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That post about westerners romanticizing communism is so unhelpful. Calling westerners spoiled brats as if we don’t also have secret police, executions, black markets, mass surveillance, controlled education, and rationing (if you don’t have money you don’t eat) under capitalism. These things are actually crucial to the continuation of capitalism.

How is me as a westerner talking about not wanting to live in an oppressive system that values profit over humanity and nature, especially the humanity and natural resources of oppressed nation-states and peoples a privileged viewpoint?

The critiques of the actions of people acting in the name of communism and the actions individuals and groups have taken are valid and Westerners need to be aware of these things if they’re going to participate in these discussions. But I also think that generalizing and discounting anti-capitalist viewpoints as privileged and oppressive while also somehow praising the (still capitalist) nordic model is shallow analysis and won’t help us moving forward at all.

[edit: I expanded on this here as I feel like the conflation of communism with Marxist-Leninism is the main issue I take with that original post : https://corbinstudies.tumblr.com/post/170242453179/i-think-a-lot-of-confusion-when-talking-about]

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sunset summit

Los Angeles, California

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the entirety of apple products is just an example of how we’ll never be able to stop capitalism because if it goes any further we’ll just accept it. like there is no reasonable explanation to the fact that people will pay 30 dollars for something that cost 50 cents to make other than that we are complacent in our own societal demise

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Taking a break from tumblr. Catch you all on the flip side.

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Zermatt, Switzerland | by Joshua Fuller

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Loughrigg Fell | johnedwardjames

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Kirkjufell, Iceland | Photographer: Carlos F. Turienzo

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Iceland by Rob Bye

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Summit Views: Ben Lomond, New Zealand

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Found via Pinterest _____________ Via Pinterest

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Lmao did someone actually just unmatch me one tinder for saying “I don’t use lsd”

#2018 #fuck yeah #new year #tinder #I’m low key fucking lonely

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Perfection ______________ https://www.pinterest.com/FOLK/

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Natural stairs. Norway, 2017.

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My dad got me a German copy of “Der Einzige und Sein Eigentum” (The Ego and its Own) by Max Stirner for Christmas and I’m totally nerding out over the Fraktur typeface and old spellings