Indian Libertarian Socialist Federation
03.05.202504:25
"Loving, protecting, and empowering children are not inspirational words. They are real things that adults owe to children. In this way, and many other ways, child liberation theology is always and intentionally practical. It is always and intentionally focused on how we can make our right-here and right-now a better place for children.
But child liberation theology cannot be something that only adults do or think for children. Liberation theology says that, in order to truly free a group of people, that group must be equipped and empowered to do theology with their own words and in their own way. Thus child liberation theology must be something that children themselves do. It must not only involve children, it must also let children take the lead."
https://rlstollar.com/2022/01/15/an-introduction-to-child-liberation-theology/
But child liberation theology cannot be something that only adults do or think for children. Liberation theology says that, in order to truly free a group of people, that group must be equipped and empowered to do theology with their own words and in their own way. Thus child liberation theology must be something that children themselves do. It must not only involve children, it must also let children take the lead."
https://rlstollar.com/2022/01/15/an-introduction-to-child-liberation-theology/
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Begumpura: bahujan antifascism
01.05.202513:16
"Labour Day or May Day is celebrated all over the world and is a celebration of the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movements.
In India if workers have gotten any rights, it is because of Dr Ambedkar hence not to remember Dr Ambedkar on Labour Day will be an injustice to Dr Ambedkar’s legacy."
— Pardeep Atri encapsulates Dr Ambedkar's contributions to the labour struggle
https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/dr-ambedkar-and-labour-day/
In India if workers have gotten any rights, it is because of Dr Ambedkar hence not to remember Dr Ambedkar on Labour Day will be an injustice to Dr Ambedkar’s legacy."
— Pardeep Atri encapsulates Dr Ambedkar's contributions to the labour struggle
https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/dr-ambedkar-and-labour-day/
30.04.202508:35
"India accused Pakistan of having a connection to the attack — the worst aimed at Indian civilians in more than a decade — claiming that the group that claimed responsibility was backed by the Pakistani military. That ratcheted up tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries, who both control parts of Kashmir, but claim ownership over the whole region."
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/27/nx-s1-5378630/india-kashmir-pakistan-crackdown-homes-destroyed
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/27/nx-s1-5378630/india-kashmir-pakistan-crackdown-homes-destroyed
28.04.202505:36
25.04.202501:03
"By thinking about the prison as war, we disabuse ourselves of the misconception that the prison system is broken and needs fixing. Rather, the war analytic helps us conceptualize carceral institutions as engines of disinformation, white supremacy, violence, and class antagonism, processes that stabilize a social order structured by inequality and exploitation. The framework of war also helps us orient our response.
The contradictions of the New York guard strike reveal that prisons are not only instruments for controlling those locked inside cages; they also control those guarding the cages. The prison has incarcerated the guard’s imagination such that the only way they can envision themselves moving up is by stepping on someone else’s neck."
https://inquest.org/the-hidden-war-fueling-the-new-york-prison-guard-strike/
The contradictions of the New York guard strike reveal that prisons are not only instruments for controlling those locked inside cages; they also control those guarding the cages. The prison has incarcerated the guard’s imagination such that the only way they can envision themselves moving up is by stepping on someone else’s neck."
https://inquest.org/the-hidden-war-fueling-the-new-york-prison-guard-strike/
19.04.202502:05
02.05.202513:56
01.05.202505:15
"In Chicago the anarchists were the main force in the union movement, and partially as a result of their presence, the unions translated this call into strikes on May 1st.
The anarchists thought that the eight hour day could only be won through direct action and solidarity. They considered that struggles for reforms, like the eight hour day, were not enough in themselves. They viewed them as only one battle in an ongoing class war that would only end by social revolution and the creation of a free society. It was with these ideas that they organised and fought."
https://thepolarblast.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/may-day-is-the-workers-day/
The anarchists thought that the eight hour day could only be won through direct action and solidarity. They considered that struggles for reforms, like the eight hour day, were not enough in themselves. They viewed them as only one battle in an ongoing class war that would only end by social revolution and the creation of a free society. It was with these ideas that they organised and fought."
https://thepolarblast.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/may-day-is-the-workers-day/
30.04.202500:45
"In women’s prisons, sexual intrusion, harassment, coercion and violence are daily realities. And in solitary confinement, this conduct is so routine that many women — particularly the younger ones — don’t even think of it as abuse. They believe it’s simply an inevitable part of their incarceration."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/03/10/solitary-confinement-guards-sexual-abuse-texas
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/03/10/solitary-confinement-guards-sexual-abuse-texas
27.04.202513:35
right wing dudes into philosophy and wisdom
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24.04.202505:45
18.04.202502:10
“A principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government – harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilised being.”
— Peter Kropotkin, from the definition of anarchism written for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1910)
— Peter Kropotkin, from the definition of anarchism written for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1910)
02.05.202502:20
"Today, India stands at a crossroads. As the world’s largest population and a global South power, it has the potential to lead a renewed front of nations committed to peace and planetary survival. But this path is blocked by authoritarianism at home and reaction abroad.
While Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza has brought the moral bankruptcy of the international order into sharp relief, it has also unmasked settler colonialism’s most reliable accomplices. As the world’s largest purchaser of Israeli weapons, India has long underwritten the illegal occupation of Palestine. Since October 2023, Narendra Modi’s government has abstained from key resolutions at the UN, sent Indian workers to replace Palestinians and dispatched combat drones and ammunition to Tel Aviv."
https://progressive.international/wire/2025-04-25-pi-briefing-no-15-the-spirit-of-bandung/en
While Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza has brought the moral bankruptcy of the international order into sharp relief, it has also unmasked settler colonialism’s most reliable accomplices. As the world’s largest purchaser of Israeli weapons, India has long underwritten the illegal occupation of Palestine. Since October 2023, Narendra Modi’s government has abstained from key resolutions at the UN, sent Indian workers to replace Palestinians and dispatched combat drones and ammunition to Tel Aviv."
https://progressive.international/wire/2025-04-25-pi-briefing-no-15-the-spirit-of-bandung/en
01.05.202503:04
29.04.202505:36
"Government is defined by its monopoly on coercion — it cannot act but through aggression, every law or edict it passes is imposed by a centralized apparatus of violence. The state is in short a forcible simplification of human relations, a system caught up in feedback loops that strengthen its tyranny. Rather than building tolerable and fluidly responsive agreements from the ground up, the state imposes one rigid vision from the top down. Its monopoly on overwhelming violence provides a shortcut to accomplishing things that bypasses full negotiations; not only does this approach suppress freedom in the name of expediency it encourages everyone to do the same. Once the state exists it presents a tool that cannot be ignored — if you want to get a given task done the state makes it enticing to do it through competing for, seizing, and directing the state’s coercion. Nearly everyone becomes invested in expanding the power of the state so that it can assure or enact their desires.
The state that is so often defended as a means of solving collective action problems is itself a catastrophic collective action problem, with mass murderous consequences. The state suppresses us all, chains us in service to a limited number of tasks, inherently simplistic directives that can never fully reflect our complex array of desires. The state rules us, but it always seems easier to fight for control of the state, to struggle to win the lottery for its hamfisted power, than to dissolve its chains.
States formed historically from brutal domination and have persisted so virally because they are mistakes hard to unmake. Nevertheless at different points enlightened people throughout history have successfully dissolved states — to varying degrees and with varying permanence. In our era it lies before us to dissolve not just one state but the entire global ecosystem of cancerous power systems (both formal nationstates and the smaller state-like entities they encourage from corporations to gangs to cliques) and establish a more decentralized and responsive society with not just a few token checks and balances against power, but countless social structures acting as antibodies and an entire populace committed to fighting its emergence."
https://humaniterations.net/2017/06/14/your-freedom-is-my-freedom-the-premise-of-anarchism
The state that is so often defended as a means of solving collective action problems is itself a catastrophic collective action problem, with mass murderous consequences. The state suppresses us all, chains us in service to a limited number of tasks, inherently simplistic directives that can never fully reflect our complex array of desires. The state rules us, but it always seems easier to fight for control of the state, to struggle to win the lottery for its hamfisted power, than to dissolve its chains.
States formed historically from brutal domination and have persisted so virally because they are mistakes hard to unmake. Nevertheless at different points enlightened people throughout history have successfully dissolved states — to varying degrees and with varying permanence. In our era it lies before us to dissolve not just one state but the entire global ecosystem of cancerous power systems (both formal nationstates and the smaller state-like entities they encourage from corporations to gangs to cliques) and establish a more decentralized and responsive society with not just a few token checks and balances against power, but countless social structures acting as antibodies and an entire populace committed to fighting its emergence."
https://humaniterations.net/2017/06/14/your-freedom-is-my-freedom-the-premise-of-anarchism
27.04.202501:45
"There is no evidence that capitalism exists today."
— Ron Paul, "libertarian" and one of the worst people of all time
— Ron Paul, "libertarian" and one of the worst people of all time
23.04.202514:41
17.04.202515:30
"Providers are pushed to spend less time caring for each patient as health systems move to reduce costs and increase revenue under the technological principle of maximal efficiency and output. But medicine was never intended to be another industrial complex."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/ai-scribes-artificial-intelligence-medicine-note-writing-physician-patient-relationship/
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/ai-scribes-artificial-intelligence-medicine-note-writing-physician-patient-relationship/
01.05.202519:15
'To rephrase the point I already made: if "femininity" has been constituted in capitalist society as a work-function masking the production of the work force under the cover of a biological destiny, then "women's history" is "class history," and the question that has to be asked is whether the sexual division of labor that has produced that particular concept has been transcended.
If the answer is a negative one (as it must be when we consider the present organization of reproductive labor), then "women" is a legitimate category of analysis, and the activities associated with "reproduction" remain a crucial ground of struggle for women, as they were for the feminist movement of the 1970s which, on this basis, connected itself with the history of the witches.'
— Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004)
If the answer is a negative one (as it must be when we consider the present organization of reproductive labor), then "women" is a legitimate category of analysis, and the activities associated with "reproduction" remain a crucial ground of struggle for women, as they were for the feminist movement of the 1970s which, on this basis, connected itself with the history of the witches.'
— Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004)
30.04.202519:55
conservatives are not "pro-life," they're anti-woman... they don't like 'em. they don't like women.
they believe a woman's primary role is to function as a broodmare for the state.
— george carlin on abortion
they believe a woman's primary role is to function as a broodmare for the state.
— george carlin on abortion
28.04.202516:16
"Over the past decade, Blackstone has become Madrid’s largest private owner of residential real estate, and the second largest in all of Spain. Ms. Riquelme’s apartment is one of 13,000 that Blackstone currently owns in Madrid, and among 19,600 it owns nationwide.
Across Spain, around 185,000 rental properties are now owned by large corporations, half of those by firms based in the United States, according to a review of property registries by the nonprofit Civio. Rental prices have increased 57 percent since 2015 and home prices 47 percent, according to PwC, in large part because the country has failed to build enough homes for its growing population, even as more than 4 million homes sit empty. After the pandemic pushed Spain’s unemployment rate up to 15 percent, evictions nationwide spiked. In Madrid, tenant groups estimate that 20,000 renters in the city currently face the threat of eviction."
https://dnyuz.com/2025/04/25/madrids-biggest-landlord-u-s-investment-firms/
Across Spain, around 185,000 rental properties are now owned by large corporations, half of those by firms based in the United States, according to a review of property registries by the nonprofit Civio. Rental prices have increased 57 percent since 2015 and home prices 47 percent, according to PwC, in large part because the country has failed to build enough homes for its growing population, even as more than 4 million homes sit empty. After the pandemic pushed Spain’s unemployment rate up to 15 percent, evictions nationwide spiked. In Madrid, tenant groups estimate that 20,000 renters in the city currently face the threat of eviction."
https://dnyuz.com/2025/04/25/madrids-biggest-landlord-u-s-investment-firms/
26.04.202510:11
hindutva nationalists don't care about hindu victims
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23.04.202501:40
’Marx’s satirical critique entitled “Saint Max” does not show a very profound understanding of Stirner’s enterprise. It rather gives the impression that the materialistic view of history does not have the wherewithal for understanding Stirner.
For example, where Stirner writes: “I am not nothing in the sense of a void but creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything,” Marx turns the words around by saying: “The Holy Father [Stirner] could have expressed this as follows: I am everything in the void of nonsense but the null creator, the all from which I myself as creator create nothing.”
Stirner could well have responded to this as follows: “You have said something wise by mistake in saying that Stirner creates nothing from everything. My standpoint is exactly as you say, but its meaning is entirely different from what you think.”’
— Keiji Nishitani, Nihilism as Egoism: Max Stirner
For example, where Stirner writes: “I am not nothing in the sense of a void but creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything,” Marx turns the words around by saying: “The Holy Father [Stirner] could have expressed this as follows: I am everything in the void of nonsense but the null creator, the all from which I myself as creator create nothing.”
Stirner could well have responded to this as follows: “You have said something wise by mistake in saying that Stirner creates nothing from everything. My standpoint is exactly as you say, but its meaning is entirely different from what you think.”’
— Keiji Nishitani, Nihilism as Egoism: Max Stirner
17.04.202504:50
"Things we come to familiarize ourselves with like presidential elections, the police, banks, and wage-slavery are all social systems constructed to maintain order – an order maintained through coercion, disempowerment, and fear.
Together these things make up the governmental establishment which occupies and applies ownership to geographical locations. The maintaining of this occupation relies heavily on an apparatus that monopolizes violent force, as well as the subjugation of any persons residing in these locations. The subjugation of a population of people wouldn’t succeed without the normalized logic of submission and psychological warfare. In order to gain access to the monopolized resources needed to survive, the conquered population of people are forced to reproduce and maintain the establishment through wage-slavery: enslavement in exchange for a monetary wage. At the root of this social control is the domination of the individual – a domination which reinforces the logic of individual submission to the group."
— Flower Bomb, Anarchy: The Life and Joy of Insubordination
Together these things make up the governmental establishment which occupies and applies ownership to geographical locations. The maintaining of this occupation relies heavily on an apparatus that monopolizes violent force, as well as the subjugation of any persons residing in these locations. The subjugation of a population of people wouldn’t succeed without the normalized logic of submission and psychological warfare. In order to gain access to the monopolized resources needed to survive, the conquered population of people are forced to reproduce and maintain the establishment through wage-slavery: enslavement in exchange for a monetary wage. At the root of this social control is the domination of the individual – a domination which reinforces the logic of individual submission to the group."
— Flower Bomb, Anarchy: The Life and Joy of Insubordination
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