I used AI to see what Tarkovsky and Parajanov's movies would look like if they both had unwavering commitment to socialist realism.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
82 points (100.0% liked)
womenby
1462 readers
170 users here now
Community for all women and non-binary people.
Some ground rules:
- Read the Code of Conduct.
- No bigotry of any kind. This includes but is not limited to: Transphobia, Non-Binary Erasure, Sexism, Racism, Ableism, Homophobia etc.
- No Harrassment. This includes but is not limited to: stalking, harassing and threatening posters.
- No Sexually Explicit Content Because of potential doxxing posting sexually explicit content of yourself will be removed.
- Don't Be a Lib No capitalism and imperialism apologia.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Alexandra Kollontai, born on this day in 1872, was a Marxist feminist revolutionary who served as People's Commissar for Social Welfare in the Soviet Union and, later in life, as a diplomat for the USSR abroad.
Alexandra was born into a wealthy family of Ukrainian, Russian, and Finnish background, acquiring a fluency in both Russian and Finnish early on. This experience would later assist her in her career as a Soviet diplomat.
In 1895, Kollontai read August Bebel's "Woman and Socialism", which was a major influence on her thinking. In 1896, she helped fundraise in support of a mass textile strike in St. Petersburg, retaining connections with the women textile workers of St. Petersburg for the rest of her career.
In the years leading up to 1917, Kollontai was active as a Marxist theoretician, educator, and anti-war activist (opposing World War I, specifically). During this time, she established contact with Vladimir Lenin and gave a lengthy speaking tour in the U.S., sharing a stage with Eugene V. Debs and giving 123 speeches in 4 languages.
Following the 1917 February Revolution, Kollontai returned to Russia. Later that year, she voted in favor of the decision to launch an armed uprising against the government, also participating in the revolt. At the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, she was elected Commissar of Social Welfare in the new Soviet government.
The Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography describes her efforts within the Soviet government: "The changes that Kollontai tried to bring about were enormous, involving the complete destruction of the old system and the creation of a new one...Kollontai authorized decrees that committed the Soviet State to full funding of maternity care from conception through the first year of a child's life - an unheard of measure for the beginning of the 20th century. She attempted to establish full legal, political, and sexual equality for women and to redress the entire marriage code."
In 1920, Kollontai joined the left "Workers' Opposition", an opposition tendency in the Bolshevik Party opposed to what they saw as the increasing bureaucratization of the Soviet state. In March 1921, the Workers' Opposition was banned along with all other factions at the 10th party congress in March 1921, but its members continued to be active as leaders of both the Bolshevik Party and the Soviets.
In 1922, Kollontai was one of the signers of the "Letter of the 22" to the Communist International, protesting the banning of factions in Russia.
Following this incident, Kollontai began to serve as a Soviet diplomat, becoming one of the first women to work in international diplomacy. As ambassador to Norway and Sweden, as a trade delegate to Mexico, as a delegate to the League of Nations, and as negotiator of the Finno-Soviet peace treaty of 1940, she served the USSR with what was generally regarded as great finesse. From 1946 until her death in 1952, she was an advisor to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Class instinct...always shows itself to be more powerful than the noble enthusiasms of 'above-class' politics. So long as the bourgeois women and their [proletarian] 'younger sisters' are equal in their inequality, the former can, with complete sincerity, make great efforts to defend the general interests of women.
But once the barrier is down and the bourgeois women have received access to political activity, the recent defenders of the 'rights of all women' become enthusiastic defenders of the privileges of their class, content to leave the younger sisters with no rights at all. Thus, when the feminists talk to working women about the need for a common struggle to realise some 'general women's' principle, women of the working class are naturally distrustful."
- Alexandra Kollontai
Hexbear links
- π»Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
- π Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
- π₯ Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/4474329
- β Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/4474295
- β¨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/4474253
- π Share your gains and goals with your comrades in the New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/4476362
- 𧑠Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/4476260
reminders:
- π You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- π Hexbearβs algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- π Sorting by new you nerd
- π If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
- πΆ Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
- β€οΈFoundations of Leninism
- β€οΈAnarchism and Other Essays
I was juicing oranges to make an orange sauce for my dinner tonight and my dumbass somehow didn't manage to wash the soap off my hands good enough? My sauce ended up having a horrible bitter soap after taste I hate life sometimes holy shit 
yo fuck them penguins
JDPON Don says unlimited genocide on the club penguin
Buy the dip?
Lmao awesome, good job I never saw this as a kid or I'd be terminally weebed
Black Lagoon?
hai
I think it's pretty safe to say at this point that the CIA genuinely doesn't have a domestic operation lmao.
