/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

The West (tm) actually has all the pieces of dialectical materialism, but refuses to "assemble" them so to speak. They have broken up the pieces into empiricism, pragmatism (the American philosophy, not the colloquial sense of the word), and systems theory.

>Empiricism: has knowledge from experience (but often fragmented)
>Pragmatism: truth is what works
Systems theory: everything is interconnected

dialectical materialism combines all these insights into one coherent whole: reality is material and exists independent of our minds. things are interdependent, always changing, constantly in development, have to be studied in their context, and to understand reality we need to not just theorize, not just act, but put theory into practice, turn practice back into theory, closing the theory-practice loop, while remembering always that the particular is a case study of the general, that the general fails to describe the particular, and general both does and does not equate to the particular.

I get why people dislike it most of the time; it's used by conservative parents to basically indoctrinate their children and socially isolate them, but thinking that makes homeschooling inherently bad is just like thinking all education is bad because bad people use it sometimes. A form of it could be very useful, especially for us Marxists who are often maligned by those controlling the current educational establishment. It's not like the current public school system is entirely flawless, with it often spewing anti-communist, pro-regime change, right-individualism, and pro-capitalist propaganda. If I had a kid, I wouldn't fully exclude them from public school, but I would perhaps add some sort of extra curriculum at home where I'd teach them Marxist theory, unbiased history of past socialist experiments that doesn't automatically default to (Mao killing 100 billion innocent kulaks in the gulags), and other useful things that may be discouraged elsewhere. I'd kind of be like homework but with studying Marx, Lenin, and even Franz Fanon and perhaps other leftist tendencies like anarchism since it's good to know what your opponents on the left think; marxists.org would be very useful for this, actually. This is especially relevant as it seems like reactionary forces, particularly in the United States, are trying to hijack the school system, such as Project 2025 or PragerU Kids.

Was the American revolution historically progressive? Before McCarthyism CPUSA used to venerate that shit a ton, I as an American think that it was better that it did happen than didn’t, the British would never have upheld any of the treaties, look at what Australia did while remaining loyal to the British, and if they stuck with the British Empire then the evil capabilities of the Empire would be worse. However I can’t say that it was Historically progressive because they failed to do a lot of the historically progressive shit like abolish slavery and stuff, because there were a ton of historically progressive pre-Marxist revolutions in the Americas like in Haiti or Gran Colombia, but America was not one of them.

There is no reason not to join the Democratic Party, they have no party line, no discipline, it's a purely big-tent party; you can say and do whatever you want, and you will never get kicked out. DSA has shown that it's the best strategy to become Democrats by achieving the most out of all left-wing and left-leaning organizations in the US, meanwhile everyone running as third parties have failed to elect even 1 candidate in any important position, or organize a serious protest.
>inb4 this belongs to usapol
This question has been misunderstood so often that it deserves its own thread(usapol)

I made this flag for people who aren't Stalin dick suckers but are still okay with millions of people dying/support China. Like me.


"body to short or empty" fuck you!

how is argentines claims to the falklands in anyway less imperialistic then Britains?
the only argument i hear is that falklands is closer to argentine (which is a pretty weak argument ) or that it was claimed by spain once (like spanish imperialism/colonialism is better then british).
considering how argies mostly descends from europeans, where arguably just as bad as USA when it came too genociding and oppressing natives they are also a colonialist state.
so why do leftist anti-imperialists defend their retarded landclaim?

https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-virginia-congress-democrats-republicans-12a31037f3c9a94d3cb9fbcaaf84d94f

Yeah yeah yeah "gtfo American" shut up for a moment

So just a couple hours ago the Virgina Supreme Court has voted to overturn a redistricting referendum that would give Democrats an advantage based on a bullshit technicality, even though it's been voted on in the house and senate for two years and was approved by a majority of Virginia voters. Meanwhile Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and more are allowed to racially gerrymander their states with impunity and without input from the population, and Utah's Supreme Court is now being packed because it doesn't sufficiently favor the GOP. The message is clear: America's two-party charade has ended, has already ended, and we are entering the era of the GOP party-state

Obviously as a revolutionary socialist I'm no friend of the Democrats, however it's transparently obvious to Virginians and others that this whole bullshit is just setting the stage for a partisan dictatorship and nothing less. The Republicans have long believed that they are the natural party of governance and anything they do to retain power is a good thing, and the Democrats have utterly failed to meaningfully challenge them, even fecklessly conceding while making some bullshit statement about how "the real redistricting was the friends we made along the way". It is of course obvious to us on leftypol that American "democracy" is illegitimate, but by now it should also be clear to the average liberal or really anybody to the left of Reagan that the state isn't even going to pretend their votes matter. This could be used to our advantage

While some are giving way to despair and others to rage, leftists in Virginia and elsewhere now have an increasingly radicalized population that is being openly disenfranchised, with one party blatantly deciding that the rules only count if they benefit and the other party deciding that's okay because god forbid they break procedure. We're in a prime spot right now to get angry liberals and left-libs on our side, to denounce our entire government as illegitimate. The question is, how do we do it?

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I assume everyone has heard of the MV Hondius, an expedition cruise ship which travelled to remote areas, had (I would suppose wealthy) passengers infected with the Andes Virus from the Hantavirus family.

Most recent news posted by the independent, tracking the breaking story live, has shown that sources say there has been two infections in South Africa and one in France. World Health Organisation is ranking the situation as low risk for now.

News:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy592qeq071t

https://news.sky.com/story/three-dead-as-virus-breaks-out-on-atlantic-cruise-ship-13503266

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-symptoms-uk-cape-verde-live-updates-b2971163.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/hantavirus
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