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Ooh, I don’t remember that aspect. Another book I found insightful into the struggle against patriarchy and machismo was ‘Lavender and Red: Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba’ by Leslie Feinberg. It covers the struggle for gay and trans rights and particularly the humane, material response to the AIDS crisis and the public mea culpa and apology Fidel made for his earlier naive homophobia.

I love this book! Particular highlights for me were them concretely acting on a material understanding of patriarchy. That is, patriarchy is materially the domestic enslavement of women and a key lever to break that is to socialize domestic labor which is why precious foreign reserves were used to import washing machines even as the mechanization of agriculture was pressing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_literacy_campaign

Most agrarian revolutions made literacy a core component so they could educate people. It’s more than one way to do it, but why not empower comrades to read?

There is nothing objective about that ‘objective distribution’ why would the output automatically center on good?

I thought dim sun was supposed to get you steamed buns not stop you from steaming your buns!

I just finished it last week.

Cranks be banished. Half the fun of going to popcorn movies is the experience of talking to it with the rest of the audience. If you can’t enjoy collective experiences then just stay at home desolately weeping with your criterion collection. stfu!