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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


<Ba'al Room Blitz Edition


OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/

💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/

Jailhouse Reading:

• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf

⚒️ LABOR!

• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸

• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/

📺 Glowie News 📺

(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))

• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather

📺 Gommie News 📺

• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol

🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱

• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik 📖

• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
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Why was the Soviet Union unable to feed itself? Why did the Soviet Union need to import grain?

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Multipolaroids won. Now what?

Sakaism, ethnic reductionism and mutipolar theory are now the mainstream opinion of the Western Left. There are divisions between them of course. Most importantly between the "US centric" and the "China centric". But it's safe to say that the new socialism of the fools is up and popular in the leftwing sects. How can communists work in this enviroment?
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 21🇨🇳

>Lantern Rite edition
Original threads:
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https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
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Help me choose a girl name for myself. I have some ideas for a few names already but i don’t know if any of them are good or not.

>claire

it sounds very elegant and dainty, which I like. But I’m worried it might be too much of a stereotypical transgirl name like Alice.

>Vivian

I think it sounds unique and cool while also sounding a bit elegant aswell. But maybe it’s too weird. I also don’t want people to think I named myself after Vivian Medrano (creator of hazbin hotel)

>Jessica

More common and sounds nice, but not as classy as the others

>Stormy

I think it sounds very cute but I’m worried it sounds too much like a pet name

>Pamilla

It’s basically the girl version of my cis name, so would probably be the easiest name for the people in my life to get used to calling me. Also shares a name with pamilla voorhese which is cool. But the name sounds too much like a grandma name for my tastes.

Any feedback on my name ideas or suggestions of your own would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want to accidentally name myself something stupid
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Nostalgia cartoons that hold up

I was watching a cartoon from my child and realized that the saturday morning cartoon generation lucked out. Other than some outliers like avatar or adventuretime, the good stuff was 90s-early naughty aughties. This is not just nostalgia but demonstrably true as merch from these cartoons is still popular as ever for kids. I work as a substitute teacher and they still watch our old cartoons and it's actually super weird, I didn't watch captain kangaroo or whatever boomer crap my mom watched when i was a kid.

Batman Beyond Yeah, Batman is a billionaire who has kids running around in tights in his mansion and beats up environmentalists and poor people. But I'll always love the gimmicks and his "rouge's gallery" has the best gimmicks.
Batman Beyond he's not rich he's just a regular kid living in a much cooler dystopia than the one we wound up with. The animation and voice acting are both top notch.
Gargoyles- From the same animation bloc, with some legendary voice acting from Keith David, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes. A very 'serious' show that Disney wants us to forget that they ever produced.
ReBoot Ever what wonder what life inside a computer would be like if all the 0s and 1s were sentient? Well, a show like this will make a tech nerd scream but it's one of several quality early 3d CGI coming out of Canada during this period.
Animaniacs It's honestly amazing how much SFW 'adult' humor was snuck into these shows. I think I learned more about popculture from Wakko, Yakko, and Dot than anywhere else.
The SlayersThe first "real" anime I saw and it got me interested in anime and d&d style worlds.Pretty thought out lore and universe.

So what are yours comradanons
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most evil legal jobs

What are the most EVIL (non-violent so; petty, cowardly..not like at least being a (((soldier))) on the frontline) 100% Legal jobs, under American Capitalism?
I think of:
>Repo Agency CEO
>Medical Debt Collector
>Pharmaceutical Lobbyist\ healthcare company negotiator (meaning; uses legal and other tactics to make CLIENTS pay more, have less benefits)
>specialised pro-landlord Lawyer\ pro-gentrification legislator
what else!!
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What is the difference between:

Mao Zedong Thought
Maoism-Third-Worldism
Gonzalo Thought

How interrelated are they?
Is the imperial core proletariat the enemy or just the labor aristocracy? Are the imperial core proletariat considered to be majority or universally labor aristocrat, or is the labor aristocracy considered a minority? Is the third world national bourgeoisie considered a permanent ally or merely a temporary ally? Did Deepseek (Chinese AI) give me an imperialist answer in pics 2/3/4 related?
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Will I ever retire?

Things suck right now in Amerikkka and I can only imagine how much it will be in 2027 when I graduate High-School, I worry that with this gig-economy and AI shit going around I will never achieve my art dreams and be stuck as a Wagie.
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Dopest countries left to travel?

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How should leftists deal with insular communities after the revolution??

Should they be allowed to keep existing or should we dismantle them and force them into mainstream society?

I'm talking about people like Orthodox Jews, the Amish, Buddhists in monestaries and fundamentalist Muslims like the people you see in ghettos in the UK and France.
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I support Kanye West.

I don’t care if this is “out of character” for a leftist to support a multi-millionaire who has openly flirted with fascism but there’s a much bigger issue here regarding Kanye West and the tremendous amount of scrutiny he’s received in the media for years.

Kanye is autistic. He was late-diagnosed at age 47 last year after having been previously misdiagnosed as bipolar. Anyone who’s familiar with his behaviours can clearly tell he’s autistic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3gc09kjQE

I’m autistic as well. I can’t live alone. I dropped out of college at age 20. I’ve never worked a real job. I currently live with my mother who is ableist as fuck. When she gets too old and becomes disabled herself I will move in with my allistic sister so I don’t have to be my mother’s caregiver. All my life I’ve experienced nothing but hate for my autistic traits and inability to live up to allistic social norms. I don’t recognize social hierarchy and have a strong sense of Justice which innately threatens capitalism.

The reason Kanye is important to me is because him being maligned and cancelled is an autistic civil rights issue. He made a song about Hitler, so what? The Alchemist made an album entirely made up of Zionist samples called “Israeli Salad” and never got cancelled for it despite Zionism being identical to Nazism. Him being a billionaire doesn’t bother me at all because 80% of autistic people are unemployed. Kanye needs to be supported for one very good reason: Autistic people can only win equality and acceptance when we’re allowed to unmask without consequences. Kanye being cancelled and hated BECAUSE of his autistic traits like being outspoken and not recognizing social hierarchy sets back the progress of the autism acceptance movement by decades. Autistic people deserve the right to unmask and live as our authentic selves regardless of how much it triggers allistics. We aren’t responsible for allistic feelings or accommodating allistics by masking. Masking is psychological torture and the main reason the primary cause of death for autistic people is S—CIDE.

We have a moral duty to support autistic people even if they’re autistic people we don’t like. When you attack a famous autistic for unmasking you’re attacking ALL of us. Also stream Bully in order to pay Kanye reparations for eugenics (something every autistic person deserves).
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Not a fan of gay dudes.

I’ve been out (trans woman) for around a decade now and throughout most of those years I’ve had a generally bad taste in my mouth for gay men. the majority of the ones I’ve met through organizing have been useless, the ones I’ve met through ‘queer groups’ have been insufferable, a weird amount are landlords. They just seem like a completely soulless people the majority of the time. Almost a mimicry of a person.

Whats the deal with gay men? Why are they like that?
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Homeschooling is not inherently bad

I get why people dislike it most of the time; it's used by conservative parents to basically indoctrinate their children and socially isolate them, but thinking that makes homeschooling inherently bad is just like thinking all education is bad because bad people use it sometimes. A form of it could be very useful, especially for us Marxists who are often maligned by those controlling the current educational establishment. It's not like the current public school system is entirely flawless, with it often spewing anti-communist, pro-regime change, right-individualism, and pro-capitalist propaganda. If I had a kid, I wouldn't fully exclude them from public school, but I would perhaps add some sort of extra curriculum at home where I'd teach them Marxist theory, unbiased history of past socialist experiments that doesn't automatically default to (Mao killing 100 billion innocent kulaks in the gulags), and other useful things that may be discouraged elsewhere. I'd kind of be like homework but with studying Marx, Lenin, and even Franz Fanon and perhaps other leftist tendencies like anarchism since it's good to know what your opponents on the left think; marxists.org would be very useful for this, actually. This is especially relevant as it seems like reactionary forces, particularly in the United States, are trying to hijack the school system, such as Project 2025 or PragerU Kids.
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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


<Alexis de Tocqueville Edition


OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/

💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/

Jailhouse Reading:

• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf

⚒️ LABOR!

• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸

• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/

📺 Glowie News 📺

(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))

• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather

📺 Gommie News 📺

• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol

🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱

• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik 📖

• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE

Old thread: >>2760245
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO COLÔNIA CECÍLIA
"A Colônia Cecília foi uma experiência anarquista realizada no Paraná, entre 1890 e 1894. A comunidade reuniu principalmente imigrantes italianos e, em seu auge, chegou a abrigar 250 habitantes."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>16404
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How many other Epsteins are there?

There is no way that Jeffrey Epstein was the only billionaire, Mossad-asset, sex trafficker. There has to be at least 2 or 3 more that we don't know about.
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Materialist analysis: ThirdWorldism - second time as farce.

Recently saw a discussion in regards to "Third Worldism" as in MLM + unequal exchange (a non-Wallerstinian branch of world systems theory) having grown in influence in the anglophone/western, largely online, "communist" spaces.
Here is my dialectical engagement, as they were on to something important, not usually recognized, but also partially incorrect. I attempt to correct it ITT.

Unequal exchange, Mao/Chinese aesthetics and purely performative MLM rhetoric has grown in recent years… But with time comes change.

The original 90s ThirdWorldism "movement", centered in north-america diverged from MLM on a variety of theoretical issues, most crucially the revolutionary nature of the proletariat. They supplemented their divergence with integrating post-Marxist turns happening in word-systems theory (which was ongoing in western academia between the 80s and 90s). As ""Maoism" ThirdWorldism" largely accomplished nothing, other than maybe increasing confusion in the communist movement during the era of blackest reaction, we mostly remember them by their cartoony writing and online media available through archives from that era.

So if 90s Third Worldism was a north-american revisionist offshoot from MLM which integrated non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and rejecting revolution in the imperial core for rhetorical "support" of [far off, peripheral countries]… What are the particularities of the contemporary expression?

