/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Marxism is not about vibes, justice, or who feels bad. It is about material development. Any attempt to condemn American imperialism primarily on moral grounds is liberal humanism, and therefore idealism. Despite the moral indignation likely to follow this post, let me explain.

As is well known, of all the things Karl Marx was, an idealist he was not. Nor was he a moralist. He did not frame his analysis of social phenomena—however fraught—in terms of ethical condemnation or approval. Even when discussing subjects as uncomfortable as prostitution, Marx was concerned with material conditions, not moral outrage. One can only imagine his incredulity at seeing self-described “Marxists” today reverting to liberal moral language when confronted with elite scandal, mistaking denunciation for analysis.

Naturally, as a man of his time, Marx was not immune to contemporary prejudices. This is neither here nor there. What matters is that his method rejected moral evaluation as the driver of history.
Unlike Whig historians, Marx understood history as neither moral nor immoral, but amoral. Accordingly, he described phenomena such as the destruction of Indigenous societies in the Americas, the expansion of European colonialism, British rule in India, and even slavery in ancient Greece as progressive—not in an ethical sense, but insofar as they advanced productive forces and dissolved pre-existing social relations. In the Greek case, slavery marked the transition from tribal organization to the polis. In the colonial case, capitalism shattered stagnant forms of production. For Marx, European colonialism represented a double mission: destructive, certainly, but historically necessary.

It is with this framework in mind that one can argue—without moral embellishment—that Marx would have understood modern American imperialism as a progressive force. If historical progress is defined by the destruction of pre-capitalist social relations and the development of productive forces, then American imperialism is not merely progressive, but among the most effective such forces in history. Marx regarded capitalism itself as a violent yet necessary stage, since communism emerges through capitalism, not alongside or prior to it. To recoil from this conclusion by introducing moral exceptions is to abandon materialism in favor of sentimentality, a tendency unfortunately common in the contemporary Western left.
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I was born in 1998, so 2001-2010 was basically my childhood. Gen Alpha kids don't even know what cartoons are - they just grow up on YouTube. As a Z kid (1996-2009) I can say Gen Alpha is cultureless. As a Zoomer I grew up on Teen Titans, Totally Spies, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Billy & Mandy, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Masters, Beyblade, Pokemon, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Code Lyoko, Invader Zim, and so on. I didn't discover YouTube until 2006, and even then, it was NOT on a smartphone! Everything is fucking woke now. I would hate to have a childhood growing up in this era (2011-present). I was 13 when popular culture started to suck.

What cartoons do they have for kids growing up now? Adventure Time, Gravity Falls or Rick & Morty at best. Woke garbage.

Once the evidence of extreme abuse began surfacing in surprising numbers, the 'False Memory Syndrome Foundation' (FMSF) was set up to promote the theory that victims are suffering from a syndrome that creates false memories, often at the suggestion of psychotic parents or over-zealous psychiatrists.

The members of the FMSF have been called as expert witnesses in hundreds of trials around the United States and have been routinely quoted as experts in the media. Their mission has been exceptionally successful, as the 'false memory syndrome' has become accepted as a fact in most of the public consciousness. Unfortunately, people rarely stop to ask the question, who exactly are the members of the FMSF, and how solid is their science?

Peter J. Freyd initiated the founding of the FMSF after being accused of sexual abuse by his daughter, Jennifer. His behavior has been particularly suspect, such as accusing his daughter of being brain damaged, despite the fact that she holds a PhD in Psychology, graduated magna cum laude from Penn and is currently a tenured professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. Speaking to The Oregonian, Jennifer Freyd stated that “I’m sometimes flabbergasted that my memory is considered ‘false’ and my alcoholic father’s memory is considered rational and sane.”

Peter Freyd once stated that “With the help of Harold Lief and Martin Orne, the FMSF quickly gathered a respectable appearing advisory board, giving the new syndrome an aura of scientific acceptance.” Interestingly, Dr. Martin T. Orne has been heavily involved with MK-ULTRA experiments since the early '60s, where he undertook hypnosis studies at Harvard Medical School with a $30,000 grant from the CIA.

CIA documents have confirmed that Orne had a 'top secret' clearance in MK-ULTRA. He has published many papers relevant to the creation of a 'Manchurian candidate', including one called “Can a hypnotized subject be compelled to carry out otherwise unacceptable behavior?”, another called “The significance of unwitting cues for experimental outcomes: Toward a pragmatic approach”, and lastly “Restricted use of success cues in retrieval during post-hypnotic amnesia”.This is an interesting subject matter history given the FMSF's insistence that hypnotism is illegitimate.

Dr. Harold Lief was involved with brain electrode experiments at Tulane University, a notorious MK-ULTRA institution. Another prominent member, David Dinges, was a co-worPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

On this day 81 years ago, Germany signed the surrender, marking the end of the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind.

ITT we celebrate the victory of the USSR over Nazism

IT'S OFFICIAL: KRAUTS GIVE IN!!!
DAILY WORKER REPORTS "MASTER RACE THEORY SHATTERED, BUT WAR IS ONLY HALF OVER"
THE WAR IN EUROPE IS OVER
THE UNITED NATIONS HAS WON
GLORY TO THE PROLETARIAT
BETTER DAYS ARE AHEAD
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
JAPAN IS NEXT
WHAT NOW?

