/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1679858
No, getting air striked and having a cia backed dick-tator slaughter your population for stupid reasons doesn’t count as an example

>>1679862
Cities can not produce their own food

Who cares about low birthrates?

Yes, lots of former serfs and rural workers in "developing" countries also travel abroad to like the West where menial labor is in high demand if they can't migrate to cities in their own countries

>>1679943
Anon people in developing countries are far more prone to moving to other developing countries for permanent residence than move to an imperial country(unless your from india). The only time places like France Britain America or Canada receive heavy immigration is if they actively promote programs for it. Reminder Britain got its black population specifically because the British government in charge at the time I think a century ago went out of their way to import many low wage workers from the western part of the Sahara as an addition to the already emancipated slave population of the place.

Starbucks workers strike at 200 union stores on Red Cup Day
The 2022 holiday cup giveaway was the coffee giant's highest single sales day of all time despite a strike at more than 100 stores. The Starbucks walkouts come after several big strikes recently yielded positive results for workers, Axios' Emily Peck reports. Nonunion Starbucks workers in New York City filed 15 complaints Thursday against the company for allegedly violating New York's Fair Work Week law, according to a statement Starbucks Workers United sent to Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/16/starbucks-red-cup-day-2023-holiday-drinks

Cornel West hits Sanders for not calling for cease-fire in Gaza: ‘Pretty pathetic’
“You say, ‘Brother Bernie, man, this is reaching the point where it’s getting pathetic now, man,’” West said in an interview with Status Coup News on Wednesday. “If the pause is the best you can come up with given this situation, then this is getting pretty pathetic.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4313424-cornel-west-sanders-gaza-cease-fire/
https://archive.is/upwZS

Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row
The Pentagon failed an independent audit of its accounting systems for the sixth consecutive year, a Pentagon official said Wednesday. "Things are showing progress, but it's not enough," Mike McCord, the Defense Department's chief financial officer, told reporters. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin thinks "we need to be doing better at this and moving faster."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-audit-sixth-year-row-2023-11-16/

Mississippi governor rejects revenue estimate, fearing it would erode support for income tax cut
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves refused to approve top lawmakers’ proposed revenue estimate Wednesday, fearing a lower projection than he wanted would prevent him from justifying future income tax cuts. The rare move comes asPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>Belgian unions call on government to impose arms embargo on Israel
How big is marxist politics in Belgium?
Also TYBNA

>>1679686
>“You say, ‘Brother Bernie, man, this is reaching the point where it’s getting pathetic now, man,’” West said in an interview with Status Coup News on Wednesday.
Lol.
Black people are the only good thing that came out of america. change my mind (you cant).

MPs vote down call for ceasefire: Mobilise to overthrow the warmongers!
It is clear that the establishment has been bruised and battered by the mighty Palestine movement. Repression, intimidation, and smears have proven impotent in the face of these mass mobilisations. But it is also clear from last night’s parliamentary vote that street demonstrations alone will not stop the war. Calls for a ceasefire are not enough. Instead, a mass grassroots campaign must be taken into every community and workplace, into every school and university, with the aim of organising workers and youth in the fight to overthrow the warmongers and their system. The trade unions have an important role to play in this. Their members in industry could easily prevent the manufacture and shipment of arms to Israel, on the basis of a workers’ blockade. And they could call on their brothers and sisters across the world to follow suit, helping to grind the imperialists’ war machine to a halt.
https://socialist.net/mps-vote-down-call-for-ceasefire-mobilise-to-overthrow-the-warmongers/

UAW Fails to Win Back Pension Plans for Newer Workers
The UAW strike against Big Auto succeeded in winning impressive wage gains, but it failed to obtain a little-reported demand: that the auto companies reinstate defined benefit pension plans for new employees that had been suspended as a concession during the 2008 Great Recession. Instead, as a consolation prize the auto companies offered and the unions took larger company payments to employee 401(k) plans. This was a significant loss for newer workers who were not grandfathered into the preexisting pension plans. They will receive employer contributions that will rise to ten percent of salary. While that is significantly higher than what most 401(k) plan participants receive from their employers, it will fall far short of what would be needed to provide retirement income equivalent to that of a pension plan. That would require contributions of 25 to 30 percent of salary. Put differently, they will receive one-third to one-half of what workers with equivalent careers received from pension plans.
https://www.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon

Politics of the Commons: The Problem with the Representation of the Majority
If the Venezuelan experience teaches us anything, it is that a ruling class that has in its political practice made a rule of constructing opponents tailored to its needs will eventually face the serious difficulty in accurately assessing the historical conflict that once led it to antagonize the forces championing a project with an anti-national and anti-popular orientation. Popular support lied in representing the interests of the majority. However, from the moment the goal of remaining in power takes precedence over the interests of the base as a whole—meaning when the interests of the political class itself supersede those of the majority—a political realignment becomes possible, including the coming to an understanding with some of the forces once considered antagonistic. This realignment inevitably involves making programmatic concessions, which ends up jeopardizing not only the content of the national and popular project but fundamentally the base itself. In a very summarized manner, this is what has been happening in Venezuela since 2016.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/politics-of-the-commons-the-problem-with-the-representation-of-the-majority/