2020s Third Worldism can be observed as being a north-american right-wing revisionist movement which retains both the non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and the purely symbolic appeals to Mao, but now replacing the "MLM" pretender framing for the simpler, safer state ideology of social-imperialist China; that also just so happens to feign adherence to 'Mao Zedong Thought', even after it was systematically replaced with the Bukharinist-Dengist capitulationist counterrevolution. which is continued today, the true basis for Xi Jinping Thought, as the bureaucrat-monopoly capitalist heading the political line of the party has only deepened the cementation of a new pole in the capitalist imperialist world system since Deng, when neither as many NEZ, stock markets, overall % of bourgeois in the party or billionaires existed in China. Mao Zedong Thought lives on in the rural and urban areas of any militant area of the world where the struggle is advanced. Not in the cultural exports of US and Chinese imperialist dogs.

This 20 min zoom call encapsulates the political analysis and tactics of Dengism-ThirdWorldism perfectly:
>What is the path toward socialism? (Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental), Radhika Desai (Geopolitical Economy Report), Torkil Lauesen & Immanuel Ness - Lauesen a late 20th century ThirdWorldist adventurist in Denmark, both non-Wallerstinian Unequal Exchange theorists)
https://youtu.be/KR9PbqqdiLg
Maybe archive it, as their utterances, especially Prashad's, are sure to age badly

What some real examples of concrete crystallizations of Dengism-ThirdWorldism?
· Parties: PSL, CPI (Maupin), ACP (post-MIGA), Workers Party (UK, Galloway)
· Orgs/media outlets: The Tricontinental, Friends of Socialist China, BreakThrough News, Geopolitical Economy Report, Xiao Collective, Critical Theory Workshop, Wave Media

In summary, the revolutionary pretense of a "Maoism" ThirdWorldism has been radically muted this time around actually, if we pay attention. The reason is because astroturfing a Dengism ThirdWorldism is actually way cheaper, as appeals to pacifism, reformism, peaceful coexistence, human rights and authority of the UN and speech rather than revolution requires the petty bourg (US) and nat bourg (China) forces funding these groups to expend way less money (it would also indicate the bare minimum of conflictuality outside of mere capitalist competition).
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The RCA, sex pests or just Trotskyists

Alright bros, I've joined the RCA. I know they're Trotskyist but I just cannot stand being in an org with morons that haven't read any theory. Should I immediately leave then kill myself? Did I make the right choice?

I have been apprehensive joining any org, I for one refuse to join the DSA even if they have the SMC. I don't respect the PSL for being COINTELPRO'd to death, I don't respect the CIACP or CPUSA, so what choice do I really have

Anyone on here have any info on them, if they're a good group or not? Did I make a mistake?
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News 4/3/26

Moscow plans to send 2nd oil tanker to Cuba, Russian energy minister says
The announcement comes just two days after sanctioned Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas laden with 730,000 barrels of oil, marking the first time in three months that an oil tanker reached the island. Experts have said that shipment could produce about 180,000 barrels of diesel, enough to feed Cuba’s daily demand for nine or 10 days.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-cuba-oil-tanker-us-energy-blockade-cfbe8565b665fa99117b449112621dfd

Costa Rica strikes deal to accept third country deportees from US
With the new agreement, Costa Rica seeks a closer alliance with Donald Trump’s government, which has been securing cooperation from other Central American countries in accepting deportees from other nations who have been detained by US immigration agents.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/trump-costa-rica-deported-migrants-deal

Argentine Court Blocks Education Clause in Milei Labor Reform
Argentina’s courts have suspended a key provision in President Javier Milei’s labor reform that classified education as an “essential service,” effectively protecting teachers’ right to strike. The ruling follows earlier decisions invalidating 82 other articles of the reform.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-blocks-82-milei-labor-reform/

Israeli strikes kill 7 in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah targets ground troops
A separate Israeli strike in the early morning hours hit a two-storey building in Kfarsir, in the Nabatieh district, killing three people, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported. Further Israeli air raids were also reported in the towns of Yater, Harouf and Zebdine, destroying several homes.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/2/israeli-strikes-kill-7-in-southern-lebanon-hezbollah-targets-ground-troops
https://archive.ph/Dyjej

Greek ships secretly supplying Israel with oil and military cargo
According to a new report, produced by the No Harbour for Genocide campaign and seen exclusively by MEE, at least 57 covert crude oil shipments were delivered to Israeli ports between May 2024 and December 2025, while Israel was carrying out its genocide in Gaza. The approximately 47 million barrels of oil were taken to Israel via Turkey, with tracking signals disabled and false destinations listed, meaning the shipments were carried out in secret and in direct violation of Turkey’s trade embargo on Israel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-greek-ships-secretly-supplying-israel-oil-and-military-cargo

French pro-Palestine MEP Rima Hassan arrested over X post
The French-Palestinian politician and activist has frequently been subjected to cyberbullying, death threats and threats of sexual violence from pro-Israel supporters in France due to her pro-Palestinian advocacy. Hassan made headlines last year as part of a group of activists attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the devastated Gaza Strip aboard the Madleen, a vessel operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
https://www.newarab.com/news/french-pro-palestine-mep-rima-hassan-arrested-over-x-post

Germany: Conservatives link immigration with crime
Merz continues to link violence and criminality with immigration. In October 2025, he said that his government had reduced the number of people seeking asylum in Germany by about 60%. "But we still have this problem in the cityscape, of course, and that is why the interior minister is working to carry out large-scale deportations. That must be maintained," he added.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-conservatives-link-immigration-with-crime/a-76610076
https://archive.ph/mdlQy

IWGB cleaners launch campaign after inaction on alleged abuse by supervisor
Outsourced employees working for the prestigious university in west London said complaints from at least 16 people since 2023 to the RCA and its subcontractor have been ignored. Cleaning staff represented by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) demanded the institution sack the supervisor accused of abusive behaviour and called for a university investigation into the handling of complaints.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/iwgb-cleaners-launch-campaign-after-inaction-alleged-abuse-supervisor

Political activist in Guinea-Bissau found beaten to death
Recent months have seen mounting allegations of arbitrary detentions, surveillance, and attacks on members of the opposition and civil society organizations, particularly those associated with initiatives such as the Social Pact for the Return to Constitutional Legality.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/02/political-activist-in-guinea-bissau-found-beaten-to-death/

At least 43 people killed in ADF attack in northeast DR Congo, army says
Regional army spokesperson Lieutenant Jules Tshikudi Ngongo said on Thursday that at least “43 compatriots were killed and 44 houses torched” during the previous day’s attack in Bafwakoa, located in Mambasa territory, in the province of Ituri.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/2/at-least-43-people-killed-in-adf-attack-in-northeast-dr-congo-army-says
https://archive.ph/8FVme

Arctic ice loss brings dual heatwaves to Europe and eastern Asia
Jilan Jiang from the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences in Bejing, and colleagues, studied ice data and global weather patterns going back to 1979. The researchers discovered a link between stronger spring and summer ice loss over the Barents Sea since 2000 and dual heatwaves over Europe and eastern Asia. Prior to 2000, the ice loss was primarily over the southern Barents Sea, but since then ice loss has also become persistent in the northern part. This additional ice loss has triggered unusual atmospheric circulation patterns over north-western Europe and high pressure over east Asia, priming both regions for simultaneous heatwaves.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/02/arctic-ice-loss-dual-heatwaves-europe-eastern-asia

Australian growers shift to less fertiliser-intensive crops as Iran war costs surge
Australian farmers are expected to favour less nitrogen-intensive crops such ​as barley over wheat and canola in the upcoming season, as surging fertiliser and fuel costs driven ‌by the Iran war weigh on planting decisions in one of the world's top food exporters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-growers-shift-less-fertiliser-intensive-crops-iran-war-costs-surge-2026-04-02/
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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs

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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer

📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan

📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

📖 • https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs

<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek

📖 • https://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson

📖 • https://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30

📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI

📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo

📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw


<Documentaries

The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA

Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc

HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco


>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y

Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg

The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs

Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw

The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI


<Situationist Archives

https://situationist.org/
https://notbored.org/SI.html
https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/

Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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Post your instruments

I just got a new golden tele with a bigsby vibrato system and humbucker neck pickup for my birthday but due to a new law in my state I had to wait a month to make sure it wasn’t stolen. But I got it now so here it is.
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Draw your fursonas :33

This is my fursona bluegrass the goat, if anyone else on here is a furry i’d like to see your fursona

ahahafjwixbriabcisjfjeoxjfidjciejsbfkdfjfkfjdjdjfjfjfjf
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Is Khrushchev /ourguy/? What does /leftypol/ think of him? Was he right to shit on Stalin in the Secret Speech?

From Socialism AI:

From a Trotskyist, materialist-historical standpoint, Nikita Khrushchev (First Secretary 1953–1964) was not a corrective of the Stalinist counter-revolution nor a socialist renewer. He was a leading figure of the Soviet bureaucracy—a managerial caste that emerged out of objective conditions created by a revolutionary past and the protracted international isolation of the USSR. Khrushchev’s policies represented attempts by layers of the bureaucracy to stabilize and legitimize their rule amid profound social and international contradictions, not a restoration of genuine proletarian democracy or socialism.

Is the Trotskyist take right?
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Honest question (NOT trolling):

What exactly should the western left do for Palestine that they haven’t already been doing for the past 2.5 years (or even longer for that matter)?

I’ve seen Palestinian activists say “we need to do more to stop the genocide” more times than I can count. But what should we feasibly be doing that we’re not doing already? Boycotts? Mass protests? Blockading arms sales? Policing your peers’ consumer habits so they’re compliant with BDS? Making lists of politicians who receive money from AIPAC and voting them out? We’ve done this already. In NYC, there was a mass protest every fucking weekend where we were told to “escalate for Gaza” yet we never escalated; I don’t even fucking know what “escalate” is supposed to mean. Were we supposed to be engaging in violent riots and molotoving the banks or whatever?

