/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2942427
Still kinda sad how only 286 likes and 308 comments. I am going to bet its mostly bitching and moaning from gusanos
>HOW DARE YOU DEFEND FIDEL!!!11!!

>>2942131
That includes Canada, Russia, and Scandanavia

>>2942099
Cuba has been fighting the 100 gorillas for decades now, that's no baby.

>>2942443
No, as the ice melts those are going to be the only countries with arable land, this period will last for two years

>>2942449
>as the ice melts
It releases even more nasty shit into the air (such as a lot methane), and messes up the atmosphere globally. EVERYTHING gets warmer, and EVERYTHING now has to deal with a significantly more toxic atmosphere.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5

>>2942211
midwit thread

>>2942220
>The EU has already announced
oh well if they say it, its as good as done!

>They're working to reduce dependence on US software and military tech
no, they're talking about it, a lot, since at least trump 1, and not anything of consequence was ever done about it

>They're making a digital Euro
so basic bitch modernization

>setting up trade barriers to Chinese and demanding Chinese tech for market access
sounds like thats exactly what an US vassal would do

>middle powers are doing, they are simultaneously looking for advantageous trade deals with both US and China while working to become independent
so they're just doing the rational thing according to their interest? why is the EU in economic suicide mode for the full benefit of the US then?
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Donald Trump has been a China hawk for years, and he waged a brutal trade war against the country. So why did the US leader invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington, DC for a summit? The White House dinner, featuring the CEOs of top corporations, helps explain why. Ben Norton analyzes the complex state of US-China relations following Trump's failed trade war.

Topics
0:00 Xi Jinping visits USA
1:20 Cold War Two
2:07 Cold War One history
3:16 USA sees China as threat
4:48 Trump's trade war backfired
6:02 US-China economic integration
7:10 Trump's tariffs hurt manufacturing
8:05 Rare earths and critical minerals
9:52 Strategic stability meaning
11:26 Trump-Xi summit in Washington
12:16 Corporate CEOs attend dinner
15:53 Scott Bessent met at JPMorgan
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>>2942211
>real threat
>Europe, Russia, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, Gulf monarchies, Canada
lol?

EUrocrat narcissism and stupidity has no limits, amazing.

>rapidly distance themselves from US and China.
Washington and Beijing are in tears.

Moved to >>>/siberia/835350.

Why the fuck would I want to eat like a prole?

>>2941634
>Get that tasteless slop out of here.
how to admit you can't cook, without saying you can't cook.

Moved to >>>/siberia/835207.

Senate approves income-based payment plans for utility bills
The Puerto Rico Senate has approved legislation that would establish income-based payment plans for residential customers struggling to pay overdue water and electricity bills, allowing eligible households to repay debt through monthly installments capped at no more than 5% of family income. The measure, House Bill 133, known as the Essential Services Continuity Payment Plans Act, is part of a broader package of legislation approved by the upper chamber addressing utility services, digital safety, agriculture, government spending and tax matters.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/senate-approves-income-based-payment-plans-for-utility-bills

Hacktivist group says it obtained personal data on thousands of DHS employees
A hacktivist group working to “limit further harm by the DHS” says it obtained data on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, including staffers’ phone numbers and email addresses. POLITICO could not independently verify the dataset’s authenticity. Reuters and TechCrunch matched information from the leak to third-party records and known names of DHS employees.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/28/dhs-data-leak-hacktivist-01140028
https://archive.ph/Exy9t

Biden-era officials who quit over Gaza urge 2028 candidates to denounce policy architects
Twelve former US officials who quit the Biden administration between late 2023 and mid-2024 over US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza signed a joint statement "We call on candidates for the 2028 Presidential Nomination to commit to not hire any administration official directly responsible for enabling Israel's military actions in Gaza," they said in the statement released on Wednesday.
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13 European Communist Youth organizations hail student protests, back dockworkers' strike
“The Communist Youth organizations signing this statement salute the tremendous mobilizations of school students, university students and young workers that have taken place in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Albania and other European countries in recent weeks, fighting for education, work and a life that meets the possibilities offered by the 21st century. The great waves of young people surging through the streets of Europe are creating images of optimism and hope. They demonstrate that the organized people, through their struggle, can leave their mark on developments. We denounce the repression unleashed by the bourgeois states, resulting in injuries to demonstrators, including school students, thousands of arrests, and attempts to slander these struggles. It is once again confirmed that anti-people policies are necessarily accompanied by repression, alongside efforts to manipulate the people. We, the young communists, stand on the front line of this struggle, highlighting that the causes driving young people into the streets are common. They lie in the EU of monopolies and war preparations, which allocates billions to military armaments and to boosting the profits of business groups in their competition with rival centers, while treating the needs of the people and youth as ‘wasteful’ and a ‘cost’. They lie in the system of exploitation and class barriers, which sacrifices the needs of workers, young people and working-class families every day in the interests of a handful of capitalists."
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/13-european-communist-youth-organizations-hail-student-protests-back-international-dockworkers-strike.html

DSA Is Eyeing a 2028 AOC Presidential Run
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is entering a new phase. After decades on the political margins, DSA has helped elect a socialist mayor of New York City, won a string of congressional primaries, and grown to over 130,000 members. Now, as chapters across the country call for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2028, the organization faces a crucial test of how to turn its growing popularity into nationaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna

>>2941602
>After landing on a private jet with his family in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday morning, the far-right senator published the claim in a letter – even though his own party has recognised the legitimate victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as have all of Brazil’s institutions, and international observers who monitored and endorsed the vote.
flees to gusano city. poetry

Great Satan US rapes every country in Latin American

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>>2940453
>>2941456
read >>2941472

Because our communist parties suck and dont engage in the ideological struggle, allowing reactionary false consciousness to cancerously grow

>>2941488
They suck because they are not mass movements, hence they have zero power. Your 0.01% hardcore true marxist party will always get crushed by the people.

