The Communist Guide to Revolutionary Optimism

03/27/2021

03/08/2021

Happy early international women's day, which my girl, communist and notable antifascist Clara Zetkin helped confound. Also let's honor the memory of Lucy Parsons, cofounder of IWW, who died March 7, 1942. Solidarity and all power to the global working class women, men, other genders, and all people!!!!

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/remembering-lucy-gonzales-parsons-international-womens-day/

"Clara helped advance the women’s movement, understanding that the question of the emancipation of all women can only be solved after a complete social transformation. She strongly opposed bourgeois feminism, which she observed was a tool used to divide the working class."
https://twitter.com/pwm_mfp/status/1367905411945275394?s=19

"1910 - Clara Zetkin declares March 8th International Working Women's Day
1917 - Russian women textile workers strike on March 8th, sparking the February revolution
2021 - Burmese women textile workers lead mass strikes against military rule
 https://t.co/Ni9xdouuzu"

"how did it start?
in 1910, in the 2nd International Socialist Women Conference in Copenhague, the demand for women’s suffrage was reiterated and, proposed by Clara Zetkin, March 8th was declared as International Womens Day https://t.co/XGJNL1G0M5"

"Clara Zetkin was a German socialist who organised the first International Women's Day in 1911. It started out as a day of campaigning for the rights of working class women. Let us mark today by remembering the radical roots of " https://t.co/du4kF59hlG

"After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women's Day in New York City on 28 February 1909, German delegates Clara Zetkin who was a Marxist with Käte Duncker, Paula Thiede and others proposed at the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference." https://t.co/YQYuQxioOc

"On this International Women’s Day we start with acknowledging the first nations women's of all lands who are the keepers of lore and land. 🌍 🌎 🌏

Then we salute Clara Zetkin. 🙌🏿 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 🙌🏽 🙌🏼 🙌🏻 🙌

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"History has it that, International women's Day started in New York in United States of America in 1908 when 15,000 women marched demanding their rights on shorter working hour, better pay and right to vote.
Clara Zetkin made it to be a holiday in 1920 across Europe." https://t.co/sGvX2cwwcy

"1942: Lucy Parsons, co-founder of IWW died on this date. Remember her on International Women's Day. "

"Lucy Parsons is our late and honoree on this International Women's Day. Lucy Parsons was an Industrial Workers of the World co-founder who was born in slavery and died March 7, 1942. She helped organize and lead the winning of the 8 hour work day. " https://t.co/VlcXOJ1ISZ

02/02/2021

We deserve nice things!

01/26/2021

"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.""

Happy birthday to Angela Davis, activist of the black power movement, prison abolitionist, and radical antiracist feminist. We owe a lot to her.

Read:
Are Prisons Obselete
Women Race and Class

01/26/2021

Good day, optimizers! ⛏️🪛🔧🪠🪚🔪🔨

01/26/2021

We must study dialectical materialism, and apply it to our thoughts and behavior, to create a better world.

Read On Practice and On Contradiction by Mao.

01/25/2021

It makes sense when you think about it! -Wesmin

01/21/2021

White house dinner for the next 4 years!

01/21/2021

From a comrade. We all need to channel Marx and Engels with each other. 🥰🥰

01/20/2021

Today's a great day to organize, and then keep organizing.

01/18/2021

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a socialist, and especially espoused redistribution of wealth towards the end of his lifetime.

It was after all him showing up for solidarity for a Sanitation Workers Strike that had him in Memphis in the first place.

King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.

01/17/2021

No org that has consistent misogynistic tendencies, mistreatment of women, transphobia, and/or gendered abuse can be considered revolutionary or even worth your time. It has long been known in the communist movement that "women hold up half the sky." Respect women as comrades!