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Any predictions for the outcome of the 2026 American midterm elections?

Any socialists on the ballot?

Any guesses as to how the redistributing/gerrymandering issue will play into things?

How do you think issues like Trump’s wars, the tariffs, ICE raids, Black issues, Medicare For All, the climate, voting rights, abortion, trans issues, autistic/neurodivergent issues, and Palestine will affect the outcome? For instance, are we seeing a split in the Democrats over Palestine and other foreign policy issues?
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When Mr. Wilimos debates with Mr. Cooper and Mr. Whatley. It will be here. Stay tuned.

>>2842692
God, if only.

Nirav shah is officially endorsed by Jack wilimos campaign. Let’s see what happens next.

Now, we officially endorse Troy Jackson. May he not disappoint.

I think the economy is going to shit the bed hard some time in September and even with Trump and his allied Republicans eating incredible amounts of shit the Democrats are still going to hardly move the needle because all their energy is focused on combatting the DSA instead of Trump.



 

People here spend a lot of time arguing over whether historical socialist states were either great successes or complete disasters, but not much time talking about *why* specific things actually worked or failed. So here's a simple question:

>Pick one success and one failure from any historical socialist state.


Not necessarily the biggest or most famous examples, just the ones you think have the most to teach us. What happened? Why did it succeed or fail? Was it a matter of policy, leadership, material conditions, foreign pressure, bureaucracy, ideology, or something else? I'm less interested in moral judgments and more interested in what lessons can actually be drawn from it. Could be the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, the GDR, Burkina Faso under Sankara, or anywhere else.

Bonus points if you pick something other than the usual "USSR industrialization" or "Great Leap Forward."
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>success
Reform and opening up, which succeeded in large part because Mao built the basis for it by building up literacy and smashing "traditional" culture. Fundamentally, productive forces were not and are not yet developed enough for communism and recognising this reality and adapting to it while maintaining party rule is commendable. In general, export-led development is a good strategy because you cannot force external actors to buy your products, so you have to develop things of the quality and type actually desired.
>failure
Gorbachev's attempted reforms. Nobody actually understood the Soviet economy or how it worked so each attempted tweak made things worse. The more valuable lesson, however, is that an ideological approach was just about the worst approach possible to reform. Gorbachev went back to Lenin to pick up many of his worst ideas (like giving nationalities more power based on Lenin's decisions in the 1920s) and was still fretting about how to maintain worker co-ops and not-really do capitalism even while moving to a market economy, which just confused things further. By the time it was generally recognised that the USSR had to move towards a market economy if it wanted to survive, it was already impossible to do so.

That China is regarded as a betrayer of communism as an ideal while the USSR is looked back on wistfully for martyring itself against underlying reality is an unfortunate emotional impulse that should be checked. It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it hasn't committed suicide there's hope for it yet.

>>2869748
>the alliance workers ,peasants and medieval knights
nahh Im not feeling it, they were already larping as knights with those grey pointy hats that resembled helmets, also putting a sword on the symbol would've been too much

>>2869748
>I believe that had this been adopted, the alliance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union would have endured
Please look up "Operation Barbarossa".

ussr best decision:
calling geopolitics bourgeois pseudo-science
ussr worst decision:
calling state capitalism socialism

Not sure, but i'd say Lenin invading Poland immediately after the civil war like the whole of the USSR wasn't in shambles is certainly one of them



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Obviously the corporate class seeks exponential growth at all costs. From that perspective the most evil actions will make a kind of internal sense. But what doesn't make sense is that so many of the decisions made by major Western corporations seem actively self-destructive. It's almost the equivalent of internal sabotage or following spectacularly bad advice, yet they all seem to be doing it.

You can see it across the auto industry, fast food, retail, entertainment. pretty much everywhere. Like If I were an amoral, profit-maximizing CEO, I'd focus on keeping my customer base in the imperial core happy, well-fed, and dependent, while paying workers in the developing world as little as possible and using coercion to suppress resistance if necessary. That would at least be internally consistent with maximizing profits. Instead companies keep raising prices, cutting quality and generally making life worse for their own customers. These decisions aren't just going to fuck them over in the long term, they're imploding their businesses right now, yet they all keep making them anyway. This trend seems to have accelerated after COVID. What happened?
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>>2868659
>acha bhai mai totally aik amreki agent ho

It's also very easy to put something in google translate to pretend to be fluent in a language so you can pretend to be from another country.

>>2869269
That user's IP does read as being in Karachi for whatever that's worth. It's not impossible to find someone from outside the west online you know.

