/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

How am I supposed to avoid falling into doomerist thinking when the current state of the world seems so hopeless?

I know that any good leftist isnt meant to succumb to such nihilism but I just cant seem to stop slipping into it.

It's like no progress is being made (atleast here in Amerikkka) and instead any progress is being reverted, with conservatism becoming more popular and dominant, progressive laws being reverted, the continued destruction of the planet, Ai making the masses dumber and a general lack of class consciousness.

I just dont understand how other comrades can still stay so hopeful and determined under these conditions.

Go on dole. That is what I am doing.

I worked for government for like 6 months and realised the government does not give a shit about how many people are abusing their services; it's mainly welfare fraud they care about which costs them millions and is in the hands of the very few.

In my country of Australia, there are more people on JobSeeker Payments than ever. But there is also absolutely nothing stopping a communist party from committing welfare fraud by putting in false applications in some fake person's name and collecting it from an ATM.

Arab states, Palestinian groups condemn Israeli move to annex occupied West Bank
Both bills passed by the Israeli Knesset concern the annexation of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The first seeks to apply Israeli sovereignty to all settlements, while the second specifically targets the settlement bloc and city of Ma'ale Adumim, one of the largest illegal colonies built east of Jerusalem. Although boycotted by most opposition lawmakers except one member of the ruling Likud party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the measures were backed by smaller ultra-nationalist factions within both the coalition and the opposition.
https://www.newarab.com/news/arab-palestinian-outrage-over-israeli-move-annex-west-bank

'Disappointing': ICJ grants Israel another extension in South Africa genocide case
South Africa urged the court to reject Israel's request, since the latter had already been granted an extension on the same grounds raised in its latest letter. "The extension requested would be irreconcilable with the urgency of the case and the principle of equality between the Parties," the ICJ cited South Africa as saying.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icj-grants-israel-another-extension-submit-evidence-south-africas-genocide-case

Abahlali baseMjondolo wins landmark ruling halting evictions in lucrative coastal municipality
In a landmark decision for South Africa’s shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo has won a legal battle against the KwaDukuza Municipality, after the High Court in Pietermaritzburg ruled in its favor on Friday, October 17, halting the forced eviction of hundreds of residents from ERF 1410 in Shaka’s Head, on the Dolphin Coast.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/22/abahlali-basemjondolo-wins-landmark-ruling-halting-evictions-in-lucrative-coastal-municipality/

Cuban man deported from US to EswaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

One of the major things that annoys me about liberals is they act morally superior to people of the past who had bigoted beliefs.

First they ignore the material conditions that bigotry, ie growing up in a homophobic religious community, livinging in a segregated community. They assume that morality is fixed thing those in the past where to ignorant of it or are evil. Rather than it being an invention man based his experiences. Do really slave owners are inherently bad people, or due to them Owning/growing up in a society that has them they begin to rationalize why they are necessary and that's for the benefit of the slaves. Liberals themselves don't even follow their own standards as lot of them can be hateful towards Russians and Chinese people. And view LGBT, Black people with rose tinted glasses.

Secondly its a form slave morally taken to its extreme. Instead of just believing that your morally superior to your alive opponents instead you have to rebuke the dead. As some sort of resentment towards the past and its figures. It's a feeling of false power.

Do the inter-socialist wars like the Sino-Soviet War, Sino-Vietnamese border conflict, Albania-Yugoslav border conflict, Cambodia-Vietnamese War, etc not demonstrate that war will persist under socialist governance due to the need of states to maximize their power, as is advanced by geopolitical realism?
Capitalist Imperialism only covers so much of warfare. States are much more than arbiters of class control, they also enforce social cohesion among a people. Once the ruling function was established in society, it began to be differentiated and assigned to a specific class only when victorious peoples in tribal wars took slaves and ruled the vanquished tribes. Rule and control preceded class and will outlast class. Even if Lenin fell to utopianism in State and Revolution, to have a centrally planned and vast assembled organization of production is obviously nonsensical without a highly centralized authority, and that authority will require a military to defend itself against other states outside of their borders who may desire to infringe on its territory. A workers' and peasants' desire to enslave another nation for their own security or for what the Chinese called Hegemonism is not unthinkable, just look at the Soviet-Afghan War. And even if its is not capitalist imperialism it still necessitates each socialist state maintaining armies to defend themselves even as the last outpost of the bourgeoisie lays down its arms.
The only reason why the Soviets only had to care about one of their bordering socialist states is because they had complete military control over the Eastern European people's democracies and Mongolia. When bordering socialist states had independent militaries, it was different. China, not controlling any of the socialist states it bordered, waged war on both the USSR and Vietnam, and Democratic Kampuchea waged war on Vietnam. Somalia waged war on Ethiopia, and there were fights between Albania and Yugoslavia. That's more than can be handwaved away as being because those leaders woke up in a crabby mood. It shows that even nations under Communist-run states need to defend themselves from other nations, even those who are also under Communist-run states. The state will not just wither away, it will remain in place to act as a means of national defense.

Best USA president in its history?

My pick is Calvin Coolidge, since the best thing we can hope for in a capitalist / imperial leader is a complete hands off isolationist (and military defunding) approach. So what if he was a libertarian wet dream

>b-b-but newspapers arent praxis you fucking (((trot)))!
Consider the following, dear reader.

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Heil Platner Edition

Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, 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 invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

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David Cleary, solider F, has been found not guilty for his role in the bloody Sunday massacre, where 14 civilians were killed while they peacefully protested for their rights in 1972, this massacre essentially kickstarted the troubles.

How do we understand the phenomenon of immigrants and non-white individuals becoming rabidly far-right, white nationalists and/or anti-immigration?

I've recently been reminded of this due to the Czech republic having a far-right party (Freedom and Direct Democracy Party) who wants to expel all migrants and "protect Czechia from Islamization" that is headed by a Japanese-Czech mutt who was born in Japan and lived there until he was 10.