/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1871265
>>1871258
It's a survival video game called rust wherein you have to join a gang unless you want to be constantly murdered by 15 year olds for your resources.

Rust made me yearn for the killing fields.

>>>/siberia/ or >>>/dead/
Please read theory instead of getting a vibe for what words mean and heading straight into a debate gooning session. You somehow mistook anarchism for individualism, the literal opposite of anarchism.

>>1871189
lel

Moved to >>>/siberia/539275.

>>1870824
To add to this, you need to view it in the historical context.

Trotsky was quite literally there for the Russian Revolution. The printing press was key in enabling the spread of revolutionary ideas and a way of defeating censorship abroad, because the entire technology through Trotsky's life comes at the intersection of being heavy industrial machinery to letter-press printing.

>>1870834
Sorry not letterpress printing, but the technology goes through a clear development. Pamphlets of which are key because they can be cranked out and spread at just the cost of ink and paper.

>>1870814
oh yeah, I agree. entryism is not just "entering" an organization and cross-pollinating or whatever, as you say. it's a more insidious thing

>>1870822
<trotsky, the guy who risked his life leading the red army always was against Lenin the entire way for years, would want hitler to win because he just hates stalin was incredibly ideologically sure he could get power so much as he always tried to do
ftfy

>>1870743
>I'd rather tear my eyes out.

that wich hurts the liberal enrich the revolutionaries

>>1870070
>Delhi temperature hits 50.5C as India’s capital records hottest day
This is not going to end well.

>>1870462
<boomers will say climate is false
People on this site are so fucking dumb you people legitimately make me depressed for the future of the left.

I once worked in a 49.5˚C (desert) environment. It was fucked.

I was kept being transported from point A to point B with an air-conditioned taxi and whenever I had to step outside the car the heat, I felt, literally "punched" my whole body.

Like, you can not even imagine. It's like going from "okay mode" to "you are being slammed by galactic forces mode."

Moving from a sauna to cold water doesn't even compare. First of all, that's planned, moreover, it is within range, and lastly, temporal. But moving out from a, say, 29˚C air-conditioned car to a 49.5˚C general environ – while wearing clothes – is like having your entire outer edifice (your skin) being hammered harder and harder, warmer and warmer, every minute. It's pretty fucking insane.

And as for such condition's socio-economic perspective, especially in third-world context:
>electricity consumption & bills go up, up, up (air conditioners for homes & businesses, refrigerators for restaurants, etc.)
>rotten food EVERYWHERE: stores, restaurants, etc.
>halting of production (in factories and farms) due to unbearable heat conditions
>a sense of "mediterranean off time" in small shops (p-bourg), where store owners (typically male) snooze while their employds' (or their wi[f/v]e[s]) serve the customers

It is truly fucked.

imagine a pussy 52.9C (127.2F) hot

>heaven

Mandatory reading

"Glasnost" was a psyop designed by Yakovlev

>>1869774
Everything you've mentioned is essential to understand. Here's my self-contradictory Parapolitics TLDR: It's impossible to understand the current geopolitical moment without understanding the activities of western intelligence apparatus post WW2. Don't waste time on occult or esoteric connections, stick with the realities. Peter Dale Scott has spent a lifetime of scholarship on these realities, he's the only rec in the OP worth studying.
>t. values most of the pods in OP except when they get esoteric

Best parapolitics podcast: Ghost Stories for the End of the World

https://ghoststoriesfortheend.podbean.com/page/2/

>>1870432
I don't think thats the conclusion that logically follows.

>>1870407
This is a weird post because, at least during its during its first decade or so, nobody pretended the USSR wasn't under a capitalist mode of production. Then from Stalin onwards they constantly flip-flopped on whether they were socialist or not (not unlike Mao).

>>1870445
It makes sense that as the development towards socialism marched on they would at some point leave capitalism.
You know, for example after abolishing the NEP.

You cant seriously be saying that if a country started out in one mode of production it can never develop into another? Like saying spain is still feudal because it was feudal when it was founded.

I don't think whether or not to use a label is the important aspect here though, but rather is a "state capitalist" market can be considered a form of dictatorship of the proletariat and an abolishment of the dictatorship of capital (not capitalists, capital itself). In the sense that, is it a sustainable stage for a short to medium turn for a country to develop in or is it an inherently unstable unmaintable state which will by definition deteriorate back into capitalism if allowed to endure.
For example, China introduced full markets and private ownership for (austensibly) the same reasons as the NEP existed, but the continues existance of market with private property led to the domination of capital itself over the economic decisions of the country and then to the domination of capital itself over politics via bribery and economic power.

>>1870395
>The correct approach to Marxism is reading all of those works from beginning to end and understanding them as an integrated whole.
And since less than 0.1 % of Marxists have read all of Marx and Engels (and "those works" is ambiguous enough it could mean more authors still) this rhetorical move brings everybody in the group down to the same level. I can see that's a useful rhetorical move for people who haven't read anything.

