/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

We're so close to the finish line that I'd argue everyone should be an accelerationist at this point.
Once the rate of profit reaches zero there'll just be different kinds of socialism and that's it.
However I don't agree that everyone being hungry leads to more innovation though.

Are there any anarchists besides Noam Chomsky that don't "both sides" the issue of Western imperialism and its proxy wars? I have sympathy with anarchism but every single modern figure disappoints me with their views on Ukraine, Syria etc.

I don't want this thread to center on Chomsky or his imperfections.

I want to learn other anarchists figures exist who share Chomsky's "tankie-esque" views on geopolitics.

How do we overcome language barriers and prevent confusion between the proletarians? Not just between different languages, but also between dialects of a single language, or even between political tendencies, or even inside of the same political tendency. For example, in Stalin's lifetime, the meaning of "social democracy" changed. In 1906 you have Stalin saying this:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm

>[…] an organisation is needed that will rally around itself the class-conscious elements of the workers of all trades, that will transform the proletariat into a conscious class and make it its chief aim to smash the capitalist system, to prepare for the socialist revolution. Such an organisation is the Social-Democratic Party of the proletariat. This Party must be a class party, and it must be quite independent of other parties—and this is because it is the party of the proletarian class, the emancipation of which can be brought about only by this class itself. This Party must be a revolutionary party—and this because the workers can be emancipated only by revolutionary means, by means of the socialist revolution.

This would imply that social-democracy is a good thing. But by the end of Stalin's life time, it was seen as a reformist movement by Marxist-Leninists, leading Stalin to say:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/09/20.htm

>Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. FaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I see stalin less as "a bad guy" and more as a regular aboveaverage autism score joe who got handed a bad situation and tried to hold onto it with ruthlessness and also tried to make the best out of it given the situation Russia was in. The great purge happened right before world war 2. He did that to avoid any further trotskys from going rogue and backstabbing all the republics for their own ego or personal gains when they were about to be the primary target of the biggest war in human history. You have to put yourself in stalin's shoes and imagine how you would govern the Earth's first large scale socialist project which is an experimental thing, it's being blockaded by all the bourgeoisie countries, the nazi party is in party as well as loads of other fascist parties, you got internal wreckers ala trotsky everywhere. The party is acting similar to a high school girl's club etc. It was a big shitshow for stalin

On The lumpenization of the proles, the proletarianization of the petit bourgeoisie, and the cannibalization of revolutionary potential by downward mobility, and lack of morale

in order to reach a critical mass of class consciousness in the imperial core, I am starting to believe that it is necessary for the petit bourgeoisie to be almost entirely cannibalized by the haute bourgeoisie, ruined, and proletarianized. I'm talking every small town laundromat gets replaced with some Software-As-A-Service digital franchise with zero employees where you swipe your card to do the laundry. I'm talking no more affordable vending machines. I'm talking no more local restaurants. I'm talking no more family owned grocery stores and bodegas. Total petit bourgeois proletarianization. The problem is, the petit bourgeoisie, as stalin pointed out, will carry with them their reactionary attitude at first. It will lag behind their material condition. In the time it takes their attitude to catch up with their class position, they will be ripe for fascist radicalization. Raging against their loss of status. And on top of that, they will swell the ranks of the reserve army of labor, happily scabbing, happily licking boot, desperate to get jobs, and happy to betray the collective organizing of the people who have been proletarian their whole lives. In the same way as there is an intra-bourgeois conflict between "old money" and "new money", there is a conflict between "old proles" and "new proles." The ruined petit bourgeois who must become prole again is a "new prole" and he carries with him the reactionary attitudes and entitlements. He will scab. He will strike break. He will seek out sinecures. If he joins a union at all, he will choose a conservative bourgeois-collaborationist union. He will choose craft consciousness over class consciousness. He will try to limit the radicalization of others. But worst of all, the observation I haven't even gotten to yet, the one that got me to right this: He will push downwardly mobile proles into lumpenproles. In the same way as the petit-bourgeois gets proletarianized, the proletariat gets lumpenized. They end up homeless, criminals, vagabonds, addicts. And because the proletariat gets lumpenized, and the petit bourgeois gets proletarianized, the lower classes, collectively, get turned like a steaming compost pile, ripe soil for the bourgeoisie to grow profits from. The proletariat cannot become conscioPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

How soon will the Taiwan crisis erupt into open war? It can't be too long, right? I'm giving it half a year at most. Does anyone have some materialist analysis to share in brief? What's the Marxist or Communist position on this conflict? How does it tie in with the larger trend of dedollarization, decoupling and multipolarity?

I’ve noticed many reactionaries and xenophobes alike try as hard as they can to shove as many slurs and swears into every sentence they throw out. It’s like they’re trying to prove to someone about how xenophobic they’re even if no one is there for approval that’ll never arrive, unsurprisingly when their language is criticized they tend to get shaken up and defensive, like they’re being exposed about something embarrassing.

“Long night of horror” ends for Colombian trade union movement
In a symbolic act, the Colombian government on Thursday recognized the trade union movement as a recepient of collective reparation after more than three decades of persecution and stigmatization. Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in front of trade unionists from all over the country, announced the creation of a high-level commission that will include ministers and workers’ delegates to draw up a plan that will lead to truth, reparation and non repetition.
https://www.laprensalatina.com/long-night-of-horror-ends-for-colombian-trade-union-movement/

Dominican Republic President Orders Border Closure With Haiti
On Thursday, the president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, decreed the closure of the maritime, air and land border with neighboring Haiti as of 6:00 am (local time) on and has ordered the Army, Navy and Air Force to be ready to comply with the provision. "The Haitian government itself has control problems in its territory. If there are uncontrollables there, they will be uncontrollable for the Haitian government, but they will not be uncontrollable for the government of the Dominican Republic," said Abinader.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Dominican-Republic-President-Orders-Border-Closure-With-Haiti-20230914-0014.html

Train drivers announce fresh strike to coincide with Tory party conference
TRAIN drivers have announced fresh strikes in their long-running pay dispute that will coincide with the Tories’ annual conference and hit services at 16 privateer rail companies. Drivers’ union Aslef accused rail operators today of making proposals on pay that they knew would be rejected.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/train-drivers-announce-fresh-strike-coincide-tory-conference

German health workforce strategy depends on nursing drain from India
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On one hand I realize the material conditions at play, and I sympathize with them for escaping terrible situations, but on the other hand I know they'll most likely integrate poorly, crime rates will inevitably go up, they won't work, and they'll get government benefits for it. I feel conflicted, I want to help these people but when I think about my own country that's still very much homogoneous, (Eastern Europe), I can't help but wish for it to stay that way, something about Africans being half the population just doesn't sit right with me. Am I spooked or just a bad person?(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST: ID/POL/)