Plight

2y

Funny reading reddit about former commie countries being far more progressive and fair but always adding an "NOT EXCUSING THE USSR OR EAST GERMANY" ultimate cucks

fiveprestos

2y

Just watched Immortal Technique on IG live scoff at the idea of Marxism because Latin America doesn't need a rich white European to tell them how to share

Lein

2y

Wasn't Marx broke af his entire life leeching off Engels lol

Choking

2y

yea but more so cause he wanted to retain a respectable middle class life style for his daughters

spongebob

2y

avy is stupid fire

Lein

2y

Wasn't Marx broke af his entire life leeching off Engels lol

mythic

2y

No he received stipends from members of the same society that commissioned the Manifesto

Choking

2y

also the communist manifesto barely made a dent when it first dropped, and the og copy was also green lol

Scratchin Mamba

2y

Trashbin classic

Choking

2y

still can’t believe Stalin last words to Bukharin were basically it’s nothing personal

Choking

2y

still can’t believe Stalin last words to Bukharin were basically it’s nothing personal

Lein

2y

OK what do you do with this s***, ban it? Is it even possible to ban?

Choking

2y

i guess have 0 trust in any form of visual media again is also an option

Lein

2y

No space travel no cure for cancer just this kinda bullshit let's gooooooo I love the future

Skinn Foley

2y

How I've come to understand hauntology is that our species collectively has lost the ability to imagine a better or even fundamentally different world than we already occupy. Any conception of a better, different world that crops up from time to time is simply a reimagining of a vision of the future from the past that never came true, because the future that humanity was building towards in the past was "canceled" due to neoliberalism and the fall of the Eastern Bloc and near-destruction of socialism.

Because that past never came true and socialism didn't win the Cold War, and the present order is an unnatural, viscous ideological vacuum that always becomes recentered around capitalist realism, propped up by the ruling class as a last ditch, but successful, effort to hold onto their way of life/power/privileges, collectively our species cannot imagine any other future than a future that's already been imagined. This leads to unending waves of nostalgia and rote, unproductive social activism that never goes far enough in actually igniting a revolutionary moment. Basically, it's as if the 20th century never ended, and time stopped moving politically since the 80s, because the future so many were hoping for and sacrificing for abruptly fell apart in the span of about 5 years. Everything from Soviet nostalgia to HD remakes to musical revivalist movements is a symptom of our lack of evolution as a species, an evolution that was halted and abandoned unnaturally between 1988-1992.

Lein

2y

No space travel no cure for cancer just this kinda bullshit let's gooooooo I love the future

MrMudManMood

2y

Thank you for writing all of this, a lot to think about here

Is this at all related to that end of history concept?