/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I think reading up about these guys should be mandatory because they are a perfect illustration of what not to do. They were without a doubt perhaps the most incompetent and embarrassing armed group that has ever existed. Everyone, White Working class union members, Black Panthers and feminists all made fun of them and thought they were embarrassing retards
All their members hailed from very privileged backgrounds and were university students, Not surprisingly, when they were apprehended, only a handful faced any consequences or retribution from the government. Their grand "revolution" against the United States turned out to be a decade-long spree of meaningless bombings and vandalism. Law enforcement dubbed them the "toilet bombers" due to their penchant for targeting government building bathrooms. The pinnacle of their incompetence was when they accidentally blew up one of their own safe houses. Some of their members managed to evade capture for years(cause no one was actually looking for them), only to be astounded by the lenient punishment they received upon surrendering. cause law enforcement simply didn't deem them worth prosecuting. the majority of them are still alive and continue to enjoy their wealth to this day and are college professors and social activists.

https://arzamas.academy/materials/1258

Take the "Political Compass of the Revolution" test and find out who you would have been a hundred years ago - an anarchist, cadet, Bolshevik, right Socialist Revolutionary or Black Hundred

Theories are simplifications/approximations of reality. Frameworks. They do not fully describe reality. They can't. A system cannot contain a full description of itself. In order for a full description to be created, one most go outside the system. But once you are outside the system, there is an external system, with its own nodes and relationships that need to be described, and which influence the subsystem. So a full description is still impossible. Since theories are simplifications/approximations of reality, slogans are oversimplifications of reality, as they are simplifications/approximations of theories, which are themselves simplifications/approximations. Since it is impossible to fully accurately describe reality, one must give up on the theoretician's vain task and fight to change reality. Fighting, action, etc. can take on unwise forms like adventurism, however. Also, it requires the above theory, however much it may be a simplification/approximation of reality, to convey this sense of urgency and need for action, and even once you convey it, people are still not sufficiently motivated to do anything, even if it is in their material interests. This is because they are tired, beaten down, sometimes on the brink of death itself.

How does the proletariat resolve this need to balance theory which is always somewhat incomplete with action which is always somewhat uninformed?

Im non white and im pro capitalist in white countries and pro communist in my native country. the reason for that is pretty simple, with globalization and the pursuit of cheaper labor, many industries have shifted operations overseas. this has disproportionately affected working-class white communities in regions dependent on manufacturing jobs, leading to economic decline and social instability.

A push for a globalized economy under capitalism in white countries undermines local and national cultures, which can include the traditional values and identities of white communities, companies push diversity hires and quotas, who gets left out? white applicants.

the corporations will portray white scums as oppressors and beneficiaries of an unjust system, fueling a narrative that undermines white identity.

Tell me why you think we should liberate them from capitalism? personally we should let them be victims of their “superior” economic system.(One of these threads...)

A few weeks ago, the Congolese army reported the arrest of a little over fifty armed men; many of which were from the United States, France and other North Atlantic countries. These men have been put into custody, and some of them have been executed (censored video footage has been published to the public by Aljazeera).

This series of events has had me thinking about the dramatic rise in military expenditures most African countries have had in recent months. Where exactly is the African union and the organizations it governs headed as more domestic security measures get implemented, and as anti imperialist sentiment grows? Will Congo fully cut off resource exports with the world outside of Africa? Have the recent conflicts Chinese migrants had with treating indigenous Africans lead to worse diplomatic relations—for those of you wondering, recently some shops and schools opened by Chinese and Indian migrants have been closed or shut down permanently in Kenya, Congo, and Nigeria over alleged or proven discrimination against indigenous Africans (CTV news Nigeria, Africanews, Reuters, 2024).

Feel free to discuss your ideas.

Is Platonism and Marxism/leftism compatible or is Plato just a proto fash? What about related ideas like Spinozism and neoplatonism?

>Neo-platonism (or Neoplatonism) is a modern term used to designate the period of Platonic philosophy beginning with the work of Plotinus and ending with the closing of the Platonic Academy by the Emperor Justinian in 529 C.E. This brand of Platonism, which is often described as ‘mystical’ or religious in nature, developed outside the mainstream of Academic Platonism. The origins of Neoplatonism can be traced back to the era of Hellenistic syncretism which spawned such movements and schools of thought as Gnosticism and the Hermetic tradition. A major factor in this syncretism, and one which had an immense influence on the development of Platonic thought, was the introduction of the Jewish Scriptures into Greek intellectual circles via the translation known as the Septuagint. The encounter between the creation narrative of Genesis and the cosmology of Plato’s Timaeus set in motion a long tradition of cosmological theorizing that finally culminated in the grand schema of Plotinus’ Enneads. Plotinus’ two major successors, Porphyry and Iamblichus, each developed, in their own way, certain isolated aspects of Plotinus’ thought, but neither of them developed a rigorous philosophy to match that of their master. It was Proclus who, shortly before the closing of the Academy, bequeathed a systematic Platonic philosophy upon the world that in certain ways approached the sophistication of Plotinus.

