#proletarians

[katchwreck]

Students of the Federal State Institution of Glassmakers at the Proletarian factory in military training classes.

Aksay, USSR, 1929.

#Aksay #ussr #back in the ussr #1929 #Factory workers #Proletarians #marxism leninism #Armed workers

[yourtongzhihazel]

Me if I got a medal for every time I got called a psyop:

#death to the usa #i fucking hate liberals #sorry sugar the anti-parliamentarism will continue until you get an actual proletarian party

[communistkenobi]

It’s so funny when liberals lecture communists about not knowing how anything works, that we need to grow up and face the real world etc, while publicly demonstrating that their political imagination is so deeply impoverished that they genuinely believe the only thing the leader of the most powerful country on the planet in all of human history can do is block a slightly more fascist guy from taking his place every four years

#one of the reasons I am a communist is because I believe in the wondrous power of a state in the hands of the working class! like it is #legitimately moving to learn about the transformative ways socialists use a proletarian state to direct a socialist society #what boer calls god-building and newton calls demiurgical. the state has a universe-building potential to it #and even setting aside socialist history the idea that the president of the US is unable to affect any local or state policy within his own #borders or foreign policy without is so baldly laughable it shouldn’t even be worth considering #except for the fact that so many people profess to genuinely believe that #whether they actually do is another story but christ alive man.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Tech workers spent a whole generation conceiving of themselves as entrepreneurs who bargained, nerd-to-nerd, with other entrepreneurs who needed workers as much as workers needed paychecks.

These workers allowed themselves to be convinced that being “extremely hardcore” — that is, working body- and mind-ruining hours (without overtime pay) was a badge of honor.

They let themselves believe that their bosses gave them gourmet cafeteria food, “on-campus” fitness centers and daycare because they were valued workers — and not because this created the conditions where workers could be induced to put in longer hours without additional pay.

They conceived of themselves as ascetic monks, a priesthood that labored every hour God sent to bring digitization to the world. Meanwhile, their bosses’ wealth soared, even as their own working conditions deteriorated.

Tech workers may be prone to the same rationalization and self-deception as the rest of us, but (like the rest of us), they aren’t fools. Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop.

As conditions and prospects worsened, tech workers’ identities as workers emerged from a generation-long coma. They penned manifestos, walked off the job, and formed unions.

-The proletarianization of tech workers: If there is hope, it is in the proles

#eric flint #science fiction #tech workers #labor #unions #there is power in the union #sf #labor organizing #proletarianization

[jadwiga-abremovic]

The dumb, mildly fetishist "traditional wife" blogs like making posts about husbands choosing their clothes.

Throughout much of human history, WOMEN chose their husband's clothes, not the other way around.

Why? Usually, the women had made the clothes right down to weaving and colouring the fabric. Men wore the clothes their wives and mothers made for them, sewed for then, or even bought for them. They did that, and made damn sure to be happy about it, or they wore nothing at all.

That's why matching family sets of traditional folk costumes are a thing.

Never forget; he's not a ~trad husband ~, he's a loser that thinks the fucking stepford wives is a viable 21st century economic model and an accurate portrayal of history.

#feminism #proletarian feminism #womens art #traditional dress #traditional clothing #history #antifascism #anti tradwife #historical revisionism

[apas-95]

most anarchists don't outright say they want to abolish building codes (or organisations) - but, practically, when the question of enforcement comes down to it, it's a different story. building codes that are not enforced are not building codes, they're fun suggestions. if you are not ensuring that all, in this case wheelchair ramps, are up to code, you functionally do not have building codes. it's the same issue as with organisation - without a concept of democratic centralism, 'what if the organisation decides to do something that a small subset disagree with' generally receives no solution other than just 'those people just won't do what the organisation decides', which in practice means there does not exist an organisation at all, just a group of people who currently happen to all agree on something, and will disintegrate when they stop happening to agree. in practice there can be no actual collective action, no ensuring wide conformity to codes and programs, without some form of central authority to make reference to. 'just let the village's Ramp Inspecting enthusiast decide if it's fine' does not a building code make.

