/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Remember: A mowed lawn is a happy lawn!

>Ukrainian counteroffensive has stalled because of…
<Checks notes
>…Weeds and shrubbery.

*starts lawnmower*

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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Imagine telling someone in the early 1900s that Russia would be the first country into space and hoisting a flag over Berlin.

They'd pour water over your head.

From the opening paragraphs I already knew this leftypol original was trash. For starters it clarifies that the loneliness issue in the imperial core is a gendered issue faced prominently or exclusively by young males, than a general one faced by millions due to mass atomization and communality being forgotten as a part of public health policies. It then goes on to call attention to e celebs I couldn’t give less of a shit about as if they matter to people’s health, and at that point I was demotivated to fully read through the book in favour of skimming through it and getting a general sense of its ideas.

It’s not any different from any other shitty self improvement nonsense you see in public libraries, and like every other book it fails to call attention to the forces that drive people to such acetism in the first place: shitty financial opportunities, car dependent infrastructure, bad food and air quality, mass availability of hardcore drugs, inflation and inequality.

As for the Marxist rhetoric, it’s awful and so out of touch with what was written in capital or soviet history that it feels like it was written by a western that’s never read the books, or have looked into a general history of the planet and progressivism.

Disgustingly enough, this book fails to even recognize the needs of the audience it’s written for, young males. Instead of bringing attention to boys failing in education, satirically high enrolment rates and low employment opportunities, suicide and the promotion of violence in media directed towards them, it focuses on petty issues like sexlessness and status as if they’re new problems or even relevant ones compared to the former. Worse it fails to even identify how its own shitty problems proliferate and bring any context relevant information on how people struggling with them can heal. I couldn’t take this book seriously, it needs to be edited and expanded to include more information.

How do we stop reactionaries from co-opting socialist rhetoric and diluting it with antisemitism? Zionism, disproportionate Jewish wealth, overrepresentation in certain industries etc, are all contentious topics that can't be taken lightly and must be dissected strictly via class analysis and materialism without unnecessarily introducing idpol, whether it be "positive" or negative, (ie biological essentialism in regards to Jewish autism score). The Jewish people have been instrumental in the struggle against fascism, imperialism, and capitalism, to rescind all this just because Jews are a little richer on average is idiotic at best and dangerous at worst.

Looking at how abortion is being criminalized in the U.S and "Project 2025" where is the League of Militant Atheists when we need it in the face of Conservative Christianity?

Diseases are not a “thing” or sudden effect people just one day contract. Infections and viruses that do lead to immediate disorders aren’t under this, but common ones associated with peoples bodies becoming dysfunctional is never an immediate occurrence. It takes a process of failures, societal, social and physical before the body reaches a state in its development to fail and produce irregular disorders. Mental unwellness is a pillar to this idea.
Modern stats say the number of mentally disturbed people keep climbing, some say it’s due to better reporting, others would suggest that life in the imperial core itself is getting worse. The ladder is definitely true ,but isn’t the antecedent to mental unwellness; mental illness simply isn’t real. There isn’t a single physical, or cellular indicator, observable or not that can indicate someone’s mental state beyond what they’re actually doing, and even then environmental context serves as a better tool to explain what goes on with people’s minds than any self diagnosed disease people just suddenly gain out of thin air.
It’s worse in fact to go out and say that about people in general, as if they’re wrong for expressing themselves in a way that could be disagreeable, that they’re deeply depressed, schizophrenic, sociopathic or whatever new made up disease. Mass diagnosis today hilariously and shamelessly serve to get tax payer money shoved into pharmaceutical companies to produce drugs that make people violent, unemotional and anti social. It’s disturbing how long depression, a “common” problem was seen as a “purely chemical” imbalance with the brains ability to produce dopamine and other NTS. This same dumbass mentality of NTS production was applied to ADHD as if it’s as common as the flu. You know why this was popularized. Selling drugs to people and forcing them to blow out the ass for it until they couldn’t get off it.
It’s fine to feel deeply dissatisfied about your life for long periods of time if nothing is fucking changing. It’s fine to not constantly be around others if there’s no reason to and no one available when they’re trying to fix their own situation. It’s fine to have massive fucking outbursts in public over cunts trying to fish money out of you or push you into corporate competition for their own amusement. It’s human and shouldn’t be treated as an injury to be sold endless remedies for.
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anonymity on the internet is actually good for political development because it allows individuals to re-educate themselves over and over by having low-stakes conversations. If you have the wrong opinion in real life, it is permanently associated with your name and face. But in anonymity we can subject our ideas to the collective critique of others, without having to be permanently guilty of being wrong. This allows us to accelerate our personal political development by resolving the contradictions in our personal ideologies without running the risk of being persecuted for our shitty ideas as we are in the process of resolving them. This is how people have lately been able to go from liberals to anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninists in five years flat without having any kind of Marxists in their family. The loss of this mode of communication would be devastating. Yes anonymity also brings the opportunity to be a reactionary without consequences, but if a person is actually curious and interested in subjecting themselves to a constant scathing critique, they may end up in the right place.

>class position determines all this, not having internet arguments

Mostly true, but I think this era is going to produce more bourgeois class traitors because bourgeois failsons have the opportunity to study the modes of oppression they benefit from, and submit themselves to scathing critique without getting lynched by the proletariat, i.e., they have the opportunity to self-re-educate. I think this is the age of a thousand Engels.

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<To what extent is multipolarism just capitalist nationalism for people not in green on this map? If the whole thrust of socialism is now just "America bad" what becomes of the classical socialist goals of workers control of the means of production, and abolishing class society?

POP QUIZ, FUCKERS
1. What is the difference between price and value?
2. What is the difference between labor and labor power?
3. What is the difference between productive and unproductive labor?
4. What is socially necessary labor time?
5. What is fictitious capital?
6. Why is the "transformation problem" a fake cope from porkies?

$3 billion in frozen Venezuelan assets will soon be released
Sources familiar with the negotiations informed EL PAÍS that $3 billion worth of frozen Venezuelan assets will be released in the coming weeks. The United Nations (UN) will manage these assets, which will be used for public works and health projects. The release of the funds was agreed upon in November 2022 during ongoing talks in Mexico between Venezuela’s ruling party and opposition leaders. The United Nations expressed concerns about possible legal claims from the government’s creditors, but in May, the United States assured that it would protect the assets from such claims. “The money will soon be available,” our sources said.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-09-08/3-billion-in-frozen-venezuelan-assets-will-soon-be-released.html

Panama: News Measures to Control Illegal Migration
The Government of Panama announced that starting today it will increase deportations and expulsions of irregular migrants to their countries of origin, one of the measures to contain the growing flows. The announcement was made by Panama’s National Migration Institute, outlining increased border control and surveillance, improvements to migrant reception centers, and coordination with other countries to control irregular migration flows. Additionally, the government plans to strengthen the asylum process and ensure human rights protections for migrants.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Panama-News-Measures-to-Control-Illegal-Migration-20230908-0013.html

Cuba arrests 17 for trafficking men to fight for Russia in Ukraine
Cuban authorities have arrested 17 people on charges related to a human trafficking ring that allegedly lured young Cuban men to fight in Ukraine with the Russian military. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said earlier this week that authorities were working to dismantle the network, which operated in Cuba and Russia to facilitate Cubans joining the war against Ukraine.
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