>>2867535
yet another instance where the best marxist analysis comes from an-nils

idk why i use this fossil flag. are there any good recent theoretical works from this bloc? nihilist communism is a must-read on here. I find myself agreeing with the encylopedie des nuisances types about stuff

>>2867494
>What happened?
TRPF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall

>>2867535
>neoliberalism, in which the ability for capital to innovate and build anything was entirely abandoned in favor of what is essentially a scam
There were innovations. The '90s info-tech boom (and its aftershocks with Uber/social media slop and now AI) and also the biomedical revolution were notable. Melinda Cooper wrote about stuff like Monsanto patents of biology

>>2867970
>the stereotypical Gen X angst was rooted in the feeling that there was too much abundance and security, that life somehow "sucked" because they had to show up every day to a clean, comfortable office cubicle, which was treated as if it were its own kind of hell.
nu metal like Korn = working class chud music for the pioneer footsoldiers of the satanic empire
hipster alt-rock like The Strokes = petite bourgeois cannibal settler music for the downwardly mobile Jeffrey Epstein PMC class

>>2867536
Tbh a lot of corporations probably ARE more incompetent now, in large part because of the exodus of older professionals from the economy in the wake of covid, and the prevalence of the opposition to all the aspects of a healthy corporate culture that would lead to both cultivating competence in a workforce as well as creating a resilient social structure to perpetuate that.

For example, one of the current corporate culture's most cherished ideas is that knowledge and people are perfectly fungible. There's no effort to keep those with institutional knowledge because the idea that people or individuals are essential or necessary is anathema to the principle that anyone can be discarded at any time and replaced at will. You can see this manifested in the drive for AI, where things like human creativity which requires the accumulation and development of a great deal of knowledge and experience is attempting to be mechanized out of existence.

Tl;dr: competency is disappearing because those that had it have left the industry and the mechanisms for transferring that competency have atrophied or been intentionally degraded.



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Do you guy think the democratic socialists will become major players in future us politics? seeing as people want le third option away from the dems and republicans while being too retarded for communism or fascism past its basic utranationalist principles do you think they'll turn to demsocs or some other form of governance? (pic super rel)
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>>2875118
Bernie wasn't left-Trump. Bernie surrendered which made Bernie's entire coalition scatter across the spectrum. If there is an actual fighter who is prepared to get down with the DNC establishment there can be some longevity here

>>2874983
So DSA should start doing entryism to the GOP instead of the DNC?

>>2875193
I'd love that if all the centrist Dems went over to the GOP and turned them more sane/lib and then the chud wing and the Christian nationalists end up politically homeless.

>>2874800
A right-wing split the supported the invasion of Socialist Vietnam?

>>2875195
Yes. The DSA founders supported the Vietnam War at first.



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PERU ELECTIONS 2026
PENCILMAN FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
Well dear leftypol, the country with more presidents in the decade now has to again elect one. After the debacle of Pencilman I, the betrayal of Dinamita Boluarte, the r*pist lapdog of Jeri and the sarcophagus of current Balcazar comes the rematch. Roberto Sanchez, exminister in Castillo's goverment is practically the second round candidate with Fujimori (no explanation needed). Now, he is being bombarded by the press to debilitate his campaing and with all the sloganeering as always (statist, terrierist, betrayer, etc).
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Peru literally sold their country to Japan on a silver platter ffs

>>2837114
Jokes on you everything that could be sold has been sold. Don't you know the Fujimori privatisacion and constitutional prohibition on creating state owned enterprises?

>>2838177
>Milei is a great ally of China
describe how he is an ally in 10 different and concrete ways


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what do you call this?



 

Trump has collapsed the us stock market repeatly and is forcing the transition frok fossil fuels to renewable energy and has completely killed US soft power by disbanding US aid and also hes made it clear that america is controlled by corporations instead of the democrats larping that it isnt and also he has revived socialism.

I will be voting for trump in 2028
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>>2875008
>and has completely killed US soft power by disbanding US aid and also hes made it clear that america is controlled by corporations instead of the democrats larping that it isnt and also he has revived socialism.
giga trvke, but is just capitalism doing its thing at the end of the day, no need to support any capitalist politician, party or state for it, they all do what CapitalGOD demands
>>2875009
I'm so glad your daddy Zohran can't be president, another FDR would move the wheel of history back 50 years and fuck up all this progress Donald has been kind enough to deliver, then we would be actually 100% fucked

FUCK YEAH
Trump owned those woke libs lets vote for him in 2028!

