/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

The last time we had strong multipolarity, it ended up in two world wars. The reason Pax Romana, Pax Mongolica, Pax Britannica, and Pax Americana are named that way is because there was one dominant power keeping trade routes open, and not having huge conflicts with rivals.

multipolarism is a recipie for geopolitical conflict

>>1679071
You can't oppress the world to unite it. Peace based on injustice is war.

>>1679071
>>1679071
we also got multiple successful socialist revolutions
also the conditions are also vastly different, a handful of colonial powers competing isnt the same as the many regional powers emerging among a globalized and a lot more industrialized world

Anahita Ratebzad is one woman leader from the top of my head. But women are less involved in political activity overall because of mentality etc. inherited from before socialism, still there were plenty women in political work and just because you don't see them in history books with nice big portraits doesn't mean they are nonexistent. Btw they should put on that name thing we had during international womens' day again sometime.

>>1679209
Margot Honecker was a loyal and committed Marxist-Leninist, and defended the legitimate German State to the very end.🚩🫡

AES was still patriarchal

>>1679209
>she literally had blue hair and pronouns
wow Margot Honecker was really ahead of the curve

terrorism literally isn't real pun intended

its just a pejorative used by Nation-States against violence they don't like. The only remotely consistent definition of terrorism is violence from Non-State Actors so just say that instead of some bullshit ass term that more or less exists to justify further violence by going MUH TEBBOBRIBBISM while blowing a hospital full of dying children.

>>1669822
USS Liberty is done by Israel, not Jews in general

>>1678968
Are you being sarcastic?

>>1669719
Not really, there has been a few cases of individual IRA members targetting civilians, but very generally they warned before their attacks on economic target, however it did happen to kill civilians as a side effect if the biritish authorities didn't do their jobs properly (by incompetence or malice) however out of all the belligerent of the troubles, the IRA are the ones who proportionally killed the less civilians 30% of their kills were civilians, wheras for the british army it was 50% and it was 86% For the unionists

>>1674698
Poverty eradication =/= socialism retard

>>1678748
its kind of absurd to consider these figures reasonable or honest when we know in reality that eg; nazi germany was ran by the board of directors of IG Farbin

>>1678853
Yes, nazi GERMANY.

The different material conditions of italy and germany gave rise to different arrangements to preserve capitalism (ie, the worker-bouj relationship), stop coping by insisting on doubting on the source while you have no basis for it at all

>>1678908
>doubting on the source
I just dont think you can call something publicly owned when the state isn't controlled by the public.

>>1678754
Poverty eradication = socialism, retard

>>1678517
>muh substack

Read theory

>>1678536
>schizoposter telling others to get their head out their ass

Lmao ok

>>1678510
Mods let idiots on this site get away with murder. They say nothing serious is discussed here, well, that’s because mods let the loudest, dumbest schizos on the board suck all the air out of the room. Every single thread eventually devolves into this bullshit

>>1678524
what kind of a world do we live in where if you're Jordan Belford and have robbed people of billions you get 22 months in a fancy jail and a movie made out of your life by Martin Scorses where DiCaprio plays you but if I do a gas station stickup I get 8 years in a federal penitentiary?
fuck amerikkka

Moved to >>>/siberia/469785.

>>1677918
"Think Like a Lazy man" is not the sociological breakthrough you think it is.

>making work efficient === just leech of society
ok

>>1677961
If you strip away the intentionally provocative language the only thing they are wrong about is the AI timeline (too conservative)

increasing the efficiency of a process requires the intellectual labour of considering that process and eliminating unnecessary steps. The past labor of automation and planning decreases the socially necessary labor time required to create a commodity by living labour. Marx knew this. None of what Gilbreth was saying was new.

>>1678382
we can't expect our enemies to read theory, and it seems we can't even expect it from our comrades

There's already one available(though some of the Google Docs are down), it's in >>>/edu/4210

^That said, /edu/ is /deadu/.

>>1677756
Ah i didnt see, though some of the links on the doc seem to be down with a few archived via archive is

>>1678258
?

>>1678258
Because a bunch of right wingers show up to threaten it. Like it ain’t hard to understand.

>>1678269
This.
>Host event
>Fascists show up
>Anti-Fascists show up
If fascists started doing anything else other than shitting themselves over le troons then antifa would be there too.

>>1666157
>3rd picrel
huh can't believe i'm not the only one who came to that conclusion

>>1678273
I specifically remember that video where some red faced boomer in sunglasses is in front of a mob of rightoids, and they’re all red faced and angry. He tries to rush them and is pushed back, and he keeps yelling “WHY DO DRAG QUEENS NEED ANTIFA PROTECTION?!?!”

And it’s like, my guy, because you’re there. There’s nothing hard to understand. Like if you post on Facebook that you’re going to storm a drag event, then antifa will show up to stop you. But to these freaks the fact that someone shows up to stop them proves that something must be wrong.

