/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

The days of social security are numbered. Without it, there is no dignity in old age. Having to live off handouts is worse than death. Working hours will increase significantly. They may not be the 120 hours that Elon Musk wants (initially), but people will not work less than 60 hours after 2027.

Climate change is happening faster than expected. Climate instability is having a major impact on agriculture. Any country whose food production is affected will need to import more. Therefore, producing countries like ours will export more and domestic prices will increase. In other words, any country that enters a food crisis will cause food prices in the US to increase.

The idea of ​​a multipolar world is stillborn. BRICS is a thing of the past. It only has Russia and China. We will be increasingly subjugated by the US, with accelerated deindustrialization. Labor laws will adapt to favor slave labor on farms. Fascism will reign supreme throughout the world, and the media and surveillance and espionage technologies will easily crush any movement that opposes the status quo.

I say that people are optimistic because they put puppets in the world, which means that they have complete confidence in the future, and believe that their children will have better lives than they did. My question is where this optimism comes from. Can anyone explain?

Tokyo court strips Unification Church of religious corporation status
The court order is expected to damage the credibility of the religious group, which is formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, and affect it financially as it needs to dispose of its assets and won’t be exempt from taxes. It will, however, be allowed to continue its activities.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/25/japan/crime-legal/unification-church-court-order/
https://archive.ph/1CZQS

US plan to tax Chinese ships hits choppy waters as backlash intensifies
The US government is facing growing opposition over its plans to introduce steep fees targeting Chinese-linked ships entering American ports, with global shipping bodies and industry experts slamming the proposals as “disruptive” and counterproductive.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3303802/us-plan-tax-chinese-ships-hits-choppy-waters-backlash-intensifies?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage

Protests Mount Against Proposed Canals on Indus River
On Monday, March 17, Awami Workers’ Party (AWP), a prominent left party, announced a nationwide protest against the GPI and new canals on the Indus for March 22. Announcing the protest on its social media page, the party claimed that the GPI is an “unjust development project” as the “Indus has the first right to its water.”
https://www.newsclick.in/protests-mount-against-proposed-canals-indus-river

Following clashes forced Israeli forces to withdraw
According to SOHR sources, the bombardment followed an attempt by Israeli forces to advancement into the village from Al-Wadi area, before clashes erupted with young men in the region, which forced Israeli forces to withdraw.
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hello sorry im writing this while its almost 4 am and im feeling sort of blackpilled

im a bit of an apocalyptist schizo and i can see that the way things are going the technocratic class is probably just going to end up automating everything while the working class is liquidated out of existence. a major problem with technology is that it has a tendency to intensify the stakes of contradictions since the concentration of ownership it affords means that workers inevitably have fewer and fewer bargaining chips

the only way this can be avoided imo is through a political movement that is distributed throughout. imo the problem with a more centralized approach to achieving communism is that it doesn't really preserve any bargaining chips. i especially dont like approaches that are class collaborationist in some way because that always opens you up to corruption as well. if you dont have any real basis materially for worker control, then you are just hoping whoever is in charge has the right ideology which imo seems really idealist to me sorry

on the point of parties i feel like they are of course important but such things need money and property to truly be effective. you can only strike for as long as you can actually pay rent and eat. hence the cost of sustaining yourself is a fundamental limit to your bargaining power. currently things are much worse seeing as how much agriculture is owned by large corporations. beyond this, money is useful for expanding social outreach and controlling narratives. you can also use it to exert soft power so more people hear about you. it definitely feels like current parties could do more and part of this is the need to secure power and not just raise consciousness

for these reasons i think there is merit to integrating the party structure with worker cooperatives and stuff like what the acp is doing. i dont even like haz but he seems to be trying out new ideas that are worth actually trying out. another nice thing about the workers coop thing is that you have a bit of propaganda of success thing going on. when people see how successful and efficient such an enterprise, there is much more rhetorical force behind socialist arguments

also i feel like now is actually the time to really get going with this stuff? the trump administration has gut the reach which the glowies had so there is now a bit more space to like actually do communist projects. patchwork doesn't need to be neo-reacPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

