/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2552978
>yeah kanye is a nazi klansman but he made graduation
trve trve

>>2536644
Huh? I thought it was pretty well known that he was a quietist and by definition automatically a reactionary.
His bitter hatred for Hegel and German idealists, Love for monarchy, views on women, etc. He was a certified reactionary.
Shame, I liked his books and was highly fascinated by his philosophy.

>>2536678
> the ethical pursuit of personal goodness must be accompanied by a commitment to social justice, ensuring that all individuals have access to the education and resources
Such a straightforward and clear position arising from the basic principles of Buddhism yet so many failed to see it and Buddhism's history with socialism and progressivism is so sparse……..
Really wonderous how mitigated and meaningless religious teachings become once they're in the hands of a greedy authority.

>>2537008
I remember the despair I felt after seeing this photo on wikipedia's article for autism.
I used to stack up and order basically everything and was well known for it by family. It was like a person with down syndrome looking in a mirror for the first time

>>2555608
>Buddhism's history with socialism
t. norodom sihanouk
roerichism is somewhat related but is too orientalist in comparison

You mean the same Marx who called the idealist leftlibs of his time "Saints"?

Yet another thing Marx failed to consider 😢

>>2536352
>capitalism has given us the most conservative, religious and superstitious era in all humanity
>we are not more enlightened than the ancients
bruh they used to believe that the sun revolved around the earth and diseases were caused by demons
stop being retarded

>>2536352
Unrelated to the question. But how are we allowed to post images of antique roman vessels depicting the sodomisation of catamites, but not overly stylized cartoon drawings of the same thing? Are mods really that pernicious to modern art? I saw a similar thread that made this point before. I bet I could post a Balthus painting without issue.

>capitalism has given us the most conservative, religious and superstitious era in all humanity
Not even remotely true. We are not sending 100,000 children to war in Jerusalem because the Pope lied and said the Antichrist was there. We are not burning thousands at the stake for practicing medicine. Get a hold of yourself

The religious larp in modernity is a facade. The rise of fascist mythology is a performance. It's just something they use to cope in modern society, like how women use astrology. They're not going to go to kill themselves for it.

>we are not more enlightened than the ancients and history does not resemble social progress.
Now ironically, YOU'RE acting like the fascist with this stupid, nazi shit. Technology immediately debunks anything you say.

>>2536352
>In all reality, capitalism has given us the most conservative, religious and superstitious era in all humanity.
Bro they read the blood spills of goat guts before battle 2500 years ago. What the fuck do you mean?

>>2536506
Here's the thing, as soon as Norway gets a gov that isn't neolib, America seizes the SWF. It can't exist without the US stock market.

>>2536506
Wonder what happened to the Rødtanon party member. he told us a very hopeful vision with real power being gained at local levels but that was a while ago now.

>>2554615
>>2554658
That would be me. Unfortunately I’m a bit busy with work in computing to be politically active. But I do notice that people are warming up to the party. The leaders recently posted a poll up to 7% or more so we are gaining speed. Unfortunately so is FrP. I’m hoping Rødt can take a socially conventional approach to capture the youth. I’m glad this is being talked about on leftypol. I often get death threats on 4chan from maga americans and their bootlickers.

Norway wouldn’t exist without class struggle. The Sovereign Wealth Fund wouldn’t exist. It has always been a trad working class left country.

They will eat you if you do

I troll them by going to the nearest Viet restaurant and ordering a big bowl of Pho, eating it quietly, and thanking the nice old lady at the till. I call this trolling method "not being an autistic freak who pics political fights with randos."

A better one would be pointing out that America did not allow elections because the communists would have won, and no dem diem but most of the country in prison look up tragic hamlet program

Bump

Bump

to me the biggest sign of burger reich decline is that it has to choose between currency hegemony and reindustrialization. it cannot have both.

quote from another thread:

<America's currency hegemony and world reserve currency status depends on the debt being unpaid, and the debt being unpaid depends on the trade deficit, and the trade deficit depends on importing more than we export, and that depends on deindustrialization. Trump wants to reindustrialize, but he also wants currency hegemony. He can't have both. He has to pick between one or the other. He cannot be a neo-mercantilist advocate of reindustrialization, and an advocate of America's currency hegemony at the same time. The British and Dutch were also vanquished by this same crisis of hegemony. This is why China, at least the smarter officials in China, don't want to inherit America's unipolar imperial hegemony. It is a poison pill which destroys you in the long run. Multipolarity may prove to be unstable for different reasons, but unipolar hegemony is already proven to be unstable.