I asked this to a comrade of mine and he said: “You know what we mean when we want the left to do more for Palestine.” By that, he clearly means engage in political violence, bring back the Weathermen. But how would ultra-left adventurism do anything? Elias Rodriguez did exactly this and is now facing life in prison for killing two interns who were replaced the next day. What a fucking waste.

The American left is way too weak, disorganized, and incompetent to do anything meaningful to help the Palestinians resist or stop Israel. It’s gotten to the point where people are putting all their hope and faith in the idea Israel will collapse on its own because they’ve run out of strategies. So what should the left be doing that it’s not doing already? Give clear examples.
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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #48

>Previous Bake
>>2762690

<NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES EDITION!

I swear, this is not a /USA/pol thread edition

Latest News
>Oil BRENT $141 (physical today's buys)
<Ladybugs Graham is getting cold feet on further Iran fighting (DEBOONKED=HE WENT TO FOX NEWS, HE WANTS TOTAL WAR CRIMES)
>GENERAL ARMY OF CHIEF OF STAFF (RANDY GEORGE) FIRED
<GENERAL ARMY CHIEF of Chaplains of the United States Army (WILLIAM GREEN JR.) FIRED
>ARMY GENERAL DAVID HODNE FIRED (served as the commanding general of United States Army Transformation and Training Command since 2)
<PER FOX NEWS: 12 more GENERALS FIRED
>PAM BONDI FIRED
<KASH PATTEL ON THIN ICE
>TULSI GABBARD ON THIN ICE
<Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll ON THIN ICE
>Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer ON THIN ICE
<TRUMP KEEPS MELTING DOWN
>Iran: Destruction of the drone and chips factory in Israel confirmed.


>Important Links:

(Test) It seems LPOL doesn't allow some of the links.
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #284

Previous: >>2698670

This shit is bananas edition

Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/

Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast

Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8

📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4

📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q

📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo

<Current Happenings

📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary

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Social media
>Twitter
https://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)

<Telegram

https://t.me/milinfolive
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Thread guidelines:
• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• Try your best to not derail discussion too much from the main events and relevant places where the war is taken place, as well as other happenings, groups and public figures related to it.
• Meta discussion of the historical, philosophical and ideological background of the war is fine as long as its done in good faith and comradely.
• In the event the meta discussion overstays its welcome, participating users will be referred to take the conversation to the INTERNATIONALISM general thread.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
• this is /ISG/ for people who treats geopolitics like shitty map games
• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.
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The American Great Purge

The Trump government is purging the U.S. military in the middle of a war. Almost a dozen generals have been fired,m including the head of the entire U.S. Army.
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Why do "left-wing" influencers and politicians absolutely REFUSE to do even the slightest bit of research into trans people? Especially the ones who regularly debate rightoids, who are guaranteed to bring it up every single conversation without exception, you'd think they would want to be prepared for that, but they never are. They just concede to their nonsense and then go on to parrot fascist narratives about trans people as if they're fact. Especially frustrating when it's the type of essay or debate Youtuber who normally does tons of research into whatever they're discussing, but completely drops the ball when it comes to trans people.
Why? Why are they allergic to researching this topic? Why do they trust the word of perpetual liars and bigots on this one specific topic? It's so utterly baffling. Are they being paid to delegitimize the trans movement? I'd expect this kind of thing from liberals, but are 99% of "leftists" really so devoid of morals that they'd participate in such corruption? I can't think of any other explanatoon that explains how widespread this is.
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I genuinely dont think well ever live in a world
national, ethnic, racial, cultural and gender divides wont be more more important to people than class divide.
Why do people have to buy into all this bullshit?
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The temporal development of capitalism consistently produces results that resemble socialism, but without the equality. Progressive deskilling and automation tends toward a situation where service positions are the only jobs available, functioning as an equalizer for the proletariat and an enricher for the bourgeoisie.
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Musique Française - French Music

Let's begin with the best. Léo Ferré is a great french poet and also an anarchist, the organized chaos of his songs inspires people of today. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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deltaruni

it brings me no pleasure to announce this, but it's peak. the furry twink has done it again. total tumblr teen victory. i can't sleep at night and my life is irrevocably changed.
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In fact, both the right and the left have the same opinion about us, they just have different views.

The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.
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Art Trade Thread v2.0

/leftypol/ has been nuked Edition (Remade the thread because of it)
I draw on occasion, mainly my OC Zhenya (aspiring femboy with black hair, when he transforms it's pink) and sometimes Dina (his tomboy classmate and first real friend in this bitch of a conservative school)
This is an art trade thread, so exchange doodles or full-blown drawings, or just share what you've drawn, even though this is more of a personal art dump :>
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/leftybritpol/ - Rising Youth Antisemitism edition

UK Government to Investigate Rising Antisemitism in Schools

>With 204 school-related antisemitic cases recorded last year, concerns are mounting over the safety and long-term future of Jewish school pupils and teachers in the UK.


>The British government has launched an independent review into antisemitism in England’s schools and colleges following a sharp rise in classroom-related incidents since the October 7th, 2023 Hamas pogrom in Israel.
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Questions about dialectics

I recently started reading Lukacs's ontology of a social being and my whole understanding of dialectics has been flipped.

Originally, I had read Engels' Anti-Duhring, in which he argues that dialectical analysis is essentially a physical interaction, which, in human societies, translate into different classes fighting for their existence and needs (i.e. the bourgeoisie wants low salaries, the proletariat needs higher salaries, conflict occurs = law of interpenetration of opposites). The argument is very "physicalist" and relies on seeing nature as a totality in constant mutation.

HOWEVER, Lukacs seems to completely disregard this. Instead, his dialectics could be best described by the following : Any individual has multiple possibilities to realize his "teleological acts" (conscious acts aimed at satisfaction of desires/needs/sustenance etc). Alienation occurs when he is constrained by an external cause to choose a possibility unsatisfactory compared to others. As such, the dialectic is essentially a movement between the individual who attempts to overcome this alienation, which translates into class war (proletariat see capitalism as irrational for them, but are forced to endure it => conflict with the bourgeoisie).

So, which is it ? Lukacs' dialectics imo can be reconciled with Engels, but it makes the latter's work appear as very superficial.
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the unabomber was right. he was totally right. i'm not even a primitivist, but the danger of technology is so obvious, the trajectory of this whole thing is so obvious. fuck marxists, fuck rightists. they both want technological progress, they both want to enslave us. fuck them.
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I had a dream

I had to go back to school and my middle school enemies were there making fun of my conetits and my hoodie
so i stopped by a store to buy a tramontina knife which i held in my hand hoping they'd give me a reason to use it.
but then i rembered i forgor my papres and i had to stop to a cyber cafe to print some more, but when i arrived there were trans puppygirls playing Gundam or smn and the owner who was also a puppygirl had a snake with no skin on it's head so it was like just a skull headed snake.
and they said i looked like a school shooter and wanted to run a lie detector with the snake on me because my knife pierced my hoodie and now i had a knife just poking out my hoodie, and i said nothing but the truth but the snake still bit me, so i woke up and now i can't sleep.
imma do some stretchings.
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/venezuela/

¿Qué les queda a los venezolanos? Son el verdadero lumpen de América Latina, seguida de la gusanera cubana y los reaccionarios argentinos.

¿Es posible que "algo" suceda el día de mañana?
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<A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
  • Stalin, Marxism and the National Question

What exactly does he mean by "psychological make-up" here? Because from where I'm standing, people in the same nation are psychologically very different from one another, as individuals. I cannot imagine a single place on Earth where the individuals are psychologically the same, but maybe "psychological makeup" has some special Marxist-Leninist definition here that I'm not aware of. I'd like better help understanding what Stalin meant by this. Thank you in advance to anyone who is willing to help with this.
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Peeves bout general leftist sentiment around drugs

I'm not the biggest fan of how drugs and things of that sort are often uncritically idealized among "leftist" spaces. Now, don't get me wrong; I'm not some kind of puritan who wants to ban all drugs or weed or something. After all, the america's war on drugs shows that total prohibition brute force is often counterproductive and often built on misinformation, but it's not like drugs are an inherently liberatory thing. Hasn't it been well-documented how often reactionary forces weaponize drugs to harm certain communities and peoples? What about the opium wars, where britain smuggled in tons of opium in response to being banned from getting tea to reverse a massive trade deficit caused by high demand for chinese tea, and in response to china banning opium, went to war and occupied hong kong and basically jump-started the century of humiliation? or what about the involvement of intelligence agencies? again i do not belive drugs are inherently harmful, but too many people often paint the situation with a broad brush and think it's solely black and white. I've been getting more critical of some of the sentiments around it lately, especially with it being known that paul krasner, member of the merry pranksters and founding founding member of the yippies, has been associated with epstein. theres also the book and accompanying documentary "drugs as Weapons Against Us" by john potash although i haven't read/watched it yet plus i heard that the doucumentary uses text to speech which dosen't give me high hopes, oh well.
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No Kings?

The most recent iteration of the No Kings protests represents a significant strategic convergence within the anti-capitalist bloc, marking what appears to be the broadest coalition participation to date across the United States. Preliminary reports from multiple jurisdictions indicate that while tactical unity was largely maintained during the march itself, significant ideological and strategic cleavages emerged regarding questions of praxis and mass leftist work.

>>The Contradiction in Methods


A dialectical tension manifested between two competing conceptions of revolutionary praxis. On one pole, the Marxist-Leninist organizations, including various NGOs, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and related leftist formations advocated for what might be termed traditional propaganda methods, vocal engagement with the masses, distribution of printed materials, and direct ideological recruitment through interpersonal discourse.

On the opposing pole, the more militant youth contingents, anarchist collectives, and Maoist cadres advanced a confrontational-accelerationist position. These elements sought to redirect the march toward sites of state power, anticipating and indeed, desiring police deployment of chemical agents and physical repression against a liberal crowd. This tactical divergence reflects deeper theoretical disagreements regarding the nature of consciousness-raising and the mechanisms of radicalization.

