marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]

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  • The DoD and military are ironically the closest thing to socialism in the US. Well, more like “national socialism” which supposes a vulgarized socialism only for those validated as human beings.

    This argument has lost any standing a long time. The U.S military is bloated, engaged in regulatory and business capture by the MIC that will charge them 10,000 for a single bolt. 100,000 for a single mattress; all to murder,removed, and extract resources from less powerful countries (and their proletariat). Their VA benefits are falling apart, and everyone hates them.

    This is not what we’d want representing socialism.

    Existing socialism can be found in Minnesota, collectives throughout all the states, Mamdani’s soon to be deployed grocery stores, and social security, medicare, and more.








  • It was mostly in jest. Booktok is a really large categorization for what’s actually made up of disparates communities. For example, schizophrenicreads’ account is mostly nonfiction anti-capitalist, though not always expressly communist; and he also recommends really great fiction.

    Then there’s two larger elements of booktok the spicy side (which I don’t mind, although I’ve been meaning to read Foucault about it) and the fantasy/science fiction tok that is mostly white authors, branden sanderson, and pierce brown fans; sure, their books are fine. But that’s all they talk about. Booktok also tends to be either painfully white or fetishistily POC. Also because booktok is American, it has struggled with understanding boycotting authors for their views on Israel, if at all. It has also become a back channel through which book publishers engage in advertisement for new books and authors; sometimes without their explicit acknowledgement from the influencer.

    And last but not least, by having all these sub-genres and aesthetics that they use to communicate what a book is: spicy, dark academia, etc; without the booktokker actually explaining themes, motifs, similar authors, philosophical ideas. It has allowed big box bookstores to just chop up sections and aisle offerings into the equivalent of hashtags. I once saw Frankenstein on a table labeled “Dark Academia” at a Barnes and Nobles.