Tag: Communism

More Communist Valentine Card Ideas:

What is to be done?  
Me

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I’m hot to Trotsky.

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When I saw you my Luxemburg Rosa

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Communism’s red

Anarchism’s black

Holy fuck you are stacked

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How about we do a little mutual aid in bed tonight, comrade?

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Reform or Revolution?
I think your junk is the solution.

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Makhno mistake about it, sweetie, you’re the one I adore

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Hey baby, are you Albert Parsons, cause I hear you’re hung

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Hey baby, how about you and I explore the discursive nature of the production of sexuality tonight?

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Hey fellow worker, you make my knees wobbly.

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Are we a perfect fit?

Let’s Malatesta this theory.

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I love you like Trotskyists love Newspapers.

Your “after the rev” posts on luxury goods and fun stuff like cosmetics and fashion always get me so excited. I appreciate the kind of thought you put into them, and they’re such good ideas in general.

Thank you!  I think it’s important to think about what we want our post revolutionary society to look like, so that we have plans and ideas for after the rev, not just because having plans is important, but having stuff to look forward to is mobilizing and will help motivate people to act.

Also some ideas on communist airports:

Everybody gets a bed seat on long haul flights.

Duty free replaced by places to pick up stuff you might need for your trip but also some places to grab last minute gifts

Screaming pods for people traveling with infants.

Humidifiers or something to deal with the gross drying out effects of air travel

Blimps covered in solar panels 

Wine, so much fucking wine.

Power outlets for every fucking seat in the lounge and for every seat on the plane

Flight attendants have the right to make you sit with the baggage if you’re being a shit.

Try to fix the pressurization issues that make infants scream on planes in the first place

More Thoughts On Post Rev Cosmetics:

We can probably just keep producing every shade and finish and opacity of eyeshadow under the sun, but also we can explain what each one is like and does better like “this is a lightly pigmented shimmer that works for XYZ” “this is really heavily pigmented and is good for ABC”

Lipsticks in every color, liquid mattes in every color, glosses in every color, try to invent a smudgeproof non-drying formula.

Modular brushes for liquid eyeliner formulas.

Skin care and hair care are no woowoo, exclusively scientifically proven ingredients.

Felt tip eyeliners with reservoirs designed not to be exposed to air so they don’t dry out so fricking fast 

Everything will be much better organized and it’ll be easier to find a product that does what you want because you won’t have to compare a million different product lines

Also After The Rev

Cosmetics packaging should all be pretty (and not a fucking pain in the ass to open), I want to do a lot of little things to make everything just experientially nicer for people.

Like pretty shit that makes your day just a little better.

Also cosmetics will all be considered gender neutral after the rev and there will be formulations designed for people who grow beard hair and stuff.

Some notes on how cosmetics should be produced after the rev

There should be many sturdy metal palette design options, that all fit standardized eyeshadow pans, they are designed to be easily swappable and refillable.

Colors should still have cute names to help you remember what they are

Lipsticks should come in refillable tubes

Liquid foundation should be custom blended and come in sanitary pump bottles, creams in refillable compacts, loose powder in refillable jars.

There should be a wide variety of opacity, finishes and so on available

Pencils are sustainable and can remain disposable

Certain products can be grouped together in little “lines” because they have the same aesthetic “pinup”or “goth” or what have you.

No all natural fear mongering woo, but there will be hypoallergenic formulas.

Modular brushes for a variety of mascara formulas

You can choose what bottle your perfume goes into. Perfume bottles should be opaque to best preserve the scent.

Mass production scents would have creative concepts generated by a committee within the collective (basically volunteers) and then those would be voted on on a big website (the most popular however many it’s sensible to produce getting produced, production runs based on number of votes for new scents, last years demand determining old ones along with consumer satisfaction surveys)

There should be a yearly survey asking people what we can improve in terms of product and selection. Consumers also vote on how well various scents matched their stated concept.

Perfumers pet projects may get production if they get a certain number of signatures.

What if we eliminate money but everyone has little ID cards they swipe when they get stuff so we know what stuff is popular where and with whom? What products people buy once and what they buy over and over. This kind of data will be immensely important in a post market economy

Also I remember thinking of lefty stuff as “You get helped if you need it but you don’t get left the fuck alone” when I was younger

But nah the choice is between not getting left the fuck alone by the electric company and your boss, and having to spend a million hours on hold to connect to the cancellations department of your whatever service and having to navigate and endless hellish bureaucracy to get your last paycheck or not getting left the fuck alone because you’re a participating member of community where your interests are in common rather than opposed.  

Being left alone to do absolutely your own thing is a privilege purchasable only by the very very well to do at the cost of a bunch of other people not getting space to be left the fuck alone at all.

Communism will require more direct, thoughtful participation from the average citizen, but it will also never require you to fax it copies of a year’s worth of water bills or ask you to wait on hold listening to a tinny version of Wind Beneath my Wings for three hours straight

Reds

Sub: I’ve come to the conclusion seems you like the color red
Madeira Darling: It is my favorite
Madeira Darling: also I am a communist
Sub: Is red associated with communism?
Madeira Darling: Yeah, that’s like our official color. Our flag is red, a euphemism for periods is “the communists are in the fun house”, a slang term for commies is literally “reds”. How did you not know this?