dante @dante.cool · 20/09/2026one of my favorite writings from Josef Stalin, in "The Foundations of Leninism" (1924) about 'the National question', a core debate at the time. Stalin (born in Georgia) was understandably a huge proponent of Soviet support for anti-imperialist internationalism. www.marxists.org/reference/ar... 111
dante @dante.cool · 08/09/2026it's the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong's death. Here's one of my favorite writings of his, from 1968, where Mao speaks about American racism and how the struggle of Black people in America is linked to the greater class struggle under capitalism. www.marxists.org/reference/ar... 0126
dante @dante.cool · 02/08/2026watched CREATING REM LEZAR (1989) ⭐⭐❤️ letterboxd.com/videodante/f... 010
dante @dante.cool · 23/06/2026THE REVISIONIST is a visual novel. Around 30 minutes reading time. Lightly branching narrative. Original setting, writing, art, code by me. I hope you understand the feeling of it. videodante.itch.io/the-revision... 33915
dante @dante.cool · 23/06/2026THE REVISIONIST. Communist construction under siege in a different twentieth century. You will not avoid hardship. You will not make the best choices. You will do what you can. videodante.itch.io/the-revision... 111341
dante @dante.cool · 21/06/2026~45min playtime. communist construction under siege set in an alternate earth. politics 180
dante @dante.cool · 07/05/2026new blog post: ereaders and syncing blog.dante.cool/ereaders-and... in which I talk about a bunch of fun technical junk I've been doing recently 091
dante @dante.cool · 31/03/2026you should not expect this site to last or to be stable. please get a blog or a website or a fediverse server or anything other than this, at LEAST as a backup but IDEALLY as your main posting place. 1645194
dante @dante.cool · 07/02/2026watched THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f... 2100
dante @dante.cool · 04/01/2026watched AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025) ⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f... 140
dante @dante.cool · 27/09/2025@yourkickstartersucks.com really important sighting from a street fair in Santa Monica 050
dante @dante.cool · 16/08/2025watched The Eight Hundred (2020) ⭐⭐⭐½ letterboxd.com/videodante/f... 000
dante @dante.cool · 16/08/2025just watched Double Indemnity (1944) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f... 140
dante @dante.cool · 30/07/2025watched The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death (2024) ⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f... 110
dante @dante.cool · 16/03/2025new blog post: You should watch On Cinema. blog.dante.cool/you-should-w... 0146
dante @dante.cool · 10/02/2025new blog post: Review: Suzerain blog.dante.cool/review-suzer... A game about ruling a country that you don't know but also trust me, you also kind of know. Punching above its weight and not always nailing it but wow, what an experience. 0174
dante @dante.cool · 18/12/2024new blog post: harry watrous & the drop sinister blog.dante.cool/harry-watrous- 010
dante @dante.cool · 28/11/2024new blog post: a few thoughts on life is strange: double exposure blog.dante.cool/a-few-though... an incredibly good followup to a mixed bag of a series that chooses to do the difficult and dangerous task of treating the series with gravitas instead of taking an easy wish-fulfillment route. 030
dante @dante.cool · 20/11/2024new blog post: francis bacon (1909-1992) blog.dante.cool/francis-baco... thinking about making art in horrific times, about being in the heart of the empire, and about the stories we tell about other people through their work. and about horror, horror, horror 091