/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Was Strasserism basically just National Bolshevism with German ethno-nationalism autism piled on top? It was the socialism in "National Socialism" after all, and its intriguing to wonder how things would have played out differently if mustache man hadn't co-op Goebbels from then and eventually purged them.

If Trump wants to turn a dump into a sparkling luxury resort town, instead of seizing Gaza why not do this with Detroit?

Simply move all 700k people out temporarily, get other cities like Chicago or Pittsburgh to take them in (or even better, ship them to Toronto and let the Canadians deal with them), demolish everything with the exception of downtown, and rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Make the new Detroit into the Monte Carlo of the Midwest. Think about it. Citizens could even demand human-centred European infrastructure which favours pedestrians and cyclists instead of cars and mixed-use buildings instead of waste-of-space single family homes.

Someone suggest this to Trump.

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If you think about it, the dilemma in the imperial core today (namely the United States) is the opposite of what the dilemma was in Russia in 1917.

It is very easy to educate and agitate people today. We can distill theory into small sound bytes. We can use the Feynman method to explain complex ideas in ways that a child could understand. We can put together visualizations and graphs of complex economic data so that they are easier to digest than large books of tables. We can instantly show people footage of bourgeois war crimes that are happening all over the world.

But it is very hard to organize people. It is hard to get people off their ass and out of their house. They don't want to log off and touch grass. They don't want to risk their physical bodies. They are afraid of surveillance, of face recognition tech, of drone strikes, of deportation to some black site.

In 1917 it was the opposite, it was very easy to organize people out in the street, rile them up with a few revolutionary phrases, get them to meet in some place. Life was so miserable and people had so little to lose that organizing in the streets wasn't much more of a risk than continuing to live life with the tsar's boot on your neck, with the landlord sucking rent from your pocket, with the capitalist skimming the surplus value of your labor. Even if you hadn't read a single page of Marx, weren't an atheist, weren't a communist, and maybe not even literate, the simplest pro-worker rhetoric was enough to get you out in the streets attacking the police, and siding with the far left. There was also very little in the way of "idpol" and the capitalists had not yet perfected dividing and conquering the proletariat with the dexterity and subtlety that they do today. Do you really think the average red army volunteer from some rural village who joined up because only the bolsheviks promised to end WW1 was of the same intellectual background as the suit-wearing vanguard party members (including lawyers like Lenin) debating the merits of the NEP with each other, and discussing the prospects of learning how to run a socialist economy from detained capitalists?

So in 1917: Organizing EZ, Educating hard

Today: Educating EZ, Organizing hard

Am I off base?

Uruguay’s Broad Front government renews search for those disappeared by military dictatorship
The center-left government of Orsi, who is a history professor, promised during the presidential campaign that his administration would tirelessly search for the remains of those detained and disappeared from the past military dictatorship.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/24/uruguays-broad-front-government-renews-search-for-those-disappeared-by-military-dictatorship/

Four hours under fire from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel: ‘We’re going to have a party’
El Mencho ordered trailers to be set alight and highways blocked in Michoacán, Jalisco, and Guanajuato. Two police officers were killed, but no arrests were made: ‘We’ve never seen blockades of this scale’
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-25/four-hours-under-fire-from-the-jalisco-new-generation-cartel-were-going-to-have-a-party.html
https://archive.ph/rej4W

Dominican Republic under fire as deportations of pregnant and breastfeeding women to Haiti rise
The increase in those deportations comes as the administration of Dominican President Luis Abinader implemented a new measure this week requiring hospital staff to ask patients for their identification, work permits and proof of residence.
https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-pregnant-women-deportations-haiti-gangs-32ba22db6d957f02de7b77e16d51dd6c

