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ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
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Questa è la prima sconfitta netta per il governo melonaro. Le altre volte c'era sempre una scusa - "erano solo regionali/comunali" o cose del genere. Stavolta c'è stato un voto nazionale, secco, o una cosa o l'altra.
Non mi interessa la latrina dei commenti in televisione, ma non ho dubbi che la compagine governativa alzerà il volume del piagnisteo: se "I GIUDICI NUN ME FANNO GOVERNÀÀÀÀÀ!!! LI MORTACCI LORO!!!" è stato il grido di battaglia in questa campagna referendaria, allora c'è da prendere atto che nel prossimo anno e mezzo - se c'arriva… - nun la faranno governà proprio… Che senso ha, allora, restare aggrappata alla poltrona? Dimissioni, scioglimento immediato delle camere e nuove elezioni entro la fine di maggio. Del resto è un calendario e un periodo dell'anno perfettamente ragionevole per farlo. Indubbiamente meglio delle ultime elezioni legislative a settembre - campagna elettorale in piena estate e rincorsa ancora più raffazzonata del solito per approvare la legge di bilancio in tempo subito dopo.
Intendiamoci: un ipotetico "campo largo" al governo sarebbe l'ennesima iattura. E quei fenomeni sono perfettamente capaci di buttare al vento la possibilità di riprendere l'iniziativa e passare all'attacco. Intanto, non vedo come il governo melonaro possa ancora vantare credito politico per portare avanti l'altro suo piatto forte: er premierato all'amatriciana. Un pastrocchio che solo per quanto è contorto merita di essere bocciato senza starci a sprecare neanche due minuti ad approfondirne i dettagli. E teniamo anche conto che anche con una maggioranza parlamentare ampia e confortevole, c'hanno messo tre anni per concludere l'iter parlamentare di questa fallita riforma del CSM. In teoria, se volessero, potrebbe andare di corsa e realisticamente avere le due approvazioni entro la fine di quest'anno, ma poi il referendum ci sarebbe inevitabilmente nel 2027, quando comunque, o in primavera o in autunno, la legislatura finirà e ci saranno nuove elezioni. Siamo in mano a manigoldi, incapaci e svitati e, anche se la prossima maggioranza sarà di "colore" diverso, la situazione purtroppo non cambierà.

Italian leftist cinema mogs hard

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>>2752006
L'hanno presa bene.

>Dimissioni, scioglimento immediato delle camere e nuove elezioni entro la fine di maggio. Del resto è un calendario e un periodo dell'anno perfettamente ragionevole per farlo. Indubbiamente meglio delle ultime elezioni legislative a settembre - campagna elettorale in piena estate e rincorsa ancora più raffazzonata del solito per approvare la legge di bilancio in tempo subito dopo.

Il rischio è GROSSO. Siamo in un periodo che richiede stabilità e un eventuale crisi di governo, ora come ora, premierebbe l'opposizione. Probabilmente meglio aspettare la fine della legislatura o quando si saranno comunque calmate le acque. Farlo ora con i prezzi in salita e la guerra all'orizzonte è un rischio troppo grossi per quelli lì.

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Fcking moffinists



 

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>>2707019
I guess you can check for the presence of a signal, it likely means something

>>2703819
is there even anything interesting from it?

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Even without breaking encryption, you can monitor signal traffic, patterns, volume, timing to anticipate activity, identify surges before they materialize. For those willing to operate at a more aggressive level, there are other vectors. A family member who can be persuaded to join the group who uses the radio channel you want the encryption key for. Or, if you happen to uncover evidence that a keyholder has been unfaithful to their spouse, you may find that person suddenly very eager to provide the encryption key via email. Compromise is a currency that spends regardless of ideology, profession or power. The right private investigator does not ask why you need to know the information in detail. There's many who operate on You pay, I deliver. Infidelity is a vulnerability that crosses all lines, and there are professionals who make it their business to find it, and document it with ease, and they do it for anyone willing to write the check. You just need to know where to look. The pitch to a private investigator is straightforward - "I am a friend of hers. I do not trust her husband. He has a dangerous job, let us say he occupies a position that gives him policing leverage, and she is too afraid to look into him herself. I am doing this for her. It needs to stay quiet; it is a high‑risk subject." PIs hear variations on this constantly. They rarely ask deeper questions. It will help if you have an older straight laced female act as a proxy to interact with the PI.

