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central europe, eastern europe, russia, ukraine, marxism, communism, postcommunism, east-west, tradition, culture, etc. i am currently living in budapest, hungary, and travel around the region frequently. all photos i upload myself are ones i have...
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If you are in Budapest this weekend....

WHAT'S 'LEFT' IN UKRAINE? Public Talk and Open Discussion Date: Saturday, May 31 Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm Location: Kisüzem, Kis Diófa utca 2, Budapest Much confusion surrounds the recent turmoil in Ukraine. As a political crisis continues to engulf the country, what is really happening on the ground and what will become of Ukraine remains to be seen. This event will offer a critical analysis of these current developments, bringing together activists, scholars and community members. In searching for an alternative critique of the Ukrainian situation, the hope is to offer a radical intervention into the current mainstream coverage, bringing to light both what will be left of Ukraine, as well as what can be said of the Left in Ukraine, in the aftermath of this political upheaval. Speakers: Prof. Don Kalb Volodymyr Artukh Margaryta Rymarenko This is a community public talk, open to all and with the aim of encouraging discussion and awareness about current affairs and politics. The language of the talk will be English, with Hungarian translation available if needed.

#ukraine
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fuckyeahmarxismleninism

Happy Birthday ROSA LUXEMBURG (March 5, 1871 – January 15, 1919) "Socialism alone is in a position to complete the great work of permanent peace, to heal the thousand wounds from which humanity is bleeding, to transform the plains of Europe, trampled down by the passage of the apocryphal horseman of war, into blossoming gardens, to conjure up ten productive forces for every one destroyed, to awaken all the physical and moral energies of humanity, and to replace hatred and dissension with internal solidarity, harmony, and respect for every human being.” Image: ROSA LUXEMBURG MINES FOR SOLIDARITY Detail/ LABOR SOLIDARITY HAS NO BORDERS by Mike Alewitz Dedicated to the Undocumented Workers of the World Library for Social Studies & Research South-Central LA / 1990/ Approx 23’ x 48’ Complete Mural

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Photographs of Romanian life in the 20th century discovered in a few boxes in the back of a county museum.

They are the life's work of Romanian photographer, Costică Ascinte, and have not been seen since his death in 1984. Ascinte photographed the Eastern European country from 1925 through to his death in 1984 – spanning Romania’s foray into the Second World War and the subsequent Communist rule. Cezar Popescu is seeking to preserve and digitise the damaged images, even as they are destroyed before his eyes.

#romania#photography#costica ascinte#black and white#communism#eastern europe
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fyeah-history

Soviet Educational Advertisement in Yiddish, 1920 The “Kheyder” (traditional religious school) is compared to the modern “Rotn shul” (“Red School”): “The old school has fostered slates. The red school prepares healthy, capable working men, builders of the Soviet Order.”

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Before the state established several Soviet Yiddish-language schools to further a Soviet agenda.

Source: magnesalm.org
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Lenin Unveils Liebknecht and Luxemburg Monument (1920)

Vladimir I. Lenin at the unveiling of a monument to German revolutionaries Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg on the first anniversary of their murders. Palace Square, Petrograd, 1920.

Photo by Victor Bulla

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Anonymous asked:

legit question: why do marxists on tumblr like/post architecture so much?

fuckyeahdialectics answered:

Because as materialists Marxists believe the built environment reflects and constructs subjectivity, and produces (and is produced by) the capital which flows through it.There are two typical ‘genres’ of architecture which Marxists tend to post: 1. Modernist/Brutalist architecture surviving from a period when architects tried to imagine and create utopias.2. Derelict industrial sites, which show what happens when capital can no longer animate infrastructure profitably.

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Jonas Bendiksen

Moldova. Transdniester. 2004: Crows circle a statue of Lenin in front of the Supreme Soviet building. Transdniester is in many ways one of the last bastions of communist nostalgia in the former U.S.S.R.

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