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On the ANDROGYNOUS SELF; or TO BE A COMRADE

Revised: 11/30/25 In spirit of Toni Bambara's "On the Issue of Roles" , my analysis follows that her concept of an "Androgynous Self" is applicable across race and ethnicity for both cisgender and transexual people, and I write this in regard to gender divisions in class systems as well as radical spaces. There is potential that any Socialist looking to dismantle cisnormative Patriarchy and Misogyny, or to unify with Decolonial elements, could benefit their understanding of gender and social roles under Capitalism by adopting this Androgynous Self in service of Radicalism. Gender, to use a simple definition, is a cultural phenomenon and social system that is deeply rooted in the psyche as a self-identity. Gender may be externally ascribed to an individual at birth based on the appearance of genitalia or determined by the culturally-connotated behaviors and roles they perform as they develop into adulthood, and this role or social category may change over time....
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ENVIRONMENTALISM in the EARLY SOVIET UNION

Previously titled: "The Role of Environmentalism in the Russian Revolution" Original submission: 11/19/2019, Noel T.   "newarks" , University of Victoria. Revised & published: 11/2/2025, 11/4/2025 The nation of Russia, once the USSR and now the Russian Federation, has never been specially known by either the Western conscience or third-world internationalists for being particularly "environmentally friendly," although a mind for sustainability is often paired with being decried as a "commie" or "hippie bum". The reason behind the conflation is simple: that socialism propels environmentalism and vice versa, contrary to anti-Soviet mythos. The industrialism that swept through Russia after the 1917 Revolution could be argued as directly oppositional to environmentalist efforts- but to counter; the early development of all productive technology, internationally, was sometimes too encumbered by its goals and responsibilities to conceive ...
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