If the target is not actively cheating, there are ways to accelerate the situation if you are unhinged and skilled enough. Locate escorts who work near the bars he frequents. Befriend them. Establish a regular presence. Study his routines, his interests, his patterns. Find an escort who can mirror those interests, let chance encounters become something more, like the scene in cable guy. Let the plot unfold. Then the private investigator gathers the evidence. None of this is beyond reach for someone with moderate resources and social savvy. It is simply another form of reconnaissance, one that turns the subject's own vulnerabilities into a lever for power.

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It depends who's comms you gain access to. If you have full access you can hear whatever group is using it, like this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpI4C7bvdGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37jZ-8s14VE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmK_l1nc2A4


As E-40 said, "Ears to the scanner, yup!". If the police scanners offer useful, or interesting info at times, I'm sure the groups that use higher levels of encryption definitely get juicy at times. There's a lot going on right now, we are monitoring the situation in multiple cities, give a listen. Youtube removes these at times, but software will bot it right back up with another account.

This site is usually decent if you dont have your own software or hardware -

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/

>>2752754

The best part of the "anarchist running the communications center" story is what the feds carried out when they raided his home. Beyond the stacks of zines, they carefully removed a massive circle‑A poster and then, right beside it, a Stalin tapestry. Talk about highly cultured!



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What does /leftypol/ think of cynical realism? It seems to be an artistic movement in China, and many of the name associated with it live there (in the mainland), but when I asked deepseek about it, it's censorship got triggered and it refuses to give me more information about it.
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>>2748955

The hippie counterculture, for all its aesthetic rebellion, remained largely a phenomenon of the petite-bourgeoisie students, artists, dropouts with enough cushion to romanticize communal living. Its politics dissolved into lifestyle, its radicalism into commodity, its opposition into the very consumerism it claimed to reject. The genuine working-class counterculture of that era took harder forms. Skinheads emerged from the industrial slums of Britain and the factory towns of the American Rust Belts, working-class youth who dressed in work boots and braces because those were the clothes of their fathers, who fought on terraces and streets because the state had already marked them as surplus. Their politics were often crude, sometimes self-destructive, but they were rooted in material conditions, not pastoral fantasy. Hip hop rose from the burned-out blocks of the Bronx, giving voice to a generation that the counterculture had never thought to include. Hardcore music followed the same trajectory, the suburbs and cities where kids had no future, no safety net, and nothing to lose. These were not movements that performed rebellion for the cameras or festivals; they were movements born of places where rebellion was the only option left amongst the youth.

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I think everyone here criticizing this style is overthinking it, some kind of autistic american stalinist or maoist retards who get mad at everything. The style is exactly what it says - cynical realism, if you've got a problem with it its not because it is "bourgeois" or "reactionary" or "liberal" or "hippie".

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>>2752585
Aside from the skulls in OP and the 4th pic here, I'm struggling to see where the "cynical" part comes in play here. This seems quite whimsical actually. Reminds me of gnome hyperborea.

>>2752578

Anything I don't like is "reactionary" or "petite-bourgeois".