Alas, it's not convincing for those who have read enough to know that the works of Marx and Engels are not finished (this is explicitly stated in Capital Volume III and Dialectics of Nature) and that Marx and Engels went through changes both in opinions and jargon (just poke your nose into their correspondence).

>>1869960
The labor aristocracy is a small minority where some class traitors try to opportunistic to co -opt workers not to organize themselves and have no solidarity together leading to a class conciliation ideology with the national bourgeoisie that deceives workers.
Let's see what Lenin have to say about the labor aristocracy:
<In a letter to Marx, dated October 7, 1858, Engels wrote: “…The English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois, so that this most bourgeois of all nations is apparently aiming ultimately at the possession of a bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat alongside the bourgeoisie. For a nation which exploits the whole world this is of course to a certain extent justifiable.” In a letter to Sorge, dated September 21, 1872, Engels informs him that Hales kicked up a big row in the Federal Council of the International and secured a vote of censure on Marx for saying that “the English labour leaders had sold themselves”. Marx wrote to Sorge on August 4, 1874: “As to the urban workers here [in England], it is a pity that the whole pack of leaders did not get into Parliament. This would be the surest way of getting rid of the whole lot.” In a letter to Marx, dated August 11, 1881, Engels speaks about “those very worst English trade unions which allow themselves to be led by men sold to, or at least paid by, the bourgeoisie.” In a letter to Kautsky, dated September 12, 1882, Engels wrote: “You ask me what the English workers think about colonial policy. Well, exactly the same as they think about politics in general. There is no workers’ party here, there are only Conservatives and Liberal-Radicals, and the workers gaily share the feast of England’s monopoly of the world market and the colonies.”
<On December 7, 1889, Engels wrote to Sorge: “The most repulsive thing here [in England] is the bourgeois ‘respectability’, which has grown deep into the bones of the workers…. Even Tom Mann, whom I regard as the best of the lot, is fond of mentioning that he will be lunching with the Lord Mayor. If one compares this with the French, one realises, what a revolution is good for, after all.”[10] In a letter, dated April 19, 1890: “But under the surface the movement [of the working class in England] is going on, is embracing ever wider sections and Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>we need to radicalize libs
>we need to radicalize conservatives
>we need to (re-)radicalize nazis
what is it with online leftists' obsession of "radicalizing" a specific sector of the political spectrum?

>>1870012
It's the inevitable result of abstracting politics from class. You end up thinking of political opponents in vague, static terms like "liberal" and "conservative" instead of more accurate descriptors like "middle class reformers", "domestic industrialists", "rural working class", etc.

>>1870012
they got le radicalized after watching a video essay on the marxism of toy story so they think the best way to build a communist movement is to do salting but instead of worker unions it's on shit like reddit and fbi.gov

>>1870012
>we need to radicalize libs
>we need to radicalize conservatives
>we need to (re-)radicalize nazis
But also,
>we need to de-radicalize Marxists
>we need to de-radicalize social media
>we need to de-radicalize the academy
It's easier to move anything where you want it with a firm hand on each end.
<any attempt to create a genuinely egalitarian ethos on the basis of principles of formal deference is ultimately impossible. There is a fundamental contradiction here. The logic of setting an abstract being apart necessarily involves setting it off against something; in practice, that always seems to mean creating a residual category of peo­ple—if not some racial or ethnic category, then workers, the poor, losers in the economic game— that are seen as chaotic, corporeal, animalistic, dan­gerous. By this logic, for instance, North American racism is not the great exception to the possessive individualism on which the country is found­ed— an anomaly for some reason never seems to go away— but something essential to its nature. In the contemporary world, where “the market” is endlessly touted as synonymous with freedom and democracy, and where its proponents have thereby claimed for themselves the right to “reform” every­ thing and everyone on earth, this is a point that even liberals might do well to think about. No hierarchy is ever immutable. Indeed, like capitalism, one could well argue that all hierarchies by their own internal logic must nec­essarily create images of rebellious disorder—images, indeed, of their own negation— that they then have to exert enormous amounts of energy to con­tain, so as to ensure that they do not burst out of the level of the imaginary. Such systems are always vulnerable. But by the same token, any genuinely egalitarian system must, it seems, adopt equivalent mechanisms, to stand guard against its own deeply embedded hierarchical possibilities.32

Full article with pics
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How stupid. I love improving my tarnished image amongst the South Korean population by lobbing feces at them.

- New Fish AI using real machine learning trained on videos of fish
- 10 second cooldown on jumping and weapon switching so quake starved zooms play the game as intended.
- In-game billboards load ads in real time, each being their own instance of an electron application somehow and causing frame drops when in view.
- Soda collab

>>1869624
my thesis is that "comedy" movies can be used to traffic in any kind of ahistorical reactionary bullshit and you aren't able to call it out because "it's just a joke bro, jeez" even as people passively absorb opinions from it

>>1869634
>vid
Is that actually fun? Don't they get dizzy? This is why I can't play mp games. I just want to have fun not whatever that shit is.

>>1868928
>Place your bets on what stupid shit will take place in the new call of duty installment set during in the 90s from desert storm to 9/11
Flight 93 mission where you get to go Mark Wahlberg on the terries. You tragically don't get to save the plane because it was actually being fly by wired the whole time anyways so then you sabotage the plane and crash but you save America in the process.