This guy should be fed to dogs
Between this and the Ghibli filter, these people broke me. It astounds me how much contempt these people have for both artists and the artistic process.
It's maddening that simply knowing who Tarkovsky is isn't mutually exclusive with holding the opinion in that tweet.
playable cow in Mario Kart confirmed 
it is april 2 and stalin saved the world from fascism
really impressed myself, basically unplanned 'italian' bean soup, was making a bag of raviolis in another pot so i fried up salami, artichokes, spinach, popped in a can of beans, boiled till my raviolis were done, topped off the soup with some pasta water and added a couple raviols when serving 
if i wanted to make it actually great all i'd need to do is start off with garlic & onion & use proper broth but i was a bit lazy today.
Prozd talking about chihayafuru again 
Shoutout to the live action movies too, I was crying in the cinema
do not get food poisoning/gastro
don't do it
Mindfury thinks he can tell me what to do but i'll show him who's boss 
I imagine anyone in supply chain management consulting is going to make a killing just costing out the tariffs lol
The Nintendo switch 2 looks decent but expensive but that Donkey Kong treat? It looked real good
The tariffs may seem goofy at first, but you have to remember some of those uninhabited islands were treating us very unfairly
watching my 20% stock gains from last year completely evaporate is pretty fun at least
Currently experiencing that huge ice storm going on in eastern North America. I lost power in my apartment building. That's never happened to me before here. Luckily about a month back I had to get one of those portable car starters with a huge battery, and I decided to spring for the better model with regular power outlets and USB ports. I may need to go back to my car (fortunately in an underground parkade!) if my big laptop-charging USB power bank runs out. I refuse to miss watching Top Secret! on the ~~hextube~~ blorptube with comrades tonight.
Liberals are some of the bleakest people to talk to. Their entire mindset is to accept things as they are. Obey the boss and never make him mad. Keep your head down and donβt stand up for anything because it will ruin your life. They constantly play βboth sidesβ and thinks itβs some profound statement nobody has heard before. When pushed on it they can only respond with, βitβs how the world works.β
Also hate the peace fetish they have. Every conflict can be solved by talking it out and not being defiant. Had a lib tell me this and they brought up Joe Biden and Obama as examples lmao
I donβt know why I bother with foreign liberals.
When pushed on it they can only respond with, βitβs how the world works.β
I definitely feel like I hit a wall whenever they say this. Like damn okay do nothing about it and enjoy your suffering.
Trump placing tariffs on the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar seems like a bit.
Tariff-ball is happening. Maybe the Switch 2's pricing was conservative lol.
The other day I walked past a FedEx truck and a UPS truck parked on opposite sides of the road facing away from each other and the very first thought that popped into my head was "enemies to lovers"
Chapo dot chat, am I cooked?
No, take advantage of this and get a high paying job shitposting for a corporate Twitter account
Everything getting more expensive so the country can get like 7 more minimum wage factory jobs. Art of the deal.
a small green girl asks Thanos "did you get your tariffs?"
Thanos replies "yes" and she asks "what did it cost?" and with a heavy heart he says "everything"
How long will the tariffs last this time?
This backtrack has got to be quicker than the others right? All the indices immediately dropped by multiple points (despite it being after hours) and every nation on earth is going to counter-tariff, with additional motivation to coordinate among themselves to make it as painful as possible specifically for the US.
Second time today I heard a prolonged thunder-like noise. Is the annexation on and no one told me?
The one thing he could do that would finally make people happy with him lol
Rate my resume lie:
Saying I was not working the last 10 years because I stayed home with my child. I made a little "Family Caregiver" resume blurb, that in hr speak says my kid is now in college and I'm ready to work.
Now, I have no child, but this 10 year gap is killing me, and it's the best lie I can come up with that can't be disproven. It's not the most ideal thing to have to continue to lie about, but I need a job.
What do you think?
Just say you took a 10 year gap to start a crypto currency scam company but now you got to get a real job because Biden ruined the economy. Boom.
If a book has short chapters I go like nom nom nom and eat that shit up and eat it up fast
Π£Π Π ΠΠΠΠΠΠΠ’ΠΠ
Lokomotiv defeated Torpedo 2-1 today, completing their 4-0 sweep in the first series of the Gagarin Cup!
I am LOSING my GODDAMN mind sitting in my apartment all day. No where will hire me so I have no money to go out and do things so I just have to sit here all day and it is driving me crazy. The only nice park is not within walking distance and I don't have the money to waste gas every day
I can't do anything to improve my life without more money. I want to work on my transition but guess what, I need monnnnnnnneeeeeeeeyyyyyyy for that
This shit sucks I'll do anything for a job
view more: next βΊ