/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

This is a thread only for people who actually do IRL organizing to exchange tactics and ideas. Its time to stop whining about bullshit like Wiccans or shizo pedo rape cult conspiracies, and actually get some actual lessons out of each other, for fucks sake.

Explain your situation, ask a question on what you would like some advice on, and give insight into what you do right now and how successful you are.

Let me start off
>I am the chairman of a local chapter of a socialist nation wide youth org of a european country
>We have, on paper, 90+ youth members in our local chapter
>We have, on paper, 1000+ members nationally
>Recently formed out of a split, still very much in flux
>The real local cadre is around 10-15 people with varying levels of commitment, about 6 people at each weekly or so meeting
>The ideological and practical education of our cadre is low
>Following a broadly orthodox marxist line, as opposed to classical marxist leninist, or maoist, but also containing trotskyites and anarchists

Now the thing I would like your feedback on is explaining how you conduct meetings, how to educate cadre, how to retain cadre, how to ensure people show up, what communist youths are even supposed to do. So let me sketch out what we do now

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What is the materialist explanation for the pursuit of "Status", clout, fame, etc.? It's not directly economic. It's often the case that the petit bourgeois for example, and rural landed gentry and other elites seethe that even though they are relatively wealthy and even dominate local politics they still don't have the cool or "cultured" factor. What makes the millionaire rancher of montana, billionaire oilman of texas, or realtor of florida seethe at Los Angeles, Hollywood, tenured professors of art, and woke university students, baristas, etc.?

Seething at the urban haute bourgeoisie, getting mad that coastal hipsters are oppressing christianity with their smugness and coolness until enough prageru calvinist oil barons fund enough propaganda to finally convince a generation of young people that sex, drugs, and loud music is actually bad and conservatism is the new punk rock. This is why they cheer so hard at "California is declining" or whatever bullshit, its the domestic version of China collapse porn but for "cultural capital" not actual economics.

It's very fun to laugh at the USA for getting knee deep into decay thanks to bad regulation of car companies and landlords that bankrupted every city and sent millions into abject poverty. However, being aware that this can and is happening to places that aren't like Alberta, that don't have any provincial drive to avoid the decay that comes with car centric urban design is horrifying.

Imagine spending years of your life trying your hardest to find the best job, help out your community and more just to end up homeless and stuck in a city that looks like it was a recent site of armed conflict. Not as a result of anything you did but the realities of capitalism destroying any opportunities in life you once had. That's not fair to anyone here, especially the poor and mentally ill that don't have the resources to simply leave to somewhere better. It's horrifying just to think about. At least strathcona county and Montreal will always be pleasant here

The struggle for communism is not just a political struggle. It is a cosmological and ontological struggle for elevating the chaotic and non-teleologic self replication of capital to the orderly and rational unity of the multiplicity of the political world-body, in harmony with the One-Good, or more accurately, in an asindotic tendecy towards-and-through it. Under the realization of communism, government will no longer reflect a non-united multiplicity of contradictory interests, manifesting in forms such as rethorical discourse and strategic non-cooperative behaviour: it will become a matter of technical and rational management by the wise, and there will no longer be budgets, only problem solving, because value will no longer need to be abstracted and subsequently materialized in a zero sum game to account for the multiplicity and discordance of particular interests. Thus, we will advance to a superior ontological status, just as chemical phenomena developed into biological phenomena, because our multiplicity-element will be increasingly resemblant to the One-Good principle.

Let us be meat for the real and effectual embodiment of the World-Soul!!!! The World-Soul must be incarnated!!! Uphold marxism-platonism!!!!

What are the arguments against simply nationalizing large corporations such as Amazon (and smaller companies) and making them adherent to a council of planers and their quotas whose purpose is centered around meeting the population’s needs? These companies and corporations will be adapted to the socialist enterprise as much as is necessary while utilizing the methodology, machinery and infrastructure already in place as provided by the kind billionaires, who by then will have already perished in Minecraft.

HOW DID THEY SUCCESSFULLY LIE SO HARD ABOUT THIS MAN?

AND WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THOSE LIES?

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1946/03/x01.htm

TOWARDS the middle of March, 1946, a “Pravda” correspondent requested J. V. Stalin to clarify a number of questions connected with Mr. Churchill’s speech at Fulton, U.S.A. Below are J. V. Stalin’s replies to the correspondent’s questions.

Question: How do you appraise Mr. Churchill’s latest speech in the United States of America?

Answer: I appraise it as a dangerous act, calculated to sow the seeds of dissension among the Allied States and impede their collaboration.

