/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Its caused by smartphones, television and video games

they're all TFR nukes

Birthrate plummeting is good, why do you want it otherwise?

>>2831086
Isnt it individualistic to create life for your own personal benefit though

>>2830755
Tbh actually this is part of it as well, previously people could enjoy stuff previously considered childish (I.e computer games) by living vicariously through their children, but everyone these days are infantilised as fuck anyway and it’s not shamed if you’re a grown man who just likes his Pokémon cards or all night Lucky Star marathons.

Like I do admire the openness and freedom in that, but it’s definitely a factor in why people refrain from having children. You’ve got a lot of people these days in their 20s and 30s even saying they don’t feel like they’re grown up enough for kids and, well, no shit.

>>2831142
Although I will say that this isn’t necessarily people’s fault, the ability to consoooom is still promoted as the only reason to work but we’re also at the end of consumer capitalism’s efficacy to that end.

Buying the grown up shit like cars and homes are miserable affairs these days, rather than something exciting and a nice accomplishment, you’re bound to feel ripped off, disappointed and still like you’ve failed because it was way harder than boomers described it. In comparison you’re meagre salary can still buy so many fucking Pokémon cards like goddam you can live the best childhood in adulthood and isn’t that really the dream in childhood?

Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday making it easier to fire 8,000 of ​some of the best-paid government workers, part of a broader effort to overhaul ‌the federal workforce. The order, released by the White House and the Office of Personnel Management, strips job protections from a mostly senior group of federal workers earning up ​to almost $200,000 a year and who are deemed to be "influencing" government policy.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-signs-order-make-it-easier-fire-8000-federal-workers-2026-06-03/

US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran
The vote’s impact is largely symbolic, as it is unclear whether the House version, which is a concurrent resolution and does not need to be signed by the president, carries the force of law, even if it also passes in the Senate. But it was a striking demonstration of the nascent willingness among a segment of Republicans to defy Trump, who has kept a vise-like grip on the party on Capitol Hill, through his willingness to exact retribution against dissenters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/house-passes-war-power-resolution-trump-iran

Democrats fume about Lebanon vote
Tlaib's two-page measure would direct President Trump to "remove the United States Armed Forces from Lebanon" within 7 days of when the measure is passed. … Tlaib's office said in a press release: "The United States is assisting this destruction through the weapons, intelligence, logistics, and diplomatic cover it provides the Israeli government, and Congress has the power and duty to put an end to this illegal invasion."
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/03/lebanon-war-powers-house-democrats-tlaib-israel
https://archive.ph/M66g6

NYC to install traffic sensors to trackPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Philippines: Why The NPA In Negros Island Will Never Be Defeated
Once again, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has dusted off its worn-out script, loudly proclaiming to the public that the New People’s Army (NPA) in Negros has suffered an “irreversible collapse” and is “totally defeated.” Following the encounters in Toboso and Cauayan, the reactionary state is desperately trying to convince the public, and perhaps themselves, that the flame of the People’s War on the island has been extinguished, to appease their imperialist masters and its local toadies. However, these premature victory celebrations are nothing new. As Comrade Jose Maria Sison said, the reactionary state suffers from a chronic, incurable blindness: it mistakes a temporary twist in the road for the end of the journey. For over fifty years, the ruling class has repeatedly declared the revolution dead, only to find themselves continuously haunted by its presence. Their declarations of “victory” are mere illusions, completely contradicted by the material conditions in Negros. The fundamental error of the NTF-ELCAC’ analysis lies in their mechanical and bourgeois worldview. They foolishly believe that a revolutionary movement can be eradicated by targeting individual cadres or liquidating specific command structures.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33381/

No Babies? Blame Capitalism.
No longer just a problem of the industrialized North, birth rates are declining for everyone, everywhere, all at once. In its panic about the implications of below-replacement fertility and its search for a culprit, the global commentariat has cast a wide net. In an April 2025 article in the conservative Catholic First Things Magazine, titled “Feminism Against Fertility,” Darel E. Paul blames the decline in Western fertility rates on young women who wish to remain childless because “they have more important priorities or simply like being single.” In a May 7, 2026, guest essay for the New York Times, the insightful Anna Louie Sussman blames the baby bust on widespread anxiety about an uncertain future. Soon after, a piece in the Financial Times cited a University of Cincinnati study to posit that the emergence of smartphones bears the largest responsibility for the recent decline in youth romantic connectionPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thank you newsanon

Yes

>>2791011
You should read Marx. You would be surprised to learn that it's "civil society" that determines the structure of the state and not viceversa.

