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This city is have a population of around 36 million based on the most recent informal census. It is the fastest sinking city and the traffic is abysmal.

There’s a few rules on how you can save the city: you cannot demolish any homes or buildings to make way for roads and highways; you cannot landscape anything, but you can hard scape land; finally, you cannot build any skyscrapers

How will you rebuild the city?
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Its over for Lagos, climate change would sink it in next decades.

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Their only chance is just to move the city up north for 10-15 km.

>>2185446
aren't there already fishing villages in lagos where the people practically live on boats

>>2185493
Makoko got flooded with sand a few days ago




 

"""Anti-campists ™""" destroyed, even by Cockshott standards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHm9rsLIPjA
<06:53 "It is clear that there is currently no such thing as sub-imperialism or non-Western imperialism today.
This is based on statistics gathered from economic data worldwide.

1. Russia is not imperialist;
2. China is not imperialist;
3. Not all wars are automatically imperialist in nature;
4. Your "cope and seethe" is your way of defending the imperial core.

That is all.
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>>2181053
What is imperialism and why are leftist against iti? Answer either or both.

>>2172787
Honestly, how many times does this have to be explained to you people? It's not fucking rocket science.
>More divided international bourgeoisie
>Industrialization of the global south
>Collapse of the labour aristocracy in the West
All of these conditions are more conducive to revolution than those which prevailed during the unipolar moment. All of them are advanced by the rise of non-Western powers.

>>2181058
This map is actually based!
…Um, but on what precise metrics it is based upon?
…And USA should be just as uncivilised as UK.

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The Ideology of Late Imperialism: The Return of the Geopolitics of the Second International
<by Zhun Xu

In 1990, when renowned Indian Marxian economist Prabhat Patnaik asked “Whatever Happened to Imperialism?,” once vibrant and influential schools of theories on imperialism were at a postwar historic low.1 When he left the West to return to India in 1974, imperialism was at the center of all Marxist discussions. But when he came back to the West merely fifteen years later, imperialism already seemed out of fashion. After all, the end of the Soviet Union and liberals’ declaration of the end of history were near.

Marxists’ inquiries into the question of imperialism began in the early twentieth century. During the time of V. I. Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, Marxists focused on two related questions regarding imperialism: (1) intercapitalist competition and war, and (2) the hierarchy within world capitalism and the relationship between the imperialist countries and the colonies/semicolonies. Since then, the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, the postwar anticolonial wave, and the Cold War have profoundly changed the context of imperialism. Following the last interimperialist war in the core in the 1940s, and with most colonies having gained independence, the political-economic relationship between the imperialist and nonimperialist countries became the key to theorizing imperialism.

Since the 1950s, Marxist scholars have greatly deepened our understanding of imperialism by exploring underdevelopment and the center-periphery, or dependency relationship, in world capitalism.2 Paul Baran’s The Political Economy of Growth is one of the earliest and best analyses of how feudal, imperialist, and comprador interests, as well as other unproductive uses of economic surplus, have kept back the third world. Later writers such as Samir Amin, Andre Gunder Frank, and Immanuel Wallerstein each developed a distinct but related approach to the rise of capitalism. Instead of focusing on just Western Europe and the United States, they also explored how the global division of labor and the more general world system, or imperialist system, transferred surplus from the periphery to the center, thus creating both development and underdevelopment simultaneously.

Given this high tide of Marxist writings on imperialism in the 1960s and ’70s, the disappearance of imperialism from leftist dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2181157
It's a meme



 

Duterte flown to The Hague after arrest over Philippines drug war killings
Duterte was arrested on Tuesday morning at Manila’s main airport after flying back from Hong Kong. “Early in the morning, Interpol Manila received the official copy of the warrant of the arrest from the ICC,” the presidential palace said in a statement. “As of now, he is under the custody of authorities.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/rodrigo-duterte-arrest-manila-former-philippines-president-war-on-drugs-ntwnfb

Pro-monarchists welcome Nepal’s deposed King Gyanendra to Kathmandu
An estimated 10,000 supporters of Gyanendra Shah on Sunday gathered near the main entrance to Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport as he arrived from a trip to western Nepal. “Vacate the royal palace for the king. Come back king, save the country. Long live our beloved king. We want monarchy,” the crowds chanted.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/9/pro-monarchists-welcome-nepals-deposed-king-gyanendra-to-kathmandu
https://archive.ph/j3uCi

