I turn my dreams into words. Always in the present. Here and Now. Él / He /Him 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🫓🫓🫓 “You don’t get what you dream about… You get what you strive for step by step!” Atsuko “Akko” Kagari (Little Witch Academia, 2017)

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  • As a Venezuelan currently living in Venezuela, I have always believed that the problem is not so much communism / socialism, but rather the incompetence and corruption of our leaders.

    In fact, I could argue that if it weren’t for my country’s socialist policies, I and many people would have died of disease (COVID) or starvation.


















  • This is where I believe Karl Marx’s concept of alienation becomes more of a blessing than anything else. Marx argued, broadly speaking, that under capitalism, workers are doomed to feel disconnected (alienated) from the work they do. I think this disconnection works wonders in the kinds of jobs where what you do has negative consequences. Employees can pull a Nuremberg: “I’m just following orders,” and that way, even though they’re technically helping to create more harm in the world, from their point of view, they were just doing their job. Surviving, like all of us.

    It is a clear conscience achieved through self-emptying.

    (There’s also the case of people who honestly enjoy causing harm in the world, but that’s a separate issue.)