/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Letter of the Warsaw Pact Countries to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
July 15, 1968
Dear Comrades!
Expressing the will of the Communist Parties and peoples of Bulgaria, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Poland and the Soviet Union, we address you with this letter prompted by feelings of sincere friendship and a sense of responsibility for the fate of socialism in our countries and the strengthening of the international positions of the socialist community.
We are addressing you at a crucial and dangerous moment for our Parties, for Czechoslovakia and for the entire socialist community. The development of events in your country is causing us deep anxiety. Our anxiety, and we must say this frankly, is shared by the working people of our countries, by all Communists, by all those who are faithful to socialism.
We cannot remain indifferent and shall never remain indifferent to the fate of socialism in Czechoslovakia. This is not only your affair. This is the common affair of all Communist and workers' parties, of the socialist states, of the international Communist movement.
The situation has become such that it is impossible to confine oneself to declarations of loyalty to Marxism-Leninism. It is necessary to move to active actions in defense of the common interests, the interests of socialism, the international interests of the entire Communist movement.
We believe that the offensive of reactionary forces against your Party and the socialist system in Czechoslovakia threatens to detach your country from the socialist community.
We see that in Czechoslovakia, with the connivance – we would like to stress, connivance – of your Party leadership, a campaign is being mounted against the Communist Party, against the socialist system, which is becoming more and more pronounced. The clubs and organizations that have recently emerged, and in which anti-socialist forces are rallying, are in fact becoming political platforms of the opposition. Right-wing forces are seizing the press, radio and television, turning them into a tribune for slander against the Communist Party and the socialist system and undermining the fraternal alliance with the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. The organs of state power and public organizations are subjected to increasing pressure from right-wing forces. There is a growth of antisocialist tendencies, and organizations are being established and reviPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I know a lot of people think it's cool to hate the Pope, but let me rap at you for a second

turns chair around, puts Holy See baseball cap on backwards

This is the same cat who has:

-said he wants a church that is "poor and for the poor" and is "bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security… caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures"

-said he wants "a church based not on fancy vestments and infallible pronouncements, but on love of God and love of others"

-has tried to decentralize the Catholic Church, one of the most hierarchical institutions for millennia, as exemplified by the Synod on Synodality

-expressed acceptance of homosexuality, saying "If a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge?", supported civil unions and legal protections for same sex couples, and has called homosexuals "children of God"

-has laid the groundwork to allow women to enter the governing structures of the Church
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Hello, fellow humans, I'm creating this thread in the hopes of get recommendations of genuine radical books, not traditional book like Marx or Lenin, I mean non popular or non mainstream leftist books that are genuine radical in their ideas, like some obscure modern philosopher or something. I'm curious to get to read some non conventional ideas and concepts.

From the top of my head I think "Beyond Capital" by Mezaros or "Dialecticals of Capital" vol 1 and 2 by Sekine are non mainstream, specially Sekine with his whole idea of finding out the pure structure of capitalism.

I think fascism is more likely to emerge in countries with history of what would be called in modern day authoritarianism, which is most of them. If the past for example was based mostly on peace democracy and freedom, then it would work less, than if it had more exclusionary and discriminatory practices. Part of the reason Germany fell to fascism so fast was that there wasn't faith in democracy and many elites and probably former aristocrats conspired against it. That's what I got from a YouTube video at least. It would be harder to justify a national rebirth by the far right unless pulling from other cultures. I'm not talking about America though, it's about the Iroquois in particular. They weren't perfect but had much cleaner history than the USA.

Years ago, there was a time when the African union would directly involve itself in military affairs in the continent. Libya and Somalia are famous examples being you can still find footage of African union soldiers in service to this day.

These days, it seems to have taken a “backseat” approach to conflict where it favours peace talks and ceasefires. I’ll admit, I thought this was idiotic, but I can understand this change. However, many of the conflicts going on in Africa today are self defeating.

The Tigray war ended, the Sudan war saw the RSF rapidly decline spontaneously, and the m23 group has lost all its momentum and is growing closer towards being forced to meet the AU’s original demands. To me, it seems like the union’s leaders are dismissive of war in the continent today largely because they are aware that they really don’t have to involve themselves in these conflicts for the continent to see peace.

Obviously to the reader here, you’ll probably want to know what the Union is doing in place of getting involved these days. From what I’ve read, the union is taking a stronger stance on promoting education throughout the continent and women’s empowerment more.

Who are your country's heroes? What are their professions? How have these changed over time?

I believe this is a useful insight into which people a country's culture values. Especially interesting examples might be how this has changed after a cultural revolution.

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I suspect Australia will differ from most countries, because after the initial European invasion, WWII was the only truly defensive war we've fought. I wouldn't really say we have national war heroes, we just name roadside rest stops after VC medal winners and have a couple of remembrance days focused on WWI and WWII. Average Joe probably couldn't name a soldier that isn't a relative.
I wouldn't really say we call our European country founders heroes either. Sure, they have statues, but that's more just historical. And especially now, as the newer generations become more and more critical of colonialism. Nor would I really call iconic indigenous activists national heroes outside of their movements.
As far as folk heroes go, I'd say bushrangers are the big ones. Ned Kelly is the most famous of the lot. Bushrangers were outlaw criminals during the colonial era, usually convicts transported here from the UK who escaped into the bushland and robbed banks and trains and shot cops.
For modern heroes, probably sports stars, like Olympic medal winners and outstanding national professional sportsmen (think Don Bradman).

