#im not a communist

[gayinajar]

I spent too long last night thinking and it turned me into a communist

[socialist-aemond]

rest in peace aemond targaryen, you would've loved joseph stalin

[cthaehart]

absolution

[ahaura]

(Nov. 23) [1] [2]

[bardicbird]

some disco elysium moments in my first playthrough that have made me laugh out loud (so far)

[greenlloyds]

(twitter rlly liked this (it got 10 likes instead of zero) so i thought id put it here too)

[yarrowdraws]

Sapphic Disco Week Day 6 - But what if it was yuri?

and what if they were about to kiss!!

[dpurut]

young communards

art ig- @acepostale :)

[milfstalin]

there were THREE times where stalin crossdressed to get away from the cops. the first time worked which explained the attempt to do it again the second time. but why the third time... just wanted to do it...

[the-owl-tree]

as a work that's very much bouncing off animal farm, im (so far) pleasantly surprised that unlike the source material, animal castle doesn't see its working class equivalents as stupid, ignorant, and easily manipulated masses. perhaps the bar is underground, but rarely do works inspired by animal farm actually see what a problem this is.

[nerdylittleguy]

trans masc barney and trans femme gordon do you see the vision

alyx is a communist (I started playing hl2 today)

[ph-cutie]

HELLO I posted the first three charts here yesterday and got a lot of positive reception so I dealt with the rest of the likable NPCs! Again, harry has a canonical height of around 180cm/5'11 and that's what I scaled the charts around. I'll update the little comment with everything written down as I notice errors down the line because lining these up correctly was Difficult.

In regards to that commment, the characters with a ~ near their name are characters whose height I had trouble determining due to hair/accessories, and the characters with a ^ near their name are characters that would pop up tiny and that I had to manually resize using collage mode references. I'd say I was pretty thorough in my checks but I thought I'd state that just in case! Steban in particular was a mess to rescale

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

sorry if you've already answered this (i searched ur blog) but if it's okay to ask, do you have any recommended readings for modern marxism (with a racism or colonialism lense)?

ok so prefacing this real quick I am high as hell. and also before i say anything id like to make it clear that i am not an authority on marxist communist theory, honestly i barely consider myself familiar with it. i went to school to study history so i interacted with marxist thought primarily in a historical/historiographical context, and generally in the context of colonial and postcolonial history. even then i studied mostly pre/early colonial american (in the broad sense not the USAmerican sense) & medieval islamic history. my knowledge of modern marxist theory is far from comprehensive.

with that said, I can certainly offer some suggestions, though some of them aren't necessarily marxist theory. but what the hell, lets get intersectional. for funsies. heres a few contributors to colonial/post-colonial/marxist thought that worked a little more recently than the 1800s

Fanon - Frantz Fanon was a french afro-caribbean marxist who, along with his wife Josie (who was the actual one writing, he dictated most of his works to her), wrote Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism, and The Wretched of the Earth. From the portions I read while in school I would heartily reccomend all three. The Fanons were masters of decolonial theory and their commentary on whiteness, primitivism, anti-colonial historiography, and colonial class violence (among a billion other things, they were really prolific theorists) is the first place i would recommend people go if they want to start decolonizing their marxism.

Che Guevara - I really hope I don't need to explain who Che Guevara is. Anyways read Guerrilla Warfare and his motorcycle diaries. Oh and while I haven't read any of his work personally, I would imagine Fidel Castro would also be a good one to read for 20th century anti-colonial marxism.

Subcomandante Galeano - Previously known as Subcomandante Marcos, this guy was the figurehead/spokesperson for the EZLN until pretty recently. Our Word is Our Weapon is a collection of some of his writings translated into English.

Eduardo Galeano - Eduardo Galeano was an Uruguayan Journalist and his book The Open Veins of Latin America is a cornerstone of 20th century colonial theory even if it might not strictly be marxist thought.

Edward Said - Said was a palestinian academic and journalist whose book Orientalism is required reading for any colonial historian and should be for any self-proclaimed communist as well. It's perhaps marxist in the broadest sense but it is first and foremost a book about peeling the white supremacy goggles off of your face when studying the history of SWANA, which is a practice you should then apply to every intellectual endeavor you undertake for the rest of your life forever including your marxism.

anyway thats hopefully a good list to get you started. I know a few of my mutuals can probably add recommendations and provide a more educated communist perspective. Like I said before I'm a marxist historian more than I am a marxist in a communist sense.

[waywardtyrantpirate]

So does anybody else want to be a villain? Like I'm not talking 'oh, im a villain bc I said no' or just an edgy person. I mean in the punk way. I want to be evil in the way of helping people bc I've been so let down by the system an people that it's insane. To create an evil corporation that gives out free food bc I can. That makes really cheap housing. To hire disabled people an accommodate them. To basically say a big fuck you to the whole system that never wanted me to live.

So who wants to revolutionize w/ me? What would this look like?

[thereal-evanrosier]

[yarrowdraws]

"Julia Dobreva came from Graad. Jean Abadanaiz was born in Revachol. She was brilliant, charismatic, a revolutionary comet. He was her partner and stabiliser, the planet who kept her in orbit."

Jean and Julia, the "revolutionary lovers". There isn't much information about them to work with so everything aside from her dark makeup are just my headcanons. I ended up referencing other characters and historical figures, & I took the "forbidden love" as them coming from different classes.