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 No.1786757

>>1785282
The who
The what

 No.1796181

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https://tov-anton.livejournal.com/15642.html (russian)

Red Khmers' brochure "democratic Cambodia moves forward"

Immediately after the seizure of political power, the working class assumed technical power. A new generation of workers and working women is being born, consisting of young people, fighters of the Revolutionary Army, people from the peasant poor and the middle classes. They are endowed with a deep love for the people, the Motherland and the Revolution, and a high spirit of collectivism. They are armed with a revolutionary position of independence, sovereignty and independence, tempered over five years of the people's national liberation war. At the current stage of the revolution, they put their collectivism, their perseverance, their enthusiasm and their creative spirit in the service of national defense and creation.

While the communes of agricultural production are mobilizing all their efforts to solve the water problem, to modernize and develop agriculture, workers' collective trade unions are concentrating their efforts on repairing damaged factories, restoring factories completely destroyed by the war and increasing industrial production. This production is put at the service of modernizing agriculture, improving the living conditions of the workers and peasants, and strengthening national independence and sovereignty.

Under the neocolonial regime, before liberation, factories were equipped with imported equipment, and spare parts and raw materials depended on foreigners. The machines were rarely operated by citizens. Now a new generation of workers in Democratic Kampuchea has fully taken over the operation of all factories, which from now on supplied spare parts, as well as raw materials produced in the country. At the same time, under the slogan "Do everything possible to quickly increase the quantity and quality of products while spending less", workers' unions have built new factories, restored and improved existing equipment and introduced new production methods that increase productivity while reducing cost.



 No.1574396[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Leftypedia lived - Leftypedia lives - Leftypedia will live!

Greetings, comrades. Leftypedia, the radical encyclopedia, should be back in a usable state. We have more moderators, which will help with spam from now on, and images are slowly being repopulated for your viewing pleasure. The new domain has been up and running for a while at https://wiki.leftypol.org, and we've imported the vast majority of content that was on the old site while adding a lot of new stuff. I hope that Anons can come back and fill in any content that was lost.

For those unaware, Leftypedia is an original /leftypol/ project dedicated to combating the disinformation of mainstream media and academic sources, as well as discussing leftist history, theory, and practice from a multi-sectarian viewpoint. We welcome additions from different leftist perspectives provided that they are properly sourced and well argued. In addition, we maintain a separate space, tentatively titled "Essays", for more subjective or polemic work.

The original thread is here: >>>/edu/3780
You can find Leftypedia at: https://wiki.leftypol.org
Help for new editors: https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Leftypedia:Community_portal
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 No.1791631

So if the only source I can find for a data point is audio, like a 45 min lecture, is it possible to upload it to a specific page after converting to ogg or whatever?

 No.1791905

>>1791631
Yep, should work! OGG, MP3, probably others too. See if it works for ya:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Special:Upload
I will add that YouTube embeds are also a newly restored feature that, I'm told, should be easy to use.



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 No.1798029[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Under a popular front for issues such as drug decriminalization / legalization, opposing corporate interests, opposing bad government policies, antifascist demonstrations and many other single-issue politics - is marching alongside liberals viable?

A prime example of such a case would be the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. And the point of it is often not to endorse liberal reformism or even more pointless voting - but to be used as a means of spreading propaganda and solidarity among the working class. More recent examples would be the 2023 French pension reform protests, the Framers' protests in all of Europe, the 2021 Brazilian protests and thousands upon thousands more.

A leftcom Bordigist for example would oppose such activities as antifascism in general, because of these features of influencing the broader masses (including liberals) which are dubbed as class-collaboration and denounced.

It ultimately also becomes a debate of big-tent organizing and secular puritanism.

I also made this thread to mention the upcoming protest in Bulgaria - Sofia called 'Use is not Under the influence of' (Протест - "Употреба" не е "въздействие") which seeks to protest against the unjust laws that have come through the infamous american so called War on Drugs. The bulgarian people have been getting arrested and facing prison time for up to 8 years for possesing one joint. The protest against such laws however is mostly driven by liberals. Although I have heard that some Anarchists from the organizations of FAB (Federation of Anarchists in Bulgaria) & The Bulgarian Prisoners' Association will also likely be attending. The anarchist faction does not attend hoping to change things through voting or reforms, but rather seeks to spread awareness about the sort of police brutality that is enacted onto victimless crimes.

Is all of it worth it? Has it yielded any results, historically speaking?
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 No.1798787

>>1798785
How many people use leftypol?

