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Something that has bothered me for a while now in the discussion surrounding Spamton's trans coding (or rather, the denial of it) is the idea that the dress mannequin can't represent anything negative because it would sully the meaning of The Dress itself as a symbol of freedom and self-acceptance. However, I think this argument fails to consider the idea that the dress and the dress mannequin are two different objects that represent two different things.

Do you mayhaps wanna draw Rumble teehee

I love the idea of Prowl developing a parasocial relationship with Scrapper because he never got to know him but he falls for the very idealized version of him from the gestal memories and he is kind of concerned because one day realized he is missing and mourning someone that he never met and never will.

btw "you are allowed to hate your oppressor" is about Your Personal Feelings As An Individual. that you are allowed to have whatever feelings you have about your experience being oppressed, and the fact that rage and hatred can be a powerful motivator to break away from the status quo and engage in revolutionary action against oppression, does not mean that no one is allowed to criticize an approach to liberation that is centered on rage and hatred given the very well recorded downsides to such an approach.

[T]he extent to which a metanarrative is capable of transforming reality is the same extent to which its failure precludes future transformation. This is the great tragedy of any totalizing historical narrative, Marxism included. If the worker did indeed stand at the fulcrum of history, the slow death of the workers’ revolution necessarily means the death of any hope in future change. State communism’s ultimate failure has marginalized the proletariat as a meaningful political force. To read confident, latter-day predictions of incipient proletarian revolution in Western states is to read the predictions of a tiny doomsday cult proclaiming that the end is nigh. Little wonder many post-Marxist thinkers legitimately feel the “saddest legacy that the twentieth century leaves us is disillusionment, loss of hope”; that we must freely admit there is no new, emergent, revolutionary subject capable of remaking the world; and that our post-Marxist politics has all too often regressed into localism, horizontalism, and melancholic resignation. And yet even after the failure of Marxist state socialism, we continue picking through the dustbin of socialist history for scraps of hope, seeking reasons to keep on organizing toward our “horizontalist horizon.” In this grim but necessary task, there’s no better guide than political philosopher Ernst Bloch. Born in Germany in 1885 and working throughout the establishment, global spread, and authoritarian betrayal of actually existing communism, this unorthodox visionary developed a unique mystic-Marxist hermeneutics expressed via an idiosyncratic range of philosophical and theological references. Ecstatically preaching communism as the “faith without lies,” Bloch both captures the mystical potency Marx granted his proletarian followers and expresses the self-deluding willpower needed to maintain a belief in the Marxist proposal. Bloch’s eccentricity and mysticism have been the subject of reasonable criticism by other, more reasonable thinkers, but they’re precisely what we need if we are continue working for socialist revolution in a post-socialist, postrevolutionary age. Bloch’s unique understanding of Marx models a productive relationship with the tragic, inevitable current of history. It therefore suggests ways we can reckon with the tragedies of the twentieth century as we tentatively imagine our own latter-day metanarratives.

#reading this entire post (cut included) made me - for a split second#feel cognitive freedom#to us revolution means liberation#but the term revolution itself can simply describe a paradigm shift#and many of those shifts have involved manmade horrors beyond comprehension#ppl explain trauma as the result of “bad thing + no support” but its more like#the result of trying to live after the incomprehensible happens to you or people around you#its inevitable that the others will feel or express that incomprehensibility as well#and yet some continue to live#we still dream. we dream until we act.#we act and then survive.#we dream until reality reflects the dream.#is this anything

Omg this is perfect thank you!! I've been wanting to get into socialist literature again, but haven't jived with some things about Marxism and Western Anarchism (my prior interests).

You are very welcome! if that's what you are looking for i would definitely suggest reading more about Rojava, communalism, and democratic confederalism. I was in a very similar boat to you and discovering this paradigm really breathed new life into my political consciousness and my dedication to socialism. I have a lot of links (articles + a few videos) related to Öcalan's paradigm of "democratic modernity" & Rojava in my pinned that could be a good place to start :)

Megatron and Rodimus playing a video game question mark

more Lost Light Megatron? :3