>>2552410
>he never completely lost his Narodnik influences. This is what the video posted above in >>2552208 is about; Despite its clickbait thumbnail, it's very well-researched and interesting.
Wrong, and Lih rebukes this idea in the first two chapters of the book OP linked. Lenin held up the Erfurt programe.

>>2552140
>Engels & Marx changing their opinions gradually on the colonialism/imperialism question
there wasn't a change of mind, at least in marx's case. there are many early writings where he points out the "injustices" and "unfairness" of imperialism, but he didn't really concern himself with morals, neither while young nor old. his priority was understanding the facts, rather than assigning them a "good" or "bad" label, but most people here are too stupid to notice that, or practice it themselves, too baby-brained

the labor aristocracy thing is one of the most misinterpreted and misquotes by annoying ultras. the word was referring to opportunists that join the labor movement aiming for leadership positions just because they see it as easy money and a way of avoiding getting a real job. retards now think it means when your job involves a desk or a computer

>>2552140
Stalin going from 'socialism in one country is impossible' to 'socialism is possible in one country [and we'll kill you if you disagree]' is always a banger.

Non of these breaks happened holy retard

For the first point Marx already thought colonialism was destruction he just lowkey conceded that ot was historically enviable

>>2552685
>Wrong
you didn't even watch it, also it cites many sources

>>2552836
>Except they did totally escalate
and? you don't telegraph your punches. you say you won't escalate, hoping that they will believe it and maybe not immediately crush you with the national army. think for a second, baby brain, do you also think the bolsheviks were social democrats?

>>2552869
>it was a way of saying "we don't want to escalate this to a national revolt,
<they did escalate though
>And? [strawman and moving the goalpost]
yawn

>>2552873
>they said X but did Y? how can this be!?
baby brain

>>2552877
you cannot read and are angry about nothing.

US to demand countries share data on ‘pathogens with epidemic potential’ in return for health aid
A draft template seen by the Guardian, to be used for memorandums of understanding with partner countries, offers funding to tackle diseases such as malaria, TB, HIV and polio, as well as for activities such as surveillance, and laboratory systems and electronic health records. It suggests that countries will be expected to gradually take over funding these areas themselves over the course of the five-year agreements.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/08/us-countries-share-data-pathogens-epidemic-potential-health-aid

Trump tells Senate Republicans to send federal health insurance money ‘directly to the people’
President Donald Trump proposed a compromise on health insurance payments, calling on Republicans to send federal payments that would go to insurers under the Affordable Care Act directly to Americans to bring an end to the government shutdown.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/trump-republicans-health-insurance.html

South Korean solar firm cuts pay and hours for Georgia workers as US officials detain imports
Qcells, a unit of South Korea’s Hanwha Solutions, said Friday that it will also lay off 300 workers from staffing agencies at its plants in Dalton and Cartersville, both northwest of Atlanta. The company says U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been detaining imported components at ports on suspicion that they contain materials that may have been made with forced labor in China, meaning it can’t run its solar panel assembly lines at full strength.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-solar-plant-qcells-furloughs-china-labor-f49d0579e0584d689f1feec36ff16ad1

Trump calls for ACA subsidies to be sent to consumers
There's no detailed policy proposal to go with the post, but other Republicans and think tanks have proposed changes along Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Great October Socialist Revolution inspires our struggle for a world free from class exploitation and imperialist wars
108 years ago, the victory of the October Revolution demonstrated the power of revolutionary class struggle and paved the way for a society free from exploitation, insecurity, poverty, unemployment and war. It became a turning point in the history of humanity, brought to the fore a superior form of social organization, socialism–communism, which is radically opposed to previous exploitative formations. The socialization of the means of production, centrally planned economy and worker participation represented a profound qualitative leap in social development, delivering significant social achievements for the people. Today, as humanity bleeds and is torn apart by imperialist wars and interventions, the first Decree On Peace issued by the new revolutionary power of the Soviets symbolically illuminates the path that the peoples must forge through their struggle.
https://www.eurcomact.org/m-article/The-Great-October-Socialist-Revolution-inspires-our-struggle-for-a-world-free-from-class-exploitation-and-imperialist-wars/

