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Some days I prefer the mountains to the sea.
I'm going to be God's perfect Communist, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop me.
Warning: Subject matters covered in my fiction may include death and violence.
Today's closest mirror to the Young-Hegelians as far as I can tell, a group Marx would balk at off the jump, are the Dark Enlightenment clowns prancing about the halls of government, business, finance, and tech.
October 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
". . .putrescence of the absolute spirit' ... "caput mortuum"
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Yes, there are laws governing this universe that cannot be overcome with thought alone. For gravity, we have to understand the nature and functioning of gravity, and with that understanding we can engineer great feats to liberate ourselves from drowning in water here on Earth.
October 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"--existing reality will collapse." From your lips to God's ears, Karl.

So many develop a conception of what they and others should be, what they and others need to be, all of which leads to the development of systems of living that perpetuate our headlong march towards oblivion.
October 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm a Barbie Girl

Time for me to attempt understanding of Idealism and Materialism.

I'm also going to try and relate Marx in The German Ideology to what's happening in the US today. I'm also also going to do my best to understand the contradictions inherent between Idealism and Materialism.
October 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Or you can quickly get out of town! You know. . .things happen, have your car nearby just in case.

Rent starts at a low $2950 a month! It's an absolute steal!
October 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
THE BRONX IS BURNING!

WITH DEALS!

Come live in beautiful Mott Haven in the Bronx. Our luxury apartments here at The Arches are close to the subway and a quick ride to Midtown.
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Gas lines are usually painted yellow, for those interested.
October 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
An excellent artist (or artists) can hide a lot in the liminal spaces of their work. Take Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
September 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Imagine a corporation, a capitalist entity, develops (or uncovers) a portal into the human collective soul. An infinite space for the corporate entity to be king, and it is sickly yellow, damp and oppressive. A nutshell the capitalist can only think to use as an office and storage.
September 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Remember Engels' definition of the proletariat. Engels brought a level of scientific thinking to his study of class relations, and I cannot say for sure based on my current knowledge, but I sense Engels felt gravitation at work in proletarian formation.
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
With Apologies

I think it pays to remember where people come from in order to give context to what they create, and in the case of the Principles of Communism, what they write.
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The formation and expansion of the proletariat is a problem for the ownership class. They did not want freed slaves joining the proletariat, that would be a riot.
September 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I agree with Engels that the slave is outside of competition, but cooperation among slaves is called a rebellion.
September 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Given Engel's description, why would a slave choose proletarianism over enslavement? Simply for a higher social status isn't enough in my mind.
September 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Slave owners turned to the lash when lack led to trouble among the slaves.
September 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It is true the slave is assured an existence in a top line sense, many of the horrors of slavery, particularly the chattel slavery practiced here in the US, stemmed from slave owners deliberately not providing even the least in basics for individual survival.
September 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How to Maintain the Matrix?
September 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We are governed by a fanatical religious death cult looking to bring about the end of the world all in order to escape their sins.
September 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
. . .In for a pound.

"'Come and see!' And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."
September 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In for a penny. . .
September 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Google AI says the full, updated Delegation List is unavailable, and I'm inclined to believe it this time given my difficulty in finding the information. Sooner or later we will get the whole list of treasoners, but for now I'll content myself with reading a little slop.
September 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Non-Commissioned Officers of the Ownership Class

It may be tough for them too right now, but the city-based petty bourgeois do still exist. The often propagandized small family owned business is the public face of the modern petty bourgeois.
September 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Maybe beauty does exist down in the bottom of every capitalist heart, but when a utopian manages to finally sit a capitalist down and presents a detailed, precise breakdown of the hell and oppression the capitalist's system engenders, they are likely to see the capitalist's reaction as thusly:
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Utopian socialism is beautiful and appreciates beauty. It supposes beauty lies in the hearts of every single human being, thus the key to peaceful revolution can be found in appealing to the better angels of those in the capitalist class.
September 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM