/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Khmer Rouge appreciation thread. I unironically believe that Pol Potism, along with Hoxhaism, is the ideal form of communism, and one of the only ways in which true communism can be achieved. We must be self-sufficient, able to produce our own food, and without the desire for property, if we are ever going to achieve communism beyond socialism.

This is a genuinely underrated area specifically for american communists to penetrate but it has to be done very carefully and clandestinely, but this has unexpected advantages and points of leverage for workers that basically no other industry has.

The semiconductor industry has historically been one of the most extreme in its anti-union behaivor. The industry is one of the most important sectors to the entire bourgeois order. Its a resource in the ongoing great power rivalry and its an essential component in the entire economy as well as being intertwined with the defense industry. A strike at a few semi fabs doesn't just stop production at those fabs, it ripples through the entire economy.

This is why all attempts at open organizing have been swiftly put down by management. Lenin's model of factory cells operating in a clandestine fashion has to be implemented.

These companies employ armies of consultants, lawyers, and HR departments to surveill and identify behavor that looks like unionizing to nip it in the bud, however its primarily focused on open and obvious signs, such as workers huddling together at weird times, circulation of cards, and openly talking about unions. These structures are useless against the factory cell. Think about it: how the hell would management catch a factory cell organized of people who have become close friends on the job, that meets once a week in a location off property outside of work hours and has other cells in other factories doing the same thing, and cell members dont know the people in cells in other factories besides one external contact. An HR karen is no match for lenin.

This sector also contains some very specific characteristics and advantages that should make a prime target for militant communist organizing

•Extremely important
as previously mentioned this sector sits at the commanding heights of the capitalist economy, intertwined with national security interests and economic activity over the whole economy

•Low-offshore risk
governments are fighting to keep these factories on shore at all costs and make more. If a strike happens companies cannot simply threaten to move offshore for several reasons. 1. the equipment is extremely expensive and not easy to move unlike other manufacturing, and 2. much of these factories are built off government subsidised handouts that cannot just be taken back. and 3. these factories take massive capital and time Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Is he dead? That video was obviously ai generated. Why the fuck would they slop out a fake video unless he got bunkered?
If so, what will the ramifications be? Will trump get a replacement?
Something isn't right

What are your thoughts on the RCP/RCA/RCI? They seem to be the only communist group that's actively trying to organize near me but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.

How exactly are you supposed to overthrow the government of the most powerful country on Earth with a legally registered above ground organization where members don't hide their affiliation and which can never ever ever commit a crime? I don't support adventurism or terrorism or firebombing a Walmart or useless political assassinations that only have symbolic results. But revolution is still illegal and actually successfully accomplishing a real revolution involves committing countless crimes, often violent ones, and requires being actually capable of withstanding extremely intense state repression. The "left" in Western countries seems stuck in an eternal malaise where it struggles to accomplish virtually anything. Why? Let's look at the Western left. You either have glorified liberal NGOs with red flags doing an endless bullshit loop of holding up signs and selling newspapers or fighting losing battles to get tiny NLRB contracts, or ocassionally you have a schizophrenic anarchist/symbionese liberation army cult doing nothing but adventurism and firebombing walmarts. I posit that this malaise is because making a left-wing party is legal in liberal democracies, so any normal left wing party is lured to become a "legal" organization with all that entails. The exceptions in Western society naturally tend towards pure adventurism. I think the Bolsheviks actually significantly benefited from being an illegal underground party through most of the course of their existence. They had to learn the organizational tools to genuinely learn to survive state repression, to act decisively, and to build dual power without resorting to mindless suicidal adventurism. A revolution is not legal, so why would you try to accomplish the most brazenly illegal act of all (overthrowing the government) with a defanged legal organization? If the government decided to to a second Red Scare tomorrow, all these orgs would instantly evaporate. We need to go underground before being a communist is illegal and not after.

Let's stop ignoring the elephant in the room.
The most important question is THE violence question.
How do we prevent or beat counter-revolutionary state violence? We all know the only reason revolutions fail is because of state violence and terrorism. The state will not only kill you, but also brutally torture you and your family to destroy the movement.

Let's be realistic, we can't militarily beat 60.000 death squads, eh sorry "special forces". Guerrilla warfare is useless too. They will kill the population that supports you and it's too exhausting for the fighters living in the jungle.
Only way we can win is through the political arena while at the same time preventing reactionary violence. This is the question that must be answered.

