/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

'Stop gaslighting me!': Florida Democrats' Senate nominee and party chair have heated call over socialism
"Nikki wants her to back away from DSA, from socialism," said one person who spoke with Nixon. "She's listening to other people saying that they're afraid, they're scared — the Jewish members and the Hispanic caucus. But to Angie, Nikki doesn't want Angie to be who Angie is. Angie has already done the backing-away." On the call, Nixon told Fried, "You never gave a care about me from the beginning, and now you're telling me how to run my campaign?" according to the source. At one point, the source said, Nixon yelled, "stop gaslighting me!"
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/florida-democrats-angie-nixon-nikki-fried-socialism
https://archive.ph/8C0bC

US Postal Service issues rules to tighten mail-in voting if court gives OK
USPS said it ‌was issuing its 95-page rule so it could take immediate effect if a court lifted its injunctions on it and be in place for the upcoming election. Under the rule, USPS would not deliver ballots in ​states that do not comply with the rule's new standards.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-postal-service-issues-rules-tighten-mail-in-voting-if-court-gives-ok-2026-08-22/

Trump threatens $5bn lawsuit over liberal national guard policy report
The report released 13 July argues that the National Guard deployment in Washington DC, Memphis and Los Angeles failed to have a measurable impact on crime in these cities despite an estimated cost of $1.7bn. The report looks at the falling rate of crime in cities without a National Guard intervention and concludes that they are not statistically different from the rate of decrease in those that had the intervention, noting that violent crime began falling well before Trump took office in 2025.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/trump-lawsuit-threat-nationPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

A Look Back at SDS, Michael Harrington and the Decline of Marxism
According to a familiar narrative, protest is a kind of parlor game of privileged students. When it occurs on Ivy League campuses, it gets its fair share of attention, creating an impression that social/political movements based on long tradition have their point of origin there. (The 170 students arrested at the City College of New York’s Gaza encampment on April 30, 2024, largely people of color, had a median family income less than a quarter of that of the students arrested at Columbia. The news coverage—of their pepper spraying—and reported tasering—and broken teeth and bones—was delayed a few days and then relegated to the back pages. (See Sarah Baum in the Progressive Magazine) In Campus Wars, Kenneth J. Heineman points out that student mobilization against the Vietnam War–and in support of free speech and the right to organize on campus–arose initially at publicly funded state universities. Enmeshed in a hot war and a cold war, awash in DoD grants for war-related research, the universities assumed a division of labor: Elite schools turned out foreign policy “experts”; while state schools supplied teachers and engineers for the home front as well as international policing experts needed to shore up the unpopular South Vietnamese government.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/21/a-look-back-at-sds-michael-harrington-and-the-decline-of-marxism/

Liberalism’s Cult of the Individual Has Failed Us
Is it better to “bowl alone” than to join anything that smacks of a sect? Were the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps, which put millions to work rebuilding their country, just state-sanctioned “cults?” According to one prominent liberal: maybe! In an article entitled “No, Senator Murphy, I don’t want to join your cult,” Jerusalem Demsas, the liberal publisher of The Argument magazine, goes after Democratic Senator Chris Murphy for daring to argue that we ought to have some shared social commitment to the public good. For Murphy, Americans — particularly young men — are living through an epidemic of loneliness that’s not only corroding our democracy but destroying the social bonds that hold our society together. These men, parPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2856496
the black panthers are a bunch of overblown dead end achivenothing soydems too so i cant even imagine what the white ones are

>>2856496
Point 2 is just do liberalism harder. America already did point 9.

>>2856496
the black panthers were so disruptive and revolutionary apple and warner bros made a documentary praising them

>>2897747
I say this and look like this

>>2895406
The epic predates the novel form and reveals that understanding fiction through the novel is not necessary. Regardless the novel's preeminence is a product of the age of alienation and capitalism, there is no articifially replacing it. Only through the collective building of communism can new mediums of translating the human experience be born. The question is not how can we replace the novel, but instead how can novelists turn the novel into a useful tool for building communism. My response was more against the idea that good literature can be made only by reactionaries rather than arguing we should abolish the novel entirely, that would be idealism.

>>2897267
>barely anyone watches
marxists are a tiny percentage of the market. and most likely poor, will pirate the film. i don't give a shit about property rights, but the sums are not adding. and most likely will call it shitty, slop, reactionary or bourgious anyway because it doesn't subsribe to their specific tendnecy

>>2897335
Leftist filmmakers don't make movies for other marxists, you mong.

>>2897345
thats what people on here are always complaining about though

>>2897345
All the french ones in the 60's did lol

Moved to >>>/siberia/816987.

>>2897111
The ideal is closer to the Paris commune and Marx laid out for Germany

>>2897185
socialism is everything and nothing at the same time. The term has become butchered

>>2897179
> randomly allocate everyone random goods, then allow them to trade them at will
People will view that as a burden and hate it overnight.

