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Company fired me. They still owed me 10 days worth of payment (8 hours * 10 day * 16 EUR/h = 1280 EUR). They didn't give me a letter of termination, according to their system I'm still employed by them. They just sent me 191 EUR.

What do? Where go? What say?

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>>2646324
>but it feels rather bad having to subsidize people, who go to doctors to get fake diagnosis, just so they can sit at home all day, giving other workers' money to Amazon, Aldi and co.

>repeating state propaganda on my leftypol

You should go deeper into that topic.

>>2648063
Imagine these decreasing stats, including the migration boost since 2015. But yeah, the lazy germans. We must kill the poor, so we dont have to be racist.

>>2643236
Mögen die besten gewinnen.

>>2643236
>>2651558
Hat jemand nen Stream, der nicht von Faschos ist?



 

Have there been any studies done deconstructing the left-to-right ("Saul-to-Paul") political conversion narrative that the right-wing loves to throw around?

I'm talking about people like former CPUSA members who turned state like Whittaker Chambers, Bella Dodd, and Louis Budenz; neocons like Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and David Horowitz (rest in piss); or contemporary "conversion" stories like those of Abby Johnson. I'm obviously talking about Americans here but I'm sure you can name plenty of examples from other countries. What psychological factors cause someone to abandon leftism and fully embrace the right, and even worse, turn on their former comrades?

Is it simply the case that they upheld leftism as a dogma, so when their "god" died they found another god? Is it because they were always authoritarian assholes and embraced the right when the right gave them a better outlet for being authoritarian assholes? Was it because they found that the left was moving in a direction they didn't approve of, so they gradually became rightist? Or, using the narrative they themselves most often parrot, they felt "betrayed" by the left so in turn they betrayed the left?

Also, why do we rarely see any prominent right-wingers turning to the left?
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>>2649015
Did some psychoanalyst write a book on Whittaker Chambers which demonstrated he was a sociopath?

>>2651435
Voting blocks are the problem in both Minnesota and NY. That's why politicians allow this crap to happen.

>>2651463
Nick Shirley clearly has autism himself.

>>2651557
I wouldn't even say that, I would say that he's uh… touched by an angel…

>>2649015
>I'm talking about people like former CPUSA members who turned state like Whittaker Chambers, Bella Dodd, and Louis Budenz; neocons like Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and David Horowitz (rest in piss); or contemporary "conversion" stories like those of Abby Johnson. I'm obviously talking about Americans here but I'm sure you can name plenty of examples from other countries. What psychological factors cause someone to abandon leftism and fully embrace the right, and even worse, turn on their former comrades?

These are all entirely different cases and stories.

Whittaker Chambers was clearly a trauma-drama junkie who felt like he always had to be in a state of crisis. He put himself in a "dangerous" position in CPUSA (being a "spy" when he was simply running papers), then after he left the party he became a rat thinking he'd have a target placed on his back.

Bella Dodd was a validation junkie, not unlike most of those insecure girls on Tumblr. She was an Italian immigrant who always felt out-of-place, joined CPUSA because she thought communism would help America, and became a successful labour organizer in the party doing legal work for unions. Then, after she got purged for Browderism, she became a born-again Catholic thanks to Fulton Sheen and started snitching on everyone in CPUSA thinking she'd be loved as an "American hero" if she did so.

Don't know anything about Budenz except Fulton Sheen converted him and his wife to Catholicism and got them to rat people out too.

There's a huge amount of literature on why the Neocons flipped the way they did. Basically, they started believing "Eastern/Soviet imperialism" was worse than Western imperialism.

Funny story, I know an old boomber comrade who used to work with David Horowitz back when he was at Ramparts. This comrade said Horowitz was always a nasty, angry guy even when he was a Marxist. Was an arrogant jackass who treated everyone around him like shit. I think his situation is one where being a conservative gave him a better outlet to be an arrogant jackass than being a Marxist did.

Abby Johnson just wants money. If you read her autobiography Unplanned you'll notice how she plays up how "innocent" she was while working at Planned Parenthood and how reluctant she was to perform abortions. She claims sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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Sounds crazy, I know, but I think Xi-fans should at least consider the flaws of China's "Do nothing, win" strategy, and how it may paradoxically still lead to its undoing.

The US bourgeoisie knows it can't beat China in head-on conventional warfare. So, it doesn't.

Porky has put a lot of effort since the Vietnam War to avoid making Amerikkkans feels the impacts of US wars of aggression to great success. Despite the amount of conflicts the US is involved in as we speak, anti-war sentiment is negligable. There was nothing like the anti-war movement during Vietnam, which by itself wasn't even strong enough to end the war either. It was the Vietnamese who militarily defeated the US that ended the war.

