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I am a Marxist and someone who enjoys labeling people by their ideological dispositions ;)

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Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Vol. 1
Assume that you are a paralegal, and Joe Smith, the landlord in Fact Situation #1, wants to retain your services to evict Sheila Ryan as soon as possible. To represent Smith successfully, you will need to concern yourself with the following matters.
Alpha Boys Jamaica, Yantai Classical, Fiesta Latina, NIA Radio (i like lofi, sue me), RUV Ras, Pyongyang FM, Arte Final, Cafe Romantico (this one's really good), CMHW, Accra24, Pan African Radio Station (I also like this one a lot), and my home town Jazz FM
Page 13 of a paper called Financialization, housing rents and affordability in Toronto. Figure 3. Panel (a) Bivariate map of average rent premiums of financial landlords by neighbourhood and Panel (b) Bivariate map of rent premiums and percentage visible minority population.
the character for ⺺ yu, paintbrush in chinese. it looks like five fingers holding a brush
flashcard with the character 动 and the pinyin and meaning: 1. dòng (dong4)to use • to act • to move • to change • abbr. for verb 動詞|动词[dong4 ci2] ()
Slack notifies me w a message that says "Save time catching up. With Slack’s Pro subscription, you can use AI to summarise all the unread messages in this channel. START FREE TRIAL!"
sī radical showing a silkworm
the character for 纟sī and an image of a thread 'piece' (idk the term for it) that's weirdly stacked on top of each other
9x9 GO Board next to a 19x19 board
Same image as prior, but a gear connecting the three
Hammer, sickle, caligraphy brush (workers, farmers, intellectuals)
Cybersmith post where he writes "Moreover, loyalty in women is maladaptive. The women who died upon the spears of invaders have no descendants, those who willingly married the men who killed their families have many descendants!!!"
GO board (I am white)
Quote from pg 18 of Marx's Critique, where he writes "Quite apart from the analysis so far given, it was in general a mistake to make a fuss about so-called distribution and put the principal stress on it. Any distribution whatever of the means of consumption is only a consequence of the distribution of the conditions of production themselves. The latter distribution, however, is a feature of the mode of production itself. The capitalist mode of production, for example, rests on the fact that the material conditions of production are in the hands of nonworkers in the form of property in capital and land, while the masses are only owners of the personal condition of production, of labor power. If the elements of production are so distributed, then the present-day distribution of the means of consumption results automatically. If the material conditions of production are the co-operative property of the workers themselves, then there likewise results a distribution of the means of consumption different from the present one. Vulgar socialism (and from it in turn a section of the democrats) has taken over from the bourgeois economists the consideration and treatment of distribution as independent of the mode of production and hence the presentation of socialism as turning principally on distribution. After the real relation has long been made clear, why retrogress again? "
weiqi board
the character for moon and its historical progression over time (moon-looking to less moon-looking as the character was simplified)
lmao
incomprehible Go board (I am black)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Socialists_(Canada) The IS is often identified as the "state-capitalist" group—reflecting the position of the IS that, from 1928 on, Soviet Union was no longer a workers' state, but state capitalist.
Page 52 of the aforementioned book, which shows the character 生 and a depiction of a tree as well as its progression over time
The radical for right hand, page 85 of Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters by Fazzioli, Edoardo. https://archive.org/details/chinesecalligrap0000fazz/page/n7/mode/2up
“Capitalism is the first mode of economy with the weapon of propaganda, a mode which tends to engulf the entire globe and to stamp out all other economies, tolerating no rival at its side. Yet at the same time it is also the first mode of economy which is unable to exist by itself, which needs other economic systems as a medium and soil. Although it strives to become universal, and, indeed, on account of this its tendency, it must break down—because it is immanently incapable of becoming a universal form of production. In its living history it is a contradiction in itself, and its movement of accumulation provides a solution to the conflict and aggravates it at the same time. At a certain stage of development there will be no other way out than the application of socialist principles. The aim of socialism is not accumulation but the satisfaction of toiling humanity’s wants by developing the productive forces of the entire globe. And so we find that socialism is by its very nature an harmonious and universal system of economy.”
Just a normal dude that looks like a bullet and has an "M" hat.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in Chinese
YI initial - suburban YImby
I dont even know how to describe this. Basically this is the reference of pinyin initials-each of which has a sound tied to a person. I couldn't think of some of them, and after I ran out of memorable people (mostly revolutionary figures and a couple one-off fictional characters) I just started naming fuckin pokemon
Flashcard containing the hanzi, memory aid visualization, pinyin, and stroke order
Bunch of (not great lol) chinese characters. The order of the strokes is hard to remember!
the chinese characters, followed by the pinyin "women ..." and its translation "we are learning chinese."
Chinese pinyin chart
Highlighted portion of the article, that read "Anything he advocates by way of significant reform will be called “Communist” and will of necessity be Communist in the sense that it must advocate such things as government ownership of the means of production; government in business; the limitation of private profit; social medicine, government housing and federal aid to education; the total abolition of race bias; and the welfare state. These things are on every Communist program; these things are the aim of socialism. Any American who advocates them today, no matter how sincerely, stands in danger of losing his job, surrendering his social status and perhaps landing in jail."
