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@ZDL@pxlfd.ca  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

I got a new decoration for my home. (Well, I'll sneak it onto a pillar at work on Monday to see how many people notice, but once that little joke is over I'll be taking it home.) This is quite possibly the best $9 I ever spent!


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#communism#MusicBox

@ZDL@mstdn.social
@yogthos@social.marxist.network

The box standing on my window sill in all its very red glory. While the box and the transparent plate are clearly injection-moulded, the notification plate ("IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS BREAK GLASS"), the hammer and sickle, and the red star are clearly 3D printed. This actually gives it a certain charm I quite enjoy. (I'm a sucker for cottage industries.)
The box standing on my window sill in all its very red glory. While the box and the transparent plate are clearly injection-moulded, the notification plate ("IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS BREAK GLASS"), the hammer and sickle, and the red star are clearly 3D printed. This actually gives it a certain charm I quite enjoy. (I'm a sucker for cottage industries.)
The box standing on my window sill in all its very red glory. While the box and the transparent plate are clearly injection-moulded, the notification plate ("IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS BREAK GLASS"), the hammer and sickle, and the red star are clearly 3D printed. This actually gives it a certain charm I quite enjoy. (I'm a sucker for cottage industries.)
The right side has an interesting threat about intellectual property. (Not very Marxist that!) It then has usual boring product descriptions and an admonition to read the instruction manual carefully before use. It's a music box. What kind of instruction manual could you possibly need? (I genuinely don't know. I didn't read it.)
The right side has an interesting threat about intellectual property. (Not very Marxist that!) It then has usual boring product descriptions and an admonition to read the instruction manual carefully before use. It's a music box. What kind of instruction manual could you possibly need? (I genuinely don't know. I didn't read it.)
The right side has an interesting threat about intellectual property. (Not very Marxist that!) It then has usual boring product descriptions and an admonition to read the instruction manual carefully before use. It's a music box. What kind of instruction manual could you possibly need? (I genuinely don't know. I didn't read it.)
The rear of the box says it's 80% ABS, 20% other, with magnetic strength capable of supporting 400g and a 3-minute play time. It also has, again in Chinese, English, and Russian, two sayings: "Ten thousand years are too long; seize the day, seize the hour." "It is like the vast sea of stars, as long as we move forward bravely, we will eventually reach the other shore of our ideals. The box design is done in bold diagonal stripes of red, yellow, and orange in visible conflict with each other.
The rear of the box says it's 80% ABS, 20% other, with magnetic strength capable of supporting 400g and a 3-minute play time. It also has, again in Chinese, English, and Russian, two sayings: "Ten thousand years are too long; seize the day, seize the hour." "It is like the vast sea of stars, as long as we move forward bravely, we will eventually reach the other shore of our ideals. The box design is done in bold diagonal stripes of red, yellow, and orange in visible conflict with each other.
The rear of the box says it's 80% ABS, 20% other, with magnetic strength capable of supporting 400g and a 3-minute play time. It also has, again in Chinese, English, and Russian, two sayings: "Ten thousand years are too long; seize the day, seize the hour." "It is like the vast sea of stars, as long as we move forward bravely, we will eventually reach the other shore of our ideals. The box design is done in bold diagonal stripes of red, yellow, and orange in visible conflict with each other.
The box it came in has communist slogans festooned over it. It's made to look like the contents, but on the front it says "Music box ornament" in Chinese and English near the top left, and where the "plate" would be it says, in Chinese, English, and Russian, "A single spark can start a prairie fire".
The box it came in has communist slogans festooned over it. It's made to look like the contents, but on the front it says "Music box ornament" in Chinese and English near the top left, and where the "plate" would be it says, in Chinese, English, and Russian, "A single spark can start a prairie fire".
The box it came in has communist slogans festooned over it. It's made to look like the contents, but on the front it says "Music box ornament" in Chinese and English near the top left, and where the "plate" would be it says, in Chinese, English, and Russian, "A single spark can start a prairie fire".
On a steel-clad door I've stuck the box, made to resemble one of those fire alarm or emergency door open boxes marked "smash glass in case of emergency". This particular box, however, is labelled in Chinese and English both IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS, BREAK GLASS. Under the "glass" (really just transparent plastic) is a 3D-printed hammer and sickle over top of a 3D-printed red star with a yellow outline.
On a steel-clad door I've stuck the box, made to resemble one of those fire alarm or emergency door open boxes marked "smash glass in case of emergency". This particular box, however, is labelled in Chinese and English both IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS, BREAK GLASS. Under the "glass" (really just transparent plastic) is a 3D-printed hammer and sickle over top of a 3D-printed red star with a yellow outline.
On a steel-clad door I've stuck the box, made to resemble one of those fire alarm or emergency door open boxes marked "smash glass in case of emergency". This particular box, however, is labelled in Chinese and English both IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS, BREAK GLASS. Under the "glass" (really just transparent plastic) is a 3D-printed hammer and sickle over top of a 3D-printed red star with a yellow outline.
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@ZDL@pxlfd.ca  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

