/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Federal Judge Halts Trump’s ‘Arbitrary and Capricious’ Immigration Court Arrests
US District Judge for the Northern District of California Casey Pitts granted a stay in Sequen v. Albarran blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) from carrying out courthouse arrests within ICE’s San Francisco Area of Responsibility, pending the outcome of a broader legal challenge.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-courthouse-arrests-blocked

Pediatrics group sues HHS for cutting funds for children’s health programs
The funding supported numerous public health programs, including efforts to prevent sudden unexpected infant death, strengthen pediatric care in rural communities and support teens facing substance use and mental health challenges.
https://apnews.com/article/aap-pediatrics-hhs-d458208e40d0e2ea1e03a59c94e8a194

Montgomery UPS distribution facility to layoff employees
The Associated Press released the list of companies that have had the largest job cuts dating back to Nov. 26, and UPS was among them, along with other notable companies such as Verizon and Amazon. UPS disclosed that 48,000 job cuts had occurred this year as part of its turnaround efforts, with the addition of increased work shifts. 93 leased and owned buildings that operated daily were closed during the first nine months of this year.
https://www.wsfa.com/2025/12/26/montgomery-ups-distribution-facility-layoff-employees/

California drops lawsuit seeking to reinstate federal funding for the state’s bullet train
The authority said this week it would focus on other funding sources to complete the project estimated to cost more than $100 billion. “This action reflects the State’s assessment that the federal government is not a reliable, constructive, or trustworthy partner in advancing high-speed rail in California,” an authority spokesperson said in a statement.
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The fall of the USSR was a tragedy for humanity, but not the end of history
On 26 December 1991, when the red flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time, the world did not merely witness the dissolution of a state. It witnessed the victory of counterrevolution—the temporary triumph of capitalism over the most advanced historical attempt to abolish exploitation and class rule. The fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not the end of an experiment that had “failed,” as bourgeois ideology insists. It was one of the greatest tragedies in human history precisely because it interrupted a process that had transformed the lives of hundreds of millions and reshaped the global balance of class forces. For most of the twentieth century, the USSR stood as living proof that capitalism was neither eternal nor inevitable. It abolished unemployment, guaranteed universal education and healthcare, eliminated illiteracy, industrialized vast regions in record time, defeated fascism at a staggering human cost, and inspired revolutionary movements across every continent. Its existence alone constrained imperialism, strengthened workers’ struggles worldwide, and gave material meaning to the idea that another social system was possible. The counterrevolution of 1991 therefore marked far more than a geopolitical realignment. It signaled the restoration of capitalist power, the privatization of social wealth created by generations of workers, and the descent of millions into poverty, insecurity, and social degradation. Life expectancy collapsed, inequality exploded, and the promise of socialist modernity was replaced by oligarchic plunder. The tragedy was real, measurable, and lived. Yet to understand 1991, one must resist the convenient fiction that everything unraveled suddenly in the late 1980s. The counterrevolution was not an accident, nor merely the result of external pressure from imperialism. It was the outcome of a long process of ideological retreat and structural erosion within socialism itself.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/12/the-fall-of-ussr-was-tragedy-for-humanity-but-not-the-end-of-history.html

America’s Higher Education Promise Is Dead
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tybna

>>2502443
>>2502462
lmfao

>>2497909
>The Copenhagen interpretation is an anti-materialist bourgeois psyop.
how about the seethenhagen interpretation

why's this slop still up

>>2607287
you'd rather debate for eternity about idpol garbage than talk about science

>>2497267
>AI has randomly spewed out this, even:
I wouldn't trust AI about anything complex.

>>2614388
everything is physical. even better, everything is a wave

>>2614395
does energy exist as an entity or does it only transfer between entities? in my understanding, Energy is more of a concept than an entity. It doesn’t “exist” as a thing on its own; rather, it’s a property of systems and objects that can be transferred, converted, or transformed between different forms. Potential energy is the energy stored in an object because of its position, condition, or state. It’s the energy an object has due to its potential to do work when its situation changes. I kind of see money is the matter of economics and value is the energy of economics. This is why I have no problem with "potential value" since Marx says value is created in production but realized in exchange.

