/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

is Roger Garaudy our guy
>Garaudy was critical of Jean-Paul Sartre's view of freedom, maintaining that it lacks any social, economic, political or historical context.He criticized Being and Nothingness for what he deemed not going beyond the domain of metaphysical pathology, and Sartre's novels for "depicting only degenerates and human wrecks" and describing his existentialism as "a sickness".
>Garaudy's faith in communism was shaken in 1956, after Nikita Khrushchev made the Secret Speech at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Afterwards, he espoused an eclectic and humanist view on Marxism, strictly opposing the theoretical Marxism of Louis Althusser and advocating dialogue with other schools of thought.
>Around 1980, Garaudy read The Green Book by Muammar Gaddafi and became interested in Libya and Islam, meeting the country's leader on several occasions in the desert. He converted formally at the Islamic Centre in Geneva, an organisation controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.[13][better source needed] Garaudy converted in 1982 after marrying a Palestinian woman, later writing that "The Christ of Paul is not the Jesus of the Bible," and also forming other critical scholarly conclusions regarding the Old and New Testaments.He became an Islamic commentator and supporter of the Palestinian cause.

On November 25th (the day of infamous "Black Friday" sales), a large series of Amazon strikes worldwide are set to take place.

For those sick of seeing general strike hype posters, this event has been occurring and growing for the past few years. It is co-convened by the Progressive International (who are post-capitalists, mostly demsocs) and UNI Global Union. The event is a coalition of over 80 unions, civil society organizations, environmentalists and tax watchdogs.

>On November 25th, Amazon will face strikes and protests in at least Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the US, with more being planned. The actions will bring together workers across Amazon’s supply chain with environmental groups, civil society groups, and political leaders.

Official site is https://makeamazonpay.com with a big fukken list of orgs. So, based or waste?

>Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the "punk" refers to the countercultural, post-capitalist, and decolonial enthusiasm for creating such a future. As a science fiction literary subgenre and art movement, solarpunk works address how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability, human impact on the environment, and addressing climate change and pollution. Especially as a subgenre, it is aligned with cyberpunk derivatives, and may borrow elements from utopian and fantasy genres.

What does everyone think of "solarpunk"? Is socialism going to have a solarpunk aesthetic? OR is this just greenwashing capitalism through aesthetics that give the appearance of sustainability without addressing the root causes of actual environmental issues?

Nils Flyg was born and raised in Södermalm, a working-class area of Stockholm at the time. Early on he joined the Swedish Social Democratic Party's youth organization, the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League. In 1917, Flyg took part in the founding of a new leftist party, a group headed by Zeth Höglund and Karl Kilbom, which would soon become the Communist Party of Sweden.

Flyg became an important leader of the Communist Party, wrote books and went on political trips to the Soviet Union. In the general election of 1928, with the Flyg-dominated Communists cooperating with the dominant Social Democratic Party, he failed to achieve an influential position as voters failed to show substantial support for a Communist-Social Democratic coalition. In 1929 Flyg, along with the majority of the party's membership, was accused of insufficient loyalty to the Soviet-dominated Comintern and expelled from the party. The same year Flyg and Kilbom founded a new, parallel Communist Party, which claimed to be the real Communist Party of Sweden.

Initially Flyg and Kilbom attempted to reconcile with the Comintern, something that soon proved fruitless. They gradually developed an animosity towards Stalinism. By 1934 the party had changed name to the Socialist Party (Socialistiska partiet). At first, the Socialist Party still supported the Soviet Union but condemned the Stalinist leadership. But by the end of the 1930s, the party had changed its view and criticized the whole of the Soviet Union, a stance that gradually developed to a foreign policy embracing Nazi Germany.

In 1937 Kilbom was expelled from the party after a few years of disputes and personal struggle between the two leaders. After the expulsion of Kilbom a majority of the members of the party left. The Socialist Party shrank dramatically and Flyg became more and more politically isolated.

At the beginning of World War II, Flyg came out in opposition to fascism, and the Nazi-Soviet pact in his eyes proved that Stalinism was just as bad as fascism. But when Hitler broke the pact with Stalin, and Germany launched the invasion against the Soviet Union, Flyg decided that he had to support the Nazis against Stalin, hoping it would lead to the end of Stalinism.[2] Financial constraints led him to approach the German High Commission in Stockholm.[citation needed] Initially, the Germans turned down his request for funding, but in the final stages of the war (when the Germans felt a moPost too long. Click here to view the full text.(false consensus rule etc)

Why is the modern left so poisoned by nihilism and cynicism? What happened to the radical optimism of the likes of Trotsky?

>It is difficult to predict the extent of self-government which the man of the future may reach or the heights to which he may carry his technique. Social construction and psycho-physical self-education will become two aspects of one and the same process. All the arts – literature, drama, painting, music and architecture will lend this process beautiful form. More correctly, the shell in which the cultural construction and self-education of Communist man will be enclosed, will develop all the vital elements of contemporary art to the highest point. Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser and subtler; his body will become more harmonized, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above this ridge new peaks will rise.

Reading stuff like this makes me literally tear up.

Why is it that the bourgeois are so anti-LGBTQ+ and that they want more and more people to be straight? Or is this phenomenon changing over the course of our lifetime? Give reasons as why the bourgeois are so fearful of those identifying with different sexualities or even having different sexual preferences.

How is it that a communist imageboard doesn't have at least one thread dedicated to discussion of the largest and most powerful international bourgeois vanguard party?

The WEF is trying to implement global cybernetic fascism-neo-feudalism. The most rich and powerful people on earth are all members, and they're openly dictating policy to governments around the world through a permanent emergency state. As communists it is our duty to stop them.

Let's share good information and articles about the WEF and their activities, and how to stop them.

How can the global South be a site of socialist revolution when every popular protest movement is subverted by Western intelligence agencies and used to undermine anti-imperialist governments in places like Iran and Syria?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRpQ6NEAwUs

Political commentator, Darwinist, and self-proclaimed Russian Nationalist Ubersoy explained how 'Right Wing Progressivism' is 'an antidote' to modern Capitalism and Leftism. The video, over an hour long, is a manifesto critiquing the Left as 'eugenicist' while using Left wing talking points to justify his interpretation of a Conservative worldview. Anyone else notice that they are resorting to weird shit recently?

Hey guys. Pic is of Mulk Raj Anand, Indian socialist and writer. Reading some of his critiques on the caste system has me wondering: what is the caste system in economic terms? Feudalism or capitalism?