 No.1798788

>>1798787
hundreds of thousands. they're just hiding.

 No.1798789

Ok guys good night comrades, hope you all have a nice day, also yes, you can befriend liberals, they can be cool with most things, they are quite nice people

 No.1798792

Liberals are so awesome agreed. Anyways let's not move past how you thought I was from 4chan because I announced my intention to groom and molest you. There are real actual groomers that's where the term comes from dawg

 No.1798794

>>1798792 (Me)
Now if you had thought I was from 4chan BECAUSE of my intention to groom and molest you, that would make sense. I'm just confused how you can be so online you think the etymology begins there.
Just part of my continued, good faith efforts to make myself understood in this thread (in order to earn your trust and, ultimately, rape your boyhole)



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 No.1798377[Reply]

For the record the reason why I'm not putting this in the USApol general is because I feel like what's talked about here can be applied to any major city that thrives on gambling, nightlife, and the general idea of "vice".

Las Vegas, for those that are unfamiliar with it, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world or good reason. With larger than life resorts, oversized casinos, drinks and gambling all abound, and of course crippling poverty and gaudy stark concrete the moment you look off the Vegas Strip. Gambling aside, there's a ridiculous amount of live shows, concerts, oddball museums, overpriced clubs, and most of all constant grifters. As in "the moment you step outside the resort you're going to have at least three people aggressively panhandle you within five minutes" type not seen outside LA. Also there's a giant emoji ball which stares at you in a vaguely menacing manner if you walk close enough.

So yeah, it's pretty much a microcosm of all that is wrong with capitalism, with the added bonus of its night life existing because of actual mafiosos. But there's also quite a lot of shit there, and more importantly a lot of people. So my question is this: if America underwent a communist revolution, be it by ballot or bullet and by whatever flavor of radical leftism you want, what would happen to Vegas? Would it still exist largely as it is today? How heavily would it need to be modified to be reintegrated as part of socialist society? Do we demolish it entirely and replace it with something else? Do we leave it to rot, as a monument to the failures of capitalism?
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 No.1798729

>>1798579
>Who here has ever been to Vegas?
I've been there twice.

 No.1798753

Las Vegas is also a major hub for trade shows and conferences because of the abundant convention halls, hotels, etc.

I was raised by rational atheist Skeptic™ people and went there as a kid with the parents to attend one of their conferences, so I was in the middle of the Strip hanging around a conventional hall full of atheists and some of them asking panelists like "what do you think about putting weapons in space???" I also ran into Penn Jillette, the libertarian magician, who was hanging out and was like "augh fuck I'm hungry mma go get McDonald's." (He's fat.)

 No.1798760

Also reminder the Jason Unruhe's line on Fallout: New Vegas is critical support for New Vegas' independence and resistance to the inter-imperialist conflict between the NCR and Legion. That seems correct to me.

 No.1798775

broadly the same as what will happen to any other urban area
it might be downsized a bit since the gambling stuff that attracts investment will obviously be gone

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 No.805130[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

🗽United States Politics🦅

Absolute State of America Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth.

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FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8PhLsUcFEegalitarianism
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>>1798748
Wow it's nier automata again, how shocking and subversive'

 No.1798783

>>1798496
This is how I feel when I interact with Redditors from r/Enough_Sanders_Spam/ and other identity-reductionists as well.

 No.1798790

>>1798493
Least classist genocidal liberal

 No.1798791

>>1798685
Welcome to my blog

>Say nothing and just hope he figures it out on his own

I had a similar experience, but they were weirdly helicopter-like. As in, they don't have the time to have a single bit of parenting but they do, to micromanage the dysfunctional kid's every afternoon and be greatly upset about how much of a maladapted sperg they are raising up. Until they gave up and focused on spoiling by younger brother which, unsurprisingly, turned out better… and an entitled, manipulative POS. It was a bizarre experience, because besides the gaslighting, they really thought they were doing a good job and investes a lot of money and effort on bringing me to various therapists to "fix me".

>I personally think that friends can make all the difference in a person’s development.

Totally agree, It was not until the internet and later socialization broadened my horizons that I understood how it wasn't me at all, it was the isolation and the BS treatment that had scrambled the way my mind was supposed to process emotions and prevented me from learning the social game. I still think it's garbage, but now I'm armed with predatory cynicism and the means to navigate people.

