/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Why is it that nowadays it seems impossible to reproduce the commitment and courage of the past? Best example that comes to mind is the Black Army of Makhnovshchina. Made up of peasants and former soldiers. These men gave their life in the name of freedom. Mahkno himself got shot multiple times. Revolutionary Catalonia is another example.
Compare that to current anarchists and you get the picture. I feel the glory of revolutions is long past. All that awaits is decadence and the sense of powerlessness at the face of the modern monster

I see the term "fascist" being thrown around on this site a lot, as it is used constantly elsewhere, and I was just wondering if any of you could definitively give me a concept of what an actual "fascist" is. Because I don't think you use it quite as meaninglessly as "reactionary", which is an incredibly meaningless term, but it still seems that it is a more of a generic slur than anything denoting a solid identity.

For example, capitalists here in the US will constantly refer to the Nazis, the USSR and generally anyone deviating from free market capitalism (or their specific idea) of it as "fascist". Likewise, I don't think we even need to list how reflexively the term is used on the "left" for anyone and everyone they don't like.

Let's also explore some potential criteria. Is anything that's ethnonationalistic always "fascist"? Because Brazilian Integralism was "fascist", yet anti-racist and basically brown. And people will also use "fascist" as a stand in for political repression, authoritarianism and violence, yet all socialist nations that have existed on the Earth are guilty of the same things, just under different contexts; they especially have a track record of religious persecution. And since both Third Positionism and the "left" both desire centralized control over the economy, where does one end and one begin? It can't be nationalism and internationalism, because as far as I can tell, every socialist nation that has existed has also been nationalist to some degree and sometimes even contextually racist, like (allegedly) Pol Pot's Khmer nationalism and Enver Hoxha calling Black American music "jungle music", but of course, I'm sure some of you will call them "deviators" and such convenient things. We also have to address that European ethnonationalists will also be called "fascists" for resisting multi-culturalism colonization in Europe that was generated by the capitalist system, even though they have a right to do so as indigenous people of the continent.

So again, what is and is not fascist?

Mazloum Abdi and Ahmed al-Sharaa sign agreement
As a result of the meeting, Abdi and Al-Sharaa agreed the following: 1. The guarantee of the right to representation and participation for all Syrians, regardless of their religious and ethnic backgrounds, in the political process and all state institutions. 2. The Kurdish community is an indigenous community of the Syrian state, and the Syrian state guarantees its citizenship rights and all constitutional right3. A ceasefire to be implemented across all of Syrian territory.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/mazloum-abdi-and-ahmed-al-sharaa-sign-agreement-78335

Alawis fleeing ki*llings, stage sit-in protest at Russian base in Syrian coast
Dozens of people who fled their homes to seek refuge at the Russian Hmeimim base staged a sit-in protest against the executions and crimes committed by members of the Ministries of Defence and Interior and their allied gunmen, against members of the Alawite sect.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/357494/

Child deaths surge amid ‘Gazafication’ of West Bank, report says
Israel has brought the military tactics of its war in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians face mass forced displacements, a surge in airstrikes and a sharp rise in attacks on children and other civilians, a Palestinian-Israeli rights group has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/10/child-deaths-surge-amid-gazafication-of-west-bank-report-says

Former Peruvian president announces hunger strike to protest rebellion trial
Castillo claimed that Judge Norma Carbajal, who previously stated armed rebellion “does not require physical violence,” has prejudged his case by “forcing the criminal type of rebellion” against him. Castillo, 55, described his trial as “politicized” and a “pantomime” in previous sessions, and has refused legal counsel provided by the judicial system.
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It's ridiculous how any retard feels entitled to give their idiotic opinions about history, philosophy, sociology, etc.

We should do like the analytic philosophers and neoclassical economists and add a bunch of math formulas to keep the midwits away.

Formerly would consider myself rightist or even far rightist but utterly disenfranchised with most of what you see on the right. >convinced nationalism began with good intentions but does just about the opposite of what it sets out to do and most nationalist groups are just stooges
>fervently religious so I could never get behind secularism or atheism but don't really believe in the state forcing religion on people either
>have read Dugin, somewhat familiar with/comfortable with the far right and left horseshoe theory
>reject materialism as a lens for historical interpretation and political Modus Operandi
>not a fan of seeing society through terms of economic class, some class oppression is a reality but I think identifying with financial status is pretty low quality and I would prefer class harmony over class warfare insofar as class exists (I don't think economic class should exist as it does but I do think a sort of social caste according to societal role is necessary)
>really don't give incredibly much thought to economics but hate capitalism and usury, life experience made me pro-Union despite having been raised to be skeptical of them
>into tribe and ethnicity but skeptical of "race"/racial identity/collective racial interest - tentatively could say "ethnopluralist" but I haven't read de Benoist and don't want to identify with him
>don't believe in 'revolution for the sake of revolution' but think it can be justified in cases
>into ecology, skeptical of climate change alarmism but despise corpos for ruining the environment and despise conservatives for not caring about the environment

I don't know, man. I'm pretty open right now and into exploring. How would you anons define leftism at its core? How would you sell me on it?

sorry if trash thread, will not be offended if jannies make it disappear. but not baiting. Genuinely would like input.