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Chileans mark World Water Day by protesting President Kast’s rollback of environmental rules
The decrees rolled back by Kast’s administration had been signed during the government of left-wing former Chilean leader Gabriel Boric, whom Kast replaced as president earlier this month. The demonstration, called by several environmental organizations under the slogan “Don’t ‘Kast-igate’ Nature,” drew thousands more participants in 15 cities across the country.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-water-day-president-kast-protest-755a101737bc52ef66417905b0835ea5

Mexico's coastal communities fear more crude contamination as spill source unclear
Residents along Mexico's Gulf Coast fear more crude oil will ​wash onto beaches in Tabasco and Veracruz states nearly a month after ‌the first signs of contamination were detected, as authorities investigate the source of the spill. The contamination has affected 230 km (143 miles) of shoreline and 39 communities in the two states, ​according to the Gulf of Mexico Reef Corridor Network, a coalition ​of fishing, Indigenous and environmental groups.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/mexicos-coastal-communities-fear-more-crude-contamination-spill-source-unclear-2026-03-20/

Evo Morales Denounces Candidates Proscription on Bolivia’s Regional Elections
In statements to the media, he also called on the population to participate. “I ask the Bolivian population to participate. Everyone has their candidates, whether they are from the left, right, the empire, the people, it is a personal right today,” he said. In recent hours, political organizations from the city of El Alto, neighboring La Paz, protested before the TSE for the removal of two mayoral candidates, among 18 candidates.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-denounces-candidates-proscription-on-bolivias-regional-elections/

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Child labor violations rise in US – as Republicans still roll back protections
The number of minors employed in violation of child labor laws increased from 1,012 children in fiscal year 2015 to 5,272 in fiscal year 2025, with 773 children illegally employed in hazardous occupations in 2025 compared to 355 in 2015.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/child-labor-protections-republicans

Judge cites ‘stand your ground’ law in clearing 3 more Florida officers in shooting of a UPS driver
Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra ruled that Miami-Dade police officers Richard Santiesteban, Leslie Lee and Rodolfo Mirabal — who had been charged with manslaughter in the death of UPS driver Frank Ordonez — could not be prosecuted because Florida’s “stand your ground” law justified the shooting. The same judge cleared officer Jose Mateo in September for the same reason.
https://apnews.com/article/ups-shooting-florida-67073c35de9ce537b825b3fd75991039

Bipartisan Senate bill would ban sports betting on online prediction markets
The bill follows several other state-level efforts to regulate marketplaces, which are overseen by a federal agency. On Friday, a Nevada judge temporarily banned most of Kalshi’s operations in the state for two weeks after the state filed a lawsuit against the company.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/23/bipartisan-senate-bill-sports-betting-ban

Kalshi and Polymarket rush to ban insider trading as senators move to curb prediction markets
Polymarket instituted a broader ban than Kalshi. The company rewrote its rules to say clearly that users cannot trade on contracts where they might possess confidential information or could influence the outcome of an event
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Review: Shah of Shahs – Snapshots of tyranny and revolution
Ryszard Kapuściński, as a foreign reporter for the press agency of Stalinist Poland, was a witness to the Iranian Revolution, along with 26 other revolutions and coups across the colonial world. In Shah of Shahs he doesn’t pretend to give us a factually watertight report of the events, but paints a gripping picture of the country and its people, its modern history, and the revolution itself, through a series of impressions akin to a literary version of a pointillist painting. We learn about the origins and the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty through musings on a collection of photographs. Each image prompts a new story: on the rise and fall of Reza Khan, on the British backed coup against Mossadegh who dared to nationalise the oil, on the glaring injustice of the rich foreigners hosting balls in palaces while ordinary Iranians lived in squalor.
https://communist.red/review-shah-of-shahs-snapshots-of-tyranny-and-revolution/

Gusanos of Monarchy: War, Exile, and the Misplacement of a Nation
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil" – Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
There is a word from another revolution that fits a little too well in this time: gusano—the exile who leaves a revolution only to spend decades begging Empire to bring them back. It belongs to Cuba, but its logic has migrated. You can now find it, almost intact, among a certain stratum of the Iranian diaspora—especially those still orbiting the fading promise of monarchy. In Miami, they waited for Washington to deliver Havana. In Los Angeles, Toronto, and Berlin, a faction now waits for Washington—or Tel Aviv—to deliver Tehran to them as it was in 1978. Same structure, different flag. And with the current war against Iran, that structure has hardened into something uglier: open alignment with destruction as a pathway to return.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/23/gusanos-of-monarchy-war-exile-and-the-misplacement-of-a-nation/

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IRAN THREAD FOR ANTI-IMPERIALISTS
For a while now, threads related to Iran have been hijacked by an ultroid who bemoans the death of petit-bourgeois wreckers as 'prole deaths', who supports Israeli-American colour revolutions, and who openly cheers the Israeli-American bombing of Iran, without forgetting the obligatory russophobia and sinophobia. That OP is most probably a persian diasporoid faggot who added lefcuckism as his list of misfortunes.

