/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2279997
Yeltsin thought that the GDP would soon take off like China’s.

>>2280024
Because?

>>2280000
go back (to the USSR)

>>2280027
le free market or some shit idk
yeltsin was drunk most of the time it probably makes more sense if you're always drunk

>>2280052
Yeah? USSR was capitalist

>The more I read about Judaism and its history and peoples… can their identity ever really be detached from usury/centralized banking.

It's always the retards who have read the least about Judaism who say shit like this.

Check this out:

Leviticus 25:35-37
<If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.

Ezekiel 18:10-13

<Suppose he has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these other things (though the father has done none of them):
<He eats at the mountain shrines.
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>>2279814
this doesn't apply to subhuman goyim though

>>2279814
>Marx, Hitler, and the early Zionists were all atheists and it's clear because their criticisms of Judaism were based on their own imaginations of what they thought Judaism was, rather than strict adherence to the actual rules.
why are you lumping marx in with hitler, liberal?

>>2279814
>lumping in Marx with zionists (and Hitler)
Let me guess, you think he wrote "The Jewish Question."

>>2279707
On one habd nuclear is supported by the fossil fuel sector as a delaying tactic against renewables. Nuclear is the most expensive, technologically demanding source of electricity so if the money goes to this you have reactors that will take 20 years to build instead of renewables now.
On the other hand it's a way of making other countries dependant and tied up on super long projects as on this instance rosatom would own all the supply line as this technology is just so far out of reach for BF.

With their poor development and lack of education nevermind the insecurity nuclear is a terrible choice for Burkina, they should just go all in for solar

>>2279727
Yeah I'm sure. The oil industry wasn't de jure privatized because it was too unpopular of a move and would've bankrupted the country from the get go. Instead its extraction, exploration and construction rights were handed to private firms including Chinese ones. To this day it's still de jure state owned and nowhere in the articles you linked it says otherwise. Of course it makes no practical difference as foreign monopolies still dominant the oil industry but it exposes your pathetic apologism.

>>2279737
so Bremer didn't nationalize the oil?

>>2279731
>the fossil fuel industry supports nuclear bro
retarded greenfag delusion

>>2279731
>With their poor development and lack of education
>>2279703
>a framework for interaction covering education and training
>links between educational institutions
>training of teachers and student exchange programmes
>to further develop infrastructure
>develop laboratory infrastructure, and train specialists

>rosatom would own all the supply line
you know they have their own uranium?
>go all in for solar
solar only lasts a couple decades and you have to replace them. do you think they have the supply lines for that??

>>2277932
Please don't post AI slop in the OC thread. Thank you.

>>2277990
I wonder how many times will you seethe about AI OC posted in the OC thread

>>2278267
The Luddites were based proto-socialists.

>>2279249
He was neither Anti-Stalinist enough to be revered by ultras nor Stalinist enough to be admired by MLs, seemingly only admired by no one other than a succdem skeptic.

>>2279249
>>2279251
Gulag Agnostic

F
your legacy lives on in fights with glowiepedia libs

>>2279251
I can dig it

>>2279251
He was alright, part of the wave of revisionist historians amidst the 80s Reaganist anticommunist hysteria. I respect him because of how comically anticommunist the academia was in those days.

>>2278190
>>2278212
>>2278220
>>2278433
4 times actually

>>2279075
why do so many posts "predict" things that already happened after 9/11

finally, it's full. people area using this older thread as the "new" thread but w/e
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>>2278131

A part of me believes that a mentally stable person cannot possibly desire a younger person. Therefore, any time that happens there has to be some kind of manipulation or lack of genuineness on the side of the older person, at least with their own self. Another part of me suspects that the outrage comes from considering sex an essentially impure dominational, or consuming, activity, when it is not necessarily the case, even in situations such as these, which everyone must admit is not an extreme case at all. In any way, the power dynamic between female and male is not symmetrical, so that's why the analogy this anon:
>>2278433
is trying to push is not sound in my opinion, notwithstanding the fact that older female younger male dynamics can also be very bad.

The fact is, being a person that has not had a particular interest in being masculine and fitting that role, also in bed, i have to say that as a teen i have met male friends that are ethically and erotically more mature than the average 24 year old male, for whom usually sex is masturbation with extra steps. So, while I understand the concern, in this range of age gap i think the analysis must be circumstantial, it cannot be ruled out just by the age

>>2279376
your concept of human is not less abstract than theirs. Human is a biological category, homo sapiens, whose behaviour is determined and conditioned by many factors, there is no one definitive human behavior, like any other animal, or at least cognitively advanced animal (i bet even bugs in less time than we expect can change some behavior we consider very representative). Now, people also usually conflate "human" with other concepts, such as self-consciousness, moral consciousness, science… But any other organism with sufficent cognitive tissue can also embody those phenomena, so those kind of concept of human, yours included, are just folklorist concepts

Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, saying Harvard has created an unsafe campus environment by allowing “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” to assault Jewish students on campus. It also accused Harvard of coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party, saying it hosted and trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group as recently as 2024.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-foreign-student-457d07268fba9c1f6f7f32fe0424bc3b

Suspect charged with murder in shooting of Israeli embassy staffers
The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, was observed pacing outside the museum before the shooting, the Metropolitan police chief, Pamela Smith, said. After opening fire, he walked into the museum, was detained by event security and began to chant “Free, free Palestine,” she said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/israeli-embassy-staff-shooting-washington-dc

