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>>2361285
They’ll all be getting the bullet during the revolution.

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>>2360949
funny how the right does shit like but I do shit like this (pic related) and I'm the grifter

hmm

>>2361291
Firefighters/EMTs getting ambushed and not the cops is fucked

>>2359130
>China
Only if the other person is below 16.

>>2361291
>>2361297
>>2361720
I half expect it's an op because literally who has beef with firefighters and EMTs, meanwhile cops TIRELESSLY try to conflate themselves with the same as "first responders" in order to launder people's justified hatred for them.



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>Socially degenerate as the libs, economically out of touch as the Neo-cons
>the literal worst of both worlds
Still, why did libertarianism become strangely popular among various types of popular media figures, like comedians, filmmakers, and actors?
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>>2360368
I think that's an over-simplification. My understanding of socialist/Marxist ideology is the idea that by organizing major functions of society under a centralized state authority a prosperous & harmonious society can be explicitly described and engineered (DotP being an example of this idea). Whereas libertarianism supposes that a prosperous & harmonious society is in the collective interest and that individuals will generally act to move society in this direction. As such the state needs merely protect the people from abuses of their freedom from internal and external entities, and limit violent/destructive forms of conflict resolution among society's constituent individuals and institutions.
>>2360631
Libertarianism is a pretty broad field of thought and unfortunately there are many who simply decide they ought to be able to do whatever they please and think no further. It is obvious to me that a society needs means of mitigating destructive individual behavior. However it is preferable that as few of these means as possible are in the hands of the sovereign state, as it it the state itself that is generally the greatest threat to the society it protects.

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>>2360924
>Libertarianism is a pretty broad field of thought and unfortunately there are many who simply decide they ought to be able to do whatever they please and think no further.
But the fact is that "do whatever I want" (including drugs, sex, and filth) was the primary appeal for 99% of its supporters, especially Gen X and older millennials. It's hard to overstate how many assholes identified as libertarianis online in the 2010s because they weren't moralistic Christians like the Republicans but weren't "SJW's" either and a common point of comparison was claiming the "SJW's" were actually just like like conservative Christians. From what I've looked up, three quarters of those former youtube skeptics are trying to be breadtubers (like Amazing Atheist) and the rest have gone further to the right and adopted some form of RW socialism.

>>2361152
I don't care that a bunch of grift-tubers moved on to another grift after their previous one became less profitable.
And yes, many people are introduced to libertarian ideas because of our general stance on recreation drugs. It is easy to intuit the state's insidious desire for control when you can't get high on weekends because Pres. Nixon said it was communist 60 years ago.

>>2361152
>But the fact is that "do whatever I want" (including drugs, sex, and filth)
You don't libertarianism for that, mainstream parties already offer you endless opportunities in this regard. To say nothing about infinitely better financial possibilities for would be politicians - no successful businessman will "lobby" you to de-regulate his industry (as it would be losing twice for him) but all of them will gladly contribute their time and money to push some "reasonable" "regulations" kek.
Even communism is a better proposition for would be rulers - chances of winning in developed countries are small but potential gains measured in power and influence are tremendous. It's a high-risk high-reward option. Libertarianism is clearly the very bottom of the barrel here: a political party trying to disarm political parties? kek

>>2361931
btw, when Americans banksters were doing their last push for establishing the Central Bank in America (the ultimate regulation of the banking sector) they literally bribed 100,000 journalists across the United States to praise the supposed benefits of central banking. The best investment in the history of mankind.
File rel. doesn't go into the conspiratorial part of these shenanigans but should be of interest for everybody as it clearly exposes the fraudulent characteristic of "modern banking". Complex topics described in simple terms - it was evidently intended to be read by the members of congress who aren't known to be the sharpest tools in the drawer kek.
Serious libertarians (I am not talking about 14yo "libertarians" here) are concerned with much more important stuff than "drugs and filth".



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How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?