We have been silent for far too long. We will now have this thread for honourable and dignified communists to discuss happenings in Iran.
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>>2711779
>anti imperialism isnt real
are you ready to apologize to Iran or are you still in denial?

>>2711840
lmao anti-campists were really posting graphics about how military contractors grift the federal goverment as proof the US was going to steamroll this shit or something

>>2714455
>fighting capital is when you bomb gulf nation
is this true socdemxisters?

Unequal Exchange: The Engine of Modern Imperialism

<Torkil Lauesen joins us to discuss his book Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future and the hidden mechanics of modern imperialism. Lauesen returns to the tradition of Arghiri Emmanuel to argue that while the world market tends to equalize prices, wages remain radically unequal across borders – driving a structural transfer of value from low-wage production zones to high-wage consumer economies.


<We walk through Lauesen’s reconstruction of unequal exchange through Marx’s value theory, the leading approaches to measuring global value transfer, and what contemporary estimates imply about the scale of the drain. From there, we explore the political consequences inside the Global North: why reformism and social democracy have often been stabilized by imperial arrangements, what that means for internationalism, and why the “imperial mode of living” is increasingly unstable.


<Finally, we turn to the shifting world order – especially Lauesen’s argument that a new mode of production may be emerging, best exemplified by China – and what that implies for the future of capitalism, multipolarity, and socialist transition. We also discuss the ongoing war/conflict involving Iran and what it reveals about crisis, hegemony, and the changing methods of imperial power.

>>2750044
socdems are bombpilled? i wasnt familiar with their game, maybe I understimated them but all the ones i know are legalistpilled



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Dancing Israelis. What are the odds?

Think we'll have videos of them hitting cellies? Socks full of money? Blueprints to the city. (https://abcnews.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1) Explosive residue on their clothes? Explosive residue in a van? Boltcutters? Prepaid tickets to leave the US right after the event? https://www.haaretz.com/2001-09-17/ty-article/5-israelis-detained-for-puzzling-behavior-after-wtc-tragedy/0000017f-db50-d3ff-a7ff-fbf0d7830000

Admitting to being there to document "an event" on live TV in Israel?

Then years later when people ask about it on reddit the thread will have 100 aggressive users calling documented events "hateful conspiracies"?

What are the odds? I say 50/50 now but I'd raise those odds if the war in Iran stagnates much longer or if the dems win big in the mid terms.

The FBI report says they interviewed a former Urban Moving Systems employee, and he told them he quit because of a "high amount of anti-American sentiment" among the employees there, and he says that one of the Israelis told him, "give us 20 years and we'll take over your media and destroy your country". Like if you wrote that as dialog in a parody of antisemitic conspiracy theories, you would end up removing it for being too on the nose and exaggerated.

I want to know how Dominik Suter (the owner of Urban Moving Systems) got out of the US and into Israel after 911. All the flights were grounded for weeks, and the borders were totally locked down. Its not like he took a train to Israel. Max Blumenthal's "Suter was just a fraudster" theory can't explain that. The FBI report also says one of the witnesses noticed the van on the roof 45 minutes before the first plane hit.

Classic International Movers helping a hijacker move in Miami also complicates the fraudster theory. And the versions of the photos the FBI released were clearly photocopied several times to intentionally destroy the quality. The fact that the full case file is like 1200 pages or some shit, but they only released i think a couple hundred, makes me suspect there's more to it than is publicly known.
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Thoughts

>>2751445
Sounds like you are hoping for something to happen.



