Internationale.mid (ringtone Ver.)

internationale.mid (ringtone ver.)

Eugène Pottier / Pierre De Geyter - L'Internationale

here’s a ringtone version of l'internationale played on an old nokia phone soundset at double speed. for all you socialist followers of best of midi

midi / mp3 without introduction

“Dialogue, as essential communication, must underlie any cooperation. In the theory of dialogical action, there is no place for conquering the people on behalf of the revolutionary cause, but only for gaining their adherence. Dialogue does not impose, does not manipulate, does not domesticate, does not “sloganize.” This does not mean, however, that the theory of dialogical action leads nowhere; nor does it mean that the dialogical human does not have a clear idea of what she wants, or of the objectives to which she is committed. ....

Thus cooperation leads dialogical Subjects to focus their attention on the reality which mediates them and which—posed as a problem—challenges them. The response to that challenge is the action of dialogical Subjects upon reality in order to transform it. Let me reemphasize that posing reality as a problem does not mean sloganizing: it means critical analysis of a problematic reality.”

— Paulo Freire

[Quote in image]: “Any theory you got, practice it. And when you practice it, you make some mistakes. When you make a mistake, you correct that theory … A lot of us read and read and read, but we don’t get any practice.” -Fred Hampton

something that frustrates me is that so much of liberal communication requires ignoring the causes of things.

like if you are writing about anything for a liberal workplace, organization, news outlet, etc., you can talk about things like racism, homelessness, misogyny, trans-antagonism, ableism, etc., but you can't get into the material reasons why these things happen, because it implicates racial capitalism and settler colonialism. and that's the thing that liberals will never allow you to acknowledge.

so you get all these articles like "wow all these bad things are happening, why do Black people have worse health outcomes in so many areas like maternal mortality or covid risk? why is agricultural and domestic labor paid so low? why are certain areas of the world constantly in states of political unrest and struggling with repeated environmental disasters? why are some countries 'undeveloped'? why is there so much sexual violence and abuse?" and then they spin a wheel that only has two possible answers it can fall on and that's "bad apples" or "it's just the way it is"