/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

We're gonna burn your books again. The holohoax didn't happen but we're gonna make it happen now. We're not gonna stop at six million. You won't ever have to hear culture war discourse again, because there won't be anyone left but us. We'll make sure history never knew you existed.(USER IS BANNED UNDER RULE 12 )

yesterday was the time to think but now is the time to act.
Start thinking like a glowies.
Think sbout how to bring about riots.
Heres a few idea
-loiter on black rock housing
-take over the means of eggs
-piracy

Well, I never read Capital by Marx, I read couple of more short works of his, but still something is bothering me, Marx wrote in the XIX century, so his work are maybe outdated from my point of view, I think, but I'm open minded, does anyone here actually read Capital can tell me if still worth reading Capital or is relevant to the modern economics theories?

Why do the radlibs who claim that income has absolutely nothing to do with class and that artists and actors are totally proletarian even think Marx used these definitions? If proletarian is such an arbitrary category that contains many people who objectively do NOT have a self-interest in revolution then what purpose do they think these categories serve in regards to Communism? Marx defined them for an actual reason, you know.

>inb4 thread deleted because god forbid we don't talk about something that isn't American or Chinese electoralism

The fact of the matter is that in most, if not all, South American and Hispano-American countries, women are discriminated against as a matter of course, from citizenship laws to professional life to paternalistic familial structures and domestic abuse, even feminicide. This is clearly not a purely Hispanic affair, since, with perhaps the exception of Scandinavia, it exists in various degrees throughout the world. But the fact of the matter is that even if it’s often used as a pro-American/Israel or neocon club to bludgeon Latinos on other, unrelated issues like American interventionism.

I look at it as being similar to Soviet charges against US treatment of black citizens. Did pointing out the Jim Crow laws make Siberian gulags or Eastern European oppression any more acceptable? Of course not, although it may have scored Moscow some points in the world arena by pointing out American hypocrisy. At the end of the day, though, the answer to Stalinist accusations of racism should have been the civil rights movement, not a denial of segregation. Likewise, to my mind, the oppression of women and minorities and homosexuals in Latin America is not directly related to the Inter-American conflict, but it is very important to me, and I don’t see that there’s any contradiction in my struggle to fight for my wife’s right to marry who she pleases, legally own land and work at any job she wants to in Guatemala and her right to return to and live in Mexico.

I don’t think that the knee-jerk reaction that many people, especially those who don’t live in the region, have to dismiss any and all criticism of Latin American states and/or societies as apologism is helpful at all. In fact, it plays into the rhetoric of pro west puppet LatAm states that justify blatant gender discrimination, macho culture and the persistence of transphobic violence or legal discrimination as we have seen with the surge of new conservative Christian moments in places like Central America. For my part, an equitable solution to a fractured Latin America conflict should be about self determination for Latinos not about and their struggle to create a commkncounter-hegemonic project.

The point is not to attack Hispanic Culture it is to not pretend it is some noble cause above all. Its okay to critique, it's not perfect, especially as a Marxist it is okay to do so.

It is now illegal to be anti-Zionist in the United States.

I repeat, IT IS NOW ILLEGAL TO BE ANTI-ZIONIST IN THE UNITED STATES.

I hope all of you who voted for Trump (or didn’t vote at all) on the basis that “Harris is worse” or “there are no differences between them” can go to sleep easy now. Trump was never a “peace guy” and was always in-bed with the Zionist entity’s far-right.

Part of why large cities may feel small or even cramped despite their size relative to other cities is the lack of actual space the average person has to freely move around. Most of the infrastructure available is built for only specific people in mind or even just a single person. The more buildings and infrastructure that gets built for a select few or even a select demographic, the harder it becomes for city dwellers to move around in their own space. Ironically enough, this can create the sense in most people that the city they inhabit is actually very small just off how limited their access to the city itself really is.

What is the material explanation for why intellectual elites hate Israel yet support Ukraine tooth-and-nail?

