/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

US soldier charged with making $400,000 on Maduro removal bets
A U.S. Army soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro has been charged with making $400,000 ‌by betting on the removal of the ousted Venezuelan leader, the Justice Department said on Thursday. In the weeks leading up to Maduro's January 3 capture, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a master sergeant with U.S. Army Special Forces, used sensitive classified information to make wagers on prediction market Polymarket that U.S. ​forces would enter Venezuela and that Maduro would be out of power.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-arrests-soldier-accused-betting-400000-maduro-removal-abc-news-reports-2026-04-23/

"The Amtrak of the skies"? Trump's interventionism comes for Spirit Airlines
The deal would likely provide equity warrants giving Uncle Sam a substantial ownership stake in the trouble business — possibly as much as 90%. "I guess it would be the Amtrak of the skies," Tad DeHaven, policy analyst at the Cato Institute, tells Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/22/spirit-airlines-trump-bailout
https://archive.ph/rUlFP

RFK Jr agenda suffers another loss as trans advocates hail ‘huge step forward’
A federal judge overturned the Trump administration’s ban on gender-affirming care for children on Saturday, decrying Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “wanton disregard” for the law that “causes very real harm to very real people”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/rfk-jr-agenda-trans-care-children

Georgia Republican pleads not guilty to wire fraud charge in Ponzi scheme
Frost waived indictment before pleading not guilty, a step that is typically a prelude to a later guilty plea in federal courts. He publicly apologized for his role earlier and is free on bail. U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg told The Associated Press that Frost is “not going to contest the chPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tom Steyer Opposed Single-Payer. Now He’s Running On It.
Last week, California Democrats killed CalCare, the state's latest attempt to pass single-payer health care. Will that California dream ever come true? Tom Steyer — a candidate for governor who ran ads against single-payer health care in 2020 — says he is now the Golden State's best bet. He also wants higher taxes for the rich, stronger environmental protections, and the abolition of ICE. The catch? He's a billionaire running a self-financed campaign. Today on Lever Time, David Sirota sits down with Tom Steyer, the former hedge fund manager turned philanthropist, to discuss the collapse of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) campaign, whether billionaires are a policy failure, and the chaotic governor’s race that has left Republicans leading in the polls.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-5p4p3-2d10edcd

Zohran Mamdani Has a Choice on Free-Speech Restriction
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is currently facing a choice: whether to veto either of two protest buffer-zone bills passed by the city council late last month, which critics say would be a major blow to free speech. Intro 1-B and Intro 175-B, the “buffer zone” bills, would enable the New York Police Department (NYPD) to enact restrictions on protesting around houses of worship and educational institutions, respectively. Both bills passed the city council on March 26, and both have drawn extensive criticism. Unions, civil rights groups, activists, and the city’s ascendant democratic socialist left have argued that passing the bills would curtail the right to protest in large swaths of the city. The mayor has thirty days to veto or sign laws after they are passed by the council. If he does neither, the bill automatically passes. Mamdani’s last chance to issue a veto on both or either bill is this Saturday. Opponents are concentrating on Intro 175-B, the Education Buffer Zone Bill. Unlike Intro 1-B, Intro 175-B passed the city council without a veto-proof majority, which leaves room for a Mamdani veto to sink the bill. Critics of the bill point to how broadly it defines educational institutions. The final version would apply protest restrictions to “any building, structure, or place where educational programming takes place. . . . [This] includes but is not limited tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

TYBNA

>>2791084
is there any background to slovenia's support for palestine?

The best part about the Autobiography of Malcom X is when he was working as a driver for a pimp and driving prostitutes to their appointments with rich white clients. He relates one story about an elderly judge who hired this overweight Black Mammy type woman to put him in a diaper and treat him like a baby.

>>2790249
Obsession with parental figures

more leftists are into this btw

>>2790676
Even though Abdl is the most conservative because there is nothing more conservative than wanting to return to babyhood

>>2790955
By the same conservative logic potty training is inherently leftist or even full on communist because it’s against the traditional way of life that all humans follow in their first years of life

>>2791167


nothing to it but to do it

>le bordiga
>word salad while falling for the most common misunderstanding of what "consciousness" entails
lol

to say consciousness precedes practice is to lapse into an idealist view of the historical process, where mens self-perception takes precedence over their real actions. actually read marx instead of larping

