TMA is when you start having to apologize for speaking your mind in public

Here's the worst thing about that contrapoints "they don't want power; they want to endlessly critique power" meme-- the average online "leftist" doesn't even want that. You don't want critique you want insipid moral vindication. Critique is harder

*axis

AND as Black, you better shut up for the sake of the Black lumpenproletariat, Ericka Huggins was told.

Men then insist feminism is only for rich white women.

Radical feminism is hated less for its (real) errors than for refusing to play this game

There's a sense in which multiply oppressed women are demanded to care less about their oppression as women than on any other access. If you're oppressed as a woman AND a farm worker, you better shut up for the sake of farm workers' liberation, Ana Murguia was told. If you're oppressed as a woman

please kashimashi aliens, please kill jk rowling with your space powers. please

i hate you for saying it but you aren't wrong

Virtue habituation cannot be by rote practice alone. This is how "good deeds" are used to launder a filthy character, making it impervious to critique but not changing it (Cesar Chavez; bourgeois philanthropy).

The problem is "The Left" doesn't view rape as politics. A woman being wrong about national liberation is a political issue we should all have a Take on (a transmisogynistic take is fine) but a man making rape threats on stream with a rapist is interpersonal drama

Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl is not perfect (they call her Sister-Brother, o-ni-ne-kun, and it's weird) but it's pretty sweet so far

In Kashimashi she says that fairly immediately and her friend who had a hetero crush on her has to catch up

Migrant paid starvation wages: I don't care for the small family farmer who knows he can pay me illegal rates and pocket the surplus because I don't have papers

First world "Marxist-Leninist": you're not the real working class. The real proletariat is a white farm owning family who live in my head

Norm Basilicock

There's so many guys in this world who are doing a 17th century from first principles metaphysics treatise in a little notebook they never show anybody like, between shifts at the call center. That's so beautiful

watchin a movie with friends drinking what i call a Vendetta which is iced tea lime juice sprite and tequila

Trans woman who sells her labour-power to a capitalist who exploits her as her only means of survival: I would like to be safe from discrimination at work

First world "Marxist-Leninist": you're not the real working class. The real working class is a white hetero 50s family who live in my head

The revolution should do to wes streeting what happened to Caesar. Every tran in Britain gets one stab

وَمَن أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا
וְכׇל הַמְקַיֵּים נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת... מַעֲלֶה עָלָיו הַכָּתוּב כְּאִילּוּ קִיֵּים עוֹלָם מָלֵא
whoever saves one life saves the world entire

because if she isn't he doesn't know who he is

Rage, panic, loss of certainty in concept of self. Largely what's behind male violence against women partners who leave them, as I see it-- the panicked need to re-convince himself that she's a passive object he controls, not the subject she's just demonstrated being

and in them, the historic trajectory of material relations towards communism

meaning that as long as class society (including patriarchy) exists, the contradictions within it, giving rise to insurgent forces that work against the interests of the dominant classes and for those of the subaltern, will too,

a society that doesn't have them.

communism, really, is simply what class society (which i see as necessarily including patriarchy, because division into genders in an unequal hierarchy based on role in domestic reproductive labour is also a class division) makes necessary by having irreconcilable and intolerable flaws--

(i should not here that i think a lot of people see government policies trying to control reproduction as abusive *because* they interfere with the "natural" family, when in fact most of their worse abuse is just trying to reproduce the said supposedly natural family in values and hierarchy)

Destroying the current working conditions of the labour entailed in reproduction of human life in the context of patriarchy and private property, however, is something any serious feminist or Communist should want

intolerable in the current state of society (i.e. the patriarchal and colonial class society of late imperialist monopoly capitalism).

And that's Engels's definition of communism: "the movement that abolishes the present state of things"

i dunno. to me, it is not necessarily a weakness to admit i don't fully know yet what the future society i want should best look like. the people who live in it will know better than i.

All I know about it is that it includes all the necessary resolutions or abolitions of the conditions that are

we are doing the equally important antecedent work of tearing down the old one (of course, the two aren't really neatly separable tasks, but define each other in a dialectical unity, creation and destruction).

However, I don't think we fully know the shape of the future society, the one where all institutions of social intercourse are no longer structured around advancing the property rights of a small class of bourgeois white men at the expense of everyone else, until we are building it. and right now