On the Autism diagnosis, I remain skeptical tbh. When I was a child, pretty much the only explanation that therapists, counselors and teachers were willing to reach, despite having physical proof in my bruises and very telling moments with my parents that they were narcissistic abusers, was that I was missing some mental disorder diagnosis (autism among them). When obviously, the problem was much simpler. But hey, if we tell it what a duck quacks like and how good being a duck is and how being a duck will end it's pain, and it quacks like a duck, perhaps it is a duck. And it would have,honestly. If I had gone along and accepted that it was me who was wrong and took the mantle of one of those disorders, my parent's would have finally had the "special child" they wanted, the absolution for their parenting failures and the social permission to delegate the responsibility of me, to some treatment.

On Porn, AFAIC is another form of escapism. But with how sex plays into our cultural intake and puberty… What do you expect? That the kids who don't get tail become abstinent prudes? OfPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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 No.1798744

>>1798735
Why do you watch this shit and give it more views?

 No.1798773

Seems like they are baiting Ukraine into total mobilization with the promise of money

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/18/lindsey-graham-visiting-kyiv-urges-ukraine-pass-mobilization-law/

KYIV — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called on Ukrainian lawmakers Monday to quickly pass a mobilization bill that would make more citizens eligible to be drafted into the military, and he sharply questioned exempting men under 27 from the fight.

Graham called for the swift legislative action — even as U.S. lawmakers remain unable to reach their own consensus on aid for Ukraine — while visiting Kyiv, his first trip to the Ukrainian capital since he abruptly turned against a $60 billion aid package for the country last month.

As he issued his advice on the draft, Graham, who met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday, could offer no true assurances about the pending aid package, instead telling reporters that he is “more optimistic than I’ve ever been that something will get out of the House pretty soon.”

 No.1798776

>>1798744
My idiot liberal friends insist on it.

 No.1798781

>>1798735
and if u disagree ur a tankie

 No.1798786

>>1798776
You can just say no. Or at least watch it through a mirror man



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 No.941093[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's hyper-normalization of petty internet drama.
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 No.1798716

>>1798319
>All culture will be squashed by worldwide communism
Communism is about the development of mankind and its culture.

 No.1798756

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>>1798343
identified it as AI 0.5 seconds in, try harder nonny.

 No.1798758

>>1798756
It's real though

 No.1798770

>>1798758
proofs

 No.1798772

>>1798770
Google it



 No.1797040[Reply]

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• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-09-2024/ (trigger warning)

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 No.1798630

>>1798251
>Antisemitic attacks are way up
source: the ADL

 No.1798696

>>1798630
Source: I walked passed a man who was eating a kebab very arably. He probably hates women too.
Please fix this Mr president.

 No.1798699

>>1798618
>earlier today some sort of attack on Marwan Barghouti occurred in prison and I believe he was injured.
Damn bad to hear. Just a few days ago I was thinking zios perhaps kill him in jail either publicly or make it seem natural to tie up a loose end.

 No.1798715

Notable claim on the slaying of Fayeq Al-Mabhouh, the police head in charge of aid distribution today;
<He added that Al-Mabhouh was working openly within the Ministry of Interior, explaining that the Ministry is a civil body, not a military one, in accordance with international law. Al-Shifa Hospital includes a specialized center for the Ministry of Interior and the Police, in order to manage and secure the hospital. This is stipulated in the law.

<The martyr Al-Mabhouh did not rise until he refused to submit to the occupation’s demand to surrender himself, and after he engaged in a clash against the Israeli forces, killing a first sergeant from the “Nahal” Brigade , and wounding two others with his police pistol

Legend if true.

 No.1798730

>>1798699
The only RNN post I saw which described it (i.e not what a faction said about the event) is as follows:

The zionist prison administration assaulted the national leader and prisioner Marwan Barghouti in solitary confinement in "Megiddo" prison.
Marwan's cell was stormed on March 6th, and then again on March 12th until his eyes bled.



 No.1797936[Reply]

Successful revolutions are, always were, and always will be the result of the popular uprising of the masses. While a vanguard party serves to strengthen and rally the masses to rise up against exploitation and imperialism, ultimately it is up to popular will to carry the revolution to victory.
A good example of this is the Islamic Revolution in Iran (I will skip over explaining why the revolution was historically progressive, feel free to do your own research). The Shah ran a powerful national security state but was nevertheless deposed by the sheer number of people in support of Khomeini – who acknowledged that his victory was only thanks to popular will. No amount of spying nor sabotage could stop the waves of people occupying the streets of Tehran, just the same as no police force being able to quell riots in 2020 in the USA.

