The Cohort

cisgender:

AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com oh my fucking god

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socialistictendencies:

logicallypositive:

ahh yes, the troops, protecting our freedoms by throwing us into FEMA concentration camps

I’m not even going to touch the FEMA camps shit, but fuck this. The troops protect themselves as they colonize the rest of the world, nothing more.

Dear socialistictendancies,

I don’t understand a lot of what you blog. I am an Australian libertarian socialist, so I suppose when I found your blog my presumption was that I would agree with most things you were to post. I do remember liking a lot of what you had posted before when I first came across you.

I don’t really feel very sympathetic towards your angle, after perhaps a month or two of following you. One thing that does irritate me is the way you sign off a lot of posts with comments that basically accuse whomever you’re debating, reblogging or whatever of being a completely ignorant fool. That sort of thing sets off alarm bells for me, only because I disagree with the idea that people should be insulted for holding a differing opinion to oneself. That includes a lot of capitalists, and doesn’t include rambling abuse of them in private company, of course.

Now to the point. Your understanding of international relations, in regards to a socialist/marxist perspective, seem grossly superficial to me. Let us take the above example.

People who join the military generally have a patriotic or economic incentive to do so. When they fight overseas, in the name (whether they know it or not) of imperialist expansion and exploitation, they very much do protect the privaleged western way of life. I mean this in so far as, without wars waged against exploited states, we would not enjoy the material opulence of this and the preceeding century. I would never agree that the existence and behaviour of the US military defends freedom, material wealth, equality etc, in the abstract or generalised to the world. However, for Empire and it’s European, Australian etc hangers-on, they do. Exclusively, and fantastically immorally, but they do.
I point this out because it’s the sort of thing socialists have a terrible record of doing, much to our shame. The fact that the US’ military strength maintains it as Empire is true, we benefit from it, but by denying it we rob ourselves of the chance to criticize it. The militarized nature of Empire should be something we condemn, but without acknowledging it’s ramifications we cannot wholly or truthfully do so. It also basically constitutes lying about privalege, willfully, and denying the true nature of the system, which any leftist ought to despise instinctively. 

Also, to claim they ‘protect themselves’? That’s one of your comments I do not understand.

That said, it’s nice to see socialists popping up on tumblr since Occupy began. Hooray for people criticizing capitalism =D 

-Peter The Great

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chileanstudentmovement:

“Socialist Federation of Valencia

Man shall be made free by socialism”

From the Spanish Civil War/De La Guerra Civil Española

Source/Fuente

Man shall be made fabulous by socialism

occupywallstreet:

Today, more than two million public sector workers across the United Kingdom are on the picket lines, protesting planned cuts to their pensions and austerity measures. The strike includes transport workers, teachers, health workers and other government employees. Protests and occupations are taking place in cities across the country, which have closed the majority of schools and impacted health and transport services. This is being hailed as the largest strike for many sectors in more than thirty years.

We express solidarity with the workers of the United Kingdom. Anywhere the interests of the few are crushing the hard-work of the many, our struggle is the same, and we stand united calling for justice.

Swanston and Collins Street intersection. One of the most amazing sights I’ve ever seen.

- The Goblin

The end of the official Occupy Melbourne banner.

-The Goblin