on learning how to tailor pants that perfectly cup and present the cock and balls in a comfortable and beautiful way. This too is important.

[sendmyresignation]

finally reading dance of days (thank you ohiolink and oberlin college <3) but my most consistent takeaway thus far. is oh my god. people who think punk is primarily ideological and not subcultural/musical. are so out of touch.

[lovotomii]

wait i thought you were a maoist, not a guy.

anon I haven't seriously read a single piece of theory in my life, right or left, nevermind anything Maoist. I only vaguely know about historical materialism and that the Soviet Union's historiographers saw the English Civil Wars as an abortive bourgeois revolution. How could I possibly be a Maoist?

[technicontrastron]

I do think we as humans and society crave some kind of hope for the future though and are very susceptible to anyone selling it. Regardless of how probable it is. And i can understand getting attached to solarpunk aesthetics even as greenwashed and western as it is as there are little serious positive outlooks at the moment.

[koks-kino]

No but without jokes, I really like the conversation with the Sunday Friend - really thought-provoking. How he dodges every sensitive topic like a trained chatbot:

- He liked to brag about his war crimes while being on drugs. - Horribe attitude, I can't justify neither bragging nor substances...