Scotland, NATO, and imperialism: Is the SNP a “threat to national security”?
The media this week, particularly in Scotland, has been ablaze with claims from – not one, not two, but three – members of Starmer’s cabinet that the elected government in Scotland is a “threat to national security”, due to its position on Labour’s militarism. Such statements were said by defence secretary John Healey in the House of Commons on Monday, again by Scotland secretary Douglas Alexander, and yet again by Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy. Lammy’s remarks came across as particularly patronising. Attempting to calm the situation, the Tottenham Labour MP tried to clarify that his pals’ comments were not aimed at ordinary Scots, but at their leaders. Then, attempting to address concerns that he was perhaps not in a position – from his London constituency – to speak on behalf of Scottish people, Lammy stated that he is actually 5 percent Scottish! For anyone not deluded by their recent 23andMe results, it is clear that claims by Westminster politicians that thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2552514
>>2553291
>cryogenics
Yeah right, and then the cryogenics company goes bankrupt and throws your body out into a landfill. LOL.
You seem to have completely missed OP's point, time relative to a point in space, be it another planet to stay on or moon with the combined time of the journey to travel and come back from would pass differently for the subject than it would here back on Earth. Watch interstellar.

test

>>2553830
didn't that cryo company mega fuck up a bunch of its people like chopping their heads off without consent and let bodies rot and other shit

>>2553830

It's been a while since I watched Interstellar and I don't remember it that well because I thought it was a stupid cheesy movie, but IIRC the time dilation they experience in Interstellar was from being on a planet orbiting very close to a rapidly spinning black hole's event horizon; it had nothing to do with the wormhole they passed through to get to the alien planet. A traversable wormhole is just a shortcut, making a line that is "straighter than straight" so to speak and circumventing the speed of light barrier by physically making the distance between the two points shorter by severely distorting the fabric of spacetime. This doesn't involve any FTL magic and does not violate causality because the two endpoints of the wormhole are in the same reference frame. Lets say we figure out how to build a stable traversable two-way wormhole between our solar system and Alpha Centauri, which is 4.3 lightyears away. This means that when you go through the wormhole to Alpha Centauri, you will have effectively travelled 4.3 years into the future. To an observer watching from the Sol side, your spaceship would simply vanish and it would not reappear at Alpha Centauri until 4.3 years later. From your perspective you would arrive at Alpha Centauri instantaneously but when you observe Earth you will see it as it was 4.3 years in the past because that's how long it takes for information to get there without the wormhole. There would be no time dilation or violations of causality and only through the wormhole could communication between these two locations be possible, not through normal space.

There's different schools of thought on this, and wormholes are purely theoretical sci-fi plot devices more than anything else, but I think that if stable traversable wormholes could exist, the two endpoints must by necessity exist in the same reference frame, otherwise the tidal forces between the two asynchronous endpoints would obliterate both the wormhole and any object or information attempting to traverse it. The wormhole must be a static and perfectly synchronized connection between two fixed points in spacetime, it could only exist for a very short time and would require enormous amounts of energy and probably some form of exotic matter that has negative mass to create and maintain a stable traversable tunnel for long enough to allow an object to pass through and reach the other side.

What's stopping America from helping China? A lack of class consciousness and human solidarity among the 99%. And of course the 1% - the capitalists - don't give a shit, because why would they do something unless it directly materially benefits them? Worldwide suffering can only be stopped by worldwide collective action.
>>2524339
Unfortunately superheroes, like most media, are a byproduct of the pro-capitalism zeitgeist so they are never really written with enough nuance to even begin to address the world's problems. The closest you get are indie stories or liberal apologia "I can't solve humanity's problems for them" as if somehow stopping crimes doesn't contradict that https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Superman-Peace-on-Earth

>>2487365
>What’s stopping China from helping Detroit?
Americans.

Mary Sheffield will work with AOC and Mamdani to save Detroit.

>>2551058
All Sheffield does is take pics with rappers.