/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

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>>2288468
No, he's telling you (the person observing the shirt) that you're spooked, not the wearer.

>>2373688
I think they attacked both the boats and the airport, anon.

A British ship has been struck in the red sea.

>>2373894
On fire and sinking from gunfire but no word on what the ship is. I can't imagine it could be that be if it can be taken out by small arms fire.

It's a Greek onwed ship, without Greeks, that is sinking.

Good! Greeks (government) are truly genocide enablers lately.

>>2373270
Oh, sorry but I'm not familiar so I don't quite get what you're alluding to.

>>2373621
The Gilead stuff is off the mark but I do think they're right about the ruling class being divided. I think what we saw with this last election was a contest between the more radical billionaires, especially those in tech, and the more conservative sections of the bourgeoisie. On the one hand you've got technocrats that want to minimize or abolish democratic interference entirely, and a whole political class reliant on acting as the middle men between business and the political system. Another dimension of the conflict is the billionaire class cannibalizing the millionaire class. In the desperate struggle to keep up profits, outfits like Amazon are trying to muscle out the "local gentry" from businesses which have traditionally supported them like car dealerships.

Imo the level of wealth that billionaires have, coupled with the need for profits so large that they can only come directly from or with the active participation of the government, is driving a bifurcation of the western bourgeoisie. A historical parallel would be the knights and barons wars of the later middle ages, when smaller local landowners were no longer necessary and were eventually "rationalized" by their larger aristocrat competitors.

>>2373218
Honestly yeah the US is too big and the federal system is fucking retarded.

>>2373600
Just curious, what were your politics like in 2016?

>>2373576
>Eventually as Europe collapses into barbarism America will be left completely isolated to slowly rot in its own stagnant filth while the rest of the world moves on without it
A more multipolar world with mena countries developing is certainly possible but this part is fantastical, massive cope that doesn't check out with history. I should also mention that the US currently has a successful genocidal vassal state in mena, people in this thread are kinda brushing over that.

Americas position as the dominant capitalist power began to show its cracks in the 70's when the US, with their economy essentially controlled by the price of Saudi oil, decided to take radical austerity and neo-liberal measures to grow the economy and eliminate inflation. The events transpiring now are just the culmination of that damage revealing itself, with China effortlessly taking over.

>>2374048
what is the kind of retardation this site attracts? it's really fucking amazing

>>2374510
Homeless mentally ill man asked to fight a dog and hurt himself in exchange of a couple cents. All recorded by Hitlerite SStreamers.

>>2374516
>hitlerite
They are black

>>2374506
People can intellectually learn moral rules but that doesn't mean they internalize them or feel guilty about violating them.

>>2374519
So is Kanye and he's the vanguard or National Socialist thought today.

>>2374443
How so?

there is nothing inherently wrong with "state capitalism" in its proper defined sense, a lot of people don't understand this term.

>>2374426
Yes, it was capitalist, it could be considered a socialist project very early on

>>2374487
op is asking for books not your general opinion you '𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓭

>>2374487
Well, if the USSR wasn't Socialist, may I ask: has there ever been a Socialist country?

>>2373598
china is literally not on the graph because it's giving the weapons for free to israel to get some testing done because it's ML and wants to genocide proles for no fucking reason

>>2374222
do you have any source on that

>>2374226
he's being facetious

>cuba will probably get high speed rail before america
absolute state

>>2374369
Good.

>>2374266
The way this website is designed there are not dozens like this for Muslims. This is rare for a website like this to exist in the west

So Britain now has TWO parties that are just cults of personality around a person. You have Reform and the Farage cult on the right, and whatever this new party is going to be called and the Corbyn cult on the left. And to top it all off, Corbyn's party will probably be completely indistinguishable from the worker's party. It'll 100% have exactly the same platform.

>>2374496
Reform isn't a Farage cult, it's just Farage was the only person in that party that had any personality.
Also the worker party has expressed support for this new DemSoc party, so who knows. The worker party might be considered way too socially conservative for younger voters.

I agree with Corbyn this probably wasn't the best time to split and announce this new party. But it seems to be encouraged by the broader far left so it might work out smoother than expected. The greens just forming a socialist caucus as soon as its announced is a bit annoying though.

