Heard Monads is down for the time being. My heart goes out to the extended Monads crew.
Communism Rules
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SupamoduFROM SPAIN & MEXICO: Remedios Varo was one of the few female surrealist artists, & it often meant having to fight against the prejudice of male artist. However, in Mexico Varo formed a strong bond with other women in surrealism: Leonora Carrington and Kati Horna, and blossomed.
Rightists when someone wealthy looks like they favor capitalism: "I knew it! The most brilliant and successful people agree with me, capitalism must be right!"
Rightists when someone wealthy looks like they favor "socialism" (or anything they could construe as "progressive," left or frequently quite otherwise): "I knew it! Those greedy snakes [or insert antisemitic term here] are going to drain the common man dry! If they're socialist, then capitalism must be right!"
@coyote We are all universally fucked by capitalism. It fucks us. Day in and day out we are utterly screwed over by this system which forces us into positions that we neither need nor want, which cuts us off from ourselves and which, in order to promote itself, degrades us in an ever-expanding infinity of ways. As much as I will not shed a tear over a dead cop or a dead racist, I am keenly aware that they are the hand, but the owning class is the head. I want to cut off the head.
@coyote Yes, that includes programs which will materially supply people with "wrong" ideas, shocker of shockers. Yes, some of those klansmen are dirt-poor and have had a horrible go of things economically. I wouldn't see them starve even if I also wouldn't blame anyone for blowing their head off in self-defense if they tried to start shit. It can both be true that I would see everyone fed and clothed and housed, and that I see no reason to make nice with reactionary ideologies.
@coyote Rather than attempting to educate ourselves into a position in which we are exploitable in more arcane ways by some slightly more lucrative arm of capitalism (and let me tell you from personal experience that academic research in the hard sciences can be a total scam), our priorities must be, first and foremost, to people, and to ensuring they get what they need, because capitalism fails on that front continuously and by design.
@coyote My point is that the priorities here are backward. When the national guard was called in during the protests in Seattle and Portland over the summer, the very first thing they said was not "we're here to protect people," that came after they stated "we're here to protect property." They know where their priorities are, and it's not with people, it's with property, the infrastructure of the system which incentivizes them. In that sense, they are there primarily for self-preservation.
@coyote That may sound nice, but somehow I get the feeling racist police (there are gangs within police departments of racist cops, this is a verifiable fact) aren't going to stop and ask a black person if they have a PhD before they decide to do some heinous shit to them. I know people in academia who have a hard fucking go of things economically, and don't exactly give off an "I'm in academia" vibe to them.
That's not even counting the atrocious history of forced education under colonialism.
@coyote I think it is kind of a curious thing for a "leftist" to be married emotionally to electoralism. My guess is that what you call "leftism" was not the same leftism that, say, I'd call leftism, but rather, a form of progressive liberalism, which in your mind was, and it appears still is, "left."
The thing is, we're not going to just get together and hold hands and the world is going to heal. You must address the mechanisms by which the world became wounded, or else it's a hollow gesture.