Amerikkkan reliance on proxies and mercs is the key to maintain the Empire. If they can make China's neighbours fight them in their stead, they they can win, and have East Asia plundered, like they have plundered Eastern Europe since the 90s, to give capitalism another 50 years.

China has failed to counter this problem completely, letting country after country on their borders fall into US hands in recent years. Once friendly countries turned into enemies.
China's rebranded 'socialism in one country' strategy isn't enough to resist US aggression. The US doen't need to do much to blockade Chinese shipping, and block all imports from entering the mainland. Going from "random" drone boats sent from US vallal states, to airstrikes and piracy conducted by US forces themselves, which they have been training for through the recent attacks on Russian and Venezuelan ships.
China can't retaliate against this adequately, due to their lack of bases or proxies of their own around Amerikkkan territory.

China's complete neglegt of this danger may be its downfall. For all their greatness, they cannot last against a neval blockade, land siege and hybrid warfare, the US has been preparing for.

This is why solidarity is so important. Supporting comrades in other countries isn't about kindness. It ensures you will not be attacked by brothers turned against you.
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>>2651447
Beginning to understand why he did this.

>>2651447
stop posting on /leftypol/ bombacci

>>2651447
unironically this is how historical fascists (italian fascists) viewed themselves.

>>2613865
trvke: WW3 HAS ALREADY STARTED WITH NATO'S ATTEMPTED INVASION OF RUSSIA

>>2651496
i look like this and i love fascism



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idk, just a statement I made. A lot of their officially recognized "banners" (they don't use the word flags for some reason) are either too complex or have words. This is just a flag I made in their likeness (and in the American one), yeah that's all, ig

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>>2650918
The only true american demsoc flag

They have official flags?. is there a list of them somewhere



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ITT post groups or persons who you think downfall is entirely deserved alongside reasons why you think that is, in relation to the workers movement

Islamists are low hanging fruit but I thought I'd celebrate the recent downfall of Hezbollah as an Arab worker. Blud spent their time in power being IMF cumrags, breaking up strikes, purging non-reformist communists, turning Lebanon into a neoliberal heaven, poisoning workers with drugs, their leader spent his last days begging for de-escalation after sallowing his empty threats from 13th floor bunker while workers were getting slaughtered (not by him this time)

No doubt the Lebanese army would just take over Hezb job in brutalising workers but at least liberals will be exposed as no different than Hezb who they blame for everything while being in bed with. Or perhaps they will re-arm it again if workers aren't pacified.

Last challenge: Name one (1) group that killed more Shia communists than Hezbollah

All in all, rest in piss
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>>2611578
There are only one workers party that represent the invariant line of Marxism. The historical party.

>>2611797
The Invariant Dharma of the ICP <3

bvmp

>>2609422
List a few. We might as well get some fun from this trash thread.

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Can /leftypol/ answer these questions that I have ?
I consider myself a social-liberal. I've read and understood fairly well marxist literature (mostly read secundary sources though), aswell as most other polsci theory because of my degree.
I don't align with marxism mainly for 3 reasons that I'll formulate as questions:

>1. Why does the dialectical movement have to worsen the proletariat's lives

In essence, if material institutions change because they can't objectively and materially fulfill their purpose (i.e. a company that exists to make profits faces competition which lowers its profit rate), why would these changes and evolution incur a decline in the proletariat's condition and accentuate class antagonism ? I know marxist's economic theories, but they don't explain as to why the new institutions that would emerge from the old ones wouldn't be better.
For example, capitalism's crisis (a contradiction) have lead to the creation of better financial managing, which imo is a better thing than recurring crisis every 10 years.

>2. Why can't the state and different class interests agree on a mutual interest.

I understand that in marxist theory the state essentially only lives as a tool for the bourgeoisie to use. However, in the face of revolutions or class conflict, why couldn't both parties collaborate rather than face off ? Both the bourgeoisie and the proletariat can have an advantage in collaboration and mutual interest rather than pure conflict. I mean, in polsci theory this is the founding basis of the state.

>3. (and a bit more practical) Isn't the whole marxist linguo counter-productive to the ideal you hold ?

For instance, shouldn't you say "workplace democracy" rather than "abolishing private property", given the sentence's long history of being misinterpreted ? Same goes for the dictatorship of the proletariat, the exploitation theory etc.
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>>2645381
Just in case.. it does not need to be something new, like OP thinks. Like a McDonalds slightly closer to your home, 30 min walktime Vs 10 min.

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>>2645320
>You said it youself. The state is a tool of the bourgeoisie
Yeah I see. I think this is the core disagreement between us when it comes for state and class colaboration. Imo the state isn't necessarily bourgeois, even its current form today (might have to do from where I live too).

>But this movement died in the 1920s

You mean a non-marxist movement that wanted to abolish wage-labor ?

