/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2706976
Of course not, but large scale industries != capitalism. We already had capitalism with barely-above-artisanal levels of manual craftsmanship in England's nascent textile industry in the XVIII century. The only thing you need for capitalism is a small set of people with enough money to buy things and buy labour to then sell the result of labour+things for a bit above the cost and treat all of this as a private, non-social operation. They will begin to accumulate and pass the wealth through inheritance and begin the cycle all over again. My point is that ecological and/or technological catastrophes may very well preclude the current form of capitalism, but not capitalism itself. So I agree that running out of oil will be a once in a millenia opportunity for setting up a new set of rules for the material production of life, but we need to start thinking about the specifics right now because if we are not ready by then, inertia will make humanity fall back again to what they already are familiar with.

>>2707060
Without large scale industry we cannot do communism, we’re gonna end up reverting to feudalism and slavery as the entire human population fights over the newly arable land in Northern Canada, Scandinavia, Alaska, and Siberia

>>2706976
>and neither is large scale industries at all
how are large scale industries incompatible with solar and wind? provided you have some hydro and nuclear it will be fine

>>2706972
energy prices will be skyrocketing before the collapse happens so there could easily be a socialist revolution then

>>2706418
Honestly you're not wrong. Do you think the wars of this decade will exacerbate that affect?

>>2698050
kys

>>2697849
no. do you not know how to read? read the post again slowly to find out what it means.

>>2698105
semantic nitpicking
>>2699085
not an argument

everything stated was correct

>>2697816
Everything that Epstein and the people in his circle did was already illegal. Are you seeing anyone being punished or arrested? 99% of all laws and prohibitions only exist to repress the working class. It's what Marcuse called *surplus repression*.

Sex work is bad.

>>2704313
>I am still not hearing why Kuhn is mistaken.
he will never say why, it seems.
>>2704105
>Bourgeois Imperialist Zionist (BIZ)
lol
>vid
lmfao

>>2704028
we have a predilection for scientific theories yes

>>2720663
Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Russel etc qre posers. Nothing of scientific value in their work. Redditors of early days.

>>2703553
It's just a sad reality that after 1950, dialectical materialist writers started caring more about impressing people with word salad and less about conveying clear ideas in the plain manner of Marx, Engels, and their immediate successors. So it's not surprising that there are post-1950 works outside of explicitly leftist works that have more to offer.

>>2721283

poor american education means modern european marxism seems too academicy and word-salady. europe expanded public knowledge and education of workers and usa is still stuck in old age europe left this old age with social democracy when it come to education accesss so the pre ww2 texts make more sense to american brains. europe funds schools centrally. everybody gets the same baseline whether you in the rich part of town or the poor part . here? property taxes and private systems run education acccess. so a kid in a poor zip code gets a worse public schools and even then public school is bad most places and you expect to pay lot of moeny out of pocket to get level of education kids abroad in EU get. straight up.

>>2733273
Very good post. Not gonna lie, I liked the manifesto of Srnicek and Williams, and I think they had a legit critique of the post-left/The Invisible Committee, but let's face it, their solution was not very different from the kind of things Yaroufakis already talked about, demsoc with more machines. They didn't inherently solve any problems.
Vince Garton and Edmund Berger wrote pretty interesting things even if a lot of it went over my head. As someone who didn't study philosophy in college, that era of shitposting felt exciting as I was seeing people trying to develop new ideas and engage with the present. Nowadays it feels like we have stagnated, r/acc predictably got a relative victory, and we are back to watching the shitshow unfolds with our old ideas. The problem of accelerationism is that it remained pretty descriptive, while a cascade of unforseeable events kinda changed everything, it became harder to keep up ironically.

>>2733333
also something to add: this is actually the unintuitive absolute genius of the chinese communist party. it is not simply that they are stopping the market from doing things that are anti-social, they are preventing capitalists from trying to annihilate capitalism hence forcing them to continue accelerating the productive forces to continue competing

>>2733247
Hey buddy, I think you got the wrong board. The /dead/ is two blocks down.

so what is decelerationism? like social democracy because it decelerates the collapse and class divisions?