Argentina: the position of communists in the run-off election
After the results of Argentina’s general elections last month, the two leading candidates, Peronist Sergio Massa and far-right Javier Milei, will contest the presidency in a run-off election on 19 November. The prospect of a run-off election, a device of bourgeois democracy that is meant to force working-class voters to support one of two capitalist candidates who do not represent their interests, has revealed enormous confusion among Argentina’s largest left parties. On the one hand is the Peronist candidate Massa. He represents the openly class-collaborationist current of Peronism. As sitting Minister of Economy, he has been desperate to keep the economy from going over the brink, at least until after the election. He has deployed a slew of short-term measures to maintain a sense of stability, paid for by printing money. This short-term strategy consists of putting out fires whenever an issue arises, while the underlying contradPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1678783
Curious what /leftypol/ thinks of sikh seperatism

Thanks News Anon

TYBNA

it's dumb

>>1677673
this is shit, even for a zine.

>>1676684
many of them already do these types of things, they just don't call it praxis, or mutual aid. Friend who arrange coat drives and have live music for local stuff but don't think of themselves as leftists were the first to convert, then we move to the more vibes based anarchists, call out the lames and slowly a truly revolutionary culture can be built

look into the idea of the "regular culture", look into Situationist International, the concept of the spectacle, "brand" as a super structure and the power of "hyper sigils"

Hey, that's pretty cool. I've been thinking of starting a zine myself, but have no design skills nor the knowhow. Do you have any resources I can dive into and learn more?

>>1679100
I use Decker, half a decker card is the same as 1/4 of a page

The last time we had strong multipolarity, it ended up in two world wars. The reason Pax Romana, Pax Mongolica, Pax Britannica, and Pax Americana are named that way is because there was one dominant power keeping trade routes open, and not having huge conflicts with rivals.

multipolarism is a recipie for geopolitical conflict

>>1679071
You can't oppress the world to unite it. Peace based on injustice is war.

>>1679071
>>1679071
we also got multiple successful socialist revolutions
also the conditions are also vastly different, a handful of colonial powers competing isnt the same as the many regional powers emerging among a globalized and a lot more industrialized world

Anahita Ratebzad is one woman leader from the top of my head. But women are less involved in political activity overall because of mentality etc. inherited from before socialism, still there were plenty women in political work and just because you don't see them in history books with nice big portraits doesn't mean they are nonexistent. Btw they should put on that name thing we had during international womens' day again sometime.

>>1679209
Margot Honecker was a loyal and committed Marxist-Leninist, and defended the legitimate German State to the very end.🚩🫡

AES was still patriarchal

>>1679209
>she literally had blue hair and pronouns
wow Margot Honecker was really ahead of the curve

terrorism literally isn't real pun intended

its just a pejorative used by Nation-States against violence they don't like. The only remotely consistent definition of terrorism is violence from Non-State Actors so just say that instead of some bullshit ass term that more or less exists to justify further violence by going MUH TEBBOBRIBBISM while blowing a hospital full of dying children.

>>1669822
USS Liberty is done by Israel, not Jews in general

>>1678968
Are you being sarcastic?

>>1669719
Not really, there has been a few cases of individual IRA members targetting civilians, but very generally they warned before their attacks on economic target, however it did happen to kill civilians as a side effect if the biritish authorities didn't do their jobs properly (by incompetence or malice) however out of all the belligerent of the troubles, the IRA are the ones who proportionally killed the less civilians 30% of their kills were civilians, wheras for the british army it was 50% and it was 86% For the unionists

>>1674698
Poverty eradication =/= socialism retard

>>1678748
its kind of absurd to consider these figures reasonable or honest when we know in reality that eg; nazi germany was ran by the board of directors of IG Farbin

>>1678853
Yes, nazi GERMANY.

The different material conditions of italy and germany gave rise to different arrangements to preserve capitalism (ie, the worker-bouj relationship), stop coping by insisting on doubting on the source while you have no basis for it at all

>>1678908
>doubting on the source
I just dont think you can call something publicly owned when the state isn't controlled by the public.

>>1678754
Poverty eradication = socialism, retard

>>1678517
>muh substack

Read theory

>>1678536
>schizoposter telling others to get their head out their ass

Lmao ok

>>1678510
Mods let idiots on this site get away with murder. They say nothing serious is discussed here, well, that’s because mods let the loudest, dumbest schizos on the board suck all the air out of the room. Every single thread eventually devolves into this bullshit

>>1678524
what kind of a world do we live in where if you're Jordan Belford and have robbed people of billions you get 22 months in a fancy jail and a movie made out of your life by Martin Scorses where DiCaprio plays you but if I do a gas station stickup I get 8 years in a federal penitentiary?
fuck amerikkka

Moved to >>>/siberia/469785.

>>1677918
"Think Like a Lazy man" is not the sociological breakthrough you think it is.

>making work efficient === just leech of society
ok

>>1677961
If you strip away the intentionally provocative language the only thing they are wrong about is the AI timeline (too conservative)

increasing the efficiency of a process requires the intellectual labour of considering that process and eliminating unnecessary steps. The past labor of automation and planning decreases the socially necessary labor time required to create a commodity by living labour. Marx knew this. None of what Gilbreth was saying was new.

>>1678382
we can't expect our enemies to read theory, and it seems we can't even expect it from our comrades