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Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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<Dems won't do shit Edition
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/USApol/
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The other one filled up again so I might as well recreate it. For all those interested this is the big thread for all your Hearts of Iron 4 and modding related content, mostly modding because let's be real nobody plays vanilla anymore. Specifically alternate history. From Kaiserreich to The Fire Rises, mods from this shoddy game set in alternate timelines seem to really do numbers. And create serial killers.
So most recently the latest update from vanilla broke every mod's nation selection screen. You simply hate to see it
HoI4 +HoI4 Modding Thread
Legacy of the Chinareich EditionThe other one filled up again so I might as well recreate it. For all those interested this is the big thread for all your Hearts of Iron 4 and modding related content, mostly modding because let's be real nobody plays vanilla anymore. Specifically alternate history. From Kaiserreich to The Fire Rises, mods from this shoddy game set in alternate timelines seem to really do numbers. And create serial killers.
So most recently the latest update from vanilla broke every mod's nation selection screen. You simply hate to see it
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I think the late 2010s and early COVID era were genuinely some of the worst periods for Sinophobia, barring the Chinese Exclusion Act. There was this almost spiritual, rabid hatred that existed even before COVID hit, and it came from both the right and the left. I remember when I still used Reddit, there was some dumb South Park episode involving China (maybe something about China owning a stake in some company), where main characters basically told China to fuck off. Reddit's reaction was essentially, "South Park just told China to fuck off. So brave and badass! Bet the ChiComs are so pissed." That was pretty much the general atmosphere.
I think the late 2010s and early COVID era were genuinely some of the worst periods for Sinophobia, barring the Chinese Exclusion Act. There was this almost spiritual, rabid hatred that existed even before COVID hit, and it came from both the right and the left. I remember when I still used Reddit, there was some dumb South Park episode involving China (maybe something about China owning a stake in some company), where main characters basically told China to fuck off. Reddit's reaction was essentially, "South Park just told China to fuck off. So brave and badass! Bet the ChiComs are so pissed." That was pretty much the general atmosphere.
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https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/11/11/child-reincarnation
>For some, it's in the realm of fantasy. For others, it's a comforting religious or cultural belief. But for researchers at the University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies, it's science.
>The subject is reincarnation, or the idea that deceased people can be reborn into new bodies. For more than 60 years, researchers at UVA have identified children who, from the time they were toddlers, said they had been been someone else. The children proceeded to provide so much detail — almost always familiarity with places, concepts and people they never knew — that researchers were able to pinpoint the deceased person the child said he or she was reincarnated from.
>Now, a new study from the center shows that people who died a violent or unexpected death are reincarnated more quickly than others.
>Host Robin Young talks to researcher Saeedeh Sadeghi, from UVA's Division of Perceptual Studies about the center and the new study.
>Editor's note: If you have a child sharing past-life experiences, you can reach Sadeghi by email at [email protected]
/reincarnation/
So they confirmed reincarnation is real.https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/11/11/child-reincarnation
>For some, it's in the realm of fantasy. For others, it's a comforting religious or cultural belief. But for researchers at the University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies, it's science.
>The subject is reincarnation, or the idea that deceased people can be reborn into new bodies. For more than 60 years, researchers at UVA have identified children who, from the time they were toddlers, said they had been been someone else. The children proceeded to provide so much detail — almost always familiarity with places, concepts and people they never knew — that researchers were able to pinpoint the deceased person the child said he or she was reincarnated from.
>Now, a new study from the center shows that people who died a violent or unexpected death are reincarnated more quickly than others.
>Host Robin Young talks to researcher Saeedeh Sadeghi, from UVA's Division of Perceptual Studies about the center and the new study.
>Editor's note: If you have a child sharing past-life experiences, you can reach Sadeghi by email at [email protected]
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Do some of you still find the concept of the Old Left, particularly those who hold socially conservative views while maintaining economically left-wing or anti-capitalist positions, politically foreign or difficult to reconcile with contemporary left-wing politics in America?
I'm asking this because a little while ago, a person sent me a message saying that the concept of socially conservative leftists was somewhat foreign to them, as the variation of leftism that most people here are exposed to tends to incorporate both economically left-wing and socially progressive values. Initially, they assumed an inherent contradiction between being socially conservative and economically left-wing, since the two are often treated as politically incompatible in contemporary American politics.
However, historically, that hasn't always been the case, especially when you look at older generations of leftists, traditional labor movements, and socialist movements outside the Western world(e.g., Christians for National Liberation (CNL) in the Philippines, Nyerere's Ujamaa in Tanzania, Nasserism in Egypt, and Ba'athist Arab socialism in Iraq, etc.), where anti-capitalist economic positions have often coexisted with socially conservative attitudes toward religion, family structures, gender roles, etc.
I grew up in this tradition, as did my father and his father before him (none of whom were particularly religious, btw). The men in my life believed that a post-capitalist society would still need socially conservative values in order to promote a functional collective because, say, for example, if you're trying to build a society around collective ownership and mutual responsibility, how exactly would that society function if everyone prioritized their individual desires over their obligations to their families and communities?
From their perspective, simply abolishing capitalism wouldn't mitigate selfishness or the tendency to prioritize personal interests over the collective good. They believed that traditional family structures, intergenerational obligations, and certain cultural expectations helped cultivate the sense of responsibility necessary for a socialist society to function. In other words, economic collectivism needed to be accompanied by a social and cultural framework that encouraged people to place the well-being of their communities above their individual interests. My father isn't a campist either, and he doesn't believe leftists should automatically defend authoritarian governments because they oppose Western imperialism; his social conservatism is rooted more in his connection to our culture and his desire to preserve cultural continuity and collective responsibility across the generations.
Since migrating here in my youth, I've obviously adopted many socially progressive values that differ from those of my father, grandfather, and my entire hometown. However, my support for these values largely comes from my belief that people shouldn't be forced to adhere to traditional cultural expectations simply because they're considered essential to maintaining social cohesion or preserving cultural identity. I tend to view it through an analogy where a particular therapeutic modality might be appropriate for one person but not necessarily for another. Just because someone finds a culturally conservative life meaningful or fulfilling doesn't mean we should assume that everyone else would benefit from following that same path.
But I digress. Do some of you still find socially conservative leftists hard to wrap your head around, or is this something you're already familiar with
Do some of you still find the concept of the Old Left, particularly those who hold socially conservative views while maintaining economically left-wing or anti-capitalist positions, politically foreign or difficult to reconcile with contemporary left-wing politics in America?
I'm asking this because a little while ago, a person sent me a message saying that the concept of socially conservative leftists was somewhat foreign to them, as the variation of leftism that most people here are exposed to tends to incorporate both economically left-wing and socially progressive values. Initially, they assumed an inherent contradiction between being socially conservative and economically left-wing, since the two are often treated as politically incompatible in contemporary American politics.
However, historically, that hasn't always been the case, especially when you look at older generations of leftists, traditional labor movements, and socialist movements outside the Western world(e.g., Christians for National Liberation (CNL) in the Philippines, Nyerere's Ujamaa in Tanzania, Nasserism in Egypt, and Ba'athist Arab socialism in Iraq, etc.), where anti-capitalist economic positions have often coexisted with socially conservative attitudes toward religion, family structures, gender roles, etc.
I grew up in this tradition, as did my father and his father before him (none of whom were particularly religious, btw). The men in my life believed that a post-capitalist society would still need socially conservative values in order to promote a functional collective because, say, for example, if you're trying to build a society around collective ownership and mutual responsibility, how exactly would that society function if everyone prioritized their individual desires over their obligations to their families and communities?
From their perspective, simply abolishing capitalism wouldn't mitigate selfishness or the tendency to prioritize personal interests over the collective good. They believed that traditional family structures, intergenerational obligations, and certain cultural expectations helped cultivate the sense of responsibility necessary for a socialist society to function. In other words, economic collectivism needed to be accompanied by a social and cultural framework that encouraged people to place the well-being of their communities above their individual interests. My father isn't a campist either, and he doesn't believe leftists should automatically defend authoritarian governments because they oppose Western imperialism; his social conservatism is rooted more in his connection to our culture and his desire to preserve cultural continuity and collective responsibility across the generations.
Since migrating here in my youth, I've obviously adopted many socially progressive values that differ from those of my father, grandfather, and my entire hometown. However, my support for these values largely comes from my belief that people shouldn't be forced to adhere to traditional cultural expectations simply because they're considered essential to maintaining social cohesion or preserving cultural identity. I tend to view it through an analogy where a particular therapeutic modality might be appropriate for one person but not necessarily for another. Just because someone finds a culturally conservative life meaningful or fulfilling doesn't mean we should assume that everyone else would benefit from following that same path.
But I digress. Do some of you still find socially conservative leftists hard to wrap your head around, or is this something you're already familiar with
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trolling the CEO of mastodon.
this could be very funny!
https://mastodon.social/@aaarkii/117138844910163569
not too short. not too short. not too short
trolling the CEO of mastodon.
this could be very funny!
https://mastodon.social/@aaarkii/117138844910163569
not too short. not too short. not too short
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https://pagesix.com/2026/11/07/celebrity-news/russell-brand-cowering-in-fear-in-cell-as-shout-abusive-chant-at-him-report/
>By Saturday, November 7, inmates at HMP Wandsworth were reportedly making the comedian the target of a repeated football-style chant.
>"There's a Brand new n*e on the wing! A Brand new n*e," prisoners allegedly sang.
>"Brand, you c*, you ain't so f*ing lairy now."
>Hundreds of inmates joined in the taunting as word of his arrival spread through the prison.
>One source described Brand as increasingly frightened and withdrawn.
>"Brand only leaves his cell to collect his food at mealtimes before returning. He is going around like a shadow," the insider said.
>The same source explained that weekends at Wandsworth offered prisoners little opportunity to leave their cells, particularly because of ongoing staff shortages.
>Dinner was reportedly served at approximately 4:30 pm, with inmates then locked inside until 8 a.m. the following morning.
>"There is no outside exercise in the yard," the source claimed.
>"They have to get their amusement somewhere, so they've made Brand the object, with hundreds of prisoners shouting the chant."
UK counter-terrorism police arrest senior US soldier with alleged links to Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/10/uk-counter-terrorism-police-arrest-member-of-us-army-in-gloucestershire
>Man, 41, arrested near Gloucester by police working with US authorities in investigation involving ‘allegations of espionage’, according to FBI director
UK court overturns Trinidad and Tobago law criminalising homosexual sex
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-court-overturns-trinidad-tobago-law-criminalising-homosexual-sex-2026-11-10/
>Trinidad and Tobago's law criminalising consensual sexual relations between male same-sex couples was overturned by a London court on Tuesday, after a legal challenge by a gay man who said the law breached his human rights.
>Jason Jones challenged the Caribbean nation's Sexual Offences Act – which made "buggery" and "gross indecency" illegal – as breaching his fundamental rights under the country's constitution.
Planned Tory welfare cuts ‘a charter for human misery,’ says Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/nov/10/badenoch-conservative-welfare-cuts-disability-benefits-burnham-politics-latest-news-updates
>Conservative leader launches Welfare That Works policy document outlining benefit reductions of £36bn
>Kemi Badenoch has given a speech justifying Conservative party proposals to cut welfare spending by £36bn a year. Labour said the plans were “a charter for homelessness and human misery”, and the Child Poverty Action Group said they would lead to “the biggest overnight increase in child poverty since records began”
<Badenoch says 'double amputees run marathons' as she defends plan to slash disability benefits as part of £36bn welfare cuts
/leftybritpol/ Not So Lairy Now! edition
Convicted rapist Russell Brand ‘cowering in fear’ as inmates taunt him with vulgar chant: reporthttps://pagesix.com/2026/11/07/celebrity-news/russell-brand-cowering-in-fear-in-cell-as-shout-abusive-chant-at-him-report/
>By Saturday, November 7, inmates at HMP Wandsworth were reportedly making the comedian the target of a repeated football-style chant.
>"There's a Brand new n*e on the wing! A Brand new n*e," prisoners allegedly sang.
>"Brand, you c*, you ain't so f*ing lairy now."
>Hundreds of inmates joined in the taunting as word of his arrival spread through the prison.
>One source described Brand as increasingly frightened and withdrawn.
>"Brand only leaves his cell to collect his food at mealtimes before returning. He is going around like a shadow," the insider said.
>The same source explained that weekends at Wandsworth offered prisoners little opportunity to leave their cells, particularly because of ongoing staff shortages.
>Dinner was reportedly served at approximately 4:30 pm, with inmates then locked inside until 8 a.m. the following morning.
>"There is no outside exercise in the yard," the source claimed.
>"They have to get their amusement somewhere, so they've made Brand the object, with hundreds of prisoners shouting the chant."
UK counter-terrorism police arrest senior US soldier with alleged links to Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/10/uk-counter-terrorism-police-arrest-member-of-us-army-in-gloucestershire
>Man, 41, arrested near Gloucester by police working with US authorities in investigation involving ‘allegations of espionage’, according to FBI director
UK court overturns Trinidad and Tobago law criminalising homosexual sex
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-court-overturns-trinidad-tobago-law-criminalising-homosexual-sex-2026-11-10/
>Trinidad and Tobago's law criminalising consensual sexual relations between male same-sex couples was overturned by a London court on Tuesday, after a legal challenge by a gay man who said the law breached his human rights.
>Jason Jones challenged the Caribbean nation's Sexual Offences Act – which made "buggery" and "gross indecency" illegal – as breaching his fundamental rights under the country's constitution.
Planned Tory welfare cuts ‘a charter for human misery,’ says Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/nov/10/badenoch-conservative-welfare-cuts-disability-benefits-burnham-politics-latest-news-updates
>Conservative leader launches Welfare That Works policy document outlining benefit reductions of £36bn
>Kemi Badenoch has given a speech justifying Conservative party proposals to cut welfare spending by £36bn a year. Labour said the plans were “a charter for homelessness and human misery”, and the Child Poverty Action Group said they would lead to “the biggest overnight increase in child poverty since records began”
<Badenoch says 'double amputees run marathons' as she defends plan to slash disability benefits as part of £36bn welfare cuts
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Thread #2
French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
/FrancoPol/
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷Thread #2
French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • 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
/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
—————————————————–
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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • 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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Don't be a cunt and may the Force be with you
New general since last one hit bump limit.
Previous general:
>>2737
Star Wars Thread /2.0/
Star Wars thread; To discuss, laugh and meme about Star WarsDon't be a cunt and may the Force be with you
New general since last one hit bump limit.
Previous general:
>>2737
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Getting CSP to work on Linux
Hey!! I finally got CSP to work on Linux (without dual booting) using some guys script that uses wine. Now I was wondering whether you could combine that with the chinese cracked version to run the app on Linux and also not pay.
R: 25 / I: 4
What’s the point?
>Reformists/Democratic socialists become capitalists when they realize it’s politically in their interest for staying in power and getting re-elected, or they were always petite-capitalists and were placed in power by capitalists to create the illusion of opposition.
>Marxism-Leninist states reproduced many capitalist relations to maintain their party power instead of fighting for class struggle. All of them have been declining even as capitalism is in crisis, similar problems to the reformists but for different reasons.
>Trotskyists are overrated study/newspaper groups that just split over and over, constantly claiming to build dual power but never to actually fight for the revolution. Have gotten progressively worst overtime, going from successful albeit limited entryism to just commodity production of books, many of the parties are developing capitalist relations while claiming to oppose capitalism.
>Maoists have failed to achieve state power with the single exception of Nepal, with it ending its maoist government as of 2026 and only really existing to industrialize states to capitalism. Also created a bunch of cults that achieved nothing over then distorting Maoism into a personalist religion.
>Anarchists have failed to overthrow the state for a sustained effort of time Rojava only existed because ISIS collapsed not because it offered an alternative to the state apparatus and fell apart right as a real state killed it. Many anarchists claim to oppose the state yet support Ukraine in the imperialist conflict ongoing there, they also support many national liberation movements directly contradicting themselves, and also lack any theoretical work that can interpret the power through an objective material lens.
>Hoxhaists are underrated but still useless study groups to irrelevant boomer parties that are reactionary in many aspects. It is also inherently contradictory, while claiming to uphold class struggle it often is used for Albanian nationalist symbolism.
>bordigists will never organize, or do anything other then observe and wait for the “class party” that has never came and never will because you don’t organize a mass party by not organizing. Claims Stalin was a gravedigger of the revolution but instead of criticizing the specific organizational structure that created Stalinism they instead simplifying everything to capitalist relations and international isolation, without realizing organic centralism and the sectarianism would reproduce the same results.
It’s sad, and these are the only ones I have mentioned there’s like 80 other with the same problems. Nothing is true anymore nothing will happen it makes me sad that I will have to live in wage slavery forever. Somebody prove me wrong idk
What’s the point?
>Reformists/Democratic socialists become capitalists when they realize it’s politically in their interest for staying in power and getting re-elected, or they were always petite-capitalists and were placed in power by capitalists to create the illusion of opposition.
>Marxism-Leninist states reproduced many capitalist relations to maintain their party power instead of fighting for class struggle. All of them have been declining even as capitalism is in crisis, similar problems to the reformists but for different reasons.
>Trotskyists are overrated study/newspaper groups that just split over and over, constantly claiming to build dual power but never to actually fight for the revolution. Have gotten progressively worst overtime, going from successful albeit limited entryism to just commodity production of books, many of the parties are developing capitalist relations while claiming to oppose capitalism.
>Maoists have failed to achieve state power with the single exception of Nepal, with it ending its maoist government as of 2026 and only really existing to industrialize states to capitalism. Also created a bunch of cults that achieved nothing over then distorting Maoism into a personalist religion.
>Anarchists have failed to overthrow the state for a sustained effort of time Rojava only existed because ISIS collapsed not because it offered an alternative to the state apparatus and fell apart right as a real state killed it. Many anarchists claim to oppose the state yet support Ukraine in the imperialist conflict ongoing there, they also support many national liberation movements directly contradicting themselves, and also lack any theoretical work that can interpret the power through an objective material lens.
>Hoxhaists are underrated but still useless study groups to irrelevant boomer parties that are reactionary in many aspects. It is also inherently contradictory, while claiming to uphold class struggle it often is used for Albanian nationalist symbolism.
>bordigists will never organize, or do anything other then observe and wait for the “class party” that has never came and never will because you don’t organize a mass party by not organizing. Claims Stalin was a gravedigger of the revolution but instead of criticizing the specific organizational structure that created Stalinism they instead simplifying everything to capitalist relations and international isolation, without realizing organic centralism and the sectarianism would reproduce the same results.
It’s sad, and these are the only ones I have mentioned there’s like 80 other with the same problems. Nothing is true anymore nothing will happen it makes me sad that I will have to live in wage slavery forever. Somebody prove me wrong idk
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So I'm looking for some linux god to show me the way.
Linux
I'm trying to run a non-linux app on linux. I found a script on the internet that does it through wine, it works fine but the issue is that it doesnt run my cracked version of the app. So I got in contact with the guy who made the script and he told me that piracy is a sin and goes against calvinist theologySo I'm looking for some linux god to show me the way.
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"Em Realengo, na Zona Oeste carioca, um conjunto residencial é, há décadas, conhecido como Moscouzinho. O apelido tem razão de ser. Vários de seus apartamentos serviram de moradia para militantes de esquerda e o lugar foi palco de diversas reuniões clandestinas do Partido Comunista. Por ali passaram Luiz Carlos Prestes, Gregório Bezerra, João Lopes, Thiago de Melo e outros personagens que fizeram história. Tudo isso a cerca de 200m dos quartéis de uma vila militar."
"O conjunto contava com residências para trabalhadores da indústria e fora construído na região de Realengo, em terreno próximo à linha férrea que ligava o centro do Rio de Janeiro à parte oeste da cidade. O local facilitava o acesso de seus moradores à importante zona industrial de Bangu."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>23734
/brg/ - Brazil General
EDIÇÃO MOSCOUZINHO"Em Realengo, na Zona Oeste carioca, um conjunto residencial é, há décadas, conhecido como Moscouzinho. O apelido tem razão de ser. Vários de seus apartamentos serviram de moradia para militantes de esquerda e o lugar foi palco de diversas reuniões clandestinas do Partido Comunista. Por ali passaram Luiz Carlos Prestes, Gregório Bezerra, João Lopes, Thiago de Melo e outros personagens que fizeram história. Tudo isso a cerca de 200m dos quartéis de uma vila militar."
"O conjunto contava com residências para trabalhadores da indústria e fora construído na região de Realengo, em terreno próximo à linha férrea que ligava o centro do Rio de Janeiro à parte oeste da cidade. O local facilitava o acesso de seus moradores à importante zona industrial de Bangu."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>23734
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don't know dialectics? learn!
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/C17-Politzer-Elementary-Principles-2nd-Printing.pdf
/diamatgen/
do you know dialectics? prove it! provide an example of an instance where you used the dialectical method to solve a problem in your life.don't know dialectics? learn!
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/C17-Politzer-Elementary-Principles-2nd-Printing.pdf
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Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.
<S Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer
<A Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival
<A- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune
Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481
Let's talk about movies, then.
Film Thread II
Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.
<S Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer
<A Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival
<A- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune
Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481
Let's talk about movies, then.
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I have yet to hear a good takedown of this guy. He always cites sources, he always gives the Bolsheviks a fair shake in his analysis, and he seems sincerely more interested in studying and learning from the mistakes of the early USSR than many self described communists, who, if they bother read sources at all, only uncritically read primary sources form that era if they are written from the perspective of the central committee, rather than rank and file party members, or "losers" who were later purged. The few times have seen his videos posted here before I have seen very short bitter responses: "Anticommunist propaganda" But I was never able to get those anons to actually clarify what they meant by that, and it seemed to me that they didn't actually have any specific critiques, like "he is wrong about A, B, and C, because reasons X, Y, and Z." It seemed more like a prejudiced and kneejerk reaction, of "just don't watch this." basically treating it the same as if it was some fascist dreck. So what's the deal? Can anyone take a real shot at this guy? And I don't mean personal attacks or simply discouraging people from watching it all. Or surface-level reactions to titles and thumbnails. I mean why are his sources wrong, why is he wrong, why are his conclusions wrong. Inb4
>breadtube isg
nah this guy flies to russia, reads primary sources in the archives, translates them into english, cross references and interprets, this is actually some of the most scholarly and respectful work I've ever seen on the early USSR.
NojRants
>NojRantsI have yet to hear a good takedown of this guy. He always cites sources, he always gives the Bolsheviks a fair shake in his analysis, and he seems sincerely more interested in studying and learning from the mistakes of the early USSR than many self described communists, who, if they bother read sources at all, only uncritically read primary sources form that era if they are written from the perspective of the central committee, rather than rank and file party members, or "losers" who were later purged. The few times have seen his videos posted here before I have seen very short bitter responses: "Anticommunist propaganda" But I was never able to get those anons to actually clarify what they meant by that, and it seemed to me that they didn't actually have any specific critiques, like "he is wrong about A, B, and C, because reasons X, Y, and Z." It seemed more like a prejudiced and kneejerk reaction, of "just don't watch this." basically treating it the same as if it was some fascist dreck. So what's the deal? Can anyone take a real shot at this guy? And I don't mean personal attacks or simply discouraging people from watching it all. Or surface-level reactions to titles and thumbnails. I mean why are his sources wrong, why is he wrong, why are his conclusions wrong. Inb4
>breadtube isg
nah this guy flies to russia, reads primary sources in the archives, translates them into english, cross references and interprets, this is actually some of the most scholarly and respectful work I've ever seen on the early USSR.
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Language choices can act as propaganda. And this costs nothing to make this change in your own life, with potentially exponential impact.
ITT: suggest better language choices and explain why you choose them
(This will obviously focus on English, but non-English examples are welcome)
TIME TO TALK ABOUT LANGUAGE
The way we communicate alters how we interpret the world.Language choices can act as propaganda. And this costs nothing to make this change in your own life, with potentially exponential impact.
ITT: suggest better language choices and explain why you choose them
(This will obviously focus on English, but non-English examples are welcome)
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ocarina of time remake extended gameplay!!! i'm soyfacing to an insane degree rn
THOTS?!?!?!?!?!??!!
ocarina of time remake extended gameplay!!! i'm soyfacing to an insane degree rn
THOTS?!?!?!?!?!??!!
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I remember when he had a whole cult around him in the early 2010s during Occupy and was a huge cheerleader for the Rojava revolution in the years that followed. His book Debt The First 5000 Years was a huge hit (and I mean HUGE, in the sense that you'd see it sold in both anarchist infoshops and mainstream booksellers like Barnes). He was instrumental in rewriting the historical narrative of class formation and the development of money and economic systems. A lot of Marxists didn't like that but they had zero means of debunking his work. When he died in 2020 there was an outpouring of love from leftists all over the world, for an anarchist intellectual who meant so much to people.
But now, I never see Graeber mentioned, ever. The only times I see him or his work brought up is to heavily chastise it, or attack him for his anarchist politics. Tankies hate him but can never prove him wrong. I have to ask why he's become nothing but a footnote in the history of leftist thought, especially when he was so celebrated 15 years ago.
David Graeber
Why does everyone in leftist circles hate him now?I remember when he had a whole cult around him in the early 2010s during Occupy and was a huge cheerleader for the Rojava revolution in the years that followed. His book Debt The First 5000 Years was a huge hit (and I mean HUGE, in the sense that you'd see it sold in both anarchist infoshops and mainstream booksellers like Barnes). He was instrumental in rewriting the historical narrative of class formation and the development of money and economic systems. A lot of Marxists didn't like that but they had zero means of debunking his work. When he died in 2020 there was an outpouring of love from leftists all over the world, for an anarchist intellectual who meant so much to people.
But now, I never see Graeber mentioned, ever. The only times I see him or his work brought up is to heavily chastise it, or attack him for his anarchist politics. Tankies hate him but can never prove him wrong. I have to ask why he's become nothing but a footnote in the history of leftist thought, especially when he was so celebrated 15 years ago.
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i'm a trans girl and i need my diapers >///<
this also solves bathroom discourse because we won't need to use public restrooms if we all wear our diapers
/diapergen/
a trans girl without her diapers is like an angel without its wingsi'm a trans girl and i need my diapers >///<
this also solves bathroom discourse because we won't need to use public restrooms if we all wear our diapers
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How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
/gaygen/
lefty gay general - boyfriend editionHow do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
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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?
Mexico Gral
No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesarioque 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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/O9A/ Esoteric Fascism and it's derivatives General
General duscussion thread Inspired by the sucess of the Esoteric Hitlerism threads we used to have a while ago - talk about the O9A,Atomwaffen, and their modern knockoffs that are so often in the news these days. Thread to materially analyze and generally discuss anything you want about these groups from a leftist perspective.
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Previous thread: >>2937610
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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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #301
Nazi rape dungeons editionPrevious thread: >>2937610
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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Live maps and updates
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Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
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CSAM ALERT
Its on siberia again
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>plug it in
>windows automatic downloads drivers
>automatically installs LG software without asking user for permission
>has baked in ads
>McAfee pops up every time time on boot
>even on monitors from 2023
>harvests your data
do not buy LG
>buy an LG monitor>plug it in
>windows automatic downloads drivers
>automatically installs LG software without asking user for permission
>has baked in ads
>McAfee pops up every time time on boot
>even on monitors from 2023
>harvests your data
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leftydykes
Where are my fellow lesbians/sapphics at? How's life going for y'all? I'm afraid to start dating and depressed as hell. Anxious about what a broader crackdown on LGBT folks might look like. Yes I'm from burgerstan.
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Am I the only one worried that the right-wing is already taking advantage of the fact that the left has become a vacuum of intellect, and is now re-embracing intellectualism on its own terms?
I’ve seen multiple IG pages recently that talk about the literacy crisis in America; however, a good number of these pages/accounts are made by right-wingers/reactionaries. They use very blatant dogwhistles like “classical education”, “great books”, “virtue of the Ancients”, “glory of Western Civilization”, etc. etc. They talk about getting kids (read: they’re kids, the kids of right-wing elites) to study Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, etc., learn Latin and Ancient Greek at young ages, and pump their heads full of political philosophy. Yeah it’s indoctrination but still.
