left-reminders:

Enclosure is the process whereby commonly-utilized resources are privatized to enrich individual property owners (rather than the whole community). Capitalism got its start by enclosing land commons throughout the world, and to this day it is a structural trait of the system to enclose any and all uncommodified goods. Healthcare, education, media, art, internet access, parks, workplaces — even though communities utilize these resources, private autocrats make the decisions and accumulate the profits. Partisans of capitalism would have you believe that enclosure benefits a vast multitude of property owners, but in reality it’s more likely that a wealthy minority will control the majority of the viable resources in any given society.

The socialist antithesis is a democratic commons, where people collectively manage the resources they need to live well and democratically participate in the decisions that impact them. Life would be about enriching the whole population, all and each, rather than about the accumulation of wealth for a select few.

There’s a reason why Robin Hood was always able to justify his “theft” of wealth from the rich: the wealth was stolen to begin with, part and parcel to a great social evil committed by class tyrants who plunder the common human inheritance. With capitalist crises on the rise and climate catastrophe threatening the future of human society and global ecosystems, Robin Hood stories are needed now more than ever.

didmemes:

when someone says they miss being a little kid because it was “so much easier” but you’re a trauma holder

runcibility:

I would actually pay for a cable subscription just to watch this

brutereason:

“Conservative men know that their safety, their personal lives, and their livelihoods aren’t in danger — not really. But their power is. Their power fades, albeit slowly, with every protest, every new voter registration, and every time a woman comes forward to say she’s been hurt by one of them. And since many of these men believe that their power is an inalienable right, the threat of losing it can feel like annihilation.
That’s why so many powerful, white, conservative men are now adopting the language of victimization, fueling the backlash against feminist progress.”

— There Is No War on Men (But Maybe There Should Be?)

In reinforcing their identity as victims, they can attack others and hide behind the apparent bullying they face. By talking about themselves as an endangered species they can treat ethnostates as a valid option. By making everything an attack on them, it makes it okay for them to retaliate by attacking women, blacks, jews, anyone who wrongs them 

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

Only a few years ago, and it was a direct result of spending time on tumblr and being able to experiment with my pronouns. Being able to test the waters, and test how it felt to be call by different pronouns, was a big deal–so please, let people figure things out and go through ‘phases’. self-discovery is very much an extended process.

My family has always been very absent; they don’t much care either way. I haven’t experienced any backlash for telling them, but neither have they made an effort to understand the significance of my identity and how it affects my experience. It was the same way when I figured out I was bi/pansexual and autistic. There was simply a lack of interest, which is of course a lonely way to grow up.

property-is-theft:

Capitalism must fall or humanity will fall. This is the fundamental choice for our era. Rebirth or death