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Hey, I'm Tom. I'm working towards being a theatrical theorist. I write a bit, think a bit, sing a lot when I'm high. Hopefully you'll like something on here...

thecohort:

socialistictendencies:

logicallypositive:

ahh yes, the troops, protecting our freedoms by throwing us into FEMA concentration camps

I’m not even going to touch the FEMA camps shit, but fuck this. The troops protect themselves as they colonize the rest of the world, nothing more.

Dear socialistictendancies,

I don’t understand a lot of what you blog. I am an Australian libertarian socialist, so I suppose when I found your blog my presumption was that I would agree with most things you were to post. I do remember liking a lot of what you had posted before when I first came across you.

I don’t really feel very sympathetic towards your angle, after perhaps a month or two of following you. One thing that does irritate me is the way you sign off a lot of posts with comments that basically accuse whomever you’re debating, reblogging or whatever of being a completely ignorant fool. That sort of thing sets off alarm bells for me, only because I disagree with the idea that people should be insulted for holding a differing opinion to oneself. That includes a lot of capitalists, and doesn’t include rambling abuse of them in private company, of course.

Now to the point. Your understanding of international relations, in regards to a socialist/marxist perspective, seem grossly superficial to me. Let us take the above example.

People who join the military generally have a patriotic or economic incentive to do so. When they fight overseas, in the name (whether they know it or not) of imperialist expansion and exploitation, they very much do protect the privaleged western way of life. I mean this in so far as, without wars waged against exploited states, we would not enjoy the material opulence of this and the preceeding century. I would never agree that the existence and behaviour of the US military defends freedom, material wealth, equality etc, in the abstract or generalised to the world. However, for Empire and it’s European, Australian etc hangers-on, they do. Exclusively, and fantastically immorally, but they do.
I point this out because it’s the sort of thing socialists have a terrible record of doing, much to our shame. The fact that the US’ military strength maintains it as Empire is true, we benefit from it, but by denying it we rob ourselves of the chance to criticize it. The militarized nature of Empire should be something we condemn, but without acknowledging it’s ramifications we cannot wholly or truthfully do so. It also basically constitutes lying about privalege, willfully, and denying the true nature of the system, which any leftist ought to despise instinctively.

Also, to claim they ‘protect themselves’? That’s one of your comments I do not understand.

That said, it’s nice to see socialists popping up on tumblr since Occupy began. Hooray for people criticizing capitalism =D

-Peter The Great

Who is Peter The Great? Why is he using Orwell arguments from an essay he read a few hours ago? Why does he seem so curly, so sexy, and yet somehow like he’s wearing a ‘writing hat’?

Anyway I agree with this guy, and not the other guy, yeh.

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Orwell Socialism Marx ma man politics Photo post # December 17, 2011 / 12:22am // 220 Notes