>>2614400
>does energy exist
"energy" is just another way to say "time symmetry". it breaks at galactic scales

>>2614400
value has its own associated symmetry and conservation laws. it's very much real because social relations are real, because humans brains are real

>>2614388
well it depends on how substantial of a concept you consider "value" to be. the common usage of the term typically refers to the price of a commodity (e.g. value in exchange), but it also refers to the value of its utility (e.g. value in use). this internal division of value has been noted since aristotle's time (t. "rhetoric" 1.7):
<Further, what is rare is a greater good than what is plentiful. Thus, gold is a better thing than iron, though less useful: it is harder to get, and therefore better worth getting. Reversely, it may be argued that the plentiful is a better thing than the rare, because we can make more use of it. For what is often useful surpasses what is seldom useful, whence the saying: "The best of things is water."
this "paradox of value" is reproduced by smith (1776) and ricardo (1817):
<The word value, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called `value in use'; the other, `value in exchange.' The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/wealth-of-nations/book01/ch04.htm
jevons (1871) also tackles this by situating two types of utility; total and marginal utility:
<Thus I come to the conclusion that, in the use of the word value, three distinct meanings are habitually confused together, and require to be thus distinguished: (1) Value in use = total utility; (2) Esteem = final degree of utility [marginal utility]; (3) Purchasing power = ratio of exchange.
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>>2607593
Not if the condom broke

Reminder that since there are no peasants in the west anymore, what is called 'farmer'is in fact a kulak. They are farm owners, not workers. The workers are in great majority poor illegal migrants with no rights whatsoever. A principled communist must be for dekulakisation. If the USSR in 1928 was already 'ripe' for dekulakisation, advanced modern Europe and NA have no excuse to keep pampering these bloodsuckers.

>>2604728
Farmers I know just work the land but dobt own it. Still they are petit-bourgeoisie as they own their tools (tractors, combine harvesters) bought with tax dollars.

>>2607596
Fuggg

>>2568420
vanguard (of the working class) -> forefront, thought leaders, natural leaders

disambiguate private/personal property into personal property (things you own and use) and socially productive property (things that produce goods or services for the market)

organize (as an imperative) -> find out how you can support local socialists/communists/anarchists/people-feeding-the-hungry

organize (as an answer to "how can you make this happen?") -> connect with likeminded people, educate others, defend and support the vulnerable and poor in our communities, fight fascism, win the people's trust, govern by putting the working class's needs first, step by step transition to socialism

mass line -> solicit complaints and get to the root of problems

proletariat -> working people

bourgeoisie -> the super-rich

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>just go back to pre-scientific socialism, let's mistify Marxism even more, let's just confuse the everliving shit out of everybody instead of just taking the Communist Programme and its language - this will SURELY help the movement
are you all retarded? genuinely asking?

>>2570944
There's so much aggregated crap, wrongheadedness, disastrous failure, backwards-looking cultishness, and go-nowhere definition debates that it's easy to answer your strawman question with: yes.

There is no movement. There are barely movements capable of building the groundwork for a movement. There are millions of good people who basically vibe with the idea of socialism/communism, which is when the world isn't as shit as the status quo, and there are hundreds of thousands of stupid idiots (many on this website) who are very arrogant because they've got ideas and words floating about in their do-nothing heads. Knowing that the dictatorship of the proletariat is a special snowflake meaning of dictatorship different to the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein (wait, no, critical support for him against US imperialism!) or whatever does nothing to bring communism any closer.

Point me to a real movement that abolishes the present state of things. $80 if you pick something other than a foreign government which conveniently lets you outsource your ideological battles like they're the manufacture of cheap cutlery.

>>2568432
That is not how the average normie will react. It's probably just going to make them more confused.

>>2614431
even if they weren't perfect, they still had less inequality than, for example, the USA. Soviet education was free, soviet healthcare was free. In China today, homeownership rate is higher and homelessness lower. You can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. That sounds liberal, but I'm using it to contrast proletarian dictatorships with bourgeois dictatorships, rather than contrasting two bourgeois parties.

>>2614429
Life in the Paleolithic era was certainly harsh and short. But the people in Paleolithic society had real, organic solidarity. Modern Marxist solidarity, by contrast, is an artificial, anonymous product. Ironically, it is completely alienated because it is the product of anonymous power structures. What good is material prosperity to us if we lack true solidarity and have only a cheap, artificial imitation of it?