I'm prototyping a new website idea for cataloging solid debunks of common capitalist talking points. Please give some feedback on the layout before I start filling it with proper content (these are just placeholder examples).

>minimalist design, resources and similar claims are easy to find
>what other information would be useful for resources to show?
>should the related claims section be placed above the resources?
>are these introductions too long?
>other suggestions?
The alternative phrasings section is to help search discovery.

Transitions between modes of production are of an uncertain nature. They are not always brought about by revolution, reform, or planning, but sometimes by a combination of all 3, or by blind historical forces operating over several centuries.

The transition from primitive communism to slavery, and the transition from slavery to serfdom were neither brought about through the planning of the ruling class, nor through revolution, but through unplanned historical changes over several centuries. The notion that modes of production always (rather than merely sometimes) transform through deliberate revolution is ahistorical projection of the bourgeois revolutions forward in history. What history shows is that modes of production do exist and do change, but whether they change through revolution, reform, or in a totally unplanned way over a long period of time, is up to local material conditions.

Instead of abolishing the petty bourgeoisie, the petty bourgeoisie will simply be (knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly, it does not matter) brought into the fold of monopoly capital, the same way peripheral nations were brought into the fold of imperialism. The total horizontal and vertical integration of capital is not complete, but I will give you a simple anecdote illustrating my point. I had a coworker ask ChatGPT what I thought was a naive question. He asked ChatGPT a question about the small business we worked out, and it knew way more than we possibly expected. It had hyper specialized knowledge on our practices and our ways of doing things. It wasn't necessarily doxxing workers, but it was creepy how much it knew. In the 20th century companies did everything they could to prevent "corporate espionage" and "intellectual property theft" but with LLMs that very process has essentially become legalized because it is useful to everyone. And the workers willingly participate in it. They paste their own company's source code into a monopoly's LLM just to speed up a bug fix. Well where does that lead? And btw I don't work at a software company. Chat GPT was answering questions about arcane manual labor procedures at my company… how did it know? Someone must have willingly given it that knowledge at some point to abridge some labor process for themselves. If all this development and accumulation is shattered due to climate change in WW3 where will that leave us? I have no idea. We are cursed to live in interesting times. And the tech becomes more sophisticated and self governing as the people themselves become more ignorant and less technically skilled… it is as if Arthur Clarke's rule about technology and magic is proving itself true not just through the sophistication of the tech itself, but through the dumbing down and hyper-narrowly-focused-specialization of the very people who are building it.

Let us start off by saying, dialectical materialism is not a collection of quotations to be deployed like talismans. It is a method for grasping reality in its constant motion, its internal contradictions, its tendency to transform into its opposite. As Engels put it, dialectics is "the science of the general laws of motion and development of nature, human society, and thought." To think dialectically is to understand that every social form contains the seeds of its own negation, that what works in one epoch becomes fetter in the next, and that clinging to organizational templates perfected under dead conditions is not fidelity to Marxism, it is its opposite.

The central insight of historical materialism is that the mode of production conditions social life in its totality. But western production today is no longer confined to factories and fields alone, labor is more precarious, and the relation to commodity is often more apparent than the relation to production. On top of this, the state's in the west now produce surveillance at an industrial, high-tech private-public allegiance scale. The security apparatus employs more people than the entire automobile industry. If the forces of production and state repression have transformed, so too must the forces of revolutionary organization. This is not deviation it is proper materialism applied to pre revolutionary conditions.

Consider the actual conditions facing revolutionaries in the contemporary United States. The intelligence state operates with a budget exceeding seventy-five billion dollars and employs over two hundred thousand personnel across sixteen agencies, and this doesn't include all the private state-aligned actors and organizations. The post-9/11 era has dissolved the boundary between foreign and domestic surveillance, integrated private technology firms as deputized intelligence collectors, and normalized warrantless monitoring as administrative routine. COINTELPRO was not an aberration; it was a pilot program for something much larger, written up by the CIA.

The Tsarist Okhrona employed perhaps ten thousand people. The Stasi, at its peak, maintained one hundred thousand informants for a population of seventeen million. That's just to reference scale. The NSA collects metadata on every American. RICO act makes formal groups especially prone to heavy federal repression, if even one individual slips up, a RICO can be brought against leadership. The material conditions hPost too long. Click here to view the full text.