Watching Twin Peaks For The First Time And Kyle Maclachlan Is Just Sooooo Cute He Looks Like A Porcelain

There are so many things to learn!

happy international women's day

imagining a lesbian who insists that the etymology of yearning comes from yuri

just finished Badiou's Ethics, which I had to read for a class but also very much enjoyed. it's relatively short, about 90 pages, and very succinct and self-contained. plus it's always nice change of pace to read someone who stayed an unapologetic Marxist long after '68 lol

it's actually so embarrassing that the only men I tend to smol-beanify are all film directors

nobody tears through library books quite as fast as a 12 yr old girl with no friends

According to tradition, Lazarus never smiled during the thirty years after his resurrection, worried by the sight of unredeemed souls he had seen during his four-day stay in Hell. The only exception was, when he saw someone stealing a pot, he smilingly said: "the clay steals the clay."[1][46]

Excuse me if this has been asked before, but what are books/essays/authors you recommend looking into from a Marxist-Feminist standpoint? Also is there something I should know before delving into Marxist-Feminism? A lot of materialist feminists I've been reading have made anti-transgender sentiments, or have ignored the existence of transgender politics entirely, so I'm a little wary.

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is not technically Marxist, but it’s very influential globally for Marxist feminism. She also interprets gender in a way that I think lends itself to transfeminism, in that she says that humans always have to interpret nature instead of just immediately appropriating it “as it is” and that gender is one such way that we interpret nature (and implicitly that we collectively have a freedom to alter this interpretation through political struggle).

Alexandra Kollontai is a very influential Marxist feminist, though I think her idea of sexual liberation was still subordinated to the idea of the national state’s camaraderie and fraternity. Make Way for Winged Eros is a very interesting essay arguing for free love as an element in social revolution.

An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman by Claudia Jones is very important as a response to the de-classing of Black women’s struggles and the dismissal of them as particularistic. The work of Jones gives a much more concrete and human sense to who the proletariat is, instead of the image of the white man-machine that a lot of socialists fantasize about.

Mary Inman is very important for being the first Marxist to extensively analyze unwaged domestic, reproductive labor, pairing well with Jones who had begun to analyzed waged domestic labor. Her essay The Role of the Housewife in Social Production is arguably the beginning of the housework debates in Marxist feminism, which were about the role of housework in the total reproduction of capital, the reproduction of labor-power, and the production of surplus-value.

The essay which really kicked off the housework debates was The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa. This is still one of the most important Marxist feminists texts that people still come back to in these kinds of debates.

The Arcane of Reproduction by Leopoldina Fortunati takes the housework debates into a more complex level by connecting it to Marx’s full discussion of the production and reproduction of capital in Capital and Theories of Surplus-Value. This is probably the highest theoretical point of the debates.

Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution by Raya Dunayevskaya is very important for the reconsideration of the role of feminism in “orthodox Marxism,” or the generation between Marx and the Third International. I do dislike that Dunayevskaya neglects the housework debates almost entirely, and especially because this is due to very petty personal beef with Selma James (they had formerly been part of the same political circle via CLR James).

Night-Vision by Butch Lee and Red Rover is an interesting Pantherist-Maoist analysis of class struggle, gender, and neocolonialism. They give a lot of attention to the development of a highly gendered proletariat in the late 20th century, marking shifts in the gendered structure of the wage away from the patterns of the father’s family wage and couverture.

The Point is to Change the World by Andaiye is a collection of essays analyzing similar themes. As an organizer she was on the ground in Guyana dealing with these new realities of the structure of the proletariat and trying to figure out a new global strategy for it.

Kinderkommunismus by K.D. Griffiths and J.J. Gleeson is a very good essay analyzing the patriarchal family in the 21st century and showing the importance of communizing kinship to communist political strategy, feminism, and transgender liberation

the eternal return of "leftists are too mean to men" discourse is driving me insane. what do you MEAN there's not enough edgy leftists podcasts for men??? have these people genuinely been living under a rock for the past decade?????

"Joe Rogan but leftist" already exists!! his name is Vaush and he fucking sucks!!!!

How did you learn to mix?

i just accept the possibility of being really bad at something and then proceed to do whatever i want