>>2791104
Materialism out of your ass may say that the state determines civil society, but a little Marx would show you that's an idealistic form of materialism. That is, it would be materialism just as in an arbitrary name for a given doctrine. Because how can an account of the state be materialist if it doesn't even consider the most fundamental material aspect of its form and activity, which is the production process that enables all members of society to sustain their life? Your doctrine of the state is idealistic precisely because it hypostatizes a "separate" state capable of shifting the tides of matter in motion, as an external and independent autonomous arbiter beyond the concrete structure of society. And the concrete structure of society, let me tell you, is not the state. It would actually be much closer to te truth to assert it of ancient states rather than modern ones, which is the completely the opposite of what you said earlier. So we come full circle in your assertion and reach a complete contradiction: the dictatorial Lenin who tries to bring the working class to power is still in itself less dictatorial than your own position on what the state is and does: dictate the form of society. If your lenin and your communist party was even true (history shows they were far from a despotic leader and party), they would be your perfect political ideal, a man and a party capable of using the determinant position of the state to shape society from the top down. But that's not what bolshevism was and that's not what the state is and does.

The birth of modernity is precisely the advent of bourgeoise class domination, which generated completely new political structures and a new form of state. You can see it in the glorious revolution, American indipendence and french revolutions, which would have absolutely no sense without accounting for the empowerment of a new class, the bourgeoise, and a new legislation and state form to fit their interests. What need has the feudal lord for the Napoleonic code? They can clean their ass with it, they subsist with the tribute and rent collected from subjects, spoils of war and etc. It is only with the growth of commerce and production, both activities which the bourgeoise advanced to an efficency never before seen, that a universal law resembling a commercial pact between separate, antisocial competitive Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2800360
quads are ez on slow board. we only stand for all same digits

>>2791074
wasn't gonna happen. people attribute his strokes to kaplan's bullets, but really his dad had strokes at the same age, so it was probably a hereditary issue.

>>2830682
>>2830697
Pedestrian?

>>2830705
Bentham did like walking for 2 hours every morning.

>>2830697
https://columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/sw25/bentham/

Yeah its possible it could be him defending gays because there wasnt a word got them yet.

>>2830723
< Bentham advocates the decriminalization of' sodomy, which in his day was punished by hanging. He argues that homosexual acts do not "weaken" men, or threaten population or marriage, and documents their prevalence in ancient Greece and Rome. Bentham opposes punishment on utilitarian grounds and attacks ascetic sexual morality.
hmmmm

>>2830723
I mean, gay and pederast are the same thing since pederasty across the world was the normative form of human homosexuality up until the 1970s

>>2829868
May 68. De Gaulle was the left wing leader fighting against the forces of the réaction, but we were too naive to see it.

>>2829862
>on very rare occasions
>the majority
???
>>2829926
the PCF was just unfortunately an URSS puppet with only people that didn't want to be responsible for any decision at the top (which is most leaderships in general)

>>2830001
"On rare occations the majority of marxists" So most marxists can make a mistake, but thats a very rare event.

I'm not really blaming the PCF for the mistakes there, but with hindsight, De Gaulle was a progressive leader with a planned dirigist economy and an independant foreign policy, May 68 broke this down and brought foward neoliberalism and alignement with the USA. PCF should have pushed de Gaulle to the left and empowered left wing gaullism.

>>2829890
IN SOME RESPECTS.
The Nazis were overall far worse than the Khmer Rouge and were obviously more Right-Wing than them. However, the Khmer Rouge's belief in deindustrialization placed them, on that specific issue, to the Right of the Nazis.
>>2830001
The majority OF THE MARXIST MOVEMENT.
>>2830006
Correct

>>2830772
>Pol Pot was le heckin primitivist
Another classic from the US propaganda machine.

ask deepseek

>>2830846
I thought I'd try the less intelligent corner of the internet first

>>2830798
There is already the political economy thread

We have /political economy/ #7 for this
>>2816172

>>2829924
I think it's more a divide-and-rule strategy although the IDF is engaged in organized and collective murder in Gaza, but Israel + occupied territories combined is more like if Lebanon was half-Jewish and they exercised much more effective military / police control over the land than the Maronite Christians were able to do. More than 20% of Israel (pre-67 borders) is Arab. This isn't to be like "well it's not actually what people think" but they want to keep the Arabs inside the pre-67 borders from blowing up. These are Arab communists in Nazareth (which is in Israel technically).

>>2829924
>Why dont they just kill all palestinians?
Would create a backlash so they do it slowly.

>>2829931
Both internal and external propaganda ops.

>>2830266
What backlash?

>>2829924
It's not quick nor easy to dispatch of millions of people without employing nuclear weapons, which would render the territories useless

>>2829984
We need a new blues clues show. Call it… green beans

Very good video about this dude, I encourage everyone interested to watch it

>>2828050
Meds. Now.

He was the last social Democrat and they killed him for it.

>>2830205
Xi did this for Rosa.

>>2830263

Xi/xer, or however the 2010s social progressivism is strawmanned…