The stereotype of a leftist is sometimes an image of a tree hugger, an anarchist who loves people too much and sees the state as the only reason there are social problems and various kinds of activists.
I'm not like that. I've been slightly sociopathic since I was young: I'd like to break other people's things, ruin them, often tease people. I never fit in with other people, so naturally I got accustomed to knowing and sympathizing with various oppressed people. This includes anyone from the local homeless person to bullied children (also adults when it comes to workplace bullying). Although I liked to tease other people, experiencing it myself sometimes made me feel terrible and I recognized that social oppression was unjustifiable.
For some time I was a statist kind of person, but still learning left. I thought that, to protect the weak, we had to fight against all kinds of privileged people using the state. Reading Marx changed my perspective on this and I am now immersed in political economy, to see how to really change the world.
I have been in bourgeois circles and their attitudes to life, the way they look at other people has always upset me. They think they are intelligent, talented people who got to become bourgeois simply because of their 'free will' or effort, when their fortunes are built on exploitation, luck and being born into the right kind of family in the right country.
Still though, I don't know where my concern really lies. I feel like I simply feel bad, on some level, when it comes to oppressed people. I am a sadist, not in the sexual way, but in the way that I laugh when people, animals get hurt, I find it amusing, simply put. So I don't know, perhaps my care for some people is simply a kind of social conditioning. I 'feel bad' in the way that it's not socially acceptable to not feel bad.
I sometimes wonder if I care about my parents at all. Do I care about them because it's socially mandated, or do I have some kind of empathy? A psychologist I once went to for legal reasons commented that I struggle with empathy. This doesn't make me cold and calculating, I'm an emotional person, but I truly feel like that 'feeling' of empathy is just not the same in me as in other people.
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I felt like this had to be its own separate thread from the general I decided to post on >>2144941.
I had made a previous thread about a figure called Ален Симеонов / Alen Simeonov with the an entire transcript of a video of his criticizing "cultural marxism", the thread has since been long gone and the video became unlisted and eventually removed, I failed to download it for an archive.
If anyone remembers that thread or has an archive of it, by all means please share. It was a really sophisticated analysis, despite being from an aspiring neonazi.

Moving on, I predict an incoming clash of the Pro-Ukraine / Pro-Russia nationalists here in Bulgaria, even if the war in Ukraine comes to an end.
I may have made a thread of this kind before, but here I want to present a new rehash of a rising movement in Bulgaria - the sovereign citizens movement (copy-pasted from the other thread):

I would like to mention that there is a funny growing movement (growing really fast) of sovereign citizens who consider the current Bulgaria to be an illegitimate company registered in the US and all documents and such being invalid past a certain date. They're the growing force of the pro-Russian & Soviet-nostalgic Bulgarians. Bulgarian officials have had no experience before with sovereign citizens so courts are actually giving in to their demands lol.
A lot of schizophrenia, yes, but they're surprisingly effective. Sovereign citizens might have an impact on the law in Bulgaria in the near future, despite their fear of 5G WIFI mind control and biorobots posing as humans.
https://www.portal.zamakabg.com/знай-своите-права-живите-мъже-и-жени/84400/bg/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6qGptNvFME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAox_obBYJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrwOd5ipNGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS_2ClKTRNM Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/paul-bowman-financial-weapons-of-mass-destruction

This is a good rundown of the eurodollar system. Interested to hear what leftypol’s thoughts on it are and open to any good faith debates on its contents.

Personally I think the points he missed are that it’s not necessarily capital “defeating” corporations so much as I think it’s the system that established the ability of foreign countries and corporations to create and influence dollar monetary policy through the ability to leverage their balance sheets, capital controls be damned you can turn AAA securities into collateral, and then fractional lend that collateral itself to wind or unwind dollar debt as much as you want, leading to 2007 in which Eurodollar banks had created more dollar debt than U.S. banks. In such a scenario it almost looks like the government itself poisoned its own monetary supply to try and stop foreign entities from controlling its monetary policy. This brings us to modern day, where it makes sense that banks and corporations would WANT a new reserve currency, something like bitcoin, so that they can continue trading credit to their hearts desire with no worry for a self interested third party being a single point of failure for the money supply curve.

Yes, I am a Duhringian socialist. Yes we exist and YES we WILL win. Convert before it's too late. Reading Anti-Duhring is my favorite pastime and I vigorously critique Engels' points to the point of howling with laughter. Evolution doesn't exist btw