>>2791168
The funny thing about the tor and i2p thing is that they have existed for about the same time, but only one got artificially boosted from the start. the former. guess what it lacked and the other has? p2p file sharing. coincidence? I think not.
>anarchists build that whole Tor open source media
i mean the NED/CIA orgs did the heavy lifting but eventually a lot of airheaded anarchists did fall for it being a legit method and did build a lot of sites utilizing it, yes. Good opportunity to remind everyone that the the US empire recently pardoned the Silk Road lumpen-bourgeois "DreadPirateRoberts", whose site was a huge pull in traffic into the tor network, fueling a revolution in the international drug trade into darknet methodology (but strictly tor, of which the US govt. used to anonymize its international CIA comms and Ops).
>>2791167
Mortido should only be channeled onto the world-system. Never kill yourself comrade!

uyghas still in denial the imageboard format is stale as fuck, theres a reason almost nobody uses telnet or irc anymore either lol

<Reminder:
https://nukechan.net/social/index.html
http://lxr7oe6puohaaxjthhnlhasb7oqpjs5iybd5a5uuzomz274fymsq.b32.i2p
No porn, shitposty spammy bullshit; only socialist (Marxist) discourse allowed.
Ready when you are.

>>2742803
>the cointelpro of the usa government against them now seems way more harsh than on other lefty group
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/14/facebook-instagram-antifa-censor/
>If “antifa” is mentioned in the context of “references to historical or recent incidents of violence” — a category so sprawling that it includes “historic wars” and “battles” — that post will also be penalized. Should Meta apply this rule as written, the company could, for instance, restrict posts comparing the antifascist nature of World War II to the contemporary antifa movement.
>Potential penalties for violating Community Standards range from a full account ban to comments being hidden or suppressed.
>The policy change follows years of Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot of political convenience toward President Donald Trump and his base. Following Trump’s second electoral victory, Meta quickly changed its speech rules to allow for anti-transgender slurs and dehumanization of immigrants
Mr Zucc, sir, you do realize that your AI Epstein regime denying the possibility of leftist critiques will simply transform alienated workers into vulgar fascists who say 'ZOG', right?

and also
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/12/antifa-ice-protest-texas-trial-terrorism/

>>2790975
You're just chronically online lol, most anarchists are focused on book clubs and shit

>>2791030
Nah, I’ve met a few anarchists at protests. Nice enough people, definitely see them out there doing stuff.

Cause of the peculiarities of where I work and some friends/family I tend to meet a few through the Punk scene (not a Punk fan myself) and we’d talk about politics and socialism for a bit. A few beat the shit out of skinheads, was fun to hear about it.

cuz marxists are wannabe bureaucrats

>>2791139
They’re hitting harder already, I believe a bunch of people got arrested as “antifa” cause they all wore black hoodies and one shot at cops. Like even their relatives were considered part of a conspiracy for holding some zines at their house.

My disputes with anarchists is mostly theoretical. Personally I think more power to em.

>>2790662
Yeah that's kinda true. But there's a lot of overlap with both concepts which makes it a bit dependent on its overarching structure

>>2790742
On the Frankfurt School, for sure its literal point was to just try and 'ascend' ideology and move to some weird 'post-ideology' phase, Its whole output was basically that alll ideology is bad. In practice and praxis it just means all ideology but the ruling hegemony is bad. Its a pro-status quo ideology for the most part.

>>2790645
>Anon these are literally offshoot of marxism… The frankfurt school's entire epistemology is dialectical.
Claiming the Frankfurt School and post-modernism are just "offshoots" of Marxism is a massive reach that ignores why they are fundamentally antithetical to the materialist core. The Frankfurt School shifted the focus from the material base and the proletariat to cultural superstructure and "critical theory." While they used a form of dialectics, they largely abandoned the "materialism" part of the equation. Calling post-modernism an offshoot is even more illiterate. Post-modernism is defined by the rejection of "grand narratives," and Marxism is the primary target of that rejection. You are conflating a departure from a theory with an expansion of it.

>Historical materialism is literally the idea that history follows a dialectical pattern : immanent contradictions create endogenous change, which itself only reflects the material characteristic of the world.
You’re still collapsing distinct categories to make your "intellectually vacuous" point work. Historical materialism is a specific methodology for understanding human history through the development of productive forces and class struggle. Dialectical materialism is a broader metaphysical framework regarding the nature of reality and matter itself. You keep treating them as interchangeable because they are related, which is exactly why your critique lacks any precision. You're stripping the definitions away and then complaining that the terms are too broad.

>lol so I criticize dialectical materialism and your first reflex is to say "but other marxists have criticized it too!!!" ?
The point of bringing up Lukács and the internal critiques of Kautsky isn't a "reflex" to dodge your point. It's a direct rebuttal to your claim that these concepts are "dogmatic" or "sacralized." If there has been a century-long tradition of Marxists debating and rejecting the exact "vacuity" you’re complaining about, then your characterization of Marxism as a monolithic, unthinking dogma doesn't hold up. You’re attacking a version of the theory that was largely discarded by serious theorists decades ago and pretending you’ve discovered a fatal flaw.

>Any historiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All I have managed to do is make myself sad. I am starting to suspect Karl Marx fucked me over personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made me into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, I now build a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

The emphasis on the proletariat as the revolutionary base when no other bottom and working class has been revolutionary ever outside of Haiti. Ancient Slavery was overthrown by Landlords and not slaves, Feudalism and Orientalism by the Bourgeois and not peasants. The issue is that the petit bourgeois and the managers have even worse ideas for government than the current haute bourgeois who want to liquidate the whole system and exit the planet.

>>2789675
>there's nothing wrong with appealing to the sensibilities of the majority.
tailing a reactionary majority is the opportunist strategy of a reformist bourgeois party. the rest of your post is just equivocating around this point to dress it up nice

>>2790454
>The people
>>2790530
>people have decided that they dont want
muh people this
muh people that
bourgeois interclass project
socialism is a class dictatorship of the proletariat, not the wider "people" which includes the lumpenproletariat, the petty bourgeoisie, and the bourgeoisie. Bourgeois opportunism tries to create a false unity among "the people"

>>2790565
non-proletarians aren't people

>>2790564
This is such bullshit, too, because they're just ASSUMING the proles (or "people") are reactionary. Like how do you know that?

>>2789580
that's a trad buddhist bit he lifted from the Chan (Zen) tradition, it once meant that reading can get in the way of esoteric knowledge. Here I think it was just a pseudopragmatic thing he said in his late late years that I don't put much stock into.

Only thing I am scared about is that under young socialism heavy anti-privacy measures are implanted to combat counterrevolutionaries but they aren't removed in a higher stage of socialism or communism

Vietnam is to China what Kosovo is to Yugoslavia.
ho chi minh was a social imperialist supported by the CIA for being more Nationalist than Communist.
They also unironically prefer Americans to Chinese, this is what the fuck you are dealing with here. They are the right wing deviation that China gets accused of being(Rule 11 - low-quality bait)

>>2790568
>At first, patriotism, not yet communism, led me to have confidence in Lenin, in the Third International. Step by step, along the struggle, by studying Marxism-Leninism parallel with participation in practical activities, I gradually came upon the fact that only socialism and communism can liberate the oppressed nations and the working people throughout the world from slavery.
You should be banned for trying to push pic in current day, honestly.

>>2790568
>ho chi minh was a social imperialist supported by the CIA for being more Nationalist than Communist
That must be why the Americans and Chinese were on the same side against Vietnam and the Warsaw Pact during the Cambodian war.

I'm uncertain of what your point is, that getting ID'd to use a phone now is unique to Vietnam?

Hi Anon, is this text taken from some book? I'm not sure what it means.

>>2758698
It's just a schizo and/or markov chain spammer.

https://eji.org/news/virginia-ends-tax-exemptions-for-confederate-groups/

Some of these hate groups are still considered tax-exempt in the US.

>>2757243
If you actually think the Klan still exists you are
>under 30
>don't know what the Klan actually was
>have been psyopped against your own local proletariat, are also probably a localized self-hating southerner
>just join the fucking football team bro and stop watching anime and thank me later
>are just kind of generally retarded
Either way, stop wasting everyone's time with this shit.
>>2789719
Civil War heritage orgs in the US have been fighting tooth-and-nail to distance themselves from these people for over fifty years. Go touch fucking grass and stop watching atun-shei videos.

>>2790362
>Civil War heritage orgs
Reactionary thought.

"Support our slave project".

Nah.

It's da j00z

>>2790089
Probably just the federales wrapping up loose ends.

>>2789654
>>2789696
Is there a kiwifarms on milei? He is the ultimate lawlcow whenever he appears.

>>2790129
Imagine a MILF version of him.

>>2788894
it's quints, newfriend

>>2789856
Western Europe is pretty fucked. In less they turn the E.U into an actual centralized state and forms a somewhat stable economic and militarily capable bloc in the next 5 years. NATO is going to implod no matter what and at this point it's a question of if the euros are going to nut up or America is going to go schizo enough to invade turkey on behalf of israel or some other bonkers scheme that brings article 5 into question like invading greenland. We still 2 years of this trump term too hypothetical. 10 months till the midterms, the amount of damage he's achieved in the past 3 months is unprecedented. The world's being realign and Russia and china will come out on top, Iran emerges as a 4th power and the U.S either has a revolution or devolves into a shitty decaying fascist belligerent empire. Basically how Russia and North Korea are portrayed as.

>>2790085
>VVITCH
>wayes
>with
>shewing
>discouery
>trve
>erroneous

What the fuck is the rule here