<Things are made of matter!

>What is matter made of?
<Out of atoms!
>What are atoms made of?
<Subatomic particles!
>What are subatomic particles made of?
<Strings/They are excitations of quantum fields!
>What are strings/quantum fields made of?

Where does it end?
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>>2361176
here we are I suppose. This is the ultimate memetic weapon that is effective on both human and machine because it is the quagmire that exists within logic itself.

>>2361176
maybe it's more inexpressible than ambiguous. like the full decimal expansion of pi is a precise value, but we would need infinite time to calculate it, so it is inexpressible, rather than ambiguous. in fact, it only gets less ambiguous the more time you spend calculating it, but you never finish calculating it.

>>2361570
You can use a numbers system based on pi == 1. Numbers are an abstraction anyway

>>2361570
the point is that ambiguity isn't a lack of knowledge it's primordial substance.

>>2361903
you simply "crystallize" little bits of fluid ambiguity into non-ambiguous states but also there's still liquid ambiguity in between each tiny crystal.



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How would you respond to the Absurdist critique that life was absurd and will be absurd before and after capitalism?

What exactly about the communist mode of production will alleviate the absurd?

I'm a communist but don't really know how to respond to this.
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>>2360874
I never studied philosophy in university, but where do you think the scientific method comes from, dumbass? From fucking aliens?

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>>2344859
Absurdism is devoid of any material analysis or critique and makes it point with a blanket statement followed by tugging at your inner torment. I don't usually call shit reddit but it embodies reddit with its obsession with pointless ideologies.

Truthfully, I haven't engaged with it much but when people who enjoy absurdist philosophy explain it to me it's usually something like finding comfort in the conscious, irrational choice to keep living. This, besides being empty self-help garbage, doesn't really impede anything in Marxism or the (good) tendencies in Anarchism.

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>>2344859
The absurdist claim is more so a defense of existentialist meaning of life. Existentialism arose from modernity, and the reason it rose from modernity is because before modernity there was a machine set in place by the ruling class of society called "God" and "The Church."

any questions about existence, or about purpose in life could be answered by turning to god or the holy bible for answers
>why do I exist?
<you exist because God gave you life etc…

once the burgers started the revolution against the old fuedalist lords, one of the first things that the burgers did was take a page from many of the enlighentment thinkers and start to move away from the idea that God is the ultimate decider of things; and instead move towards a more humanist perspective.
after all god decided who was a king or a lord or serf, under this new democracy; every (theoretically) is meant to start from 0.
<fast forward to the end of the 19th century
it turns out that structurally, capitalist liberal democracy did indeed not have lords and serfs, but instead we find that the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, sort of feel similar to that of Lords and peasants etc… except now we also did away with one more thing; The system that was held in place to distract us from existential meaning had been abolished, and in it's place is only the social relations left by capitalism - which isn't good; the social relations under capitalism are inherently alienating, not just from an economic standpoint, but from a social standpoint
>I need to work a 9 to 5 job to survive
>I need to make sure my children are able to survive in this capitalist society
>I cannot truly live my life how I want to, because my life is mediated by capital

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>>2344859
they may be right right, but i would rather life be absurd and comfortable and with healthcare rather than with unnecessary cruelty and suffering. we can figure out 'the meaning of life' after we defeat capitalism and fascism and imperialism.

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what's there to critique? people will experience existential dread even in gommunism