>>2645339
>Better financial management only exists insofar as it mitigates the falling rate of profit and class antagonism.
I think I'm starting to see the picture. It's not that contradictions ALL necessarily lead to a further degradation of the proletariat's life, but that those identified to Marx and inherent to capitalism do ?
Makes more sense desu, I had understood it as "all contradictions necessarily degrade the proletariat's life therefore a revolution is more and more likely to happen"

>As far as I know, the only answer is *threat of violence*.

Yeah, I'm saying that it is more beneficial for both the proletariat AND the bourgeoisie to slowly establish better and mutually interesting reforms than to have a revolution. You could technically say that on the long term this would lead to classes disappearing.

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>>2645485
>on contradictions
The dialectical movements between classes lead to the benefit of one in expense of the other. There's no rule saying the oppressed class will always get the short end of the stick, it's just the most common scenario.

>it is more beneficial for both the proletariat AND the bourgeoisie to slowly establish better and mutually interesting reforms than to have a revolution

This is false. A proletarian revolution is strictly in the best material interests of the proletariat. There's simply no mathematical benefit to workers in keeping the bourgeoisie around.
There are historical periods in which capitalism is tolerable enough, and in such times the threat of revolution is low. But as labor exploitation grows and material conditions deteriorate (and they will deteriorate, as capitalism has already ceased to be progressive in much of the world), the more incentive workers have to seize the productive forces, and if class consciousness is widespread, a revolution of communist character is more likely.

>on the long term this would lead to classes disappearing

The only way for this to happen is for the bourgeoisie to lose property over the means of production. This means collectivization of the productive forces i.e. oppression by the proletariat over the bourgeoisie. Do you think the most powerful class, with the most leverage, the larger threat of violence, will give away their benefits for free?

>[welfare] comes down the feasability

Yes. A world with commodity production and private property where everyone has education, job security, few working hours, 150m² housing, satisfactory urban infrastructure, access to light industry commodities, and occasional luxury, is honestly an okay reality that wouldn't ever make me mad at society, even if it's nowhere near the realized potential of a post-capitalism world. It is, however, not feasible. For me to explain why it is not feasible would derail the thread and is a topic of very large scope, and then you'd go down the rabbit hole of Marxism to never return.

>a socialist revolution where everything can go bad and become worse

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>>2645485
>You mean a non-marxist movement that wanted to abolish wage-labor ?
Marx and Engels explicitly envision the first stage of communism, to be initiated after a DotP is established, as abolishing wage-labor and replacing it with a labor hour system. Lenin and the bolsheviks agree, only now introducing the short-hand "socialism", within their revolutionary Marxist context to mean just that, the first phase of communism. But after the revolutionary wave fails to spread into the imperialist countries of Europe, "steps back" have to be taken. Due to illness Lenin leaves the picture and is replaced by an eventually succeeding Stalin-faction. With his theoretical creation of "Marxism-Leninism" a new "socialism" is introduced with now overly compromised content; which rejects revolutionary communism for an array of legalist, class collaborationist, nationalist and pacifist tactics elevated to the level of 'the only true' dogma, is introduced.
We are still here unfortunately, and with even worse, less principled Marxist-Leninist states to deny our struggle and pray to.
The break of the 1920s is crucial for understanding and it has less to do with Trotsky than you might imagine if you just 'zoom out' a bit. Key points of attention should instead be the struggle against the bolshevizing turn of the Comintern and its consequences, first in 1910s-1920s Italy and then 1920s-1930s China. The time-spans is to actually comprehend the context, actors, the catastrophic results and their erroneous persistence in the contemporary movement.



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This is what Marx himself said about the difficulty of Capital. People demand that everything be immediately understandable and approachable. Marx talks about communism enabling an all sided development of the individual. Modern marxists find reading too difficult for them and will not do anything to rectify this.

My impression is that people want Marx to say something else, to confirm their own biases. This leads to "muh dialectical contradiction!" and Marx (and everyone else) suddenly becomes an incoherent schizophrenic, who needs to be explained by other morons. It doesn't help that leftist spaces are dominated by children online, college students and petty bourgeois weirdos who all demonstrably put forth their own middle class interests and everyone is just too lazy and stupid to read Marx and Lenin, their way of reading Marx being the exact same way that creationists will read Darwin. Not understanding the argument, not understanding the year or the context. The fact that Mao is considered easier to read than Marx even though he's nothing but retarded bourgeois platitudes and incoherent philosophical gibberish, just reveals their own class position and what they actually want to say.
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Oh is a retarded leftcom

>>2650530
marx was a pretentious nerd who made his writing needlessly complicated, like most intellectuals.

>>2650565
he was a classics major and it really shows in the difference between volume 1 and the two Engels finished after he died

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>>2650541
>le ultras
>le leftcoms
you sound mentally ill ngl

Marx never achieved anything, mao gave us socialist china.

