Donald Trump 2020.07.04
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1279551434585931777
Mutual Aid Networks: Toward a Constructive Critique
by Thomas Hummel
‘…The issue at hand bears some similarity to a debate going back to the mid-19th century between Marx and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Proudhon was a utopian socialist and the father of modern anarchism. Proudhon believed that a new, post-capitalist society could be created alongside capitalism and slowly grow to the point where it became dominant. This process, he believed, could happen in a decentralized way. Marx, by contrast, judged that the capitalist state would never allow this to happen, and would attempt to destroy and undermine these forms of collective care. He argued that the state must be challenged with a fighting organization of the working class. This organized resistance can put pressure on the state and the wealthy, forcing them to provide resources that ordinary people need. But, for Marx, a better society could only come when our forms of organization were strong enough to directly confront the state and replace it with something better.
What’s at stake today is something similar. While acts of solidarity and mutual aid organizations are extremely important, there are limits to what they can achieve inside capitalist society…’
https://marx21us.org/2020/06/29/mutual-aid-networks-toward-a-constructive-critique
Discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/kali.akuno/posts/10158704644248738
The Creator of Mount Rushmore’s Racist Past
‘…Borglum was born the son of Danish Mormon polygamists in 1867 in Idaho. A talented artist, he spent his childhood on the Western frontier and plains, in Utah and Kansas until leaving for Europe in the early 1880s to study sculpture. There, Borglum became fascinated with art on a grand scale with nationalistic subjects, which suited what many described as his bombastic, egotistical personality. [….]
Then, in 1915, Helen Plane, the founder of the Atlanta chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, approached Borglum about a possible project.
[….] Right away, Borglum was interested in sculpting on such a grand scale. After visiting the site, he saw the potential to build a colossus of his own, a tribute to what he considered great men. He immediately accepted and drew up a proposal featuring Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and J.E.B. Stewart riding in a cavalry carved in deep relief across a 1,200-foot-span of the mountain’s eastern face. The fathers of the confederacy would be 50-feet-tall, surrounded by stampeding horses and cavalrymen.
[….] He attended Klan rallies, served on Klan committees and tried to play peacemaker in several Klan leadership disputes, Taliaferro writes…’
Ok, this is dumb. I don't think anyone ever demanded from the photography business that this be changed, but hey!, Canon corporation can get a little bit of positive press during this economic depression.
‘…Canon began ending use of “master” and “slave” in 2017 and has officially discontinued their use moving forward across its product lines.
“Canon started to phase these [terms] out since the end of 2017,” a Canon Europe spokesperson tells Fstoppers. “[In] all new products and materials, these terms are no longer used.”
The change will only be found on new Canon gear, as the terms are permanently baked into existing gear…’
https://petapixel.com/2020/07/04/canon-has-officially-stopped-using-the-terms-master-and-slave
2020 painting with Trump: https://twitter.com/McNaughtonArt/status/1279608693005271041
The Spanish Civil War
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/hl1bsw/the_spanish_civil_war_oc/
‘…Germany called on Israel not to annex the West Bank on Wednesday, saying the plans were “in contradiction with international law.”…’
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-rejects-israels-west-bank-annexation-plans-as-illegal/a-54019730