>>2372545
>>2372554
I wanted to talk about this in the other thread about Yugoslavia because I saw this thread on reddit today: https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1lt0kf4/croatian_rightwing_singer_marko_perkovic_and_fans/
I've heard 20%-30% of the audience was diaspora, but what the fuck is wrong with Croats? Some of them seem really unapologetic about their past of Nazi collaboration.
Say what you want about Serbian war crimes and nationalism, actual Serbs are rather chill, don't really hate other nations after you talk a bit and most boomers seem to feel bad about what they did during the wars. Say what you want about Slovenes being smug and money obsessed, but there are anti-fascist graffitis everywhere in Ljubljana. Meanwhile in Croatia you get this. WTF. Next time I come to the region, I will skip everything and go straight to Bosnia I guess. Montenegro has nice coasts too. And a Croat girl locked me outside on a balcony a few days ago, I honestly don't have a good opinion of them.

>>2374401
croatia is the ukraine of balkans

>>2374401
The ideology of the independence war of the 90s in Croatia was founded upon the myth of Serbs as eternal Balkan villains. Hence anything anti-Serb, including literal Nazis, became cool.
>>2374407
It's worse than Ukraine. Ukrainians weren't frothing about Russia until Putin did his oopsie. Ukrainians commonly spoke Russian outside school, even those that weren't ethnically Ukrainian. Fucking Zelensky spoke Russian when he was doing comedy. 2022 changed sentiments but it's a recent development. Croatia has been in the chauvinist shitter long before. Also, unironically, huge numbers of Croatian diaspora are descendants of Ustaše.

>>2374424
>Ukrainians weren't frothing about Russia until Putin did his oopsie
Lol.
>Also, unironically, huge numbers of Croatian diaspora are descendants of Ustaše
I wonder where the Canadian Ukrainians came from.
Still, this Ukrainian population was only a small part of Ukraine. It still is, even Google analytics shows this. Most people from there are just chill.

>>2374489
>Lol.
Continue to "lol" at reality. Russian was commonly spoken in Ukraine until 2022.

Fuck "the left!" Long live communism! Lenin said: "Study, study, study!" and study, I shall.

>>2370784
Depends on where you're starting from but the following might shock people:

In America more money is lost to wage theft than robberies. The brutal struggles that organized labor had to endure to get what we consider basic rights and hours. All kinds of trivia about global inequality. Imperial Britain extracted 45 trillion dollars from India. The rarely talked about late Victorian holocausts. Planned obsolescence and overproduction, mass goods thrown away in landfills. Planned economic recessions to destroy worker power. How war isn't so bad from the capitalist POV because it helps restore profitability by destroying vast amounts of capital.

If you went through Marx/Engels/Lenin picking out truth bombs we could be here all day even ignoring the technical stuff.

- Products of human labor seem to control us and have a will of their own; socialism is in part a project to reverse this so we're in control. Think of when people talk about "the economy" or "the market" like it's a God that must be sated or else it will punish us.

- It doesn't matter if you replaced all the "greedy rich people" with saints. They're just representations of capital, an amoral social relation. It must seek the greatest return on investment or perish.

- Capitalism trends towards centralization and monopoly.

- The demand for equality is incoherent beyond the abolition of classes.

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LMAO I knew as soon as I read the OP that the comments would be filled with people gleefully telling them to read books written in the 19th and early 20th century.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing that a Western leftist loves more than making reading lists. It's no wonder leftism is seen as a middle class, elitist subculture by the working class

>>2374255
they literally asked for reading material also what kind of dipshit sheltered ah surburboid thinks none of us workers read LMAO

>>2374437
>>2374255
I will recommend some stuff written after 1990 that is more readable and relevant.


>The Divide- Jason Hickel. Gives a history of how the global North has exploited the South. Readable

Imperialism in the Twenty First Century- John Smith. Excellent and much needed update of marxist theory on imperialism. many people will tell you to read Lenin, but frankly, he is outdated. This is a modern classic.

Hardt and Negri- Multitude. A praxis for a global uprising, not just the proletariat, but all who labour under capitalism.