>>2733247
Possibly something like leftcoms but I don't know

Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
The projects at the Office of Industry Partnership (OIP) include automated surveillance in airports; adapters allowing agents to use phones for biometric scanning; and an AI platform that ingests all 911 call data nationally and builds “geospatial heat maps” to “predict incident trends”, which appears to be a form of predictive policing.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/hacked-data-homeland-security

Republican Bill Would Denaturalize US Citizens as Support Grows
One lawmaker, GOP Representative Riley Moore of West Virginia, announced on Friday that he would introduce a bill to denaturalize and deport any naturalized citizen who commits an act of terrorism, plots to commit an act of terrorism, joins a terrorist organization, or otherwise aids and abets terrorism against the American people.
https://www.newsweek.com/denaturalize-us-citizens-for-terrorism-push-gains-support-11676915
https://archive.ph/5eOxn

Afghan asylum-seeker dies after less than 24 hours in ICE custody
Paktyawal, a father of six who had applied for U.S. asylum, was about to take his children to school Friday morning when he was surrounded by masked men who drove up and put him in handcuffs, Rahmanullah Zazy, a family friend and leader in the local Afghan community, told NBC News in an interview.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/afghan-asylum-seeker-dies-less-24-hours-ice-custody-rcna263626

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to south-east North Dakota news outlet InForum. Lipps told the outlet she had never been to North Dakota and did not commit thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

From Bay of Pigs to Speedboats: Trump Still Doesn’t Get It
There are moments when the class character of imperialist aggression reveals itself with brutal clarity. February 25, 2026, was one such moment. Cuban border guards intercepted a Florida-registered speedboat just one nautical mile off Cayo Falcones in Villa Clara province. The vessel carried ten armed Cuban exiles operating from U.S. soil. When the patrol approached to enforce sovereignty, the infiltrators opened fire. Cuban forces defended themselves, killing four − including at least one U.S. citizen − and wounding six. Weapons, ballistic vests and military-style equipment were seized. Havana correctly described it as a foiled “armed infiltration for terrorist purposes.” Washington, as always, denied any government role. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it “not a U.S. operation” and announced yet another “independent investigation.” This is not an isolated incident. This is the latest chapter in U.S. imperialism’s six-decade war to crush the Cuban Revolution − the very same criminal methods the CIA employed against Fidel Castro and Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara. Let us recall the historical record without embellishment.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/03/from-bay-of-pigs-to-speedboats-trump-still-doesnt-get-it.html

How the global crisis is strengthening Russia
The contemporary Russian regime has become adept at navigating global turbulence. Rising oil prices, shifts in trade flows, and disruptions to competing suppliers can all strengthen Russia’s position as a major exporter of raw materials. In this sense, the Middle Eastern conflict may temporarily stabilise the Russian economy. A profound change is underway, driven by the relative decline of US imperialism, which has lost its position of complete supremacy as a world power, along with the organic crisis of capitalism which is leading to a scramble for control of markets, resources, supply chains and spheres of influence, principally between the US and China. And it is precisely in this imperialist carnage that Russia is attempting to establish itself.
https://marxist.com/how-the-global-crisis-is-sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

tybna

>>2697588
but arent dengoids and MLoids kind of libbed out too? whats the difference?

>>2697430
>Seems like he was wrong then.
This. So much this

>>2697252
>>2697272
>>2697274

let's read them:


>To my mind, the so-called “socialist society” is not anything immutable. Like all other social formations, it should be conceived in a state of constant flux and change. Its crucial difference from the present order consists naturally in production organized on the basis of common ownership by the nation of all means of production. To begin this reorganization tomorrow, but performing it gradually, seems to me quite feasible. That our workers are capable of it is borne out by their many producer and consumer cooperatives which, whenever they're not deliberately ruined by the police, are equally well and far more honestly run than the bourgeois stock companies.

<Engels, Letter to Otto Von Boenigk In Breslau, August 21, 1890

>Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke? No, no more than existing forces of production can at one stroke be multiplied to the extent necessary for the creation of a communal society. In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity.

<Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism, 1847

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>>2698192
>>2697252
You are forgetting that it is mandatory to build forces within a working-class party independent of the bourgeoisie, and the reforms must be radical to intensify the class struggle and not to create complacency. This means that all pensions must be removed from the private sector to be under the control of the workers, outside of profit, as a public right; all costs must be transferred to the capitalists; and any indirect tax on workers' consumption must be abolished.

First, I will state the Marxist position on how to act in an election in bourgeois democracy:

<Complete abstention from political action is impossible. The abstentionist press participates in politics every day. It is only a question of how one does it, and of what politics one engages in. For the rest, to us abstention is impossible. The working-class party functions as a political party in most countries by now, and it is not for us to ruin it by preaching abstention. Living experience, the political oppression of the existing governments compels the workers to occupy themselves with politics whether they like it or not, be it for political or for social goals. To preach abstention to them is to throw them into the embrace of bourgeois politics. The morning after the Paris Commune, which has made proletarian political action an order of the day, abstention is entirely out of the question.
<We want the abolition of classes. What is the means of achieving it? The only means is political domination of the proletariat. For all this, now that it is acknowledged by one and all, we are told not to meddle with politics. The abstentionists say they are revolutionaries, even revolutionaries par excellence. Yet revolution is a supreme political act and those who want revolution must also want the means of achieving it, that is, political action, which prepares the ground for revolution and provides the workers with the revolutionary training without which they are sure to become the dupes of the Favres and Pyats the morning after the battle. However, our politics must be working-class politics. The workers' party must never be the tagtail of any bourgeois party; it must be independent and have Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2697252
Your analogy doesn't make sense, because for an infinite series to converge means, that for every possible distance to the limit, there exists a number of elements of the series after which every sum has a smaller distance to the limit. By extension that would mean for every feature of communism not found in current society, there exists a point at which it is established by incremental change. This is clearly not how reformism has historically played out.

