/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

6 Federal Prosecutors Resign as Trump DOJ Pushes for Investigation Into Renee Good’s Wife
A top prosecutor in the US attorney’s office in Minnesota who for years oversaw a major fraud investigation in the state was among six federal prosecutors who resigned Tuesday as the Trump administration demanded they investigate Becca Good, the widow of the Minneapolis resident who was killed by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last week.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minnesota-fraud-investigation

EPA proposes limiting power of states and tribes to block major projects over water concerns
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting states’ and Native American tribes’ power to wield the Clean Water Act to block major projects like natural gas pipelines, advancing the Trump administration’s goal of accelerating the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure and data centers.
https://apnews.com/article/water-trump-epa-section-401-data-centers-42716f21a37cadf624e2d7dee05fa3c3

Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions
Last year homes burned more gas for heating while the use of coal surged by 13% to meet rising electricity demands, the data finds. Although solar power also shot up last year, overall, greenhouse gas emissions went up by 2.4% after two years of decreases, outpacing the level of economic growth, according to estimates from the Rhodium Group. The authors say the policies of the Trump administration didn't "meaningfully impact" the rise in emissions but they expect this to change in the coming years.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9r3832j47o

LA Protester Permanently Blinded After DHS Agent Unloads ‘Nonlethal’ Round Into His Face
A young protester in Santa Ana is permanently blind in one eye after being hit in the face at close range by a “nonlethal” round fired by a Department of Homeland Security agent last week amid nationwide protests against an immigration agent’s killinPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tudeh Party of Iran, Iran on the Brink of Potentially Devastating Transformations: The Urgent Need for Immediate Action to Save the Country from Dictatorship
It must be stated clearly once again that the outbreak of the current protest uprising and its expansion over the past 15 days are rooted directly in the rapid spread of poverty, inequality, and blatant injustice, as well as corruption and the wealth accumulation of a small minority as a result of the government’s economic policies over the past three decades—not in demands for the return of monarchy or the restoration of royal rule. Moreover, alongside the heroic struggle of hundreds of thousands of people against despotism and class oppression, it is evident that certain organized elements and groups, through acts of sabotage and violence, are attempting to pave the way for direct intervention by the United States and its allies in the course of the current protests. In this way, the catastrophic consequences of the ruling theocratic regime’s domestic policies, combined with the devastating impact of U.S. sanctions on people’s lives and livelihoods, have placed the country today in an extremely difficult situation. Imperialist media outlets, once again relying on their vast resources and capabilities, have launched propaganda campaigns and disseminated fabricated narratives aimed at restoring the monarchy. They are attempting to ride the wave of the people’s legitimate protests and divert the anti-dictatorship movement from its true path. On the one hand, these media provide an excuse for regime leaders to label the people’s protest uprising as the work of the United States and Israel; on the other hand, by exaggerating monarchist currents, they seek to create obstacles in the process of building unity and practical coordination among progressive and national forces.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/Tudeh-Party-of-Iran-Iran-on-the-Brink-of-Potentially-Devastating-Transformations-The-Urgent-Need-for-Immediate-Action-to-Save-the-Country-from-Dictatorship/

TKP-ML IB: We salute the struggle of the Iranian people!
Protests that began in Iran on 28 December and quickly spread across the countryPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Loads of Somali scammers uncovered in Sweden.

Also, Nick Shirley is set to testify in front of Congress next week.

tybna

>>2644669
>Suspended from work
>UAW does nothing
Organize bros, I don't feel so good…

>>2644816
>muh consoooomerism
pseud
https://marxisthumanistinitiative.org/the-left-and-the-masses-the-question-of-consumerism
https://redsails.org/the-negation-of-abnegation/

>>2645399
i didn't use the word consumerism in that post

>>2644010
ya know once you type it out like that I can understand why all this talk of technofeudalism is in vogue even if this just a particular model of neoliberalism. The one silverlining with the reactoid gun hoarders is a lot of them forgot to hoard the supplies necessary for food and water or actually learn much of anything about bushcraft or survivalism past gun ownership. the anti-silver lining of that is if shit hits the fan these people will probably just murderhobo with the police.

>>2644400
I spent nearly a year being homeless. Go sell you fucking blood and stop internet begging. Might be good for you to go outside for a while, get some context to life.

>>2619217
In my opinion this was a mistake. No consumer based light industry was built and the quality of life of USSR citizens was low as a result.