New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal Contains “Red Lines” for Hamas on Continued Israeli Occupation and Disarmament
The current draft effectively asks Hamas to agree to continued military occupation of Gaza and disarmament. While the original ceasefire deal stipulated the total withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza in the second phase, tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I know this has been beaten to death in /ukraine/ but I still see people talk about the Russian "invasion" like its an unassailable fact. People like to claim that the two countries and blocs are equally at fault. In reality, such takes are as "fair and balanced" as Fox News. Look at how NATO has encircled Russia and the bad-faith negotiations that had taken place over the preceding 32 years. How else could it have ended? It wouldn't have mattered if the tricolor or rainbow flags or red flags flew from the Kremlin. It would have led to war no matter if Russia was capitalist or socialist because no sovereign nation could ever tolerate such hostile encroachment and survive, especially in light of Russian history, where geopolitical moves like the ones NATO is doing were the prelude to invasion. For that matter, a socialist Ukraine (Or at least one led by somebody like Alexander Lukashenko) would not have persued this maximalist pro-NATO/pro-EU policy or discriminated against Russians and thus wouldn't have precipitated the war. Even if Russia did invade this socialist Ukraine, they would have a real army because they would not have stripped the copper wire from their rhetorical walls to fund Hunter Biden's coke addiction and gain the dubious honor of being the EU's "Mexico" while begging for 40 year-old tanks and F-16s.

We're all principled Marxist here right? Marx's position is somewhat nuanced but it seems to basically be that one should oppose immigration and support immigrants, e.g. we should work and advocate with immigrants for immigrant and worker rights in a collective struggle against the capitalist class, and the imperialist forces which create pressure for immigration, while also opposing this mechanism of lowering wages. Is this really a strong position though, it seems under sympathetic to me? Does it really just imply a cooperation with other nations to avoid expatriation, while working with those individuals that happen to arrive anyway? This is at least non-violent.

>Owing to the constantly increasing concentration of leaseholds, Ireland constantly sends her own surplus to the English labor market, and thus forces down wages and lowers the material and moral position of the English working class.

>And most important of all! Every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself. He cherishes religious, social, and national prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude towards him is much the same as that of the “poor whites” to the Negroes in the former slave states of the U.S.A. The Irishman pays him back with interest in his own money. He sees in the English worker both the accomplice and the stupid tool of the English rulers in Ireland.

>This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organization. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this.

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I'm tired of living in this country, for some reason. I will ask the same question on 4chan, but honestly it's a neo-nazi imageboard.
I'm ashamed to live in Poland, if Poland shills for another Slav-killing war (not saying I don't hate Putin or Zelensky).
I'd like to watch some anti-Polish content on YT, then.

For the jobs and enterprises that aren’t dedicated to consumerism—and even then some fields in art actually do matter quite a bit to public affairs—money alone cannot serve as the only motivation to pursue professionalism—especially in the long term. I’m not asking people to work for free, but disregarding the stability, growth, and health of society itself in favour of short term financial gains sounds both impulsive and dismissive of the reality of inflation and the limits of what money can actually buy depending on where you live.

Could you imagine what it would be like trying to organize preparations for an invasion, or encouraging people to work together to save people stuck in war zones, or even just to develop a coherent industrial program if the only motivator for why people would ever contribute to the cause was exclusively how large their paycheques were? There’s no constructive decision making or reason to preserve society itself at that point. Literally nothing would ever get accomplished in any moment of cash shortage, or a monetary collapse, or if people stopped trading in a specific currency, or if a bank collapsed, etc.

Whatever, this isn’t the biggest priority one should make regarding money given how many people don’t get paid for their work anyways, are enslaved, are held at gunpoint to work, or simply get paid less than the sum of money that they agreed too for their employers

Another hard pill to swallow is that Western socialists should rather work on destroying the West than actually trying to build socialism in the imperial core, which is futile for obvious reasons. By destroying the West other regions of the world who are more receptive to socialism have their opportunities to do so. It goes without saying that you should also aid socialist movements in the third world. Once the West falls and the third world blooms you can just move to one of the 150+ third world countries. Choosing not to is either due to emotionality making you too invested in the random region you were born in as if it were an essential part of you or closeted racism.