/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Dafuq. Nations are a social construct and something that emerged around the 19th century? What did they have before? How does that differ from nations?

We have this one anon who always posts about his stuff ( like here >>131457 ), but usually nobody here understands what is he talking about because the majority of leftypol either doesn't know russian, isn't well-versed in soviet history or just doesn't know the russian communist milieu. That's why I made this thread, to explain who he is and why he is important.

I will give you a general information, because I hope the balayevite anon will chime in and explain things more in detail

In the western countries, you don't have many "stalinist" historians, except Grover Furr and maybe Losurdo. But in Russia it is mainstream, so to speak.

The problem is, however, that these "stalinists" are either some freaks (conspiratards or some "red-brown" idiots from the 90s) or they are openly agreeing with the official narratives on Stalin's USSR, but in such a way to make it look they actually support Stalin. I mean shit like "yes, the repressions were bad, but it was necessary!!1" or "Yezhov did that!!! Stalin didn't know about it!", basically making Stalin and people around him look like bloodthirsty maniac (just not THAT bloodthirsty), or making them look like incompetent idiots.

Balayev is probably the only communist-stalinist writer and publicist who disagrees with such methods. Basically, what he claims is that most of modern narratives on Stalin are either based on FAKE ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS or equally as fake "statistics", "testimonies" and other "facts"

Now, how is this different from your mainstream "stalinist" historian - mainstream "stalinists" will agree that documents on Katyn are forgeries but nothing else. Whereas Balayev claims there are many more fake documents, like Order no. 00447, which supposedly started the so called "Great Terror". (there are many weird things about this document - it isn't written on a blank that was usually used for such documents and the language used is really strange - but I don't want to go much into details now to not make a mucho texto OP)

As for The Great Terror, Balayev claims that it is a pure fabrication - no mass repressions were happening in 1937/38. He admits that there were party purges in the party but not some massive repression that would affect the whole population of the USSR. (Unlike the other "stalinists" who claim the mass repressions happened but not in the extent anticommunists say, and were justified).

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Within a week, humanity will reach a population of 8 billion people. Thought I'd make a thread to commemorate this milestone, and make malthusian fascists seethe as well. I intend to keep the thread alive until then, so post anything you think is related to this, how this will impact the future of the world, global politics/geopolitics, the development of the Global South, etc. Some interesting stats regarding our population right now:
>About 49.59% of the world population is female and the other 50.41% is male
>The two most populous countries, China and India, with approximately 2,865,339,800 people combined, represent ~36% of the world population
>The 'Golden Billion' (all 5 Eyes countries, all of the EU, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore) compose 1,130,000,000 of the world population, or roughly 14% of the world population
>If we add to the Chinese and Indian populations the populations of Russia, South Africa, and Brazil to see how BRICS compares to the West, we'll find that they represent 3,287,607,380 of the world population, or roughly 42% of the world population.
Also here's the live pop counter https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

We all know that LGBTphobia is bad and that we must express solidarity with them as well as to support them in the fight against capitalist exploitation, but at the same time you also want to integrate identity struggles with them? How does it differ from divide-and-conquer strategies and capitalist "woke" "representation?" This exact strategy - focusing on identity more than goal - is the go-to strategy for all businessmen in the world to sow division amongst workers and from there kill their morale!!!

Have you read it? What did you think of it? I was not convinced of all the vague stuff about the cultural specificity of Africa (he doesn't really describe the exact cultural content of Africa that made it so special) but the historiography is pretty top-notch and really makes you question any stageist economistic assumptions you may have made about the development of capitalism and its relation to racialism. In my opinion it is a better critical than constructive book, it shows that we must take culture and particularity more seriously than we have, both in the motivation and thinking of oppressed groups and in the development of the world order, but it does not quite spell out how this should be done. Sort of a better, wider-lensed version of Sakai's Settlers without the offputting Maoist terminology and rhetoric.

https://torrentfreak.com/tiktok-blocks-z-library-hashtag-pending-piracy-investigation-221031/
https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/z-library-domains-are-seized-and-pirate-book-site-is-dead

The pirates' shadow library was originally a mirror of Library Genesis but grew beyond its database. It had about 32 terabytes more books than Libgen. Today the website was seized by the US government through the Postal Service after it became popular on TikTok and the Authors Guild submitted complaints.

Additionally, some domains for the site were blocked in India back in August. https://entrackr.com/2022/08/exclusive-delhi-district-court-behind-z-library-block-in-india/

This thread is for the neo Luddists of /leftypol/. The industrial revolution and it’s concequences have been a disaster for the human race : it has created a perfect breathing mechanism for the capitalist to automise desire , it has separated man from it’s power . And make life un-pleasant and un-enjoyable . The world has become a techno-capitalist hellhole .

But a Luddist reaction wuld soon come

https://youtu.be/ATkjT79gNzM
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https://youtu.be/oZU0H2jlGbM

Literally all of their gurus from the last decade has sunk into completely irrelevancy

Milo? Irrelevant
PJW? Irrelevant
Jordan Peterson? Irrelevant
Sargon? Irrelevant
Stephen Molineaux? Irrelevant
Lauren Southern? Irrelevant
Ben Shapiro? Irrelevant

Now just compare these fuckers to someone like Zizek or Chomsky

Why do Anarchist want so badly to be the underdog? It seems to be an intense insecurity of the fact no one cares about their terminally online ideology, so they rewrite history so that they are the drivers of leftist movements and haven't been a dead ideology since the Spanish Civil War.

Christianity: the most successful psychological counterinsurgency operation in history

Saul of Tarsus, aka "Paul", responsible for writing most of the new testament was actually a Roman glowuyghur. Basically Christianity started as a Roman psychological counterinsurgency operation. He never met Jesus and "claimed" to have heard/seen him in a vision. Although Christians today think he was executed upon returning to Rome there is no evidence of this and it's just as likely he simply returned to his old life as a Roman citizen.

He really was an agent-provocateur working for the Roman administration in Palestine and various other parts of the Empire. Paul's biography and his own letters, both of which were taken up in the New Testament, hold numerous clues to the effect that this former persecutor, never left the ranks of the government, but instead went undercover after his famous ‘conversion’ en route to Damascus. The self-proclaimed successor-to-Jesus was not only treated dramatically differently from Jesus by the Romans, but they were his friends and allowed him to live and work for 20 years instead of crucifying him. Jesus' original followers distrusted Paul, and made various attempts to kill him throughout his life.

Paul's claim that Jesus, this candidate-king of the Jews, was the Messiah and had been crucified as the will of God (the prime assumption upon which Christianity is based) should be read as a sadistic mockery of Jewish faith, meant to divide a Jewish resistance organisation and pacify it.

To this day people believe in a religion which was simply invented to suppress jewish rebellion in the region of palestine by making their religion more Hellenistic and compatible with roman imperial rule which is why it teaches obedience to Roman law.

TLDR: Christianity was a roman imperialist psyop