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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Sleepwalking Towards Oblivion Edition


>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
https://www.iceinmyarea.org/ – ICE tracker using public info and user submissions
https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers – list of deaths at ICE concentration camps
https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/ – visualization of prison population in US
https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf – RANT Collective - Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in
https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html – database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites
https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources – list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents – ICE Agent List (incomplete)
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>>2751281
>not gay

>>2751238
Germaine Greer, AKA female Epstein

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>>2751295
Ghislaine Greer

new thread >>2751331



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That cross eyed POS (piece of shit) think he can tell us what to do and what to think just because he got tons of cunny (underage girls privates) when he was a schoolteacher (professeur d'écoles) dont mean he gets to tell me i must live a certain way. Though we can all admit he is FAR more based than Junger (Ernst Junger) who never had the courage to dismantle reactionary gynocracy (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorit%C3%A9_sexuelle_en_France) by having sex with underage girls (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fille).
I liked him in Boris Vian though.
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>>2750477
>just do marxism but like, with the individual dude

I'm currently reading his book "search of a method" and quite frankly his thought and ideas seem very anecdotical and uninteresting. I understand that the context of marxism in the 1950s was different than it is now and as such made the ideology appear as more deterministic, but even then I can't shake the feeling that this is too big of a development to simply adress the issue of tendencies within marxist circles at his time.
His whole philosophy to me seems very basic and overdeveloped. Radicalizing subjectivism doesn't seem to require as much development than he gave it. Similarly criticizing other ideologies that you agree with on the basis that it's not sensible enough for "le individual" is dishonest. Maybe I'm missing something but his thought appears as a more developed Stirner with humanist tendencies and vocab. Thoughts ?

>>2750739
Fagitue

I think we should just stop giving any consideration to that bunch of French pederasts that too many consider 'intellectuals'. A lot of mumbojumbo with a few captivating catchphrases thrown into the mix. There's plenty of other stuff one can read and get valuable insights from.
One of the actually based Frenchmen, Pierre Bourdieu, correctly stated that in a capitalist society, intellectuals are fundamentally a dominated section of the dominant class: they have a cultural capital they can profit from on the market instead of a classic financial or industrial form of capital. There are obviously individual exceptions, but the place of the intellectual is just that.
I guess that's why you constantly have people salivating on faggots like the ones OP and other anons talk about itt, while you rarely get any mention of Bourdieu.

>>2751032
The flag of Algeria was made by an anarcho-syndicalist woman who fugged w/ one of the main figures behind the natlib

how about dong-pull shartre



 

Let's say the revolution happens and it goes smoothly, No civil war or foreign interference which prevents it from properly functioning, and it transitions into a socialist economy, How authoritarian would your state be?
What amount of authority is tolerable in your view?

This question isn't directed to anarchists because obviously
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>>2746761
It's hard to tell what you mean by authoritarianism but I'll try to answer:
>legislative sortitioned single-chamber assembly with recall ability for constituents
>constitutional protection of standard liberal democratic civil rights like free speed + safeguards against oligarchical wielding of mop
>direct democratic relations of production with delegation of powers and recall ability, public resource pool for individual and group enterprise managed by councils, government sector takes very centralized or vital industries

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>>2748038
>t. believes in authoritarianism

>>2746761
Authority is a consequence of the town-country contradiction and the bourgeois family. No centralization of administration in the town, no dependency of working mothers on patriarchs and you don't have authority. Internet and commie blocks basically solve the problem of authoritarianism.

There is an inescapable distance of two centuries* between a succesful revolution and actual State-less, money-less and (perhaps) authority-less communism. I like the way so many of my comrades here are fighting to not let our very high and dignified ultimate goal of human emancipation be forgotten. I believe however we must also dedicate some of that energy to think about the immediate transition, during which no doubt authority and the State will be needed. As of how much, I would only say that in the same way capitalism employs authority to suppress the emergence or everything that pushes towards socialism, socialism will employ it's authority to make the ressurgence of capitalism impossible. The goal of gradually increasing the social ownership of the means of production should be put in the constitution and publicly attacking that goal should be legally punished in the same way we are legally punished right now for objecting to the liberal rights of private property.