China's unions say employers should not ask female job seekers about marital, childbearing status
The notices, posted on the Shenzhen, Hunan and Qinghai state-backed unions' official Wechat pages in the past week, were among the most widely circulated items on social media on Monday with many netizens saying it was a step in the right direction to address widespread gender inequality.It has become increasingly common in China for companies to quiz female job seekers about their marriage or childbearing plans during job interviews.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-unions-say-employers-should-not-ask-female-job-seekers-about-marital-2025-03-11/

US resumes military aid and intelligence sharing as Ukraine says it is open to a 30-dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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Nestlé Purina workers in Pennsylvania on strike
The workers are members of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 773 and, according to the group’s Facebook page, voted by an “overwhelming majority” to strike. Workers want significant improvements in wages, pensions and overwork.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/11/koct-m11.html

Department of Education lays off nearly 50% of its workforce
The Department of Education initiated mass layoffs on Tuesday night, reducing its workforce by nearly 50%, sources told ABC News. The "reduction in force" notices began to go out at about 6 p.m. Some 1,315 employees were affected by the RIFs, leaving 2,183 employed by the department, according to senior officials at the DOE.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/department-education-faces-50-layoffs-after-closure-notice/story?id=119690524

Sensing Opportunity, White-Collar Criminals Vie for Trump Pardons
Those reportedly angling for clemency include individuals like jailed crypto titan Sam Bankman-Fried, former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) who earlier this year was sentenced to 11 years in prison for corruption and bribery, two reality TV stars guilty of defrauding banks and evading taxes, and a member of the music group the Fugees who was convicted for taking part in an embezzlement scheme.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-clemency-white-collar-criminals

Nebraska Legislature approves measure classifying gig economy workers as independent contractors
Nebraska state Sen. John Cavanaugh slammed the measure Monday in a report from the Omaha World-Herald, saying L.B. 229 “shifts the balance of power from currently more balanced — although still in favor of these corporations — but shifts it more in the favor of the corporations and [against] these workers.”
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CP of Greece, The anti-communist and anti-democratic frenzy in Ukraine and Russia must stop immediately!
On 11 March 2025, the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) held a picket outside the Embassy of Ukraine in Athens, while a delegation of the KKE and KNE affixed a letter of protest to its door. With this protest, the KKE and KNE condemned the prolonged political persecution, arrest and torture of Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich, members of the Ukrainian Communist Youth League (Komsomol). They denounced that this persecution is being carried out on false and fabricated charges and highlighted that it is unacceptable, as is the attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to bring new charges against them and send them to die on the front line of the imperialist war. The KKE and KNE demand the immediate dropping of all charges against the Kononovich brothers and their release, while stressing that the Ukrainian authorities hold responsibility for their safety.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-The-anti-communist-and-anti-democratic-frenzy-in-Ukraine-and-Russia-must-stop-immediately/

Scottish First Minister calls for ‘firewall’ against Farage
SNP leader John Swinney has called on political parties, trade unions, and campaigners to join him under the umbrella of an anti-Farage summit ahead of the Scottish Parliament election next year. Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party has begun to pick up some momentum in Scotland, claiming thousands of members and standing in council by-elections across the country, winning approximately 10-20 percent in some local areas. While this is by no means a tidal wave of support, Reform is closer to gaining a foothold in Scottish politics than UKIP or any other right-wing populist party has ever come.
https://communist.red/scottish-first-minister-calls-for-firewall-against-farage/

(HOUDINI) People are still living in FEMA's toxic trailers
This is a nine-year-old documentary. A decade-old documentary, right? About people living in these toxic FEMA trailers. I go on Craigslist—South Louisiana, East Texas, Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2184753
What the fuck is happening in Nepal? How corrupt is the "communist" state?
Also TYBNA

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Thanks News Anon

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>>2184870
Ummmm a-actually its the degenerated workers' state under a peoples' multi-party democratic dick-dictatorship o-of the workers who have not yet uh…. democratized enough….



 

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>>2185072
America certainly has a big advantage in the financial sector. And Lenin was already writing on how overbearing the financial sector can be. It is a bit of a double edged sword however. The more this advantage is leveraged, like freezing russian assets, the weaker it becomes. I could see it proving to be a house of cards in the future and collapsing once more and more transactions abandon the dollar. We will see in the coming months how independent all those satellite countries are with Trump forcing so many issues. Maybe this return to the monroe doctrine and "hard" power proves fruitful. I think it's at the very least precocious.