>>2897136
>the public are being unreasonable
you can thank Freud's nephew on how to deal with that.

>>2897088
I would classify most of these as misleading. Many of them aren't necessarily outright false, but they depend on intentionally misleading definitions and specific wording. Definitely a quiz with an agenda, and if you search around a bit they just outright spell that out. The goal is to "prove" that westerners think the world is worse than it is. Unfortunately the quiz did nothing to dispel me of the impression that shit is fucked. You can show a lot of untrue things by playing with numbers and words.

>>2897092
Yeah this essentially didn't see this post before I posted this >>2897095

>>2897095
Why do you think people in middle income countries generally think the world isn't fucked and is in fact getting better?

>>2897109
I'm not them, and how are we even defining middle income countries? It probably has to do with recent improvements in their material conditions. Material conditions have been generally improving for most people globally. I think that will soon change.

Moved to >>>/siberia/816873.

this made me a white nationalist bump this

This is too long. I will read it tomorrow. Remind me plox.

shit nobodi cares about

>>2896928
Must've been hard typing this with just one hand

Nonprofit sues over US push to auction areas of water around American Samoa for potential mining
It noted that the U.S. plans to sell leases with the intention of allowing mining across some 33 million acres (13.4 million hectares) of seabed off American Samoa that is rich in minerals including nickel, cobalt and manganese that are used to build batteries, electronics and other products. The lawsuit stated that the U.S. first must ensure that such activity will not destroy critical habitats or push species closer to extinction.
https://apnews.com/article/us-sued-deep-sea-mining-earthjustice-american-samoa-ca8adde08a645e0471a017e98c645836

Senate Democrats question USDA about data errors, staff losses
Six senators, led by Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, sent a ​letter to USDA Deputy Under Secretary Michelle Bekkering seeking details about USDA's data procedures amid growing concerns ​among farmers, grain merchants and investors about market-moving data produced by the agency.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/senate-democrats-question-usda-about-data-errors-staff-losses-2026-08-20/

Man suffered brain injury and severe bruising after ICE arrest in Virginia, records show
José Mejía Hernández, 45, was walking to a bus stop in Arlington on the morning of 11 August when two agents got out of an unmarked vehicle and started chasing him, according to one of his lawyers, Margaret Hellerstein. The man recalled being hit by some kind of stun gun, but did not remember what happened after that, only waking up hours later in the hospital, Hellerstein said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/ice-arrest-brain-injury-virginia

‘It kept adding up’: how add-on utility fees can lead to eviction for tenants
For more affluent tenants, Rubs can be an uPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

(TrueAnon )Episode 571: Drugs and Thugs
We are joined by Jack Poulson to talk about a little-known State Department agency that is sending machine guns to Ukraine, hiring mercenaries in Mexico, and selling AI to Colombia.
Read Covert Action Diplomacy by Jack Poulson (https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/covert-action-diplomacy)
https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/episode-571-and-167200550

AOC and Mamdani Should Stop Throwing the Black Lives Matter Movement Under the Bus
In 2020, a record number of people across the United States took to the streets in the movement for Black lives, demanding justice for George Floyd and victims of police violence. Last week, two of the country’s most popular progressives — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — threw this historic movement under the bus. Speaking to ABC, AOC said that, “Woke 1 was crazy” — a phrase attributed to a tweet by New York City Council member Chi Ossé, referencing his social media posts from 2020. Days later, Mamdani more explicitly repudiated a key demand of the uprising, saying: “I’ve made very clear that I do not believe in defunding the police.” But what’s actually “crazy” is calling yourself a socialist while believing in peaceful coexistence with the police.
https://www.leftvoice.org/aoc-mamdani-woke-1/

( 1995) Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm part 1: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism by Murray Bookchin
This short work was written to deal with the fact that anarchism stands at a turning point in its long and turbulent history. At a time when popular distrust of the state has reached extraordinary proportions in many countries; when the division of society among a handful of opulently wealthy individuals and corporations contrasts sharply with the growing impoverishment of millions of people on a scale unprecedented since the Great Depression decade; when the intensity of exploitation has forced people in growing numbers to accept a work week of a length typical of the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Yes this is an islamo third worldist thread

>>2896698
>global south
When did poor shitholes start calling themselves this? Was being third-worlders too humiliating?

Unironically adopt Shavian.
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english is a fag language that must be destroyed. i am skull face

>>2843382
Wrong. I bet you were all like "tee hee :^)" when posting this too.

English is already being changed by every generation o algo. Now we speak by adding memes bruh and ebonics fo real and gen z slang is being added as well no cap. Its improving every year ya kuch aur.

Lead rhymes with read
Read rhymes with lead
But lead doesn't rhyme with read
Neither does read with lead