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>>2875032
>I'm so glad your daddy Zohran can't be president, another FDR would move the wheel of history back 50 years
implied teleology

Trump's retardation has been a massive factor in American decline but I think there's a few things that probably wouldn't have changed regardless of who is sitting in the Oval Office. America was woefully unprepared for a war with Iran. If someone like Kamala Harris was in charge, at best, she may have tried to disengage and actually stick with the ceasefire, MOU, whatever. But the outcome wouldn't have come out in America's favour.




 

Why are you not ANPRIM, /leftypol/?
>the agricultural revolution begins 10,000 to 12,000 years ago during the neolithic period
>prior humans were hunter-gatherers during the Stone Age tens of thousands to millions of years ago
>humans were originally scavengers before the widespread discovery of fire 1-2 million years ago and ate bone marrow and raw carcasses
>farmers were significantly less healthy and shorter than the hunter-gatherers
>humans didn't have codified law or religion until the Bronze Age
>ever since the industrial revolution of the 1800s, humans have been driving the 6th great extinction and are enslaving themselves and the planet
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>>2864653
>we would need to murder almost all of humanity
that would be awful haha

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>>2866451
>maintaining whatever the fuck we have now.
They're very much willing to turn large portions of the first world into sacrifice zones so that they can be comfortable and keep consuming while the rest of us boil. I don't know why anyone saw it happening to the rest of the world and thought it wouldn't happen to them.

>>2864572
The ice age ended and there's no mega funa. Sorry farmcels won its oger.

>We have to go le back to le past when it was le better
Basically fascism

>>2875066
>fascism is when you kill mammoths with a spear
wow



 

Italy's Meloni order probe into death of African man that sparked protests
Abderrahim Fakir, a Moroccan-born man who ran a small removals and cleaning business, died on Sunday after police were called to the Pilastro neighbourhood on the outskirts of the northern city to deal with a man who was alleged to be behaving aggressively.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/italys-meloni-order-probe-death-african-man-sparked-protests

Hungary investigates deal with China’s BYD carmaker after ex-foreign minister takes job there
Péter Szijjártó’s announcement last Wednesday that he would take the job at the world’s top electric carmaker prompted accusations of a conflict of interest and criticism over his role in facilitating substantial government subsidies to the company while in office.
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-probe-byd-deal-szijjarto-2aaa8f568762e2cd92dd1c65bd3c59bd

Burnham approves US use of UK bases for some strikes on Iran, Bloomberg reports
According to sources who spoke to Bloomberg on condition of anonymity, Starmer held a meeting of senior ministers and officials on Friday, in which it was decided that US planes could continue to use bases at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. The sources said that Burnham was briefed on the discussion and agreed with the decision, confirming that he would likely continue Starmer’s policy throughout the renewed US operations.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-burnham-approves-us-use-bases-some-strikes-iran

Venezuela: Campesinos Denounce Landowner Attacks, Demand State Support
The José Leonardo Chirino campesino council, which organizes around 120 families in the Barimisagua estate, located in the Iturriza municipality, has accused landowner Jacobo Salas Romer of “intimidation” against campesinos. Over the past two weeks, campesinos have denounced the use of heavy machinery to destroy their cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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Analytical Note – Turkey (RKSM(b) )
Turkey positions itself as a gas hub, seeking to become a key energy hub for Europe and the Middle East. Since 2025, the gas trade center project together with the Russian Gazprom and the Turkish company Botas has been underway in Istanbul. Gas prices are planned to be calculated according to the new Istanbul gas index, and the infrastructure is created on the basis of the Istanbul financial center. 12] Turkey plans to expand gas imports not only from Russia, but also from other countries: Iran, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Oman, Algeria. In 2023-2024, the country signed side contracts for liquefied natural gas with Shell, Oman LNG and ExxonMobil. The Istanbul gas hub will theoretically allow “depersonalize” gas sold to the European market to remove the risks of discrimination against Russian supplies. But there is a problem: the bourgeoisie in all countries always tend to bite off even more than they can swallow. The technical possibilities of gas delivery from Turkey to Europe are quite limited. And the Turkish bourgeoisie seeks to monetize its favorable geographical position, but does not want to invest in infrastructure alone. The existing capacity of the gas pipeline to Europe is already used almost completely, and without new routes, experts doubt the possibility of meeting the needs of the European market. 1313] Despite its growing appetite, Turkey remains an imperialist predator of local scale. Therefore, it is necessary to consider its relationship with the larger imperialists.
[RUS] https://rksmb.org/articles/analiticheskaya-zapiska-turcziya
[ENG] :https://rksmb-org.translate.goog/articles/analiticheskaya-zapiska-turcziya?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true

No Regrets for Being on the Right Side of History Interview with Daniel Tatlow-Devally
In the early hours of September 8, 2025, in Ulm, Germany, five activists gained access to a branch of a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest private defense contractor. They damaged office equipment while filming themselves. According toPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Personally, I won’t stop until 10 billion Moroccans exist. That’s in line with communism.