BEWARE OF ALL SUBVERSIVES, DAILY WORKER SAYS:
>The Hitlerites will not now be able to cripple men’s bodies, but they will not give up striving to poison men’s minds. They are plotting to undo our victory at the very moment we celebrate it.
REPORT HITLERITES!!!

Israeli Abrahamics, if a theft of semen is stolen and spotted (a system foreign to the famous "Mordred" is used, the trap of the father or mother matching as hand gesture moved; "A Knight's tale"), will be conduced to hunt their own families by the proper Ismaelis; God's Chosen, Ismael, not God's Favorite, Isaac; the Polander Aryan Brotherhood (American History X, the foundation of the World War 2 National Socialist movement among others).

This is performed simply; the entire registry of patents is identified, and a child will be raised as a particular Catholic clergy's philosophy to target the enemy political alliance through necessity of most public trade relation; however through the non-Ismaeli parent having been a victim of anal sodomey from a male, male or female; the common tracker of "Arabic", the tell-tale signature of the enemy; not "Urdu", the language of any court in carpentry; Parochial school for an Islamic Catholic, not taught Lotus as a child due to parents equivocating in Hebrew linguistics at having placed someone in opiates confinement; the Roman, African, or Chinese Empires.

Let's go over the list of slain figures.

Samson (the women's lingerie, as the men's thong, for sword fighting).

Alexander the Great (the labor patent, as mass draft, per pensioner elder's children and family).

Scipio Africanus (the sugar reed market, a plantation, out of the sizes of the white man's versus black woman's buttocks, wealth and poverty out of the front gusset sitting fetish).

Jesus Christ (the paternity suit, as the Old Testament, the Bible in any copy; the fraud of self into New Testament, a post-arrest police family execution at declaration of self as Jordanian-Arab bride in men's gender).

John Wilkes Booth (the haberdasher's class, or other tailor, per contact by British intelligence forces to kill First Lady; hence the switch, contract hired, to the pay per grievance of contract; and if crossed, then both, otherwise, spouse switched either way).
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Oskar Lange was a Polish economist who first theorized market socialism to respond to the Economic Calculation Problem.
The Austrian capitalist economists had theorized in the ECP that a socialist state could NOT account for scarcity without prices. The initial responses from socialists were that you could determine value by analyzing what people wanted and determining production in relation.
This prompted Hayek to say that centralizing information would be nigh impossible on a large-scale economy, creating the information problem. Hayek believed that prices aggregated information, and that the State would not be able to replicate them due to the sheer amount of information it would take.
In response, Lange theorized market socialism, a system where:

>state commission gives prices to company managers
>managers produce until price = marginal cost of production and have freedom to do so
>if shortages occur, the commission increases prices to increase production
>if overproduction occurs, the commission decreases prices to decrease production
This in theory should've made state planning much more efficient, as the state wouldn't micromanage the economy by assigning and supplying quotas of goods.

Although Lange's system was never fully implemented, Hungary did get close to it by establishing the NEM. The economy worked well at supplying goods relative to the eastern states, and consequently gave Hungary the nickname "Goulash Communism". However, it also prompted the State to subsidize prices by borrowing, which ultimately culminated in its debt crisis.
So, what does /leftypol/ think of Lange's market socialism?

Sorry, it's true
>Trash everywhere
>People constantly shitting in public
>No public safety, people die like hamsters daily
>Citizens just ignore public deaths because everything is fucked anyway
>Everything smells like shit
>SOME people have a tendency to EAT COW SHIT and DRINK COW PISS
>Extreme wealth inequality
>Aesthetics are just constant eye-rape of random ass bullshit
>TV and movies suck
>Food is terrible
>Everything is dirty and everybody is constantly getting diseases
>Little to no natural beauty in the cities
>Rape is constant and unending
>Ruled by fascists who enjoy the broad support of the population despite extreme cruelty and incompetence
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Some reading for UK /Leftypol/

Some brutal home truths about Sultana - I dont buy the muh fed stuff and Corbyn's lot haven't behaved wonderfully either but what Sultana and the screeching sects and radlibs behind her have done for the chances of YP now is just unforgivable.

https://samjoyce96.substack.com/p/your-partys-infantile-disorder

I don't know about you guys, but if you ask me the failure of the Socialist movement to back the Allies for the first 2 years of WWII is an absolutely ENORMOUS fumble that has hanged over our heads for nearly a century. It is the constant aching pain in Socialist anti-interventionist "NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR" advocacy. "You said the same thing in 1939!" is the inevitable response from Liberals whenever we oppose the latest imperialist war. Let's face it: the Liberals (for once) completely fucking owned us during the span of time from the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact's silencing of the "Crush the Nazi menace" Left up until Operation Barbarossa. Communists were trying to do entryism in the fucking AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE. Absolutely humiliating. And it must have felt so reasonable, given that Socialists were 100% right about WWI.

So, I ask you: why did we fuck that up? Is the cause of that fuck-up perhaps still around and waiting to push the Left into neutrality on yet another extremely cut and dry war coming in the future? Did any Socialists get it right back then? What is the solution?