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

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Beside those book listed by OP, there's any contemporary book that is a must read for any self respecting leftist?


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Victory day post mortem edition

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

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
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CUCKTIN DO SOMETHING FFS
why am I seeing dozens of videos of drone strikes in moscow? helloooooo? where is the air defense???? 5 years into a war and your air defense is just as shit as it was in the first year?
fucking CUCK shit needs to stop.

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'the country is over'

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btw, the rubble is the best performing currency this 2026 Q1.

>Bloomberg: A tax on parcels from abroad will be a condition for Ukraine to receive part of the European loan.

>To receive €8.4 billion, Kiev will need to repeal the duty-free import of parcels worth up to €150.
(bloomberg calls it 'unpopular tax', lmao)
https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/eu-ties-part-of-ukraine-90-billion-aid-to-unpopular-tax-measure

>>2816711
You haven’t considered “the cycle” spurdo
>Defence is in place
>Attackers develop ways to circumvent defence
>Defenders learn from circumvention to improve defence
and around it goes


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Any predictions for the outcome of the 2026 American midterm elections?

Any socialists on the ballot?

Any guesses as to how the redistributing/gerrymandering issue will play into things?

How do you think issues like Trump’s wars, the tariffs, ICE raids, Black issues, Medicare For All, the climate, voting rights, abortion, trans issues, autistic/neurodivergent issues, and Palestine will affect the outcome? For instance, are we seeing a split in the Democrats over Palestine and other foreign policy issues?
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>>2816533
humans are a doomed species

Dem voteshare will rise but because of gerrymandering backed by CUCKTUS they'll still be locked out of power

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>>2816510

>>2816593
dems will very likely win the congress anyway, but not nearly by as much as they could've

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>MAGA will win in a landslide but Pedocrat Party thugs like Antifa, BLM, trans activists will try to overturn the election with a nationawide riot and attempt to burn down DC like Portland


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<Bond Vigilantism edition

>Previous bake
>>2806554

Latest News
>Nothing ever happens
<IDF still getting groyped by Hezb drones.
>Israel confirms that some of their generals went to the UAE during the war
<Nothing comes out of the US-China summit
>US bond yields spiked. 10y now solidly above 4.5

>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
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>>2816696
The Iraqi military sent a team to investigate the location after reports came out, and they all got killed by the Israeli military. You are pretending that the Iraqis being unable to stop the Israelis from forcibly occupying them and using their land is equivalent to active cooperation with the Israelis. Only a leftkkkom kkkracker retard could be this disingenuous.

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>>2816698
>t.

>>2816701
Gem

>>2816701
trukerald

>>2816696
clearly its the victims fault 🙄


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Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory, whether its praise for it or a critique. Here are some sources about Communization for those who are unaware of what they defend:

https://www.sicjournal.org/what-is-communisation/
https://www.sicjournal.org/the-suspended-step-of-communisation/index.html
https://www.sicjournal.org/communist-measures-2/index.html
https://www.sicjournal.org/issues/index.html
https://files.libcom.org/files/Communization-and-its-Discontents-Contestation-Critique-and-Contemporary-Struggles.pdf
https://files.libcom.org/files/Endnotes%201.pdf
https://archive.org/details/InvisibleCommitteeTheComingInsurrection
https://asounder.org/resources/tiqqun_program.pdf
https://illwill.com/theory-of-the-party

[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
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>>2810284
> I think its because the rioters had no concrete goal, they didn't know what to do after burning down the stores and breaking through the barricades. They had no vision and their demands were vague
There was a clear process of insurrectionary clarification going on, at least from the accounts I've heard from comrades the uprising in ecuador and chile and from the Yellow Vests in france. Apolitical proles were organically building radical class consciousness through participation and there was a real potential for these "hunger riot" movements to spill over into something much bigger. Of course the opportunist, reformist, counterrevolutionary elements contributed to extinguishing the flame as well but imo the COVID measures were the biggest factor.

For anyone who is interested in reading a critique of communization theory you can read the ICT's article called "The Disappointed of 1968: Seeking Refuge in Utopia" (https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2020-08-28/the-disappointed-of-1968-seeking-refuge-in-utopia).

Its more of a critique against communizers who have abandoned class struggle or believe that there is no such thing as a "working class" anymore but if anyone is interested they can read it.

bump

>>2810286
very convenient how covid happened just in the right moment haha

bump


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You may have heard of Bosnia, but you probably did not know that is not a sovereign and independent state, it is a NATO colony. This isn't hyperbole, this is a fact.

Bosnia has something called a "High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
https://www.ohr.int/en/
This is a NATO-appointed governor who must approve all elections and elected officials, all laws and pretty much everything else that has to do with governance. Liberals refer to this person as a "powerful peace envoy" lol.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5pvj5pg51o

*Why is it relevant?*
The governor is about to change. The US and EU will each try to install their own.

*Why is Bosnia important?*
Bosnia is the only Muslim country in Europe. This means that it is the only country whose banks can hold money of observant Muslims. A lot of money going from Middle East to Europe goes through Bosnia.

Bosnia's location is in the heart of the Balkans. It is a gateway from central Europe to Balkans, Black and Aegean Seas. Geographically it is mountainous and covered in forests. It is very easy to have guerrillas/insurgents/partisans running around Bosnia causing trouble.

