charlie kirk dead to due shot in throat, nepalese government overthrown by revolution
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reminder for the americans that labour day is called may day or international workers' day in the rest of the world and generally takes place on may 1. this holiday was deliberately altered in the us (the historical claim is time of ratification, but people had been autonomously celebrating it on may 1 prior to then) as it celebrates when socialists fought for the 8-hour work day under the mantra:
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capital arrived. us customs opened the package at some point :/
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heoism
3 weeks ago
also why did my site explobe today i got 77 unique visits. normally i get like 10
premature heads-up im considering decentralizing my site a bit more; ill prolly start working on a sitemap thing on some note paper to make sure it's at least still reasonably navigable
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heoism
3 weeks ago
also i have an idea for the landing page but given my art is currently restricted to either drawing with my finger or using a logitech mouse i don't know if i have the ability to make it as intended. ill figure something out prolly
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heoism
3 weeks ago
Just a new web banner is all; it's visually emulating the RCA's banner (I've since learned they're a Trotskyist organization but don't know enough about Trotsky to weigh in) but I think I need to make it a lot wider and by proxy reduce the amount of height it consumes
considering restarting Capital so I can start writing down notes for it but stressed because it'd set me back several days of reading in combined hours
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heoism
3 weeks ago
maybe I should order a physical copy so I can focus better while reading as—while Marxists Internet Archive is a godsend—its not great for maintaining focus like a physical book can, and audiobooks have the issue of being unable to easily backtrack to find a reference
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heoism
3 weeks ago
not sure where I'd even order it from though. if I were to do so I'd want to do it through a Communist press and the only one I know of is Iskra, whom I don't know if they produce copies of Capital (especially what with the sheer volume making it expensive to produce)
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yeehaw a rare instance of me finishing one of the 3+ documents im writing at the same time
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"8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours sleep." While it can be acknowledged in the modern day that 8 hours is still way too long, in the historical context (as explained by Karl Marx in Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 10) they'd been working 12 h/d, 6 d/w, plus 10h on sunday, and the 10 Hours Resolution had failed due to the bourgeoisie finding loopholes in the law despite multiple revisions