>>2874804
Since, genetically speaking, there’s no such thing as a Moroccan (just like there’s no such thing as a genetic Mexican), you could have the world population boom to 10 billion and hand everybody in the world a Moroccan citizenship, and your goal would be accomplished.

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>>2874838
Most Moroccans would disagree. Are you denying their lived experience? Who are you to colonise their minds with western science?

I wonder if we will ever see a mutiny on a Navy ship?



 

The biggest contradiction in American Capitalism is not the industrial proletariat and the bourgeoisie anymore. With the industrial basis of the USA dying mostly out, as seen from the rust belt, we can see this industrial basis being diverted to the third world.

Now of course this has cause MASSIVE domestic economic issues, and while yes the national bourgeoisie has benefited from not having to deal with constant strikes and coal wars, it now has to deal with an uncompetitive economy with no backboard of stability to lay on, other then.. the commodity of oil, the only commodity that still holds inherent value because of its extremely vital role to the development of capitalism, almost every other resource commodity that has been used, whether Diamonds being produced in labs, or gold being mass mined, are no longer the centre of exchange, ONLY OIL, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE PETRODOLLAR. oh and also some of the petite-bourgeoisie but they play a smaller, and dying role.

Truly the biggest contradiction in America is the contradiction between the national bourgeoisie, what can be called the “federal” bourgeoisie, and the international bourgeoisie who controls oil!
It is in the best interest of the national bourgeoisie to hold the global oil supply themselves, as it would retain American domination internationally, thereby preventing the internal contradiction of the petite and state bourgeoisie, or the unemployed, from causing collapse.

There I just explained why the Iran war is happening your welcome use this as a copypasta now
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>>2873966
I kinda feel like the Iran debacle IS WWIII but no one’s willing to go nuclear (as in actually use the thing on the battlefield)

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>>2873979
How fucked is everyone if we really can't access the oil?
Like I know it means food doesn't ship, many billion dollar industries like Amazon are suddenly worthless pipe dreams, production halts, it's fucking total annihilation until economies localize to recover and even then it'll never be the same. But how much does this realistically hurt the vast majority and who does it hurt the most?

Like would it make Elon Musk put a gun to his head? I really don't wanna go without vaping but I'll endure if it makes Elon Musk put a gun to his own head

Stores in America only have like 3 days worth of food supplies so if oil collapses it'll shutter food imports and production and if the damage is dragged out long enough we'll get revolution

>>2874791
The US is an oil exporter, they can take command of the supply and wheather a crisis. The truly fucked countries are like always the third world importers who don't have the cash to pay oil at a premium

the working class is not only employed in industrial manufacturing.
Ghosts are not being exploited by the bourgeoisie in the USA.



 

Is WW3 starting as France starts sending volunteers to Ukraine? or has it already started?

>French officials emphasized that the volunteers would not be members of the French Armed Forces but former soldiers, reservists, and civilians with military experience who have elected to join newly established "European Volunteer Brigades." Defense officials said participants would undergo expedited training before crossing into Ukraine.

>The decision follows weeks of intensified Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine, as Kyiv's newly appointed military leadership has pledged renewed counteroffensive operations. European Union diplomats, meanwhile, remain locked in negotiations over another package of sanctions against Moscow amid disagreements among several member states.
>The Kremlin denounced the French initiative as "a reckless provocation," warning that any organized volunteer formations receiving French logistical assistance would be treated as "legitimate military targets."
>Russia's Foreign Ministry accused Paris of "abandoning the distinction between indirect assistance and direct participation," though it stopped short of announcing retaliatory measures against France itself.
>Russian military bloggers reacted with alarm, describing the development as the most significant Western escalation since the introduction of long-range missile systems.
>NATO officials reiterated that the alliance was not involved in France's volunteer program.
>Poland and several Baltic governments expressed support.
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It's over

to the last Fr*nchman!



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