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Read Settlers/Land Back discourse will ultimately lead to Zionism if taken to its logical extreme. Zionists justify their occupation of Palestine by saying they are the indigenous people of "Judea". I know this is meme history, but if you go back far enough, everyone is a settler. There's a difference between being indigenous and having indigenity. The latter is based on one's continuous connection to the land over a course of centuries, whereas the former is just where a group of people are originally from. When the USSR fell apart, Russia went through a period of "competing sovereignties" where a bunch of the ethnic republics tried to declare independence under the banner of indigenous self-determination, which undermined and weakened Russian sovereignty and its place on the global stage as a whole. Kurds are attempting to create a second Israel under the same premise. There are even scenarios I support in theory, like Armenia reclaiming its lost territory, but in practicality would lead to more conflict and strife.
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>>2359360
Your position is too extreme because you support Mass Deportations of workers and oppressed nations in order to restore the demographics of the Pre-Colonial world (even though Settler-Colonialism should have never happened, we do not have a Time Machine to undo all of the permanent demographic changes that have happened throughout the world since 1492, and advocating for Mass Deportations in order to restore Pre-Colonial demographics is a Reactionary position), but you are right that every Nation/Ethnic group needs their own Country in order to achieve Global Communism as this is in line with the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union , as shown in my World Map of all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR (I plan on posting an improved version of this Map in the near future, which will finally divide Sub-Saharan Africa into an appropriate number of SSRs based on its Ethno-Linguistic demographics, which I have been thoroughly researching over the last couple months) which will be created after the inevitable World War III between the U$ and PRC escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR that will place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

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Malcolm X was asked about zionism in 1963 before his split with Elijah Muhammad in 1964. Here was his answer.

>>2360270
Still have the jewish ethnostate in your map of the future global USSR huh King Lear?

Why haven't you updated your map and removed that zionist propaganda from it?

>>2360430
Dudes a hoi4 head kek

>if taken to its logical extreme
gamerchair socialists, go outside and speak to your undocumented slaves before they all get sent to death camps. There's still time! Hurry!

>>2359489
>Stalin supported the Jewish right to self determination
>They always look at what people say rather than examining what they do.
What Stalin did: cynically exploited Jews as if they were chess pieces on the geopolitical board, utilizing their nascent Zionist project to weaken the British empire



 

Why does it feel like so much “anti-imperialism” has very little — if anything — to do with anti-imperialism and is simply Muslim identity politics?

For instance, why would anyone compare Pakistan to Palestine, when the former is a sovereign nation that was a close US ally during the Cold War and the latter a stateless nation that’s been fighting a 77+ year guerrilla war against one of the most brutal armies in the world and is now facing an all-out genocide? Pakistan and India are both bourgeois states with close ties to the US that both frequently imprison communists. To compare Pakistan to Palestine, in that western activists have a moral duty to hold mass protests waving Pakistani flags and boycott anything Indian is fucking stupid.

Yeah, I’m not shilling for India. But this shit is theoretically weak af.

Also, why does it seem like in every political conflict involving Muslims (except for China vs the Uyghurs) leftists always insist on taking the “Muslim side”? Look at Ethiopia vs Somalia or Christians vs Muslims in Nigeria, for instance. During the Cold War this would have made perfect sense, because the side fighting against the side backed by the West could be allied with the USSR and utilized to fight western capitalists. Today, not so much.

I’d love to understand the logic here.
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>>2358501
total price = total value*

>>2358496
Islam + maoism … oh lord
Retardus Maximus ova here

>>2261643
I find very little in arabic is pronounced the way it is transliterated into english.

>>2358488
same as any bourgeoise state

>>2258756
>Muh muslim identity politics
Zionist spotted, opinion discarded



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What do you think about the lumpenproletariat I know Marx did not have high standards for them but nowadays, what do you think you think about it I wanted to know because I am part of the lumpenproletariat
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>>2359439
Based Debord reader.
People on this board can't be assed to look at the etymology of the word and the definition of Lumpen/Lump (rag, by extension scoundrel), so basically they start all these stupid debates about how someone on the dole is a lumpenprole, and teachers are lumpenproles, and everyone I don't like like lumpenprole, it never stops and it's pathetic.

>>2359444
everyone I don't like is lumpenprole*
it's always the logical conclusion of these threads

>>2359341
This piece is fucking lovely 😍.