LA City Council to vote on rent control amendment amid looming rent freeze expiration
The Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote on Tuesday on a proposal meant to limit anticipated rent increases for properties that are subject to the city's rent-control law. The proposal was previously delayed during last week's council meeting by Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez, who wanted more time for his colleagues to consider the idea. The proposal was prompted by the pending Jan. 31, 2024, end of a pandemic-era rent freeze placed on rent-stabilized units.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-city-council-to-vote-on-rent-control-amendment-amid-looming-rent-freeze-expiration/3267274/

Georgia prosecutors seek protective order after leak of videos in Trump case
The request came after several media outlets published details of videotaped statements that former Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro gave as part of plea deals to avoid being tried as racketeering co-defendants with the former president. The Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis had previously asked for a protective order for the discovery materials in the case. But citing the leak of several of the “proffer” interviews, Willis renewed the request on Tuesday to Fulton county superior court judge Scott McAfee.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/14/trump-video-leak-georgia-case-ellis-powell-protection

The Biden administration is slow to act as millions are booted off Medicaid, advocates say
The projections from the health consulting firm Avalere come as states undertake a sweeping reevaluation of the 94 million people enrolled in Medicaid, government’s health insurance for the neediest Americans. A host of problems have surfaced across the country, including hourslong phone wait times in Florida, confusing government forms in Arkansas, and children wrongly dropped from coverage in Texas.
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How The Israel Lobby Silenced Democratic Dissent
As Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip rolls into its sixth week, the United States continues to offer its overwhelming support to its ally. When asked about the chance of a ceasefire last week, President Joe Biden shot back, “None. No possibility.” According to the Gaza Health Ministry, over 11,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel’s assault. In 2023, Israel is scheduled to receive $3.8 billion in annual American military assistance as part of a decades long agreement — and may receive another $14 billion, after Biden’s emergency aid package passed the House of Representatives. A ceasefire resolution introduced by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) has been cosponsored by just 17 other lawmakers. Meanwhile, the House has censured Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for her rhetoric in support of Palestine. Along with 212 Republicans, 22 Democrats voted to censure Tlaib. What could explain this mostly unflinching and unexamined backing of Israel among Republicans and Democrats alike? In large part, this is a political moment created by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobbying group. In 2022, for the first time, AIPAC targeted Democrats in primaries — including a Jewish, self-proclaimed pro-Israel Democrat. Now, every Democrat likely knows that supporting anything short of the full AIPAC line — which currently equates to unwavering support of Israel’s siege — means that, in your next election, you may just be spent into the ground.
https://www.levernews.com/how-the-israel-lobby-silenced-democratic-dissent/

CP of Venezuela, Christmas without imprisoned workers
Christmas without imprisoned workers :The PCV criticized the call for "Merry Christmas" made once again by the Government, "as if a decree of happiness could be enough to cover up the situation that the oppressed majorities in our country are going through". "A situation characterized by the destruction of salaries and pensions; by the fractioned payment of Christmas bonuses that -in addition- are calculated with incomes that have been frozen for more than a year", explained Andrade. "The government of Nicolás Maduro is approaching a policy of zero salary for workers and this is resented, in momenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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marxism is a religion. the party is the church. Marx is the father, Engels the holy spirit, and Lenin the messiah. the bureaucrats are the bishops. Capital is our holy scripture. the Vecheka our crusade. Deniers and falsifiers are demons in the payroll of the demiurge of capital and statism. if you deny this, you are not only an apostate, but a sinner also. you will learn the marxist ways and you will worship the marxist texts. if not, you will be liquidated by the sword of Archangels Dzierzhyski and Menzhynski.

TOTAL. PROLETARIAN. GOD-BUILDING.

I used to be an atheist, but then I sought out god and something responded. I dunno, life is a mystery.

Socialist computing, socialist religion, socialist anime, socialist coffee. STOP socialists need to stop doing this. Socialism is about economics and politics and that's where it should stay. Creating socialist versions of everything is a path to totalitarianism and dilutes the name too. Stop trying to dictate everything.

>while traditional religion was false and was used for the purposes of exploitation
This is false and its a misreading of Marx too. Marx's critique of religion (Western Christianity and secular Judaism) is that religion preaches salvation in an otherworldly transcendent realm and that political struggle is simply earthly. Does this apply to other sects of Judaism, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism? Probably not. The second is that religion is a form of false consciousness that masks class oppression. This false consciousness theory is really simple and has been left aside by everyone from Foucault to Zizek.

As for religion being exploitative, point out to me one idea that isn't exploitative? Or rather one set of ideas that aren't tied up in social power relations. Management studies and geography are tools of the powerful just like anything else. If anything religion has a better track record because religion is more accessible to people than being a historian or a political scientist. Countless rebels and revolutionaries have been religious, just look at John Brown in America. Look at what's going on in Gaza right now.

fuck no. not even anti-religion myself, but this is worse idealist bullshit than most actual religious people