As far as I can tell, surveillance is the purview of Blanquists, fascists, and anarchists, and not a concern for the revolutionary vanguard. Curious about your input though.
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 No.1798375

Surveillance is a powerful weapon, especially when a mass movement has not yet been formed. Even antifascist groups have used it effectively to cause organizational and financial damage to neo-Nazi organizations. You should be aware of its power.

It's also worth acknowledging many of us live in liberal democracies, where surveillance is mostly actioned against those committing crimes, and your political party isn't yet illegal. People ITT have already mentioned that the Bolsheviks did face arrest from the secret police.

>>1798330
>vid
fail video
Leaving your phone at home is to avoid police use of Stingrays to ID you, and to avoid them unlocking your phone and obtaining evidence (especially if you're a dumbass with face recognition unlock, but they might also pressure/compel key disclosure, depending on circumstance/law/abuse). The CIA have limited manpower and so much other shit to worry about.

>>1798344
You're an idiot.

>>[random palestine discussions]

go to the general.

 No.1798624

>>1798263
You can use your super advanced surveillance techniques to break up a small vanguard organisation. But none of that will help you when everyone from public servants to bakers to the armed forces are marching in the streets against your regime. Power, no matter how punishing and severe, cannot stand up to the people that keep things running dropping everything and hitting the streets. This is Marxist historical materialism 101.

>>1798361
I will not chill out, because 1. This doesn't matter, this is a leftist shit posting station nothing of actual consequence occurs here beyond theoretical discussions of current events, and 2. Identifying feds is fun, and surprisingly easy when you know what to look for. I've done it successfully many times in the past.

 No.1798628

>>1797936
not really sure what you mean by all this but all i have to say is that if you think surveillance isnt necessary to stop counter revolution you really lack an understanding of history and exactly how stalins paranoia was justified to the point where he actually wasn't paranoid enough. at an absolute minimum for a starting point you have to know that nato was arming and training german/nazi partisans like the werewulf brigades to do terrorism and sabotage behind soviet line from 1945 all the way into 1956 with stalin dying in 53 not to mention the whole korean war thing with biological weapons and threatening to nuke moscow over opposition to the fascist italy/turkey/iran/taiwan coups. thats just while he was still alive without getting into vietnam and the abn/wacl, green berets, sas, special forces and jsoc being founded by ex-nazi ss officers, ibm and the holocaust, phoenix program and darpa/arpanet etc etc etc. throughout all this the soviets only had suspicions and they were later proven to be correct yet not even they understood how far reaching and pervasive the absolute degenerate insanity of standard oil and british petroleum would stoop too over getting cucked out of galacia and baku. they were literally the same people, linked the bush family that financed the holocaust and would later move to texas and get into us politics.

from the other side not worrying about surveillance means you are being complacent for when palantir and meta eventually stop only giving data to israel and border patrol and start sending the cia lists of people who make pro-communism posts on social media. counter examples to your iran example - indonesia, jakarta method, and all the places it was also implemented in, not to mention cointelpro for domestics. now imagine that but with facebook and twitter

https://libgen.is/search.php?req=jakarta+method

 No.1798632

>>1798330
And what if it's not just me? What if it's the entire city? The entire country? What are they going to do? Blow us all up? Just wail on their entire population with machine guns? What about a population that has nothing left to lose, that has chosen freedom at the expense of everything else? What about a people that is completely fed up and will die before living another day under the status quo? What happens then?

The ex-junkie at my job understands the master-slave dialectic better than y'all.

 No.1798693

>>1798632
>And what if it's not just me? What if it's the entire city? The entire country? What are they going to do? Blow us all up?
The liberal revision of history and radical individualism fostered through education and media makes ideological arguments greatly biased against revolution. Which leaves offering material improvements, tangible benefits for the worker. And that hinges on not getting bagged or co-opted.

The point is you never get there because the revolutionary movements get nipped in the bud, before even *they* know they are a threat. And the discontent keeps getting channeled into forms of false consciousness like culture war spats or electoralism grifts over and over.



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 No.1798481[Reply]

Has the left ever reckoned with the rampant corruption/exploitation of unions by organized crime? I've only ever heard of conflict in that regard with the mafia standing in as pinkerton muscle.
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 No.1798597

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Why don't we unionize the mob?

 No.1798599

>>1798597
we should abolish the mob

 No.1798647

>>1798599
The mob will eventually wither away

 No.1798667

>>1798481
Off topic but I just started watching The Sopranos a couple weeks ago have people always been posting it this much or am I just noticing it now?

 No.1798681

>>1798667
It gets posted a lot yeah but you probably just didn't recognise the characters



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