The big three would be sports stars, old ANZAC soldiers and old outlaw robbers.
In fact, I just looked up "Australian national heroes" and the first two results are Don Bradman and Ned Kelly, along with Phar Lap (a fucking race horse), Edward Dunlop (military surgeon POW), Harry Morant (soldier and poet executed by the British for serious war crimes in the Second Boer War), Dawn Fraser (Olympic swimmer), Kay Cottee (first woman to sail around the world non-stop solo), some entertainers like Barry Humphries, Saint Mary McKillop (helped improve education) and Charles Kingford-Smith (an aviation pioneer). But some of those are pushing it, they're all famous and notable but I wouldn't call them all national heroes.

hello sorry im writing this while its almost 4 am and im feeling sort of blackpilled

im a bit of an apocalyptist schizo and i can see that the way things are going the technocratic class is probably just going to end up automating everything while the working class is liquidated out of existence. a major problem with technology is that it has a tendency to intensify the stakes of contradictions since the concentration of ownership it affords means that workers inevitably have fewer and fewer bargaining chips

the only way this can be avoided imo is through a political movement that is distributed throughout. imo the problem with a more centralized approach to achieving communism is that it doesn't really preserve any bargaining chips. i especially dont like approaches that are class collaborationist in some way because that always opens you up to corruption as well. if you dont have any real basis materially for worker control, then you are just hoping whoever is in charge has the right ideology which imo seems really idealist to me sorry

on the point of parties i feel like they are of course important but such things need money and property to truly be effective. you can only strike for as long as you can actually pay rent and eat. hence the cost of sustaining yourself is a fundamental limit to your bargaining power. currently things are much worse seeing as how much agriculture is owned by large corporations. beyond this, money is useful for expanding social outreach and controlling narratives. you can also use it to exert soft power so more people hear about you. it definitely feels like current parties could do more and part of this is the need to secure power and not just raise consciousness

for these reasons i think there is merit to integrating the party structure with worker cooperatives and stuff like what the acp is doing. i dont even like haz but he seems to be trying out new ideas that are worth actually trying out. another nice thing about the workers coop thing is that you have a bit of propaganda of success thing going on. when people see how successful and efficient such an enterprise, there is much more rhetorical force behind socialist arguments

also i feel like now is actually the time to really get going with this stuff? the trump administration has gut the reach which the glowies had so there is now a bit more space to like actually do communist projects. patchwork doesn't need to be neo-reacPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Israel agrees on US plan for temporary ceasefire in Gaza, PM's office says
On Saturday, Hamas's armed wing posted a video showing Israeli hostages still in its custody in Gaza and stressed that the remaining hostages can only be freed through a swap deal as stated in the phased ceasefire agreement that began on January 19.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-agrees-us-plan-temporary-ceasefire-gaza-pms-office-says-2025-03-01/

US approves $3 billion arms package to Israel
Under the largest part of the deal, Israel will acquire thousands of 2,000-pound bombs for $2.04 billion. More than 35,500 bomb bodies and 4,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads will be delivered starting in 2026.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-approves-3-billion-arms-package-israel

PKK: We will comply with Leader Öcalan's call, we declare a ceasefire
On the other hand, we are ready to convene the party congress as Leader Apo wants. However, in order for this to happen, a suitable security environment must be created, and Leader Apo must personally direct and lead it to make it successful.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/pkk-we-will-comply-with-leader-Ocalan-s-call-we-declare-a-ceasefire-78180

Two years after Tempi train crash, workers shut down Greece in general strike
Unprecedented protests swept across Greece today, as approximately one million people took to the streets in hundreds of localities, demanding justice for the victims of the Tempi train crash. Trade unions, student associations, and political organizations led the mobilization, turning the day into a nationwide general strike that shut down public services, transport, and universities.
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how do 40 year old MAGA normies still use /pol/. It’s not even fun anymore to bait them. Like one time I saw a post saying Europeans should fight for ZOG in ww3 because he’s a elite trying to save the white race. And they actually supported the bait in the replies geg. I pray for 4chan being shut down man same with twitter and reddit

Is "ancient and medieval Christianity gave more rights to [Christian] women and children than any other religion/ideology from that time" a dogwhistle?

This anon saw that position being propagated by:

-Catholic fascists
-"Western civilisation" - worshipping liberal racists
-Unironic /poltards
-Christian socialists
-At least one (1) anarchist

From that list alone it seems it should be a reactionary myth and therefore, fake, yet the arguments presented in its support somewhat make sense:

-Non-Christian societies are normally neutral to polygyny, which encourages rich men treating their multiple wives/concubines/whatever as property and their very numerous children as disposable livestock, then popularise their standards of treating women&children among poorer men. Also, rich men collecting all of nice women in their harems breeds pre-modern "incels" a lot. In contrast, Christianity from its very first days promoted strict monogamous marriage, encouraging men to see their wife as a person (inferior and submissive sort of person, perhaps, but still a person and not property), and severely limiting amount of [legitimate] children they can have, prompting them to value their kids more as well.

-Unlike the situation with Roman slavery (where the decline of slavery corellating with the spread of Christianity is just yet another corellation that does not mean casuation) Christians appear to be the ones to abolish the Roman practice of infanticide by abandonment of unwanted (usually female) babies which was relatively normal in pagan Rome, even if their reason was pretty terrible ("Unbaptised babies go to Hell after dying!")
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