>>2614439
mystical ouin ouin

>>2614425
>Both systems are essentially the same: anonymous machines of exploitation
Marx says:
<What we have to deal with here is a communist society, not as it has developed on its own foundations, but, on the contrary, just as it emerges from capitalist society; which is thus in every respect, economically, morally, and intellectually, still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges. Accordingly, the individual producer receives back from society – after the deductions have been made – exactly what he gives to it.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm

>In a Paleolithic society, I would have had the opportunity to punch anyone directly in the face who harms or oppresses me.
it would be laughably easy for you to die as an infant before having the "opportunity" to do anything since infant mortality was very high. You would also have the "opportunity" to be molested or maimed by your parents and tribe since there are no legal proceedings against such behaviors. You would also have the "opportunity" to get killed by a wild animal as a child, die of starvation when local forage is depleted, freeze to death due to inadequate clothing, or die of a simple rhinovirus.

>>2614439
>What good is material prosperity to us if we lack true solidarity and have only a cheap, artificial imitation of it?
I would much rather have clothes and shelter and be able to argue with you over the internet than have "paleolithic solidarity" whatever that means. See >>2614442

US Sends Special Operations Aircraft to Puerto Rico for Venezuela Campaign
Five MC‑130J Commando II aircraft were identified in satellite imagery this week by open‑intelligence analyst account LatAmMilMVMTs, which tracks military movements across Latin America, showing them parked at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Puerto Rico.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-special-operations-aircraft-puerto-rico-venezuela-campaign-11269962
https://archive.ph/GNeoO

Trump says US launched strike against ISIL in northwest Nigeria
Trump said ISIL fighters had “‌targeted and viciously” killed “primarily, innocent Christians, at ⁠levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!” “I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was,” Trump said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/25/trump-says-us-launched-strikes-against-isil-in-northwest-nigeria
https://archive.ph/nNRNr

US labor unions gear up to fight against Trump’s ‘Billionaire First’ agenda
Donald Trump has staged a year of “unrelenting attacks on working people,” according to the head of the largest federation of the labor unions in the US. Now they’re preparing to fight back. Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said it was gearing up to challenge the US president’s “Billionaire First” agenda in 2026 – and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/25/trump-labor-unions-afl-cio

US judge rejects business group's challenge to Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee
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Episode 65 - No Future feat. Adam Curtis (12/12/16) (Chapo Trap House )
We got to interview one of Will’s favorite filmmakers Adam Curtis about his new movie HyperNormalisation. We talk about Trump, the curse of bloodless liberalism, science fiction, Escape From New York, living in the Zone, and tough medicine for the left.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-65-no-future-feat-adam-curtis-121216
[HyperNormalisation]: https://archive.org/details/hyper-normalisation-2016-subs-by-adam-curtis-a-different-experience-of-realit

Redacting Our Reality, One Epstein at a Time
Another Lucy with the football moment has occurred in the United States. Less than 1% of the Epstein file information has been released, and what was offered to the public emptied out all the black ink cartridges in the greater DC area. This, in a long line of dashed liberal dreams, whether it be Special Counsel investigations, the hope of criminal charges when new administrations come in…any number of just wait a bit and your patience will be rewarded aspirations. But the thing is, this day of reckoning just never seems to materialize. This realization only lands after countless hours, days and weeks are spent waiting for Daddy to come home and make it right. By the time this is understood, a new hope is on the horizon—perhaps an unrigged primary, a new set of possible criminal charges for war crimes. This time will be different, they think. This is the way most human minds seem to work. If you aren’t getting justice today, just wait. It will show up eventually., You will be rewarded in the afterlife or perhaps post-midterms. Just not today.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/25/redacting-our-reality-one-epstein-at-a-time/

Left? Right? Anti-semitic? Not anti-semitic?
Traditionally, the far right has been the main repository of anti-semitic ideas (conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, racial stereotypes) and practice (discrimination, abuse, physicPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

tybna

>How is mathematics as something that is free of contradictions
Unprovable statement, dummy

>>2611764
truth nuke. perfectly put.
>>2612366
he couldn't answer.

>>2609070
Absolutely nothing in this world is free of contradictions

>>2612700
only if you stop thinking immediately: it follows that mathematics is tautologically that which is not contradictory.

>>2614033
even this statement?

99% of Leninists quit just before the struggle becomes illegalist enough to overthrow existing conditions

>>2613416
Grow up!

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>>2613656
Keep wrecking

>>2613309
Just normal non-liable sexual harassment, though there's something weird going on behind the veil because a bunch of former LTT hosts have being fired and have since started their own youtube channels over the last few months. Like 3 or 4 regular hosts.