all that is solid melts into air

lacan and contemporary film – todd mcgowan et al

--Todd McGowan, Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

Happy 175th anniversary to The Communist Manifesto. (Source)

Hammer, sickle & red star monument on the beach, Kerala, India (via here)

I highly recommend reading chapter 6 of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine (PDF linked) to really see in details the history of this and lengths of violence that the US is willing to commit in order to advance its disaster capitalism complex.

Emory Douglas (1960s)

Scientific library of the Sakhalin branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (USSR, 1950s)

gaytimes magazine

The phrase “the US kill line” has gone viral on Chinese social media in recent days, igniting extensive discussion about economic vulnerability and systemic risk within American society. The term is now used among netizens to describe a precarious financial state in which individuals or households have virtually no margin for error—where a single shock can trigger rapid and potentially irreversible collapse. The expression “kill line” itself originates from video games, where a “kill line” refers to a health threshold below which a character can be instantly defeated, regardless of remaining defenses or abilities. The newly aroused attention among Chinese netizens follows a video uploaded on December 8 to the Chinese online video-sharing platform bilibili.com by Chinese content creator “Sikuiqidawang,” titled Cutting Flesh with a Dull Knife and the Kill Line. In the video, he discusses the heavy burden of medical expenses on ordinary Americans and uses the phrase “kill line” as a metaphor for what he describes as a slow, grinding economic pressure. The creator also shared other videos with one depicting the difficult lives of homeless people and people from lower-income groups he encountered in Seattle.

Graffiti in the West Bank portraying Leila Khaled, who was a militant in the PFLP from 1967-1972

“Palestinian Are Your Eyes” - Fateh poster by Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata, 1970

Palestinian National Liberation Movement

Female protesters during the First Intifada in Palestine