/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1828504
No it's someone in a cat costume

Episode 369: Claude Marks: TrueAnon
We meet Claude Marks, founder/co-director of the Freedom Archives & former FBI most wanted for a talk about revolutionary radio, serious politics in the 1960s, and a life in movement.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/claude-marks

Workers’ control: Who should run our workplaces?
“Not a wheel turns, not a lightbulb shines, and not a telephone rings without the kind permission of the working class.” Ted Grant, founder of the IMT, often repeated these words. What it gets to the heart of is that the whole world keeps going thanks to the working class. The construction of houses; lorries driving from point A to point B; the delivery of post: the working class keeps society running. Yet it does not run society. All of this is done as part of an overall system – capitalism – in which the means of production (warehouses, factories, oil and gas rigs, supermarkets, etc.) are the private property of the capitalist class. They own this plant, equipment, and infrastructure. And that means they get to decide what’s done with it. The ongoing dispute at Port Talbot reveals this starkly. Several thousand steelworkers are being thrown on the scrapheap, despite the crucial role they play in production. Their livelihoods, and the whole town’s fate, has been decided by the cruel logic of the market. None of this production is planned according to the needs of society. Instead, the economy operates chaotically, dependent on whatever maximises profit for the capitalists. That’s why we face redundancies, or are made to work longer, for less, while their profits get bigger year on year.
https://communist.red/workers-control-who-should-run-our-workplaces/

Frederick Engels: Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State III. The Iroquois Gens
We now come to another discovery made by Morgan, which is at least as important as the reconstruction of the family in its primitive form from the systems of consanguinity. The proof that the kinship organizations designated by animal names in a tribe of American Indians are essentially identical with the genea of the Greeks and the gentes of the Romans; that the AmericaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

That's it for this week. I have a few things going on that's gonna keep me from posting till tuesday at the soonest.

>>1828559
Have a nice break news anon

>>1828094
>correspondence (write and receive letters)
Kek.
Anon. Explaining basic words in brackets makes you look either insufferably condescending or legitimately retarded.

>>1828108
I just don't know if this word bears the same idea as the one in Russian. "10 лет без права переписки" is a very common propaganda myth in Russia and it may not bear the same weight for people living elsewhere

Furthermore, Katyn was done by Nazis

cool. you have our attention. now explain this to the hordes of liberals and conservatives living in the imperial core who believe every single anti soviet myth

>>1828706
It starts with purging our own ranks of those myths.

Nuclear War won’t destroy capitalism.
The imperial core will shift their powers to the southern hemisphere excluding Australia.

>>1781897
>Nuclear War won’t destroy capitalism.
>>1777949
<A modern nuke going off over a modern city is going to put so much shit into the atmosphere that a new ice age is an optimistic scenario.
These replies are conflicting….
Why not just critique Posadas' analysis directly instead of just making broader statements about nuclear war? Or are you afraid that he might be correct?

>>1736123
Nothing ever happens.

>>1736123
Posadas was correct, billions must die, nuclear war is desirable. Just wish he wasn't a Trotskyist.

>>1826695
>Just wish he wasn't a Trotskyist.
gay

https://archive.ph/b5TLB

Student absenteeism is double what it was before the pandemic and teacher absentia is up too.

New Data: Long COVID Cases Surge
https://archive.ph/D9Z9T

Experts worry a recent rise in long COVID cases — fueled by a spike in winter holiday infections and a decline in masking and other measures — could continue into this year.

A sudden rise in long COVID in January has persisted into a second month. About 17.6% of those surveyed by the Census Bureau in January said they have experienced long COVID. The number for February was 17.4.

Compare these new numbers to October 2023 and earlier, when long COVID numbers hovered between 14% and 15% of the US adult population as far back as June 2022.
The Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regularly query about 70,000 people as part of its ongoing Pulse Survey.

It's Not Just the Federal Numbers
Independently, advocates, researchers, and clinicians also reported seeing an increase in the number of people who have developed long COVID after a second or third infection.
John Baratta, MD, who runs the COVID Recovery Clinic at the University of North Carolina, said the increase is related to a higher rate of acute cases in the fall and winter of 2023.
In January, the percentage of North Carolinians reporting ever having had long COVD jumped from 12.5% to 20.2% in January and fell to 16.8% in February.
At the same time, many cases are either undetected or unreported by people who tested positive for COVID-19 at home or are not aware they have had it.
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https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-rise-infection-30-percent-fatality-rate-japan-1883195

>There has been a massive surge in cases of a life-threatening form of bacterial infection in Japan that has left officials investigating the cause of the increase.

The nation's National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) has recorded a significant rise in cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) predominantly caused by the bacteria that causes strep throat and impetigo—Group A Streptococcus.

STSS is caused by the bacteria reaching deep into the body—including the blood and deep tissue—and triggering low blood pressure that can ultimately lead to organ failure. In Japan in 2023, 30.9 percent of cases among those aged under 50 resulted in death, though the New York Department of Health says that up to 60 percent of STSS cases can result in death.

The rise in STSS cases has come in at the same times as a rise in severe invasive streptococcal infections in the country.