>>2619217
China is a very different society in a very different position. There was already a powerful and concentrated proletariat in Russia and that made it possible for it to create a class situation where the peasantry's petty bourgeois impulses weren't entertained as much. The peasantry itself also had a very long-standing communal culture that was only broken up relatively recently and that process was still going on, if in the last phases, in fact it was one of the reasons Bolsheviks took power. Chinese peasants had thousands of years of private property so that's not as easy to snuff out in a short amount of time. Soviet Union itself went along with different solutions in countries like Poland because that's the point of local parties, they adapt to local conditions.
That's not to mention the very different external situation. China managed to infiltrate the capitalist camp, "market socialism" could only provide the growth it did because of the relationship between China and imperialist powers. Very few socialist countries have that opportunity, Cuba and North Korea would have probably preferred to have the kind of relationship it has with the west but they are not given the choice. Neither was Soviet Union given a choice at any point in time and even with all the revisionist wrecking and capitalist destruction countries like Russia or Belarus still have a higher GDP PPP per capita (won't for long of course, but people should keep Chinese achievement in context).
The Soviet model is generally far better and far more applicable to most countries but China had an opportunity to industrialize in a different way and crush western production while at it, that's awesome and we should all be glad they did it.
>>2614940
No, it was a unique situation. China is a very unique country in many regards. Also people tend to overstate how important the market is in China or was during NEP, the party still always has the final say and does anything it deems fit like crashing the housing market on purpose and no doubt pissing tens to a hundred million antiproletarian elements that bought several apartments for the sole purpose of storing wealth.

>>2619124
>the least
its not a problem. it doesnt exist.

>>2619216
>innovation (already addressed) incentives (not addressed)
like many pro capitalist arguments that devolve into "not real capitalism" when faced with reality, these models expect an ideal market that not only surely does not exist in the age of imperialism with monopolies, never actually existed historically either. monopoly capitalism also does not provide for innovation or inventives

This is still my magnum opus.

>>2615032
>Communism requires a certain mode of production you super retard
A communist society, the end goal of communism, does.
Communism, the movement, does not imply the immediate, magical transformation of a society's MoP. Absolute idealism.

ACKsis status?

>>2620808
>>2620828
>>2620842
>>2620881
I don't know who you think you're fooling.

>>2643314
That looks like the guy who contacted Iran to get the green light for war on terror

dead islamist = working class victory

Simple as

>last time I bought silver it was at $24/oz
>gold was at $1900/oz
my stack is appreciating nicely in value

>>2643483
They ran out of arguments but are desperate to feel like they won the discussion

>>2643527
>people really thought he had some kind of ace up his sleeve when he encouraged the people to protest
Bibi

>>2643586
Funny when your only rebuttal to theory is "I feel otherwise" lol >>2643462

>>2643527
2000 to 12000 to even 20000 reported

Doesn’t Iran have big riots every few years that never amount to anything. Why is this one any different.

>>2643337
Basically meaningless question.
Stupid shit.

the whole confusion around individualism and collectivism comes from the intuitive difficulties which arise from the following state of affairs: an organism is a contained and self reproducing metabolism; a collection of chemical catalysts and templates that catalyze and constrain reactions which produce more of the same catalysts and templates and so on. you've got micro-organisms and you've got macro-organisms. macro-organisms are composed of micro-organisms that in some way mutually depend on each other to complete their respective metabolic logistical circuits. a society is a large macro-organism composed of large individual micro-organisms called people. people are macro-organisms composed of anatomic and cellular micro-organisms.

you can see the tension working when you think about thatcher's old quote "there is no such thing as society. there are individual men and women, and there are families". it's been talked to death as the watch words of individual-atomistic neoliberalism, but what's instructive is that she has to almost immediately concede a macro-organic reality in the form of the family. it is impossible for even the most radical liberal idealogue to honestly or coherently conceive of individual humans totally abstracted from sociality, because all people come into the world dependent upon other people, and the perpetuation of any population is the perpetual production of new dependents. the ideal of liberal individualism is an ideological product of universal commodity exchange. the notion that there are only individuals and families engaged in voluntary mutual exchange is only plausible to people in social conditions which obfuscate and commodify collective relations of interdependence.

consider the possibility that climate change decimates global agricultural output to the point that people are collectively only socially capable of producing enough food to feed 90% of the current world population. the obviously resulting famine deaths should illustrate the collective reality of society well enough. at human scales, individuals cannot persist without the collectives that generate and constrain them.

>>2643337
Collectivism and Individualism are not seperate things, yet alone mutually exclusive. If one shall die in the name of their 'nation' (or something else) , it is because the idea holds a domain over their mind, why is it individualism when one strives for endless wealth but it is 'collectivism' when someone dies in a crusade or something in the name of a god, accounting that the idea of that is somehow pleasant for them.

collectivism vs individualism is a false dichotomy, similar to the false dichotomy of authoritarian vs libertarian

>>2643529
had that happen to some kid at sunday school. They got a new priest after that.