I got a new decoration for my home. (Well, I'll sneak it onto a pillar at work on Monday to see how many people notice, but once that little joke is over I'll be taking it home.) This is quite possibly the best $9 I ever spent!


As usual the alt text explains more and Mastodon users will have to click through to get to all the photos.


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#communism#MusicBox

@ZDL@mstdn.social
@yogthos@social.marxist.network

The box standing on my window sill in all its very red glory. While the box and the transparent plate are clearly injection-moulded, the notification plate ("IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS BREAK GLASS"), the hammer and sickle, and the red star are clearly 3D printed. This actually gives it a certain charm I quite enjoy. (I'm a sucker for cottage industries.)
The box standing on my window sill in all its very red glory. While the box and the transparent plate are clearly injection-moulded, the notification plate ("IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS BREAK GLASS"), the hammer and sickle, and the red star are clearly 3D printed. This actually gives it a certain charm I quite enjoy. (I'm a sucker for cottage industries.)
The box standing on my window sill in all its very red glory. While the box and the transparent plate are clearly injection-moulded, the notification plate ("IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS BREAK GLASS"), the hammer and sickle, and the red star are clearly 3D printed. This actually gives it a certain charm I quite enjoy. (I'm a sucker for cottage industries.)
The right side has an interesting threat about intellectual property. (Not very Marxist that!) It then has usual boring product descriptions and an admonition to read the instruction manual carefully before use. It's a music box. What kind of instruction manual could you possibly need? (I genuinely don't know. I didn't read it.)
The right side has an interesting threat about intellectual property. (Not very Marxist that!) It then has usual boring product descriptions and an admonition to read the instruction manual carefully before use. It's a music box. What kind of instruction manual could you possibly need? (I genuinely don't know. I didn't read it.)
The right side has an interesting threat about intellectual property. (Not very Marxist that!) It then has usual boring product descriptions and an admonition to read the instruction manual carefully before use. It's a music box. What kind of instruction manual could you possibly need? (I genuinely don't know. I didn't read it.)
The rear of the box says it's 80% ABS, 20% other, with magnetic strength capable of supporting 400g and a 3-minute play time. It also has, again in Chinese, English, and Russian, two sayings: "Ten thousand years are too long; seize the day, seize the hour." "It is like the vast sea of stars, as long as we move forward bravely, we will eventually reach the other shore of our ideals. The box design is done in bold diagonal stripes of red, yellow, and orange in visible conflict with each other.
The rear of the box says it's 80% ABS, 20% other, with magnetic strength capable of supporting 400g and a 3-minute play time. It also has, again in Chinese, English, and Russian, two sayings: "Ten thousand years are too long; seize the day, seize the hour." "It is like the vast sea of stars, as long as we move forward bravely, we will eventually reach the other shore of our ideals. The box design is done in bold diagonal stripes of red, yellow, and orange in visible conflict with each other.
The rear of the box says it's 80% ABS, 20% other, with magnetic strength capable of supporting 400g and a 3-minute play time. It also has, again in Chinese, English, and Russian, two sayings: "Ten thousand years are too long; seize the day, seize the hour." "It is like the vast sea of stars, as long as we move forward bravely, we will eventually reach the other shore of our ideals. The box design is done in bold diagonal stripes of red, yellow, and orange in visible conflict with each other.
The box it came in has communist slogans festooned over it. It's made to look like the contents, but on the front it says "Music box ornament" in Chinese and English near the top left, and where the "plate" would be it says, in Chinese, English, and Russian, "A single spark can start a prairie fire".
The box it came in has communist slogans festooned over it. It's made to look like the contents, but on the front it says "Music box ornament" in Chinese and English near the top left, and where the "plate" would be it says, in Chinese, English, and Russian, "A single spark can start a prairie fire".
The box it came in has communist slogans festooned over it. It's made to look like the contents, but on the front it says "Music box ornament" in Chinese and English near the top left, and where the "plate" would be it says, in Chinese, English, and Russian, "A single spark can start a prairie fire".
On a steel-clad door I've stuck the box, made to resemble one of those fire alarm or emergency door open boxes marked "smash glass in case of emergency". This particular box, however, is labelled in Chinese and English both IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS, BREAK GLASS. Under the "glass" (really just transparent plastic) is a 3D-printed hammer and sickle over top of a 3D-printed red star with a yellow outline.
On a steel-clad door I've stuck the box, made to resemble one of those fire alarm or emergency door open boxes marked "smash glass in case of emergency". This particular box, however, is labelled in Chinese and English both IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS, BREAK GLASS. Under the "glass" (really just transparent plastic) is a 3D-printed hammer and sickle over top of a 3D-printed red star with a yellow outline.
On a steel-clad door I've stuck the box, made to resemble one of those fire alarm or emergency door open boxes marked "smash glass in case of emergency". This particular box, however, is labelled in Chinese and English both IN EVENT OF A CAPITALIST CRISIS, BREAK GLASS. Under the "glass" (really just transparent plastic) is a 3D-printed hammer and sickle over top of a 3D-printed red star with a yellow outline.
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@joenepraat@todon.nl  ·  activity timestamp last week