In 2023, there were 941 severe streptococcus infections—the highest since before the coronavirus pandemic. In the first 10 weeks of 2024, there have already been 474 infections, according to NIID figures.

In January, the NIID said that between January and December 17 of last year, there had been 340 cases of STSS, of which 97 resulted in death. This was the second-highest total since 2019, when 101 people died, but the highest proportion of STSS cases in six years.

The agency has not given a sense of the proportion of severe invasive streptococcal infections that have progressed into STSS so far in 2024. Figures from local authorities, however, suggest the high rates of progression are continuing to occur.
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>>1781122
>Panic-buying emergency supplies is about the best any one can manage in that situation.
Panic-buyers have anti-social traits and need to be reformed. Resource acquisition (since we do not have distribution) should be approached like the prisoner's dilemma: everyone takes only what they need so and uses it wisely there's no reason to panic buy anything and ruin the equilibrium.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148696

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/risk-bird-flu-spreading-humans-enormous-concern-who

How deadly could a bird flu pandemic get?

When would it be likely for this to happen?

The CPUSA and the "Lesser Evil" by Marxist-Leninist Today Editors
Recently the CPUSA published a document Forward Together (now posted at cpusa.org) which was approved by the CPUSA National Committee on January 27 to frame the discussion leading up to the Party’s June 2024 convention in Chicago. The national convention of a Communist Party is important. A convention is the leading body of the Party, and its decisions govern the political direction of the Party in the four years ahead. In recent decades the CPUSA, like many Communist parties, has passed through challenging times. It is striving to recover from the years when a right opportunist leadership wreaked havoc on the Party, threw it into crisis and weakened its influence in the people’s movements. Those movements would be stronger today if there had been a well-functioning, healthy Communist Party providing class struggle perspective and strategic direction. While there are signs that a rectification is in progress, certain ideas from the crisis period still seem to have a stubborn hold. Hence the comments below.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2024/04/the-cpusa-and-lesser-evil.html

Erdoğan seeks salvation in war
It is clear that the fascist Erdoğan regime is deepening Turkey's deadlock. Since 2015, the AKP has been in a state of continuous attack against the Kurdish people. They wanted to enter the second century of the Republic with the victory of the "One Nation, One State" genocide plan without the Kurds. From this point of view, Turkey as a whole was taken as a field of operation. Erdoğan lost the election on 31 March. On the night of the election, he said that he would evaluate the messages given by the people in the election. But in the same speech he also emphasised that he would "deal a fatal blow to the Kurds". How will a mentality and an administration that aims for death and annihilation against the Kurds draw conclusions from the elections? Obviously, there are no conclusions for them to draw. The mindset is the same. This means that war and attacks will continue, billions of dollars and the lives of thousands of people will be wasted. In this case, there is no possibility for the economy and the legal system to recover.
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Thanks News Anon

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>>1827431
> Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood
>Ahead of the United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified State Department cables obtained by The Intercept, is at odds with the Biden administration’s pledge to fully support a two-state solution.
>https://theintercept.com/2024/04/17/united-nations-biden-palestine-statehood/
>https://archive.is/wqaue

Holy shit, the """rationale""" the US is using gives me the same nauseous when someone lies to my face.
>“It remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward a political horizon for the Palestinian people is in the context of a normalization agreement between Israel and its neighbors,” the cable reads. “We believe this approach can tangibly advance Palestinian goals in a meaningful and enduring way.”
How is literally doing the single one thing for their alleged "support" of a "two-state solution" be somehow an advancement of Palestinian goals?

>“Premature actions at the UNSC, even with the best intentions, will achieve neither statehood nor self-determination for the Palestinian people. Such initiatives will instead endanger normalization efforts and drive the parties further apart, heighten the risk of violence on the ground that could claim innocent lives on both sides, and risk support for the new, reform government announced by President Abbas,” the cable says.
Fuck this shit. Why can't they be honest for once and say they want a de facto Zionist annexation instead of trying to manipulate and fear monger?!

>“It is important that all Security Council members hear at this stage of the process that a number of members have questions that require further study about the PalePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1817468
>its okay for the working class to suffer because theyre DAMN KKKRAKKKAS
no socialist movement reached those people and now theyre becoming fascistic again. their lack of consciousness is not their fault

>>1820237
Another interesting point is that the more educated and "Europeanized" Algerians were the biggest drivers of independence, while the more rural ones were a bit ambivalent and again many had served in the French Military for two three generations at that point, it was something they saw as duty, . They were doing a good job of pacifying inside of Algeria itself, but the issue is that every country around Algeria had just become independent, and all of them hated the French so much that they were letting the FLN set up for cross-border raids, De Gaulle simply couldn't be bothered to keep troops there until the end of time to prevent the inevitable from happening.

>>1820423
bsdfhsd

>>1817704
they wanted to get in on the ground floor with the new Algerian government that was about to come to power - they used their ties with Fanon to get an in with the FLN leadership

>>1816926
not too different from third worldists today tbh

>>1826447
>USSR "collapses"
The USSR did not "collapse" it was economically and ideologically sabotaged by pro capitalist and nationalist forces within the CPSU and the institutions, and then it fell by a coup.

>>1825441
>Why again is Krushchev seen as a pariah?
Because he was a weasely fucking liar. He was one of the most enthusiastic for the purges etc. Using the typical Trot/leftcom definition you could say he was the most "Stalinist" in being a brown nosing bureaucratic toady who used the oppressions to advance his career and the cult of personality to save his own skin. Then when he and his cronies carried out a coup after Stalin's death he tried to turn over a new leaf and pretend everything bad was just Stalin's fault.

Oh and to top it off his bungling and greed for power eventually got him kicked out of leadership for the same anti-leninist practices he accused Stalin of.

“Only the Revolutionary who manages to maintain or reestablish the historical tradition, by preserving in a positive memory the given present which he himself has relegated to the past by his negation, succeeds in creating a new historical World capable of existing.”

>>1825441
If that's true you're still a liberal.

khrushchev, recognized and rightly so that the party went too far in a few places as they had helped place yezhov and later beria into power who both fucked things up and ran their investigations less on a case by case basis and more based on quota which resulted in numerous people getting punished who didn't, yezhov was even removed from his post for this very reason, as for his talk on stalin personally he only named the things he named to demonstrate that the personality cult was faulty which it was, even stalin hated his own personality cult and thought it was bullshit and after the war there was no real point to it other than as a way to keep stalin in power which was even against his own wishes.

>>1827329
Hezbollah only has the power it does because the Lebanese state is so weak and ineffectual (deliberately so as no centralized government could rule without excluding one of the religious and ethnic groups)

>>1822010
Surveillance isn't helping. The US built an extensive surveillance system in Afghanistan and they still lost in fucking 3 days, Islamists do their terrorist attacks regularly in some of the most surveilled countries despite the usually pitiful state of their warriors. Ukraine still can't deal with people leaking coordinates and sabotaging shit despite their ultraviolent approach, complete western support, and modern infrastructure. Neither could westerners deal with BLM on their own soil.

>Has there ever been an organizational model that could withstand the western surveillance state?

The Communist Party of China

>>1827466
You mean the Chinese communist party?

>>1827467
glow

>>1827278
Being dead makes you feel anything. Killpeopleism is not cool. Treating old people the reward for a life dedicated to work and labor is good actually.

>>1827292
Am I wrong?
>>1827358
I don't think we're on the same page Anon, I'm no fan of murder. The key term is "assisted suicide", it would be on their own terms. As someone who has lived around those in the retirement industry and lost my parents to dementia, if you're willing to care for these individuals out of the goodness of your heart, good for you, but care-taking positions should be voluntary, and not coercive. Not sure where you're located, but where I'm from, the majority of retirement homes employ primarily immigrants of colour. The pay is low, the hours and work are strenuous, and in the capitalist world, most of the time, this is the only employment these individuals may be able to find. The work is largely compulsory, in addition to it being a burden on tax revenue. As it exists, the industry can barely suffice off its current existence, paying pennies to immigrants who can find no other work, does this not tell you enough money is wasted on this system?

>As it exists, the industry can barely suffice off its current existence, paying pennies to immigrants who can find no other work, does this not tell you enough money is wasted on this system?

This is not a problem of scarcity or "not enough money". Is because is not profitable to treat old people as human beings. In socialism, treating and taking care of people is a necessity, and completely achievable. If the US spended billions of dollars in healthcare instead of weapons and aids to ukraine and palestine and trade barriers, maybe the life of old people would not be a living hell and they would never think of suicide.

>>1827408
>because is not profitable to treat old people as human beings
Except it is, especially in the United States. Retirement communities are some of the most profitable business in the country. I implore you to explore The Villages, in Florida, for instance. The business is expanding across the country, meanwhile the workforce is primarily the same: Immigrants, and the wages don't highly vary. If the wages were higher, sure, more people would want to work these jobs, but I highly doubt that. It's a strenuous line of work that should be forced onto noone.
>maybe the life of old people would not be a living hell and they would never think of suicide
I agree, however in the case of mine and OP's case, some-people receive all the care they need, and are still in pain. These individuals are at the end of their lives, and no degree of delusion with free ice-cream or sanctuary can save them from this dread. Those that are seeking assisted-suicide would only be ones who are terminal or something like that.

>>1815732 (bot)
>non-seq
>>1815965 (bot)
>non-seq

>>1815734
>headlinefag
Back to reddit.com. OP even specifically said 'successful', multiple times.

Czechoslovakia in 1948 would've been further on the road of capitalist development than Cuba in the 1950s no?

>>1815724
>Was Cuba the Most Advanced Capitalist Country to ever have a Revolution?
not really, cuba was mostly plantations and a mafia resort for US tourist wanting sun and cheap whores, it was really not that advanced at all

>>1815724
As it was said. Checkoslowakia and the German revolution
>>1815731
Rest in power to all those crazy and brave guys who tried focoism (literally 8/10 LATAM countries in that era)

The Cuban economy before the revolution had much of its land in latifunia plantation, so it still was quite unindustrializedk on the eve of the takeover communist .militants'