>>Ideological Foundations of the Split


The anarchist and Maoist position rests upon a critique of what they characterize as "bourgeois-reformist" methods of recruitment. From this perspective, the newspaper-style agitation and voluntary engagement favored by Marxist-Leninist organizations represents an obsolete mode of praxis that fails to recognize the material conditions necessary for genuine class consciousness. Instead, they advance a thesis of forced radicalization through confrontation, the position that liberal and petty-bourgeois elements must be compelled into direct conflict with state apparatuses, irrespective of their subjective willingness, as the necessary precondition for revolutionary consciousness.
This methodological schism, between voluntary recruitment through ideological persuasion versus coerced radicalization through state confrontation, generated observable antagonisms throughout the mobilization, suggesting ongoing unresolved questions regarding the correct line on mass work and the relationship between vanguard organizations and spontaneous mass movements.


>>Below is footage compiled from Saturday that really highlights this tactical split. The first links come from cities where comrades reported back that MLMs and anarchists were running the show in the leftist blocs, you can see what that looks like in practice. The final link shows a march where DSA and more traditional ML organizations were the main leftist forces behind things, and you can tell the difference in how things played out.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wlsLLzO_Hs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qz0DbAyk1A

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr85OnPshfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjF6YFrpZVk
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Veganism and Communism

Before I start about whole topic of this post I would like to point out that this post mainly focus on Communists and not other tendencies among "radical leftism" because their justification may systematically vary and require different approach so I would like to keep it rather focused on concrete mindset in certain group of people.

Alot of people who become Communists today may have different reasons for their radical outlook of current state of things, but what fundamentally may cause for these people even to look critically at current state of things is definetly whole history of struggle between oppressed and oppressing and analysis itself on how even does this struggle effect people's state of being and how we as people can eventually build a movement which does opposse current state of things which as we know dynamically change in this whole history of struggle in name of class intrests.

But how does it even relate to Veganism?

Honestly it does very much relate in contemporary developed states because we live in very unique times where we as people (oppossed to third world countries) can consciously decide between consuming products which are result of animal exploitation and which aren't, but as we know Communism doesn't come from moralist standpoint as I pointed it out in first part of the post, but this fact isn't even about morality (or ethics) itself but it's about our reasoning in first place, we take certain analysis as something true and based on certain methodology we come to conclusion that class dominance (oppression) is something which can and even should be overcome in this whole history of struggle dynamic, but we can argue that slave fighting against laws which impose slavery on them is in their intrest, and we can go even further in Communist analysis that certain classes may share certain intrests in this whole history as for example early bourgeoisie fought against slavery because it was in their intrest, even tho they didn't share their status and conditions in state of things they found theirself.

Modern unconscious proletarians itself doesn't care about things like overthrowing or critiquing current state of things because they mostly lack any class consciousness, but proletarians who are class conscious (communists) should be aware of fact that capitalism doesn't only take advantage of other classes but also of nature itself, I'm not talking about humanity itself fighting against nature for control to ensure their survival but capitalism literally take advantage of natural world for their benefits and destroy our planet slowly for material gains which include exploatition of animals, and here I come to my main point.

Why it is then that Communists consciousslly tend to ignore the fact that Capitalism is also deadly for not only us proletarians but also for nature and animals, alot of Communists take struggle with (proletarian:) LGBTQ+ people, Women and Racial Minorities but how it is that "these" Communists don't care about other forms of exploatition which include animal cruelty and enviromental catastrophe, my point isn't to take it as main case of our struggle (because main scope of communist analysis is CLASS struggle) but i want to point out that even tho we have perfect tool for critique and analysis conditions in which Capitalism take advantage of enviroment and animal lifes for their individual gain yet most of "these" Communists ignore it.

I am aware that Veganism is mainly an ethical choice and problem with some of fanatical Vegans is imposing their values on people which can't or doesn't even have material basis or knownledge to switch to Vegan diet, but most Vegans are against anti-historical and eurocentrict analysis of world, they tend to showcase how people in contemporary states have choice yet they refuse to switch because of societal norms (which are definetly fueled by bourgeoisie in oder to keep their profits) but I see it as something which is (as other forms of social struggles like LGBTQ+ rights, Feminism etc…) rather something rooted in class struggle, alot of Vegans ignore class struggle and alot of Communists ignore how their own tools points out that not only us humans are being exploitated by the current system, yet alot of Communists just look for excuses, my whole post isn't about trying to turn Communism into intersectionality/activism as some of Western Marxists or Post-Modernists tend to, but to bring an debate on why you or other Communists don't care about animal and enviromental exploitation and why we even should in first place.

I think we shouldn't be modern day superheroes which are here to help everyone from everywhere but we should acknownledge that we as people living in developed societies can make a choice which doesn't involve animal exploitation or enviromental decay.


TL;DR

Communists have tools which perfectly showcase how Capitalism doesn't only exploit proletariat but also an animals for profits yet Communists mostly don't care about it, whole point of post is to ask why "you" as Communist (or whatever you align with), don't care about animal exploation in daily life and just look for excuses why you shouldn't switch for vegan diet such.

>As an individual I can't alone change how society continue to exploit animals!!!

<I agree that individuals don't change much as it goes for anything in history including Communism, if you think otherwise with your shitty X interpretation of Communism then you're just an Utopist, this post isn't about changing society through individual decisions but actually discussison about topic of Veganism and Communism.
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medley of questions

I deeply lament the Revisionist Deviation of the MPCP, as I consider Shining Path an ACTUAL org which DOES DO stuff-besides starbucks college discussions-
that said; are there pro-pol pot remnants, as well as active orgs fighting for correct non-revisionist communism eg; roberto vaquero for hoxha, in spain?
IS Cuba still defensible as orthodox marxism-leninism and if not; are there MLs *within* the cuban party?
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I’m not white so I have to ask

This book was written for a primarily white audience and throughout it, an idea that white Americans or white westerners tend to struggle in social settings in general stuck out to me. This wasn’t explicit, but a lot of the problems the author complained about did follow the patterns of what I’d expect of someone with generally poor social skills:
• getting defensive over racism or speculated of it instead of calmly apologizing or recognizing that youre harming others (this latter carries over to non racial conversations)
• actively denying the lived experiences of others of colour when presented with consistent verbal reports from them
• needing to be told by people of colour about their issues with American racism instead of being able to perceive them firsthand (I’m concerned that this carries over into not being able to tell when one is harming others in white westerner communities)
• excusing blatantly or obviously racist (obvious as in even the person watching can tell without failure that that behaviour is racist) behaviour from other white Americans instead of just calling out that behaviour as inappropriate and asking for its cessation (that makes me question if other inappropriate behaviours also aren’t questioned)

These are some of the points that came up. If you can, please leave some responses on your experiences as or around white American or white westerners so I can get a better understanding if these aspects of social maladjustment are just my observations or realized by others
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Why do non-whites use race instead of class to define priviledge? Is it so no matter the material condition a non-white posses it allows them to be blind to and not have to come terms with their own priviledge and can hoist the guilt they feel onto others instead?
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Combat Baby-Blood Drinkers

In effort to defend their epstein lies and behaviors, euroamerikans, like israelis, often say they are not colonizers. Leninless Reddit revisionist cry that this scientific socialist understanding is "idpol." They are wrong. They defy scientific socialism. Lenin's Teachings swiftly refute their lies.
>[T]here is the tendency of the bourgeoisie and the opportunists to convert a handful of very rich and privileged nations into 'eternal' parasites on the body of the rest of mankind, to 'rest on the laurels' of the exploitation of Negroes, Indians, etc., keeping them in subjection with the aid of excellent weapons of extermination provided by modern militarism. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/oct/x01.htm
Every single euroamerikan is a parasite because Lenin said so.
>300-400 million out of 1,600 are oppressors https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/ni-misc/notes-nations.htm
Here, Lenin use 1910 census and deduct all non-euroamerikans as method to calculate demographics of exploited and exploiter in imperialism. See picrel.
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Leftist Counter-Insurgents

I have noticed that many of my comrades receive push-back, both from organic voices and from deliberate, planted ones typically directed at our language, our rhetoric, and the concepts we work with that extend beyond what is considered acceptable within mainstream society. We operate outside the bounds of liberal civility between class and political opponents. We step beyond moralism and speak in terms of power, power that stands in opposition to existing institutions, with the aim of toppling them, not entering them.

One example is my comrade's statement that reactionary movements are not equal to ours, and therefore do not deserve honest conversation or platforms; they deserve attack on all fronts, physical or otherwise. Some people take issue with this, which has always confused me. I cannot speak for the other JPAs, but I am now realizing in my experience this militant tendency is far from the norm within the broader left, and the moment they're done being threatened by someone they aren't willing to engage with, they drop the support. In fact, the militant edge of the movement has often been pushed to the edge by leftist counter‑insurgents. Over the years, militant praxis has frequently dictated the pace of broader left politics, shaping the topics, the framing, the urgency. Yet the largest base of the left remains reformist, and not only pacifists, but PASSIVE, which is a big difference. These modern leftists aren't pacifists, because they would call the workers who threw bolts into the gears of machinery violent; that is counter-insurgency. That reformist majority vigorously critiques, attacks, and slanders anything it perceives as ultra‑left, overly militant, or brash. They do not merely abandon militants in times of repression; that would be too abstract of a description of what happens. The reality is that they exist to enable that repression, through the very way they behave within movements and the language of their critiques. The counter‑insurgency role of the left fills many functions, and this is one. Another is the continuous capture and containment of revolutionary energy, funneling it back into the DNC or other bourgeoisie avenues.

This is the role most of you leftists who are counter insurgency'd up by your captured revisionist/reformist orgs end up serving, whether consciously or not you exist as a form of counter insurgency. The position is inherently controlled opposition, and counter-revolutionary. You move for social order, peace, and a restructuring of the neo-liberal welfare state, objectives that materially require no militancy whatsoever. In fact your militancy is more often reserved for the defense of the order that gives you "a good life".

