/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

What’s stopping China from helping Detroit?

Think about it. China does foreign policy based on sift power rather than militarism or blackmail. China builds hospitals in Mali in exchange for good, rather than invading and seizing the gold for themselves. China is the reason hundreds of millions of people in Africa have electricity and running water, right? If China can do this, why aren’t they stepping in and helping Detroit rebuild?

China could fund mass construction projects. Build housing all over Detroit that resembles housing in Chinese cities. Build a functioning metro/train system. Build more hospitals. Build better schools that look like wonder museums rather than prisons. Build urban farms to fix the food desert issue. Give Detroit the latest and greatest tech. Bring back millions of jobs. Why not?

China turns shitholes into functioning cities. Just compare their cities from 37 years ago to their cities now. They could easily do the same for Detroit. Trump Administration be damned. Just get the mayor of Detroit to form a working relationship with Xi and the CPC and watch things happen.

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

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Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

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Interested to see if we have any contrarians here who can explain why the RSF is good and anti-imperialist actually. They're secular and portrayed as the bad guys in western media, so they're probably the good guys?

There is no single case of political leadership ever remaining stable under any centralized force no matter what country where talking. The most stable societies have always worked with the local leaders of various regions and had the majority of administrative and bureaucratic work delegated to small collaborative teams of men and women working together to build a stabler society. Is decentralized authority slow and often inefficient? Yeah. Is it stable and otherwise reliable on steady civilizational progress? Yes. With the era of communication, paper, and digital communication, it’s a better era than ever to decentralize authority. The world doesnt need and never needed autocrats, aristocracies, strongmen, dictators, or oligarchs. We need a society of people working and talking to each other consistently on what to do to make life easier for one another.

Besides Cockshott and maybe Richard Wolff, are there any good, academic, Marxist economists who are worth reading and can be used in debates to defend Marxism?

Comrades! Let us look back on the lessons of the October Revolution on its anniversary!

Why is the October Revolution more important than other communist revolutions?
Because it is, next to the Paris Commune, the only communist revolution whose revolutionary subject was the industrial proletariat. This fact alone makes the October Revolution—its tactics, theory, and organization—more interesting and more important to us than any other. It was the first communist revolution led by the industrial proletariat that also held on to state power and defeated the bourgeois counterrevolution. It signaled that imperialism—the last stage of capitalism—was obsolete as a mode of production and ripe to be replaced by socialist organization.

Contrary to what both Soviet/socialist and American/bourgeois historians claim, the most important distinction between Leninism and what we may call German Social Democracy (the SPD)—that is, the Second International and official Marxism—is not that Leninism was a “deviation” based on Narodnik or Blanquist conspiratorial principles. These historians claim that Leninism insisted the revolution must be led by a professional, highly organized vanguard—that it meant conspiracy rather than open democratic struggle through parliamentary interpellation and mass agitation or propaganda via the large and complex press system perfected by the German SPD.

This claim arises from a one-sided, forced reading of one of Lenin’s writings, namely What Is to Be Done? It is wrongly treated as the (or even the) central Leninist “credo,” according to which the proletariat is supposedly incapable of leading the revolution or fulfilling the slogan “the emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself.” Thus, Lenin is falsely accused of introducing the “professional revolutionary” who performs the socialist revolution on behalf of the working class.

Yet if we look at Lenin’s writings before WITBD, his constant reference point was the Erfurt Programme, the gold standard of Marxist strategy at the turn of the century. Lenin wanted the merger of the existing embryonic workers’ movement with Social Democracy—so that it might reach maturity as quickly and with as few birth pangs as possible. The SPD had a highly centralized apparatus that could rapidly publish agitation pamphlets, newspapers, or books exposing scandals from bourgeois political life and injustices from workers’ everyday conditionPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

https://www.businessinsider.com/older-american-workers-health-issues-challenges-disabilities-2025-11

Patricia Willson, 93, stares intently at her leg as her nurse unwraps layers of bandages, revealing a scar that, to Willson's elation, is nowhere near as gruesome as it had been months ago.

Hunched over from a fractured back, Willson scrolls through her phone to remind her nurse what the scar had looked like. Last December, she sliced her leg open on a box. A few months later, the three-inch gash got infected.

"It scared me so bad when my legs started hurting," Willson tells her nurse, as Business Insider visited her home in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, earlier this year.

"You're a medical masterpiece," her nurse says. "You've been through a lot. Did you mention how many times you've broken a bone?"

"Well, I've had 14 broken arms," Willson replies.

As she inches back to her desk once her leg is tended to, Willson stops to clear off a stack of papers. Nestled between bills and medical records on one side of the desk sits a stapled-together printout of 50 websites for finding freelance work. Tucked away on the other side is a slightly wrinkled cover letter she's been sending to companies.

"I really need a job," she says under her breath.
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Liberals don‘t understand the importance of revolution, the cost of revolution, how it is misguided to complain about what necessarily happens in revolutions and why reasoning must reject and move past that of the established status quo because liberals are not taught the importance of their own revolution. You may learn about the events that have happened, but you are not philosophically educated about revolutions in themselves and their necessity in moving past a system that is inherently bad and whose rulers and those privileged will fight tooth and nail to keep it, at the cost of everyone else living in misery.

I suggest that if you want to convert liberals to socialism then educate them about the liberal revolution. Make them grasp the necessity and good of a revolution regarding something they wouldn‘t possibly disagree with. Additionally, you could then translate this to our times and make analogies of the current ruling class acting like kings and everyone else having to live like a serf.

What do you think about Azerbaijan,the president Ilham Aliyev,its geopolitics and future?

Israel carries out wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon
Israeli warplanes struck the towns of Kfar Dounine, Tayr Debba and Zawtar al-Sharqiya on Thursday, about an hour after issuing evacuation warnings to residents. No deaths had been reported at the time of publishing. The attacks came despite a ceasefire deal signed between Hezbollah and Israel nearly a year ago that ended 13 months of fighting.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/israel-carries-out-wave-of-airstrikes-on-southern-lebanon

Mediators propose deal to get Hamas fighters out of Gaza's Israeli zone, sources say
Egyptian mediators have proposed that, in exchange for safe passage, fighters still in Rafah surrender their arms to Egypt and give details of tunnels there so they can be destroyed, one of the sources, an Egyptian security official, said. Israel and Hamas have yet to publicly accept mediators' proposals, the two sources said. A third confirmed that talks on the issue were underway.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/mediators-propose-deal-get-hamas-fighters-out-gazas-israeli-zone-sources-say-2025-11-06/

RSF paramilitaries agree to truce proposal in Sudan
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army for more than two years, announced on Thursday, November 6, that they had agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian truce put forward by mediators. The announcement follows the paramilitaries' capture of the major city of El-Fasher, which dislodged the army from its last stronghold in the vast western Darfur region. They have since been accused of mass killings, looting and sexual violence there, and have in recent days appeared to turn their focus to the neighboring Kordofan region, where fierce battles are underway.
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