ithotyouknew2:

NO ONE who depends on their job and labor for survival is consenting to work! They are all coerced by the imminent threat of poverty, starvation and death! Sex work is no different and neither is your job! Shut up!

I love all the cool as shit anti-capitalist sex workers out there.

quoms:

for an example of how politics can engage with identity without being idpol, look at the way that struggles for gender and sexual and racial and economic liberated intersected and converged in the 1960s – ‘yellow peril supports black power’, etc.

this ferment – and i think partially as a result of it, the increasingly radical analysis of the american left over the course of the decade – was made possible by the fact that these struggles were organised on a basis exactly contrary to identity politics; that is, starting from a voluntary, autonomous basis and working outwards

struggles for identity were in fact a manifestation of struggles for autonomy, for self-definition. an identity category as simple as ‘gay’ wasn’t taken as divinely ordained and preexisting, in the way that identity categories are presented to us today, but as something deliberately created through the action of a community. consider also the way organisations like the black panthers consciously abandoned use of the words ‘colored’ or ‘negro’ in favor of ‘black’ – an attempt to take a category that had been imposed on them from outside, as something divinely ordained, and to lend it some quality of autonomy and self-determination

identity politics reverses this understanding of the situation. in idpol, instead of the community being ‘real’ and identity a social construct dependent on it, identity is ‘real’ – a preexisting and immutable phenomenon – while the community is relegated to secondary importance and in fact atrophies to assume purely imaginary status

while idpol easily predates the ‘60s (like i said, nationalism operates on the same basic logic), contemporary liberal idpol is a sort of particularly dead-end offshoot of the way organising was done in that era that the democratic party specifically fostered in order to make sure the ‘60s never happens again

I quite like this analysis

transasamisato:

acerncshane:

transasamisato:

*cocks gun* 

any last worms?

*cocks worm*

any last guns?

*worms gun*

any last cocks?

*lasts worm*
Any cocks guns?

whiskey–molotovs:

just-shower-thoughts:

No one gets rich by working really hard. They get rich by convincing others to work really hard for them. That’s why the rich tell us that to get rich you need to work really hard.

just shower thoughts is gaining class consciousness

So I’m reading from the enchanted tarot, and I got the princess of hearts (page of cups in a standard RW deck), the four of pentacles, and the six of pentacles. The princess of hearts is romantic but a little bit flighty, sort of… young and energetic and enthusiastic but not fully developed, combined with the four of pentacles indicates clinging to things, maybe ideas about romance or relationships that aren’t necessarily healthy or allowing you to grow in the directions you need to grow in as indicated by the six of pentacles. I think maybe you could be holding on to stuff that worked for you in the past but maybe those same ideas or desires or something are now holding you back from seeing what you truly need in terms of romance at this moment.

I pulled an extra card as sort of a “clarification” and got the eight of wands which indicates change/travel/energy, it could either indicate advice to pursue what you want, or indicate an outcome of rapid forward movement if you do manage to let go of some stuff from your past.