/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Consolidating the topic down now that the dumb speculation is dying down and to alleviate /usa/pol of all of the other topics getting drowned out. These will remain uncycled so use them for your info-consolidating needs.

From the perspective of Marxists, historians, Iraqis, Kurds, Muslims, Christians, Persians, and Yankees alike: What did Saddam Hussein do wrong?
From my perspective Americans only know and hate him because he invaded Kuwait, a country that gave the US oil, and would would threaten American economic security. People whine all the time about civilian casualties but blame Saddam for America bombing Iraq "back to the stone age" and then imposing sanctions on the country for a decade, then invading and further destabilizing the country. As far as I know, Kuwait deserved Saddam. I would care more about civilian casualties in Kuwait if NATO didn't prove itself to be a force of mass destruction and terror against a man, who after fighting Iran for a decade, did anything in his power to eliminate the debts that he and his people had acquired from such a costly war. And what would Kuwait lose if Saddam would win? He'd just repair all the damages he did to Kuwait, he was a man who modernized his country, and released it from a bureaucracy of princes and executives. We can't expect people to be perfect, and we can't expect American military to have a soul.
Back to my point, is there anything I should know about Saddam Hussein that he did wrong, maybe there's a detail about the gulf war, Iran-Iraq war, or during his rule from 1968-2003 that I missed.

Something magical is happening in the world. Im convinced of it. Westoid liberals try their hardest to convince me to be pessimistic about american collapse but something prevents me from feeling that way - Perhaps because i shed no tears for my yankee oppressors when their empire falls, Perhaps because im a stronk transgender womyn who dont need no financial prosperity. Either way, i DONT feel like things are going to shit. I believe in a spiritual rapture, a metaphorical biblical apocalypse, not the biblical-literalist nwo antichrist version, and in my version the antichrist new world order was george bush's new world order, the post-soviet neoliberal austerity order. God isnt going to cause armageddon except in the form of a dying gasp of the antichrist system, the slimiest, sleaziest, most perfidious empire ever, the whore of babylon, led by the sleaziest most antichrist president ever, being defeated by the angelic jungle demon hordes of gog and magog in israel to create the conditions for jesus' reign on earth and the bringing about of the conditions of heaven here to heal the earth. God wouldnt leave this whole earth's species to just die out despite having no souls, he wants us to see him work his divine influence in the recreation of heavenly conditions in the material plane. This is all saturn/yhwh repenting for his demiurge deviancy and his solipsistic apostasy towards sofia; he is going to apologize to the forlorn people of his creation through the end of statist tyranny once and for all. I have been wondering why, despite my heavy rejection of Saturn/Satan/Set (whom i channeled through myself by smoking blue lotus), he seems to work his influence in my life, and it's because saturn is a rough and awful teacher and i have suffered to be his student. The time has come for the establishment of a worldwide heavenly kingdom with a fully automated luxury gay space communist economic system. I have repented to jesus christ for all of my sins, i sucked it up and did it, and i have renounced my resistance to christ, but i now understand how vital it is to reach christians and create the conditions for a true revival in the church - a gnostic reawakening, a third eye opening for the church. Psychoactive drugs are a sacrament to reach god. Btw god isnt a fucking prude, he's an absurdist. All of human history was a contextual macrocosm for the microcosm of my apotheosis. You are all just a dmt or 2cb trip away from enlightenment.

Was he unironically a leftist anti-imperialist? He was turning Egypt into a modern, industrialized powerhouse, he seized the power from the parasitic nobility and clergy and was on the verge of destroying the backwards Ottomans, literally at the gates of Constantinople until European imperialists such as UK, France and Russia, afraid of a united Middle Eastern industrialized nation intervened in favor of the Turks, whom they used as a puppet.

Not trying to be an enlightened centrist here, but it has always seemed odd to me how people on the right and left fetishize the concept of a militia taking down a conventional army, when reality has shown the opposite result every time, I come from a shitty third world nation that is barely held together most of the time, and my country has experienced numerous rebellions by Islamists, ethnic nationalists, and communists, and every time they have failed. This is because a "well-armed and well-funded militia" is no match for a well-armed, better-trained army with superior logistics and structure. Of course, in the event of a total collapse, a militia could potentially become the only proper authority for a region or if faced with an entirely incompetent and corrupt army. However, in most cases, a real army always prevails over militias. I don't know how people fell for this meme really, Eve Marx bought into this up and advocated for workers' militias, which ultimately proved to be a massive waste of time and loss of life for everyone involved, the Spanish Republicans insisted on using them in the Spanish civil war and they were a massive hinderance that lost way too many battles, and thoughts of forming an actual army was "Stalinism" and a betrayal of the revolution.

