/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2593358
I understand the capital creates culture.
The imperial core being a land of opulence and excess leads to a socially conservative and liberal hedonistic culture.

>>2592147
Oh my god why do I have to defend the Volkerabfalle thesis.
No. All Engels was saying is that because of the circumstances where certain peoples were oppressed by nations which were undergoing capitalist development, they instinctively reacted to this by opposing capitalist development or in allying with reactionary forces from the developing nation.
For example, the British were developing in a capitalist manner and thus were crushing reactionary political forces such as James II, who then tried to develop a basis of support amongst the Irish. Thus the Irish aligned with a reactionary force in British politics. It has nothing to do with them being metaphysically reactionary.

>>2593903
The experience of the South Slavs being under oppression by the Germans and Hungarians, who were experiencing capitalist transformation, thus led to them supporting the crushing of the 1848 Revolutions by the Russian Empire. This is why they were reactionary. They sought in autocratic Russia a relief from national oppression, and were thus opposed to capitalist revolution. Why would that have anything to do with Palestine today when Palestine is firmly in capitalist relations?

>>2593378
Peak liberalism

>>2593903
>For example, the British were developing in a capitalist manner and thus were crushing reactionary political forces such as James II, who then tried to develop a basis of support amongst the Irish. Thus the Irish aligned with a reactionary force in British politics. It has nothing to do with them being metaphysically reactionary.
Jacobitism

Syrian Partisan Girl is receiving her PhD from the University of Western Australia right now

A year after Assad’s fall in Syria, Alawite women face kidnappings and rape

https://apnews.com/article/syria-alawite-women-kidnapped-militants-extremists-rape-a469660022301de378d1fa130467bec0

>>2592705
I don't give THAT much of a shit about what happens there. It's just an interesting kaleidoscope of a place. I'm not glazing the jihadis in Syria either are you crazy? I'm just not like oh mah gerd they're terrorists. That's gay. Puh-leeze. That's just a word people say. You know in terms of ideology they're more similar to Hamas than anybody, and you like them, right? Don't you, anon?

>>2592725
That's what these Bashartards are like, man. It's like some awful fusion of Hitlerism with Bush-era GWOT counter-terror propaganda.

>>2593219
You type like a fag, go back to twitter

House votes to nullify Trump order and restore bargaining rights for federal workers
Nearly two dozen House Republicans joined Democrats Thursday to pass a bill that would restore collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees, an attempt to overturn an executive order that President Donald Trump issued earlier this year.
https://apnews.com/article/democrats-trump-federal-worker-union-rights-republicans-1bbd71bb6236aa2ff2c3b816e54327a1

Drivers at Amazon warehouse in Woodside seek to unionize with Teamsters
Drivers at Amazon’s DBK1 warehouse in Woodside marched to the facility Dec. 9 to deliver the news to management, joining almost 10,000 Amazon workers across five states who have outlined plans to join the union, according to Teamsters.
https://qns.com/2025/12/drivers-amazon-warehouse-unionize-teamsters/

Noem accused of misleading Congress about early hearing departure to canceled meeting
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) moved to subpoena Noem to reappear before the panel, saying she shirked her duties and may have even lied about needing to attend a meeting of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Council convened to determine the future of the disaster agency.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5644770-noem-dhs-thompson-fema/

==Federal judge orders FEMA to restore billions in canceled disaster mitigation funding
The program’s disruption upended projects across hundreds of communities in both Republican- and Democratic-led states, thwarting plans to improve stormwater drainage, harden electrical lines and even help relocate households living in areas most vulnerable to disasters.
https://apnews.com/article/fema-bric-funding-disasters-trump-restore-50def95a599645b4fa3062c6547c6a3d
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60,000 multimillionaires own 3 times more wealth than half the world’s population
A new report from the World Inequality Lab, the product of four years of comprehensive research, finds that economic inequality on a world scale continues to increase by leaps and bounds, with vast wealth concentrated in a tiny handful of billionaires and centi-millionaires. As the report’s foreword declares: "The data presented here are striking. The richest 10% of the global population own close to three-quarters of all wealth, while the poorest half hold barely 2%. Fewer than 60,000 multi-millionaires now control three times more wealth than half of humanity combined. Within most countries, the bottom 50% rarely possess more than 5% of national wealth. "
The World Inequality Lab was established through efforts to investigate global inequality initially spearheaded by economists Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, co-authors of a series of studies on the concentration of wealth and income. According to the report, the wealthiest 0.001 percent have seen their share of the world’s wealth grow from 4 percent to 6 percent since 1995, while the bottom half of the world’s population controls only 2 percent. Multimillionaires have increased their wealth by approximately 8 percent each year over the past three decades, nearly twice the rate of the bottom half of the population.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/11/rzdx-d11.html

An AI-Powered Stock Market
The stock market is, plainly, no longer simply a concern of the elite. “We like to joke that the markets are not the economy,” Peter Atwater of Financial Insyghts recently told Bloomberg, “but we’ve reached a point now where the economy is the markets.” In past articles, I’ve covered the rise and risks of retail investing for everyday Americans. To recap: a majority of Americans now own stocks; young women are the fastest growing demographic of investors; and the onset of “commission free” trading has lured millions of us into high-risk trading in speculative stocks and the derivatives market. All of this has taken place under the guise of words like access, equality, and democratization. Yet recent weeks has seen a spread of predictions of a bubble — and cracks beginning to show in the consumer economy as well as private crePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>2593555
Stunning and brave.

