Zvyozdochka [she/her, comrade/them]

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

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Cake day: October 22nd, 2023

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  • Daily reminder that there are free and open-source alternatives to Photoshop and the likes which should do most of the things you need it to.

    1. Inkscape for vector graphics
    2. GIMP for generic image editing
    3. Krita for digital art & animation

    I know Photoshop has a few features people can’t live without for work reasons or what not so these aren’t replacements for everyone, but if you’re just doing some light digital art or image editing as a hobby or as something to pass time, these should be a good enough replacement given that you’re alright with learning a new piece of software.










  • The revolutionary character of a national movement under the conditions of imperialist oppression does not necessarily presuppose the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a revolutionary or a republican programme of the movement, the existence of a democratic basis of the movement. The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism; whereas the struggle waged by such “desperate” democrats and “Socialists,” “revolutionaries” and republicans as, for example, Kerensky and Tsereteli, Renaudel and Scheidemann, Chernov and Dan, Henderson and Clynes, during the imperialist war was a reactionary struggle, for its results was the embellishment, the strengthening, the victory, of imperialism. For the same reasons, the struggle that the Egyptians merchants and bourgeois intellectuals are waging for the independence of Egypt is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the bourgeois origin and bourgeois title of the leaders of Egyptian national movement, despite the fact that they are opposed to socialism; whereas the struggle that the British “Labour” Government is waging to preserve Egypt’s dependent position is for the same reason a reactionary struggle, despite the proletarian origin and the proletarian title of the members of the government, despite the fact that they are “for” socialism. There is no need to mention the national movement in other, larger, colonial and dependent countries, such as India and China, every step of which along the road to liberation, even if it runs counter to the demands of formal democracy, is a steam-hammer blow at imperialism, i.e., is undoubtedly a revolutionary step.

    — Stalin, The Foundations of Leninism

    They didn’t read the book stalin-bummed