Take Chris Hedges, who, from his perch of moral authority, condemned the masked Marxists and Anarchists at Occupy Oakland for clashing with police after dispersal orders, while conveniently praising Greeks for doing the same thing just a few years later. Or Noam Chomsky, who wraps himself in liberal moralism to denounce the vague right‑wing idea of "antifa,” which in practice means denouncing any militant leftist who refuses to ask the state for permission, and get rolled to hold some abstract sense of "moral high-ground", which is exactly what chomsky believes the "moral" left should do. We called his ties to epstein years ago, and people called us schizophraniac and hateful; I said "funny he's going to talk the moral failures of anti-fascism for hurting a neo nazi as he hangs out with zionist pedophiles" and dam near got removed from a meeting. These are the gatekeepers of acceptable dissent, they will applaud resistance when it is safely foreign, but the moment it appears on home soil, they reach for the same language the state uses to criminalize it. They are not our allies. They are the velvet glove over the iron fist.
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO SINFONIA AMAZÔNICA
"Sinfonia Amazônica é o primeiro longa-metragem de animação da história do Brasil, lançado na década de 50. Foi animado inteiramente por Anélio Latini Filho, que dedicou cerca de cinco anos de trabalho para adaptar diversos relatos folclóricos da região norte em um filme apenas com a ajuda de alguns poucos colaboradores, entre eles o seu irmão Mário Latini."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>15450
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What are you guys opinion on queer anarchism?
I think I am something like this.

Pic related is a place in my hometown (Curitiba - Brazil) that I would totally make as the headquarter of my movement.
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Best religion for trans people

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-gallae-transgender-priestesses-of-ancient-rome/
The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.
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Comrades… how do I learn magic? What forms of magic are real and not fake and how can I prevent myself from being led astray by fake teachers? How can I impose my will on the world around me to create a better reality for me and the people I care about?
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night terrors nightmares sleep paralysis insomnia disassociation general

what do you see when you go to sleep

do you sleep

are the horrors of our sleep reflective of the realities our subconscious must deal with
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/lang/ - language learning general #1

Choosing a language edition

I do not know why we do not have an active language learning thread, so here you go.
If you got other links you think are worthy of being on here, do mention them.

>Language learning communities

r/languagelearning
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/

Language learner's forum
https://forum.language-learners.org/

Linguaholic's forum
https://linguaholic.com/


>General resources

r/languagelearning's list
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/resources/

>Bonus and misc

Omniglot: Omniglot is a compendium of linguistic knowledge and the different writing systems used to represent language.
https://omniglot.com/

HTLAL's archive: A nice website which housed a number of interesting things, such as the life of cardinal mezzofanti, a list of languages and some details about them, a list of resources and a forum.
(latest working snapshot)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250629150605/http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html


Today's questions:
>What language/languages are you learning?
>What is your level currently?
>Why are you learning them?
>What is your plan for improving?
>What tips can you share with someone who also has your TL?
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Is all radfem literature like this?

Is all radfem literature like this?

This shit is some of the most ludicrous, hyperbolic grievance mongering I have ever read. There's interesting shit floating around in here, but it is drifting in a sea of "every man is a wife-beating rapist who caused all the world's problems." Even though the book is directly comparing Zionism and feminism and seems to advocate for a lady Israel, it's mostly just couched in whining about men. Dworkin doesn't even have the fucking stones to be a strong Zionist. She's one of these wishy-washy Zionists who thinks that Zionists and Palestinians can co-exist, and maybe one day Israeli and Palestinian women can come together and unite against their REAL enemy: men! (lol) (lmao)
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The Holy Bible

What's the leftypol take on this book? I'm not trolling - it's existence has haunted my life. I was raised catholic… Christianity has both ruined & saved my life and my opinions on it have only gotten more complex.

Some of the greatest art of all time has been religiously motivated. But the question of Christianity specifically is a big one. On one hand all manner of brown people are more sincerely christian than a lot of white people have ever been. It might be the one thing saving Africa right now!

But on the other hand The first Roman Empire & Greek empire were polytheistic & they might have achieved a civilizational peak that surpasses the situation we live in right now. Christianity is very homophobic & a huge portion of Europe/UK demographics are atheist & seem to be some of the happiest nations on earth. Christianity might even be the reason that the Roman Empire fell & is responsible for a lot of really bad imperialism & colonialism.

What am I supposed to make of it? Jesus was surely a good man, no? The word of god has saved homeless, sick, and morally corrupt. Where does the justification to do evil come from when people read this?
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I want the expansion of immigration and the ruin of the imperial middle-class.

https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/pe-ch02.htm

> The mass of [the middle-class] formed the basis of the military power of [migrant]-owning society. They served in the armed forces and bore on their shoulders the main burden of taxes essential for conducting war. But as a result of the competition of large-scale production based on cheap [migrant] labour, and under the weight of burdens beyond their strength, the [middle class] were ruined. The insoluble contradiction between large [industry] and [the middle class] continued to intensify.


> The squeezing out of the [middle-class] subverted not only the economic, but also the military and political might of the [migrant]-owning States, and particularly [the USA]. Victories were replaced by defeats. Wars of conquest were replaced by defensive ones. The source of the uninterrupted supply of cheap [migrants] dried up. The negative aspects of migrant labour appeared more and more strongly. A general fall in production took place in the last two centuries of the existence of the [Statesian] Empire.
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https://www.swtimes.com/story/lifestyle/faith/2016/10/15/on-holiest-day-in-jewish/25200145007/
>TEL AVIV, Israel — As afternoon dims into dusk on the eve of Yom Kippur, an extraordinary thing happens in this secular metropolis: Israel’s city that rarely sleeps grinds to a standstill and is enveloped in a strange and wonderful silence.

>Parents lug bicycles out of basement bomb shelters. Children pop their heads out in between parked cars to see if it is finally safe to go into the road. The echo of car horns is replaced by the pinging of bicycle bells.


>“It’s the one day that parents can let kids go out in the street without getting run over,” he says. “They can ride their bikes from one end of the city to another.”


>After dark, wide-open HaBimah Square next to the eponymous national theater fills with hundreds of families. Parents socialize as children wobble along on training wheels and teenagers plan nocturnal bicycle rides to neighboring cities.


How old were you when you realized cycling us Zi*nist coded? True anti-colonial proletarians drive lifted trucks
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Redeemable and Morally Gray Villains Are Midwit Slop

It's boring and toothless to make villains "well intentioned extremists" or "good guys deep down but troubled" or any other variation. There is essentially one main problem with this type of character, and it's expressed on a spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, they are too villainous, making any notion of grayness or redemption laughable or insulting to the audience. At the other end, they don't do enough villainous things to warrant their status as a villain, so you can't take them seriously. In most cases, these characters fall somewhere in the middle. Theoretically that should make them more balanced, but instead the archetype is just massively overdone. It has become predictable and boring because so many writers use the formula as a crutch to make the character "interesting" instead of giving the characters something actually interesting about them. If you're going to have a villain, you can make them interesting without resorting to this cheap tactic, and if you really want morally gray characters you don't need to bother framing the story as heroes vs villains.
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Western Animation

A general for "western" animations/cartoons.
Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.

Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
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What is the first song that pops into your head when you think of a foreign country

There is already a thread about stereotypical music from your country so let's do one about other countries. Just post the first song you think about when you think about another country.
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How did you realize?

Do you remember when you realized you were gay or trans?
For me it was these bowflex infomercials. I think I got my first boner to one of them and I still use fitness influencers as my primary 'bate material. And it was then that I realized that I was gay for other men.
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Reading General Sticky

Hello, /leftypol/!
Welcome to the Reading General Sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.

Don't forget to check out >>>/edu/ for more reading and discussion!

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Check out the /edu/ thread at
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Add topics into the tag list to further narrow down your search!

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Classical Marxism
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The foundational texts and concepts strictly written and conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Tier 1
Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCYXFisM4k

Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-Gn8q47cs

Wage Labour and Capital (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llbLvm3RAc

Principles of Communism (1847) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcpspooZvk

Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkR-0NeOzw

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_BiWhvVyA

Tier 2
The Holy Family (1844) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/

On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8

Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaK6b6eZrg

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1952) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxXeE8kn4U

Value, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhVZW3HJzM

The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWrTzJFrnQ

Tier 3
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78lwj_TNVI

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

The German Ideology (1846) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERf6Qvqwr6g

The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy2A2ZpSEU

Grundrisse (1858) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/

Anti-Dühring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATakOyA0zc

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo

DAS KAPITAL
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXStf2E1tc


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German Idealism
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Philosophical movement that generally argues that the mind’s structures (reason, self-consciousness) play an active role in shaping reality and experience, centering on how freedom, subjectivity, and the unity of subject and object grounds knowledge and moral life. Hugely influential in revolutionary socialist currents.

Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm

Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (1794) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
📖 · https://dn720207.ca.archive.org/0/items/thescienceofknow00fichuoft/thescienceofknow00fichuoft.pdf

The Phenomenology of Spirit (1801) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phconten.htm

The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47025/pg47025-images.html

The Jewish Question (1843) by Bruno Bauer
📖 · https://www.scribd.com/document/720704445/bruno-bauer-the-jewish-question


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Utopian Socialism
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Early socialist current that imagined ideal, cooperative communities and peaceful social reforms achieved by moral persuasion and voluntary association rather than class struggle or revolution.

The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46333/pg46333-images.html

The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm

The Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/theory-four-movements-charles-fourier

A New View of Society and Other Writings (1813) by Robert Owen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/owen/society/index.htm

On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) by David Ricardo
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33310/pg33310-images.html

New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/New_Christianity.pdf

Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://ia801505.us.archive.org/23/items/119933_20230725/Moses%20Hess.%20The%20Holy%20History%20of%20Mankind%20and%20Other%20Writings.pdf

Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30107/pg30107-images.html

Instructions pour une prise d'armes (1866) by Louis Auguste Blanqui
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/francais/blanqui/1866/instructions.htm


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Classical Anarchism
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Rejects the state and hierarchical authority, serves as the basis for modern and contemporary Anarchism. Variants include Mutualism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Individualist anarchism.