Kardelj pretends that «the one-party system» in a socialist country is a specific transformation of the bourgeois political system, and the role of the one party (here he implies the Bolshevik Par- ty) is the same as that of «the multi-party sys- tem», of bourgeois political pluralism with one «minor» difference, that in the one-party State its leaders only remain at the head, whereas in the multi-party State the leaders change. This doubledealer puts the bourgeois parties on a par with the Bolshevik Party founded by the Russian revolutionaries with Lenin at the head. To him, the leadership of the State and society by the genuine party of the communists is no different from the rule of the bourgeoisie through the mul- ti-party system. This proves once again that the Titoites, like the bourgeoisie, consider political parties and the State as institutions that allegedly stand above classes.

-Yugoslav self administration, a capitalist theory and practice P. 69

Guatemala lawyer who defended rural and Indigenous people killed in attack
José Domingo was with two members of the United Farmworkers Committee when they were shot by a group of men Wednesday south of the capital, said Daniel Pascual, a leader of that organization.
https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-human-rights-lawyer-indigenous-db1def3a1e60c097f4306a78121d5510

Top prosecutor charged for allegedly intimidating son of Colombia’s president
The disciplinary commission of Colombia’s judicial branch announced charges against the prosecutor who is investigating the son of President Gustavo Petro. According to the National Commission for Judicial Discipline, prosecutor Mario Burgos allegedly leaked evidence to the media and tried to intimidate the president’s son, Nicolas Petro. If found guilty of the charges, Burgos may be removed from the Prosecutor General’s Office.
https://colombiareports.com/top-prosecutor-charged-for-allegedly-intimidating-son-of-colombias-president/

Colombia to Ban Coal Sales to Israel to Seek an End to Gaza War
The ministers of foreign affairs, finance, energy and trade decided to halt sales of the fuel to the Jewish state, according to a draft decree published Friday on Colombia’s trade ministry’s website. The Andean nation is Israel’s biggest supplier of the fossil fuel.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-08/colombia-to-ban-coal-sales-to-israel-to-seek-an-end-to-gaza-war
https://archive.is/QswD8

Israeli army says four captives rescued amid heavy strikes on Gaza
The announcement about the raid in Nuseirat on Saturday came as Palestinian health officials said at least 210 people were killed and wounded in Israeli attacks on central Gaza. Local residents said Nuseirat had come under heavy Israeli drone and air raids, with children amoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I think the US government should raise taxes and use the revenue to pay for a larger welfare state.
1. The income tax should be higher for all brackets except for the lowest, but the increases should be much higher in the higher brackets. The federal top marginal tax rate should be doubled from 37% to 70% (not counting other income taxes). This would not only massively raise the amount of revenue available for public goods but also reduce inequality.
2. There should be a 10% VAT on all goods and services. This will reduce consumption of consumer goods but it will raise large amounts of revenue, with much more of it coming from the rich than the poor.
3. A progressive wealth tax should be levied on assets, beginning with a 1% tax on wealth valued over a million dollars, and increasing until it becomes impossible in any practical sense to hold onto a billion dollars or more. This won't raise a lot of money and it will have distortionary effects on investment but it will totally get rid of the most annoying group of people on Earth, billionaires, so it will be well worth it.
4. The property tax should be replaced with a land value tax. Rent is theft so even from a randian/marxist desertist standpoint it belongs to the public. This will raise large amounts of money, all of it from the property-owning class, and will have basically no negative effects because the amount of land on Earth is constant, so taxing it can't affect the supply. It's an extremely progressive revenue-raising tax that also has positive knock-on effects because it incentivizes productive land usage.
5. There should be a 3% additional income tax on college graduates. Maybe split it into two brackets to make it more progressive.

The money from the first three taxes should be used to pay for:
1. Universal healthcare. The fact that the US has not implemented universal healthcare is basically equivalent to a moral atrocity. Enormous amounts of suffering could be prevented through a universal healthcare system, ideally one on the Beveridge model, but Sanders's proposed single-payer insurance system works fine too. As long as it's free at the point of surface and paid for by the government. This will reduce the amount of expenditures paid by Americans for healthcare over time as they are more easily able to access preventions rather than waiting for catastrophes before seeking care. All other OECD countries have universal healthcare and much lower healthcare cosPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

It has been 20 years since Reagan’s death. S

Could make a list of all the evil he has done?
Just off the top of my head:
-war on drugs
-invading Grenada
-bombing Libya