Therefore, Mao > Marx



 

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>>2651298
Okay no worries. Let us see in 6 months. I know I am 100% right.

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New: The Trump administration is preparing to use private military contractors to protect oil & energy assets in Venezuela rather than deploying US troops, sources tell us, setting up a potential boon for security firms w/ experience in region & ties to POTUS.

Some familiar names already being floated … including former Blackwater founder Erik Prince

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/politics/trump-private-contractors-venezuela-oil

>>2651299
you do you. I've enoyojed this one, where the entire video is dismissed, and the only theing left is that private banks are going to be the priority of dollar deposits from oil sales. even leaving out to the open the suggestion, the possibility, that she's talking about international private banks: >>2651279
how can I not laugh when the note says/implies the opposite of what she's saying.

>>2650766
That's a blatant extortion, but Venezuela doesn't have a choice anyway

>>2651301
Hey not bad! If Platner loses the senate race, he'll at least have a fallback



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It becomes imperative for the various strains of infantile left-deviationists (be they the Bordigist armchairs, the dumpster-diving anarchists, or the idealistic voluntarists still clinging to the metaphysics of spontaneity) to immediately confront the sheer magnitude of their historical illiteracy and sign the attached document with the requisite humility.

It is truly fascinating to watch you petty-bourgeois moralists clutch your pearls over actually existing socialism, entirely ignoring that your axioms are derived purely from liberal ideology and fail to account for the material conditions of a besieged proletarian dictatorship attempting to industrialize a plow-based feudal economy into a nuclear superpower in two decades while facing the combined hostility of the entire capitalist world. This dialectic extends inexorably to the PRC as well; for as it has been aptly noted, the productive forces necessary to defend a revolution must be equal to the productive forces attacking it.

Perhaps if you had actually engaged with Capital instead of merely skimming the back cover of The Conquest of Bread or watching CIA-funded video essays, you would comprehend that a revolution is largely the most organized, centralized, and terrifying thing there is. All that crying about "Red Fascism" because the Soviets didn't immediately dissolve the state apparatus while the Wehrmacht was knocking on the door constitutes a counter-revolutionary betrayal of the proletariat.

So please, put down whatever anarchist, leftcom, or revisionist slop you are currently consuming, stop fetishizing failure, and recognize that your "pure" socialism is a phantom; the Real exists only as the profane, this-worldly, dirty-Jewish muck of class struggle. Formally apologize to the General Secretary for your embarrassing lack of theoretical rigor NOW.
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>>2650021
>if it has a low degree of antagonism between those running the state and the broad mass of the population.
What a joke. Workers had to trust this new elite to have their best interests in mind instead of their own interest. Just a new ruling class replacing the old.

>I AM THE BIG BOY POSTER, I HAVE SOLVED THEORY BY GETTING MAD ONLINE

>>2650032
They don't have to trust anything. It's a question of whether the relations of production can accommodate mutually beneficial relations between different segments of the population. In the USSR they could, in capitalist countries they cannot. Ergo the USSR is more democratic in content than the average capitalist country and represented an important step towards proletarian democracy even if it was imperfect. To say that they just "replaced one class with another" ignores the fact that bureaucrats aren't a class, and even if they were this would be a class with an entirely different relationship to the proletariat as compared to capitalists.

>>2648087
LMAO look at the OP not replying to this one

>>2649559
THIS!
One of the most formative Marxist text I ever read. Short to. Could carry a copy of dozens to just hand out whenever a comrade says something fucking cringe (happens constantly)



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Previous thread: >>2177902

Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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i was hit with a sudden realization that my current goal (to pursue a phd in literature, as suicidal as that is) will not advance any movement of proletarians and any radical ideas i have will be sublimated into palatable expressions of academically approved dissent and immediately felt depressed. i still want to get a phd, but i keep thinking about every rockhill type and their critiques of so called "radical" western academics and realize i am not so special as to somehow be the one that doesnt.
whats the point of anything? I just really enjoy critical theory and would love to teach a class on literature, even a gened.

>>2650436
Towards a New Socialism by Allin Cottrell and Paul Cockshott (1993).

>>2651349
just spitballin here but instead of trying to just write down a bunch of radical critiques that just get recuperated focus more on the teaching aspect? I mean if there are orgs running worker's schools near you just teach literature to the masses or something to that effect like those prison english teachers. Kind of an extreme example but I was reading a history book called workers of Tianjin talking about how literate CPC members used to teach people how to read and write.

>>2651382
I mean you probably dont need absurd qualifications to teach adult literacy night classes right?
this isnt a bad idea. let me go look up the logistics of it. >>2651382

>>2651387
went ahead and applied to a few positions that would take me with my current credentials (bachelor). thanks for the advice anon. at the very least if the PhD doesn't pan out, or I don't get a professorship after (very likely) i imagine i can find satisfaction in doing this



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