The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.
The party was established after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution, and initially operated underground due to the Palmer Raids, a series of anti-immigrant, anti-labor, and anti-communist raids conducted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
CPUSA was an early opponent of segregation and racial discrimination, giving legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys and helping poor black farmers in the South organize sharecropper unions. Because of this, the party had a strong presence in Alabama in the 1930s. This history is detailed in “Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression” by historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
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They are comedians. When they say stalin was worse than Hitler just laugh and say it is a good bit. The ironic antisemitism will probably go down pretty well to a conservative audience. Just completely refuse to accept it is not some complicated tedious bit. Gaslight, girlboss, gatekeep.
This makes me sad.
meee too. I’ve gotten much more willing to just tell people they’re wrong but it doesn’t always feel good. One of like two frends I would talk politics with (a bernie guy) is now wayyyy deep in the redditor ukraine stuff. And I’ve come to be incredibly suspicious of anything remotely nationalist. shit is brain poison.
nationalism is the dumbest fucking plague on the planet
This is what SOCIETY turned me to
The Balkans are cool, everyone is at most a 4th cousin of eachother but will kill you if you confuse two overly specific microethnicities they made up.
warmest winter on record
Finally saw it last night and you know what? Barbie is a secret trans narrative.
spoiler
Obviously not really, but her going through the process of becoming fully herself and learning what it means to be a woman then optimistically saying “I’m here to see my gynecologist” hits hard as fuck if you’re a trans woman who’s had bottom surgery. I was shook.
RELATABLE QUEER CONTENTThe worst possible thing has happened:
has been mentioned in my IRL organizing.it’s so ogre
I love trans communists its like:
ohh my sharky I love them they so cute and fluffy
I will love them and call them blahaj:3
but also:
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
The only cure to fascism is a bullet to the brain
The problems with trans people is that society is all fake and held together by consensus. Our trans comrades have had to realize that at least one part of society is fake. Which places them in position to realize everything else is. Which makes them a threat to the system just for looking up fashion tips. Which, frankly makes them braver and tougher than me for just existing.
wondering why I feel the need to upvote the mega
It wouldn’t be mega if we didn’t all upvote it
Just saw a commercial for a “smart bed,” day ruined
Just got hit by a memory where i was browsing through a used record store and found this
And you bought it, right?I did. Never listened to it, but it’s somewhere in storage.
You just know with them it was sex, drugs and rock n roll.
Do you think they ever explored each others bodies?
I dunno…
There is an account from another instance with an old username of mine saying
shit and I feel personally attackedthis is fucking bizzaro cinema, the protagonists are all trepadatious and having doubts when the “bad guys” do violence on the worst fucking people imaginable
cara delverigne’s character has doubts about the revolution when the revolutionaries molotov a bar that has a) nazis inside b) the skulls of minorities hanging on the walls
i want to know who can watch this and agree with the authorial intent, shit is completely unhinged
Slowly pulling myself out my depression hole
Combed my hair getting all the knots out and washed it, then did the dishes and changed my sheets
It’s not much, but it’s something
the sheer amount of transphobes from other instances has me really considering whether to federate with anything besides lemmygrad and lemmy
As an autistic weirdo, it really depends on some random extrovert to adopt you to get any friends
I was that weirdo and then the extrovert moved away.
Then I became the extrovert to a whole new group of weirdos. In the land of the weirdos, the slightly more outgoing weirdo is chad.
yeah. Here’s to those extroverts who like weird people.
