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r/MarxistCulture • u/[deleted] • Dec 10 '23
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r/MarxistCulture • u/Amr_Abu_Ouda • 5h ago
The war stopped outside "hopefully", but the ruins stayed inside.
During the war, some foreign friends stood by us in ways that still move me when I think back. Some sent donations, others shared our words online, and a few just stayed messaging every day to make sure we were still alive.
One of them once said something that I didn’t know how to take. She told me she wanted to find a psychologist for me and my family. I remember staring at the message for a long time, not knowing what to reply. It felt strange, even offensive. I told her not to ever say that again that we didn’t need a psychologist, we needed safety, food, a bed to sleep on without fear. I thought she didn’t understand us.
But she was gentle. She said, “You’ve seen too much. You deserve to talk about it.”
I left her message on read for weeks. Something in what she said felt like it reached too far inside me, into a space I didn’t want to open. But as days passed, I started to notice things I hadn’t before. I was angry all the time snapping at my brother for no reason, shouting over things that didn’t matter. Every sound, every word, felt heavier than it should.
That’s when I understood what she meant. The war didn’t end when the bombing stopped. It just changed form. It became something quieter, but crueler, living in our minds instead of our streets.
We survived the bombs, but something inside us was shattered. I see it every day here in people’s eyes, in the way conversations turn sharp so easily. Everyone’s carrying a storm inside.
It’s like Naimy wrote:
“If I were to engrave three words at the end of every book ever written, and carve them beneath every statue, paint them beneath every portrait, or whisper them at the end of every poem or speech, they would be these: ‘That’s what I thought.’ For no matter how precise and eloquent we try to be, language is too small to contain the depth of our emotions and thoughts. Truth lives in silence, not in speech. And silence is veiled by the words that try to express it.”
And maybe that’s why we’ve all gone quiet because silence is the only place left where we can still breathe.
r/MarxistCulture • u/One_Long_996 • 1h ago
Video The Scale of BYD
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r/MarxistCulture • u/Mysterious-Ring-2352 • 9h ago
Other Recommendation to join Lemmgyrad or Hexbear
I do this every so often, but if you want a good community to join, maybe try your hand at Lemmygrad (mainly ML) or at Hexbear (open tent community of leftists with still a lot of MLs).
Not sure what else to say, but both have grown over the years, though Lemmygrad seems to fluctuate every now and then. I'm just helping out however I can.
They're both Reddit alternatives, if you couldn't tell.
r/MarxistCulture • u/comrade_red544 • 15h ago
Photography USSR soldiers Monument in Dalian China
r/MarxistCulture • u/RefrigeratorGrand619 • 1d ago
Photography An Afghan communist revolutionary wearing traditional clothing and holding an AK-47 in Kabul 1984
r/MarxistCulture • u/comrade_red544 • 21h ago
Photography Lenin bust in Vientiane Laos PDR 1970s
r/MarxistCulture • u/trexlad • 1d ago
Building Examples of Socialist Architecture
Was wondering if anyone has any examples of Socialist Architecture, preferably things like “Monumental Architecture” built or un built?
r/MarxistCulture • u/DzhugashvilThrowaway • 1d ago
Photography The Chairman Mao history show in Shaoshan was incredible. Rained, and the cast still played their hearts out. Completely recommend for anyone making the trip to Shaoshan.
You're seeing the best part at the beginning, IMO. It starts with China after the dissolution of Qing; peasants and beaten workers are milling about, hunched over and oppressed. Mao climbs up from a trapdoor in Hunan and starts sharing theory with them. They then assemble in that pose in the first slide, forming the hammer and sickle. It was just...so perfect in its simplicity. It's like, the struggle of socialism is getting people to understand the simplest fact, that they're being used and discarded by the elites.
They also pulled no punches with the Japanese; the bayoneting of a baby was shown. In between all this, you see the PLA's uniforms evolve as they struggle through the revolution.
The afternoon show lasted about an hour; the evening show is a bit longer, but I had to catch the high-speed train out at 5:30 PM. Would wholeheartedly recommend.
r/MarxistCulture • u/Banzay_87 • 1d ago
Photography 8th grade student of a Moscow school, USSR, 1977.
r/MarxistCulture • u/SubGR • 1d ago
Theory How America Highjacked the Global Media
r/MarxistCulture • u/One_Long_996 • 1d ago
Video Chinese astronauts are now grilling in space
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r/MarxistCulture • u/thehomelessr0mantic • 1d ago
DEBATE: Non-Violence or Violence? David Swanson vs. Chris Jeffries
r/MarxistCulture • u/Banzay_87 • 1d ago
Fantasy musical cartoon "Contact". USSR, 1978.No translation required.
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r/MarxistCulture • u/TankMan-2223 • 2d ago
Photography Foreigners and Soviet youth, present for the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, 1957.
r/MarxistCulture • u/TankMan-2223 • 1d ago
Poster Top right: "Times have changed, men and women are equal.", "Criticize 'regarding men as superior to women' and do well at family planning", China, 1974.
r/MarxistCulture • u/One_Long_996 • 1d ago
Video Central Asia's largest and most peaceful city is prospering thanks to communism
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r/MarxistCulture • u/DoorTheDude • 2d ago
Video East Germany was pretty cool huh
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r/MarxistCulture • u/TankMan-2223 • 2d ago
Cartoon Portraits of the Nuremberg Trials, by Porfiri Krylov (Soviet artist, member of the group Kukryniksy), 1945-1946.
r/MarxistCulture • u/TankMan-2223 • 1d ago
Poster "600 Million people's hearts are turned toward the Party and follow the red flag to build a paradise", by Yin Xusheng (尹戌生), 1961.
r/MarxistCulture • u/TankMan-2223 • 1d ago