#socialism

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If you too love daydreaming about socialism, you'll probably love this book as much as I did! It's informative and well-researched, and also colorful and fun to read, and it made me nostalgic for public housing and a comprehensive welfare state. Some quick highlights (1/)

The book cover of "Beyond the Wall: A history of East Germany" by Katja Hoyer.

If you were raised on the bible and then left the church bc they don't actually believe what you were taught, you already know they use the big ol' book to justify whatever they want to believe and ignore everything else.

Totally @the_ena_da The disconnect between canon Jesus and fandom Jesus is still so funny to me Canon Jesus: anti establishment, anti- capitalist, will wash a sex-worker's feet he dgaf Fandom Jesus: cries every time someone gets an abortion, gun advocate, will stab a gay man in the throat

"All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority."
– Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party

A photo of a little boy holding a sign that says, "Which minority is destroying America? The rich."

Hey elon musk, since you're going after rape gangs, I thought you might be interested in this one. there's also a whole rape facility called Sde Teiman, one of several. I can send you a bunch of human rights reports too about these particular people from this particular country..

https://x.com/susanabulhawa/status/1876466804299542663



@palestine