+yeah it is actually insane that literally millions of people have been murdered by the united states in the name of anticommunism, just for daring to want a socialist society, people are permanently disabled or traumatized, children are born with birth defects from us bombs to this day, many countries are still under crushing economic sanctions or still living in the aftermath of us backed right wing coups, and it really is insignificant to most americans
+“Self sacrifice, within the context of revolutionary action, is an expression of the highest understanding of life, and of the struggle to make life worthy of a human being.”
-Ghassan Kanafani (Palestinian author, communist, and resistance fighter, who was assassinated by Israeli intelligence at age 36)
+إن شراستك كلها إنما هي لإخفاء قلب هش
All your fury is to hide a fragile heart.
- Ghassan Kanafani
“Being apolitical is a threat to collective discourse, and silence is a cost way too high for folks that white supremacy, zionism and colonization normalizes killing.
Audre Lorde reminds us, the machine will try to grind us into dust, whether or not we speak. And when our bodies are returned to the forest, my wildest dream is that the forest feels our fire as our flesh decomposes into mycelium memory. When our ashes are returned to the river may our dust echo across space and time!
May the river remember, may generations forward and backward remember, we chose liberation over peace, again and again and again.
Today and forever we remember fearful silence serves no one but our oppressors. Today and forever we remember the song of liberation is already present on our tongue and in our imaginations.
Today and forever we sing, Free Palestine”
– Ayana Zaire Cotton, Being Apolitical Is Political Beloved
++the jenny holzer truism “in a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy” and the natalie wee quote “i kneel into a dream where i am good & loved. i am good. i am loved.” does anyone understand
“Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and for people…Love is at the same time the foundation of dialogue and dialogue itself…Love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause–the cause of liberation. And this commitment, because it is loving, is dialogical. As an act of bravery, love cannot be sentimental; as an act of freedom, it must not serve as a pretext for manipulation. It must generate other acts of freedom; otherwise it is not love. Only by abolishing the situation of oppression is it possible to restore the love which that situation made impossible. If I do not love the world–if I do not love life–if I do not love people–I cannot enter into dialogue.”
– Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
+“A heart should have better things to do. A heart doesn’t. But you will be back, and you will always be here. Don’t think that in death you go far from the earth; you remain down here with everything–the part of you that loved, which is the most important part. That part of you will patiently be here as the earth changes colour, exhausts itself, breathes in fresh life again, and revives.”
– Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
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