>>2742550
>>2742586
DJ Khaled is the Bordiga of Palestine if you really think about it

>>2742145
pakistan like drumpf can only bomb people from the air and is too scared to send soldiers to afghanistan

>>2742145
There's already a great depression dude, it is WW3

On the one hand, Afghanistan is almost literally a medieval shithole and can go to hell. On the other hand, Pakistan created this problem for itself because it never fucking learns. Let them kill each other.

>>2742667
The worst people we know are all fighting. Trump, NATO, Pakistan, Afghanistan, it's kind of amazing but terrible because communism has collapsed globally but our enemies keep fighting each other.

>>2696921
>>2696927
>>2696928
Samefagging glownonymous

>>2696930
>three posts in the same row making three different points and responding to different people are the same person
No fucking shit you massive retard. Did you start using imageboards yesterday? Lmfao.

>>2696813
>>2672700
What about something like myretrotvs but with socialist or socialist friendly media
https://www.myretrotvs.com/

>>2696927
>i love making up shit nobody said
two can play at that game

Trump truly is a fucking narcissist who wants everything the way he wants. I wanted communism to return to Bulgaria but we can't get everything ffs just go eat the bugs

>>2699062
I don't think any of those countries are complicit in this plan anyways. More like some Israeli official looked at a list of "Muslim" countries and selected the ones that he thought were the most pro-Western.

Why did the viets go for it?
Especially if they pad?

>>2699235
Nobody paid yet and all were invited, afaik. Unless this idiocy proves to be useful in one way or another none of the Premium™ members are going to pay the fee next year and it will just be forgotten with the end of Trump's presidency.

As for Vietnam, burgers have been trying hard to drive a wedge between them and China for decades now with no real effects.

>>2698614
It's basically just a list of people Trump can easily bribe

>>2737233
That pic is cringe

>>2735807
>>have just started using cell structures and "leaderless resistance", basically being loosely related cells of at most a dozen people, but thats not really something us commies can do

This adaption is a result of a material reality, and Marxists avoiding it is PURE IDEALISM. Anyone who avoids analyzing and experimenting with these organizational forms while claiming "dialectical materialism" suffers from the obsession of fixed ideas.

First, the Bolsheviks themselves used cell structures. Lenin's What Is To Be Done? explicitly called for an organization built around small, clandestine cells of professional revolutionaries precisely because open, mass organization was impossible under Tsarist autocracy. The "leaderless resistance" model that emerged under the expanding gaze of the modern security apparatus is just the modern iteration of the same adaptive logic; when the state can surveil and infiltrate centralized structures, you distribute and compartmentalize. The form changes; the function remains.

The idea that every other movement can adapt to the material reality of security conditions, whereas communists cannot is false. The December 2008 Greek uprising stands as a definitive example of a distributed vanguard functioning at scale, directly validating the organizational framework we have been developing. Sparked by the police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, an anarchist in Athens, the revolt spread within hours to every major city and lasted over a month, involving not just militant anarchists & marxists but high school students, university youth, immigrants, and the precariously employed. Crucially, the uprising had no central leadership or vanguard party directing events; it was polycentric and self-organizing, coordinating through neighborhood assemblies, occupied workplaces, government buildings, schools and universities, squats and autonomous affinity groups. This distributed structure proved remarkably resilient and effective, forcing the state into a defensive posture, paralyzing the government, and causing billions in damage. Most significantly for Marxist theory, the shared material struggle temporarily dissolved the sectarian divide between Anarchists and Marxists, forcing a practical unity in the streets that abstract debate and party lines had nevPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2737242
>>pic is cringe

I don't trust anyone that cringes when they see camo and guns.

>>2737246
>I don't trust anyone that cringes when they see camo and guns.
I don't trust anyone who says cringe. They're the type of people who would "cringe" and close their eyes if they ever fired a gun. I really could never what kind of faggot feels the need to tell us their own faggot self-destructive responses like cringing and flinching like any of us should give a fuck.

>>2737251

Cringe.