>>2185085
It's pretty obvious I'm referring to GlowyRetard. Either he's trolling everyone or is genuinely so ignorant that he thinks saying "proletarian" and "Gusano" makes him a real leftist.

>>2185097
Oh I don’t think the dollars long for this world, I fully believe we’re going to be moved to some sort of cryptocurrency reserve system in the west, which I think plays into the strengths of the wests dominance in tech and data, and further powers the dominance of the data economy. I think China is foregoing development in their economy there to pickup what they see as strategic wins in the “old” paradigm

>>2185108
I think using crypto as currency might be the only legitimate use. But it's such a meme now, even normies know about the rug pulls. They are prob gonna implement it anyways since musk is a part of the administration. I just don't see how virtual money on the blockchain is somehow better than virtual money in a bank.

I also think you underestimate China, they have a huge population and a large part of it is now very well educated. Take the often cited deficiency in chip production, it's machines produced in the netherlands and assembled in Taiwan. China prob has more engineers than the entire adult male population of those countries (don't quote me but you get my point). I think they can rapidly change gears to whatever needs they might have. Especially with their focus on planning and autarky. China kinda blindsided the west with electric cars and deepseek. They have long stopped being cheap knockoff land.

>>2185126
I think it’s a lot of things, I think it plays to the US’s strengths in tech R&D and its control over modern tech, I.e. NSA surveillance and custom chip design, I think it’s the way it can both be private for the governments needs in funding as well as public for their ability to track spending data and ecosystems, I think the immutability and unironically the way it facilitates criminal organizations through that immutability almost can also be a big help to the U.S. gov too. It just makes sense to me personally on a lot of levels.

As far as China goes I’m sure you’re right to a degree, It seems we may have an amicable understanding of the shrewd strengths we see in each country, even if we have “favorites”.



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If you "surf" on leftypol, and - marx forbid - the world wide web for like (five) 5 minutes it is so fucking tiring. People are extremely stupid and reiterating whatever argument or pov they just read about. Exhausting. So my question is, were revolutionaries of before tired of this bullshit?

No because they explicitly talked about how trying to convince middle-classers of joining the proletarian movement was a waste of time and that only a retard believes communism is a matter of enough people having the right ideas.

>>2185142
Man just get tired at some point thhough

>>2185148
Sure, but only due to health problems.



 

i come from china and i wander: it seems like uyghurs is a bad word for you. i really dont know why and i want to know how do you think of uyghurs.
i cant find a answer so i try to ask

We don't. On Leftypol, it's a wordfilter of the racial slur "N*gger", intended to trip up people from rightwing communities who get angry when you don't let them speak like that.



 

We lost China.
They're gone now.
They've embraced rightism.
This is the future that Deng wanted for China.
The last communist country has just abandoned us.

How can we cope with having no more major communist/socialist countries in the world?
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you're so right! nuke Beijing NOW

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>>2183664
<chyna bad amirite fellow leftists?

What the fuck is this graph

>>2183664
>political chart shite
>no mention of their policies or examples.

So are you going to give us something to analyse OP, or are you just going to post a chart and take it at face value?



 

My hot take on vanguardism in the imperial core is that no revolutionary labor aristocracy party is possible. Due to the bourgeoise character of the imperial core, more horizontal forms of organization are necessary. There is no cause of national liberation to unite the country the way there is in the periphery.

It follows that Marxist organizations in the imperial core should focus on anti-imperialism and on the liberation of super-exploited groups and in settler states they should particularly focus on Indigenous independence. You can have a Marxist Indian party. You can have a Black Marxist party. You can have a Marxist transsexual party. You can have a Marxist drug user's party. You can't have a labor aristocracy party.

I still need to think about how to organize a white-trash party or an anti-white party. There is a lot I need to figure out. But the imperial core demands a much more federated approach to liberation.