Woman shot at CIA headquarters after crashing into gate
The woman has been preliminarily identified as 27-year-old Monia Spadaro, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told NBC.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/cia-shooting-headquarters.html

Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests
“Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate. We have an established forum for employees who have opted in to political issues,” says Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw in a statement to The Verge.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email
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Tybna

935 - It’s Joever feat. David J. Roth (5/19/25) (Chapo Trap House)
We planned this episode to cover the spate of stories revealing just how out of it and diminished Joe Biden was during his term, and new details about the political flunkies and media stooges who were complicit in covering it up. But yesterday Biden’s team announced an almost certainly life-ending cancer diagnosis. So we’re joined by David Roth to discuss how it’s finally well and truly Joever.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/935-its-joever-feat-david-j-roth-51925

Project Esther and the weaponisation of Zionism
The first “key takeaway” listed in the report is that “America’s virulently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and anti-American ‘pro-Palestinian movement’ is part of a global Hamas Support Network (HSN)”. Never mind that, in reality, there is no such thing as a “global Hamas Support Network” – just as there is no such thing as the HSN’s alleged “affiliated Hamas Support Organizations (HSOs)” that the Heritage Foundation has also taken the liberty of inventing. Among these alleged HSOs are prominent American Jewish organisations such as Jewish Voice for Peace. The second “key takeaway” of the report is that the so-called HSN is “supported by activists and funders dedicated to destroying capitalism and democracy” – a curious choice of terms, no doubt, from a think tank that is doing its best to eradicate what remains of US democracy as we speak. The phrase “capitalism and democracy” appears no fewer than five times in the report – although it’s not quite clear what Hamas has to do with capitalism aside from governing a Palestinian territory that has for more than 19 months been on the receiving end of billions upon billions of dollars’ worth of US-funded military destruction. From the perspective of the arms industry, at least, genocide is capitalism at its best. And as per the genocidal logic of Project Esther, protesting the mass slaughter of Palestinians is fundamentally anti-Semitic – hence the need to pursue the prescribed national strategy of “extirpating the influence of the HSN from our society”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/5/19/pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Rev Left Radio: Aug 1, 2019 Malcolm X
Chuka Ejeckam, a graduate student in Political Science at the University of British Columbia, joins Breht to discuss the life and legacy of Malcolm X.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/malcolm-x

What should socialists make of Starmer’s EU reset?
LABOUR’S deal with the European Union is presented as a reset of constructive relations with our neighbours. The Tories and Reform UK predictably condemn a sell-out designed to edge us back towards EU membership; the Liberal Democrats equally predictably suggest we should go further and faster. The Scottish National Party, which has also called this week for our return to the EU, has had to be more nuanced in its response to an agreement on EU fishing fleet access to British waters that harms the interests of Scottish fishing communities. The socialist left should not be diverted by these divisions among ruling-class parties. There is real damage done by ceding fishing rights, both because of the over-exploitation of our waters and because of the impact on communities dependent on them.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what-should-socialists-make-starmers-eu-reset

J. V. Stalin: The October Revolution and the National Question
The national question must not be regarded as something self-contained and fixed for all time. Being only part of the general question of the transformation of the existing order, the national question is wholly determined by the conditions of the social environment, by the kind of power in the country and by the whole course of social development in general. This is being strikingly borne out in the period of revolution in Russia, when the national question and the national movement in the border regions of Russia are rapidly and obviously changing their character in accordance with the course and outcome of the revolution.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1918/11/19.htm

tybna <3

Thanks News Anon

THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOAT

>Mr. Raja said the killing of the Maoist leader "instead of lawfully arresting him"
lmao

capital begins by a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. theres no such thing as "decentralised" capital. without the state, capital would collapse.

>>2278963
I’m so glad that napoleon invented capitalism after he sent millions to create the first nation states

>>2279004
do you not think the state existed before the 19th century?

>>2279005
I’m so glad the pre napoleonic warlords of Europe invented capitalism by sending millions to invent nation states

>>2278545
>We should encourage small scale projects and experiments to find out what works and what doesn't, instead of trying to do great leaps forward on societal level and just hope it works. This approach would be more scientific and grounded in evidence than just blindly following the writings of Marx, Lenin or Mao.
Leninism/Stalinism resulted in faster industrializing and growth than in capitalist countries. Capitalism, by its own metric, did worse. Average lifespan in China doubled under Mao. Yugoslavia was different, but not better IMHO (mass unemployment!).

Expect the unexpected eh

>>2249720
>If they’re not a country, Australia, UK, and New Zealand should all be part of the US as well
Yeah, they should. If they were big boy countries they would have their own flags.

American hegemony is rooted first and foremost on its network of allies. Annexing Canada is more than possible but it would be completely idiotic move. Americans survive only because countries in Eurasia are too busy fighting each other. If they would unite against them they would eat americans alive.

>>2278763
>If they would unite against them they would eat americans alive.
The problem is they're not smart enough to do that. If they were, they wouldn't be fighting each other in the first place. Just replace the aliens in this comic with America and the humans with every country besides America and the EU.

Why hasn't the burgers annexed maple syrup county?
Has the dream fizzled burgerbois like everything these days???