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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It probably says that Marx and certain Marxist thinkers are very good at providing criticism and not so great at providing concrete solutions.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Also it feels like every history of marxism in the west is like. Anglo marxism sucks. They've never contributed anything lmao. And it's like ouch those are my guys ok. And I understand it's kinda true. But word it more pleasantly?

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Honestly. Idk what to do if a detransition. That feels to strong a word. Stop identifying with this identity? See that also feels silly. I think I'd still use this account or name as a pen name. But honestly that feels like opening an old wound each time. Ok but constantly doing that...kinda based.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

My goals for the new year were simple! Less academics and reflection. More action. And now I'm knee deep in two reading lists. Fetishism and Ideology and Analytical Marxism. Yeesh. And also disappointingly. A lack of writing.

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CivicTracker @civictracker.us · 20/02/2025

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Sachi Faces the Implications @ayanarts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

that’s just feminist praxis 😌

lily du from dropout on an episode of smartypants. she’s standing next to a presentation slide titled, “Women Should Have Second Families.”

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Do you actually have a rubber shark toy

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Lawyers have an interesting place in history as revolutionaries, enforcers of systems and as capable of concocting potent critiques.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

catharine mackinnon's "Toward a feminist theory of the state" might be of some use to you (I've only read excerpts) but Mackinnon basically makes a feminist critique of marxism and a marxist critique of feminism, its p good stuff.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Have you checked out the holy family by engels and marx (I assume you have), is the part about german romantic novels feel out of place?

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I have that same tucker reader, but an older version which is blue!

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Thanks to Trump's poorly worded executive order, this is now the official policy of the United States government: 🦅🇺🇸

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kirinorb @pot4ge.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

MLB stands for Marxist Leninist Baseball

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

And then build up to Capital Vol. 1

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Well. I've been reading a lot over the past year. Here's what I would say. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Engels) Wage Labour and Capital (Marx) Critique of the gothe programme (I really like this one for some reason.) Women, Race and Class (Davis) I can't speak for Lenin

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This seems incredibly funny 'What a powerful dialectic!'

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

What are you looking for? Breadth? Specific?

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Marx never considered 1 dollar Arizona Iced Tea into his analysis (Arnold Palmer is my favorite commodity.)

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'll take a stab at this. What about Catharine MacKinnon? Or Angela Davis? Simone de Beauvoir? Are these people non-feminists?

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Any particular chapters I should look at in volume 2? I know he begins to detail the roles of certain specific types of immaterial labor. Ie accountants etc. But like let's take for instance a museum greeter.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

America could be bombed tomorrow and the DNC would crawl out of the ashes. That's how I often think about things. The parties are fundamentally institutions that form part of the country. They might change form/positions/staffers but idk.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Also, realistically, whether for worse or better. There seem to be many strands and approaches to marxism one could take.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

If I had to take a stab at it. (In my own cynical and non-cynical way) it's to differentiate their politics and approach from their left of center counterparts. As someone who has been recently doing a lot of deep reading into Marx. I find there are many alleged marxists. Not sure if that's good/bad

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi! As someone who doesn't know that much about DSA politics. Could you explain what made you form this question (if that makes sense.) I've dabbled in my local YDSA chapter and I've always kinda had the understanding that their all 'marxists' to some degree or another. At least leadership is.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

(I have my own very rudimentary thoughts on this.) But want to know what other people think. And if anyone has recommended reading.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Quick question for Bluesky marxists/leftists in Capital Volume 1. Marx mostly speaks on commodities and labor in terms of physical labor and material commodities. But obviously we live in a world filled with service industry workers some of whom do immaterial labor. What's the commodity they produce

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Who is. Who is the top and who is the bottom?

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I yearn for the day the principles of digital ownership change. Though I'm not sure what what would look like

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hey question. Why leninism? I'm being very genuine when I ask that. Most of the socialists I know irl identify as trots (though they kinda give off we're the true successors to the revolution and marxism ngl)

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hey i actually meant to ask. I've read 3 out of 4 these. Is there a reason to include Lenin here above any revolutionary Marxist? Since I know there are criticisms of him from other marxists. (I'm a baby Marxist so.)

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🌚 #CancelRent @maunciple.devil.computer · 12/11/2024

chapter 24 part 5 of capital, marx seems to make a case that the rapaciousness of capital is inversely proportional to the national birth rate. hmmmm! interesting! oh well probably shouldn't think too hard about it

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Little do they know you can't turn clock on capitalism! I have a feeling if they attempt to we'll get a real time lesson in marxist and neoliberal economics!

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Insecurity about the current form of American capitalism (they don't understand how it works) they wish to turn back the clock to a real time in which real American wealth came from real American commodities made in real American factories! Which is why the harp so much about the national debt.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Also a baby Marxist here (but pessimistic) my analysis is that this is capitalism taking on a different form than previously presented. Musk presents a specific type of vulgar rentierism that hasn't been seen in American politics for a while. I also believe that conservatives like him display an-

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

It's actually very surprising how often this occurs!

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I mean this feels like it's a somewhat lost in translation thing. Political science is also a science. But it isn't really a science. My understanding is that when Marx meant science he meant 'field of study' or 'systemic mode of observation' the word he uses is wissenschaft I'm p sure.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

(To state my own biases I am a statist. And do not have much confidence in non-centralized systems)

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hi bluesky Marxists (and leftists) I am somewhat a burgeoning leftist who still has many lib tendencies. But I had a question for yall. what would the transition from capitalism to socialism and then communism (the moneyless classless) look like? Ideally in the context of America.

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Noelle Major @elliewith2ls.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hi people, if you guys wanna follow me or be moots uhh just follow me ig and i'll follow back. Im a closeted transfem who is big into politics and movies I do 'political science' and like to give my opinions about lots of things. #transfem ig?

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