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Like Croatia and Greece, it's a tourism colony
>You may not have heard of Bosnia
Burger moment

>>2816674
>can't read
burger moment

>>2816677
My bad sister it was a freudian slip. Continue the thread

>>2816683
It's cool. I messed up the headings in the OP, I used three asterisks instead of three apostrophes.

But back to the topic. It's crazy how many people don't know that NATO as been appointing a governor to Bosnia for the last 30 years. They plan on doing it indefinitely. They decided that the people in Bosnia cannot govern themselves or can't be trusted to. Then they call the governor a "peace envoy" lmao.

Isn't that authoritarianism? In the full sense of the word. What liberals imagine the presidents of """regimes""" do, a single person overseeing everything, is literally what defenders of the "rule based" liberal democratic world order are doing in Europe and have no plans on stopping.

"If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all."

>>2816695
It's a dialectical kind of freedom you see. By not recognizing the Bosnian's right to elect his representatives freely, he can consciously recognize the absence of free choice in national political decisionmaking implicit in the framework of liberal capitalism and NATO hegemony that's not obvious to most of us. In this way, he gains a higher stage of understanding than the common liberal citizen of a country without a personified governor-general, because he can't fetishistically attribute the workings of the state, capital and society to the people he votes for every 4 years.


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Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
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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
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>>2816697
>I would say the exact same thing if the 19 yo was a guy or if it was a gay relationship or whatev

So it's not only young women but also young men who are mere objects in your book. That doesn't really make it better.

>>2816713
No not at all, they have agency and can make their own choices, to an extent, and I can criticize those choices. But the brunt of the responsibility lies with the more developed/experienced person of course

Are you done with your little fake argument now?

>>2816450
>understandably shat up by MSM outlets for the same reason that AMLO had been shat up by
the problem is that amblo was a really good force of good.

they probably met at a goth club or something

>>2816526
Are you that "Fido" guy on Twitter (@FyodorOnegin)?


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Georgi Dmitrov:
>the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, most imperialist elements of finance capital.

Umberto Eco's 14 traits:
>cult of tradition, rejection of modernism, irrationalism/action for action’s sake, fear of difference, obsession with conspiracy, nationalism, glorification of struggle, contempt for weakness, selective populism, machismo, newspeak, treating dissent as treason.

Rajani Palme Dutt:
>Monopoly capitalism in crisis creating a dictatorship at the head of a manipulated petty bourgeois mass movement, resulting in the collapse of parliamentary liberalism under capitalism,

Normie Lib Political Science Definition:
>totalitarian authoritarian anti-liberal ultranationalism bulit on a myth of national rebirth, dictatorship, mass mobilization, and political violence

criticisms? thoughts?
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>>2816645
Eco wasn't proposing a definition, he was listing out a series of traits that fascist social movements like. And Martin Luther wasn't antisemitic, antisemitism emerges in the 19th century as a rejection of theological anti-Judaism.

>fascism analysis
>no trotsky and bordiga
Wow… this is worthless

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>>2816634
>If that's your point of view you are falling into the same trap that the KPD fell into when they called Weimar fascist when they passed laws banning Communists
But again, those laws weren't in place for long. Also I would concede that there can be significant differences between different types of fascistic repression, such as just banning a party vs hunting down and exterminating all of its members. I think the KPD's mistake was simply not considering the latter to be a possibility. If you really want to separate an otherwise liberal state that bans communism from a "real" fascist one that eradicates it, perhaps that could be the distinction. I suppose that's a take I could agree with since it actually separates fascists from liberals according to how their actions impact the class struggle, rather than how they impact intra-bourgeois politics. Theoretically however, such severe repression could still take place in an otherwise liberal state with a multi-party legislature, free bourgeois press, etc.
>do you really see South Korea as a fascist state?
I would say so. I mean, what value are the ROK's "liberal" institutions to socialists if we can't use them as a medium of class struggle?

For a long time, during an idealist phase I went through while studying Hegel, I had thought that fascism also has to do with ancien regime Sittlichkeit trying to adapt itself with modern conditions of civil society. This is of course too abstract, has no class analysis, no political content whatsoever. But it seems to me that, since fascism arose precisely in countries that where second or later in line in industrialization and bourgeois domination, the vicinity or sediment of ancien regime relations has something to do with it, at least historically. I wouldn't go as far as saying it's the main factor like someone said in a thread a few days ago though.


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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/oqst-m15.html

>Trade union leaders call for orderly transition from Starmer to police working class opposition

<Britain’s trade union bureaucracy is working overtime to suppress mounting hostility in the working class to the Labour government, amid the deepening crisis surrounding Keir Starmer’s premiership…
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  1. muh precious working class reform voters (more likely to not vote than to vote labour at any election since 2005 - and while 2005 was a shit result, 2017 wasn't! you had your chance!)
[old data]
  1. fun chart, current data.
tl;dr: poor libs > green, poor cunts > reform, rich libs > labour/ld/green split, rich cunts > reform.)

>>2816703
Who the fuck are the 5% financially insecure and liberal socially voting for the conservatives ?

>>2816717
the "temporary embarassed billionaire" type?

>>2816720
Wouldn't they be voting for the Libdems ?


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