>it's that new technological developments are "hindered" by existing relations of production.
Yes – Marx for instance sees that capitalism develops from the profit motive, up to a point, but has now become limited to profit, and so the proletariat must struggle to control productivity by political power (e.g. the very medium of exchange value is the limit of production by limiting circulation – while Proudhonists seek to reform circulation by currency reforms, Marx sees that it must all begin in production itself):
<Vulgar socialism […] has taken over from the bourgeois economists the consideration and treatment of distribution as independent of the mode of production and hence the presentation of socialism as turning principally on distribution.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm
So, it's about contradictions leading to concrete struggles in society:
<In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm
Dutt perceives war as a result of this need to periodically destroy the means of production – the promise of peace is a promise of productivity.

>>2932640
>The underlying potential and direction of production changes by virtue of the world's contingency, but this manifests itself through class struggle as new interests emerges in tandem with underlying changes.
<The resolution of structural crises in a mode of production always depends on the direct intervention of the class struggle; but the germination of such crises may well take all social classes by surprise in a given historical totality, by deriving from other structural levels of it than their own immediate confrontation. It is their clash within the unfolding emergency which, as wc shall see in the case of the feudal crisis, then determines its outcome
t. Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Maybe reading a concrete application of the materialist conception of history like his will help you develop a better understanding of it?

There's a tension in Marxist rhetoric on whether history is just a blind procession of technology (the windmill gives you feudal lords, the steam engine gives you industrial capitalists, electrification and soviet power gives you communism) vs. at some point humans have to seize society by the throat and make history happen because history isn't a god outside society and actually depends on human will. In the former mode they write like socialism is inevitable, like when Eugene Debs said despite all the setbacks socialism is as sure to come as the rising sun.

>>2932622
op you still there in this thread?
i can provide you some resources
<https://pokepreet.substack.com/p/notes-on-the-german-ideology?utm_source=publication-search
<https://www.marxists.org/archive/korsch/1938/karl-marx/ch03.htm

>>2941374
>even though he was making a jab at Saddam Hussein
lol fuck obama

>>2941363
>>2941374
What’s funny to me is Cheesecake factory is expensive as fuck. It’s kind of like “elite” chain restaurant food. It’s not sacred middle America prole slop like the dollar menu at McDonalds or Wendys

UGHHHHH I'M VOOOOOOTING AGAIIIIIN!!!!!

>>2941371
>I can't believe the Democrats want to lose and be hated and prevent the Republicans from taking blame
LMAO why

>>2938203
kek

>>2939699
There used to exist elections with stats like this before polarization

>>2939699

>How come elections tend to always be like 49%/51% but not something spectacular like 70%/30%?

In multiparty systems this is not common at all. USA has a "first-past-the-post" election system that results in two parties. These two parties then regulate themselves to compete over the average voter.

>>2940602
Ronald Reagan won his presidency with 59% against 41%.

nah

>>2939980
>Whether the vote totals are manipulated to make it seem more competitive, or if it's an exact science of advertising and PR that splits the electorate into 2 near equal camps, who knows.
Speaking from an Ameriburger perspective, it's both. The former through political machine corruption like gerrymandering, the latter through bourgeois "political science" and marketing. Each candidate is a highly curated product meant to capture a specific cross section of the electorate thought strategically useful. Also the poorest are just discouraged from voting at all since candidates only care about the petty bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie. They rely on the votes of the petty bourgeoisie and the donations of the bourgeoisie. For presidents especially they spend term 1 doing things the donors like but avoiding things that would piss off their voters, and they spend term 2 doing things the donor like with no regard for the voters. The mostly nonvoting working class are just seen as plebs who are supposed to shut up and take it up the ass and be grateful they don't live in one of the places getting bombed.

>>2934189
It makes the world worse. Despite the mountains of ink spilt trying to define it, progressive and conservative are comedically easy things to understand. If something makes the world better, it is progressive. If something makes the world worse, it is conservative. AI, billionaires, and child rape are all therefore conservative.
All conservatives intuitively understand this, so they love AI.

>>2936330
guns are conservative when the ruling class uses them to shoot the workers

guns are progressive when workers use them to shoot the ruling class

apply this to "AI" or any other technology

>>2936338
True, but consider guns were invented in a context where the working class had some (not much) power of who made and who had access to the technology. pistols were developed by factory workers and sold to regular citizens. The guns the army had were only slightly better than the ones sold to regular people. AI, by necessity of needing lots of computing power, plus the much larger control governments have over their people, is in its strongest form exclusive to the rich. therefore, it cannot be used by the proletariat in any meaningful sense, and it is therefore evil. by the same metric, basically all future technology will be evil, since it will be controlled by capital.

Basically, imagine if a genie let you choose some future sci-fi tech, but only jeffery epstein had access to it. would that be a better or worse world?

>>2934189
AI agents are what MLs imagine communism is like
>No control over the MoP
>If you protest it you'll still be killed by the state
>But it's post scarcity, you can ask the AI for anything and it will give it to you
>Quality is irrelevant because it's free