Why do so many rich white American families have such a raging obsession with these two practices? Anyone that’s poorer or works in agriculture knows that that shit is unsustainable, and that the image of some dumbass peasant family “living off the land independently” has been dead for centuries, millennia, and for some countries has never been a thing to begin with. This obsession with such a specific lifestyle is unsurprisingly adorned with the materialistic hedonism that surrounds this demographic, and its present with the over preparation these people have with going outside.
It’s not even like most of these people are genuinely leaving any urban space. Looking at a map of the US and seeing the thousands of cities that occupy every territory in that country makes it clear to any observer that it’s genuinely impossible to find life away from the urban world. Even if one manages to find any uninhabited space that isn’t already claimed by landlords, most of the gear that these people need to actually survive from the wilderness is manufactured in the exact spaces they’re trying to get away from.

Erdogan says end near of military operation in north Iraq, Syria
Erdogan's comments tally with on those made earlier this week by Turkey's Defence Minister Yasar Guler, who said his country is "determined" to clear the border area with Iraq and neighbouring Syria of "terrorists".
https://www.newarab.com/news/erdogan-says-end-near-military-operation-north-iraq-syria

US considers fresh legal bid questioning ICC jurisdiction over Israel
A US official briefed on the matter told MEE that the Biden administration is considering submitting an amicus curiae to the ICC, voicing its staunch opposition to the decision of the court’s chief prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for the Israeli officials, despite the US not being a signatory to the treaty that created the court.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-considers-fresh-legal-bid-question-icc-jurisdiction-over-israel

With an overwhelming majority, Meretz and Labor approve merge, becoming the Democrats
According to the agreement with Meretz, both parties will run together in the next elections on a joint list under the name "The Democrats," with Meretz guaranteed two spots in the top ten positions.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-810075
https://archive.is/poRQE

Azerbaijan's New Climate Fund, Easy on Fossil Fuel Producers, Denounced as 'Smoke Screen'
Azerbaijani officials considered introducing a levy on fossil fuel producers to raise money for the fund but, after facing opposition from oil-producing Gulf countries, opted for a voluntary, public-private investment model, an anonymous source toldReuters. 350.org called Azerbaijan's plan a "commercial" venture and said "we must distinguish profit-driven investments from genuine efforts," in a statement.
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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky… maybe. I dunno. Sorry, but I really don't understand why anyone feels bad for this douche over what happened yesterday. Only thing President Biden should have said when he got in front of the microphone was, "Well folks, are we ready for gun control, yet?"(Low effort enough that its not worth merging)

>card-carrying party member since the 1905 revolution
>kept the moscow bureau alive during the reaction
>wrote the first marxist analysis of imperialism (supplementing hilferding and making the basis for lenin's popular analysis)
>wrote the theory of the imperialist state and proletarian dictatorship (who lenin accepted in 1917 as wholly correct)
>wrote to this day unsurpassed critique of utilitarianism (theory of leisure classes)
>was chief editor of pravda and set the soviet state on a revolutionary course
>president of the third international and staunch internationalist
>wrote popular books explaining the bolshevik party programme
>popular and loved, educated and broad in his understanding of history and the worker's movement
>was with stalin against trotsky and the left opposition
>main party theoretician for some 20 years and saw through industrialization and collectivization
<discredited in a show trail, shot like a dog, and not even rehabilitated during the glasnost
what went wrong?

Michael Hudson once pointed out in the 2nd edition of his book "Super Imperialism" that it was the state department glowies who was reading his book more than the working class, and they actually began to obfuscate economic statistics that revealed the extent of US imperialism after reading his book. So this phenomenon continues to this day.

And is this really any surprise? People will cope/seethe that the working class is so smart, powerful, strong, resilient, etc. Of course they are. They put up with so much. But they aren't superhuman. They don't have the free time or resources at their disposal to read all the theory in the world while simultaneously getting exploited. Meanwhile the bourgeoisie has all the free time and all the resources. So of course they're going to beat us to reading our own theory, and then use that theory to restructure their own strategies in advance. They're absorbing and accounting for our tactics before we have the chance.

How does the international working class get around this?