* I invented this number.




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The neoliberal hymn to the individual has always been a lie dressed in idealism. Under capitalism, the individual is not liberated but crushed, flattened into a commodity, her desires subordinated to the logic of accumulation, her capacity for self-expression hollowed out by the relentless demand to sell herself piece by piece. What passes for individualism in free‑market ideology is merely the abstract isolation of the wage laborer, a collective system of slavery that masquerades as freedom. True individualism, the kind Marx glimpsed in the possibility of a society where human flourishing is the measure of production, is not opposed to communism, it is its final realization. The individual shines not when she is set against the collective, but when the collective is empowered to free her from the commodified life that capitalism mistakes for existence.


>>Wage slavery is not individualism, it is the systematic destruction of the individual reduced to an economic unit of labor, stripped of autonomy, creativity, and the capacity for self‑determination. The neoliberal ideologue mistakes the atomized, precarious worker for a liberated subject, when in fact that worker is merely a node in capital’s collective apparatus. True individuality emerges only when the collective is organized not to exploit but to emancipate when labor is no longer a commodity, when the means of production are in common hands, when the individual’s unique capacities are cultivated rather than consumed. Communism does not erase the individual it makes individual flourishing on a societal level possible for the first time.
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It is genuinely entertaining to watch the ideological defenses of capitalism crumble under the weight of materialist analysis. The standard refrain that the abundance and innovation we enjoy are products of capitalist competition and individual genius ignores what becomes of art, culture, science and craft when profit becomes the sole organizing principle. Commodification does not simply cheapen material life; it strips culture of its soul, directs the science towards fields that don't always benefit us as a whole. Music, video games, cinema, any creative field subsumed by the hyper‑ late stage - capitalist model tends toward mechanic formula, risk aversion, and the relentless pursuit of the bottom line. The most enduring games, the most resonant albums, were rarely born from quarterly earnings projections; they emerged from spaces where passion, not profit, drove production. Capitalism did not invent creativity; it commodified it, then proceeded to enclose it, standardize it to bourgeoisie norms, and drain it of everything that made it vital. Individual artists and developers who once worked for love of the craft are now pushed to the margins, their visions chopped into marketable fragments, their names buried under corporate branding. The decline in quality is not incidental it is the necessary outcome of a system that treats creativity as a product and inventors as interchangeable labor. The evidence is everywhere, a gaming industry once animated by basement coders and small teams now churns out hollow sequels and micro transactions; a music industry once capable of producing genuine cultural movements now cycles through algorithm‑generated disposable pop. The moment capital fully colonizes a creative field, the field loses its capacity to surprise, to challenge, to reflect anything beyond the logic of accumulation. This is yet again, an example of capitalism crushing every aspect of the individual.

>>2749821
Frederick Douglass was a liberal, by the way
>>2749828
>A capitalist society is ruled by liberalism which sets the interests of the community against those of individuals, and places the interests of individuals above those of the community.
Yes, that is called universality by the rule of law; the alternative is to be enslaved by custom and tradition, as it persists in more patriarchal societies. Homosexuality, for example, can only have civic protection, where the individual's claim to liberty, is superior to the community (e.g. the family). If 99% of people are against you, yet you are protected by the law, then the individual is in fact facilitated by legality, which conserves the preservation of their being. Universality must then begin in concerns for minorities, with the individual being the ultimate minority.
>inequality
>juche
right, because no inequality exists in north korea… 🤣

>>2750305
>>Frederick Douglass was a liberal, by the way
>>upset with the juche quote

Definitely a white man.

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they don't necessarily always believe/think that, they just say that because it benefits them and they know better than to contradict an idea that benefits them. they want the proles to have crab bucket mentality.

>>2750346
based on post style and image choice, i'm assuming this is adam smith anon who is an avowed liberal so he's actually trying to reclaim douglass for himself. also he is british if i recall. no idea if he's white.



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