>>1869651
No even better, one of the other flights that crashed. Fly by wire reveal. Last thing you see is pic rel but seats are empty.

Then the whole cabin starts tearfully singing together:
"Oh say can youuuu sneed by the….." as they accept their imminent death.

I.R.S. Failed to Police Puerto Rico Tax Break, Whistle-Blower Says
Despite a high-profile campaign announced more than three years ago to unearth possible abuse, the agency has audited barely two dozen people and has collected back taxes from none, according to a letter that an agency insider wrote this year to lawmakers and that has been reviewed by The New York Times, as well as interviews with I.R.S. officials.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/business/irs-puerto-rico-tax.html
https://archive.is/brkVA

Mercedes Hired Squad Of Anti-Union Consultants To Combat Alabama Organizing
The filings show the automaker contracted with three consulting firms to bring on at least 11 “persuaders” to hold meetings with workers about the union ahead of an election. Employees at the Vance, Alabama, plant ultimately voted 2,045 to 2,642 against forming a union, a setback for the UAW as it tries to organize Southern auto facilities.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mercedes-anti-union-consultants_n_6655e9fbe4b052122749b67d
https://archive.is/QwBvl

Starbucks is set to resume union negotiations as it confronts issues at its stores
Narasimhan, in prepared remarks to Wall Street analysts, cited some of the challenges that union workers have been highlighting in their bid for better working conditions “Specifically in our U.S. stores, we’re focused on creating a more stable environment for partners through investments in equipment innovation, process improvements, staffing, scheduling and waste reductio …"
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/28/starbucks-union-negotiations-resume.html

Farmers must kill 4.2 million chickens after bird flu hits Iowa egg farm
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

tybna

Episode 382: Tribunal 2 (TrueAnon)
An interview with Coni Ledesma: former nun, member of Christians for National Liberation, and peace negotiator for the National Democratic Front living in exile in the Netherlands. We discuss her life and the political situation in the Philippines.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/tribunal-2

Workers in England and Sri Lanka unite against Asda
ON the 75th day of their strike, young women garment workers in Sri Lanka held a banner emblazoned, “Solidarity from the Sumithra strike to the Asda strike! United struggle across the Asda supply chain!” In their video message, one woman addresses Asda retail workers going on strike over 5,000 miles away in England, in the shops where the clothes they make are sold. Smiling, she says, “You are not alone.” Having braved months of their local bosses’ strikebreaking tactics, they sought to strengthen their fellow workers’ courage against their global bosses. In a heartfelt response, GMB national officer Nadine Houghton responded: “GMB’s Asda members fully support your struggle, and we will offer whatever solidarity we can.” These two strikes at either end of Asda’s supply chain are historic: workers have organised and held their ground against intimidation from bosses while supporting each other across the globe — teaching us an essential lesson about the power of global solidarity.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/workers-england-and-sri-lanka-unite-against-asda

“Rafah is burning”: civilians massacred as IDF bombs refugee camp
In a rarer move, Netanyahu has issued a personal statement to Israel’s parliament, in which he called the bombing a “tragic mistake”, echoing the Army’s promise to investigate the incident. This stance from Netanyahu, who is typically unrepentant about Palestinian deaths, reflects the pressure of public opinion. It is a testament to the utter fury this latest atrocity has provoked, at a time when Israel’s crimes are ramping up pressure at home and abroad. As we wrote at the start of IDF operations in Rafah, Netanyahu’s considerations are primarily driven by domestic politics. He is facing growing frustPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon

>>1869080
>Handing out food to junkies doesn't make you revolutionary.
incredibly privileged burger take, i am very positive you are upper-class anon. very telling and comedic that u think mutual aid networks and community service only entail handin out food to junkies. touch sum grass.
>If you aren't in a party
<jus vote broooooooooo
what even is "a party"? ur tellin me the gays for trump party has done more for the proles then all mutual aid networks evr?
>and doing everything you can to get people to join that party, you aren't revolutionary.
assumin u mean marxists parties, stating that these parties hve any influence in a number of western countires, includin ur burger homeland, is laughable. its unfortunately the case that right-wing liberatarian mvmnts hve more revolutionary fever than any irl marxists ik.
>Petitioning for the party is far more revolutionary than feeding homeless people qho, realistically, can't even help themselves.
glow
>Lumpenproles do not matter for the cause.
im not much of a marxist scholar, bu from the general comparisions ive seen of lumpenproles to neets who dont go outside, u r far more of a lumpenprole than any anarchist ive evr met, an ive met some rly entitled and shitty human beings. ask urself anon, do u think homeless ppl r unable to help themselves due to the virtue of their homelessness, or a society that starves them and promises salvation that may well nevr come?

>>1865463
how you label yourself is totally irrelevant
until you take action, you are neither anyway. just thinking about marxism-leninism or anarcho-communism makes you only a marxist-leninist or anarcho-communist in your head

>>1869080
PSL?

>>1869106
True and based