Uh, aphantasia has precisely nothing to do with artistic ability. I only know a couple off the top of my head, but Ed Catmull founded Pixar and contributed greatly to computer graphics, and Glen Keane was an animator at Disney for decades, worked on all the big films. Both are aphantasic.

Counterpoint: States are the only way to ensure the dictatorship of the proletariat until communism can be achieved.

I hadn’t heard of Hernández before, but I was intrigued by the title so I gave it a listen. He said he doesn’t subscribe to dialectical materialism and his entire framework of defining socialism without even considering the ownership of the means of production strikes me as deeply idealistic, so I’m not so sure how seriously I want to take his work.

GOODS is a communist clothing co-op. It’s from the blurb on the page for their Urb shirt.

Their manifesto is pretty all right, too.

City. Very much looking forward to how much better cities will be with socialist development.

GOODS FOR THE PEOPLE puts it well:

The future belongs to sustainable smart cities.

Ecologically speaking, increasingly concentrated mega cities is the only path toward a future of harmonious integration of humans and nature. Socialist cities of the future, such as the Forrest City being developed in the PRC, can develop and function in much more rational, healthy, and communal ways than random chaotic development under the tyranny of private ownership of land and industry.

Who’s the host on this? It doesn’t really sound like Breht, and there wasn’t really an intro. The show notes link to Cosmonaut, is this a Cosmopod episode on the RevLeft feed?

I made lemmygrad.ml/c/socialistemblems a while ago and then forgot about it until now, so that’s cool, appreciate the reminder

Gonna try to radicalize people at happy hour, wish me luck

name	shortcode	keywords	image
Lenin Tears of Joy	:leninlaugh:	lenin, laugh, cry
Lenin With Love	:leninkiss:	lenin, kiss, love, medal
Lenin Flag Thumbs Up	:leninyes:	lenin, flag, yes, okay
Lenin Surprised	:surprisedlenin:	lenin, surprised, hat
Lenin Wave (art)	:leninwave1:	lenin, wave, hello
Lenin with Sunglasses	:lenincool:	lenin, cool, sunglasses
Lenin We Can Poster	:leninwecan:	lenin, we can, poster
MEL Thinking	:melthink:	marx, engels, lenin, think, hmm
Lenin in Robe	:leninrobe:	lenin, robe
Lenin Carrying Log	:leninstrong:	lenin, log, strong
Lenin Writing	:leninwrite:	lenin, writing, thinking, working
Lenin Facepalm	:leninfacepalm:	lenin, facepalm
Lenin Finger Guns	:leninfingerguns:	lenin, finger guns
Lenin Pulls Out Shotgun	:leninshotgun:	lenin, shotgun
Sad Lenin Statue	:sadlenin:	lenin, statue, sad
Lenin Flips Off	:leninflipoff:	lenin, flip off, middle finger, bird
Lenin Cheers	:lenincheers:	lenin, cheers, tea, toast
Lenin Protects his Cat	:leninbadnews:	lenin, cat, bad news, oh no
Lenin Robs a Bank	:leninmoney:	lenin, bank, money, robbery
Lenin is Unamused	:leninannoyed:	lenin, annoyed, unamused
Lenin Shrug	:leninshrug:	lenin, shrug, i guess
Lenin What	:leninwhat:	lenin, what, how, why
MEL Party	:mellaugh:	marx, engels, lenin, ML, laugh
Lenin Yells at Capitalists	:leninyell:	lenin, capitalist
Lenin plays the Accordion	:leninaccordion:	lenin, accordion, music
Saint Lenin	:saintlenin:	lenin, saint, hamsic
Lenin Whatever	:leninwhatever:	lenin, whatever, eye roll
Lenin Distressed	:lenindistressed:	lenin, distress, oh no, joey
Lenin Crying	:lenincrying:	lenin, crying, sad
Lenin gives you a Rose	:leninrose:	lenin, rose
Lenin Shush	:leninshh:	lenin, shush, shh, secret
Lenin has an Idea	:leninidea:	lenin, idea, lightbulb
Lenin on Vacation	:leninbeach:	lenin, beach, vacation
Lenin Doesn’t Want Your Money	:leninmoney:	lenin, money, no, bribe
Lenin Okay	:leninokay:	lenin, okay
Kiss Your Lenin Bust	:leninbust:	lenin, bust, kiss
Lenin Slaps the Bourgeoisie	:leninslap:	lenin, slap, bourgeoisie, bourgeois
Lenin on the Train	:lenintrain:	lenin, train, tea
Lenin with Flags	:leninflags:	lenin, flags
Lenin Taps Head	:leninheadtap:	lenin, head tap, good idea, roll safe

Finally finished.

I’m not going to add that other set I mentioned in previous edits because I looked and they would be unreadable when small. Heck, some of these might be, too, but they’re better.

That emptiness is a very common feeling. Learning and doing more absolutely helps with it, though. Look into the concept of revolutionary optimism a little bit if you start reading again.

Been slowly working my way through le Carré’s Karla Trilogy, but slowly starting to hate it more bit by bit. I still think spy stories are better if the setting is the Cold War.

I think now I prefer nonfiction and theory books more now, though, as I continue to learn. Should probably focus more on actually getting through them rather than reading snippets or shorter works as they come up, especially since sometimes I feel I’m not getting the full picture as I’m not entirely confident in my foundation of knowledge. Got a lot of stuff I’ll probably have to reread at some point.