springtime mothafuckas

its spring
you know what
that means

gratuitous sex basically

we here at
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are quite

excited

about spring
can you tell

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meditation on london sympathy

relations with comrade london
initially cold

grade 7 or 8
call of the wild
awful teacher
old white lady
gave me my first d
cant even remember
what for
or her name

not impressed
boy nature wolf story
just didnt speak to me

college i think
to build a fire
shorter
more urgent
dire

man vs nature
just not
theme i appreciate
i guess
but
clumsiness
that sense of

what has been done
cannot now be undone

in the worst possible way

i imagine that spoke to
me better

it was years later yet
mayday books of course
i laid eye on the iron heel
dystopian fiction from
the crypto socialist

not so crypto turns
rather unspoken often
hushed up but perhaps
a fact asserting itself
a little more now that
leftist ideas are if not
fashionable at least
a subject at all again

& the iron heel
well not the best dystopian fiction
ive ever read

honestly that honor would have to go
to 1984 & hunger games
in a fight to the death between them
maybe amiable defiant alliance

anyway
not bad prescient way
format somewhat innovative
its time considered

heard now by way
of the nature manly rumor mill
comrade london was into nietzsche
social darwinism too
complicating character
& strange kinship
synthesis of divergent tastes
must needs find
a biography

speak now mediocre brother
from the halls of the dead

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no no no no no

oh god oh no
theyve done it
put the shovel in the environmental movement

first you know
they jail the radicals

then they feed concessions
to the liberals

finally theyll make money off it
that part has been going on
for like the last decade
trying to string the economy along
put a bandaid on a headshot

what a mockery

we have been so insulted
but people will be laughing

this while the planet is crumbling
in 10 years the democrats
will run a presidential candidate
with a green nonprofit background

call something so basic
as mowing the white house lawn
with a push-mower
progress

this shit will be the death of us

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you cant compete with the state they have guns

one of my goals for this year is to finish at least volume two of capital by karl marx.

the introduction by ernest mandel has so far been one of the most revealing & compelling parts of this book
it presents the weapon manufacturing industry as the tireless backbone of capitalism

meaning when all other industries fail there will always be a market for weapons

meaning capitalism will never fail entirely with this basis in existence

there will "always" be state & private markets for weapons

the state has a monopoly on violence -
this is part of the marxist definition of the state
even violence against wild animals has to be state sanctioned in industrialized nations

marxism broadly reflects that in the absence of a final
crisis
meaning no natural death for capitalism or the state
armed insurrection illegal violence
is the only method for packing it away once & for all

kind of goofy to try to beat it at its own game

the state will always resort to violence when it has to in order to get people to behave the right way

& snever the white collars who wear the nooses in mass

even with dedicated leadership the strongest armed insurrections can only wreak so much change for so long

because violence has to do with coercion & power paradigms & competition

so those are the paradigms that need to be challenged usurped & changed

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