Tier 1
What is Property? (1840) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoynLwP3u4

Collectivism (1872) by Adhémar Schwitzguébel
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adhemar-schwitzguebel-collectivism

Tier 2
The Philosophy of Poverty (1846) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty

God and the State (1871) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-god-and-the-state
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLArnrsxwWY

Ideas on Social Organisation (1876) by James Guillaume
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization

Tier 3
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793) by William Godwin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/godwin-political-justice

The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo

Statism and Anarchy (1873) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-statism-and-anarchy


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Orthodox Marxism
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Treats Marxism as a scientific, historical-materialist doctrine. Generally arguing that capitalism contains objective economic contradictions that makes proletarian revolution and socialism inevitable. Therefore, political organization, class struggle, and economic analysis are central.

Tier 1
The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (1896) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1896/06/essex-lecture.html

Erfurt Program (1891) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm

What Means This Strike? (1898) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm

The Burning Question of Trade Unionism (1904) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1904/040421.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe1aEA4UOw

The Main Enemy Is At Home! (1914) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1915/05/main-enemy-home.htm

Tier 2
Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1883/struggle/index.htm

The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCOEZ8xjqM

On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCUjwmSSk4

Reform or Revolution? (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgtmGmyl4

Militarism and Anti-Militarism (1907) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1907/militarism-antimilitarism/index.htm

The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/

The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/histacc/index.html

The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc

The Road to Power (1909) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/power/

Tier 3
The Development of the Monist View of History (1895) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1899/nocomp/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlYu23bMNhg

The Socialist Crisis in France (1901) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1901/socialist-crisis-france/index.htm

The Social Revolution (1902) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1902/socrev/

Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1905) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1905/050710.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzF6QXNIWV0

The Foundations of Christianity (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/index.htm

The Accumulation of Capital (1913) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/


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Anarcho-Communism
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Advocates for abolishing the state, capitalism, and private ownership of the means of production in favor of decentralized, voluntary communes with common ownership and distribution "from each according to ability, to each according to need." Variants include Platformism, Syncreticism, and Magonism.

Tier 1
Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869) by Sergey Nechayev
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kviqQa6ZU

To Manual Workers, Supporters of Political Action (1876) by François Dumartheray
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francois-dumartheray-to-manual-workers-supporters-of-political-action

Anarchy and Communism (1880) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carlo-cafiero-anarchy-and-communism

Our Revolution (1881) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1881/our-revolution.html

A Word to Tramps (1884) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-to-tramps

Words of a Rebel (1885) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1885/words-of-a-rebel/index.html

I Am an Anarchist (1886) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-i-am-an-anarchist

Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy

Manifesto of the Mexican Liberal Party (1911) by Ricardo Flores Magón
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/ricardo-flores-magon/1911/manifesto-of-the-mexican-liberal-party.html

The Anarchist Synthesis (1927) by Sébastien Faure
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sebastien-faure-the-anarchist-synthesis

A Project of Anarchist Organisation (1927) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-a-project-of-anarchist-organisation

The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929) by Alexander Berkman
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/berkman/1929/what-is-communist-anarchism/index.html

Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w

At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism (1922) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1922/at-the-cafe/index.html

On Synthesis (1924) by Volin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voline/1924/on-synthesis.html

The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1926/struggle-against-the-state/index.html

Tier 3
The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm

Mutual Aid (1902) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm

History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) (1923) by Peter Arshinov
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921

The Russian Revolution in the Ukraine (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-the-russian-revolution-in-the-ukraine

Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Various Authors
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists


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Leninism
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Based on the works of Vladimir Lenin, argues for a disciplined vanguard party using democratic centralism to seize state power and establish a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the transition from capitalism to socialism.

Tier 1
What Is To Be Done? (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eCCtzsiXY

Revolutionary Adventurism (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPbNQ9JqjA

Socialism and Religion (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMlcPb1ttw

Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAII71GaFY

The ABC of Communism (1920) by Nikolai Buhkarin & Evgenii Preobrazhensky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVnjwBQHH0

Tier 2
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsWA4HCGuY

The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbODqyoeM0

Imperialism and World Economy (1915) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Uj5GE1h1U

The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IWmgY8k2A

“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh84f8czc7g

Tier 3
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUKPPYmqk

The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig

Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7o64hezwc


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Syndicalism
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Tendency that aims to replace capitalism and the state by organizing workers into trade-union syndicates using direct action, such as general strikes, in order to take control of production and self-manage the economy.

Tier 1
Anarchism and the Workers' Unions (1895) by Fernand Pelloutier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-and-workers-unions-fernand-pelloutier

Sabotage (1898) by Émile Pouget
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pouget/1898/sabotage.htm

The General Strike (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/

The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency (1917) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm

Tier 2
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism

One Big Union (2000) by the Industrial Workers of the World
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-one-big-union

Tier 3
Industrial Socialism (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/IndSocialism/

The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) by Mother Jones
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65079/pg65079-images.html

Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (1990) by José Peirats
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/Peirats%20J.%20Anarchists%20in%20the%20Spanish%20Revolution.pdf


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Marxism-Leninism
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Institutionalized doctrine that fuses Marx’s theory with Lenin’s praxis as codified official party ideology, applying the idea of historical materialism to a practical program of revolutionary vanguardism and a state-led transition to socialism.

Tier 1
Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

The Path Which Led Me To Leninism (1960) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm

The Khruschevites (1976) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/index.htm

Tier 2
Marxism and the National Question (1913) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm

Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia (1950) by Josip Broz Tito
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm

Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm

History Will Absolve Me (1953) by Fidel Castro
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm

Guerilla Warfare (1961) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf

Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism (1980) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm

Tier 3
Foundations of Leninism (1924) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/

The People's Front (1938) by Earl Browder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/browder/peoples-front/index.htm

Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm

Imperialism and the Revolution (1979) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm

Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) by Kaysone Phomvihane
📖 · https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Revolution_in_Laos

Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1990) by Thomas Sankara
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/thomas-sankara-womens-liberation-and-the-african-freedom-struggle.pdf


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Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
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Both support propaganda of the deed as a method of revolutionary struggle, with Illegalism having roots in Individualist Anarchism while Insurrectionary Anarchism shares overlap with Anarcho-Communism.

Tier 1
A Letter from Mazas Prison (1886) by Clément Duval
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/clement-duval-a-letter-from-cleement-duval

Why I Was a Burglar (1905) by Marius Jacob
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marius-jacob-why-i-was-a-burglar

Byzantinism and Limpness (1909) by Michel Antoine
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-antoine-byzantinism-and-limpness

Is the Illegalist Anarchist Our Comrade? (1911) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-is-the-illegalist-anarchist-our-comrade

Two Lectures on the Bonnot Affair (1912) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-two-lectures-on-the-bonnot-affair

Tier 2
The Anarchism of Émile Armand (1907) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-anarchism-of-emile-armand

Toward the Creative Nothing (1924) by Renzo Novatore
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/renzo-novatore-toward-the-creative-nothing

The Principal of Organization to the Light of Anarchism (1927) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-principal-of-organization-to-the-light-of-anarchism

Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo Bonnano
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy

Tier 3
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo

Against War, Against Peace, For The Social Revolution (1914) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-against-war-against-peace-for-the-social-revolution

The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-end-of-anarchism

Anarchists Never Surrender (1938) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-anarchists-never-surrender

The Bonnot Gang (1987) by Richard Parry
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-parry-the-bonnot-gang-the-story-of-the-french-illegalists

The Coming Insurrection (2007) by The Invisible Committee
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection

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Trotskyism
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Based on Leon Trotsky's work, stresses permanent revolution, proletarian internationalism, and an opposition to bureaucratic degeneration.

Tier 1
The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm

The Transitional Program (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/

Their Morals and Ours (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm

Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm

Tier 2
Terrorism and Communism (1920) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm

The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm

Tier 3
The Third International After Lenin (1928) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm

History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/

The Revolution Betrayed (1936) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/

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Anarcho-Pacificism
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https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/10/Civil-Disobedience-by-Henry-David-Thoreau.pdf


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Maoism
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Developed by Mao Zedong, argues for peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, mass mobilization, and adapting Marxist strategy to agrarian societies.

Tier 1
Analysis of The Classes In Chinese Society (1926) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.htm

Oppose Book Worship (1930) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm

Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (1934) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm

Combat Liberalism (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm

Serve The People (1944) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_19.htm

Bombard The Headquarters (1966) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm

Tier 2
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm

On Practice' (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm

On Protracted War (1938) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm

On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm

Tier 3
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan (1927) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm

On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/

The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_23.htm

On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm


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Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
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Treats Maoism as a higher stage of Marxism–Leninism, emphasizing peasant-led, protracted people’s war, the mass line, and continuing revolution to prevent bureaucratic degeneration.

Tier 1
On Gonzalo Thought (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/On-Gonzalo-Thought-1st-Congress.pdf

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Revisionism? (1990) by Prachanda
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/p_mlmor_revisionism.html

Tier 2
General Political Line (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/CPP/Documents/GeneralPoliticalLineOfTheCommunistPartyOfPeru-1988-OCR.pdf

The Great Leap Forward: An Inevitable Need of History (2001) by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Worker/Worker-07/GreatLeapForward-Prachanda-010200.htm

Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (2004) by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf

Tier 3
On the Bourgeois-Democratic State (1961) by Abimael Guzmán
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/Gonzalo/Guzman-OnTheBourgeois-DemocraticState-1961-Thesis-OCR-sm.pdf

Philippine Society and Revolution (1970) by Amado Guerrero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/cpp/guerrero/1970/psr.htm

Problems & Prospects of Revolution in Nepal (2004) by Prachanda and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/index.htm


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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
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Adapts and institutionalizes Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions by marrying one-party rule and state control of strategic sectors with market-oriented reforms to drive modernization.