For context: I’m a college senior at an elite university in NYC. Even though pro-Palestine protesters here have been heavily repressed the vast majority of faculty are pro-Palestine/anti-Zionist and very openly so. However, they are also extremely pro-Ukraine which is something I don’t understand. They keep saying Putin is an evil dictator and Ukraine needs to be supported in order to “save global democracy” or some bullshit. Yet, “save global democracy” is the exact same excuse Zios use for why westerners should support Israel. If they can understand how “democracy” is a farce when it comes to Palestine why can’t they also see how it’s a farce in the Russia/Ukraine situation?

It’s bizarre how run-of-the-mill progressives like my profs sound a lot like neocons from 20 years ago. I’m only 22 but I do activism with people a lot older than me and they’ve made this point as well. “Spreading western democracy” was the excuse Bush used to invade Iraq. Now it’s used by DEMOCRATS and PROGRESSIVES to launch war against Russia. What gives? Also, why are cultured elites the ones sounding the most neocon now?

hello sorry im writing this while its almost 4 am and im feeling sort of blackpilled

im a bit of an apocalyptist schizo and i can see that the way things are going the technocratic class is probably just going to end up automating everything while the working class is liquidated out of existence. a major problem with technology is that it has a tendency to intensify the stakes of contradictions since the concentration of ownership it affords means that workers inevitably have fewer and fewer bargaining chips

the only way this can be avoided imo is through a political movement that is distributed throughout. imo the problem with a more centralized approach to achieving communism is that it doesn't really preserve any bargaining chips. i especially dont like approaches that are class collaborationist in some way because that always opens you up to corruption as well. if you dont have any real basis materially for worker control, then you are just hoping whoever is in charge has the right ideology which imo seems really idealist to me sorry

on the point of parties i feel like they are of course important but such things need money and property to truly be effective. you can only strike for as long as you can actually pay rent and eat. hence the cost of sustaining yourself is a fundamental limit to your bargaining power. currently things are much worse seeing as how much agriculture is owned by large corporations. beyond this, money is useful for expanding social outreach and controlling narratives. you can also use it to exert soft power so more people hear about you. it definitely feels like current parties could do more and part of this is the need to secure power and not just raise consciousness

for these reasons i think there is merit to integrating the party structure with worker cooperatives and stuff like what the acp is doing. i dont even like haz but he seems to be trying out new ideas that are worth actually trying out. another nice thing about the workers coop thing is that you have a bit of propaganda of success thing going on. when people see how successful and efficient such an enterprise, there is much more rhetorical force behind socialist arguments

also i feel like now is actually the time to really get going with this stuff? the trump administration has gut the reach which the glowies had so there is now a bit more space to like actually do communist projects. patchwork doesn't need to be neo-reacPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Prominent '48 Palestinian activist placed under Israeli administrative detention, triggering protest
The 73-year-old was arrested in his hometown of Umm al-Fahm, within Palestine’s 1948 borders, last Wednesday after Israeli police, intelligence agents and Border Police guards raided his family home, the Palestinian news agency Wafa said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-places-48-palestinian-activist-indefinite-detention

Fed Up With Israeli Displacement Orders, Palestinians in Gaza City Refuse to Leave
That morning on April 11, Adel Murad, a 43-year-old public school teacher, fled Shujaiya with nine of his family members to the western Al-Nasr neighborhood to escape Israel’s intense aerial bombardment. But they did not stay long; the following day, the family decided to defy the Israeli orders and return to their home.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-israeli-displacement-orders-kill-zone

Mass protests erupt in high schools in Turkey
The education trade unions argued that most of the teachers who were replaced were “dissidents” and that loyalty to the education system and the government, rather than merit and performance, were the main criteria for appointment.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/16/rruy-a16.html

Homelessness surges in Brussels
Around 4,000 people were reported staying in emergency shelters or in empty buildings with the owner’s approval, on the night of the count. Another 992 slept in public spaces including metro stations, marking a 23 percent increase since 2022. Out of these 992, more than 600 were in municipalities on the outskirts of Brussels, indicating that the problem is spreading beyond the city center.
https://www.politico.eu/article/homelessness-surge-brussels/
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