What exactly ARE the autobots and decepticons fighting about? I tried to wiki it but they had like eleven subsections on the Cybertron civil war and I already have too much to read
does the spider noir fandom refuse to actually read his comics and just be like ‘oh i think This is what he looks like under the mask’ every time they draw him without it bc they dont want to admit that he looks like an emo edit of milo thatch from atlantis
someone reblogged this like ‘i bet he doesnt look like milo’ well i hope you’re ready to be the wrongest you’ve ever been
let noir look like a nerdier, angrier peter b. stop erasing what a dweeb he is
here’s a bonus hot noir from eyes without a face so you guys can see how even when he’s Sexy, he still looks like a clown
China is legally, financially colonizing the entire continent by taking over Africa’s infrastructure.
They’ve have done so by making loans to African countries that they KNOW won’t be able to pay them back. Once the country defaults China exacts repayment by taking over an aspect of their infrastructure. They took an airport and an electric grid in Tanzania and a port in Kenya
An odd five books to choose if you want to understand Marxism… that’s the socialist movement inspired by the works of Marx, right? Emerging from the first international, expressed by the various socialist and communist parties of the 20th century…it’s not synonymous with either the ideas of Marx himself, or the field of academic inquiry inspired by them.
I’ll accept the David Harvey, (although it’s very debatable whether the thousands of workers who made Marxism a movement had the same take on Capital)… but Francis Wheen’s Karl Marx biography? You get no sense of what Marxism is from that book. Engels wrote ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ before he had met Marx, it doesn’t really tell you anything about Marxism either.
The German Ideology was published in 1932, I agree it’s full of great insights into Marx’s ideas, but did it significantly change the trajectory or ideological content of Marxism as a movement? I don’t think so. Caliban and the Witch is a brilliant book, but it’s applying a marxist analysis to history… yes it gives some insight into the marxist tendency from which it arouse (Italian autonomist feminism) but it’s not about Marxism.
I’d say - Communist Manifesto - State and Revolution - The Prison Notebooks - The Wretched of the Earth - Empire
It’s not perfect but least from that you could get a sense of a trajectory of an actual movement and an ongoing attempt to understand the evolving contemporary landscape from a marxist perspective.
As I hope people know - I’m very critical of Marxism as it has manifested as movement, but I think it’s really important to keep in mind that it is a movement, and not just a body of theory. Personally I don’t give that much of a shit about the finer points of value theory or weighing in on the transformation debate or whatever (although I do find it interesting - no offence if that stuff floats your boat) but surely the interesting and worthwhile thing about Marxism is the fact that large numbers of working people saw a potential for liberation there, to the extent that they were willing to fight and die in revolutionary struggle… and not for some romantic idealised reason - the failures and dead ends are just as important - but surely those experiences and the modifications of theory and practice that arose from them are the important stuff?
Basically I don’t want to know whether Marx experienced an ‘epistomelogical break’ in 1845 as much as I want to know why half a million French workers joined the PCF in 1945.
if you guys look it up there’s pictures of them like wrestling and hanging out and just generally being good ol boys who love each other and it’s really cute
-
thisis the most accurate thing about him holy shit