Steven Crowder has a stream up right now called "Yes, it's time for Tribalism," which could mean nothing.

Free will is not a thing anyway.

>>2643644
un-marxist vulgar materialism.

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language."

in dialectical materialism, there is a dialogue, or dialectic, between the mind and the material world; marx does not reject the existence of the mental aspect of reality, rather by 'turning Hegel on his head' he simply assigns the material aspect of reality the greater share of causal power, it is an imbalanced relationship in favor of the material over the mental, without completely discounting the mental.

>>2643730
I didnt say people dont learn. They learn. But free will is not a thing.

>>2606020
Least funny filipino drama

lmao pretty funny

Fwd from @
📝Explosions in Thailand📝
Militants are active again in the southern provinces

Just as fighting on the Thai-Cambodian border had subsided, Bangkok authorities faced security problems in another border region.

Early Sunday morning in three southern Thai provinces predominantly populated by Muslim Malays, 11 gas stations were blown up within 40 minutes.

🔻What is known about the attack?

▪️Five bombs went off in Narathiwat province, four in Yala province, and two in Pattani.

▪️The attacks were carried out by several groups of five to eight militants on motorcycles. They placed homemade explosive devices weighing about 5 kg each near gas stations.

▪️At some gas stations with shops, militants forced staff to leave the premises at gunpoint and then set them on fire.
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>>2619391
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Thousands of nurses go on strike in New York City
Almost 15,000 nurses walked off the job in New York City, demanding better working conditions, marking the largest nurses’ strike in the city’s history as contract negotiations failed to gain traction. Workers walked off the job early on Monday morning across three private hospital systems in the largest city in the US, Mount Sinai, Montefiore and NewYork-Presbyterian.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/1/12/thousands-of-nurses-go-on-strike-in-new-york-city
https://archive.ph/Rq4Bf

Minnesota and the Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop the immigration crackdown
Minnesota and its two largest cities sued the Trump administration Monday to try to stop an immigration enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by a federal officer and evoked outrage and protests across the country. The state, joined by Minneapolis and St. Paul, said the Department of Homeland Security is violating the First Amendment and other constitutional protections. The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order to halt the enforcement action or limit the operation.
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-immigration-sweeps-6ae64be5a0d6a718b658a938fb56e567

Peter Thiel makes $3m donation to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax
The ballot proposal, called 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, is still in the beginning stages of gathering the 900,000 signatures needed for it to go to voters in November. If voted into law, it would levy a one-time, 5% tax on anyone in the state worth more than $1bn and grant a five-year period for payment. Thiel would owe the state roughly $1.3bn based on his current net worth.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/peter-thiel-donation-california-billionaire-tax

Pennsylvania Dems squeeze Shapiro as he eyPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tudeh Party of Iran, Long live the dynamic, encompassing, and heroic uprising of the Iranian people against the dictatorship of Ali Khamenei
The popular protest uprising, which began with protests and strikes in Tehran's bazaar, has rapidly spread over the past 13 days to dozens of cities and towns across the country and now poses a major challenge to the ruling dictatorship. Contrary to the claims of the ruling dictator, this popular protest movement is not a creation of US imperialism or the genocidal Israeli regime, but rather the direct result of the disastrous economic policies of the ruling grand-capitalist system, and the widespread corruption, insecurity, and sweeping oppression imposed upon the nation by the leaders of the regime and their collaborators. Throughout Iran's contemporary history - including during the more than half-century rule of the Pahlavi monarchy [1925 - 1979] - we have borne witness to countless other examples of such oppression, corruption, plunder, as well as the eventual fate of the regimes responsible.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/Tudeh-Party-of-Iran-Long-live-the-dynamic-encompassing-and-heroic-uprising-of-the-Iranian-people-against-the-dictatorship-of-Ali-Khamenei/

Under Imperialism, there is no “International Law”
The widespread claim that recent imperialist bluntness, epitomized by the Trump doctrine, has “destroyed international law” rests on a false premise: that such a law ever existed as a binding, neutral framework above imperialism. From a Marxist-Leninist standpoint, this belief is not an error of detail but a fundamental ideological illusion. Imperialism has never been restrained by international law. On the contrary, what is called “international law” has always been a secondary product of imperialist relations, tolerated only insofar as it served monopoly interests and discarded whenever it ceased to do so. The present moment, marked by open treaty violations, contempt for institutions, and unapologetic coercion, does not signal a descent into barbarism. It signals the collapse of the ideological form through which barbarism was previously administered. Any serious discussion must begin with the MarxistPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Wow gustavo sold out

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