Anyhow, I have decided that Lenin and Mao were basically good. Just that these kinds of approaches just won't work in the imperial core.
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>>2182333
>They only recognize oppression when it involves some other process.
Then maybe we shouldn't be reinforcing that tendency by de-emphasizing class as the primary basis of exploitation and oppression.
>Ironically you see more class consciousness and racialism from those groups that aren't defined by being proles, because they're already disillusioned with the aspirational myths of capitalism by virtue of how they are discarded.
That's true to a point, and its certainly true that racialization makes racialized people far more likely to be dissidents, however it very often doesn't promote class consciousness as such. The relationship between capitalism and race is not always immediately apparent, and the experience of racialization can just as easily funnel people towards ethnic nationalism or othe forms of false consciousness. Remember that even at their height, the Black Panthers were significantly outnumbered by the Nation of Islam. Generally forms of bourgeois Black radicalism are more prominent than socialism. Dispelling this tendency requires materialist analysis and Marxist education/agitation, exactly like dispelling the white tendency to blame racialized people, immigrants, etc. This is a big issue I have with Sakai-adjacent arguments, a lot of the tendencies towards racially motivated false consciousness can be seen among racialized people, just as it can be seen among whites. The only difference is that in the former case its usually less virulently reactionary. Racialization alienates people from the status quo and makes them its enemies, but it doesn't necessarily promote an accurate understanding of the real causes of their problems or the necessary solutions.

>>2174719
>My hot take on vanguardism in the imperial core is that no revolutionary labor aristocracy party is possible. Due to the bourgeoise character of the imperial core, more horizontal forms of organization are necessary. There is no cause of national liberation to unite the country the way there is in the periphery.
This is the most incoherent basterdization of marxism that i've read in a while, congratulations.

>National liberation

Not needed for the vanguard party, see the bolsheviks, who invented and perfected the entire model of a communist party. They did not fight a war of national liberation, they fought against their own national bourgeoisie and aristocracy. And Mao fought against the national bourgoiesie for a large part too, the KMT was the nationalist block, which the CPC then fought after jointly kicking out the Japanese. Only in examples such as Vietnam can you speak of the conception of the party as the national liberation vanguard.
>Due to the bourgeoise character of the imperial core, more horizontal forms of organization are necessary.
1. Why would you need horizontal forms of organisation?
2. Does not follow at all from there being a higher degree of labour aristocracy.
> in the imperial core is that no revolutionary labor aristocracy party is possible.
The labor aristocracy is the small section of the working class that fills positions of manegerial or extremely well paid jobs, and therefore have outlooks alligned with the bourgoiesie.
1. These are a minority even in the imperial core
2. By definition, they tend to be *bourgoies* minded, so it makes no sense whatsoever to speak of "a labor aristocracy party". "A labor aristocratic communist vanguard party" is an incoherent, self contradicting idea.
>My hot take
Its not hot, you're one in thousands of retarded uneducated nationalists who aren't marxists because you read marx but because you think xyz national hero figure is cool. Theres plenty of people with identical incoherent views as you.
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>>2175356
Not an argument.
If you want to play pretend about politics which say groups with a certain skin colour are better than others and are the only ones worth listening to, might I suggest checking out 4chan.org/pol
This is a marxist board, not a race fetish larp board.

>>2182333
No. Members of white churches or other fascist cults are class traitors, cops or bourgeoise proletariate. They are bribed with the privilege of essential social services to terrorize their fellow workers (queers, Black people, etc…). Look into Operation Gladio. Racist violence has always been tacitly approved by the American state.

>>2182393
IMO Nation of Islam is controlled by the feds. It follows that NOI is really a paramilitary wing of the state in the same fashion that the white churches are. I think there's an argument to make that enough status in the NOI makes you bourgeoise proletariate (so a cop) or possibly a comprador (you profit off of facilitating access to super-exploited markets).



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So I guess we’re doing total war now. I hope Putin’s administration force a total withdrawal to prevent any senseless mayhem.
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>>2184350
I misread that as ejaculation device at first

Whats the better slur for Russians
Russhits or Ziggers
Cause I gotta choose one when getting drafted and I have to execute sum with my big american cock

>>2184366
It is if you're freaky enough.

>>2184176
>muh irony
2015 was 10 years ago

>>2184372
There were many videos, can't find them now.



 

>The US's support for Israel IS because of a Jewish lobby. The ruling class in America won't directly benefit from an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians!
>Looks inside.
>Biggest support base for Israel in America is a bunch of schizo evangelicals who think creating Greater Israel will make Jesus come back.
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Jewish supremacy has largely replaced white supremacy as the dominant ideology in the United States

>>2184351
they are white though

>>2184357
Judaism is a universal religion, most nations in the world have some jewish presence, it wasn’t until the rise of naziism and zionism respectively that judaism got racialized

>>2184364
the origins were in the 19th century with the rise of racial 'science' when jews were turned from a religion into a race category.

>>2184364
>Judaism is a universal religion

Not really.



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