My assumption here is that the right-wing in America is trying to regroup and reorganize now that MAGA is clearly crashing and burning beyond repair. A lot of the rhetoric they use makes me think this stuff is coming from either the Heritage Foundation, Claremont Institute, or both.
But I think the deeper issue here is that the left has no way of effectively countering this, assuming this is true. Especially in the past five years or so the American left has almost entirely dismissed intellect and intellectualism in favour of appeals to emotion and petty in-fighting over covid masking, whose identity makes them the most marginalized, and whether or not going to the gym is “fascist”. Hell, someone just posted a screenshot from Reddit arguing that narcissists and psychopaths should be seen as “oppressed”. Why? What’s our antidote to the right when the right uses literacy and philosophy and such as a means of implementing fascism (or fascism-lite)? The American left seems to be taking the view that intellect is either 1. oppressive (because it inevitably creates a culture whereby smart people are upheld over stupid people) and/or 2. useless, because ethics are allegedly already embedded within human genetics and therefore all we need is intuition (Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid book is often invoked here). Why?
So what should we be doing in response?
Am I the only one worried that the right-wing is already taking advantage of the fact that the left has become a vacuum of intellect, and is now re-embracing intellectualism on its own terms?
I’ve seen multiple IG pages recently that talk about the literacy crisis in America; however, a good number of these pages/accounts are made by right-wingers/reactionaries. They use very blatant dogwhistles like “classical education”, “great books”, “virtue of the Ancients”, “glory of Western Civilization”, etc. etc. They talk about getting kids (read: they’re kids, the kids of right-wing elites) to study Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, etc., learn Latin and Ancient Greek at young ages, and pump their heads full of political philosophy. Yeah it’s indoctrination but still.
My assumption here is that the right-wing in America is trying to regroup and reorganize now that MAGA is clearly crashing and burning beyond repair. A lot of the rhetoric they use makes me think this stuff is coming from either the Heritage Foundation, Claremont Institute, or both.
But I think the deeper issue here is that the left has no way of effectively countering this, assuming this is true. Especially in the past five years or so the American left has almost entirely dismissed intellect and intellectualism in favour of appeals to emotion and petty in-fighting over covid masking, whose identity makes them the most marginalized, and whether or not going to the gym is “fascist”. Hell, someone just posted a screenshot from Reddit arguing that narcissists and psychopaths should be seen as “oppressed”. Why? What’s our antidote to the right when the right uses literacy and philosophy and such as a means of implementing fascism (or fascism-lite)? The American left seems to be taking the view that intellect is either 1. oppressive (because it inevitably creates a culture whereby smart people are upheld over stupid people) and/or 2. useless, because ethics are allegedly already embedded within human genetics and therefore all we need is intuition (Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid book is often invoked here). Why?
So what should we be doing in response?
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 24
>Bye, bye, Microsoft! – editionhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
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Por medio del mundial estan pintando al pais como una potencia sionista corrupta y despreciable. Estan habiendo demasiadas decisiones y doble vara arbitral que es dificil que sean todas coincidencia. Hay alguien interesado en generar toda esta dinamica, quiza para devolverle un favor a alguien y de paso indirectamente arrastrar polemica pero mejor no digo más. Despues del partido contra Egipto cualquier tipo de simpatia entre el pueblo que pudiera tener argentina en medio oriente y muchas partes del mundo directamente se evaporó.
Y por otro lado, llevan años queriendo pintar al pais como un pais racista, colonialista y hasta settler-imperialista por no tener negros en su seleccion o por sesgos historicos terribles que los anglosajones liberales y progres se tragan como bobos. Para muchos en su imaginario ya argenitina no es menos que el manifest destiny americano y por supuesto un estado ilegitimo.
Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post
Psyop anti-Argentina
Hay una psyop masiva para generar odio contra argentina y justificar una posible intervención o lento takeover del país y sus recursos.Por medio del mundial estan pintando al pais como una potencia sionista corrupta y despreciable. Estan habiendo demasiadas decisiones y doble vara arbitral que es dificil que sean todas coincidencia. Hay alguien interesado en generar toda esta dinamica, quiza para devolverle un favor a alguien y de paso indirectamente arrastrar polemica pero mejor no digo más. Despues del partido contra Egipto cualquier tipo de simpatia entre el pueblo que pudiera tener argentina en medio oriente y muchas partes del mundo directamente se evaporó.
Y por otro lado, llevan años queriendo pintar al pais como un pais racista, colonialista y hasta settler-imperialista por no tener negros en su seleccion o por sesgos historicos terribles que los anglosajones liberales y progres se tragan como bobos. Para muchos en su imaginario ya argenitina no es menos que el manifest destiny americano y por supuesto un estado ilegitimo.
Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post
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> African nations seek security ties with Turkey through ‘Somalia model’
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
>Saudi Arabia seeks Qatar-style Turkish military base
why he is so successful
> African nations seek security ties with Turkey through ‘Somalia model’
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
>Saudi Arabia seeks Qatar-style Turkish military base
why he is so successful
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Robert Surcouf, the Saint-Malo corsair, functioned as an agent of the French bourgeois revolution against British commercial monopoly. Born into a merchant family, he belonged to the coastal bourgeoisie whose profits depended on maritime trade. When the revolutionary wars closed ordinary markets, privateering offered a direct means of seizing surplus value from British shipping. His captures, including the East Indiaman Kent, transferred capital from the British merchant class to French owners and the revolutionary state.
Under letters of marque issued by the Directory and Consulate, Surcouf operated as an irregular extension of the revolutionary navy. He disrupted the East India Company’s colonial circuits, which Marx later identified as a key mechanism for primitive accumulation and the extraction of Asian surplus. By weakening British control of the Indian Ocean trade routes, he advanced the material interests of the French bourgeoisie struggling to consolidate power against the older commercial hegemony of Britain. His tactics reflected the broader logic of the bourgeois revolution: the use of force to break feudal and mercantile restrictions and open space for national capital accumulation.
Surcouf was no proletarian revolutionary. He fought for prize money and personal enrichment, and after 1815 he settled into shipowning. His violence served the rising capitalist class rather than any challenge to wage labor or private property. In Marxist terms, he was a transitional figure of the bourgeois revolution, a privateer whose raids helped clear the path for French industrial and commercial capital while remaining fully within the framework of commodity exchange and national accumulation. His career illustrates how the revolutionary bourgeoisie mobilized armed commerce to contest the world market before consolidating its own dominance.
Corsairs and colonial-capitalist competition
Corsairs were révolutionaryRobert Surcouf, the Saint-Malo corsair, functioned as an agent of the French bourgeois revolution against British commercial monopoly. Born into a merchant family, he belonged to the coastal bourgeoisie whose profits depended on maritime trade. When the revolutionary wars closed ordinary markets, privateering offered a direct means of seizing surplus value from British shipping. His captures, including the East Indiaman Kent, transferred capital from the British merchant class to French owners and the revolutionary state.
Under letters of marque issued by the Directory and Consulate, Surcouf operated as an irregular extension of the revolutionary navy. He disrupted the East India Company’s colonial circuits, which Marx later identified as a key mechanism for primitive accumulation and the extraction of Asian surplus. By weakening British control of the Indian Ocean trade routes, he advanced the material interests of the French bourgeoisie struggling to consolidate power against the older commercial hegemony of Britain. His tactics reflected the broader logic of the bourgeois revolution: the use of force to break feudal and mercantile restrictions and open space for national capital accumulation.
Surcouf was no proletarian revolutionary. He fought for prize money and personal enrichment, and after 1815 he settled into shipowning. His violence served the rising capitalist class rather than any challenge to wage labor or private property. In Marxist terms, he was a transitional figure of the bourgeois revolution, a privateer whose raids helped clear the path for French industrial and commercial capital while remaining fully within the framework of commodity exchange and national accumulation. His career illustrates how the revolutionary bourgeoisie mobilized armed commerce to contest the world market before consolidating its own dominance.
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The movement started as a protest against the proposed luxury tourism developments in Portonovo, Sazan Island, Zvërnec, and Baks-Rrjoll, it was supported by Jared Kushner (trump's son-in-law). The developments would've caused ecological damage to the coastal regions, and if you don't know Albania has a long history of its enviroment being destroyed.
The protest has expanded to include protests against western influnce and the social democrat NATO government in general, with several government buildings being burned down and even a storming of the parilament and a fire lit inside of it earlier this month.
The PKSH (Communist Party of Albania) has also voiced it's support of the protests and have seen a jump in membership from students during the crisis, the party has usually been filled with boomers and low electorial gains but its changing.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/communist-party-of-albania-backs-student-protests-against-rama-denounces-police-repression.html
ALBANIA
It is plainly shocking that the ongoing protest movement in Albania (dubbed the Flamingo Revolution) is barely being mentioned here!The movement started as a protest against the proposed luxury tourism developments in Portonovo, Sazan Island, Zvërnec, and Baks-Rrjoll, it was supported by Jared Kushner (trump's son-in-law). The developments would've caused ecological damage to the coastal regions, and if you don't know Albania has a long history of its enviroment being destroyed.
The protest has expanded to include protests against western influnce and the social democrat NATO government in general, with several government buildings being burned down and even a storming of the parilament and a fire lit inside of it earlier this month.
The PKSH (Communist Party of Albania) has also voiced it's support of the protests and have seen a jump in membership from students during the crisis, the party has usually been filled with boomers and low electorial gains but its changing.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/communist-party-of-albania-backs-student-protests-against-rama-denounces-police-repression.html
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Fav linux distro?
I know this might be something thats asked a lot but, what do you guys use/reccomend in terms of linux? I have been in to linux and other stuff for a while, distro hopping from debian to ubuntu(and its variants) to finally cachyOS/void system in my computers. Should i just fully switch to void or just install arch in itself? I was thinking about installing Deepin, and i think i am going to try that one.
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WTF Evola is /ourguy/?
meow meow meow meow
WTF Evola is /ourguy/?
meow meow meow meow
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Open source operating systems are software communism. If we’re not willing to build and use existing forms of technological sovereignty and anti-capitalism, then we’re probably not willing to do any other forms of communism either. I hate the “No ethical consumption under capitalism” mantra. How do we expect to get out of capitalism without building alternatives? I think a lot of leftists hope a revolution will happen then just magically replace all the corrupt and bourgeois components of consumerism, using the same uninvolved passive mechanisms.
Do we really believe a windows update will just drop after some election that restores our rights, trust, openness, privacy and dignity? It must be built and owned by the people.
Proprietary software must be fought against at every opportunity
Microsoft is the CIA. Pretty much all US big tech is. Windows is a global CIA mass surveillance program via monopoly capitalism. It’s completely impossible to make Windows secure, there’s no secret registry switch. The entire thing is compromised top to bottom, and under no circumstances should anyone consent to its use. Closed source spyware monopolies are a weapon of war against us by the bourgeois state.Open source operating systems are software communism. If we’re not willing to build and use existing forms of technological sovereignty and anti-capitalism, then we’re probably not willing to do any other forms of communism either. I hate the “No ethical consumption under capitalism” mantra. How do we expect to get out of capitalism without building alternatives? I think a lot of leftists hope a revolution will happen then just magically replace all the corrupt and bourgeois components of consumerism, using the same uninvolved passive mechanisms.
Do we really believe a windows update will just drop after some election that restores our rights, trust, openness, privacy and dignity? It must be built and owned by the people.
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Karol Josef Wojtla: Pope John Paul II, insurance markets shut down in favor of credit unions; the farm investment.
The Pope wants Mormon land share shut down, so they buy property; an altered quadratic range, to fix the families of the Farbry's Disease.
Mormons were speculating on resources present as per owned home.
George Walker Bush Junior: POTUS #42, "the Green Revolution"; improved farming numbers, through oil and natural gas.
Bush wants a formula per dating mining out of Russian hackers numbers; per criminal use of gasoline, as any of it; outside of the small town.
Car owners were abusing their children per moneyed tradition.
Nancy Mace: Colonel Psy-Ops, Commandant's Corps, "MUSH"; CIA operations off of Rhost MUSH hardcode, "hacks".
Mace wants media printed with a military use, out of "Puck"; military, police, and espionage undercovers, acting in the field against failures at English literature.
The police literature majors needed reinforcements.
Joseph Kennedy the Third: Chief Prosecutor Kennedy, British Forecasts; North Ireland, Scotsmen, London, Scottish, and Eire, Scythics, as working in peace through Boston.
Kennedy needed his city reclaimed; he wanted Batman, giving the word to the Falcones; his old ally, from his uncle, JFK Sr.
Naturally, Holiday was pleasured to assist.
"American Ultra"
Political Sponsors:Karol Josef Wojtla: Pope John Paul II, insurance markets shut down in favor of credit unions; the farm investment.
The Pope wants Mormon land share shut down, so they buy property; an altered quadratic range, to fix the families of the Farbry's Disease.
Mormons were speculating on resources present as per owned home.
George Walker Bush Junior: POTUS #42, "the Green Revolution"; improved farming numbers, through oil and natural gas.
Bush wants a formula per dating mining out of Russian hackers numbers; per criminal use of gasoline, as any of it; outside of the small town.
Car owners were abusing their children per moneyed tradition.
Nancy Mace: Colonel Psy-Ops, Commandant's Corps, "MUSH"; CIA operations off of Rhost MUSH hardcode, "hacks".
Mace wants media printed with a military use, out of "Puck"; military, police, and espionage undercovers, acting in the field against failures at English literature.
The police literature majors needed reinforcements.
Joseph Kennedy the Third: Chief Prosecutor Kennedy, British Forecasts; North Ireland, Scotsmen, London, Scottish, and Eire, Scythics, as working in peace through Boston.
Kennedy needed his city reclaimed; he wanted Batman, giving the word to the Falcones; his old ally, from his uncle, JFK Sr.
Naturally, Holiday was pleasured to assist.
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AI just makes me dumber and makes thinking for myself harder, it would be really cool if some people here could help spread this!
Make some posters for this in the thread.
No AI july
What if for the entirety of July we didn't use AI chatbots, or AI searches at all, using duckduckgo or other search engines with no AI intergration instead.AI just makes me dumber and makes thinking for myself harder, it would be really cool if some people here could help spread this!
Make some posters for this in the thread.
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also I like playing online games
There are plenty of social medias out there
>Youtube
>X
>Reddit
>Discord
> AND I don't fucking know
I'm banned from reddit and X is full of bots
So I only use discord and Youtube
what platforms do you use for distraction?
Uhh exilent question, I like to use youtube and a bit of touching grass what about you guys?also I like playing online games
There are plenty of social medias out there
>Youtube
>X
>Discord
> AND I don't fucking know
I'm banned from reddit and X is full of bots
So I only use discord and Youtube
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Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
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Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
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Marxists Internet Archive
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Library Genesis
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bannedthought.net
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Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
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Books on libcom.org
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Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
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Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
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Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
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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
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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
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Leftists have a problem with MLoids, but among rightards, there's literally no empathy.
Why are right-wingers so inhumane?
The average right-wing post mocks the deaths of innocent people. Not only do they mock, but they also try to justify it by digging into the victim's past or attempting to blame them for their own death.Leftists have a problem with MLoids, but among rightards, there's literally no empathy.
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France's far-right National Rally party on Tuesday reached a preliminary agreement with two European banks for a loan to help fund Marine Le Pen's presidential campaign. The lenders are expected to finalise the €10 million loan by the end of the month.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261110-french-far-right-close-to-secyre-€10-million-loan-to-fund-le-pen-presidential-campaign
https://archive.ph/NxeIR
Burnham's plan to 'end neoliberalism' includes involvement of US firm linked to Gaza aid site massacres
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), whose former employees include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Burnham’s chief of staff, James Purnell, will provide a consultant to help shape the prime minister’s 10-year plan. One of the “big three” management consultancy firms, BCG has been accused of aiding Israeli starvation tactics that amount to war crimes and genocide, and of being implicated in the killing of thousands of Palestinians.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/burnhams-plan-end-neoliberalism-includes-hiring-us-firm-linked-gaza-aid-site-massacres
Former Hungarian PM’s brother arrested for alleged human trafficking while Orban was in power
Monday’s arrest was part of a comprehensive push by Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s new government to unearth suspected acts of corruption committed by Mr Orban’s far-right administration during his 16 years in power. Several Orban-era officials, including the former governor of the Central Bank, are already in police detention on suspicion of fraud and corruption.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f2nd-former-hungarian-pms-brother-arrested-alleged-human-trafficking-while-orban-was-power
Teachers strike in Paraguay to demand pension fund protections following bank’s collapse
Silvio Piris, the president of the Federation of Paraguayan Educators, said that teachers in Paraguay are concerned over the fate of around 60 million dollars in pension funds that had been deposited in Ueno, the bank Paraguay’s government intervened in last week.
https://apnews.com/article/ueno-bank-crisis-paraguay-santiago-pena-b42b00ac69888febf9b66f768668d6b7
Colombian Police Repress Peaceful Student Protest Against President De la Espriella
httpsStudents of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (UPTC) were repressed by security forces on Monday with tear gas and stun grenades during a peaceful sit-in rejecting President Abelardo de la Espriella’s visit to Tunja, capital of Boyacá, with demonstrators denouncing excessive use of force, unjustified aggressions and arbitrary detentions, according to eyewitness videos and statements from lawmakers.://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-police-repress-peaceful-student-protest-against-president-de-la-espriella/
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/latin-america/
Three months after 7.5M earthquake struck Colombia, “reconstruction hasn’t begun”
The top human rights official of Pereira, Leonardo Fabio Reales, told Caracol Radio that “the reconstruction of the city has not begun. There isn’t even a rough outline of what is planned to be done after the earthquake.” Pereira is among the hardest hit by the 7.4M earthquake that destroyed more than 123,000 homes, and hundreds of hospitals and schools.
https://colombiareports.com/three-months-after-7-5m-earthquake-struck-colombia-reconstruction-hasnt-begun/
Myanmar lobbies US to invest in its rare earths sector, dominated by China
"Ultimately, the United States should treat Myanmar as a critical minerals priority, not simply a diplomatic challenge," Washington lobbying firm DCI Group said in a newsletter on Monday published on behalf of Myanmar's information ministry. "Minerals are the natural place for this deepening relationship to grow, since they connect Myanmar's economic potential to U.S. national security and supply-chain priorities."
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/myanmar-lobbies-us-invest-its-rare-earths-sector-dominated-by-china-2026-11-10/
Myanmar Regime Routs Resistance HQ on Bago–Mon Border
On Nov. 8, the regime seized another five resistance bases, including the Special Region Military Command northeast of Theinzayat, which it said was the nerve center of regional operations of the heartland People’s Defense Forces (PDF) loyal to the shadow government. Here the resistance manufactured “homemade mortars, firearms, ammunition and explosives for their operations,” the report said. The regime previously bombed the command on Sept. 24, killing six people including prominent Air Force defector Nay Win Aung.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-routs-resistance-hq-on-bago-mon-border.html
Two-week power blackout after drone attack sees prices in Sudan’s White Nile state soar
Residents of Rabak, in Sudan’s White Nile state, have been without electricity for 14 consecutive days, with the cost of basic services rising sharply. A block of ice now costs SDG 60,000, charging a mobile phone costs SDG 5,000, and milling a malwa (3.5 Kilogrammes) of grain has reached SDG 10,000.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/two-week-power-blackout-after-drone-attack-sees-prices-in-sudans-white-nile-state-soar
Transfers and delayed payments | Female teachers in Homs face growing job uncertainty
One teacher, a widow providing for four children, said she was reassigned from teaching history to working as a classroom teacher and later posted to Al-Jadida in the Al-Sukhna area near the Deir Ezzor border. She said transport costs were beyond her means and that repeated objections had gone unanswered.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/388184/
Eisenkot unveils agenda to reverse Netanyahu’s policies as Israel’s new parliament is sworn in
Eisenkot’s bloc introduced a series of bills at the start of the legislative session that target Netanyahu and his policies. They include launching an official government-led inquiry into Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, setting term limits on the position of prime minister and overturning changes the outgoing Netanyahu-led government made to limit the powers of the judiciary. It was not immediately clear how quickly or far those bills would advance in the weeks ahead.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-election-netanyahu-eisenkot-knesset-68e96ea53ad8614f1e2aa6a546c64ad9
UNICEF says Israel blocks Gaza basin repairs, warns of flood risk
Local authorities say Israel destroyed water infrastructure and vehicles used to pump water during its war on the enclave, which had displaced most of the territory's more than 2 million residents and left much of Gaza in ruins. Most of the population now lives in tent camps. One damaged facility is the Sheikh Radwan stormwater basin in Gaza City, which is now contaminated with sewage and at risk of overflowing after heavy rainfall, according to UNICEF's James Elder.
https://www.newarab.com/news/unicef-says-israel-blocks-gaza-basin-repairs-warns-floods
News 11/10/26
French far right on track to secure €10 million loan for Le Pen's presidential campaignFrance's far-right National Rally party on Tuesday reached a preliminary agreement with two European banks for a loan to help fund Marine Le Pen's presidential campaign. The lenders are expected to finalise the €10 million loan by the end of the month.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261110-french-far-right-close-to-secyre-€10-million-loan-to-fund-le-pen-presidential-campaign
https://archive.ph/NxeIR
Burnham's plan to 'end neoliberalism' includes involvement of US firm linked to Gaza aid site massacres
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), whose former employees include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Burnham’s chief of staff, James Purnell, will provide a consultant to help shape the prime minister’s 10-year plan. One of the “big three” management consultancy firms, BCG has been accused of aiding Israeli starvation tactics that amount to war crimes and genocide, and of being implicated in the killing of thousands of Palestinians.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/burnhams-plan-end-neoliberalism-includes-hiring-us-firm-linked-gaza-aid-site-massacres
Former Hungarian PM’s brother arrested for alleged human trafficking while Orban was in power
Monday’s arrest was part of a comprehensive push by Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s new government to unearth suspected acts of corruption committed by Mr Orban’s far-right administration during his 16 years in power. Several Orban-era officials, including the former governor of the Central Bank, are already in police detention on suspicion of fraud and corruption.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f2nd-former-hungarian-pms-brother-arrested-alleged-human-trafficking-while-orban-was-power
Teachers strike in Paraguay to demand pension fund protections following bank’s collapse
Silvio Piris, the president of the Federation of Paraguayan Educators, said that teachers in Paraguay are concerned over the fate of around 60 million dollars in pension funds that had been deposited in Ueno, the bank Paraguay’s government intervened in last week.
https://apnews.com/article/ueno-bank-crisis-paraguay-santiago-pena-b42b00ac69888febf9b66f768668d6b7
Colombian Police Repress Peaceful Student Protest Against President De la Espriella
httpsStudents of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (UPTC) were repressed by security forces on Monday with tear gas and stun grenades during a peaceful sit-in rejecting President Abelardo de la Espriella’s visit to Tunja, capital of Boyacá, with demonstrators denouncing excessive use of force, unjustified aggressions and arbitrary detentions, according to eyewitness videos and statements from lawmakers.://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-police-repress-peaceful-student-protest-against-president-de-la-espriella/
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/latin-america/
Three months after 7.5M earthquake struck Colombia, “reconstruction hasn’t begun”
The top human rights official of Pereira, Leonardo Fabio Reales, told Caracol Radio that “the reconstruction of the city has not begun. There isn’t even a rough outline of what is planned to be done after the earthquake.” Pereira is among the hardest hit by the 7.4M earthquake that destroyed more than 123,000 homes, and hundreds of hospitals and schools.
https://colombiareports.com/three-months-after-7-5m-earthquake-struck-colombia-reconstruction-hasnt-begun/
Myanmar lobbies US to invest in its rare earths sector, dominated by China
"Ultimately, the United States should treat Myanmar as a critical minerals priority, not simply a diplomatic challenge," Washington lobbying firm DCI Group said in a newsletter on Monday published on behalf of Myanmar's information ministry. "Minerals are the natural place for this deepening relationship to grow, since they connect Myanmar's economic potential to U.S. national security and supply-chain priorities."
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/myanmar-lobbies-us-invest-its-rare-earths-sector-dominated-by-china-2026-11-10/
Myanmar Regime Routs Resistance HQ on Bago–Mon Border
On Nov. 8, the regime seized another five resistance bases, including the Special Region Military Command northeast of Theinzayat, which it said was the nerve center of regional operations of the heartland People’s Defense Forces (PDF) loyal to the shadow government. Here the resistance manufactured “homemade mortars, firearms, ammunition and explosives for their operations,” the report said. The regime previously bombed the command on Sept. 24, killing six people including prominent Air Force defector Nay Win Aung.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-routs-resistance-hq-on-bago-mon-border.html
Two-week power blackout after drone attack sees prices in Sudan’s White Nile state soar
Residents of Rabak, in Sudan’s White Nile state, have been without electricity for 14 consecutive days, with the cost of basic services rising sharply. A block of ice now costs SDG 60,000, charging a mobile phone costs SDG 5,000, and milling a malwa (3.5 Kilogrammes) of grain has reached SDG 10,000.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/two-week-power-blackout-after-drone-attack-sees-prices-in-sudans-white-nile-state-soar
Transfers and delayed payments | Female teachers in Homs face growing job uncertainty
One teacher, a widow providing for four children, said she was reassigned from teaching history to working as a classroom teacher and later posted to Al-Jadida in the Al-Sukhna area near the Deir Ezzor border. She said transport costs were beyond her means and that repeated objections had gone unanswered.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/388184/
Eisenkot unveils agenda to reverse Netanyahu’s policies as Israel’s new parliament is sworn in
Eisenkot’s bloc introduced a series of bills at the start of the legislative session that target Netanyahu and his policies. They include launching an official government-led inquiry into Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, setting term limits on the position of prime minister and overturning changes the outgoing Netanyahu-led government made to limit the powers of the judiciary. It was not immediately clear how quickly or far those bills would advance in the weeks ahead.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-election-netanyahu-eisenkot-knesset-68e96ea53ad8614f1e2aa6a546c64ad9
UNICEF says Israel blocks Gaza basin repairs, warns of flood risk
Local authorities say Israel destroyed water infrastructure and vehicles used to pump water during its war on the enclave, which had displaced most of the territory's more than 2 million residents and left much of Gaza in ruins. Most of the population now lives in tent camps. One damaged facility is the Sheikh Radwan stormwater basin in Gaza City, which is now contaminated with sewage and at risk of overflowing after heavy rainfall, according to UNICEF's James Elder.
https://www.newarab.com/news/unicef-says-israel-blocks-gaza-basin-repairs-warns-floods
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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
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From my understanding of Marxism, communism should be the natural consequence of the inherent contradictions of capitalism in the context of an industrial society, which is a necessary condition.
While it made sense in the wake of the russian and chinese civil wars for a mixed system led by a revolutionary elite since both countries had just exited the feudal stage, why couldn't those countries reach communism as Marx envisioned once they had reached a high degree of industrialization?
Discussion thread
Why wasn't communism achieved following the mass industrialization of the Soviet Union and China?From my understanding of Marxism, communism should be the natural consequence of the inherent contradictions of capitalism in the context of an industrial society, which is a necessary condition.
While it made sense in the wake of the russian and chinese civil wars for a mixed system led by a revolutionary elite since both countries had just exited the feudal stage, why couldn't those countries reach communism as Marx envisioned once they had reached a high degree of industrialization?
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Would you join the tranerbrigade?
The body was short and empty, but my heart is tall and full. What??? It's still short??? These dating standards have gone too far.
Would you join the tranerbrigade?
The body was short and empty, but my heart is tall and full. What??? It's still short??? These dating standards have gone too far.
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AMERICAN WORKERS AWAKE! New Nationalism is here. Join the REVOLUTION! Take back the industry, take back the land, take back the country. The New Nationalism is here.
The New Nationalists of America
Newnationalists.orgAMERICAN WORKERS AWAKE! New Nationalism is here. Join the REVOLUTION! Take back the industry, take back the land, take back the country. The New Nationalism is here.