I guess for my two cents, I see the lumpen as the peasant strata of the cities, an ambiguous reservoir capital can drain proles out of. Like the peasants, the role of the lumpen is ambiguous. IMO the lumpen are still a necessary element in revolution in the imperial core. I see the lumpen as a kind of self-exploitation of the working class not so different from the peasants, the petty-bourgeoisie, the capitalist family unit or worker cooperatives.

Reminder that Marx was going to flesh out his full theory of class in volume 3 but died before doing so and Engels' edition of the manuscript cuts off there.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch52.htm

Historically they always kill communists. No exceptions, it was even a lumpen that betrayed the Panthers and to this day he defends it well after any sort of "deal" would have enticed him.

Now the actual label of lumpen is all over the place and is very clearly used by Marx as an insult in most of his texts. The only one it makes sense for are criminals, though there were times where being unemployed was illegal. Using it for the unemployed, irregular employed, or students is ridiculous, which is why in Capital the term doesn't exist. It's called the reserve army of labor which itself is also stratified. Some argue it's still relevant because the term appears in the Grundrisse but those are his scattered and unfinished notes and shouldn't be held OVER Capital.

And this pol-pot revival fetish on shitting on students and calling them lumpen is the dumbest shit in the world. For the developed world, education is a prereq for entering the workforce.

>>2359110
And we also see the Indonesian death squads ran by gangsters or the Nazi Dirlewanger Brigade which was specifically for counter-insurgency terror. Historically, they never fail to be a lumpen-organized force of reaction. It's not really the goal of theory to fetishize entire classes of people just because they're poor, like antifa does. I mean, antifa at times exploited the lumpen by using them to squat on property to do meth in, rather than any sort of comradery.

I think the real problem, is that people moralize class which is not the point. You're not inherently evil for being lumpen, but we're (I'm at least) not idealist liberals, who fantasize about a mass "waking up" of a class that historically has not aided socialist causes.

>>2361126
Like right here he's putting lumpen into a distinct category, because they're (mostly) part of the proletariat because they don't have Capital. If it's some RICO act dude then he obviously owns Capital even if it's illegal. It's not really hard to understand, this confusion on class is just from people refusing to read Marx.



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the event of liberals winning the culture war has actually been more detrimental to world the wide communism than every American backed bourgeoisie totalitarian fascist killing since ww2
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>>2360041
>made by western bourgoise
very special boy who thinks idpol only exists in the "west"

>>2359931
how do you material revolution without cultural revolution


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>liberals "won" the culture war

Y'know if we look all the way back to Bismarck's "Kulturkampf", whoever declares "culture war" is usually the one that ends up losing it, in no small part because it's interrupting the seemingly organic, fluid, and stable nature of "culture" to impose something from the top-down. In Bismarck's case he unironically got Catholics to organize and develop a stronger cultural identity under persecution. In America, both liberals and conservatives take turns on either side of the culture war.

George W. Bush tried to turn gay marriage into a wedge issue. The result? The LGBT community garnered more sympathy (in no small part because groups like the Westboro Baptist Church pissed everyone off and became one of the most visible faces of homophobia).

After Bush, you've got a more "grassroots" culture war emerging from the liberal camps in the aftermath of Occupy Wall Street and probably stemming from disappointment in Obama's second term. You got all the land acknowledgements, endless articles about "mansplaining, manspreading" privilege discourse entered the modern lexicon, feminists yelled at people for oggling women in bikinis, you couldn't read a movie or video game review without hearing about patriarchy or whatever. Well, in comes some sympathy for the Right as liberal killjoys policed peoples' language.

Then Trump wins and you get these loud expressions of White Nationalism and Racism and the like, and these start to fall apart because they're the dog that caught the car as it were. Maybe some edgy teen jokes about the Holocaust not being real to "trigger the libs"; but the actual requirements of prosecuting a culture war? Trump's too lazy to do.