#this is again not even getting into the fact that this is an issue of governance and not the state #where the continued existence of class struggle would further require building code enforcement have a proletarian state character to it #for the duration of the period of socialist construction

[femalethink]

Why procreation should be "a fact of nature" rather than a social, historically determined activity, invested by diverse interests and power relations, is a question Marx did not ask. Nor did he imagine that men and women might have different interests with respect to child-making, an activity which he treated as a gender-neutral, undifferentiated process.

In reality, so far are procreation and population changes from being automatic or "natural" that, in all phases of capitalist development, the state has had to resort to regulation and coercion to expand or reduce the work-force. This was especially true at the time of the capitalist take-off, when the muscles and bones of workers were the primary means of production. But even later — down to the present — the state has spared no efforts in its attempt to wrench from women's hands the control over reproduction, and to determine which children should be born, where, when, or in what numbers. Consequently, women have often been forced to procreate against their will, and have experienced an alienation from their bodies, their "labor," and even their children, deeper than that experienced by any other workers. No one can describe in fact the anguish and desperation suffered by a woman seeing her body turn against herself, as it must occur in the case of an unwanted pregnancy.

—Silvia Federici, "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation".

#silvia federici #marxist feminism #feminism #marxism #radical feminism #radblr #patriarchy #women's liberation #proletarian feminism

[txttletale]

Looking through some posts, I noticed in the past you were genuinely anti-kink like 4 years ago. If you don't mind my asking, what changed?

i straight up did not become a sentient being until like mid 2020i remember like three events from before that total

#ask #im joking . mostly. kind of #a much simpler version of this is that i became a marxist and embraced a proletarian and materialist morality and worldview

[pointless-achievements]

Quit the job that doesn't pay me a living wage

Achievement Unlocked

Know Your Worth

Ditch your shitty underpaid job

#achievement unlocked #askbox achievements #proletarian achievements

[nesyanast]

Lemlich was a Ukranian Jewish immigrant who emigrated to New York in 1903. She became a garment worker and joined the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. She was a key leader in the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of New York garment workers in 1909. Blacklisted from the industry for her union work, she was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She joined was a leader of the United Council of Working Class Women. A life long activist, in her last years as a nursing home resident, Lemlich persuaded the nursing home to join in the United Farm Workers' boycotts of grapes and lettuce and helped the workers there to organize.

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #Ukrainian Jew #Jewish women #proletarian feminism #proletariat #immigrant history

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

#class war #class warfare #classism #proletarian revolution action playset

[yourtongzhihazel]

Folk instruments:

- accordion

- harmonica

- AK-47

#proletarian comedy

[communistkenobi]

I really need to get more into marxist god-building. As soon as I started reading a review of Lunacharsky’s writings on how Marxism evokes religious emotion and is basically scientific theology it was like discovering what i had believed but didn’t realise it

#also have been pretty compelled by his discussion of the role of religion in socialism #like in terms of capturing the ritual and social emotion that religion evokes for the purposes of uniting the working class #it resonated a lot with the history I’d read of the Haitian revolution and the role religion played in slave organising #like obviously religion plays a massive role in most conflicts but using it as a mobilising force for proletarian movements resolves a lot #of my confusion/uncertainty about religion in a socialist society #anyway I need to read a lot more I’m not very far into it #hoping maybe I can do a bit more reading in the summer but I have comp preparation then. augh #book club

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out on their own to start their own company that would knock that tech giant over?

Then that dream shrank to: work for a giant for a few years, quit, do a fake startup, get acqui-hired by your old employer, as a complicated way of getting a bonus and a promotion.

Then the dream shrank further: work for a tech giant for your whole life, get free kombucha and massages on Wednesdays.

And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant until they fire your ass, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired six months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.

We deserve better than this. We can get it.

-The proletarianization of tech workers: If there is hope, it is in the proles

#eric flint #science fiction #tech workers #labor #unions #there is power in the union #sf #labor organizing #proletarianization

[jadwiga-abremovic]

"Women smiled more in pictures in the fifties as housewives"

Yeah! It was the legal prescription for meth to deal with the lack of marital rape laws!

#feminism #marxist feminism #proletarian feminism #queer socialism #socialist feminism #anti tradwife

[vavjona]

#thinspø #proletarian feminism #girlblogging #motherland #porcelainballerina #delicate #deer #gun control