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Marxism has no reality at all in the West. Nearly all self-proclaimed Marxists are frauds who haven’t even read Marx, let alone understand him. They use the label Marxism, despite knowing nothing about it, as a pseudo-intellectual obfuscation for their liberal ideology. To begin, what is Marxism? Marxism is not a theory of equality. It is not a diagnosis of injustice, nor is it a specific prescription of how to remedy society’s ills. Marxism is a method for acquiring knowledge about the laws governing the historical development of societies. Marxism thus regards itself as a type of science. Most people think of science as something purely descriptive. But the reason Marx’s contemporaries called him Prometheus is because he bequeathed a science that did not just describe reality, but participated in its development. This makes Marxism totally contrary to modern science. Modern science places knowledge above its object. To know, means to strip something naked to consciousness and turn it into a utility for the knowing subject. He who knows an object, can control, master, and alter an object. But the ‘object’ known by Marxism is none other than human society itself. And the paradox lies in the obvious fact that society is not just an object, but also a subject. Marxists (subjects) are themselves part of the very object they make knowable. To complicate matters further, Marx does not claim knowledge of society alone can transform society. Instead, he proves that society is already coming to know and transform itself materially in the form of the then growing proletarian class. Most people think Marx is ‘Promethean’ because he wanted his ideas popularized. But the REAL reason was because he had the courage of declaring the return of knowledge back to being itself, and human beings in particular. He created a science that ceased to be above its object. For Marx, the knowledge of historical laws arrived at by consciousness, was being reflected in history itself. Knowledge of humanity does not dominate humanity, but reveals that it was there, and part of it all along. “Communism is the riddle of history solved.” Why the need for class consciousness? This is where people misunderstand Leninism as an attempt to turn politics and state power into a tool for realizing some goal of the mind. In reality, the role of Marxists lies in spreading the ‘good news’ to the despairing proletariat. Class consciousness, the so-called ‘vanguard party,’ and the Communist state is the realization of the proletariat’s faith in itself. Communism is not realized ‘automatically’ without the participation of a Communist party because society is not just an object. Neither just a subject either. Communist parties do not create new societies, only guide the existing development of society. This guidance is necessary because politics, Communist or otherwise is itself part of material reality. Without the guidance of proletarian consciousness, the movement propelling society still continues. But it leads to an economic, political, spiritual, moral and overall social crisis. Society eats away at itself as it cannot make sense of the contradictions driving it. The crisis of Western Marxism lies in its inability to overcome the subject/object distinction when it comes to society. How can society both be a real (material) object, while also given the quality of subjective responsibility? Two responses emerge: The first cope of Western Marxism is a type of fatalism, which Lenin calls economism. According to this view, politics is not involved in the revolutionary transformation of society at all, which happens only because of economics, or a spontaneous uprising of the proletariat. The second (more relevant) is the opposite extreme. In this view, society must act as a pure subject in the form of institutions (party or otherwise), exterminating every trace of its pre-conscious, and objective material being, recreating all society from scratch. But both two sides of Western Marxism are incompatible with Marx’s Promethean gesture of suspending knowledge back to being. In the first, being is upheld entirely independent of knowledge. In the second, knowledge is asserted over and at the expense of being. If society will become communist independently of the engaged subjective partisanship of communists, then all you have is the conceit of some subject-in-the-know passively watching their object fulfill the expectations of subjective knowledge. If communism is just some enlightened consciousness, then what you have are psychotic subjects devoid of any trust that their knowledge is actually based in (non-conscious) reality itself, denouncing the latter as ‘reactionary.’ Knowledge only as ‘subjective self-consciousness.’ The ‘praxis’ uniting thought and practice then is only in the fractal movement of subjective self-consciousness - voluntary ‘action’ becomes the ‘object’ of the subject, who then acts on its basis: ‘object’ takes on the processual quality of yet-to-be fulfilled subjectivity. This is exactly why @conceptualjames places Marxism in the Gnostic tradition: This Western interpretation of Marxism is founded upon a metaphysical distrust for reality. Because of that distrust, good, virtue, etc. lies only in knowledge as pure subjective self-consciousness. This Western Marxism has its origins in the neo-Kantian György Lukács, whose seminal work “History and Class Consciousness” was written to resolve the problem the subject/object distinction posed for the Marxist concept of society, class & history. In order to begin, Lukács engaged in an egregious form of revisionism; blaming for Marxism’s commitment to natural realism Fredrich Engels and his "dialectics of nature."23 To Lukács, when Marx referred to objective material reality, he was merely opposing society as a supra-individual horizon of meaning to individual subjectivity. It did not include objective natural reality, which Lukács brackets as irrelevant to Marxism. Society was ‘objective,’ and consciousness was ‘subjective.’ Their dialectical interaction, for Lukács, was the basis of history itself. But the material reality outside of social mediation (nature) was irrelevant to, and outside this dialectic, outside history. The reason I mention Lukács is because Western Marxism was founded on the false view that he resolved the problem of ‘subject/object’ distinction for Marxism. But he did nothing of that sort, he just changed the definition of objectivity to exclude objective reality itself. Here, objectivity is just the reified totality of social relations, denied of active subjective responsibility. This obviously contradicts Marx’s materialism, for which objectivity does include nature, not just society as some purely transcendental horizon. Without including nature in the definition of material reality, then class-consciousness consists in dissolving all society, in all its objectivity, into a pure subjective self-consciousness. For Lukács, the proletarian class is the first ‘subject-object’ which does exactly this. This is a gross perversion of Marxism, and it is easy to see the lineage of the Lukácsian view in the Frankfurt School, the New Left, ‘postmodern academia,’ gender studies in Wokeism as a whole. But is Lukácsian Western Marxism really to blame? In fact, when Lukács decided to reject Engels, he was just compromising with institutional modern realism. Engels ‘dialectics of nature’ was too ‘metaphysical’ because it saw something ‘human’ in reality. In other words, the opposite of a metaphysical distrust in reality! In other words, James Lindsay is a fucking moron when he blames wokeism’s metaphysical distrust in reality on Marxism. In actual fact, the distrust in reality is the very basis of bourgeois modernity. It can be thought as the entire premise of the Age of Enlightenment itself In the realm of science: Metaphysical distrust in reality takes the form of distrust in our conventions, intuitions, religious beliefs, and sensibilities about the nature of reality. Reality is a pure OUTSIDE only accessed by cold, indifferent, impersonal inquiry. In the realm of politics: Metaphysical distrust in reality takes the form of distrust in traditional sovereign authority, regarding it as unjust, arbitrary, and tyrannical. Sovereigns must be legitimated by some explicitly abstract constitutional or democratic procedure. Wokeness is just the applying it to the realm of culture, where the unwritten norms of civilization secretly disguise relationships of injustice, oppression, and marginalization - by virtue of not being premised by expressly consensual, rational, etc. consciousness. In bourgeois modernity, only what is in the sphere of explicit responsibility of conscious subjects can be ‘trusted.’ Any recognition of humanity in reality itself is no different than a superstition: Reality is arbitrary, meaningless, and malign. Only institutions are Good. The madness of bourgeois capitalism, which alienates mankind from its material being, is the true culprit behind the Woke phenomena, NOT Marxism. All Lukács did was make Marxism compatible with bourgeois institutions. The original problem is the bourgeoisie itself. The Gnostic, occultist, and alchemical origins of the bourgeois enlightenment are abundantly clear. Lindsay accuses of Marxism, what is in fact THE FOUNDATION OF LIBERALISM! Marxism is the exact OPPOSITE of this bourgeois conceit of knowledge (gnosis), formalism, and wokeness In Marxism, the highest aim of knowledge is to give way to reality. This entails a great trust in material being - anything of importance arrived at by knowledge, is already reconciled within material reality itself. The paradox is that this ‘giving way’ is a necessary act of consciousness. Lukács’ response to this paradox revised Marxism itself. But even if Lukács were to be rejected, the problem remains. Furthermore, what is really the problem with Lukács’s revision, anyway? Exploring that reveals the way to a better solution. As we have shown, the idea of communism as a pure subjective self-consciousness, is based on the notion that objectivity is just reified social relations. This naturally begs the question of what the content of these social relations consists in, as so far they are only pure form Marxism is historical materialism, and Communism is just the practical application of historical materialism, via the class-conscious (historical-materialism conscious) proletariat, to society itself. But what does that say about the nature of society in the first place? It means society is an indescribable ‘totality’ of individual mental states, opinions, and beliefs, - the objectivity of social relationships, is merely a result of the subjective mind ‘reifying’ segments of the totality and treating them as external realities in themselves. Thus here, society has no real determinate content - it is a pure ‘Kantian Thing-in-Itself,’ a mere totality of individual relations that only asserts its existence negatively, via the reification (‘objectivization’) of its constituent parts. This means that material relations of production are rooted in reified mental states, not material reality. Consciousness of them (plus action) would dissolve them. Material society is then defined by ‘that which subjective consciousness has not yet assumed responsibility for!’ Having rejected any specific form of being as *necessarily* material, including nature, it is only upon failing to render the Totality fully transparent that consciousness may renunciate its aspiration to dissolve everything in itself. Totality is the Lukácsian sublime. The Totality of individual relations in the form of History, or Society, constitutes a type of absolute objectivity which is not merely a reification - but the free, continuous and holistic content of every possible experience, mental state, and subjectivity. A totality cannot assume self-consciousness, since it cannot be confined to any one self. So that is simply the end of Scientific Socialism: The only thing that can really be known about society, is that nothing at all can be known. This is no more knowledge than Kant’s Thing. Subject-Object distinction reemerges, only now between a subjective self-consciousness (in the form of Party, institutions, etc) rendering transparent and assuming responsibility for all determinations of society and the Totality of relations as the supremely impenetrable object. So we are back to square one, and none wiser in answering: 1. To what extent is society (including all relations of production) itself objective? 2. To what extent is Communism merely a subjective consciousness? These are the most fundamental questions of Western Marxism I place special emphasis on Western Marxism, since these questions are obvious within the framework of the experience of Marxism-Leninism. There, the question of the objectivity of society, and Communism, were answered practically: In the Soviet Avant-Garde and in the GPCR. Both of these events ran upon the objective limits of their underlying aspirations, and the wisdom of Marxism-Leninism - whether in Socialism in One Country or in Deng Xiaopings Reform and Opening Up - defined itself in relation to that experience. Moreover, Marxism-Leninism is defined within the context of countries where the question of society and the individual is resolved in the concrete bonds of civilization, bonds which were never questioned even at the height of revolutionary experimentation. In the comparatively atomized West, it is not at all clear to people to what extent society is objective, or to what extent ideas are subjective, even outside Marxist theory. Modern Western thinking doubts absolutely everything about society, even the definition of gender. The very distinction between subject and object itself is not at all clear in Western society, which is extremely sensitive to algorithmically-driven shifts in culture. Even scientific consensus is (rightfully) called into question, while expert opinion disguises itself as fact. In contrast to Lukács notion of reification, the real problem with the subject-object distinction cannot but appear to be rooted in the notion of objective Being implied by it, as totally purified of human quality. Despite that in reality, all objects appear somehow tainted by it When the thinking consciousness is entirely divided from reality, as pure spirit, soul, mind, or cogito - what remains of reality is completely meaningless, and devoid of any moral, historical, spiritual, or human significance. How could that square with Marx’s view bellow? Marxists as early as Plekhanov have also opted for regressing into Spinozism as a means to resolve the problem, where subject and object collapse into the supreme Substance. In this way thinking consciousness is the mere attribute of Substance: the most fundamental form of Being. Soviet Philosopher Ilyenkov, goes so far as to draw out speculative cosmological implications of this view, according to which thought arises as a necessary attribute of matter to prevent the heat death of the universe, by initiating a conscious cosmic catastrophe to reset it. The problem with Spinozism is not the view that mind and matter (‘subject and object’) share reality, but in the notion of reality as ‘Substance:’ a metaphysical view of the object already united with its subjective determinations. Substance thus has no stake in its attributes. This is just one of the ways of ‘resolving’ the problem by denying it all together: Substance is mere objectivity given Form by the mind. Substance is treated as supreme, antecedent, and given, but it is the repository of a dogmatic subjective determination, not true objectivity. The Marxist-Spinozist view cannot ground the origins of proletarian consciousness, Marxism, and the Communist party in reality - it represses its own origins, and pretends these arise in perfect continuity with the self-same Substance, effectively gaslighting itself. This view does not arise from any necessary procedure of thought, experience, or relation to the world. It is a metaphysical view that does not pay for itself in any way - it is an insight that cannot itself be reproduced materially, a pure dogmatism of the mind. There never comes the decisive gesture of Marx of renouncing knowledge to suspend it back into Being - Substance is the conceit of a knowledge that already inheres in Being, perfectly continuous with the intellect which at no point runs upon the limit of its pretentions. In practice, it becomes a type of ideological hubris, asserting the unreality and meaninglessness of every actually substantive bond of civilization, in favor of a supreme ‘Substance’ that has neither any skin of its own in the game, nor any reality outside a calcified intellect. More importantly, it renders Scientific Socialism into a metaphysical dogma, incapable of deriving concrete knowledge of concrete social reality. No specificity of societal objectivity is possible - everything is just ‘capitalism’ permeating the whole of its ‘attributes.’ It is obvious that if ‘everything’ is objective, then nothing in particular is, including society itself. The extent of society’s objectivity is the extent it is continuous with a dogma of the mind. It is no wonder Spinoza is the favorite thinker of pseudo-Marxist academia! Spinozism is categorically incompatible with Marxism for no other reason than that its foundations make impossible insight into laws governing historical development, and the particular qualitative character of societies. It could not possibly constitute any class-consciousness. Specifically, it cannot afford any recognition of the objectivity of contradictions (such as the class struggle). In the stead of the objectivity of class struggle lies a pure subjectivist ‘will to immanence,’ a notion of communism as antisocial as Lukácsian “self-consciousness.” The scholastic concept Substance does not resolve the object-subject distinction (the principal theoretical problem of Western Marxism), but only conceals it. For the 100+ years Western Marxism has confused it with Marx’s materialism, Marxism was condemned metaphysical languish. It suffices only to recall Marx’s own apt view of Spinoza: A metaphysically disguised objectivity which excludes the objectivity of man, and therefore the socius relevant for Marx’s own materialism. Marxism succeeded in overcoming metaphysics, but only within a limited scope of practice. That is namely in the investigations of Marx in Capital, the writings of Fredrich Engels and the concrete historical experience of Marxism-Leninism. Marx and Engels failed to fully transmit their theoretical genius. Lenin alone inherited it, and gave it practical reality. The genius of Marxism survived as the genius of world-historical statesmen and civilizations, but its original spark of consciousness was lost. Marxism-Leninism emerged as a type of phronesis, whose advanced outlook was established by the context of the concrete historical experience of Communism. Not strictly a matter of theoretical intellect, but also a type of advanced sensibility based on practical reality. Marx’s Promethean gesture acquired objective reality and history exclusively outside the West, where objectivity of society was not metaphysical question, but a given reality. And the problem of metaphysics permeated the whole of Western thinking, not just Western Marxism. For Marxism to be meaningful in the West, it cannot ignore this problem, for when it does, it always remains trapped within it anyway, inevitably regressing materialist objectivity from practical Scientific Socialism into the scholastic Kantian or Spinozist frame. In the case of Kantianism (as in Lukács), proletarian objectivity dissolves in the subjectivism of social-dem institutions. In Spinozism, it becomes an intellectual conceit devoid of skin in the game. Revisionism, opportunism, and defeatism are the certain conclusion of both. The object in the form of ‘capitalism’ - whether as Thing or Substance - becomes so overwhelming and insurmountable, that the comparative weakness of Marxist subjectivity takes in. The paranoiac spectre of ‘fascism’ reflects a consciousness always in retreat before its object. And hardly anything could affirm that paranoia more than the fact that the thinker who finally initiated the revolution that would emancipate the Western mind from bourgeois metaphysics once and for all, is nearly equally infamous for their affiliation to German Nazism. Originally a student of Husserl and the phenomenological school, Martin Heidegger inadvertently lays the foundation for a complete rediscovery of Marx, emancipating Western thought from its metaphysical shackles and opening the way for a truly consistent materialist outlook. Heidegger elects to orient thought to an origin more fundamental than can be contained within the frame of the reductionist ‘res cogitans/'extensa’ or ‘subject/object’ distinction, and that is toward Being as such. This is the beginning of what is popularly called ontology. For Heidegger, Being as such pre-exists the classification, categorization, utilization, etc. of particular beings by thought. It is the ‘Being of beings’ - the more fundamental ground by which particular beings are given to us - whether in experience, contemplation, or practice. He calls the difference between Being & beings the Ontological Difference. Every relation to beings, is based on a fundamental horizon of Being as such. When a specific horizon acquires historical dominance, it is metaphysical - imposing upon Being a specific relation by thought. The view of the thinking being is set on a foundation far less metaphysically loaded than the Cartesian Subject: as Dasein, a being for which there is a question or openness of Being. Dasein embodies the very discontinuity of Being that justifies the Ontological Difference. The problem with the subject-object distinction is that it can only regard beings as objects for a given subject. This makes for a notion of objectivity that is a priori idealist. The notion of Subject also implies a specific view of objects as mere utilities for its realization. Subject, moreover, defined as res cogita, is thought itself taken as its own real object. This implies an alienation of thought from reality, foreclosing its scandalous incipience in Being. This notion is the final conclusion of idealism; for Heidegger metaphysics as such. Marx already accomplished the rejection of the culmination of idealist philosophy, especially in his early writings. But the incipient materialist language he made use of (man, class, mode of production, etc.), later fell victim to inevitably metaphysical conceptualizations. Some of these Concepts were involved in the first breakdown of European Marxism itself. The changing nature of capitalist production & role of the proletariat ceased to neatly conform to their Concept, and this was used by Social Democracy to justify its revisionism. Western Marxism, with its conceptualist orthodoxy, became infiltrated by metaphysics, so it is natural that only a Western thinker entirely outside Marxism - and even entirely opposed to it politically - could initiate the emancipation of Western thought from metaphysics. Heidegger may have been beset by various idealistic and politically objectionable peculiarities, but these do not define his primary historical significance. His primary significance lies in setting all thought on a basis which asserts its posteriority in the face of Being. The concept of Dasein helps resolve the fundamental problem of Marxist theory: The Subject/Object paradox and its methodological individualism. For the first time, society, classes, and civilizations can be acknowledged as real in a manner consistent with the materialist view. Dasein does not necessarily afford contemplation exclusive significance in its overall issue of Being, so it is not just another concept of the subject: Not simply cognition, but practically being-in-the-world, facing the constitutive disjuncture with Being in its very Being. This overall phenomenological orientation permits thought to acknowledge reality without preemptively attempting to assume the consequences or implications it has for the thinking being. Whatever consequences or implications there may be, they begin with being, not thought. It is undoubtedly possible that Dasein can be conceived exclusively as an individual, but unlike the concept of the Subject, it is not necessarily so. Being as such is a common well-spring that cuts across individuated ‘subjects,’ and is the staging ground of any shared reality. Moreover, without acknowledging the incipience of thought from more fundamental Being, Marxist materialism becomes an absurdity: Materiality becomes identical to the thought of materiality (like Substance), and thus an idea! In this way, materialism easily becomes idealism. Dasein is constitutively a being already thrown in a world, a world not only not of its choosing, but whose givenness, in the form of beings, cannot be pre-emptively defined by thoughts, ideas or concepts. It rather rests upon a relation to Being as such, which can only be uncovered. The real individual is thus set against a background within which their very individuated identity is subordinated to a more fundamental horizon of Being. Dasein, in its incipience, knows no distinction between individuals, or itself and others. It is not even a collective Typically, Marxists try to resolve antinomy of sociality (either the sum-total of individual subjects or a collective subject individuals are part of) by just grotesquely defining it as a ‘complex’ of relationships between individuals, too numerous to ground in anything definite. The concept of Dasein, properly speaking, does not necessarily even imply individuated identity, let alone a grouping of individuals - but a more fundamental and antecedent background from which individuals acquire distinction, place and identity within a world. The simultaneous quality of being open to Being, while also itself Being, implies Dasein as an incipience of thought that goes from the question of a subject faced with its object, to a quality of the ‘object’ itself, as originally discontinuous with regard to itself. A Dasein is already immersed within a world, and is a grounded existence while simultaneously corresponding to an openness of Being at issue with, or at least discontinuous with that existence. Yet said Being is nothing more than the very Being of Dasein itself. This ontological difference (between a world of beings and Being as such) is not antagonistic, since Being merely discloses itself, implying not that it is at odds with the world, only given privileged significance in the way it reveals itself to Dasein, in contrast to beings. Particular beings acquire definition in their use, or general significance, but their real meaning is always metonymic, always referring to something more fundamental than themselves: Being as such is thus also the ultimate horizon of meaningfulness to which beings are referred. The definition of a Dasein itself, lies at the point in which it faces the threshold beyond which it cannot cross, simultaneously defining the whole of what it is. Typically understood as a person’s death, but more importantly that within which Dasein may recognize its finitude. That is necessarily beyond any particular being; even individual ego. Being as such grounds the finitude of Dasein, and meaningfulness arises not simply in the physical death of a person, but in Being itself, so far as it sets upon the limits of its disclosure to a given Dasein. Heidegger’s shortcoming lies in the ambiguity of Dasein. While Dasein is thrown into a given community, as an established horizon of being, it acquires an authentic relationship to Being only through the exercise of individual will, where it comes to acknowledge its finitude. Yet at the same time, the community is the very ground of Dasein, since ones relation toward others constitutes a given conventionally established horizon of being. What remains ambiguous is the antisocial status of the Being which discloses itself to Dasein. Experiencing finitude is necessarily individual, yet the status of the finitude of Being itself is not clear. This is heightened by the fact that for Heidegger, every determinacy of Being is metaphysical, closing the Ontological difference by reducing Being to a particular being. Though, Heidegger does not make clear how it is community acquires singularity of being, he grounds phenomenological Being the site of its conceivability, freeing it from the methodological individualism of intersubjectivity: and that is his principal achievement for Marxism. As shown, without the aid of Heidegger, Marxism inevitably regresses into metaphysics. But paradoxically, Heidegger’s understanding of metaphysics is the very chief defect of his outlook, not only condemning it to stagnation on his part, but placing it at risk of idealism. Heidegger makes no distinction, in his understanding of metaphysics, between Being in the specificity of its determination, and Being in the specificity of its understanding within the history of philosophy. He extends the label ‘metaphysics’ beyond the realm of thought. For him, metaphysics is an actuality. Thus, industrial capitalist modernity is itself the result of metaphysics and it is implied: a consequence of the history of philosophy. Obviously from an elementary Marxist, or even commonsense perspective, he gets the whole thing backwards. To understand how Being itself acquires a specific determination, it suffices to return to the ontological difference between Being and particular beings. Heidegger situates this difference at the core of Dasein’s existential turmoil, for which Being is always at issue. This quandary, while not identical, at least parallels that of Kant, for whom the transcendental subject is likewise situated between the antinomies. So it suffices to ‘in parallel’ look to Hegel for the solution, and transpose the difference as a difference of Being itself. That is to say, the ontological difference should change the operative notion of Being in the first place, from its one-sided conception mired in the stillness of thought, to an understanding of Being as itself contradiction, difference, etc. in sum, a dialectical union of contraries. Thus Being as such acquires determinacy as an absolute ontological union of opposites, transposing the difference at the core of Dasein to a feature of Being itself. That there exists Dasein in the first place should change something about our understanding of Being itself. Yet in contrast to Hegel, it is not necessary to draw the conclusion that thought comprises the essential element in the contradiction at the heart of Being - The misstep of phenomenological Hegelians from Kojeve to Žižek, who regressed from Heidegger’s original achievement. The important conclusion is that ontology - taken not as a philosophical contemplation, but the real threshold by which mankind relates to Being as such - is itself actively suspended and itself reproduced within material reality, as the formative ground of all thought. This threshold lies not in the limits of philosophy, but in the limits of man’s existence itself, itself suspended in temporal history. Such a limit lies not in the threshold of man’s mastery over nature, but the limit by which man lives, relates to others and to things. Such a limit is not preempted by any philosophy, idea, or consciousness, but the genuine limit of man’s existence in relation to the whole of Being, conditioned not necessarily by physical limitation, but by the limit of the absolute contradiction which forms meaning itself. This can be understood as the contradiction between the givenness of being and Being as such, or between the determinate norms of civilization and their unity in a state authority, a specific frame of past and future, particular and universal, many and one, etc. Heidegger (at least in his early years) could not see that Dasein is not just a being for whom there is a question of Being - but also a being for whom that question is already resolved in a specific way. Heidegger assumed that resolution was necessarily metaphysical. While true for the history of philosophy, it is not true for living and real mankind, for whom the contradiction between the determinacy of Being and an appreciation for the ontological, is the very content of the latter. It is what gives Being itself meaning! The absolute contradiction is a contradiction of incipience, between determination and origins. The contingency of Dasein is not simply a matter of choice, as Heidegger thought, but in a determination whose ‘reason’ is only clear retroactively, like a wavefunction collapse. A civilization is the way it is, not because it is physically impossible for it to be any other way, but precisely because it is physically possible. Only by assuming one determination against a background of many, can a higher reason participate in the development of a people. Western Marxism, before it engages in ‘historical materialist’ analysis, projects a vulgar metaphysical view (rejected by Marx & Engels) of humanity, according to which mankind dwells at the precipice of physical extinction. Thus, everything about society is reduced to survival. Hence, class struggle ultimately reduces to the Rational Choice Individual, and one group merely finds itself disadvantaged with regard to others, on account of being unable to fulfill the desires, or restricting the choices of individuals. What is problematic about this is clear It clearly contrasts with the Marxist view of class struggle, which situates class antagonism within a single division of labor, as a contradiction at the core of being itself - giving it ontological significance, rather than a result of clashing individuals. Understanding any given civilization, is simply a matter of understanding the mode of production. The problem is they never bother to ask exactly what is being produced in the first place. They begin and end with the individual, effectively arriving at no real knowledge at all. The problem of course is that the individual is situated within a more fundamental horizon by which they relate to others, to things, etc. This jibber-jabber is well-known to ‘Marxists,’ but precisely what is meant by it, at the objective material level they never make clear. A mode of production is the mode by which something is reproduced; that something can’t just be the individual. For a mode of production to be general, it must itself have a general object, otherwise the entire concept becomes completely useless. To begin, this object - which is really the specific Being of Dasein - must be a specific logic of reproduction. You could call it a unit of civilization, or a division of labor. Marxoids have devoted an eternity of soliloquies to Capital as a logic of reproduction. Capital, whose logic is standardization, abstraction, and utilitarianism is not a specific logic, but an empty universalism, which concludes with modern American ‘civilisation,’ and now a mere extension of Church of Cartesian metaphysics (govt, financial institutions etc). M-C-M’ is merely the form of reproduction of the modern European polity; the abstraction of the commodity form corresponding to the abstraction of the state. Capital is not an autonomous process, but a civilizational quandary. A deeper object has precedence over it. In a sense, Heidegger is right that ontology here possesses primacy. Before there was capitalism, there was a more fundamental way European civilization came to relate to Being as a whole. That is not to say the latter is arbitrary - on the contrary, it is world-historical. The point is that in contrast to the vulgar materialist view, all of mankind’s ‘metaphysical,’ spiritual, cultural, scientific, etc. questions, aspirations, fears and dreams were bound up with the development of capitalism, reflecting their highest relation to Being as such. To know a logic of reproduction, is to know what is most sacred, fundamental, and ontological for a given people. No abstract, mechanical geometrical, or arithmetic conception of physical production suffices to produce knowledge of any given mode of production. It is clear that Heidegger, though providing the foundation for a Marxism freed from metaphysics, hardly allows us to go this far with the concept of Dasein. But at the very least, with the help of Hegel, it is possible to grasp ontological difference as a feature of Being itself That is the second most important step to arriving at a true conception of the objectivity of society, after Heidegger’s phenomenological turn itself. That is because it establishes Being as a specific contradiction, thus having some kind of finitude beyond individual death. This does not yet tell us anything particular about any specific Dasein. For that to be possible, it is necessary to take a fundamental step beyond Heidegger and beyond the West itself. Heidegger gave us an escape from metaphysics - but not a perspective already outside of it. It was Aleksandr Dugin who accomplished the particularization of Heidegger’s concept of Dasein, thus allowing for it to be put to work in productive, even practical ways. And he does this by returning to the beginning of metaphysics according to Heidegger - in Logos Logos is the first forgetting of Being, in the form of Being as the identity of difference. Whereas Heidegger identifies Being with Time, Heraclitus identified Being as change and constant flux, and thus an identity of difference itself. The beginning of Western philosophy. Dugin, rather than languish in the melodrama of the long forgetting of Being, employs Logos as a productive concept: As the logic of a given civilization’s existence, defining its particular Dasein, or ontology. This analysis is only superficially idealist, but not necessarily. Dugin claims to reject materialism as a whole. Yet only his language is metaphysical: what he describes is nothing other than the metaphysically-concealed communal being which is the premise of any application of Scientific Socialism. The kernel of his thinking is materialist. Logos is the revealed form of Dasein, cleansing Heidegger of any traces of potential subjectivism and, in a properly Hegelian manner, transposing the ontological difference itself into a determinate object. Active geopolitical analysis can then replace impotent contemplation. Dugin offers Space as a proper counterpart to Heideggerean Time, because he does not mind being ‘metaphysical,’ in the sense of grounding Being in specificity. But from a materialist perspective, going from the general to the particular is the opposite of metaphysical. Dugin is necessary for Marxism, because without specifying the communal being which is the premise of Scientific Socialism, it not only regresses into metaphysics (and cannot draw any particular insights), it becomes a cheap extension of American unipolar liberalism. Dugin may give expression to this social being in an overtly metaphysical way, but that is just halloween dressing. The important thing is that he delimits it as the very ground of thought itself, fulfilling the logic of Marxist-Leninist dialectics, beginning from the particular. Socialism in One Country reflected the precise logic that universal Communism can only be built up within a determinate communal being, not a vain pretension to the entire world, but a concrete, grounded relationship between a specific party and a specific country. Dugin’s geopolitical orientation allows for an understanding of the objectivity of civilizations beyond the formalism of statehood - states only exist to the extent that they can reflect the underlying logos of a civilization, reflected in its geography. For Dugin, the logos acquires particularity (beyond the mere identity of difference) where it establishes a particular logic relating one to many, identity and difference, being and becoming, stasis and flux, universal and particular, central authority and local community, etc Logos is stamped by a particular logic of how it relates to its own incipience, how it excludes nothingness, how a people relate to their own constitutive origins, by what means they relate to a universality, what specific limit defines their existence. The logos of civilization easily translates in Marxist terms into a specific logic of communal reproduction, which itself would mean nothing without acknowledging the primacy of ‘ontology’ - at least taken to mean the way in which mankind reproduces the conditions of Form. With Dugin, knowledge can only be derived from the ground-up: every metaphysical, noetic, even psychological assumption is suspended and imperiled phenomenally - not a single conceit of the mind can be idle in the investigation of civilizations and geopolitics. What accounts for a great deal of Dugin’s mysticism is the phenomenalization of the active intellect, which must cross beyond itself and into its real material premises, where only a language of the sublime can suffice to give expression to its objective limitations. Importantly, these limitations are put to work for Dugin - the limits of metaphysics are immanent limits of logos itself, thus enabling a positive a positive analysis and investigation of different civilizations, rather than just understanding them in terms of their differences. This brings us to what is by far the most important contribution of Dugin, and which permits him to be characterized as a true metaphysical materialist, going beyond even Heidegger - and that is in Dugin’s concept of Chaos, the true the phenomenal form of material being. Whereas Heidegger understands in Heraclitus the beginning of Being’s oblivion, Dugin identifies at the precise incipience of Logos a dark counterpart to it - that is chaos. Chaos is not randomness, nor meaninglessness. It is really the antecedent density of material being. In contrast to the exclusive principle of Logos, based on differentiation, identity - which defines itself in contrast to the void of nothingness - chaos is an inclusive principle. It is a dark shadow of logos, corresponding to Being that it has forgotten, but which follows it. Whereas Chaos is ‘Nothing’ to the Logos (or the intellect), it is in reality something. What is this if not a precise materialist view, which asserts the primacy and antecedence of a reality which cannot ever be reduced to any product of the mind? As an inclusive principle, Logos is included within Chaos, as one of its possibilities. This reflects the history of the ‘Asiatic’ Empires, which never seem to annihilate any aspect of their being (including the conquered), but only include, and aggregate in a higher form. Chaos is a type of index of Dasein’s development, which cannot be conditioned by the forms of Being it gives rise to. It is the inert density, and eternity of material being faced by the intellect, which extends infinitely into the past, assailing its development into one Whole. This bears an obvious similarity to Solovyov’s Sophiology, which identifies the feminine divine wisdom as a fourth hypostasis of the trinity. Sophia is the Whole body of universal humanity - the infinite past of infinite divine wisdom of the accumulated history of all mankind. It is in this way that Dugin renders any Heideggerean accusation of metaphysics superfluous - for Being as such is always remembered in the positive concept of Chaos, which always subsumes Logos - a kind of parallel to the Russian relationship to European modernity. Chaos affirms that every Logos, every revealed form of Dasein or communal being, is haunted by a more fundamental material ground of existence, which has given rise to it as one of its many possibilities. This tension between Logos and Chaos is the real absolute contradiction. Translated in materialist terms, civilizations acquire objectivity not because of some static metaphysical quality (like genes), but because their determination reflects an active dialectic at the heart of material being itself. Objectivity is that which realizes a contradiction. The dialectic in question concerns the incipience of what Ilyenkov called the ‘thinking consciousness’ - which is really more like Dasein - from its opposite in material being. This contradiction is itself real (and the only real thing), and not just an illusion of our finitude. For Dugin, the concept of Chaos is reflects the inert reality of that contradiction, accumulated in all its forms, unaltered but inclusive of all possibilities. This makes for a materialism surprisingly similar to the Spinozist kind, rendering Logos a kind of attribute of Chaos… The proper counterpart of the concept of Chaos is the Lacanian ‘non-all.’ Because it precedes differentiation itself, it is ‘all,’ only, not ‘all’ as the sum-total of beings. It is ‘everything,’ but reflects the incompleteness of ‘everything’ by not to be any one form of it. The problem of the concept of Chaos and by extension Dugin’s notion of Logos is that it is still too metaphysical. It is one-sided materialism, where chaos is never truly, absolutely, and fully, imperiled in its determinations. This gives rise to a type of ‘pluralism’ in Dugin. The pluralism of different Dasein, and different Logos, is Dugin’s greatest achievement, but also his greatest weakness: Because it is undercut by an unconditionally singular concept of Chaos, which is the condition of this pluralism. Somewhat similar to Spinoza’s Substance. Dugin escapes too easily the fact of a world-historical and global ‘ontological division of labor’ by humanity. It is hardly conceivable to understand Russian logos, without also including its relation and response to the European kind. The common fate of humanity is inescapable. While Dugin is right to reject globalism, with its imposition of one ontic vision of humanity, without a shared humanity, the internal reality and development of different civilizations lose their own ground of meaning. Certainty of ones fate is certain impossibility. By this it is meant that, while a given civilization can certainly come to appreciate and acknowledge its ‘logos,’ it cannot confuse this as the final horizon of Being itself - at minimum, it must rather regard any new disclosure of Being as capable of including it. Because of this, a civilization cannot recognize its own humanity without recognizing the humanity of others - since, at the level of incipient Dasein - ones own particular Being is actively suspended in the future oriented phenomenal disclosure, known only retroactively. What this means is that at least on a minimal level, all civilizations of mankind share a single ontological plane, and even historical rationality (Hegel), on account of this necessary mutual recognition on the basis of openness of fate. While Dasein can be particularized, its constitutive lack of certain knowledge about what will enter its own phenomenal horizon is universal, and the same good faith a Dasein must constitutively afford for itself that it is human, it must afford for other civilizations. This is all that humanism in Marxism amounts to: not a specific ontic view of the human elevated above reality, but a recognition of the human as that to which every knowledge returns: Only the return of an outlook, thought, etc. to its real premises, reconciles it as a being. Within Marxism-Leninism (and originally consistent with Marx), lies a sophianic view of knowledge, which is neither scholastic nor based in technological domination. Persons like Stalin and Mao had the sage-like quality of knowledge in the form of wisdom. This type of knowledge does not elevate itself above its object, but is like the Hegelian absolute knowledge, corresponding to it absolutely. In this view, knowledge of civilization does not give rise to the occasion of ‘changing’ it by premising it on the basis of consciousness. To know a thing does not always mean to possess mastery of it - to know a thing also corresponds to insight into the limit by which that thing is a necessary and rational existence. This is true for nature in the era of ecology, but it is even more true for civilizations. Communist consciousness does NOT entail the voluntary transformation of society. It entails knowledge in the form of wisdom, of the laws guiding the development of society, and this consciousness intervenes in reality only at the site of the latter’s objective contradictions. The organic development of communal being, and society, is not premised by voluntary consciousness - but by the generational wisdom that allows people to make sense of their place in the world, and their relations toward others. No ‘conscious’ conceit could possibly replace that. Societies and civilizations change - but they do not change according to the whims of consciousness. They change according to what organically makes sense to people, in ways that are compatible with their living being, and their specific logic of reproduction. The application of ‘human rights’ to the sphere of culture, is the highpoint of madness of bourgeois civilization, which is beginning to consume its own human premises. No interiority of grounded life, with its own internal logical and rational development is any longer possible. Wokeness has nothing to do with the Marxist outlook. You can BULLSHIT all you want by referencing academic bullshit. In China, there is no wokeness. In the Soviet Union, there was no wokeness. Their cultural reforms they did have had NOTHING in common with it. A logic of reproduction develops on its own terms, and only in ways that are compatible with the reproduction of units of civilization itself. Hierarchy of respect, family life, and culture all reflect objective wisdoms about what human life is, passed through generations. They are wisdoms because of what they encompass in scale: You can make up your own retarded LGBT identity from scratch. But it is not tested before the wealth of possibilities, outcomes, and experiences of a human life compatible with a civilization shared by others. The significance of Communism intervenes not in the need to create a new community, but on the contrary, to give expression to the precise indeterminateness and contradictions propelling the development of a given community. That is why it doesn’t refer to anything specific. Nothing is more anti-communist than Communism itself. Impotent intellectual wimps like James Lindsay and other rightist idiots cannot even dream of coming close: Communism alone emancipates humanity from its objective ‘communist oppression.’ Bourgeois modernity itself, and even Capital can be thought of as a ‘forms’ of communism, giving limitation to objective communal beings in a specific, universal, indiscriminate ‘form,’ the common reality of abstract, formalist, universal modernity. At stake in the consciousness of class struggle, is the sublation of this formal modernity, giving recognition to a contradiction at the heart of it. Communist universalism, unites the future-oriented universalism of modernity with the Sofianic infinite past. Class struggle, given proper ontological recognition, reflects the subsumption of modernist universalism (for Heidegger, Cartesian metaphysics) to a particular grounding of being, a particular traditional civilization and concrete development. Thus Communism does not try to escape modernity or the Cartesian subject, but fully go through it: giving it proper ontological status as an immanent contradiction, in sum, a dialectical object. The ‘value-form’ is finally given recognition, as torn from within. The value-form is immersed within the context of a definite logic of reproduction, which in fact gives it concrete particularity, and whose existence is the beginning of a type of production based on use - in other words, the so-called early stage of socialism. Communism is the inescapable reality of mankind - but only Communism as such, which “disdains to conceal its aims” objectively frees humanity from a given form of communal being, insofar as it contradicts the real content of communal being. Dasein is nothing other than Communism itself. Communism is the true horizon within which the objective communal being of a given people reveals itself, in a manner that is consistent with their world and society. Communism is the real movement of change Communists do not need to ‘abolish’ anything whatsoever - insofar as anything deserves to be abolish, it has already abolished itself in reality: Only in Communism, are the contradictions, changes, and aspirations of a people suspended into a single phenomenal horizon. Communism only gives expression to the ‘real communism’ already inherent in a given civilization or people, it simply NAMES this. Communism just names the excess of development, indeterminacy, and contradiction possessed by every civilization. Communism always ‘falls into place,’ in a manner that reconciles, sublates, and is compatible with existing civilizations. Communism simply names the openness of destiny itself, which in the last instance can only be known by God - but definitely not by any man. In Communism, the whole of civilization, culture, and society, is ‘lifted up’ and imperiled in the struggle of the proletariat. Only retroactively can it be known what survives past the threshold of its inevitable victory. The whole history of mankind is imperiled in it. Communism definitely is the risk that everything meaningful and human will be dissolved. Everything is ‘suspended’ into the future, which is ultimately undecidable. Faith in faith in God, faith in the people - is faith that things will fall back into place in a way that is human. The whole of the people, the whole of the country, and the whole of history is imperiled in the fight for the future. Everything is bounded up there. Everything is actively suspended in something which will not be decided without struggle. Absolutely everything is at stake. Why it is called ‘Communism’ and not something more specific, is precisely because its specificity, while an inevitability, is never fully formed. That is on account of the historical development of mankind as a continual process. The era of the rediscovery of Marxism in the West, and America in particular, is upon us. America as the culmination of bourgeois modernity, now faces the certain prospect of civil war. And the self-consuming madness of capitalist modernity imperils all humanity. A new Event, a new era of the disclosure of Being is upon us - a new threshold by which mankind relates to Being, and thus, an era of Communist revival. 400 years of Cartesian metaphysics now comes to close, and we are thrown into an era of definite uncertainty. Marxism as a whole must be rediscovered, and emancipated from its social-democratic metaphysical decay, in a manner consistent with the ongoing experience of Marxism-Leninism. The common destiny of mankind depends on it. One may try to object to an interpretation of Marxism that draws from Heidegger and Dugin. But there is no other way to make sense of the wisdoms of Marxism-Leninism, at least from the Western perspective. And not just in terms of theory, but also in terms of practice. Real existing Communist states regarded (and continue to regard) society and civilization as objective realities, while also recognizing the role of the Communist party as the guiding light of society’s development. Development does not eliminate the laws of history. They did not regard Communist consciousness as some supreme reality which liquidates and replaces all the wisdoms of mankind with some empty abstraction. Communist consciousness was precisely the sage-like insight, appreciation and respect for that wisdom. Communism does not replace society. It only gives expression to that development which within society is truly and concretely general, truly universal, truly in common. That is the ontological supremacy represented by the proletariat: the true common destiny of mankind. The universalism of the proletariat takes for granted the universalism of abstract modernity (from which Communism has its origins). Yet it avoids the self-consuming madness of globalism, by giving concrete reconciliation of this abstraction in being itself. Communist development does not eliminate the laws of civilization, the mores, sensibilities and culture of a people. At best, it may reveal changes that were already latent within them, according to the tasks of a new era. The only real measure of progress, is what takes root organically, and in a manner consistent, or at least compatible with the whole of a people, civilization and history. Various individual-subjectivist trends and ‘experiments’ have nothing to do with Communism. Communist progress is measured in terms of renunciation and resignation, where a revolution finally reaches its limit. This limit alone defines it as progressive, lasting, objective, and part of the immortal history of mankind - for it defines the finitude of civilization itself. Upon realizing the limits of Hegelian absolute knowledge, Marx came upon the proletariat as the solution, the reconciliation, and the wisdom grounding the lofty heights attained by the mind. Upon realizing the limits of European social democracy, Lenin came upon the Bolshevik party, and the strategy of the joint dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry. Upon realizing the limits of the geographic spread of revolution, Stalin came upon the theory of Socialism in One Country, and for the first time, Communism acquired a concrete, positive mode of development, and civilization, practically aware of its ground in being. Nothing better epitomizes this aesthetic (ontological sensibility) of renunciation than socialist realism, which drew from impressionism the somber, yet cathartic art of 'settling reality back into place'. All that suffices to grasp the ontological vision of Marxism-Leninism, is to appreciate the transition from the Soviet avant-garde to socialist realism. Upon realizing the limits of the cultural revolution, Deng Xiaoping initiated the reform and opening up, and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, which has given Communism an unprecedented vitality, dynamism, and flexibility in the guidance of economic development. It is now time to finally realize the limit of modernity itself, and American modernity in particular. This requires a comprehensive reexamination of the significance of Communism and its relationship to traditional civilizations within the West. But most importantly, it requires the unconditional assumption of responsibility, by American Communists, before the unforeseen challenges facing the American people. Communism now entails the responsibility of mankind before its common destiny. Only out of this, may a people regain meaning after the catastrophe that is to come
To the idiot liberals of "/leftypol/"
AhemMarxism has no reality at all in the West. Nearly all self-proclaimed Marxists are frauds who haven’t even read Marx, let alone understand him. They use the label Marxism, despite knowing nothing about it, as a pseudo-intellectual obfuscation for their liberal ideology. To begin, what is Marxism? Marxism is not a theory of equality. It is not a diagnosis of injustice, nor is it a specific prescription of how to remedy society’s ills. Marxism is a method for acquiring knowledge about the laws governing the historical development of societies. Marxism thus regards itself as a type of science. Most people think of science as something purely descriptive. But the reason Marx’s contemporaries called him Prometheus is because he bequeathed a science that did not just describe reality, but participated in its development. This makes Marxism totally contrary to modern science. Modern science places knowledge above its object. To know, means to strip something naked to consciousness and turn it into a utility for the knowing subject. He who knows an object, can control, master, and alter an object. But the ‘object’ known by Marxism is none other than human society itself. And the paradox lies in the obvious fact that society is not just an object, but also a subject. Marxists (subjects) are themselves part of the very object they make knowable. To complicate matters further, Marx does not claim knowledge of society alone can transform society. Instead, he proves that society is already coming to know and transform itself materially in the form of the then growing proletarian class. Most people think Marx is ‘Promethean’ because he wanted his ideas popularized. But the REAL reason was because he had the courage of declaring the return of knowledge back to being itself, and human beings in particular. He created a science that ceased to be above its object. For Marx, the knowledge of historical laws arrived at by consciousness, was being reflected in history itself. Knowledge of humanity does not dominate humanity, but reveals that it was there, and part of it all along. “Communism is the riddle of history solved.” Why the need for class consciousness? This is where people misunderstand Leninism as an attempt to turn politics and state power into a tool for realizing some goal of the mind. In reality, the role of Marxists lies in spreading the ‘good news’ to the despairing proletariat. Class consciousness, the so-called ‘vanguard party,’ and the Communist state is the realization of the proletariat’s faith in itself. Communism is not realized ‘automatically’ without the participation of a Communist party because society is not just an object. Neither just a subject either. Communist parties do not create new societies, only guide the existing development of society. This guidance is necessary because politics, Communist or otherwise is itself part of material reality. Without the guidance of proletarian consciousness, the movement propelling society still continues. But it leads to an economic, political, spiritual, moral and overall social crisis. Society eats away at itself as it cannot make sense of the contradictions driving it. The crisis of Western Marxism lies in its inability to overcome the subject/object distinction when it comes to society. How can society both be a real (material) object, while also given the quality of subjective responsibility? Two responses emerge: The first cope of Western Marxism is a type of fatalism, which Lenin calls economism. According to this view, politics is not involved in the revolutionary transformation of society at all, which happens only because of economics, or a spontaneous uprising of the proletariat. The second (more relevant) is the opposite extreme. In this view, society must act as a pure subject in the form of institutions (party or otherwise), exterminating every trace of its pre-conscious, and objective material being, recreating all society from scratch. But both two sides of Western Marxism are incompatible with Marx’s Promethean gesture of suspending knowledge back to being. In the first, being is upheld entirely independent of knowledge. In the second, knowledge is asserted over and at the expense of being. If society will become communist independently of the engaged subjective partisanship of communists, then all you have is the conceit of some subject-in-the-know passively watching their object fulfill the expectations of subjective knowledge. If communism is just some enlightened consciousness, then what you have are psychotic subjects devoid of any trust that their knowledge is actually based in (non-conscious) reality itself, denouncing the latter as ‘reactionary.’ Knowledge only as ‘subjective self-consciousness.’ The ‘praxis’ uniting thought and practice then is only in the fractal movement of subjective self-consciousness - voluntary ‘action’ becomes the ‘object’ of the subject, who then acts on its basis: ‘object’ takes on the processual quality of yet-to-be fulfilled subjectivity. This is exactly why @conceptualjames places Marxism in the Gnostic tradition: This Western interpretation of Marxism is founded upon a metaphysical distrust for reality. Because of that distrust, good, virtue, etc. lies only in knowledge as pure subjective self-consciousness. This Western Marxism has its origins in the neo-Kantian György Lukács, whose seminal work “History and Class Consciousness” was written to resolve the problem the subject/object distinction posed for the Marxist concept of society, class & history. In order to begin, Lukács engaged in an egregious form of revisionism; blaming for Marxism’s commitment to natural realism Fredrich Engels and his "dialectics of nature."23 To Lukács, when Marx referred to objective material reality, he was merely opposing society as a supra-individual horizon of meaning to individual subjectivity. It did not include objective natural reality, which Lukács brackets as irrelevant to Marxism. Society was ‘objective,’ and consciousness was ‘subjective.’ Their dialectical interaction, for Lukács, was the basis of history itself. But the material reality outside of social mediation (nature) was irrelevant to, and outside this dialectic, outside history. The reason I mention Lukács is because Western Marxism was founded on the false view that he resolved the problem of ‘subject/object’ distinction for Marxism. But he did nothing of that sort, he just changed the definition of objectivity to exclude objective reality itself. Here, objectivity is just the reified totality of social relations, denied of active subjective responsibility. This obviously contradicts Marx’s materialism, for which objectivity does include nature, not just society as some purely transcendental horizon. Without including nature in the definition of material reality, then class-consciousness consists in dissolving all society, in all its objectivity, into a pure subjective self-consciousness. For Lukács, the proletarian class is the first ‘subject-object’ which does exactly this. This is a gross perversion of Marxism, and it is easy to see the lineage of the Lukácsian view in the Frankfurt School, the New Left, ‘postmodern academia,’ gender studies in Wokeism as a whole. But is Lukácsian Western Marxism really to blame? In fact, when Lukács decided to reject Engels, he was just compromising with institutional modern realism. Engels ‘dialectics of nature’ was too ‘metaphysical’ because it saw something ‘human’ in reality. In other words, the opposite of a metaphysical distrust in reality! In other words, James Lindsay is a fucking moron when he blames wokeism’s metaphysical distrust in reality on Marxism. In actual fact, the distrust in reality is the very basis of bourgeois modernity. It can be thought as the entire premise of the Age of Enlightenment itself In the realm of science: Metaphysical distrust in reality takes the form of distrust in our conventions, intuitions, religious beliefs, and sensibilities about the nature of reality. Reality is a pure OUTSIDE only accessed by cold, indifferent, impersonal inquiry. In the realm of politics: Metaphysical distrust in reality takes the form of distrust in traditional sovereign authority, regarding it as unjust, arbitrary, and tyrannical. Sovereigns must be legitimated by some explicitly abstract constitutional or democratic procedure. Wokeness is just the applying it to the realm of culture, where the unwritten norms of civilization secretly disguise relationships of injustice, oppression, and marginalization - by virtue of not being premised by expressly consensual, rational, etc. consciousness. In bourgeois modernity, only what is in the sphere of explicit responsibility of conscious subjects can be ‘trusted.’ Any recognition of humanity in reality itself is no different than a superstition: Reality is arbitrary, meaningless, and malign. Only institutions are Good. The madness of bourgeois capitalism, which alienates mankind from its material being, is the true culprit behind the Woke phenomena, NOT Marxism. All Lukács did was make Marxism compatible with bourgeois institutions. The original problem is the bourgeoisie itself. The Gnostic, occultist, and alchemical origins of the bourgeois enlightenment are abundantly clear. Lindsay accuses of Marxism, what is in fact THE FOUNDATION OF LIBERALISM! Marxism is the exact OPPOSITE of this bourgeois conceit of knowledge (gnosis), formalism, and wokeness In Marxism, the highest aim of knowledge is to give way to reality. This entails a great trust in material being - anything of importance arrived at by knowledge, is already reconciled within material reality itself. The paradox is that this ‘giving way’ is a necessary act of consciousness. Lukács’ response to this paradox revised Marxism itself. But even if Lukács were to be rejected, the problem remains. Furthermore, what is really the problem with Lukács’s revision, anyway? Exploring that reveals the way to a better solution. As we have shown, the idea of communism as a pure subjective self-consciousness, is based on the notion that objectivity is just reified social relations. This naturally begs the question of what the content of these social relations consists in, as so far they are only pure form Marxism is historical materialism, and Communism is just the practical application of historical materialism, via the class-conscious (historical-materialism conscious) proletariat, to society itself. But what does that say about the nature of society in the first place? It means society is an indescribable ‘totality’ of individual mental states, opinions, and beliefs, - the objectivity of social relationships, is merely a result of the subjective mind ‘reifying’ segments of the totality and treating them as external realities in themselves. Thus here, society has no real determinate content - it is a pure ‘Kantian Thing-in-Itself,’ a mere totality of individual relations that only asserts its existence negatively, via the reification (‘objectivization’) of its constituent parts. This means that material relations of production are rooted in reified mental states, not material reality. Consciousness of them (plus action) would dissolve them. Material society is then defined by ‘that which subjective consciousness has not yet assumed responsibility for!’ Having rejected any specific form of being as *necessarily* material, including nature, it is only upon failing to render the Totality fully transparent that consciousness may renunciate its aspiration to dissolve everything in itself. Totality is the Lukácsian sublime. The Totality of individual relations in the form of History, or Society, constitutes a type of absolute objectivity which is not merely a reification - but the free, continuous and holistic content of every possible experience, mental state, and subjectivity. A totality cannot assume self-consciousness, since it cannot be confined to any one self. So that is simply the end of Scientific Socialism: The only thing that can really be known about society, is that nothing at all can be known. This is no more knowledge than Kant’s Thing. Subject-Object distinction reemerges, only now between a subjective self-consciousness (in the form of Party, institutions, etc) rendering transparent and assuming responsibility for all determinations of society and the Totality of relations as the supremely impenetrable object. So we are back to square one, and none wiser in answering: 1. To what extent is society (including all relations of production) itself objective? 2. To what extent is Communism merely a subjective consciousness? These are the most fundamental questions of Western Marxism I place special emphasis on Western Marxism, since these questions are obvious within the framework of the experience of Marxism-Leninism. There, the question of the objectivity of society, and Communism, were answered practically: In the Soviet Avant-Garde and in the GPCR. Both of these events ran upon the objective limits of their underlying aspirations, and the wisdom of Marxism-Leninism - whether in Socialism in One Country or in Deng Xiaopings Reform and Opening Up - defined itself in relation to that experience. Moreover, Marxism-Leninism is defined within the context of countries where the question of society and the individual is resolved in the concrete bonds of civilization, bonds which were never questioned even at the height of revolutionary experimentation. In the comparatively atomized West, it is not at all clear to people to what extent society is objective, or to what extent ideas are subjective, even outside Marxist theory. Modern Western thinking doubts absolutely everything about society, even the definition of gender. The very distinction between subject and object itself is not at all clear in Western society, which is extremely sensitive to algorithmically-driven shifts in culture. Even scientific consensus is (rightfully) called into question, while expert opinion disguises itself as fact. In contrast to Lukács notion of reification, the real problem with the subject-object distinction cannot but appear to be rooted in the notion of objective Being implied by it, as totally purified of human quality. Despite that in reality, all objects appear somehow tainted by it When the thinking consciousness is entirely divided from reality, as pure spirit, soul, mind, or cogito - what remains of reality is completely meaningless, and devoid of any moral, historical, spiritual, or human significance. How could that square with Marx’s view bellow? Marxists as early as Plekhanov have also opted for regressing into Spinozism as a means to resolve the problem, where subject and object collapse into the supreme Substance. In this way thinking consciousness is the mere attribute of Substance: the most fundamental form of Being. Soviet Philosopher Ilyenkov, goes so far as to draw out speculative cosmological implications of this view, according to which thought arises as a necessary attribute of matter to prevent the heat death of the universe, by initiating a conscious cosmic catastrophe to reset it. The problem with Spinozism is not the view that mind and matter (‘subject and object’) share reality, but in the notion of reality as ‘Substance:’ a metaphysical view of the object already united with its subjective determinations. Substance thus has no stake in its attributes. This is just one of the ways of ‘resolving’ the problem by denying it all together: Substance is mere objectivity given Form by the mind. Substance is treated as supreme, antecedent, and given, but it is the repository of a dogmatic subjective determination, not true objectivity. The Marxist-Spinozist view cannot ground the origins of proletarian consciousness, Marxism, and the Communist party in reality - it represses its own origins, and pretends these arise in perfect continuity with the self-same Substance, effectively gaslighting itself. This view does not arise from any necessary procedure of thought, experience, or relation to the world. It is a metaphysical view that does not pay for itself in any way - it is an insight that cannot itself be reproduced materially, a pure dogmatism of the mind. There never comes the decisive gesture of Marx of renouncing knowledge to suspend it back into Being - Substance is the conceit of a knowledge that already inheres in Being, perfectly continuous with the intellect which at no point runs upon the limit of its pretentions. In practice, it becomes a type of ideological hubris, asserting the unreality and meaninglessness of every actually substantive bond of civilization, in favor of a supreme ‘Substance’ that has neither any skin of its own in the game, nor any reality outside a calcified intellect. More importantly, it renders Scientific Socialism into a metaphysical dogma, incapable of deriving concrete knowledge of concrete social reality. No specificity of societal objectivity is possible - everything is just ‘capitalism’ permeating the whole of its ‘attributes.’ It is obvious that if ‘everything’ is objective, then nothing in particular is, including society itself. The extent of society’s objectivity is the extent it is continuous with a dogma of the mind. It is no wonder Spinoza is the favorite thinker of pseudo-Marxist academia! Spinozism is categorically incompatible with Marxism for no other reason than that its foundations make impossible insight into laws governing historical development, and the particular qualitative character of societies. It could not possibly constitute any class-consciousness. Specifically, it cannot afford any recognition of the objectivity of contradictions (such as the class struggle). In the stead of the objectivity of class struggle lies a pure subjectivist ‘will to immanence,’ a notion of communism as antisocial as Lukácsian “self-consciousness.” The scholastic concept Substance does not resolve the object-subject distinction (the principal theoretical problem of Western Marxism), but only conceals it. For the 100+ years Western Marxism has confused it with Marx’s materialism, Marxism was condemned metaphysical languish. It suffices only to recall Marx’s own apt view of Spinoza: A metaphysically disguised objectivity which excludes the objectivity of man, and therefore the socius relevant for Marx’s own materialism. Marxism succeeded in overcoming metaphysics, but only within a limited scope of practice. That is namely in the investigations of Marx in Capital, the writings of Fredrich Engels and the concrete historical experience of Marxism-Leninism. Marx and Engels failed to fully transmit their theoretical genius. Lenin alone inherited it, and gave it practical reality. The genius of Marxism survived as the genius of world-historical statesmen and civilizations, but its original spark of consciousness was lost. Marxism-Leninism emerged as a type of phronesis, whose advanced outlook was established by the context of the concrete historical experience of Communism. Not strictly a matter of theoretical intellect, but also a type of advanced sensibility based on practical reality. Marx’s Promethean gesture acquired objective reality and history exclusively outside the West, where objectivity of society was not metaphysical question, but a given reality. And the problem of metaphysics permeated the whole of Western thinking, not just Western Marxism. For Marxism to be meaningful in the West, it cannot ignore this problem, for when it does, it always remains trapped within it anyway, inevitably regressing materialist objectivity from practical Scientific Socialism into the scholastic Kantian or Spinozist frame. In the case of Kantianism (as in Lukács), proletarian objectivity dissolves in the subjectivism of social-dem institutions. In Spinozism, it becomes an intellectual conceit devoid of skin in the game. Revisionism, opportunism, and defeatism are the certain conclusion of both. The object in the form of ‘capitalism’ - whether as Thing or Substance - becomes so overwhelming and insurmountable, that the comparative weakness of Marxist subjectivity takes in. The paranoiac spectre of ‘fascism’ reflects a consciousness always in retreat before its object. And hardly anything could affirm that paranoia more than the fact that the thinker who finally initiated the revolution that would emancipate the Western mind from bourgeois metaphysics once and for all, is nearly equally infamous for their affiliation to German Nazism. Originally a student of Husserl and the phenomenological school, Martin Heidegger inadvertently lays the foundation for a complete rediscovery of Marx, emancipating Western thought from its metaphysical shackles and opening the way for a truly consistent materialist outlook. Heidegger elects to orient thought to an origin more fundamental than can be contained within the frame of the reductionist ‘res cogitans/'extensa’ or ‘subject/object’ distinction, and that is toward Being as such. This is the beginning of what is popularly called ontology. For Heidegger, Being as such pre-exists the classification, categorization, utilization, etc. of particular beings by thought. It is the ‘Being of beings’ - the more fundamental ground by which particular beings are given to us - whether in experience, contemplation, or practice. He calls the difference between Being & beings the Ontological Difference. Every relation to beings, is based on a fundamental horizon of Being as such. When a specific horizon acquires historical dominance, it is metaphysical - imposing upon Being a specific relation by thought. The view of the thinking being is set on a foundation far less metaphysically loaded than the Cartesian Subject: as Dasein, a being for which there is a question or openness of Being. Dasein embodies the very discontinuity of Being that justifies the Ontological Difference. The problem with the subject-object distinction is that it can only regard beings as objects for a given subject. This makes for a notion of objectivity that is a priori idealist. The notion of Subject also implies a specific view of objects as mere utilities for its realization. Subject, moreover, defined as res cogita, is thought itself taken as its own real object. This implies an alienation of thought from reality, foreclosing its scandalous incipience in Being. This notion is the final conclusion of idealism; for Heidegger metaphysics as such. Marx already accomplished the rejection of the culmination of idealist philosophy, especially in his early writings. But the incipient materialist language he made use of (man, class, mode of production, etc.), later fell victim to inevitably metaphysical conceptualizations. Some of these Concepts were involved in the first breakdown of European Marxism itself. The changing nature of capitalist production & role of the proletariat ceased to neatly conform to their Concept, and this was used by Social Democracy to justify its revisionism. Western Marxism, with its conceptualist orthodoxy, became infiltrated by metaphysics, so it is natural that only a Western thinker entirely outside Marxism - and even entirely opposed to it politically - could initiate the emancipation of Western thought from metaphysics. Heidegger may have been beset by various idealistic and politically objectionable peculiarities, but these do not define his primary historical significance. His primary significance lies in setting all thought on a basis which asserts its posteriority in the face of Being. The concept of Dasein helps resolve the fundamental problem of Marxist theory: The Subject/Object paradox and its methodological individualism. For the first time, society, classes, and civilizations can be acknowledged as real in a manner consistent with the materialist view. Dasein does not necessarily afford contemplation exclusive significance in its overall issue of Being, so it is not just another concept of the subject: Not simply cognition, but practically being-in-the-world, facing the constitutive disjuncture with Being in its very Being. This overall phenomenological orientation permits thought to acknowledge reality without preemptively attempting to assume the consequences or implications it has for the thinking being. Whatever consequences or implications there may be, they begin with being, not thought. It is undoubtedly possible that Dasein can be conceived exclusively as an individual, but unlike the concept of the Subject, it is not necessarily so. Being as such is a common well-spring that cuts across individuated ‘subjects,’ and is the staging ground of any shared reality. Moreover, without acknowledging the incipience of thought from more fundamental Being, Marxist materialism becomes an absurdity: Materiality becomes identical to the thought of materiality (like Substance), and thus an idea! In this way, materialism easily becomes idealism. Dasein is constitutively a being already thrown in a world, a world not only not of its choosing, but whose givenness, in the form of beings, cannot be pre-emptively defined by thoughts, ideas or concepts. It rather rests upon a relation to Being as such, which can only be uncovered. The real individual is thus set against a background within which their very individuated identity is subordinated to a more fundamental horizon of Being. Dasein, in its incipience, knows no distinction between individuals, or itself and others. It is not even a collective Typically, Marxists try to resolve antinomy of sociality (either the sum-total of individual subjects or a collective subject individuals are part of) by just grotesquely defining it as a ‘complex’ of relationships between individuals, too numerous to ground in anything definite. The concept of Dasein, properly speaking, does not necessarily even imply individuated identity, let alone a grouping of individuals - but a more fundamental and antecedent background from which individuals acquire distinction, place and identity within a world. The simultaneous quality of being open to Being, while also itself Being, implies Dasein as an incipience of thought that goes from the question of a subject faced with its object, to a quality of the ‘object’ itself, as originally discontinuous with regard to itself. A Dasein is already immersed within a world, and is a grounded existence while simultaneously corresponding to an openness of Being at issue with, or at least discontinuous with that existence. Yet said Being is nothing more than the very Being of Dasein itself. This ontological difference (between a world of beings and Being as such) is not antagonistic, since Being merely discloses itself, implying not that it is at odds with the world, only given privileged significance in the way it reveals itself to Dasein, in contrast to beings. Particular beings acquire definition in their use, or general significance, but their real meaning is always metonymic, always referring to something more fundamental than themselves: Being as such is thus also the ultimate horizon of meaningfulness to which beings are referred. The definition of a Dasein itself, lies at the point in which it faces the threshold beyond which it cannot cross, simultaneously defining the whole of what it is. Typically understood as a person’s death, but more importantly that within which Dasein may recognize its finitude. That is necessarily beyond any particular being; even individual ego. Being as such grounds the finitude of Dasein, and meaningfulness arises not simply in the physical death of a person, but in Being itself, so far as it sets upon the limits of its disclosure to a given Dasein. Heidegger’s shortcoming lies in the ambiguity of Dasein. While Dasein is thrown into a given community, as an established horizon of being, it acquires an authentic relationship to Being only through the exercise of individual will, where it comes to acknowledge its finitude. Yet at the same time, the community is the very ground of Dasein, since ones relation toward others constitutes a given conventionally established horizon of being. What remains ambiguous is the antisocial status of the Being which discloses itself to Dasein. Experiencing finitude is necessarily individual, yet the status of the finitude of Being itself is not clear. This is heightened by the fact that for Heidegger, every determinacy of Being is metaphysical, closing the Ontological difference by reducing Being to a particular being. Though, Heidegger does not make clear how it is community acquires singularity of being, he grounds phenomenological Being the site of its conceivability, freeing it from the methodological individualism of intersubjectivity: and that is his principal achievement for Marxism. As shown, without the aid of Heidegger, Marxism inevitably regresses into metaphysics. But paradoxically, Heidegger’s understanding of metaphysics is the very chief defect of his outlook, not only condemning it to stagnation on his part, but placing it at risk of idealism. Heidegger makes no distinction, in his understanding of metaphysics, between Being in the specificity of its determination, and Being in the specificity of its understanding within the history of philosophy. He extends the label ‘metaphysics’ beyond the realm of thought. For him, metaphysics is an actuality. Thus, industrial capitalist modernity is itself the result of metaphysics and it is implied: a consequence of the history of philosophy. Obviously from an elementary Marxist, or even commonsense perspective, he gets the whole thing backwards. To understand how Being itself acquires a specific determination, it suffices to return to the ontological difference between Being and particular beings. Heidegger situates this difference at the core of Dasein’s existential turmoil, for which Being is always at issue. This quandary, while not identical, at least parallels that of Kant, for whom the transcendental subject is likewise situated between the antinomies. So it suffices to ‘in parallel’ look to Hegel for the solution, and transpose the difference as a difference of Being itself. That is to say, the ontological difference should change the operative notion of Being in the first place, from its one-sided conception mired in the stillness of thought, to an understanding of Being as itself contradiction, difference, etc. in sum, a dialectical union of contraries. Thus Being as such acquires determinacy as an absolute ontological union of opposites, transposing the difference at the core of Dasein to a feature of Being itself. That there exists Dasein in the first place should change something about our understanding of Being itself. Yet in contrast to Hegel, it is not necessary to draw the conclusion that thought comprises the essential element in the contradiction at the heart of Being - The misstep of phenomenological Hegelians from Kojeve to Žižek, who regressed from Heidegger’s original achievement. The important conclusion is that ontology - taken not as a philosophical contemplation, but the real threshold by which mankind relates to Being as such - is itself actively suspended and itself reproduced within material reality, as the formative ground of all thought. This threshold lies not in the limits of philosophy, but in the limits of man’s existence itself, itself suspended in temporal history. Such a limit lies not in the threshold of man’s mastery over nature, but the limit by which man lives, relates to others and to things. Such a limit is not preempted by any philosophy, idea, or consciousness, but the genuine limit of man’s existence in relation to the whole of Being, conditioned not necessarily by physical limitation, but by the limit of the absolute contradiction which forms meaning itself. This can be understood as the contradiction between the givenness of being and Being as such, or between the determinate norms of civilization and their unity in a state authority, a specific frame of past and future, particular and universal, many and one, etc. Heidegger (at least in his early years) could not see that Dasein is not just a being for whom there is a question of Being - but also a being for whom that question is already resolved in a specific way. Heidegger assumed that resolution was necessarily metaphysical. While true for the history of philosophy, it is not true for living and real mankind, for whom the contradiction between the determinacy of Being and an appreciation for the ontological, is the very content of the latter. It is what gives Being itself meaning! The absolute contradiction is a contradiction of incipience, between determination and origins. The contingency of Dasein is not simply a matter of choice, as Heidegger thought, but in a determination whose ‘reason’ is only clear retroactively, like a wavefunction collapse. A civilization is the way it is, not because it is physically impossible for it to be any other way, but precisely because it is physically possible. Only by assuming one determination against a background of many, can a higher reason participate in the development of a people. Western Marxism, before it engages in ‘historical materialist’ analysis, projects a vulgar metaphysical view (rejected by Marx & Engels) of humanity, according to which mankind dwells at the precipice of physical extinction. Thus, everything about society is reduced to survival. Hence, class struggle ultimately reduces to the Rational Choice Individual, and one group merely finds itself disadvantaged with regard to others, on account of being unable to fulfill the desires, or restricting the choices of individuals. What is problematic about this is clear It clearly contrasts with the Marxist view of class struggle, which situates class antagonism within a single division of labor, as a contradiction at the core of being itself - giving it ontological significance, rather than a result of clashing individuals. Understanding any given civilization, is simply a matter of understanding the mode of production. The problem is they never bother to ask exactly what is being produced in the first place. They begin and end with the individual, effectively arriving at no real knowledge at all. The problem of course is that the individual is situated within a more fundamental horizon by which they relate to others, to things, etc. This jibber-jabber is well-known to ‘Marxists,’ but precisely what is meant by it, at the objective material level they never make clear. A mode of production is the mode by which something is reproduced; that something can’t just be the individual. For a mode of production to be general, it must itself have a general object, otherwise the entire concept becomes completely useless. To begin, this object - which is really the specific Being of Dasein - must be a specific logic of reproduction. You could call it a unit of civilization, or a division of labor. Marxoids have devoted an eternity of soliloquies to Capital as a logic of reproduction. Capital, whose logic is standardization, abstraction, and utilitarianism is not a specific logic, but an empty universalism, which concludes with modern American ‘civilisation,’ and now a mere extension of Church of Cartesian metaphysics (govt, financial institutions etc). M-C-M’ is merely the form of reproduction of the modern European polity; the abstraction of the commodity form corresponding to the abstraction of the state. Capital is not an autonomous process, but a civilizational quandary. A deeper object has precedence over it. In a sense, Heidegger is right that ontology here possesses primacy. Before there was capitalism, there was a more fundamental way European civilization came to relate to Being as a whole. That is not to say the latter is arbitrary - on the contrary, it is world-historical. The point is that in contrast to the vulgar materialist view, all of mankind’s ‘metaphysical,’ spiritual, cultural, scientific, etc. questions, aspirations, fears and dreams were bound up with the development of capitalism, reflecting their highest relation to Being as such. To know a logic of reproduction, is to know what is most sacred, fundamental, and ontological for a given people. No abstract, mechanical geometrical, or arithmetic conception of physical production suffices to produce knowledge of any given mode of production. It is clear that Heidegger, though providing the foundation for a Marxism freed from metaphysics, hardly allows us to go this far with the concept of Dasein. But at the very least, with the help of Hegel, it is possible to grasp ontological difference as a feature of Being itself That is the second most important step to arriving at a true conception of the objectivity of society, after Heidegger’s phenomenological turn itself. That is because it establishes Being as a specific contradiction, thus having some kind of finitude beyond individual death. This does not yet tell us anything particular about any specific Dasein. For that to be possible, it is necessary to take a fundamental step beyond Heidegger and beyond the West itself. Heidegger gave us an escape from metaphysics - but not a perspective already outside of it. It was Aleksandr Dugin who accomplished the particularization of Heidegger’s concept of Dasein, thus allowing for it to be put to work in productive, even practical ways. And he does this by returning to the beginning of metaphysics according to Heidegger - in Logos Logos is the first forgetting of Being, in the form of Being as the identity of difference. Whereas Heidegger identifies Being with Time, Heraclitus identified Being as change and constant flux, and thus an identity of difference itself. The beginning of Western philosophy. Dugin, rather than languish in the melodrama of the long forgetting of Being, employs Logos as a productive concept: As the logic of a given civilization’s existence, defining its particular Dasein, or ontology. This analysis is only superficially idealist, but not necessarily. Dugin claims to reject materialism as a whole. Yet only his language is metaphysical: what he describes is nothing other than the metaphysically-concealed communal being which is the premise of any application of Scientific Socialism. The kernel of his thinking is materialist. Logos is the revealed form of Dasein, cleansing Heidegger of any traces of potential subjectivism and, in a properly Hegelian manner, transposing the ontological difference itself into a determinate object. Active geopolitical analysis can then replace impotent contemplation. Dugin offers Space as a proper counterpart to Heideggerean Time, because he does not mind being ‘metaphysical,’ in the sense of grounding Being in specificity. But from a materialist perspective, going from the general to the particular is the opposite of metaphysical. Dugin is necessary for Marxism, because without specifying the communal being which is the premise of Scientific Socialism, it not only regresses into metaphysics (and cannot draw any particular insights), it becomes a cheap extension of American unipolar liberalism. Dugin may give expression to this social being in an overtly metaphysical way, but that is just halloween dressing. The important thing is that he delimits it as the very ground of thought itself, fulfilling the logic of Marxist-Leninist dialectics, beginning from the particular. Socialism in One Country reflected the precise logic that universal Communism can only be built up within a determinate communal being, not a vain pretension to the entire world, but a concrete, grounded relationship between a specific party and a specific country. Dugin’s geopolitical orientation allows for an understanding of the objectivity of civilizations beyond the formalism of statehood - states only exist to the extent that they can reflect the underlying logos of a civilization, reflected in its geography. For Dugin, the logos acquires particularity (beyond the mere identity of difference) where it establishes a particular logic relating one to many, identity and difference, being and becoming, stasis and flux, universal and particular, central authority and local community, etc Logos is stamped by a particular logic of how it relates to its own incipience, how it excludes nothingness, how a people relate to their own constitutive origins, by what means they relate to a universality, what specific limit defines their existence. The logos of civilization easily translates in Marxist terms into a specific logic of communal reproduction, which itself would mean nothing without acknowledging the primacy of ‘ontology’ - at least taken to mean the way in which mankind reproduces the conditions of Form. With Dugin, knowledge can only be derived from the ground-up: every metaphysical, noetic, even psychological assumption is suspended and imperiled phenomenally - not a single conceit of the mind can be idle in the investigation of civilizations and geopolitics. What accounts for a great deal of Dugin’s mysticism is the phenomenalization of the active intellect, which must cross beyond itself and into its real material premises, where only a language of the sublime can suffice to give expression to its objective limitations. Importantly, these limitations are put to work for Dugin - the limits of metaphysics are immanent limits of logos itself, thus enabling a positive a positive analysis and investigation of different civilizations, rather than just understanding them in terms of their differences. This brings us to what is by far the most important contribution of Dugin, and which permits him to be characterized as a true metaphysical materialist, going beyond even Heidegger - and that is in Dugin’s concept of Chaos, the true the phenomenal form of material being. Whereas Heidegger understands in Heraclitus the beginning of Being’s oblivion, Dugin identifies at the precise incipience of Logos a dark counterpart to it - that is chaos. Chaos is not randomness, nor meaninglessness. It is really the antecedent density of material being. In contrast to the exclusive principle of Logos, based on differentiation, identity - which defines itself in contrast to the void of nothingness - chaos is an inclusive principle. It is a dark shadow of logos, corresponding to Being that it has forgotten, but which follows it. Whereas Chaos is ‘Nothing’ to the Logos (or the intellect), it is in reality something. What is this if not a precise materialist view, which asserts the primacy and antecedence of a reality which cannot ever be reduced to any product of the mind? As an inclusive principle, Logos is included within Chaos, as one of its possibilities. This reflects the history of the ‘Asiatic’ Empires, which never seem to annihilate any aspect of their being (including the conquered), but only include, and aggregate in a higher form. Chaos is a type of index of Dasein’s development, which cannot be conditioned by the forms of Being it gives rise to. It is the inert density, and eternity of material being faced by the intellect, which extends infinitely into the past, assailing its development into one Whole. This bears an obvious similarity to Solovyov’s Sophiology, which identifies the feminine divine wisdom as a fourth hypostasis of the trinity. Sophia is the Whole body of universal humanity - the infinite past of infinite divine wisdom of the accumulated history of all mankind. It is in this way that Dugin renders any Heideggerean accusation of metaphysics superfluous - for Being as such is always remembered in the positive concept of Chaos, which always subsumes Logos - a kind of parallel to the Russian relationship to European modernity. Chaos affirms that every Logos, every revealed form of Dasein or communal being, is haunted by a more fundamental material ground of existence, which has given rise to it as one of its many possibilities. This tension between Logos and Chaos is the real absolute contradiction. Translated in materialist terms, civilizations acquire objectivity not because of some static metaphysical quality (like genes), but because their determination reflects an active dialectic at the heart of material being itself. Objectivity is that which realizes a contradiction. The dialectic in question concerns the incipience of what Ilyenkov called the ‘thinking consciousness’ - which is really more like Dasein - from its opposite in material being. This contradiction is itself real (and the only real thing), and not just an illusion of our finitude. For Dugin, the concept of Chaos is reflects the inert reality of that contradiction, accumulated in all its forms, unaltered but inclusive of all possibilities. This makes for a materialism surprisingly similar to the Spinozist kind, rendering Logos a kind of attribute of Chaos… The proper counterpart of the concept of Chaos is the Lacanian ‘non-all.’ Because it precedes differentiation itself, it is ‘all,’ only, not ‘all’ as the sum-total of beings. It is ‘everything,’ but reflects the incompleteness of ‘everything’ by not to be any one form of it. The problem of the concept of Chaos and by extension Dugin’s notion of Logos is that it is still too metaphysical. It is one-sided materialism, where chaos is never truly, absolutely, and fully, imperiled in its determinations. This gives rise to a type of ‘pluralism’ in Dugin. The pluralism of different Dasein, and different Logos, is Dugin’s greatest achievement, but also his greatest weakness: Because it is undercut by an unconditionally singular concept of Chaos, which is the condition of this pluralism. Somewhat similar to Spinoza’s Substance. Dugin escapes too easily the fact of a world-historical and global ‘ontological division of labor’ by humanity. It is hardly conceivable to understand Russian logos, without also including its relation and response to the European kind. The common fate of humanity is inescapable. While Dugin is right to reject globalism, with its imposition of one ontic vision of humanity, without a shared humanity, the internal reality and development of different civilizations lose their own ground of meaning. Certainty of ones fate is certain impossibility. By this it is meant that, while a given civilization can certainly come to appreciate and acknowledge its ‘logos,’ it cannot confuse this as the final horizon of Being itself - at minimum, it must rather regard any new disclosure of Being as capable of including it. Because of this, a civilization cannot recognize its own humanity without recognizing the humanity of others - since, at the level of incipient Dasein - ones own particular Being is actively suspended in the future oriented phenomenal disclosure, known only retroactively. What this means is that at least on a minimal level, all civilizations of mankind share a single ontological plane, and even historical rationality (Hegel), on account of this necessary mutual recognition on the basis of openness of fate. While Dasein can be particularized, its constitutive lack of certain knowledge about what will enter its own phenomenal horizon is universal, and the same good faith a Dasein must constitutively afford for itself that it is human, it must afford for other civilizations. This is all that humanism in Marxism amounts to: not a specific ontic view of the human elevated above reality, but a recognition of the human as that to which every knowledge returns: Only the return of an outlook, thought, etc. to its real premises, reconciles it as a being. Within Marxism-Leninism (and originally consistent with Marx), lies a sophianic view of knowledge, which is neither scholastic nor based in technological domination. Persons like Stalin and Mao had the sage-like quality of knowledge in the form of wisdom. This type of knowledge does not elevate itself above its object, but is like the Hegelian absolute knowledge, corresponding to it absolutely. In this view, knowledge of civilization does not give rise to the occasion of ‘changing’ it by premising it on the basis of consciousness. To know a thing does not always mean to possess mastery of it - to know a thing also corresponds to insight into the limit by which that thing is a necessary and rational existence. This is true for nature in the era of ecology, but it is even more true for civilizations. Communist consciousness does NOT entail the voluntary transformation of society. It entails knowledge in the form of wisdom, of the laws guiding the development of society, and this consciousness intervenes in reality only at the site of the latter’s objective contradictions. The organic development of communal being, and society, is not premised by voluntary consciousness - but by the generational wisdom that allows people to make sense of their place in the world, and their relations toward others. No ‘conscious’ conceit could possibly replace that. Societies and civilizations change - but they do not change according to the whims of consciousness. They change according to what organically makes sense to people, in ways that are compatible with their living being, and their specific logic of reproduction. The application of ‘human rights’ to the sphere of culture, is the highpoint of madness of bourgeois civilization, which is beginning to consume its own human premises. No interiority of grounded life, with its own internal logical and rational development is any longer possible. Wokeness has nothing to do with the Marxist outlook. You can BULLSHIT all you want by referencing academic bullshit. In China, there is no wokeness. In the Soviet Union, there was no wokeness. Their cultural reforms they did have had NOTHING in common with it. A logic of reproduction develops on its own terms, and only in ways that are compatible with the reproduction of units of civilization itself. Hierarchy of respect, family life, and culture all reflect objective wisdoms about what human life is, passed through generations. They are wisdoms because of what they encompass in scale: You can make up your own retarded LGBT identity from scratch. But it is not tested before the wealth of possibilities, outcomes, and experiences of a human life compatible with a civilization shared by others. The significance of Communism intervenes not in the need to create a new community, but on the contrary, to give expression to the precise indeterminateness and contradictions propelling the development of a given community. That is why it doesn’t refer to anything specific. Nothing is more anti-communist than Communism itself. Impotent intellectual wimps like James Lindsay and other rightist idiots cannot even dream of coming close: Communism alone emancipates humanity from its objective ‘communist oppression.’ Bourgeois modernity itself, and even Capital can be thought of as a ‘forms’ of communism, giving limitation to objective communal beings in a specific, universal, indiscriminate ‘form,’ the common reality of abstract, formalist, universal modernity. At stake in the consciousness of class struggle, is the sublation of this formal modernity, giving recognition to a contradiction at the heart of it. Communist universalism, unites the future-oriented universalism of modernity with the Sofianic infinite past. Class struggle, given proper ontological recognition, reflects the subsumption of modernist universalism (for Heidegger, Cartesian metaphysics) to a particular grounding of being, a particular traditional civilization and concrete development. Thus Communism does not try to escape modernity or the Cartesian subject, but fully go through it: giving it proper ontological status as an immanent contradiction, in sum, a dialectical object. The ‘value-form’ is finally given recognition, as torn from within. The value-form is immersed within the context of a definite logic of reproduction, which in fact gives it concrete particularity, and whose existence is the beginning of a type of production based on use - in other words, the so-called early stage of socialism. Communism is the inescapable reality of mankind - but only Communism as such, which “disdains to conceal its aims” objectively frees humanity from a given form of communal being, insofar as it contradicts the real content of communal being. Dasein is nothing other than Communism itself. Communism is the true horizon within which the objective communal being of a given people reveals itself, in a manner that is consistent with their world and society. Communism is the real movement of change Communists do not need to ‘abolish’ anything whatsoever - insofar as anything deserves to be abolish, it has already abolished itself in reality: Only in Communism, are the contradictions, changes, and aspirations of a people suspended into a single phenomenal horizon. Communism only gives expression to the ‘real communism’ already inherent in a given civilization or people, it simply NAMES this. Communism just names the excess of development, indeterminacy, and contradiction possessed by every civilization. Communism always ‘falls into place,’ in a manner that reconciles, sublates, and is compatible with existing civilizations. Communism simply names the openness of destiny itself, which in the last instance can only be known by God - but definitely not by any man. In Communism, the whole of civilization, culture, and society, is ‘lifted up’ and imperiled in the struggle of the proletariat. Only retroactively can it be known what survives past the threshold of its inevitable victory. The whole history of mankind is imperiled in it. Communism definitely is the risk that everything meaningful and human will be dissolved. Everything is ‘suspended’ into the future, which is ultimately undecidable. Faith in faith in God, faith in the people - is faith that things will fall back into place in a way that is human. The whole of the people, the whole of the country, and the whole of history is imperiled in the fight for the future. Everything is bounded up there. Everything is actively suspended in something which will not be decided without struggle. Absolutely everything is at stake. Why it is called ‘Communism’ and not something more specific, is precisely because its specificity, while an inevitability, is never fully formed. That is on account of the historical development of mankind as a continual process. The era of the rediscovery of Marxism in the West, and America in particular, is upon us. America as the culmination of bourgeois modernity, now faces the certain prospect of civil war. And the self-consuming madness of capitalist modernity imperils all humanity. A new Event, a new era of the disclosure of Being is upon us - a new threshold by which mankind relates to Being, and thus, an era of Communist revival. 400 years of Cartesian metaphysics now comes to close, and we are thrown into an era of definite uncertainty. Marxism as a whole must be rediscovered, and emancipated from its social-democratic metaphysical decay, in a manner consistent with the ongoing experience of Marxism-Leninism. The common destiny of mankind depends on it. One may try to object to an interpretation of Marxism that draws from Heidegger and Dugin. But there is no other way to make sense of the wisdoms of Marxism-Leninism, at least from the Western perspective. And not just in terms of theory, but also in terms of practice. Real existing Communist states regarded (and continue to regard) society and civilization as objective realities, while also recognizing the role of the Communist party as the guiding light of society’s development. Development does not eliminate the laws of history. They did not regard Communist consciousness as some supreme reality which liquidates and replaces all the wisdoms of mankind with some empty abstraction. Communist consciousness was precisely the sage-like insight, appreciation and respect for that wisdom. Communism does not replace society. It only gives expression to that development which within society is truly and concretely general, truly universal, truly in common. That is the ontological supremacy represented by the proletariat: the true common destiny of mankind. The universalism of the proletariat takes for granted the universalism of abstract modernity (from which Communism has its origins). Yet it avoids the self-consuming madness of globalism, by giving concrete reconciliation of this abstraction in being itself. Communist development does not eliminate the laws of civilization, the mores, sensibilities and culture of a people. At best, it may reveal changes that were already latent within them, according to the tasks of a new era. The only real measure of progress, is what takes root organically, and in a manner consistent, or at least compatible with the whole of a people, civilization and history. Various individual-subjectivist trends and ‘experiments’ have nothing to do with Communism. Communist progress is measured in terms of renunciation and resignation, where a revolution finally reaches its limit. This limit alone defines it as progressive, lasting, objective, and part of the immortal history of mankind - for it defines the finitude of civilization itself. Upon realizing the limits of Hegelian absolute knowledge, Marx came upon the proletariat as the solution, the reconciliation, and the wisdom grounding the lofty heights attained by the mind. Upon realizing the limits of European social democracy, Lenin came upon the Bolshevik party, and the strategy of the joint dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry. Upon realizing the limits of the geographic spread of revolution, Stalin came upon the theory of Socialism in One Country, and for the first time, Communism acquired a concrete, positive mode of development, and civilization, practically aware of its ground in being. Nothing better epitomizes this aesthetic (ontological sensibility) of renunciation than socialist realism, which drew from impressionism the somber, yet cathartic art of 'settling reality back into place'. All that suffices to grasp the ontological vision of Marxism-Leninism, is to appreciate the transition from the Soviet avant-garde to socialist realism. Upon realizing the limits of the cultural revolution, Deng Xiaoping initiated the reform and opening up, and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, which has given Communism an unprecedented vitality, dynamism, and flexibility in the guidance of economic development. It is now time to finally realize the limit of modernity itself, and American modernity in particular. This requires a comprehensive reexamination of the significance of Communism and its relationship to traditional civilizations within the West. But most importantly, it requires the unconditional assumption of responsibility, by American Communists, before the unforeseen challenges facing the American people. Communism now entails the responsibility of mankind before its common destiny. Only out of this, may a people regain meaning after the catastrophe that is to come
R: 42 / I: 8
Pueden hablar del franquismo la republica o pueden hacer incluso un what if… y coño si hay alguien nazbol que hable.