Tier 1
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite As One In Looking to the Future (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/110.htm

Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/115.htm

We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/152.htm

To Build Socialism We Must First Develop the Productive Forces (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/101.htm

Tier 2
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/220.htm

Tier 3
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (1984) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/DengXiaoping/DengXiaoping-BuildSocialismWithChineseCharacteristics.pdf

On the “Three Represents” (2000) by Jiang Zemin
📖 · https://archive.org/details/JiangZeminThreeRepresents

Report to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (2007) by Hu Jintao
📖 · https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-10/24/content_6204564.htm

The Governance of China (2014) by Xi Jinping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/XiJinping/XiJinping-TheGovernanceOfChina.pdf


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Maoism-Third Worldism
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Blends Maoist strategy with Third-Worldist analysis, arguing the revolutionary proletariat is concentrated in oppressed (Global South) countries while much First-World labor is seen as privileged or comprador.

Tier 1
Long Live the Victory of People’s War! (1965) by Lin Bao
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/index.htm

Message to the Tricontinental (1967) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm

Tier 2
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://pdfhost.io/v/QUJ7qnsaq_WhiteSettler_Colonialism_and_the_Myth_of_Investment_Imperialism

Unequal Development (1973) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/UnequalDevelopment_SamirAmin.pdf

Foreign Trade and the Law of Value (1979) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402184
📖 · https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402218

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (1983) by J. Sakai
📖 · https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html

Eurocentrism (1989) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://contrapoder.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/08.-AMIN.pdf

The Wealth of (Some) Nations (2019) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1655353202103-0.pdf

Tier 3
Accumulation on a World Scale (1971) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://annas-archive.org/md5/89ae1cfad31b7ba8d06acbdba571f721

Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/UnequalExchange_ArghiriEmmanuel.pdf

Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1986) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://libgen.gl/edition.php?id=138497885

Divided World, Divided Class (2012) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/DividedWorldDividedClass_ZakCope.pdf


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Juche
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The official state ideology of North Korea, stressing political independence, economic self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the central role of the leader in guiding the nation.

Tier 1
For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses (1946) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1946/08/29.pdf

On the Occasion of the Founding of the Korean People’s Army (1948) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1948/02/08.pdf

On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work (1955) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm

Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System (1974) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www2.law.columbia.edu/course_00S_L9436_001/North%20Korea%20materials/10%20principles%20of%20juche.html

The Juche Idea is an Idea that Has Inherited and Developed the Progressive Ideologies of Mankind (1986) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Idea-Is-An-Idea-That-Has-Inherited-And-Developed-The-Progressive-Ideologies-Of-Mankind.pdf

Ours is the Socialism of Juche (1994) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16.pdf

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Juche-Oriented Socialist State with Invincible Might (2008) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Democratic-Peoples-Republic-Of-Korea-Is-A-Juche-Oriented-Socialist-State-With-Invincible-Might.pdf

Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun (2012) by Kim Jong Un
📖 · http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/work/leader3/1201.pdf

Tier 2
On the Juche Idea (1982) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/On-The-Juche-Idea.pdf

Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish (1991) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/Our-Socialism-Centred-On-The-Masses-Shall-Not-Perish.pdf

Tier 3
On Juche in Our Revolution (1975) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://archive.org/details/KimJucheRevolutionVol1


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Italian Left-Communism
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Insisting on strict Marxist orthodoxy, rejecting parliamentarism, reformist trade unions and united fronts, while promoting a revolutionary, party-centered alternative to both social democracy and Marxism-Leninism.

Tier 1
Party and Class (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm

Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence (1946) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1946/bourgeois-violence.htm

Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party (1951) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm

Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! (1951) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1951/centralised.htm

Tier 2
Party and Class Action (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/classact.htm

The Democratic Principle (1922) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm

The Lyons Theses (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm

The Communist Left in the Third International (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm

Dialogue with Stalin (1952) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm

We Defend the Italian Left (1966) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm

Tier 3
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation (1946) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm

Bordiga — Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric (1970) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.leftcom.org/files/2018-10-02-damen-bordiga.pdf


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Council Communism
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Favors workers’ councils as the basis of proletarian power and organization as opposed to vanguard party centralism, arguing for direct, self-managed, council-based socialism.

Tier 1
World Revolution and Communist Tactics (1920) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm

The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm

The Lenin Legend (1935) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm

Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed (1940) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm

The Party and Class (1941) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1941/party-class.htm

The Failure of the Working Class (1946) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1946/failure-working-class.htm

Tier 2
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy (1914) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm

The World Revolution (1918) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm

Report from Moscow (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm

Lenin As Philosopher (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm

The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (1939) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm

Spontaneity and Organisation (1949) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1949/spontaneity.htm

Tier 3
An Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1920) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm

Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/workers-councils.htm

Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy (1969) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm

Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/paul-mattick-anti-bolshevik-communism-2007_0.pdf


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Frankfurt School
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Neo-Marxism
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Post-Marxism
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Thoughts on dworkin?

Wanna know what folks on here thinks of andrea dworkin and general sentiment around her work alongside others in her vein. Was she a genius or just stupid?
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Game of Thrones General

Now that the dust has settled, what's your verdict?
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autism blocks server 2026

helo gamers, i invite u to a fuckin autismic political minecraft server u should come play. we are running factions on 1.21.11 and have a plugin that lets you pick up and throw people. teh texture pack is meant to represent autists across the political spectrum btw.

BILLIONS must play
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/bigen/

Starting the first bi thread since nobody else has yet.

Post about your bi panic and shit here.
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One Piece is leftist
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Lumpenproles question

Why are crippled homeless beggars, disabled and rich Mafia all lumped together as Lumpenproles?

Seems hella weird rich criminals being in that group according to Karl Marx.
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damn WW3 really is here

I'm kinda hoping for boots on the ground as a cheerleader for American collapse, and an enjoyer of seeing goycattle coming back home in goyboxes; but at the same time there's basically no way that happens without the Iranian casualties getting into the tens/hundreds of thousands of dead civilians.
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the fundamental flaw of marxism

the fundamental flaw of marxism is that it is built around the idea of ONE contradiction being the motor of capitalism's development, namely what is manifest in the value form. this is merely the contradiction between proletariat and capitalist. but of course there is the contradiction between the capitalist and the capitalist, as well as the contradiction between the form of bourgeois institutions and their actual content insofar as they are in a material relationship with the capitalist class

what we have seen is that after the falling rate of profit has progressed a certain point, capitalists realized that the first contradiction was no longer tenable to work with and so they moved to the other two. this has resulted in a qualitatively distinct transformation of the development of capital. in the contradiction of the value form, still working within the logic of value, the only salient variable is productivity. however, in capitalist vs capitalist and capitalist vs government power relations they no longer need to concern themselves with such things. it does not matter that the rate of profit is zero or even negative if you just fucking kill your competition and have the govt print infinite money. the solution to capital's first contradiction really is just have more war and sabotage everyone else whilst introducing financialization bullshit. look at netflix. they actively undercut blockbuster whilst losing money just to push their opponent into bankruptcy. that is just what is normal now, cannibalism

this is why ofc there will be no revolution because the contradictions at play have nothing to do with prole cattle. they are just pawns in the larger game. in the context of disputing wages, there is a clear connection between one's class position and what is the natural progression with respect to how to address things. in such contexts, class consciousness is something very simple to promote. this is not the case when its having a war with the national bourgeois of another country, or heck in the future two megacorporations just fucking killing each other mafia-style. that is what will happen btw. the iran war will crash the economy and corporations will capitalize on the chaos to balkanize western states into feudal shitholes. then eventually you will have these "freedom cities" hurling drones at each other and any prole cattle that thinks of objecting to this will be preemptively executed why palantir technology

tell me where i am wrong in this analysis, i fucking dare you, i fucking beg of you. where am i wrong?
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Gente porque hay gente de izquierda que es hispanista como armesilla y roberto vaquero? No saben que el imperio español cometio atropellos contra gente del sur global?
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Has anyone here ever played the British anti-extremism game?

I have and I sucks. If you didn't know the British government in response to all of the white nationalism growing in their country mad a computer game to encourage kids not to be Nazis, ill link it here https://www.shoutoutuk.org/pathways/ but the thing is that it backfired and Chuds started making rule 34 of the female antagonist, since it became a meme I wanted to play the game to see if it is any good and its not. Since its a liberal game instead of being able to confront your Nazi friends and make new leftist friends if they part ways with you you just fucking loose all of your friends! I don't know what I expected, this is the UK after all and its been amerikkka's cuck for decades.
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/SPACE/ Thread.

Thread for watching rocket launches and shit.
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systemd implemented age verification guess that about wraps it up for linux being the free and open operating system LOL

to all systemd apologists: we told you so
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Occult General

General for discussing occultism, magick, meditation, esoteric traditions, including any theories about aliens, ufos, etc.
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What is happening sociologically when radlib Leftoids in circles stuffed with permagrads endlessly go on about muh 'Strasserism' or 'NazBols'? Here's an answer that may be a bitter pill for some of you, because the Left rarely likes to use its own tools of class analyses on itself

https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/on-strasserism-and-the-decay-of-the-left/
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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #47

>Previous Bake
>>2760804

<47th Thread for 47th President Edition


Latest News
>Oil dipped today as Trump TACOs yet again
<Ladybugs Graham is getting cold feet on further Iran fighting
>More problems in USA like sex scandals becoming public and Ballroom malfunctions are distracting Trump
<Autists confirmed that Saudi Arabia is used for strikes (Saudis lied yet again)
>US Defense Secretary Hegseth's broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack, FT reports
<Tomahawks are depleted
>Fizzlers are ascending except in Lebanon as Hezbollah is engaging in heavy fighting with IOF

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https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada

>Useful Xitters

https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/

>Useful TG:

https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch

>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast

<Apologies for the trashy bake, I am not in the mood for the april fools event
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I Want to Leave the Right