Very interesting must watch. By an anarchist, so neutral and well sourced. 😉 Only criticism I have is that the video thumbnail has the USSR hammer and sickle. And that one was introduced after 1918 (officially in 1923), a few decennia after Marx' death.

Zoe Baker: *What is Communism?*

youtube.com/watch?v=dAB-sBjq8E8

"Watch to find out what communism meant to Marx.

script + sources: anarchozoe.com/2025/07/29/what"

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@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Today in Labor History July 29, 1962: British aristocrat and fascist leader, Oswald Mosely, was beaten by antifascists in London’s east end. Even after police began to escort him away, activists from the antifascist 62 Group (AKA 62 Committee), led by Jewish, communist, and black activists, were able to pelt him with eggs, fruit and rocks. He later called a rally, which the activists successfully disrupted with shouts of “down with fascists.” The only people arrested were antifascist activists.

62 Group disrupted fascist meetings throughout the early to mid-60s, beating up or attacking fascists whenever they had the chance, much like the Jewish antifascist 43 Group did in the 1940s. As a result, they were able to significantly reduce the power and effectiveness of the fascists in the 1960s.

Mosely had been a Labor MP and junior minister from 1918-1931. As the leader of the British Union of Fascists, publicly supported antisemitism and tried to form alliances with Mussolini and Hitler. During the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, antifascist demonstrators including unions, anarchists, socialists, communists, liberals and Jews, prevented the BUF from marching through the East End of London. During World War Two, Moseley and his wife were imprisoned as threats to the national security.

Mosely is portrayed in numerous works of fiction, including the television series, The Peaky Blinders. He is portrayed in Pink Floyd’s the wall; Aldous Huxley’s 1928 novel, Point Counter Point; HG Wells's 1939 novel The Holy Terror; PG Wodehouse's Jeeves series; and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #oswaldmosely #fascism #antifascism #london #antisemitism #anarchism #communism #socialism #racism #books #novel #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon
MikeDunnAuthor
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Today in Labor History July 29, 1962: British aristocrat and fascist leader, Oswald Mosely, was beaten by antifascists in London’s east end. Even after police began to escort him away, activists from the antifascist 62 Group (AKA 62 Committee), led by Jewish, communist, and black activists, were able to pelt him with eggs, fruit and rocks. He later called a rally, which the activists successfully disrupted with shouts of “down with fascists.” The only people arrested were antifascist activists.

62 Group disrupted fascist meetings throughout the early to mid-60s, beating up or attacking fascists whenever they had the chance, much like the Jewish antifascist 43 Group did in the 1940s. As a result, they were able to significantly reduce the power and effectiveness of the fascists in the 1960s.

Mosely had been a Labor MP and junior minister from 1918-1931. As the leader of the British Union of Fascists, publicly supported antisemitism and tried to form alliances with Mussolini and Hitler. During the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, antifascist demonstrators including unions, anarchists, socialists, communists, liberals and Jews, prevented the BUF from marching through the East End of London. During World War Two, Moseley and his wife were imprisoned as threats to the national security.

Mosely is portrayed in numerous works of fiction, including the television series, The Peaky Blinders. He is portrayed in Pink Floyd’s the wall; Aldous Huxley’s 1928 novel, Point Counter Point; HG Wells's 1939 novel The Holy Terror; PG Wodehouse's Jeeves series; and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #oswaldmosely #fascism #antifascism #london #antisemitism #anarchism #communism #socialism #racism #books #novel #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon