/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Casualty rises to 23 | Seven more civilians injured, including a girl, amid ongoing shelling in Al-Sheikh Maqsoud and Al-Ashrafiyah
According to SOHR local sources, interim government forces targeted Sheikh Maqsoud and Al-Ashrafieh with mortar shells and heavy machine guns of the “DShK” type, in parallel with direct clashes on several fronts inside the two neighbourhoods, causing widespread panic among civilians. In the same context, SOHR sources reported that seven injured people were taken to Al-Razi Hospital in Aleppo city, including two members of the Civil Defence, as a result of the shelling and ongoing clashes. Meanwhile, the Gaziantep–Aleppo road was closed from the Al-Layramoun roundabout side, following sniper fire attributed to SDF targeting the vicinity of Sheihan Roundabout, amid heightened security deployment.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/375281/

Turkish FM casts doubt on Kurdish integration in Syria
Ankara says the SDF presence along its southern borders poses a security threat to both Turkey and Syria, and that the Damascus government must address this. It has said any integration must ensure the SDF is disbanded - in line with a disarmament process between outlawed Kurdish PKK militants and the Turkish state - and its chain of command broken.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkish-fm-casts-doubt-kurdish-integration-syria

Israel's new NGO rules risk leaving hundreds of thousands of Gazans without healthcare in 2026, MSF warns
The new requirements threaten to withdraw registration from international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) from January 1. This non-registration would prevent humanitarian organisations from providing essential services to people in Gaza and the West Bank, MSF said today. “With Gaza’s health system already destroyed, independent and experienced humanitarian organisations losing access to respond would be a disaster for Palestinians,” MSF said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israels-new-ngo-rules-risk-leaving-hundPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>"I shouldn't be shamed for not living up to capitalist society's expectations of me, I should be allowed to be my authentic self without being criticized and I shouldn't have to change myself based on some arbitrary capitalist standard"

This seems to be the sentiment that dominates the minds of zoomers and most millennials that drives them towards the left whether we want to admit it or not. This is what makes a lot of younger people under 40 embrace anti-capitalist politics, question social norms that are the superstructure of modern capitalism, become anti-eugenics, embrace new identity groups, and so on. Look no further than Tumblr from the mid 2010s or TikTok today. My question is, why haven't any communist or socialist parties been able to gather these types of people up? The DSA's entire strategy is simply economistic "healthcare and unions" babble that they weaponize to push the Democrats further to the left. Yet we shouldn't forget that the millennial left (namely, the people who participated in the anti-war movement in the 2000s and Occupy in 2011-12) all folded into DSA by the end of the 2010s. So why can't the DSA bring in those frustrated zoomers from TikTok, the ones who make videos on queerness and unmasking autism and mental health and why nearly all romantic relationships are inherently predatory or whatever? Maybe if the people on that platform were in a political party they'd have actual pragmatic political goals.

A very common tactic on this site is to defend an idea on the basis that it is in some way Marxian, or fits in with so and so Marxist concept. This is, frankly, really fucking stupid. Pretty much all of the key Marxist thinkers have placed great emphasis on the fact that Marxism is a broad intellectual framework; a way of analyzing the world that is open to modification as it's tested against real-world material conditions.

But people here treat it as if it's a dogma; as if there's a set of ideas that must be absolutely accepted if one is to be a proper communist. It's like if we treated Einsteinan physics circa the mid 20th centure as the only valid kind of physics and scolded anyone who questioned it. Why? It's such an unscientific approach to science. Can somebody please explain this to me?

How does Israel's racial hierarchy actually work? Do they really see Mizrahi as "Jews" even though ethnically they're basically Arabs? They sure as hell don't see Ethiopian Jews as equals, so what about other JOC?

Do you guys see the left capturing any meaningful gains in the next twenty years? What countries do you guys believe are most primed for revolution? Do you believe communism will die in this century?

What is your favorite thread that used to be on /leftypol/?

No happenings, like election threads or le pol face. We're talking about generals, like the WebM dump threads.

So, in addition to the contingent of people who think that Native Americans don’t exist anymore and were all genocided (which ironically is US government propaganda to justify its continued settler-colonial occupation of indigenous land), there also seems to be a contingent of people who thinks that all people in the US regardless of race, *even Native Americans*, are irredeemable and unrevolutionary and should even be killed, such as the posts I’ve circled in the two screenshots I attached. While I could completely get behind white people in the US either leaving to Europe or being killed or should just be killed in general when revolution comes, (and I say this as a white settler myself), and that even manyBlack people in the US still contribute to US imperialism, how on earth could you have this little intellectual curiosity and empathy for the plight of indigenous peoples in the so-called US. I mean come on, thousands of completely unique languages foodways, ways of music and art, and beautiful people were and are continuing to be destroyed for the sake of building the most horrible and destructive empire on the history of earth, and instead of having empathy for those whose lands it is built on, you say you want to continue said evil empire’s genocide all while claiming to oppose said evil empire, just because a small comprador class of Native Americans aligns with US imperialism. I mean even if you don’t care about the people themselves, which you should, shouldn’t you care for the sake of intellectualism about thousands of distinct languages and cultures?

Also, something weird I’ve been noticing is that people say that Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico should be freed from the US, but they never say that native peoples with in the lower 48 states and Alaska should be freed, which just naturalizes the US empire’s occupation of indigenous land.

Idk, it just seems like from online discourse both on and off of /leftypol/, that 95+ percent of leftists outside of the US think that all Native Americans are extinct, or think that they’re horrible and unrevolutionary. NonAmericanBros, especially GlobalSouthBros, please tell me you don’t think this. Please tell me you have love and solidarity for your fellow oppressed people, while also being able to criticize them while they are reactionary in a healthy way without writing them off as a whole. I’m not trying to smear every Non-USian leftist, and I know it’s probably just me being emotionallyPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The majority of leftypol users are not using dialectial materialism, but mechanical materialism. How did this happen and how do we fix it?
I've been using this website for a while and pretty much whenever I tell people to propagandize, agitate, educate and whatnot I get told "that's useless, you're a liberal minded retard" and when I ask what we should do then I get two answers
>thing nobody in this website will do, like making a guerrilla group or firebombing a walmart or some other very drastic shit that screams main character fantasies
>doing nothing. Just read more books.
And the reason every single time is vulgar mechanical materialism disguised as dialectics. Discuss.

Trump is gemmy doe
>farmers rise up to overthrow fauci
>opens up the coal mines again
>uses a red hat
>has a lower class martyr that got the presidential medal of freedom
>modern Russia is Christian
Seems like winning to me

Hey guys, a couple of days ago, while reading an article, I remembered about a Marx quote where he talks about the use of methods and methodologies in Science by comparing them to a ray of light and a piece of glass (I think? I can't quite remember correctly, something like that anyway). In the quote he says something along the lines of "If knowledge is a ray of light and a method is a piece of glass then by utilising a method we are merely observing the reflection of the ray of light, not the ray of light itself" (I think). The problem is I read this quote so long ago I've forgotten it's exact phrasing.

I've been searching for it for days and I haven't been able to find it, I figured it would be been in the German Ideology, or maybe Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, or the Philosophical Manuscripts but none of those have anything similar.

To be honest I don't even know if this quote is actually Marx's or if it was Engels or Hegel saying it, that's how bad my memory is.

If any of you remember such a quote and/or know in which text it was written please respond to this thread it would be of great help. Even if you vaguely remember it and haven't checked the text in a while.

Thanks in advance to all of you