CutieBootieTootie [she/her]

I deeply hope this is true

Must be nice to be one of the good ones, Sarah.

Children who love children

DroneRights was a really vindictive user, not only is that pup clearly different people but pup’s not gotten into any meaningless slapfights yet

We’re gonna make the People’s Republic of Northern Virginia real

Meat worm

His final hit of adrenochrome

Get an IKEA MARKUS, best decision I ever made. Cheap and my back remains unfucked.

Having read My Disillusionment with Russia after learning how genocidal the war against the Soviets was and how stretched thin all aspects of society were due to the breakdown of economy, Emma Goldman unfortunately comes off as an extremely embarrassing American who can’t stop expecting everything to revolve around her. It also goes unmentioned in her account how many of the anarchist cells that were being “purged” were openly destroying and murdering the emerging Soviet state, this would be unacceptable anywhere and especially because this emerging Soviet state was exactly what was needed to end the economic crisis.

The conditions the Soviets made their revolution under was harsh and unfortunately necessitated the decisions made later on, but they should be critiqued with the context in mind or else we’re failing to learn from their successes and failures. When we apply our own context and preconceived notions onto a revolution which happened over a hundred years ago we are unable to take anything meaningful away except the most basic and propagandistic things.

Yeah, I’d definitely say part of it for me was the unchecked assumption that “those” revolutionaries messed it up because they were cruel or stupid. As much as I looked up to the things they’d done, I looked down on them for their lack of “purity” and lack of democracy.

For me it took genuinely reflecting on my western chauvanistic attitudes, and meeting real communists in Cuba and having a legitimate conversation with them. Once I’d found out what a communist in an existing communist country was like, I’d realized they had the same drive as me, and were far more effective than me!