Book by Alan Dershowitz called "Palestinianism." AHHHHHHHHH
'post hidden by muted word' followed by 'post hidden by muted word'
Same plane as above, but each propeller has its own propeller. I don't have photoshop, so the image looks not good--but you get the point.
For now, the operators of Anna’s Archive remain strictly anonymous, which doesn’t help either. The default judgment addresses this and requires the operators to unmask their identities and provide a sworn statement with valid contact information to the court within 10 days.
A live symposium from Monthly Review on the Youtube link I referenced, Tuesday May 26 12-2PM EST
Passage from the article which reads: "In an attempt to make a humble tribute to Losurdo’s repeated achievement of finding the unifying idea for the seemingly eclectic mountains of work of other prolific and controversial authors, [7] this is what I identify as the latent and recurring theme of all of Losurdo: a reminder to communists that philosophy matters. Hegelian philosophy matters in particular, insofar as that’s the name we give to the refusal to resign oneself to perspectivism or naturalism or superstition, to insisting instead that the world is “governed by reason” even when it doesn’t appear to be."
post from @jorts.rodeo, stating "peasantry was so awesome that people immediately and almost universally abandoned it to work in horrifying factories as soon as they got the chance"
Warhammer Mini on my wooden desk, 1st attempt
summary on TheStoryGraph, which states "Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Called by the Los Angeles Times "one of the most imposing novels of the decade," it was eventually translated into more than thirty languages. A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, The Painted Bird is a dark masterpiece that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is the first, and the most famous, novel by one of the most important and original writers of this century."
Mandle Philharmonic, Canada’s newest professional orchestra, is the initiative of Mandle Cheung, a tech entrepreneur who took up the baton. The self-taught conductor, leading an orchestra of world-class musicians, has created an upstart ensemble that forges a new space in orchestral music, through which he can express his lifelong enthusiasm, passion and support of music.
post below the one i just stupidly quoted which states "The turn of the internet from being good to being a force of pure evil coincides exactly with the fall of (inherently community-based) chat to be replaced by (inherently atomized and corporate controlled) "social media", and this is not at all a coincidence"
this post, except it states "Post Hidden by Muted Word" because I've muted the word "Stancil"
Snippet from https://existentialcomics.com/comic/190. In the comic, we can see Simone Weil punching someone who awfully resembles Richard Dawkins
I'm sitting in a parking lot right now. Displayed is a pic from my angle, showing black shoes and jeans and a patch of beautiful parking lot concrete.
A sumo wrestler walking around the ring clutching his toddler to his chest. Got it from this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48y_Ph4-qWE
Screenshot from the article, which reads "In today’s capitalist world, where increasing numbers of young people simply can’t afford to have children and are pressured to return immediately to work when they do, some of this might sound genuinely nice. But Stalin was less concerned with helping women or children as such, and more with replacing the devastating loss of population the USSR had suffered in the first World War (to say nothing of his own purges and manufactured famines). Women’s bodies were simply a means to an end, and the Soviet state took coercive power over them by outlawing abortion in June 1936."
the ptolemaic model of the solar system, with a bunch of rings and epicycles (rings within rings). basically resulted from ye olde astronomers adding additional complex bullshit to explain increasing deficiences with the base theoretical model. kinda like the bullshit in the above image.
I looked up "Cambrian explosion" on Goodreads. Among several normal-sounding sciency titles, one reads "I got my ass ate at the Cambrian Explosion Experience" by Unknown Author
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Jazz asks TheCybersmith "so like is your actual worldview that there is like a mirror building under the vatican where demons live and all the rich people get their orders to kill babies from them?" and TheCybersmith responds "I find it very plausible, there's much of infrastructure under old cities that we don't know about, and there are multiple tunnels..."
result from starbucks (https://about.starbucks.com/press/2026/supporting-the-moments-that-matter-with-artificial-intelligence/) which states "Supporting the moments that matter with artificial intelligence." You can't see this right now, but I've just vomited a little in my mouth.
two sumo wrestlers fighting. one guy was on the ropes, but then he managed to dodge and pull the other guy to the stands. idk the names of the competitors, but i watched it from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLQgqEHDiag
my prediction bingo card for how 'it' will happen. botched exorcism attempt Luigi'd localized meteor impact big fart French revolution'd trial by combat poisoned (by vance) stray arrow painted tunnel trick In his sleep (booooo) Alien chestburster Catholic Church assassin bad McDonalds slips and falls (booooo) kicked in head by horse comically states 'Well if i'm so bad, then may god strike me down!' and then lightning strikes him down Generated from https://myfreebingocards.com
Two books in my hand: Capitalism and Slavery by Williams and Black Reconstruction bu Du Bois
YouTuber Man Carrying Thing