/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Was it libcoded when Marx wrote a letter to Abe Lincoln, congratulating him on his electoral victory? Would Marx have been excited about Zohran Mamdani winning?

TIL Lenin used to term his beliefs as 'revolutionary social democracy'. I was reading 'Hands off Rosa Luxemburg!'; the various opinions people have on Trotsky or Luxemburg aside, I was surprised to find that Lenin apparently spoke of his own beliefs this way given what social democracy is nowadays.

>“… from the beginning we declared (see One Step Forward, Two Steps Back): We are not creating a special ‘Bolshevik’ tendency; always and everywhere we merely uphold the point of view of revolutionary Social Democracy. And right up to the social revolution there will inevitably always be an opportunist wing and a revolutionary wing of Social Democracy”

Apparently it's just another one of those things that got co-opted over time and he switched explicitly to terming it communism after 1917 or so. I wonder what his motives were for calling it social democracy? I know it does not exactly matter what labels we stick on what, but I find looking at the history of terminology revealing

>japanese right wing loses big during tokyo election
>japanese right wing win big cause all the votes went to other right wing parties
japanese communists also lost some of their most commie blocs they held for decades, reiwa didnt even gain a single seat

Is it almost pretty much a guarantee at this point? Soon?
The longer the bourgeoisie states exist and hold nukes the greater the threat becomes, in the statistical paradoxes of infinity in all probabilities they will one day have to be used, since a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie can only be finite.

80,000 Hours researchers estimate the chance of nuclear war over the next century is 20–50%
https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/nuclear-security/

Fuck Debord, Deleuze, Guattari, Adorno, Zizek, all the Frankfurt school, all other postmodernist, critical theory, all these indecipherable philosophers. I despise these social fascist lickspittles. Why are they even considered remotely socialist? It's like they didn't take a single lesson from The German Ideology, they read Marx encyclopedically but don't even pay attention to what he's saying! All they see is the long winded style of writing he inherited from Hegel and replicate that rather than spending a moment to realize that their philosophy is useless. Like liberals they pick out a few 'radical' sounding things and ignore the real work on political economy!

Their understanding of socialism is completely liberal because it is just taking the aesthetics and going 'Well, they had some good points. But I think we need a new way'. Liberal scum. Always they end up supporting NATO and social democracy, or they become ridiculous anarchists. The post-modernists have had a terrible effect on socialism. It is the ideology of neoliberal capitalism, incompatible with Marxism and communism. Post modernists need their delusions beaten out of them to show that the real world does have meaning. Postism is completely rubbish. All 'posts' are ridiculous theories, that included Post-colonialism. Fundementally they are bourgeois, because it is rejecting real progress.

All these lickspittles say is the most radical things ever. "Let's abolish capitalism and all exploitation! Let's abolish time! Let's abolish the current way we see the world!". But then they don't do anything about it! And lots of what they are asking for and conflating with the class struggle is ridiculous like paedophilia and time abolishing. These ones are the ideological fault for postisms and identity politics becoming such a big thing. Nobody real can read their work. Even Marx tried to make his work readable even though at times it is difficult. But they revel in how complex and difficult it is. This is for a reason - their audience is the petit-bourgeois, not the working class.


There has never been a good philosopher. Hegel might have been useful to Marx, but once Marx transcended him he should never be read (Lenin is wrong on this). The only real philosophers are the ones who are working in the struggle. The fascists should be ostracised and their books burned. I despise them and I am angered whenever I hear one of their evil names.

I can’t be the only one suffering from an extreme amount of ShitLib fatigue right now.

I’m at my last end with these people. Imagine taking part in militant mass protests only to insist the solution is to vote Democrat and throw emotional blackmail on anyone who doesn’t. Just like how liberals showed up to the George Floyd uprising five years ago with voter registration forms, liberals are already showing up at the LA uprising protests to convince people to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections last year. How much longer before libs start showing up with Ukrainian flags and attempt to make the protests about keeping the US in NATO or whatever? They’re also already blaming “white anarchists” for the more militant actions despite footage showing the vast majority of people defending themselves from the pigs are Mexicans and Central Americans themselves.

Do liberals honestly believe this brutality wouldn’t have happened under Harris? Biden and Harris sent goons to brutalize anti-genocide protesters all last year. I fucking hate this.

Anyone else feel the same?

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The fuck are y’all screaming and crying about India v pakistan, iran v israel, and Ukraine conflicts? It’s literally weak, scrawny, and fat wannabe tough guys (who basically never train) fighting each other on a country level just to grab whatever last shred of dignity they have and cherish it before dying pathetically to a drone or shell. None of that shit is going to affect you, but it is fun to watch the explosions get set off along with the goofier clips of the idiots who sign up to die in these wars arbitrarily or who get arrested for terrorism once the fighting dies down.

Like fuck, you guys do realize that these wars will never go anywhere or amount to anything? They never have.

Norwegian communist party is now at 7,3% with a consistent and steady trend that is growing rapidly. Rødt is now the largest left-wing party outside of the main legacy party Arbeiderpartiet.

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