/Esp/ HILO DE ESPAÑA
Lo siento me siento excluido no se si hay un tablon dedicado a europa pero me gusta hablar con gente que sabe español coño bueno si alguien es de españa que opine o hable en este hilo y si no eres tambien puedes participar.Pueden hablar del franquismo la republica o pueden hacer incluso un what if… y coño si hay alguien nazbol que hable.
R: 418 / I: 105
I enjoyed reading Mein Kampf to laugh at Hitler's chuddery:
>My knowledge of the trade-union organization at that time was zero. I could have proved neither its usefulness nor its uselessness. As I was told I must join, I refused. I gave as my grounds that I did not understand the situation, but would not be forced to do anything whatever. Perhaps the former was the reason why they did not throw me out at once. They may have hoped they could convert me or wear me down within a few days. In any case they were deeply mistaken. But within a fortnight I had reached the end of my ability, even if I had wanted to go on. In that fortnight I came to know my surroundings better, so that no power in the world could have forced me to join an organization whose members I had seen in such an unfavorable light. The first few days I was annoyed. At noon some of the men went to near-by public-houses, while others stayed on the lot, and there consumed a (usually quite pitiful) lunch. These were the married men, whose wives brought them their midday soup in miserable dishes. Toward the end of the week their number kept growing; why, I understood later. Then they would talk politics. I would drink my bottle of milk and eat my piece of bread somewhere aside, and would cautiously study my new surroundings or ponder my wretched lot. But still I heard more than enough; and it often seemed to me that people sidled up to me deliberately, perhaps with the intention of forcing me to make my attitude clear. In any case, what I heard in this fashion was calculated to irritate me to the extreme. They were against everything: the nation, as an invention of the “capitalistic” (how often had I to hear that word!) classes; the Fatherland, as a tool of the bourgeoisie to exploit the workers; the authority of law, as a means to oppress the proletariat; the schools, as an institution to (rain up a body of slaves, and of slave-owners as well; religion, as a means of stupefying the people marked for exploitation; morals, as a symbol of stupid, sheep-like patience; and so on. There was simply nothing which they did not drag in the muck of a fearful baseness. At first I tried to maintain silence. But finally I could do so no longer. I began to express my attitude, and began to contradict. Then I realized that this was quite useless until I knew something definite about the points under dispute, so I began to go to the sources from which they drew their supposed wisdom. Book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet had its turn. On the building lot there were now often heated arguments. I went on struggling, growing day by day better informed than my adversaries were, until one day the means was used which most easily vanquishes reason: terrorism, violence. Some of the spokesmen of the opposition forced me either to leave the job at once or to fly off the scaffolding on my head. As I was alone, and resistance seemed hopeless, I preferred to follow the former advice, richer by one experience. I left, filled with disgust, but at the same time so agitated that it would have been quite impossible for me to turn my back on the whole affair. No; after the flaming up of the first indignation, my stiff neck once more got the upper hand. I was absolutely determined to find another construction job just the same. My decision was strengthened by the privation which closed me in its heartless embrace a few weeks later, after I had eaten up what little wages I had saved. Now I had to, whether or no. And the game began all over again, only to end as it had before. I struggled with myself: were these human beings, worthy of belonging to a great people ? It was a painful question. If the answer were yes, the struggle for a national body was really not worth the effort and sacrifice which the best individuals must make; but if the answer were no, our people was poor indeed in human beings.
TL;DR Hitler is impoverished in Vienna, gets a job, refuses to join the union because "i don't know nuffin bout dat shit and u cant make me do nuffin", workers try to educate him, he gets annoyed with them for not being nationalist enough and being anti capitalist, starts to debatebro ben shapiro style, they threaten to beat his nerd ass, he leaves pissed off and decides they're all subhumans. This is hilarious to me because all the neo nazi revisionists try to make hitler out to be more anti capitalist than the "judeobolshevik" marxists.
I enjoyed reading Mein Kampf to laugh at Hitler's chuddery:
>My knowledge of the trade-union organization at that time was zero. I could have proved neither its usefulness nor its uselessness. As I was told I must join, I refused. I gave as my grounds that I did not understand the situation, but would not be forced to do anything whatever. Perhaps the former was the reason why they did not throw me out at once. They may have hoped they could convert me or wear me down within a few days. In any case they were deeply mistaken. But within a fortnight I had reached the end of my ability, even if I had wanted to go on. In that fortnight I came to know my surroundings better, so that no power in the world could have forced me to join an organization whose members I had seen in such an unfavorable light. The first few days I was annoyed. At noon some of the men went to near-by public-houses, while others stayed on the lot, and there consumed a (usually quite pitiful) lunch. These were the married men, whose wives brought them their midday soup in miserable dishes. Toward the end of the week their number kept growing; why, I understood later. Then they would talk politics. I would drink my bottle of milk and eat my piece of bread somewhere aside, and would cautiously study my new surroundings or ponder my wretched lot. But still I heard more than enough; and it often seemed to me that people sidled up to me deliberately, perhaps with the intention of forcing me to make my attitude clear. In any case, what I heard in this fashion was calculated to irritate me to the extreme. They were against everything: the nation, as an invention of the “capitalistic” (how often had I to hear that word!) classes; the Fatherland, as a tool of the bourgeoisie to exploit the workers; the authority of law, as a means to oppress the proletariat; the schools, as an institution to (rain up a body of slaves, and of slave-owners as well; religion, as a means of stupefying the people marked for exploitation; morals, as a symbol of stupid, sheep-like patience; and so on. There was simply nothing which they did not drag in the muck of a fearful baseness. At first I tried to maintain silence. But finally I could do so no longer. I began to express my attitude, and began to contradict. Then I realized that this was quite useless until I knew something definite about the points under dispute, so I began to go to the sources from which they drew their supposed wisdom. Book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet had its turn. On the building lot there were now often heated arguments. I went on struggling, growing day by day better informed than my adversaries were, until one day the means was used which most easily vanquishes reason: terrorism, violence. Some of the spokesmen of the opposition forced me either to leave the job at once or to fly off the scaffolding on my head. As I was alone, and resistance seemed hopeless, I preferred to follow the former advice, richer by one experience. I left, filled with disgust, but at the same time so agitated that it would have been quite impossible for me to turn my back on the whole affair. No; after the flaming up of the first indignation, my stiff neck once more got the upper hand. I was absolutely determined to find another construction job just the same. My decision was strengthened by the privation which closed me in its heartless embrace a few weeks later, after I had eaten up what little wages I had saved. Now I had to, whether or no. And the game began all over again, only to end as it had before. I struggled with myself: were these human beings, worthy of belonging to a great people ? It was a painful question. If the answer were yes, the struggle for a national body was really not worth the effort and sacrifice which the best individuals must make; but if the answer were no, our people was poor indeed in human beings.
TL;DR Hitler is impoverished in Vienna, gets a job, refuses to join the union because "i don't know nuffin bout dat shit and u cant make me do nuffin", workers try to educate him, he gets annoyed with them for not being nationalist enough and being anti capitalist, starts to debatebro ben shapiro style, they threaten to beat his nerd ass, he leaves pissed off and decides they're all subhumans. This is hilarious to me because all the neo nazi revisionists try to make hitler out to be more anti capitalist than the "judeobolshevik" marxists.
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Discuss the series, post pics and videos, stories and related stuff about the Evangelion series - the anime, the films (even if the REbuilds did suck), doujins, video games and so on.
Old Apartment 402 discussions and posts also welcome.
Previous thread: >>590
General mecha thread >>845
Evangelion wiki and forum: https://wiki.evageeks.org/
https://forum.evageeks.org/
An even older forum from the 90s, mostly on wayback however: https://eva.onegeek.org/
http://www.therossman.com/evafaqs.html Another old fansite.
Don't derail with stupid shit; have fun and enjoy your stay in existential hell.
PS. Misato is #1
NGE thread #2 - Competitive Edginess Edition
Neon Genesis Evangelion General No. 2Discuss the series, post pics and videos, stories and related stuff about the Evangelion series - the anime, the films (even if the REbuilds did suck), doujins, video games and so on.
Old Apartment 402 discussions and posts also welcome.
Previous thread: >>590
General mecha thread >>845
Evangelion wiki and forum: https://wiki.evageeks.org/
https://forum.evageeks.org/
An even older forum from the 90s, mostly on wayback however: https://eva.onegeek.org/
http://www.therossman.com/evafaqs.html Another old fansite.
Don't derail with stupid shit; have fun and enjoy your stay in existential hell.
PS. Misato is #1
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Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
/ CYBERCOM /
This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
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The Ai bubble is a bunch of ai companies that are overvalued and making retarded claims that they will end in humanity's extitintion of technofeudalism or even automated communism but only for the rich.
Thread #1
/AIbubble/ - AI bubble general
AI bubble general because it looks like its gonna popThe Ai bubble is a bunch of ai companies that are overvalued and making retarded claims that they will end in humanity's extitintion of technofeudalism or even automated communism but only for the rich.
Thread #1
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A general thread for the discussion for all things happening in Southeast Asia. What a year it has been. Forest fires in Borneo now. Border skirmishes with Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnam mimicking South Korean chaebols. Singapore begging its citizens to have kids. Malaysia sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar while it is still in a civil war.
All the while the heat is cooking us now.
/SEA/ Southeast Asia General
Flying and Nazi Malays Edition.A general thread for the discussion for all things happening in Southeast Asia. What a year it has been. Forest fires in Borneo now. Border skirmishes with Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnam mimicking South Korean chaebols. Singapore begging its citizens to have kids. Malaysia sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar while it is still in a civil war.
All the while the heat is cooking us now.
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Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
nu-imageboard megathread #2
The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
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Yes, some “children of asphalt” do not understand this; they think that if a kolkhoznik received little grain per workday, then he later died of hunger because he ate little. The “children of asphalt” are unaware of the kolkhoznik’s private farmstead, unaware that his household plot was 0.5–1 ha, which is 50–100 sotkas. Ask the dacha owners who during the USSR provided themselves with potatoes for the whole winter on 6 dacha sotkas how much 100 sotkas is. And in the kolkhoznik’s barn there were also cows—and not just one—breeding sows, goats, sheep, chickens and geese… And the weather for wheat and for beets and potatoes is not always the same unfavorable weather, and one’s own plot can be watered…
And the local authorities tried to force the kolkhozniks to work by repression—they evicted them from their homes and, in effect, drove them out of the kolkhoz. Of course, if they give little grain per workday, then let nothing at all be sown in the collective farm field. Right? And let the teachers who teach the kolkhoz children at school for free go hungry. Let the doctors and feldshers who treat the kolkhozniks for free go hungry, let the workers who make tractors go hungry… Right? This is what Stalin explained to the great writer who could not understand such simple questions. A writer to whom his fellow villagers—saboteurs—ran with complaints. And who else should they run to if not a fellow villager who was a writer?!
Regarding small owner mindsets
That is, the cunning Cossack-kolkhozniks decided that if they got little grain per workday because the weather had let them down, then there was no need to slave away in the collective farm field…Yes, some “children of asphalt” do not understand this; they think that if a kolkhoznik received little grain per workday, then he later died of hunger because he ate little. The “children of asphalt” are unaware of the kolkhoznik’s private farmstead, unaware that his household plot was 0.5–1 ha, which is 50–100 sotkas. Ask the dacha owners who during the USSR provided themselves with potatoes for the whole winter on 6 dacha sotkas how much 100 sotkas is. And in the kolkhoznik’s barn there were also cows—and not just one—breeding sows, goats, sheep, chickens and geese… And the weather for wheat and for beets and potatoes is not always the same unfavorable weather, and one’s own plot can be watered…
And the local authorities tried to force the kolkhozniks to work by repression—they evicted them from their homes and, in effect, drove them out of the kolkhoz. Of course, if they give little grain per workday, then let nothing at all be sown in the collective farm field. Right? And let the teachers who teach the kolkhoz children at school for free go hungry. Let the doctors and feldshers who treat the kolkhozniks for free go hungry, let the workers who make tractors go hungry… Right? This is what Stalin explained to the great writer who could not understand such simple questions. A writer to whom his fellow villagers—saboteurs—ran with complaints. And who else should they run to if not a fellow villager who was a writer?!
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I use something like lambda.chat with a VPN. Is this enough, to prevent them from creating a shadow profile of me? Or should I stick with duck.ai ? I like lambda.chat more, because it has Dipsy. What do you think?
Using online AI with privacy in mind
Yes, yes selfhosting is the most privacyrespecting way, I know, but I'm not a richfag. So here is my idea:I use something like lambda.chat with a VPN. Is this enough, to prevent them from creating a shadow profile of me? Or should I stick with duck.ai ? I like lambda.chat more, because it has Dipsy. What do you think?
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I hate pity from cis women
A woman just she her'd me this morning while I got my coffee until she heard my voice and realised I was a man. I hate pity from cis women, I dont pass stop pretending I do.
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>>2950550
>[Alex Jones] was also talking about how he prefers the Class Reductionist Left over the Intersectionality Crowd, and how he has read Hegel.
interesting. Personally I find "class reductionism" and "intersectionality" to be a false dichotomy. What is disparagingly called "class reductionism" is nothing more than the recognition of class struggle as the base struggle. Intersectionality, from that point of view, is merely the study of all the ways in which the proletariat can be further subdivided and pit against one another. From the standpoint of the defense of proletarian revolution, and from the standpoint of "class reductionism", it is essential to understand the intersectional nature of struggles, to united the proletariat, and prevent their division by bourgeois forces along non-class lines. The bourgeoisie can also be dvided on intersectional issues. For example the national and comprador bourgeoisie. The core and periphery bourgeoisie. The industrial and financial bourgeoisie. The male and female bourgeoisie. The cishet and queer bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie all fight each other over these issues just like the proletariat done. What should be done, then, is that intersectional principles should be applied strategically by the revolutionary proletariat to provoke infighting among the bourgeoisie, and to maintain unity among the proletariat. But currently that is not done.
class reductionism "versus" intersectionality?
class reductionism "versus" intersectionality? no, class reductionism AND intersectionality.>>2950550
>[Alex Jones] was also talking about how he prefers the Class Reductionist Left over the Intersectionality Crowd, and how he has read Hegel.
interesting. Personally I find "class reductionism" and "intersectionality" to be a false dichotomy. What is disparagingly called "class reductionism" is nothing more than the recognition of class struggle as the base struggle. Intersectionality, from that point of view, is merely the study of all the ways in which the proletariat can be further subdivided and pit against one another. From the standpoint of the defense of proletarian revolution, and from the standpoint of "class reductionism", it is essential to understand the intersectional nature of struggles, to united the proletariat, and prevent their division by bourgeois forces along non-class lines. The bourgeoisie can also be dvided on intersectional issues. For example the national and comprador bourgeoisie. The core and periphery bourgeoisie. The industrial and financial bourgeoisie. The male and female bourgeoisie. The cishet and queer bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie all fight each other over these issues just like the proletariat done. What should be done, then, is that intersectional principles should be applied strategically by the revolutionary proletariat to provoke infighting among the bourgeoisie, and to maintain unity among the proletariat. But currently that is not done.
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If you think about it, complete freedom of speech isn't really freedom of speech, because only the rich with their think tanks and bot farms will be able to control opinion, while marginalized people, on the contrary, won't be able to speak out due to bullying and general hostility towards them.
If you think about it, complete freedom of speech isn't really freedom of speech, because only the rich with their think tanks and bot farms will be able to control opinion, while marginalized people, on the contrary, won't be able to speak out due to bullying and general hostility towards them.
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Questions from CisHet-Anons that don’t deserve their own threads
I have seen so many Cishet Anons (including me) ask questions on this board but create new threads in doing so. So I decided to make this thread so we don’t have to clutter up the board.
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why comics fell off, illustrated in a single image
meow, just like my lil itty bitty cocko that no woman wants to touch, yet nonetheless it is mine, and i love it like the son i'll never molest
why comics fell off, illustrated in a single image
meow, just like my lil itty bitty cocko that no woman wants to touch, yet nonetheless it is mine, and i love it like the son i'll never molest
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democrats are currently in the process of feeding transhumanists into the meatgrinder and it’s infuriating that these idiots refuse to acknowledge that.
Democratic pro trans image rehabilitation
The most annoying shitlibism are these jokes about how the dems midterm victory will make everyone so gender and woke and beautiful lady😍🥰 outdemocrats are currently in the process of feeding transhumanists into the meatgrinder and it’s infuriating that these idiots refuse to acknowledge that.
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Nothing lewd please
meow. meow. meow. meow.
Imagedump thread
Post cute pictures of yaoi, yuri or anything /lgbt/ relatedNothing lewd please
meow. meow. meow. meow.
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After 6 years of uni, I really can't afford to go for another degree from scratch. I'm thinking about getting into embedded systems so I can have a more specialized job, but I've heard a lot of propaganda that "white collar jobs are over and you should get into manual labor". What do you guys think?
Software Jobs
Anyone else in tech worried about the future of the field? I barely got in and I'm being bombarded all day by news about how it's fucking over and that this career will be automated soon. I have two jobs at the moment and they're both vibecoding B2B SaaS for suckers who can't be bothered to build their own stuff at the price of 1 junior dev and 1 Claude Pro subscription. Most of the stuff I do now is trying to break whatever slop "I" have produced in prod and then fixing it with more prompts.After 6 years of uni, I really can't afford to go for another degree from scratch. I'm thinking about getting into embedded systems so I can have a more specialized job, but I've heard a lot of propaganda that "white collar jobs are over and you should get into manual labor". What do you guys think?
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>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
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Previous Thread (Mods, archive pls?)>>2515750
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OC Thread 19.0
Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
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The Christian far right have over the past few years began identifying Marxism, leftism, progressive social values, "woke", etc with the concept of historical Gnosticism.
Countless far right Evangelical and Catholic priests deep down the chud rabbit hole are now regularly writing lengthy essays on their websites and doing dumb YouTube podcasts trying to explain how socialism or trans identity are somehow all "Gnostic" in nature. How it's all part of some conspiracy of a Gnostic revival.
So, what in turn as leftists do you anons make of this?
What do you actually think of the real historical Gnosticism?
Are your beliefs all part of some secret evil Gnostic revival?
Personally I find Gnostic lore deeply interesting, but at the end of the day it's just another collection of man-made myths, and I don't see any connection to leftist beliefs at all.
If anything Gnosticism might just be the most anti-materialist belief system ever.
The Christian far right have over the past few years began identifying Marxism, leftism, progressive social values, "woke", etc with the concept of historical Gnosticism.
Countless far right Evangelical and Catholic priests deep down the chud rabbit hole are now regularly writing lengthy essays on their websites and doing dumb YouTube podcasts trying to explain how socialism or trans identity are somehow all "Gnostic" in nature. How it's all part of some conspiracy of a Gnostic revival.
So, what in turn as leftists do you anons make of this?
What do you actually think of the real historical Gnosticism?
Are your beliefs all part of some secret evil Gnostic revival?
Personally I find Gnostic lore deeply interesting, but at the end of the day it's just another collection of man-made myths, and I don't see any connection to leftist beliefs at all.
If anything Gnosticism might just be the most anti-materialist belief system ever.