>>2593555
yeah, sure. she left using a fucking boat. other stories like her plane was escorted by f18 and such. in fact, more realistically, she left using dolphins (Cuban gusanos 'escapee' stories, btw).

>>2593138
>idc what anyone says, I love this guy.
honestly best man.

To consider, that Venezuela does have organized crime, as everywhere.

The worse things get the more the line of what's legal blurs. As the state institutions themselves come to, out of necessity, regularly work with the criminal side of the law, to get the things done. Such as "smuggling" all the trade the US (or sometimes the UN) sanctions. There is always a balance of this , of course, but a siege threatens the criminals gaining too much influence and eventually selling out the state to the highest bidder. Or disintegrating undermined by corruption.

So in a way, although it may not be the case for Venezuela right now, putting any place under a brutal economic siege on the premise that they are wholly corrupt and criminal is a self fulfilling prophecy. Cuba wriggled out of this by being more useful to the USA as a miserable punching bag to be made and example of, than a disaster to manage.

>>2593555
>run away
>get blown up by the US
that would have been extremely funny. In fact, venezuelan government should have kidnapped her, put her in a fishing boat without radio with some other gusanos, and remote controlled it toward the US

>>2593345
To expand on this, what do you think would happen if you transported Napoleon to today's world? Do you think he would've had the same impact? Of course not. He would no longer be relevant, his actions would be meaningless.
The material conditions of society are the ones that determine history.

>>2593350
So the proletariat doesn’t matter, society does

>>2593412
Uhhh guess who's the driving force of society…

>>2593518
It’s not the proletariat or the bourgeois

Fidels dad was literally a slave owner

Ángel Castro once had 500 Haitians working for him, and at the time of his death 400 Haitians on the estate.[1]: 28  Castro prospered and was eventually able to buy 1800 hectares and lease a further 10,000 hectares of land which yielded pine wood, livestock, and sugarcane. It is said that this prosperity was due in part to harsh treatment of his mostly Haitian workers, and various illegal exploits. Although perhaps slightly inaccurate in detail, there is a vivid description of late 1920s life, especially in reference to the plight of Haitian contract labour at Antilla and Banes in Bancroft in the northern part of what was then Oriente province.[7] Later in life Fidel recalled his father's corruption, buying votes from the existing political classes, but by the standards of the day he was probably less harsh than many proprietors. During the winter he would hire redundant workers from neighbouring plantations to weed the ground. He was an obeisant man, kind to his children, spoiled them even, and rarely lost his temper, except at dominoes. By the 1950s Ángel was worth about $500,000 (equivalent to $5,900,000 in 2024).

>>2553352
Yeah it's funny that you literally can not refute a single thing I said. Go run to the mods, little cuck

now that Menshevik Ziohran is in power, what happens to Comrade Sliwa?

He had 19 cats. He's based 🐈

>>2548176
posts that aged like milk

>>2593451
why you posting random redditors bro

>>2593453
are you sowdy arabic?

>>2593456
what?

>>2593459
can be frend is necesaary

because china is model of opportunistic nationalism

>>2586838
hello Mr Trotsky, how's the burritos down in Mehiko

Taiwan only stopped claiming Mongolia as its own territory a couple of years ago.

>>2593447
so?

>>2586836
/thread

>>2572492
A heartless Ultra’s life for me

>>2572106
its true but more nuanced than a direct conspiracy. trots are fine in latam for example. leftcoms and anarchists are also pretty anti-communist. opposing the ussr is pretty stupid usually there is a conflation here with modern russia which obviously isn't communist. same with the cpc. its fine to be critical or skeptical but actually propagandizing against them in a public forum is certainly anti-communist. i find that most people dont "worship" either one and usually people think a few online personality psychos like the ACP are representative of the majority when they very much are not. and finally campism in the pejorative sense isn't a real thing. being in the socialist camp is good.

>>2572352
>lesser imperialist
no such thing, its either imperialist or not and if you actually understand imperialism then you know it only applies to ex british colonies western europe japan and worst korea.

>>2572376
>"multipolar" nations are not only doing nothing to help them, but are often actively harming them as well, so i don't want to hear it
pretty clearly misunderstanding the point. unipolarity means no competition and IMF sets loan rates like a monopolist. multipolarity means lower rates for productive development(the definition of progress according to marx) due to competition outside the dollar system. thats it

western marxism is anti=communism
read Losurdo