Now we're in the second Trump term and he's going for an even harsher form of persecution so right wingers can "win" the culture war, but you can see the results in real time: his approval rating is falling, even among his previous supporters, and people are getting deeply upset over masked thugs kidnapping random brown folks off the street.

Who knows what comes next, though. Looks like the libs are too scared of their own social agenda because they can recognize "fuck white men" only cost them votes. You've got this "abandon the groups" shit that some democratic strategists are promoting. Maybe we'll get a reprieve? Though they seem to be breaking out the "think of the poor bipoc business owners" stufPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2359868
Theyve had victories but right now theres a backlash occuring



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how do we radicalize normies to simply reject capitalism?
If you have any ideas for memes that share praxis without being gay, feel free to share
You know, things like how merely taxing billionaires isn't enough, but by social ownership of the means of production, the profit would be shared equally, stuff like that
How to reach lib-brained people that think any meaningful change is either bad or impossible, and should be avoided either way?
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>>2360301
>You take people who have already realized that the system is self destructive and unsustainable and you steer them away from the wrong solutions (fascism, conservatism, criminality, terrorism, adventurism, revanchism, suicide, etc.) and towards the correct solution (class war waged from a proletarian standpoint).

Okay, so, how? They aren't taking the class war pill, and half of them would be class traitors anyway.
I can post statistics about how (non socialist btw) European nations are btfoing America in education, health, happiness, prosperity, etc, and none of it will matter because
>muh freedoms
A radical shift is needed in perspective, hence radicalization. How do you convince someone that WE the people own every natural resource here?

you are not going to believe this but its actually very easy

1. know what youre talking about (requires reading, you actually need to do it too)
2. talk about what you know (more often than not, it works if you know what youre talking about)

its yet another thread about """"""radicalization""""" thread from people who dont even know how communism works

>>2360833
I don't need to know how communism works, I know how capitalism works

>>2360297
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etqNTyEINTQ
check out benjamin studebaker, but tldr for the interview
>neoliberalism in the 21st century alongside the service economy has entirely destroyed any coherency in the working classes, let alone in the term "the masses"
>it is impossible to renew the large scale politics of the 20th century in the new one due to this and will always fail because the circumstances have changed regardless of how good any ideology is
imo i agree with him, i think you need something to add to socialist ideology in order to get people in nowadays, religion perhaps?



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahanism
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/20/meir-kahane-israel-kach-ben-gvir-long-dead-extremist

Why Anti-Kahanism? Kahanism is literally illegal in Israel, but it's de facto Israeli state policy. It's a safer way to say anti-Zionist while still being able to have the Israeli left on your side, and if people in Israel start bashing you for "anti-semitism", say what they're doing is technically illegal by Israeli law by supporting Kahanism.
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>>2358536
I don't doubt that there were survivors of the holocaust among the settlers, but what I'm trying to say is that the locution of "founded by holocaust survivors" implies a causal relationship, and one which ignores the fact that the zionists were enthusiastic collaborators with the Nazis even as their fellow Jews were being oppressed.

>>2358273
this is correct. and if you read my followup post I discuss how the founder of the settler movement was the daughter of lehi terrorists.

>>2358549
>one which ignores the fact that the zionists were enthusiastic collaborators with the Nazis even as their fellow Jews were being oppressed.
well that's what was also said in the original post you responded to. I don't know if you finished reading it or not:
>>2358508
<The kind of people who were kapos or opportunists or collaborators in the death camps were more likely to survive until the end of the war than those who were not so naturally many of these people settled israel and became willing participants in even the early atrocities like the nakba

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>>2333160
>) they cannot move to the left of the two state solution. a policy specifically tailored to be impossible and act as a euphemism for maintaining the status quo for sickos with international relations degrees.
I saw a youtube comment from an israeli that debunks the two state solution. That wasn't his goal, but it was the result of how he spoke about it.

>Inside the Zionist Far-Right: The "Kahanist Plan"



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