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>previous bake
>>2917350
Latest News
>Israel planning invasion of jordan, probably so bibi can delay elections
<The PLC in yemen is advancing against the houthis
>USA has withdrawn from Iraq
<Houthichads are defending
>Oil is at $92.3
>flood
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
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/
https://xcancel.com/Basijchud
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
https://t.me/s/shiachuds
>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
Iran war thread #75 no flod this tim
<WW3 time>previous bake
>>2917350
Latest News
>Israel planning invasion of jordan, probably so bibi can delay elections
<The PLC in yemen is advancing against the houthis
>USA has withdrawn from Iraq
<Houthichads are defending
>Oil is at $92.3
>flood
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
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/
https://xcancel.com/Basijchud
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
https://t.me/s/shiachuds
>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
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Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
Previous edition:>>2591246
Some highlights from last thread:
>The United Arab Emirates allies of the European far-righ
https://orientxxi.info/les-emirats-arabes-unis-allies-de-l-extreme-droite-europeenne,8034
>How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate
https://www.occrp.org/interactives/dubai-unlocked/en/
>Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia
https://archive.is/u3Dea
>Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
https://archive.is/lJOet
>The emerging sub-imperial role of the United Arab Emirates in Africa
https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa
>From land to logistics: UAE's growing power in the global food system
https://grain.org/e/7170
>Dubai Ports World: UAE’s Tentacles Monopolizing Maritime Trade
https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/dubai-ports-world--uae-s-tentacles-monopolizing-maritime-tra
>Extractive agribusinesses—guaranteeing food security in the Gulf
https://farmlandgrab.org/post/32403-extractive-agribusinesses-guaranteeing-food-security-in-the-gulf
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pipe-dream-turkey-plan-redraw-middle-east-energy-iran-war-hormuz
>System of sexual torture targeting Palestinians exposed in new report
https://electronicintifada.net/content/system-sexual-torture-targeting-palestinians-exposed-new-report/51373
/MENA/#2
A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
Previous edition:
Some highlights from last thread:
>The United Arab Emirates allies of the European far-righ
https://orientxxi.info/les-emirats-arabes-unis-allies-de-l-extreme-droite-europeenne,8034
>How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate
https://www.occrp.org/interactives/dubai-unlocked/en/
>Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia
https://archive.is/u3Dea
>Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
https://archive.is/lJOet
>The emerging sub-imperial role of the United Arab Emirates in Africa
https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa
>From land to logistics: UAE's growing power in the global food system
https://grain.org/e/7170
>Dubai Ports World: UAE’s Tentacles Monopolizing Maritime Trade
https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/dubai-ports-world--uae-s-tentacles-monopolizing-maritime-tra
>Extractive agribusinesses—guaranteeing food security in the Gulf
https://farmlandgrab.org/post/32403-extractive-agribusinesses-guaranteeing-food-security-in-the-gulf
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pipe-dream-turkey-plan-redraw-middle-east-energy-iran-war-hormuz
>System of sexual torture targeting Palestinians exposed in new report
https://electronicintifada.net/content/system-sexual-torture-targeting-palestinians-exposed-new-report/51373
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With the exception of Prince Albert, the DA has emerged as the leading party in all the hung councils. With more than 35, 000 votes attained across the Western Cape, the Communist Party said it is still to discuss this week which parties it will collaborate with in hung councils. The party’s best performance has been in the fraught Knysna municipality where it obtained almost 6 percent of the vote.
https://www.ewn.co.za/2026/11/09/sacp-draws-hard-line-against-da-and-ffplus-coalition-deals-in-western-cape-hung-councils
https://archive.ph/yDzYO
Abandoned and traumatised: child refugees at ‘violent’ breaking point in Egypt after fleeing Sudan war
Cuts to humanitarian funding mean many are left unattended while their parents work 10-hour shifts, the pay from which barely covers the cost of basic food and rent. Living in marginalised, unsafe neighbourhoods without residency papers or the mental healthcare needed to treat profound trauma, these children are increasingly vulnerable to a spiral of hopelessness and violence. Rajia*, a clinical psychologist who works with Sudanese refugee children, says they have been pushed to “violent” breaking point. “They are acting out the scenes they have seen in the war. If you ask them to draw something, they draw cannon or fighter jets.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/nov/09/sudan-child-war-refugees-cairo-egypt-spiral-of-despair
Israeli mob attacks Palestinian citizens during Lod rally
Palestinian citizens of Israel said that a group of Jewish Israelis had travelled from outside the city before entering their neighbourhoods late at night. The group marched through the streets, throwing stones, insulting residents and shouting racist slurs. Clashes broke out as Palestinian residents confronted the mob, leaving several people lightly wounded. Khaled al-Zabarqa, head of the Popular Committee in Lod, said the incident was the third of its kind over the past month.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-mob-attacks-palestinian-citizens-israel-lod-during-provocative-march
Iraqi PM makes secret Iran visit after Trump warning to Baghdad
Iran's Fars news agency reported on Monday, citing an informed source, that al-Zaidi spent several hours in Tehran, where he held talks with Ghalibaf, who is also Iran's chief negotiator. The source said the Iraqi prime minister was accompanied by a delegation and that the discussions focused exclusively on Baghdad's efforts to end the war between Iran and the United States.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-pm-makes-secret-iran-visit-after-trump-warning-baghdad
De la Espriella claims ELN plans to attack Colombia’s corporate media
Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella ordered State forces to protect corporate media, claiming alerts over “possible terrorist attacks by the ELN” guerrilla group. De la Espriella said he issued “specific instructions to ensure that the full capacity of the State is directed toward protecting” private television networks RCN and Caracol, “their journalists, employees, and families” on social media platform X.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-claims-eln-plans-to-attack-colombias-corporate-media/
Banana producers in Latin America want better pay to cope with effects of climate crisis
High winds in parts of Colombia, one of the biggest suppliers to the UK market where droughts are predicted in some regions this year, and heavy rainfall in Peru and Ecuador are already affecting production, according to the Fairtrade Foundation ethical trade body. In the Dominican Republic, farmers are expected to face drought conditions, with forecasts of drier and warmer than usual conditions.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/08/banana-producers-in-latin-america-want-better-pay-to-cope-with-effects-of-climate-crisis
Haitian leader to visit El Salvador to discuss future of Salvadoran troops’ offensive in Haiti
The visit comes as Bukele has ramped up his offensive against Haiti’s gangs with at least 2,500 Salvadoran forces now operating in Haiti. The offensive began in October after four Salvadoran aviation technicians went missing in an attack by gangs. Since, Bukele has sought to project an image as a crusader on crime coming to vanquish Haitian gangs, which control whole parts of Haiti’s territory and are deeply entwined with the country’s political elite.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-gangs-el-salvador-bukele-filsaime-c0986699cb1d618aed28f406d5a6975d
Pope Leo defends trade unions as 'indispensable' in Argentina
"To deprive a person of work is not simply to deny that person an income," Leo said. "It severely wounds their dignity, deprives them of the ability to contribute to society and plunges them into social exclusion," he warned. The 71-year-old head of the Catholic Church said the unions must help precarious workers in particular.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/pope-leo-defends-trade-unions-as-indispensable-in-argentina.phtml
https://archive.ph/wECJ6
Rent-a-grandchild: Businesses offering companions to elderly grow in India
Across Indian cities, a small but growing number of companies are now selling what families once took for granted: someone to take care of ageing people. Chores include taking them to the temple, sitting with them during a hospital visit, playing cards, or simply listening to them. Some firms call such workers “children for hire”; others call them a “grandchild for rent”. India, the world’s most populous country, is growing older quickly.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/8/rent-a-grandchild-businesses-offering-companions-to-elderly-grow-in-india
https://archive.ph/FY2T9
Indonesia considers bug sweeps, tighter controls on spy tools after wiretap scandal
Indonesia will tighten controls on state surveillance equipment and consider sweeps of its presidential palace for bugging devices, a minister said on Monday, following last week's discovery of illegal wiretaps on the president, top officials and more. The wiretapping scandal led to the arrest of four senior police officers accused of unauthorised monitoring of phones, among them a former national police chief who had recently been appointed President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-considers-bug-sweeps-tighter-controls-spy-tools-after-wiretap-scandal-2026-11-09/
News 11/9/26
SACP draws hard line against DA and FF+ coalition deals in Western Cape hung councilsWith the exception of Prince Albert, the DA has emerged as the leading party in all the hung councils. With more than 35, 000 votes attained across the Western Cape, the Communist Party said it is still to discuss this week which parties it will collaborate with in hung councils. The party’s best performance has been in the fraught Knysna municipality where it obtained almost 6 percent of the vote.
https://www.ewn.co.za/2026/11/09/sacp-draws-hard-line-against-da-and-ffplus-coalition-deals-in-western-cape-hung-councils
https://archive.ph/yDzYO
Abandoned and traumatised: child refugees at ‘violent’ breaking point in Egypt after fleeing Sudan war
Cuts to humanitarian funding mean many are left unattended while their parents work 10-hour shifts, the pay from which barely covers the cost of basic food and rent. Living in marginalised, unsafe neighbourhoods without residency papers or the mental healthcare needed to treat profound trauma, these children are increasingly vulnerable to a spiral of hopelessness and violence. Rajia*, a clinical psychologist who works with Sudanese refugee children, says they have been pushed to “violent” breaking point. “They are acting out the scenes they have seen in the war. If you ask them to draw something, they draw cannon or fighter jets.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/nov/09/sudan-child-war-refugees-cairo-egypt-spiral-of-despair
Israeli mob attacks Palestinian citizens during Lod rally
Palestinian citizens of Israel said that a group of Jewish Israelis had travelled from outside the city before entering their neighbourhoods late at night. The group marched through the streets, throwing stones, insulting residents and shouting racist slurs. Clashes broke out as Palestinian residents confronted the mob, leaving several people lightly wounded. Khaled al-Zabarqa, head of the Popular Committee in Lod, said the incident was the third of its kind over the past month.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-mob-attacks-palestinian-citizens-israel-lod-during-provocative-march
Iraqi PM makes secret Iran visit after Trump warning to Baghdad
Iran's Fars news agency reported on Monday, citing an informed source, that al-Zaidi spent several hours in Tehran, where he held talks with Ghalibaf, who is also Iran's chief negotiator. The source said the Iraqi prime minister was accompanied by a delegation and that the discussions focused exclusively on Baghdad's efforts to end the war between Iran and the United States.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-pm-makes-secret-iran-visit-after-trump-warning-baghdad
De la Espriella claims ELN plans to attack Colombia’s corporate media
Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella ordered State forces to protect corporate media, claiming alerts over “possible terrorist attacks by the ELN” guerrilla group. De la Espriella said he issued “specific instructions to ensure that the full capacity of the State is directed toward protecting” private television networks RCN and Caracol, “their journalists, employees, and families” on social media platform X.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-claims-eln-plans-to-attack-colombias-corporate-media/
Banana producers in Latin America want better pay to cope with effects of climate crisis
High winds in parts of Colombia, one of the biggest suppliers to the UK market where droughts are predicted in some regions this year, and heavy rainfall in Peru and Ecuador are already affecting production, according to the Fairtrade Foundation ethical trade body. In the Dominican Republic, farmers are expected to face drought conditions, with forecasts of drier and warmer than usual conditions.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/08/banana-producers-in-latin-america-want-better-pay-to-cope-with-effects-of-climate-crisis
Haitian leader to visit El Salvador to discuss future of Salvadoran troops’ offensive in Haiti
The visit comes as Bukele has ramped up his offensive against Haiti’s gangs with at least 2,500 Salvadoran forces now operating in Haiti. The offensive began in October after four Salvadoran aviation technicians went missing in an attack by gangs. Since, Bukele has sought to project an image as a crusader on crime coming to vanquish Haitian gangs, which control whole parts of Haiti’s territory and are deeply entwined with the country’s political elite.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-gangs-el-salvador-bukele-filsaime-c0986699cb1d618aed28f406d5a6975d
Pope Leo defends trade unions as 'indispensable' in Argentina
"To deprive a person of work is not simply to deny that person an income," Leo said. "It severely wounds their dignity, deprives them of the ability to contribute to society and plunges them into social exclusion," he warned. The 71-year-old head of the Catholic Church said the unions must help precarious workers in particular.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/pope-leo-defends-trade-unions-as-indispensable-in-argentina.phtml
https://archive.ph/wECJ6
Rent-a-grandchild: Businesses offering companions to elderly grow in India
Across Indian cities, a small but growing number of companies are now selling what families once took for granted: someone to take care of ageing people. Chores include taking them to the temple, sitting with them during a hospital visit, playing cards, or simply listening to them. Some firms call such workers “children for hire”; others call them a “grandchild for rent”. India, the world’s most populous country, is growing older quickly.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/8/rent-a-grandchild-businesses-offering-companions-to-elderly-grow-in-india
https://archive.ph/FY2T9
Indonesia considers bug sweeps, tighter controls on spy tools after wiretap scandal
Indonesia will tighten controls on state surveillance equipment and consider sweeps of its presidential palace for bugging devices, a minister said on Monday, following last week's discovery of illegal wiretaps on the president, top officials and more. The wiretapping scandal led to the arrest of four senior police officers accused of unauthorised monitoring of phones, among them a former national police chief who had recently been appointed President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-considers-bug-sweeps-tighter-controls-spy-tools-after-wiretap-scandal-2026-11-09/
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Opinion Zionism as Racism: The Soviet Ploy Used to 'Explain' Israel and Hamas
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/zionism-as-racism-the-soviet-ploy-used-to-explain-israel-and-hamas/0000018c-6261-de43-affd-f663727c0000
>The preponderance of Hamas apologists emerging among some in the progressive left reveals that not only is the "Big Red Lie" back, it's more potent than ever.
The ‘Z’ word: Reclaiming Zionism
https://thejewishindependent.com.au/the-z-word-reclaiming-zionism/
Zionism is racism debate ‘unhelpful’, says Scottish Green co-leader
https://www.eastrennews.co.uk/news/national/26646170.zionism-racism-debate-unhelpful-says-scottish-green-co-leader/
Equality watchdog writes to Greens over 'Zionism is racism' motion
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0np1gldvo
Fighting Delegitimization: The United Nation’s “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution, a Case Study
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/85th-anniversary/fighting-delegitimization-the-united-nations-zionism-is-racism-resolution-a-case-study
>On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted G.A. Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism to be “a form of racism and racial discrimnation.” The resolution also cited the political declaration adopted at the Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima, Peru, on August 25–30, 1975, which had condemned Zionism “as a threat to world peace” and a “racist and imperialist ideology.”
>This resolution—most commonly referred to as the “Zionism is racism” resolution— came onto the scene against the backdrop of the Cold War. At that time, the United Nations was a forum in which countries often vied for the approval of, and were aligned with, one of the two great powers. Beginning in the 1960s, following the June 1967 Six-Day War, the Soviet Union began promoting the concept of “Zionism-equals-racism” as a way to strengthen its relations with, and support for, the Arab countries in their ongoing conflict with the State of Israel. The very essence of Zion- ism as the Jewish movement of national liberation and self-determination, which created the only democratic society in the Middle East where Jews and Arabs could live alongside one another, was deliberately distorted into its own antithesis. According to Israel’s enemies, which after 1967 included almost all of the Communist states and many of the so-called non-aligned countries, any manifestation of Jewish national rights was deemed hostile to Arab claims to the entirety of the territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Thus, anti-Zionism became a staple of foreign policy not just for Arab and Communist governments, but also for those countries that wanted to burnish their so-called “anti-imperialist” credentials. This process accelerated as Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, began moving away from the Soviet sphere of influence in the Middle East. In 1973, the UN General Assembly passed an anti-apartheid resolution that condemned “the unholy alliance between Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, Zionism and Israeli imperialism.”
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/leftybritpol/ Zionism is Racism! edition
GRETA SPEAKS!Opinion Zionism as Racism: The Soviet Ploy Used to 'Explain' Israel and Hamas
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/zionism-as-racism-the-soviet-ploy-used-to-explain-israel-and-hamas/0000018c-6261-de43-affd-f663727c0000
>The preponderance of Hamas apologists emerging among some in the progressive left reveals that not only is the "Big Red Lie" back, it's more potent than ever.
The ‘Z’ word: Reclaiming Zionism
https://thejewishindependent.com.au/the-z-word-reclaiming-zionism/
Zionism is racism debate ‘unhelpful’, says Scottish Green co-leader
https://www.eastrennews.co.uk/news/national/26646170.zionism-racism-debate-unhelpful-says-scottish-green-co-leader/
Equality watchdog writes to Greens over 'Zionism is racism' motion
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0np1gldvo
Fighting Delegitimization: The United Nation’s “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution, a Case Study
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/85th-anniversary/fighting-delegitimization-the-united-nations-zionism-is-racism-resolution-a-case-study
>On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted G.A. Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism to be “a form of racism and racial discrimnation.” The resolution also cited the political declaration adopted at the Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima, Peru, on August 25–30, 1975, which had condemned Zionism “as a threat to world peace” and a “racist and imperialist ideology.”
>This resolution—most commonly referred to as the “Zionism is racism” resolution— came onto the scene against the backdrop of the Cold War. At that time, the United Nations was a forum in which countries often vied for the approval of, and were aligned with, one of the two great powers. Beginning in the 1960s, following the June 1967 Six-Day War, the Soviet Union began promoting the concept of “Zionism-equals-racism” as a way to strengthen its relations with, and support for, the Arab countries in their ongoing conflict with the State of Israel. The very essence of Zion- ism as the Jewish movement of national liberation and self-determination, which created the only democratic society in the Middle East where Jews and Arabs could live alongside one another, was deliberately distorted into its own antithesis. According to Israel’s enemies, which after 1967 included almost all of the Communist states and many of the so-called non-aligned countries, any manifestation of Jewish national rights was deemed hostile to Arab claims to the entirety of the territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Thus, anti-Zionism became a staple of foreign policy not just for Arab and Communist governments, but also for those countries that wanted to burnish their so-called “anti-imperialist” credentials. This process accelerated as Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, began moving away from the Soviet sphere of influence in the Middle East. In 1973, the UN General Assembly passed an anti-apartheid resolution that condemned “the unholy alliance between Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, Zionism and Israeli imperialism.”
Previous thread:
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is it?
Is this board alive at all or is it dead. The reading list on the overboard is nice. But does anyone actually frequent it often? Image below uploaded for reasons
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Why are rightoids so obsessed with muh objective morality?
It was a major talking point of the 2000s culture wars between the Religious Right vs. liberals, namely the belief that the right-wing upheld the notion that there is an objective truth and an objective morality that stems from it, while liberals (and genuine leftists for that matter) were portrayed as staunch believers in moral relativism which they acquired through "worshipping" science and history in lieu of religion.
So how does this belief in objective moral truth fit in with the greater right-wing agenda? How does the exploiter class benefit from proles believing in objective morality?
Why are rightoids so obsessed with muh objective morality?
It was a major talking point of the 2000s culture wars between the Religious Right vs. liberals, namely the belief that the right-wing upheld the notion that there is an objective truth and an objective morality that stems from it, while liberals (and genuine leftists for that matter) were portrayed as staunch believers in moral relativism which they acquired through "worshipping" science and history in lieu of religion.
So how does this belief in objective moral truth fit in with the greater right-wing agenda? How does the exploiter class benefit from proles believing in objective morality?
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Here is my first OC on Leftypol's /draw/ board, Mihajla, the Student List girl
Likes: Pumpaj, sour candy, reading
Dislikes: Corruption, wild capitalism, Fascism, mosquitoes
My OC thread 2
this is my OC thread by me, Kal!Here is my first OC on Leftypol's /draw/ board, Mihajla, the Student List girl
Likes: Pumpaj, sour candy, reading
Dislikes: Corruption, wild capitalism, Fascism, mosquitoes
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There needs to be a board that is to /siberia/ what /siberia/ is to /leftypol/ for the twitter users to be banished to, so they don't suck the fun out of /siberia/ with their incoherent doomer incel grokbabble. Some of the threads we've been getting lately feel like trying to sit through a Hasan clip.
There needs to be a board that is to /siberia/ what /siberia/ is to /leftypol/ for the twitter users to be banished to, so they don't suck the fun out of /siberia/ with their incoherent doomer incel grokbabble. Some of the threads we've been getting lately feel like trying to sit through a Hasan clip.
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>get 20 years of world war 2 shooters
>nothing has ever topped this game from 2008
give me a material explanation i need to understand why
body filler body filler body filler fuck you
>get 20 years of world war 2 shooters
>nothing has ever topped this game from 2008
give me a material explanation i need to understand why
body filler body filler body filler fuck you
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What are you playing general
Post in this thread every time you play a new game and rate it, I'll start, currently playing Dread Dawn, pretty jank and honestly not that good but I'm desperate for more zombie games to wait until PZ 42 comes out. 6/10.
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Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General
Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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But this one is for all the other mascots as well. With or without Alunya.
Political ideology catgirls and board mascots thread
There's a "draw Alunya" thread >>408But this one is for all the other mascots as well. With or without Alunya.
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(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
A thread for drawfriends to make new art of Cat Alunya.
The bestest leftist catgirl everyone knows!
Draw Alunya 4
Alunya Art thread 4th edition(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
A thread for drawfriends to make new art of Cat Alunya.
The bestest leftist catgirl everyone knows!
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ITT: lovely anime tits but the thread isnt full anymore
body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty
Big 2d booba #2
Electric boogaloo editionITT: lovely anime tits but the thread isnt full anymore
body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty
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Links:
Klassikertexte:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
Papyrossa-Verlag:
https://www.papyrossa.de/
Marxistische Blätter (Theoriemagazin der DKP):
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
Junge Welt:
https://www.jungewelt.de/
Wochenzeitschrift der DKP:
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
Klasse gegen Klasse (Trots):
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
Dem Volks Dienen (Maoisten):
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
GSP:
https://de.gegenstandpunkt.com/
World Socialist Website auf Deutsch:
https://www.wsws.org/de
Kommunistische Organisation:
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
Kommunistische Partei (KO-Abspaltung):
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
Kommunistisches Wiki:
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
MLPD Wochenzeitschrift:
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
Le Monde diplomatique auf Deutsch:
https://monde-diplomatique.de/
Nachdenkseiten:
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/
Russia Today:
https://rtde.media/
YouTube-Kanäle:
Fabian Lehr:
https://youtube.com/@fabianlehr4318
Wolfgang M. Schmitt:
https://youtube.com/@neuezwanziger
https://youtube.com/@filmanalyse
Tägliche Frontberichte aus der Ukraine:
https://youtube.com/@frontberichteaufdeutsch
Gesellschaft für Dialektische Philosophie:
https://youtube.com/@gesellschaftfurdialektisch32
/leftydeutschpol/ - Gesichert Antisemitisch Edition
Alter Faden: >>2839919Links:
Klassikertexte:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
Papyrossa-Verlag:
https://www.papyrossa.de/
Marxistische Blätter (Theoriemagazin der DKP):
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
Junge Welt:
https://www.jungewelt.de/
Wochenzeitschrift der DKP:
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
Klasse gegen Klasse (Trots):
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
Dem Volks Dienen (Maoisten):
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
GSP:
https://de.gegenstandpunkt.com/
World Socialist Website auf Deutsch:
https://www.wsws.org/de
Kommunistische Organisation:
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
Kommunistische Partei (KO-Abspaltung):
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
Kommunistisches Wiki:
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
MLPD Wochenzeitschrift:
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
Le Monde diplomatique auf Deutsch:
https://monde-diplomatique.de/
Nachdenkseiten:
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/
Russia Today:
https://rtde.media/
YouTube-Kanäle:
Fabian Lehr:
https://youtube.com/@fabianlehr4318
Wolfgang M. Schmitt:
https://youtube.com/@neuezwanziger
https://youtube.com/@filmanalyse
Tägliche Frontberichte aus der Ukraine:
https://youtube.com/@frontberichteaufdeutsch
Gesellschaft für Dialektische Philosophie:
https://youtube.com/@gesellschaftfurdialektisch32
R: 15 / I: 7
The server is cracked, running Drasl for account management. This means that despite that, custom skins (and capes) work. The world is backed up regularly, so don't bother trying to grief. We also have Simple Voice Chat on so you can chat with nearby players or have a group chat depending on what you're doing. Otherwise, we're sticking as close to vanilla as possible and keeping the modlist slim. If there's any QoL changes you'd like to suggest, feel free to do so here!
Alunyagrad 2.0: Minecraft server
We have a new Minecraft server! Here's how to join.- Join the Matrix chat.
- Get through the Antechamber.
- Request access to the Minecraft room, in which case you'll be added and further instructions will be provided.
The server is cracked, running Drasl for account management. This means that despite that, custom skins (and capes) work. The world is backed up regularly, so don't bother trying to grief. We also have Simple Voice Chat on so you can chat with nearby players or have a group chat depending on what you're doing. Otherwise, we're sticking as close to vanilla as possible and keeping the modlist slim. If there's any QoL changes you'd like to suggest, feel free to do so here!
R: 588 / I: 138 (sage)
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/USApol/
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R: 0 / I: 0
> be (hypothetical) ancom living in big city in america
> wants revolution
> sees fuckton of desperate homeless people in the street
> 5 minutes driving back to shit apartment later, sees man selling ARs with switches and good price, and hardware store
> idea
> saves money for several months
> goes to hardware store
> buys a fuckton of brick, wood, power tools, etc.
> goes to forest 50 miles away
> builds several huts & campsite
> back 2 city
> goes to man selling guns
> buys several ARs
> takes to campsite, leaves one in each hut
> goes to proper gunstore
> gets license, fuckton of ammunition for AR, 9mm, and hunting rifle
> buys hunting rifles and handguns (self defense)
> takes all back to campsite
> saves more money
> continue process for 1-2 years, don't get caught by feds (middle of unprotected forest)
> after expanding campsite to village size, buys cheap used van
> hunts fuck ton of deer, rabbit, etc for food, and stores away in village
> go to homeless
> offer free food and housing in forest
> most decline, some acceot
> take to village
> give cooked food
> give guns
> homeless happy
> take some back to city
> have them tell other of experience
> more come to village
> ~100 people, each well fed and armed
> teach about ancom principles
> teach about crimes of bourgeoisie
> ask to organize revolution
> some decline, many agree out of gratitude
> back 2 city
> charge city hall
> paris commune 2.0 (random big american city edition)
> police overwhelmed, driven away
> swat overwhelmed due to militia power
> exercise rule over city
> others repeat across country
> seize banks, march everywhere with guerillas
> mfw communist revolution in america
> mfw beginning of true world revolution
> mfw some try this shit irl
If enough of you do this shit, we could potentially get some shit done in America. Start getting money.
If you are really fucking broke…
> 3d printed guns?????
> explosives???
> utilization of existing anarchist networks?????
> world communism?????
> be (hypothetical) ancom living in big city in america
> wants revolution
> sees fuckton of desperate homeless people in the street
> 5 minutes driving back to shit apartment later, sees man selling ARs with switches and good price, and hardware store
> idea
> saves money for several months
> goes to hardware store
> buys a fuckton of brick, wood, power tools, etc.
> goes to forest 50 miles away
> builds several huts & campsite
> back 2 city
> goes to man selling guns
> buys several ARs
> takes to campsite, leaves one in each hut
> goes to proper gunstore
> gets license, fuckton of ammunition for AR, 9mm, and hunting rifle
> buys hunting rifles and handguns (self defense)
> takes all back to campsite
> saves more money
> continue process for 1-2 years, don't get caught by feds (middle of unprotected forest)
> after expanding campsite to village size, buys cheap used van
> hunts fuck ton of deer, rabbit, etc for food, and stores away in village
> go to homeless
> offer free food and housing in forest
> most decline, some acceot
> take to village
> give cooked food
> give guns
> homeless happy
> take some back to city
> have them tell other of experience
> more come to village
> ~100 people, each well fed and armed
> teach about ancom principles
> teach about crimes of bourgeoisie
> ask to organize revolution
> some decline, many agree out of gratitude
> back 2 city
> charge city hall
> paris commune 2.0 (random big american city edition)
> police overwhelmed, driven away
> swat overwhelmed due to militia power
> exercise rule over city
> others repeat across country
> seize banks, march everywhere with guerillas
> mfw communist revolution in america
> mfw beginning of true world revolution
> mfw some try this shit irl
If enough of you do this shit, we could potentially get some shit done in America. Start getting money.
If you are really fucking broke…
> 3d printed guns?????
> explosives???
> utilization of existing anarchist networks?????
> world communism?????
R: 109 / I: 15
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
Elon Musk = Nazi
“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
R: 342 / I: 84
Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
/Africa/
A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
R: 597 / I: 155 (sage)
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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅<MID TERMS ARE OVER, NO MORE LIBBING OUT edition
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Previous thread: >>2946762
R: 13 / I: 0
How to become an influencer?
It seems, unfortunately, that politics has devolved into personality cults around internet characters (Hasan, haz/hinkle, destiny, fuentes etc.). Call it fake if you want, but these personality cults & their online communities form the political machines that mobilize the largest amounts of people outside of established politics. Made this thread for sharing resources & ideas as to how to become an influencer & how to use the internet for actually productive purposes.
R: 1 / I: 0
Green Lantern: "Alex Nero" (Women in Refrigerators, Save of Raven Laventi).
Green Arrow: "Connor Hawke" (War Crimes, Dozens of Anti-War Movements KO).
Flash: "Anakin Skywalker" (Shangrila MUX, Fitchburg Massachusetts, Lucas Arts).
Batman: "Bane", "Holiday", "Hush" (Mossad Media, 007 Frame, Pathfinder Presidency).
Wonder Woman: "Edison" (Female Author's Print, NYPD Adjutant, "Cat").
Mike Howell ("American Ultra")
Aquaman: "Suicide Squad" (Slipknot, Barleycorn Marijuana Outbreak).Green Lantern: "Alex Nero" (Women in Refrigerators, Save of Raven Laventi).
Green Arrow: "Connor Hawke" (War Crimes, Dozens of Anti-War Movements KO).
Flash: "Anakin Skywalker" (Shangrila MUX, Fitchburg Massachusetts, Lucas Arts).
Batman: "Bane", "Holiday", "Hush" (Mossad Media, 007 Frame, Pathfinder Presidency).
Wonder Woman: "Edison" (Female Author's Print, NYPD Adjutant, "Cat").