Question: Can it be considered that Mr. Churchill’s speech is prejudicial to the cause of peace and security?

Answer: Yes, unquestionably. As a matter of fact, Mr. Churchill now takes the stand of the warmongers, and in this Mr. Churchill is not alone. He has friends not only in Britain but in the United States of America as well.
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Chilean Women Remember the Victims of the Pinochet Dictatorship
"The women of Chile, once again, as always, teaching us all a lesson," President Gabriel Boric said through social networks. Convened by the "Women for Never Again" platform, this symbolic act was the prelude to the massive commemorations that will take place to remember the assassination of President Salvador Allende on Sept. 11, 1973, when the military bombed La Moneda palace. This coup d'état began a cruel 17-year dictatorship that left over 40,000 victims of torture, disappearances, and detentions. Among them there are at least 3,200 murdered Chileans.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Chilean-Women-Remember-the-Victims-of-the-Pinochet-Dictatorship-20230911-0004.html

UCV students reject the arrest of John Álvarez
The Federation of Student Centers of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), accompanied by the relatives of John Alvarezrejected the arrest of the young man who has been deprived of liberty since Monday, September 4 In a press conference, which they offered in Plaza Venezuela, the students raised their voices to denounce the imprisonment of the Anthropology student. “John is just another young man, he is just another Ucevista, a student who is worried about the situation in his country and all he wants is to have a prosperous and better Venezuela. He was just fighting like thousands of Ucevistas do every day, for That is why we denounce his arbitrary detention,” said Jesús Mendoza, president of the FCU-UCV.
https://euro.eseuro.com/local/975097.html
https://archive.ph/pbXg1

Gaza exports to Israel resume as crossing reopens
On Sunday morning the Kerem Shalom gateway was reopened, said Raed Fattouh, head of the Presidential Committee for the Coordination of Goods, which is affiliated to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party. "Several trucks, including one loaded with readymade clothes and others loaded with scrap iron, entered the crossing this morning and headed towards the Israeli side," he told AFP.
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The evaluation of Stalin’s merits and demerits would at first seem to be a matter of measuring a historical figure, a question with a definitive conclusion, but in reality, it is deeply linked to a series of ongoing issues in today’s struggle.

In the final analysis, it’s a question of life and death between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie – between socialism and capitalism – where one side must triumph over the other, and this must not be minimised.

First, the complete negation of Stalin is in essence the ideological assault of western hostile forces aiming to subvert the socialist regime. The vigorous development of the Soviet Union and the world’s socialist movement at large caused fear and anxiety in the capitalist world; capitalists feared that the Marxist doctrine of “>scientific socialism was everywhere materialising.

The demonisation of Stalin was a covert means to undermine the success of scientific socialism, and an important means for the west to succeed in the ‘battle for hearts and minds’. After the second world war, US-led western hostile forces attempted to gain a competitive advantage over socialism through rapid technological, economic and social development, inaugurating the cold war between capitalism and socialism.

The anti-Stalinist movement catered to the needs of US-led western hostile forces, disrupting socialism in the midst of turmoil, and opening a big gap in the ideological field of the already-consolidated socialist camp, the inevitable outcome of which was the growing ideological and political chaos in socialist countries, with various contradictions and conflicts growing in prominence.

Second, the complete negation of Stalin in essence substitutes the class interests of the bourgeoisie for the class interests of the proletariat and the masses of the people. In the present era, the masses of people, led by the proletariat, are the real force of social and historical development – the masters and subjects of history, the creators of all material and spiritual wealth in society, and the agents of social change.

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How bad will be the shock therapy 2.0 this guy is planning to impose on Argentina ? Will it be worse than the Russian one ? Will he manage to hold on to power after the widespread discontent his policies will unleash on Argentinian society which will make the current problems the country is facing seem like good ol days ?

>small brain: anything other than class is idpol
>medium brain: we can't form a united front against capital until working class people stop marginalizing each other over their identities. fixing idpol issues is good because it unites the working class.
>large brain: actually the ruling class should be as bigoted and divided over idpol as possible while the working class should be as united and unbigoted as possible. this will ensure unity and victory over our enemies. therefore bigotry is good when ruling class people do it to each other.
This is the secret sauce to the "idpol" discourse. All efforts to remove bigotry from our society have been bourgeois efforts to incorporate more marginalized groups into their class. We must not only do better than them, but get them to do worse and be more bigoted towards each other. That way the bourgeoisie stab each other in the back and marginalized bourgeoisie become class traitors, like Engels.