So, fellow humans, I was thinking to myself lately about the fallen fertility rates of many countries of the world, and something struck me, is there evidence that capitalism dampens fertility? I imagine the the logic of the Capital looking always to grow itself (in perpetuity) drive the system in a perpetual search of making everything a thing for profit generation, even basic thing that would help rise fertility or at least alleviate the burden of new couples, like free kindergarten (to help young mom working), free healthcare, free housing (no burden of house on the budget of new families), free education, easy access and secure job, are all under the logical imperative of Capital in search of the eternal profit. The more I think about it, the more is clear that the Capital itself could be blame for the fallen rate of birth of many advanced countries. The only thing that could help falsify my theory is showing data that the USSR had lower fertility rates or other ex-socialist countries too (does anyone have this data showing the fertility rates of old socialist countries?). Still, thinking long term, countries like South Korea with palliative measures won't budge the fertility that much because the overall system itself create a system wide pressure that keeps pushing people to have few children so to maximize their quality of life under the logical of Capital. Sure, access to birth control and abortion helped lower fertility, but it fallen from what? 5-6 children to 2-1 children? You see what I saying? Capitalism itself could be blamed for the fallen fertility rate around the world. I could be wrong and I'm open to criticism and other point of views showing that I may be wrong. But the future is see, considered if I'm right, is either Capital pushing for more immigration from poor countries to first world core capitalism countries (and stealing good quality human capital that could help those poor countries escape their shitty situation) until they syphon every last of those good quality human capital and leaving those poor countries even more fucked it in the long run for the lack of smart people to help them developed OR Capital will go some kind of full automatization like AGI and robotics and give big fuck you to normal people like us (is veer close to the idea of Nick Land that Capital itself will finally wrest free from mankind and become a genuine kind of "independent intelligence system" free from the need of humans itself on the loop of the syPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

What are lefty pols thought on current insurgency in Somalia against US backed govt. one side are hardline Islamists while the other are somewhat secular and have backing of US, UAE and Turkey to help its fight against the insurgency. In cases like these how should we view such wars when both sides seem to be bad with one being an arm of US imperialism and the latter commiting crimes against women and minorities.

Thousands rally in Serbia against Trump son-in-law’s real estate project
The protests took place on Monday in front of the country’s former army headquarters, which were destroyed in a US-led NATO bombing campaign in 1999 as part of the Kosovo war, and are now being leased by the Serbian authorities to Kushner’s Affinity Partners investment firm, so they can be transformed into a high-end compound.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/24/thousands-rally-in-serbia-against-trump-son-in-laws-real-estate-project
https://archive.ph/SlvqL

Russian and US negotiators meet to hammer out proposal for partial Ukraine ceasefire
While the White House said that “energy and infrastructure” would be covered, the Kremlin said the agreement referred more narrowly to “energy infrastructure.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he would also like to see railways and ports protected.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/russian-and-us-negotiators-meet-hammer-out-proposal-partial-ukraine-ceasefire

Trial of alleged former Red Army Faction terrorist to open in Germany
The 66-year-old is charged with attempted murder, theft and breaches of the war weapons control Act. Later she will face charges of being one of the last members of the left-wing Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist organisation, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, which was behind high-profile hijacks and killings in 1970s West Germany that triggered a state of emergency.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/24/trial-of-alleged-former-red-army-faction-terrorist-to-open-in-germany/
https://archive.ph/D4ogE

Panamanians Oppose Open-Pit Copper Mining Project
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Against the Based-Retard Theory of Trumpism

TLDR: Trump is neither a useful idiot nor just an idiot.

Many anons here have subscribed to what I call a based retard theory of Trumpism. That Trump is, through his incompetence, unintentionally accelerating the demise of the western-led capitalist world order.

It is obvious to everyone that the western-led international order is indeed fracturing, and quite possibly, ending or beginning to end. However, the question is, why, and what will replace it?

According to liberals, since world war 2, the US has (for more or less selfless reasons) promoted a “rules based, international order” based on liberal democracy, market (capitalist) economies and “international law”. This, according to liberals, has allowed the world to avoid the sorts of nationalism, mercantilism which led to conflicts such as world war one and world war two in favor of peace and global prosperity.

People on the left (especially far left) have often disagreed with this view for several reasons. One, they point out that the United States has often ignored so-called international law in pursuit of their own interests while using it to punish other, smaller nations. That IMF loans often came with conditions which for example incentivized or coerced countries into privatizing and liberalizing parts of their economy. Or were in other ways exploitative. That in practice, rich nations took advantaged of poorer ones, and the rule of markets simply became a proxy for the rule of western (especially US) capital, and a way to launder neocolonial exploitation.

However, in the years since the end of the Cold War, alternative economic powers have risen, such as the so-called “BRICS” nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The rise of BRICS, especially China in particular, has meant that the rule of markets is no longer is synonymous with the rule of western corporations.

The reason liberals are confused is because they are people who have drunk the neoliberal cool aid and unironically believe that the spread of market based economies and their integration into the global trade system is a positive sum game that benefitted all nations, when in reality it primarily benefitted the west at the expense of the third world sweatshop-slave.
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ocalan-dissolve-pkk-historic-statement
Some highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over

As a feminist, not only we need to smash the patriarchy, we also need to smash the weightriarchy. Kinda disappointing how class reductionists dismiss body positivity.

Remember no class wars without body positivity(Rule 14g - low-quality idpol bait)(An important part of /leftypol/’s unique character is our opposition to identity politics. We believe that conflicts between genders, races, sexualities, and so on are distractions from the wider class struggle that are intentionally fanned by the ruling class. see article 1 in leftypol.org/static/manifesto.pdf)