R: 39 / I: 10
obviously pre-2016-fed/pol/ era, if you're a tran browsing IBs you're or should obviously be old enough to remember life before the rise of "beta" and "incel" culture in 4chan, where the absurd became nihilism and then it came the grooming;
it's not a conspiracy, the "glowie" meme became a thing thanks to the known fact of federal agents browsing these sites, but back on topic:
I don't usually do this but;
>TW:
<Brainworms
<Depression
<Slurs(?)
think Bailey Jay, tranchan and "trap aesthetics" guides, faproulette?
at least for me it was an important part of my self-discovery as a depressed teen isolated and with no education on what even trans people, spending time between IBs only interacting with terminally online incels at the peak of my delayed puberty
Giving up and taking my first steps in gender exploration i realized i had to make a choice between "malebrained" nihilist spaces and actually transitioning, fast forward to the present i'm here, brainworms and a shaky early transition due to contact with transmedicalists overlapping with Blanchardism makes me stick to /tttt/ culture
and here's where i make a pause to make a critique of "transmedicalism" not as a method but as a cope starved for validation
I once got kicked for "comparing it to nazism" while making the comparison to how quoting Evola doesn't make you a nazi/fascist, but puts you in a place where you're at least adjacent to nazi/fascist ideas.
now let's think the two sides of terminally online trans spaces: trans hugboxes and trans brainworm nests
they're different enough in "vibe" and yet they both represent a terminally online space where both positive and negative feedbacks of self-affirming dogmas and paranoias.
As a result of this i struggle constantly with the concept of Autogynephilia to a point where it affects my bf;
as an outsider he doesn't understand it, but he has an aversion to the concept and a desire to understand it as he wishes to understand me.
I've infected a cis person with brainworms.
I have to tell him it's not real but he says there seems to be a degree of credibility to it. it hurts me, and even without that second opinion the fact that Blanchardism has been co-opted by trans spaces, in fact the mere fact the AGP typology is still part of the DSM-V is hurtful even if i recognize psychology under capitalism seeks to colonize such conditions; in order to explain it to a group of scholars who clearly have no interest in the wellbeing of the people they pathologize.
How do we break this cycle?
we have the Thesis; a pathology that makes trans women in particular (for some reason) dwell in a cycle of self hate which innevitably overlaps with the same nihilistic worldview that degenerated IBs into what they are today
and on the other side the Anti-thesis; the hugbox where you won't hear any of this, their sisters are falling apart and their reaction is "fuck them, they're rude and their negativity makes me sad, best of luck but fuck you", liberalism in it's maximum expression, *every woman by herself.* if i pump the music higher i won't hear their screams.
what would be the next step to break this cycle? do we engage? do we appropriate? how would you organize this purposefully balkanized community?
ImageBoards and trans culture
what's the synthesis of IBs and trans culture?obviously pre-2016-fed/pol/ era, if you're a tran browsing IBs you're or should obviously be old enough to remember life before the rise of "beta" and "incel" culture in 4chan, where the absurd became nihilism and then it came the grooming;
it's not a conspiracy, the "glowie" meme became a thing thanks to the known fact of federal agents browsing these sites, but back on topic:
I don't usually do this but;
>TW:
<Brainworms
<Depression
<Slurs(?)
think Bailey Jay, tranchan and "trap aesthetics" guides, faproulette?
at least for me it was an important part of my self-discovery as a depressed teen isolated and with no education on what even trans people, spending time between IBs only interacting with terminally online incels at the peak of my delayed puberty
Giving up and taking my first steps in gender exploration i realized i had to make a choice between "malebrained" nihilist spaces and actually transitioning, fast forward to the present i'm here, brainworms and a shaky early transition due to contact with transmedicalists overlapping with Blanchardism makes me stick to /tttt/ culture
and here's where i make a pause to make a critique of "transmedicalism" not as a method but as a cope starved for validation
I once got kicked for "comparing it to nazism" while making the comparison to how quoting Evola doesn't make you a nazi/fascist, but puts you in a place where you're at least adjacent to nazi/fascist ideas.
now let's think the two sides of terminally online trans spaces: trans hugboxes and trans brainworm nests
they're different enough in "vibe" and yet they both represent a terminally online space where both positive and negative feedbacks of self-affirming dogmas and paranoias.
As a result of this i struggle constantly with the concept of Autogynephilia to a point where it affects my bf;
as an outsider he doesn't understand it, but he has an aversion to the concept and a desire to understand it as he wishes to understand me.
I've infected a cis person with brainworms.
I have to tell him it's not real but he says there seems to be a degree of credibility to it. it hurts me, and even without that second opinion the fact that Blanchardism has been co-opted by trans spaces, in fact the mere fact the AGP typology is still part of the DSM-V is hurtful even if i recognize psychology under capitalism seeks to colonize such conditions; in order to explain it to a group of scholars who clearly have no interest in the wellbeing of the people they pathologize.
How do we break this cycle?
we have the Thesis; a pathology that makes trans women in particular (for some reason) dwell in a cycle of self hate which innevitably overlaps with the same nihilistic worldview that degenerated IBs into what they are today
and on the other side the Anti-thesis; the hugbox where you won't hear any of this, their sisters are falling apart and their reaction is "fuck them, they're rude and their negativity makes me sad, best of luck but fuck you", liberalism in it's maximum expression, *every woman by herself.* if i pump the music higher i won't hear their screams.
what would be the next step to break this cycle? do we engage? do we appropriate? how would you organize this purposefully balkanized community?
R: 12 / I: 0
Thanks for listening,
Kal
Guys.....?
I think I am either non-binary or transmasc. I never identified with conventionally girly shit like dresses or the colour pink. I always played FPS games instead of talking with people. I have always felt rather spiteful towards female gender norms and the cis female-male doctrine.Thanks for listening,
Kal
R: 2 / I: 0
sup /leftybeautiful lady😍🥰/
you ever read Huey P. Newton? ive been thinking for a bit about revolutionary suicide, and the recent discourse about black people not being able to take off their skin vs trenders w pronoun pins. but thats not what i was thinking specifically this time, it was more about a sort of radical acceptance of hon status from a different angle. with the recently elected alabama representative. i mean shes cute but still. like instead of repping and hiding and shame and anxiety what if i was out and clocky but not in a lack of self awareness way, but a proud way. you know like some kind of trans pride. and embracing the stereotype meme.
like mentally are you really a prole if you are still class cucked in your own head, you might not have anything material left to lose, but theres still more than your chains holding you back. and thats idealism. thats ego. thats liberalism. you have to kill the liberal in your head. when you have nothing to lose thats when you gain the capacity to act with true free will. and thats when nothing is holding you back you can be dedicated to the revolution. passing is false consciousness and a trap. you experience the most radicalizing thing possible and they put you back on the consumer treadmill.
i think im coming around to being very against assimilation and pro optics nuking. the maximalists where right all along . total trans supremacy!
sup /leftybeautiful lady😍🥰/
you ever read Huey P. Newton? ive been thinking for a bit about revolutionary suicide, and the recent discourse about black people not being able to take off their skin vs trenders w pronoun pins. but thats not what i was thinking specifically this time, it was more about a sort of radical acceptance of hon status from a different angle. with the recently elected alabama representative. i mean shes cute but still. like instead of repping and hiding and shame and anxiety what if i was out and clocky but not in a lack of self awareness way, but a proud way. you know like some kind of trans pride. and embracing the stereotype meme.
like mentally are you really a prole if you are still class cucked in your own head, you might not have anything material left to lose, but theres still more than your chains holding you back. and thats idealism. thats ego. thats liberalism. you have to kill the liberal in your head. when you have nothing to lose thats when you gain the capacity to act with true free will. and thats when nothing is holding you back you can be dedicated to the revolution. passing is false consciousness and a trap. you experience the most radicalizing thing possible and they put you back on the consumer treadmill.
i think im coming around to being very against assimilation and pro optics nuking. the maximalists where right all along . total trans supremacy!
R: 21 / I: 1
Yup, Venezuela is totally still going for socialism, this is just true based dengist Delcy bringing Venezuela into 21'st century socialism.
Seriously why the actual fuck did anyone try to argue otherwise? It's so clear that we don't need nationalized state assets for socialism and we should undo the damages done by seizing the assets of the proletarian peripheral bourgeois.
Yup, Venezuela is totally still going for socialism, this is just true based dengist Delcy bringing Venezuela into 21'st century socialism.
Seriously why the actual fuck did anyone try to argue otherwise? It's so clear that we don't need nationalized state assets for socialism and we should undo the damages done by seizing the assets of the proletarian peripheral bourgeois.
R: 7 / I: 1
List of people who ought to be killed
Here's a list of sad sacks begging to be battered by an anti-aircraft battery:ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
R: 4 / I: 1
Third Worldism
I have two questions:- What is Third Worldism (because I think it's a rather unknown current of Marxism)?
- What are your thoughts on Third Positionism?
R: 30 / I: 8
I mean, what was the dream of the black slave in colonial times? Was it to go back to Africa? No, not generally. The Back to Africa movement was mostly of free northern Blacks initially. Black slaves generally wanted an existence independent of their master's farm, meaning, they wanted a farm of their own. This was by far the common dream of freedmen, to get their own farm on their own land. Going back to the oldest colonial times, any slaves that managed to get freedom would get their land plot right in the colonial frontier. So it was in the interest of blacks to get Indian land to settle on just as much the white, the difference was only that the white needed to get out of indentured servitude and pay a sum to a land speculator, whereas the black of course had to seize a miracle of leaving slavery. So I'm not arguing both were the same, but ultimately, their desired endgoals were. Look at picrel from the Museum of the City of New York. These freed black slaves objectively had the material interest of those Mohawk lands being conquered, and those threatening their plots getting exterminated.
I mean, in Settlers by Sakai, white people going along with Bacon's Rebellion is ridiculed, and of course Bacon was a scum of the Earth. For those who don't know, Bacon accused the government of Virginia of being secretly pro-native because it was too slow in exterminating them, and so he tried to overthrow the government. When he failed and was about to get executed for treason, he made demagogic promises to free whites from debt bondage so people would fight for him. So Sakai ridicules that whites fought for Bacon's dream of a faster extermination of Indians, but black people also fought for Bacon, since he also promised freedom from slavery. So neither white nor black saw his very vocal goal of faster genocide as a deal breaker, both sides saw it as just fine if it meant they got theirs. This is just US history.
Really, if anything, that proves that even a genocidal freak like Bacon saw black people as not threatening to his Virginia, and of course not, because black people were never against the carving of any of the 50 states out of Indian land, because they were always a part of the society that formed them even if they were from a most oppressed segment of it.
Going all the way back to Phillis Wheatley, was she arguing that black people cannot realize liberation within a settler colony against them? No, quite the opposite, she was praising the settler colony, begging the King to decree black people as equal colonists.
>Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
>Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
She here is extolling the culture of her new society, that she is glad to be born in this new more cultured land. And I'm not knocking her for this, this is just an expression of black people in the colonies considering themselves as within the colonial society. She understood Christianity as part of the cultural world into which she had been incorporated.
Then you go to Frederick Douglass, who was quite vocal about his dream: the extermination of the Indian so that a White-and-Black US Civilization could spread from sea-to-sea.
>We are not going to die out, I say. Those who liken us to the Indians make one mistake. They overlook the fact that the negro is more like the white man than the Indian, in his tastes and tendencies, and disposition to accept civilization. You see the Indian, too proud to beg, disdaining your civilization, standing at the corners of the streets, wrapped in his blanket,—refusing to imitate, refusing to follow the fashion,—with a few bead purses and baskets to sell. In his dignity and destitution, he rejects our civilization, and the consequence is, that he dies or retreats before the onward march of your civilization, from the Atlantic to the lakes, and from the lakes to the great rivers. He sees with no complacency your railroads, your steamboats, your canals, your electric wire. No thrill of joy is awakened in his heart by the announcement of any improvement in the means of transmitting intelligence or spreading civilization among men. He sees the ploughshare of American civilization tearing up the venerated graves of his ancestors, his heart sickens, and he retreats before the onward march of civilization. Taking warning by the appearance of the honey bees, six months in advance of your coming, he disappears on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. He dislikes your civilization, dislikes and distrusts you.
>It is not so with the negro. He loves you and remains with you, under all circumstances, in slavery and in freedom. You do not see him wearing a blanket, but coats cut in the latest European fashion. If you should see him going down [a] street on a rainy day, you would think there was a man walking there, if he had his back to you. He looks like a man, acts like a man, feels like a man, and the office of this Society is to make him a man among men. (Applause.) He does not die out.
and then
>He will not go to Liberia, because he has immense love of country. There is nothing left for you, but to incorporate him completely into the American body politic: admit him to the ballot-box, admit him to Congress, give him a seat on the benches of your courts, let him ride upon your highways and your byways and your railroads and everywhere, on equal terms with everybody else
https://frederickdouglasspapersproject.com/s/digitaledition/item/17959
And then,
>The proposed donation of the public lands to actual settlers—to the landless masses as free homesteads—the peopling of the national domain with an enterprising, intelligent, and hardy race of emigrants—transforming the savage wilderness into flourishing civilized communities, multiplying new states, and adding immensely to the wealth and productive industry of the nation [would] extend the area of freedom [and] would increase the political power of the North and West—the power of the people—would dangerously menace the perpetuity of the institution of slavery and the democratic slaveholding aristocracy built upon it.
This is even more explicit, the anti-slavery struggle, the primary struggle for black Americans, is directly benefited by the creation of new states, "transforming the savage wilderness," etc.
This is not to denigrate Douglass; this is basically the same as the progressive white US Americans of the time, Thomas Sumner and Mark Twain and whatnot. But it shows that black struggle was not in opposition to the settler colony at all, and black people's interests were ultimately not so distinct to whites in regards to Indians. They were not against the US, but were fighting for black participation within it. There's a reason he praised the constitution as a glorious liberty document, it really is a founding document for the nation he claimed as his own. This is why Twain can argue for genocide of Indians but also write a nationalist story in Huckleberry Finn of a black man and white boy sailing the Mississippi together.
Douglass was followed by a split in two factions, one following Booker T. Washington and the other being the Back to Africa movement. The latter is so obviously settler-colonial I'll ignore it in this post (meaning, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, pre-Hajj Malcolm X, etc). But Booker T. Washington's entire shtick was in his roadmap for how black people could realize political actualization within the US state, expressed in Up From Slavery. Again, at this time in Reconstruction, are black people trying to refuse the settler state? No, they want land to farm on and they want eventual integration into US society as equal participants. Now, his roadmap of course ended in quite the disaster for black suffrage, but it doesn't change that his goal was the goal of practically all black americans of his day. Outside of a few northern Back to Africa guys, he was the undisputed leader of the black community. So when he argues for black integration in the US state, this is not some token Candace Owens saying nonsense that only whites listen to, this was an expression of black attitudes of his time.
Then, we get to WEB DuBois. This is after the extermination of Indians left them as being not really a demographic threat anymore, and thus we see a new US approach to them with the Indian New Deal under FDR. As such, DuBois is not explicitly against the Indians as Douglass was, but still, he is very clearly in favor of US nationalism. If you read Black Reconstruction, he even goes as far as to consider black americans to essentially be the vanguard of US Nationalist ideals, the real flag bearers for the US nationalist narrative. So he's not against US society at all, in Souls of Black Folk he's very clear that his end-goal is a black community able to assert itself as a factor in US society, and thus cooperate with whites to create a US black-and-white culture. He is very favorable to the US nationalist tradition.
Then, we have others like Paul Robeson. His most famous quote from his interrogation at the HUAC was his saying that the US is his country just as much as it is for the white. Again, this is not to denigrate him, this is just an acknowledgement of what the black struggle always was, to realize black ownership of a portion of the US national idea. Then, we have King and the rest. King's main catchphrase, "black equality," really gives the game away does it not? And this is again, not to put down the man. And he was successful, generally! Black people today in the US absolutely see their political actualization in the state as do white people. There is no relevance issues like bias in the job market has to how black people today view the state and relate to Indians. There is none.
Black Americans and Settler Society
People like to say that Black americans cannot be settlers, but why? What does someone's ancestor being forced in a slave ship in 1770 differ from someone being deported from Britain for a crime? What does being over-policed have to do with relations to native Indians? Objectively speaking, black americans practically always considered themselves to be a component part of the US national project. This is a common theme throughout the black liberation struggle. Indigenous nations represented competing political sovereignty. They had their own territorial claims and collective identities, this being a threat to the foundation of the US national project. Black Americans, meanwhile, were understood as a population within American society, even if begrudgingly so. Thus, the black struggle was always to secure an equal spot in US society, never to actually challenge its establishment.I mean, what was the dream of the black slave in colonial times? Was it to go back to Africa? No, not generally. The Back to Africa movement was mostly of free northern Blacks initially. Black slaves generally wanted an existence independent of their master's farm, meaning, they wanted a farm of their own. This was by far the common dream of freedmen, to get their own farm on their own land. Going back to the oldest colonial times, any slaves that managed to get freedom would get their land plot right in the colonial frontier. So it was in the interest of blacks to get Indian land to settle on just as much the white, the difference was only that the white needed to get out of indentured servitude and pay a sum to a land speculator, whereas the black of course had to seize a miracle of leaving slavery. So I'm not arguing both were the same, but ultimately, their desired endgoals were. Look at picrel from the Museum of the City of New York. These freed black slaves objectively had the material interest of those Mohawk lands being conquered, and those threatening their plots getting exterminated.
I mean, in Settlers by Sakai, white people going along with Bacon's Rebellion is ridiculed, and of course Bacon was a scum of the Earth. For those who don't know, Bacon accused the government of Virginia of being secretly pro-native because it was too slow in exterminating them, and so he tried to overthrow the government. When he failed and was about to get executed for treason, he made demagogic promises to free whites from debt bondage so people would fight for him. So Sakai ridicules that whites fought for Bacon's dream of a faster extermination of Indians, but black people also fought for Bacon, since he also promised freedom from slavery. So neither white nor black saw his very vocal goal of faster genocide as a deal breaker, both sides saw it as just fine if it meant they got theirs. This is just US history.
Really, if anything, that proves that even a genocidal freak like Bacon saw black people as not threatening to his Virginia, and of course not, because black people were never against the carving of any of the 50 states out of Indian land, because they were always a part of the society that formed them even if they were from a most oppressed segment of it.
Going all the way back to Phillis Wheatley, was she arguing that black people cannot realize liberation within a settler colony against them? No, quite the opposite, she was praising the settler colony, begging the King to decree black people as equal colonists.
>Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
>Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
She here is extolling the culture of her new society, that she is glad to be born in this new more cultured land. And I'm not knocking her for this, this is just an expression of black people in the colonies considering themselves as within the colonial society. She understood Christianity as part of the cultural world into which she had been incorporated.
Then you go to Frederick Douglass, who was quite vocal about his dream: the extermination of the Indian so that a White-and-Black US Civilization could spread from sea-to-sea.
>We are not going to die out, I say. Those who liken us to the Indians make one mistake. They overlook the fact that the negro is more like the white man than the Indian, in his tastes and tendencies, and disposition to accept civilization. You see the Indian, too proud to beg, disdaining your civilization, standing at the corners of the streets, wrapped in his blanket,—refusing to imitate, refusing to follow the fashion,—with a few bead purses and baskets to sell. In his dignity and destitution, he rejects our civilization, and the consequence is, that he dies or retreats before the onward march of your civilization, from the Atlantic to the lakes, and from the lakes to the great rivers. He sees with no complacency your railroads, your steamboats, your canals, your electric wire. No thrill of joy is awakened in his heart by the announcement of any improvement in the means of transmitting intelligence or spreading civilization among men. He sees the ploughshare of American civilization tearing up the venerated graves of his ancestors, his heart sickens, and he retreats before the onward march of civilization. Taking warning by the appearance of the honey bees, six months in advance of your coming, he disappears on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. He dislikes your civilization, dislikes and distrusts you.
>It is not so with the negro. He loves you and remains with you, under all circumstances, in slavery and in freedom. You do not see him wearing a blanket, but coats cut in the latest European fashion. If you should see him going down [a] street on a rainy day, you would think there was a man walking there, if he had his back to you. He looks like a man, acts like a man, feels like a man, and the office of this Society is to make him a man among men. (Applause.) He does not die out.
and then
>He will not go to Liberia, because he has immense love of country. There is nothing left for you, but to incorporate him completely into the American body politic: admit him to the ballot-box, admit him to Congress, give him a seat on the benches of your courts, let him ride upon your highways and your byways and your railroads and everywhere, on equal terms with everybody else
https://frederickdouglasspapersproject.com/s/digitaledition/item/17959
And then,
>The proposed donation of the public lands to actual settlers—to the landless masses as free homesteads—the peopling of the national domain with an enterprising, intelligent, and hardy race of emigrants—transforming the savage wilderness into flourishing civilized communities, multiplying new states, and adding immensely to the wealth and productive industry of the nation [would] extend the area of freedom [and] would increase the political power of the North and West—the power of the people—would dangerously menace the perpetuity of the institution of slavery and the democratic slaveholding aristocracy built upon it.
This is even more explicit, the anti-slavery struggle, the primary struggle for black Americans, is directly benefited by the creation of new states, "transforming the savage wilderness," etc.
This is not to denigrate Douglass; this is basically the same as the progressive white US Americans of the time, Thomas Sumner and Mark Twain and whatnot. But it shows that black struggle was not in opposition to the settler colony at all, and black people's interests were ultimately not so distinct to whites in regards to Indians. They were not against the US, but were fighting for black participation within it. There's a reason he praised the constitution as a glorious liberty document, it really is a founding document for the nation he claimed as his own. This is why Twain can argue for genocide of Indians but also write a nationalist story in Huckleberry Finn of a black man and white boy sailing the Mississippi together.
Douglass was followed by a split in two factions, one following Booker T. Washington and the other being the Back to Africa movement. The latter is so obviously settler-colonial I'll ignore it in this post (meaning, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, pre-Hajj Malcolm X, etc). But Booker T. Washington's entire shtick was in his roadmap for how black people could realize political actualization within the US state, expressed in Up From Slavery. Again, at this time in Reconstruction, are black people trying to refuse the settler state? No, they want land to farm on and they want eventual integration into US society as equal participants. Now, his roadmap of course ended in quite the disaster for black suffrage, but it doesn't change that his goal was the goal of practically all black americans of his day. Outside of a few northern Back to Africa guys, he was the undisputed leader of the black community. So when he argues for black integration in the US state, this is not some token Candace Owens saying nonsense that only whites listen to, this was an expression of black attitudes of his time.
Then, we get to WEB DuBois. This is after the extermination of Indians left them as being not really a demographic threat anymore, and thus we see a new US approach to them with the Indian New Deal under FDR. As such, DuBois is not explicitly against the Indians as Douglass was, but still, he is very clearly in favor of US nationalism. If you read Black Reconstruction, he even goes as far as to consider black americans to essentially be the vanguard of US Nationalist ideals, the real flag bearers for the US nationalist narrative. So he's not against US society at all, in Souls of Black Folk he's very clear that his end-goal is a black community able to assert itself as a factor in US society, and thus cooperate with whites to create a US black-and-white culture. He is very favorable to the US nationalist tradition.
Then, we have others like Paul Robeson. His most famous quote from his interrogation at the HUAC was his saying that the US is his country just as much as it is for the white. Again, this is not to denigrate him, this is just an acknowledgement of what the black struggle always was, to realize black ownership of a portion of the US national idea. Then, we have King and the rest. King's main catchphrase, "black equality," really gives the game away does it not? And this is again, not to put down the man. And he was successful, generally! Black people today in the US absolutely see their political actualization in the state as do white people. There is no relevance issues like bias in the job market has to how black people today view the state and relate to Indians. There is none.
R: 2 / I: 0
The austerity measures target subsidies for large families, childbirth benefits, education, healthcare, housing and utilities, sports and physical culture, and the entire basket of services that fall under the label “social policy” in the federal budget, according to an analysis just released by the National Institute of Economic Forecasting at the Russian Academy of Sciences (INP-RAN). Based on the Ministry of Finance’s figures, social spending will fall by 15.2 percent next year.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11/06/mjin-n06.html
UK Government to Extend Palantir’s NHS Contract by Two Years
Ministers had the option of triggering a break clause in the contract in February. However, a review concluded that removing Palantir and switching providers within four months would be too disruptive, the FT reported, with ministers drawing up plans to potentially replace it with a British alternative in two years’ time instead.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/11/06/uk-government-to-extend-palantirs-nhs-contract-by-two-years/
Sporadic clashes between police and protesters as renewed demonstrations sweep France
Tens of thousands of people turned out once again on Saturday to denounce France's rising cost of living, with largely peaceful demonstrations taking place in major cities across the country. Police used teargas to drive groups of protesters from Paris's Place de la Nation after some individuals allegedly threw projectiles at the assembled riot police.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261107-sporadic-clashes-between-police-and-protesters-as-renewed-demonstrations-sweep-france
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) will nominate Aigner to succeed outgoing German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the officials told BILD, which, like POLITICO, is part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network. Both officials were granted anonymity to discuss internal party matters freely. Aigner’s nomination will officially be announced Monday, according to the officials.
https://www.politico.eu/article/merz-conservatives-poised-nominate-ilse-aigner-first-woman-president-germany/
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Pedro Alliana Sworn In as Paraguay’s President After Peña’s Removal
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https://www.telesurenglish.net/alliana-sworn-in-paraguay-president/
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The Beijing-based company is seeking a developer to oversee the second phase of a project at an industrial port in the state of Ceara, where it benefits from tax breaks for data exports, according to people familiar with the process who asked not to be named discussing private information. At stake is Brazil’s push to remain a competitive data center builder at a time when countries, including Chile and Argentina, are offering incentives and creating infrastructure to capture the same types of investments.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-06/tiktok-owner-bytedance-weighs-data-center-expansion-in-brazil
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Canada's unemployment rate reaches six-month high
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Ten European countries share evidence on alleged torture of Gaza flotilla activists
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In a separate statement, government forces spokesman, Colonel Majed al-Nazili, said the army had carried out 875 attacks on Houthi positions on Saturday, “neutralising” about 130 Houthi commanders and fighters and destroying or disabling 50 vehicles and missile launchers.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/7/yemeni-govt-forces-report-advances-as-houthis-say-deadly-strikes-hit-sanaa
https://archive.ph/dzQoi
Israel opposition courts Haredim while rejecting Palestinian parties
The disagreement intensified on Friday when Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the secular nationalist Yisrael Beytenu party, announced that he was prepared to compromise on military conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews, reversing years of opposition to exemptions. However, Lieberman reiterated his refusal to support any government dependent on Palestinian parties, including through parliamentary abstentions that would allow a minority administration to take office. The dispute has left Eisenkot's four-party opposition bloc, which holds just 48 seats in Israel's 120-member Knesset, weighing two competing routes to power.
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News 11/7/26
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11/06/mjin-n06.html
UK Government to Extend Palantir’s NHS Contract by Two Years
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https://novaramedia.com/2026/11/06/uk-government-to-extend-palantirs-nhs-contract-by-two-years/
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https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261107-sporadic-clashes-between-police-and-protesters-as-renewed-demonstrations-sweep-france
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) will nominate Aigner to succeed outgoing German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the officials told BILD, which, like POLITICO, is part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network. Both officials were granted anonymity to discuss internal party matters freely. Aigner’s nomination will officially be announced Monday, according to the officials.
https://www.politico.eu/article/merz-conservatives-poised-nominate-ilse-aigner-first-woman-president-germany/
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-unemployment-rate-edges-up-six-month-high-october-2026-11-06/
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https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-11-02/ten-european-countries-share-evidence-on-alleged-torture-of-gaza-flotilla-activists.html
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In a separate statement, government forces spokesman, Colonel Majed al-Nazili, said the army had carried out 875 attacks on Houthi positions on Saturday, “neutralising” about 130 Houthi commanders and fighters and destroying or disabling 50 vehicles and missile launchers.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/7/yemeni-govt-forces-report-advances-as-houthis-say-deadly-strikes-hit-sanaa
https://archive.ph/dzQoi
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The disagreement intensified on Friday when Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the secular nationalist Yisrael Beytenu party, announced that he was prepared to compromise on military conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews, reversing years of opposition to exemptions. However, Lieberman reiterated his refusal to support any government dependent on Palestinian parties, including through parliamentary abstentions that would allow a minority administration to take office. The dispute has left Eisenkot's four-party opposition bloc, which holds just 48 seats in Israel's 120-member Knesset, weighing two competing routes to power.
https://www.newarab.com/news/eisenkot-israeli-ex-general-tasked-forming-new-govt