/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Who would have thought that the politics of the entire 20th and 21st centuries would have revolved around these two men.
Imagine telling Marx that there were gonna be millions of Lasalles calling themselves Marxists.
Imagine telling Hitler that there were gonna be millions of ᴉuᴉlossnWs calling themselves communist.

>/pol/ """revealed""" to be astroturfed hypocritical garbage this has been known for over a decade
>for some reason now some of them are coming over here and flooding the catalog with garbage shitpost OPs
>all the good posters are outside helping real people because the point is to change it
Well, I'm off to flyer for my union. Be back in a couple of days, hope you fuckers educate the libs by the time I'm back

A new merch drop from Hakim, Ugopnik and SecondThought.
With Lenin passing you a cigarette. Do I really need to explain why that's a horrible imagery? I'll do just in case.

Cigarette companies are the worst example of capitalism. Was one of the building stones for me becoming socialist. They used every possible scheme to intentionally get people addicted to their poison and acquire "lifelong clients". No one was off the table: men, women, children, elderly. They bribed doctors, made up with fake data and research, promoted their poison in tv and movies, payed celebrities, hooked up soldiers, infiltrated feminist movements and on and on and on. Worst part? They admit to it now but still do it in poorer countries to this very day. "Tobacco causes approximately 8 million deaths annually worldwide, with over 7 million resulting from direct tobacco smoking and roughly 1.2 to 1.3 million resulting from non-smokers being exposed to secondhand smoke. It is a leading cause of preventable death, killing up to half of its users." (Source: W.H.O.)
This isn't several decades ago, this is happening NOW. To this day they still try to get a grip on people. Promoting it as cool, mature and sexy.

I'm not saying that one meme t-shirt will cause people to start smoking but it will plant seeds of positive perception about smoking in them. And slowly with each movie, each meme, each celebrity smoking people will be subconsciously pushed towards it. That's how the cigarette companies pushed it through Hollywood before.
As a content creator with a large audience it is extremely important to pay attention to what imagery you're promoting on your platform. Indirectly promoting one of the worst sins of capitalism for a coin is horrible and hypocritical.

I'm disgusted.

How far back did he send American leftist movements? Before him Jimmy Carter was talking about more programs, working with the USSR and socialism lite equivalents. Then Ronald Regan comes in, introduces crack, reignites the red scare and perma fucks all relationships with leftist ideology. To the point where the Democrats regressed hard and socialism would be a dirty word until the 2020s. Even then it’s still only used by the most radical mainstream politics.

Trump is about to drive Canada and Europe into China's arms over this greenland shit in which case China will have the majority of trade on every continent even north america outside the US.

This is basically happening as we speak with Canadian PM Mark Carney openly welcoming Chinese auto manufacturing into Canada.

Now that China will have overwhelmingly won the trade war against the USA and will be the primary trade power in south america, north america (minus USA), western europe, eastern europe, the middle east, africa and asia.

Given that, when can we expect China to implement global socialism?

Why did european socialists surrender their nationalist credentials to a bunch of we wuzing porno addict larpers post 1989?
>In the 40 years of People's Poland, we became an industrialised, urbanised, maritime country. The western and northern lands were reclaimed and developed. Revolutionary reforms and socialist transformations freed society from social injustice, unemployment and illiteracy."
>On 29 July Stalin asked Bolesław Bierut, the head of the Soviet-aligned Polish government, to accept in consideration of the large American concessions. The Polish delegation decided to accept a boundary of the administration zone at "somewhere between the western Neisse and the Kwisa". Later that day the Poles changed their mind: "Bierut, accompanied by Rola-Zymierski, returned to Stalin and argued against any compromise with the Americans. Stalin told his Polish protégés that he would defend their position at the conference."

spaceflight doesn't seem very popular among leftists recently. what does /leftypol/ think about it? are the moon and mars just playthings for billionaires? will china do anything differently? is socialist thought relevant to future lives beyond earth or is it all just a scifi obsession?

>"Soviet Union would achieve the full communism in 1980!"

Was Khruschev delusional, or was he a liar who knew he wouldn't have to answer for his words in 1980 due to being dead from old age?

Reading Lenin's works in order is one of the most depressing things. By 1922 he basically admitted that the Soviet Union's state apparatus is a "bourgeois and tsarist hotch-potch" and he previously described it as a state taken away (not smashed) from tsarism and "slightly anointed with Soviet oil."

<It is said that a united apparatus was needed. Where did that assurance come from? Did it not come from that same Russian apparatus which, as I pointed out in one of the preceding sections of my diary, we took over from tsarism and slightly anointed with Soviet oil?
<There is no doubt that that measure should have been delayed somewhat until we could say that we vouched for our apparatus as our own. But now, we must, in all conscience, admit the contrary; the apparatus we call ours is, in fact, still quite alien to us; it is a bourgeois and tsarist hotch-potch and there has been no possibility of getting rid of it in the course of the past five years without the help of other countries and because we have been "busy" most of the time with military engagements and the fight against famine.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/autonomy.htm