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A guide to consuming ethically in capitalism

anarcheluxemburg:

Step One: You can’t

I wish I grew up in the 50’s.

alextimmons:

platonicteamugs:

summerliketheseason:

make-sweetlove:

  • Classy women.
  • Guys being gentlemen.
  • cute ass relationships.
  • Racism
  • Sexism
  • Homophobia
  • Illness
  • Segregation
  • Cold War
  • Constant threat of nuclear war

But I mean the vintage bombshelters are sooo totally cute

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WHY IS THAT NOT A REAL BOOK

WILL WRITE THIS BOOK DON’T YOU FRET

(Source: ourlovestheperfectcrimee)

artingmachine:

Cindy Sherman- Untitled Film Stills (1978)

divascreech:

i refuse to respect other people’s views if they oppress me and so should you

do not let people tell you that you should respect oppressive or intolerant views and do not let them make you feel guilty when you don’t

fuck them

it’s about time i get misery chick tattooed on my forehead.

framed.

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Are you for women or are you for the working class?

This wrongheaded and actually dangerous way of framing the question of struggle appears again and again under capitalism. Sometime even from the Left.

Two days ago Counterpunch published a disgusting article essentially deriding Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and her decision to have breast surgery. The word ‘tits’ was thrown around, as was later revealed, to attract hits on the article on the internet! Social Worker’s, Sharon Smith, wrote an excellent rebuttal which Counterpunch refused to publish. You can read the article below.

And now the editors of Counterpunch are attacking Sharon and SW for what they claim is us backing a rich woman and playing identity politics as opposed to class politics.

This is not just a disgusting defense of sexism by Counterpunch—it is actually a well worn and dangerous strategy to divide our side.

Using sexism or racism does not strengthen anti-ruling class politics. It weakens it.

During the anti-Right to Work demonstrations in Indiana, male AFL-CIO members chanted “Mitch the Bi***” against the then governor Mitch Daniels who had passed the RTW law. Socialists and revolutionaries at the demo argued against the chant. Why? Because using a sexist slur, even though aimed at the enemy, would not attract more women to your project, it would deter them.

We need to use ideas and words that unite us.

If Obama were attacked for his race, Thatcher attacked for her gender, or Dick Cheny’s daughter attacked for her sexuality—socialists should be the first to protest. This does not mean uniting with Obama or Thatcher. It means standing in solidarity with people of color and women who are oppressed by the policies of Obama and Thatcher. *Our* struggles use the language of solidarity and inclusion we don’t use the rotten, filthy stereotypes the ruling class forged for us.

So fuck you Counterpunch, or anyone else who want to use ‘tits’ to get hits on their website: I will not trade my class politics for my gender or sexuality.

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Tithi Bhattacharya

Sharon Smith, “Why CounterPunch owes women an apology”

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(via socialismartnature)

"Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he’s never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea. A heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. Don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the vendor at the market was so compelling you just had to have them. You had to have him. And you did. And now you pull down the bridge between your houses, you make him call before he visits, you take a lover for granted, you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Make the first bottle you consume in this place a relic. Place it on whatever altar you fashion with a knife and five cranberries. Don’t lose too much weight. Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. And you are not stupid. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street."

Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell (via lushious)
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nickdrake:

Johnny Cash - Hurt