#whooops

[liamthemailman]

dead favourites club

[the-knife-consumer]

Buckaw 🐔

[tarochimochi]

Losercake, everyday, daily

Day 82

[novashelby]

Not me coming up with all these smut ideas and not writing any of them

[wellhalesbells]

*coworkers chatting about a show they all watch*

One, turning to include me: You should definitely watch it!

Me, very tired, very half-attentive, muttering: If it were gay enough for me to be interested, tumblr would've told me about it already.

[lyxthen]

I am a Marxist not in the sense that I think Marx (and Engels) were "right about everything" but in the sense that pretty much all social sciences today have their roots in Marxist thought, because he was the one to propose a more scientific approach to the study of society and social dynamics, focusing on material conditions and their impact, on the things that can be observed and measured and studied. Dialectical materialism and critical theory are to sociology what natural selection and gene theory are to biology.

Of course, it doesn't mean Marxism sacred, that there aren't things to revise or add or discard. We have to question these things if we want to make progress, the same way questioning the law of universal gravitation led to the discovery of relativity. This isn't a cult, it is not supposed to be, we are meant to debate and argue, because that's in the spirit of science. Infighting is not a bug, it's a feature.

The wider society needs to understand Marx not as an extremist political figure (which is what U.S. sponsored propaganda has turned him into, I believed this for a long time), but as a philosopher, the most important philosopher of modernity, in fact. We also need to teach history as a science, instead of as a collection of fables centered around specific individuals, with a clear narrative structure and a sweet little moral at the end to wrap it up. That is not how things work.

I remember, back when I was like 15, when I got my first Engels reading for school: The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man. I rolled my eyes, because I'd heard from the right-wing political YouTubers that anything remotely associated with Communism was evil, and I was just starting to deconstruct all that, calling myself a centrist and all that. But instead of revolutionary propaganda, what I found was just... science. Science I already knew about, and that I knew was true. It's not a particularly challenging read, and while some ideas are outdated, the text has aged surprisingly well, over all.

I liked the essay. I really, really liked it. I still hold it dear to my heart, flaws and all, because it made me realize that maybe these radical leftists weren't so scary. If one of their most prominent thought leaders turned out to be a reasonable, approachable guy, maybe they were reasonable, approachable people, too.

So I kept reading, and I kept learning. It took me years to finally come to terms with the fact that every field from sociology to economics to psychology had been influenced or directly sprouted from Those Communist Guys, and even longer to finally admit that yes, I am a communist too, because instituting communism through violent revolution is the only reasonable response to the systems of exploitation behind poverty and climate change, and we should probably set things on fire about it.

(Meeting actually practicing communists helped a lot, too. Turns out, the guys committing acts of domestic terrorism against the local government are actually kinda chill.)

What I mean to say is this: we need to teach people how the world actually works first. We can radicalize them later, but the first step is giving them the tools to accurately describe and understand their reality. Not everyone has to become a scholar, I certainly am not, but getting familiar with the basics is essential, the same way it's essential to learn to read and write, and perform basic arithmetic. I was lucky enough that this was taught to me in school, and I can attest that it makes a difference.

We live in a world where misinformation and conspiracy theories on social media are turning our kids into little fascists. We need to bring them back to earth before it's too late.

[rosetterer]

the physical therapist!tommy and patient!buck fic is coming along great...

It's their first proper session and they're already flirting!!

Snippet:

”Is this how all our sessions are going to go?”

Tommy laughed, ”Oh, hell no. I’m going to get a little rough on you, Evan.”

Buck gulped, ”O- Okay.”

[cherryrockpops]

Throwback Kerry

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Boyfriend: Did you get some nice relaxing in after work?

Me: *Realizes I have not physically relaxed all day*

[nayahasescaped]

Since you'll be drinking anyways....Dionysus!

(If you're not into wine, just list your favorite drink)

White wine for sure! It’s the easiest to sip on for me but I like alllll wines

[clodyghost]

LMAO IF ANYONE TRIED TO ADD ME ON AIRBUDS AND THIS RANDOM LADY CALLED LIKE CLODAGH.07 CAME UP ITS NOT ME 😭 THE LINK ON MY INTRO POST WAS WRONG BUT I FIXED IT

[sir-walton-goggins]

Sure does

[loreofthejungle]

Can't believe we have to wait a whole week for miorine to accidentally escalate a labor uprising by showing up with a heavily armed avatar of vengeance

[moralchampion]

Seeing Chase Atlantic on 04.20 aka Easter Sunday lmao

[jesuistrestriste]

me when i realize that i just spent 2 hours writing a nsfw art donaldson drabble when i was directly in the middle of finishing up pt. two of YSAL. oops. anyways, pls go check it out if u wanna, it’s already linked in my masterlist at the top of my blog hehe (or it’s directly below this post if ur on my page)

[2comfy2tree]

just want a cute girl to try with all her might to suck me dry