Blythe ☭ @blytheSpirit@witches.town

@lifning and thank you for this

This toot may be the only communication with the internet I'll have for a while. Or it might not.

I come online in waves and easily spend a couple days without checking in.

I'm ok with this

I love oatmeal

Cause I’m learning tarot I kind of want to ask for a reading just to see it from the other side, but I can’t figure out what to ask

maybe we just go to bed early

I live in constant fear of the discourse happening to me

I don't know if it's a theatre troupe doing pre-rehearsal warmups or what it is, but there's ominous german chanting happening outside our apartment

I keep trying to come up with a cool greeting so I can make a good entrance like my hero

@Sapphaos and we all know what is the proper way to deal with French monarchs.

@kara_dreamer @mona

Well, it also has to do with what magical practice tends to do to our perception. Like it's supposed to make us more receptive to the things we want to achieve with it. Part of that is just being more perceptive and noticing more things. It means you're open to more possibilities.

@soft_chomps we use weather underground.

slow social media day

I'd describe my aesthetic as prep futch

@Madponiez

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Supposdly John Steinbeck said that but that's disputed, but yeah. No one wants to think of themselves as an exploited worker, but as a rich capitalist in waiting.

Similarly people always think in terms of money "one day I'll have enough money for x", when for some things maybe we should think: "one day I won't need money for x, there will be no need for money for anything"

Rosa help me

ok, I think I need to take a little break now, though

@celesteh @codeawayhaley @Concerned_Commy

I'm still working my way through Lenin's writings. From what I understand a successful communist revolution is to end with the withering away of the state. Leaving local governance to more self-organised groups. I would argue the reason this didn't happen in the USSR is in part the result of the capitalist war waged against it by the west.

I think it will be possible to have a stateless society, but it will require the toppling of the empire. Which is why anti-imperialism is of the utmost importance.

@Concerned_Commy @codeawayhaley I'll admit Marxism Leninism isn't a science, calling it is more a meme than anything else.

Dialectical Materialism, on the other hand is arguably a science, or a scientific philosophy, and it is at the core of marxism leninism.