Dreylad posted:

Admins don't like using anything that's created by someone else for background images.

500 good dogs posted:

don't worry i'm drawing a great cspam background right now with chipmunks and everything

Azathoth posted:

enough folks have those avs that we can't give out new ones, but I did put in a request with the admins to swap out your ghost of kyiv one for the secure click, we'll see if they approve it. if you don't see it in a couple days, thems the breaks.

note, i do not expect to get that token for this

Shiroc posted:

historical witchcraft was women showing social solidarity and mutual support as a class

Shiroc posted:

I think the next time people want to swarm to mock things like the witchcraft thread under the pretense of upholding Marxism they should actually have to read feminist Marxism https://files.libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf and see how historical witchcraft was women showing social solidarity and mutual support as a class and how that was intentionally destroyed in order to force women into a subject more amenable to capitalism.

Fly Molo posted:

perfect where’s flavius

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lol

Lux Animus posted:

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

a group of women showing solidarity, aka a coven

Shiroc posted:

I think the next time people want to swarm to mock things like the witchcraft thread under the pretense of upholding Marxism they should actually have to read feminist Marxism https://files.libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf and see how historical witchcraft was women showing social solidarity and mutual support as a class and how that was intentionally destroyed in order to force women into a subject more amenable to capitalism.

some plague rats posted:

opening this pdf and it just reads Dumb Bitch Alert over and over???

Wikipedia Summary posted:

Federici's best known work, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, expands on the work of Leopoldina Fortunati investigating the reasons for the witch hunts[8][9][10][11] of the early modern period, but giving a feminist interpretation. In it, she argues against Karl Marx's claim that primitive accumulation is a necessary precursor for capitalism. Instead, she posits that primitive accumulation is a fundamental characteristic of capitalism itself—that capitalism, in order to perpetuate itself, requires a constant infusion of expropriated capital.

Federici connects this expropriation to women's unpaid labour, both connected to reproduction and otherwise, which she frames as a historical precondition to the rise of a capitalist economy predicated upon wage labor. Related to this, she outlines the historical struggle for the commons and the struggle for communalism. Instead of seeing capitalism as a liberatory defeat of feudalism, Federici interprets the ascent of capitalism as a reactionary move to subvert the rising tide of communalism and to retain the basic social contract.

She situates the institutionalization of rape and prostitution, as well as the heretic and witch-hunt trials, burnings, and torture at the center of a methodical subjugation of women and appropriation of their labor. This is tied into colonial expropriation and provides a framework for understanding the work of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and other proxy institutions as engaging in a renewed cycle of primitive accumulation, by which everything held in common—from water, to seeds, to our genetic code—becomes privatized in what amounts to a new round of enclosures.

Shiroc posted:

she argues against Karl Marx's claim

Buck Wildman posted:

just admit you want to play tarot cards with people it's fine

Shiroc posted:

Having the medical knowledge outside of the hands of 'experts' and people having communal bonds with each other is, of course, not something that capitalism can allow.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

There's plenty of real reasons people can have to not trust doctors, they're skilled and educated but they can also be racist poo poo boneheads, let's not treat them like infallible priests of the science god

some plague rats posted:

Wait, you're going to the doctor?? pfft, have fun being a tool of the international capitalist hegemon. I'm going consult the guy with greasy dreads who lives in a van by the river about realigning my chakras again, we must have done it wrong because now it burns when I pee

Shiroc posted:

Also, the idea that the medical establishment isn't frequently hostile towards people is pretty ridiculous.

NeatHeteroDude posted:

Lol, again, if people didn't respond so poorly to ribbing the magic thread it wouldn't have been remotely popular

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I think a lot of us are probably just feeling pretty raw today

some plague rats posted:

cspam is a shitposting forum unless we're talking about something I'm personally invested in, then we all have to be serious

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

The supreme court leak mainly

some plague rats posted:

I'm not sure why people who are obviously capable of recognizing a shitpost keep saying this like I'm somehow unaware of it

Shiroc posted:

Having the medical knowledge outside of the hands of 'experts' and people having communal bonds with each other is, of course, not something that capitalism can allow.

Shiroc posted:

its doctors in the middle ages deciding that women don't know poo poo and throwing away all of that knowledge so they get to discover things all over again for the first time.

some plague rats posted:

cspam is a shitposting forum unless we're talking about something I'm personally invested in, then we all have to be serious

some plague rats posted:

I hadn't even looked at the news today. drown me in piss

Buck Wildman posted:

the ideal state of the forums is everyone asking me for permission to do anything like the commuputer in raised by wolves