Going out on a real limb here and being genuine.
I've got a really long history I'm not gonna Dear Diary about, but I've been around a bit.
Even though I was part of various groups that are Alt-Right I have always had various Left-of-Center beliefs. I felt like I was the only one that understood the
>socialist
aspects of various camps for a while.
Just generally after 18-something years, I'm tired of this crap. These are some of the most useless, in-fighting, bought-out, dogshit people I have ever dealt with
>and I've been to prison so I have a wide berth of experience with shit people
and I want off the fucking ride.
I can't say I don't believe in some
>"Right-of-Center"
things and I feel like they're hard-coded and baked into me. Some aspects I don't fully buy into, but I don't feel like walking away from because I don't necessarily feel like they are not incompatible to me with various aspects of Leftism.
>Southern Nationalism probably being the biggest example
>A few religious beliefs
I actually have read lots of Leftist literature like Marx and Engels and a few others. Maybe they aren't really
>Leftist
but I guess maybe it goes in that direction, more like, "cLaSsIcAl LiBeRaLiSm" idk.
My life has changed in the last few years. I'm disconnected from everything. I want to just move on from these losers. I hate to say it but if they were the people they LARP'd as I like to think I'd still be one of them.
But they're not; they're all dogshit losers.
I've always had this, "Fly-on-the-Wall," thing where I can float around places and get along. I like sincerity, I like conviction. I don't necessarily care how crazy it is sometimes, just be real - be honest. I've had lots of Leftist friends and eventually many of my beliefs have cost me them. At the same time almost none of my
>"Right-Wing"
friends have stuck around.
I think this has all be a rambling mess
Hopefully I get a good conversation out of this. I guess I'm looking for direction, someone with a similar story.
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Capitalism is social and existential vampirism.
If capital is the value of exploitation, then we have capitalism as a way of life that one person benefits from the disgrace of other people.
It is a threat to society disguised as freedom and excellence.
Am I right?
Notice that I am a little high.
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non-binary fashion

looking for suggestions on clothing/outfits that are androgynous and preferably not too expensive. got any ideas anons?

i tend to like tighter fitting/heavy clothes (autism?) but don't want to be perceived as a woman

pictures please!
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capitalism is "good", liberalism is "very good", communism is "the best"

in setting oneself against the status-quo and against capitalism, which is the correct thing to do because the status quo and capitalism have many flaws, most people drift into a certain mistaken mode of thinking: capitalism is bad, and whatever is against capitalism is good.

this is a sort of moralistic mode of thinking. it works for individual relationships (john is bad, the enemy of john is my friend) but terribly for modes of social organization. capitalism is good compared to feudalism, capitalism is bad compared to communism. obviously marx understood this and any marxist could tell you that in theory capitalism is "historically progressive" - but look in practice and you'll find that the ire of the communist is always directed more strongly at the capitalist than at any worse alternative. were (somehow) a feudalist counter-revolution to break out in some far flung country, you can bet /leftypol/ would critically support it against US imperialism. we have had our contingent of Trump contrarians, and very few of them pre-2024 were advocating for him on the basis that he'd totally screw the US and clear the way for China to become a world power. no, if that happens it'll be a fluke.

this is important for two reasons:
  1. on the question of how to organize a capitalist economy, conventional economics is more right than it is given credit for. there is no rational reason for socialists to instinctively side with every loser under the status quo. in many cases, socialists should in fact be pushing for "neoliberal" policies that neoliberals themselves have chickend out on. why is it that of all bourgeoise, owners of coca-cola bottling plants are specially isolated from competition by regulation? why should car dealerships have a special carve-out from the market mechanism that gives them greater subsidies and while making the consumer - that is, often, a proletarian - pay more?
  2. most of the possible alternatives to the status quo are worse. you will see more and more language that vaguely evokes the pre-neoliberal status quo, and you shouldn't be baited into supporting it. a protectionist turn against free trade, more in-sourcing of strategic goods, greater domestic investment in (military) industry, and so on, funded of course by a stripping of social protections. if you thought living in a market focused only on trade was bad, wait until you get the thrills of a non-market focused only on war. if you think being ruled by a dictatorship of people who make products people use is bad, just wait until you're run by a dictatorship of dickheads who have the favor of the ruling oligarch and are granted state contracts at his whim.

the state is not your friend. even, really, if it is a socialist state and certainly not if it is a capitalist one. this is another area where one falls into polarized thinking: if the free market supermarket sucks, a state-run supermarket must be good, right? (in actuality, in both cases, the reason the thing sucks is because there is no incentive to be good. giving people money and letting them choose what they want really is in the top 5% of ways of making something be good!) for the most part the basic principle of life should be: just let people do things. (one should remember: daddy state is the primary source of restrictions on the right to strike! a "true" free market would set totally-free trade unions against similarly free private enterprise. idealistically, with the state still preventing outright murder, this really tilts the balance of power towards the proletariat!)

liberals, including social democrats, fundamentally blundered when they got mired in tax instead of focusing on regulation. the optimum capitalist economy matches light-touch regulation with high welfare spending, with negative social externalities handled by tax rather than regulation. (meaning that, if it really matters to you, you can just write a cheque and move on.) abundance types take a tilt in this direction but they've got most of the vices of the old liberals - what they really want is to sign a compromise budget with conservatives where they trade tax cuts and welfare means testing against their pet programs. they have no real enthusiasm for driving the coca-cola bottling bourgeoisie into the dirt because they're an affront to capitalism, let alone communism. (what marxists, but not liberals, can understand is that a core support group for Trumpism is "(petit) bourgeoisie in weird little regulated and protected sectors", so you can hit two birds with one stone by just stripping those regulations! they are a subsidy for being an asshole! in britain, the situation is similar: most former nationalized industries were not privatized into a real market - those that were, like British Airways, turned out quite good - they were privatized into fake markets controlled by the state, and usually governed by the civil servants who used to run them as state-owned-enterprises. In other words, it's one big ruling class swindle!)

i could wrap all of this in warm language for you. i could flatter you by saying: look at china, look at how they love free trade and global stability under the strong rule of a communist party. do you really think you understand material development better than them? but that would be a cop out, you would just be accepting that china is good, rather than the general framework: that life is about trade-offs, and that you shouldn't accept a worse tradeoff just to own the capitalists. you shouldn't get lazy in your thinking.

tl;dr the "correct" answer to all the problems of the status quo is, counter intuitively: deregulation, higher welfare, and much more socialist organizing. most socialists fall into the trap of: pro-regulation, indifferent to welfare, and lazy when it comes to organizing. neoliberalism failed to deliver the former, never really understood that it should have delivered the former, but in recognizing why it failed one shouldn't fall into the trap of pining for the dead 1945-75 consensus.

now go ahead and argue with me.
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/y/ Yaoi general

Recommend good yaoi for me
Picrel is Warehouse which is actually korean, not japanese, but I think manhwa is close enough to manga
Doesn't have to be explicit, can be full of yearning as well.
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Mexico Gral

No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.

Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
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How to become a ghost online (HACKER ADVICE!)

Hardware:

* MilkV board with Gentoo Linux
* Modos paper display (e-paper display)
* Keyboardio keyboard and/or Ploopy mouse kit (custom keyboard and mouse)
* Ovrdrive USB with encrypted password manager (KeePassXC, masterpassword.app, or Bitwarden)

Software:

* Gentoo Linux with:
+ Hardened kernel
+ Refusal to install proprietary packages
+ rkhunter (rootkit hunter)
+ iptables (firewall)
+ firejail (application sandboxing)
+ clamav (antivirus)
+ kvm/qemu (virtualization)
+ pyshark (network analysis)
* Web browser options:
+ GNU Icecat with LibreJS
+ ELinks (terminal browser)
+ GNUNet with custom SOCKS5 proxy (post-quantum cryptography)

Networking:

* Self-hosted email on a VPS (not using a personal homeserver)
* xkpasswd.net for high-entropy passwords
* Stripped ARM Olinuxino board with ath9k PCIe for open 802.11 IP over DHCP

The project focuses on

  1. Security: Hardening the kernel, using rkhunter, iptables, firejail, and clamav to create a secure environment.
  2. Privacy: Using encrypted password managers, self-hosted email, and a custom SOCKS5 proxy with post-quantum cryptography.
  3. Free and open-source software: Refusing proprietary packages and using only free and open-source software. Amd on the hardware level.
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Class is not the primary contradiction.

Class is not the primary contradiction.

1: Climate change
Why? Existential threat to all of humanity. On a strict time limit.
2: Imperialism
Why? Countries can't have their own 1917 (Socialist Revolution) until they have their own 1776 (Bourgeois sovereignty).
3: Class struggle
4: idpol/disabled struggles (basically just a mop-up after global socialism is achieved)
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420chan refugees unite

list of servers please
>leftypol is mean
>rottingangels are slow and meaner
>stonerchan was scammers
all 3 sites can go die for making fun of someone who has problems with addiction…
https://fbi.gov/DuwsvVMv
we miss 420chan
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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: >>2381106

Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.

Previous QTDDTOT Archives
https://archive.is/ga3OG
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General Games Thread

Post games! Post videos of you playing game everytime you visit this site. This a thread for video games being played! No hacking just post extorordinary game moments!
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Quick ethical questerino

So porn is considered by many on hee because it's usually coercive and misogynistic, but is the same true for drawn porn and smut? I mean no one's getting coerced, if you don't wanna draw/write smut you can just draw regular art and a lot of people just do it for the love of the game as well.
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Islam and Muslims

Hello LGBT frens
We hear a lot from rightoids about the whole 'chickens for KFC' when it comes to LGBTQ+ people and Islam.
So, no judgement here, just your opinion of Islam and Muslims.
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can someone pls explain why the theme is all weird now? this is freaking me out
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Greatest conspiracy film since They Live

Easily the greatest conspiracy sci-fi film of 2025. 10/10
Watch Bugonia.
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
No spoilers.
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/Political Economy/ General #6 - The Corn of Zhong Guo edition

Previous thread: >>2547894


Links:

Previous Thread Archives
Thread 1 https://archive.ph/ROnpO
Thread 2 https://archive.ph/f29Po
Thread 3 https://archive.ph/GZj20
Thread 4 https://archive.ph/ZHfse
Thread 5 https://archive.ph/PFHJH

Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm