Red Revolution Tales

So I'm currently working on a piece of the brief history of communism which actually isn't brief at all. I'll have to divide it up into Pre-WWII and Post-WWII: Imperialism and it's taking F O R E V E R. In the meantime, here's a play list of some angsty and moody jams stuck in my head this winter. Calla - "Custom Car Crash" The B-52's - "Dance This Mess Around" Hinds - "And I'll Send Your Flowers Back" Donovan - "Season of the Witch" Black Lullabies - "Black Lullabies" Japanese Breakfast - "Jane Cum" Cookin' On 3 Burners - "This Girl" Sunflower Bean - "I Want You to Give Me Enough Time" The Zombies - "Time of the Season" The Doors - "Light My Fire" The B-52's - "Rock Lobster"  A CLASSIC Mina - "Un anno d'amore" Radiohead - "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" My Bloody Valentine - "Sometimes" The Gl

From Toussaint Louverture to Celia Cruz, from the Haitian revolution to Peru’s recognition of Afro-latinx officially, Afro-Latinx have been the backbone of Latin American liberation and the dominating force in Latin American culture. Yet in American culture, it may seem like recognition begins and ends with Afro-Latina Cardi B’s chart topping hit, “Bodak Yellow”. A great deal of this is due to the homogenous representation of Latinx people in media, which is very anti-black, and the lack of knowledge of Latin American culture in general. A key point to understanding who we are and our history is that being Latinx and/or Hispanic is simply an ethnicity composed of people of many races. The Latin American region is the South-Western Hemisphere of countries formerly colonized by the Spanish, French, and Portuguese.  When Toussaint Louverture and the enslaved people of Haiti raised their fists against the tyranny of the French colonizers, they blazed with the strength of Ogun and swpt con

In the United States, there is a two party system, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, that dominate and manipulate the public’s interests and issues. Despite the colonist “Founding Father” George Washington’s resistance to any sort of political party, quickly after his departure grew a dual system and has evolved and continued this duality to the present. This is not to say that other parties do not exist, but these two parties are considered the only credible ones as they’ve maintained their position as dominant parties through policy and sabotage. This system has created a false polarity in United States politics so that many think you must be one or the other. This narrative has made it so that the GOP and conservatives call anyone who is a Democrat a liberal, socialist, and communist. The Democrats have called anyone who isn’t a Democrat, a Nazi, Fascist, etc. The argument I am making today is that Liberalism is not too different from Conservatism and both are plagues t