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>To my mind, the so-called “socialist society” is not anything immutable. Like all other social formations, it should be conceived in a state of constant flux and change. Its crucial difference from the present order consists naturally in production organized on the basis of common ownership by the nation of all means of production. To begin this reorganization tomorrow, but performing it gradually, seems to me quite feasible. That our workers are capable of it is borne out by their many producer and consumer cooperatives which, whenever they're not deliberately ruined by the police, are equally well and far more honestly run than the bourgeois stock companies.

- Engels, Letter to Otto Von Boenigk In Breslau, August 21, 1890

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_08_21.htm

"I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people." - Ronald Reagan?!

https://www.cesj.org/about-cesj-in-brief/history-accomplishments/pres-reagans-speech-on-project-economic-justice/

This is a thread about organizing cooperatives. It is not about debating the merits or lack thereof of cooperatives. I understand there are critiques of cooperatives, and how they are not enough to bring about proletarian revolution. The same is true of unions, but I still support the creation of unions and worker-owned cooperatives as part of a multi-pronged strategy.

Resources (feel free to add)
https://www.theselc.org/cooperatives-resources
https://www.theselc.org/bite-sized-law
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>>2634626
any cooperatives willing to excessively exploit themselves,and even then they can't just have turn over to get rid of the workers that no longer have anything to squeeze from

the type of industry or place doesn't matter,since in the real world managers (ie,people employed by the "leader")are the one commanding those structures,so what's the real difference ?

and like the other said,the inevitability of capital consolidation happens because of the rate of profit declining,and even if it's steady,it's FAR from having killed small bussiness entirely

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Huawei, one of the world's largest Worker-Owned-Cooperatives.

>>2654233
Half of its employees are foreigners with no right to participate in collective ownership.

>>2654251
Chat is this true?

>>2634626
Cooperatives have lower agency costs (no absentee owners extracting value), higher trust and information flow, longer planning horizons, willingness to operate at lower but steadier margins, resistance to enshittification and short-term extraction.

These advantages compound in certain industries. Cooperatives consistently are able to compete in agriculture, utilities, infrastructure, natural monopolies. Even in finance you have credit unions which are basically the banking version of a cooperative.


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i find that a lot of leftist discourse is very idealistic, like "X won't exist in our perfect communist society so engaging with it is counter-revolutionary", ie "sex work won't exist, so there's no need to engage with it" or "small businesses won't exist so engaging with them is wrong" or "drugs will be banned under communism, so engaging with the people who consume them is wrong"

This makes for easy theory posting and internet debates, but is really bad for actually engaging in material real world praxis because we do not live under the society we want to create, and the time it will take to create the envisioned society is literally multiple lifetimes, ie even if revolution happened tomorrow, the task of creating the society we want doesn't end, if anything, that's when it really begins. it's this idea that communism is a static utopia that will mysteriously happen in the future. This line of thinking ignores that communism will emerge dialectically from the contradictions of capitalism. This utopianism is ultimately the very counter-revolutionary thought it claims to defend against.

my honest opinion is that engaging in utopianism is significantly easier than engaging in materialism, especially if one is constrained by their material conditions, or consumed by a sense of hopeless nihilism. I think that's also why I piss people off so much, because there's proof that I've been able to *something*, and any amount of *something* is more than nothing, and that's in spite of my own material conditions being well, poverty and struggle. Which means that someone who has more comfort, more resources, more stability should be able engage in praxis too, but the fear of action paralyzes. Praxis means working with imperfect allies, making tactical compromises, making mistakes, failing, being embarrassed, taking losses, trying new things, applying theory dialetically and getting dirty. Utopianism keeps your hands clean and your theory pure. People with clean hands are disgusted by people with dirty ones.

the only thing standing between the comfortable leftist and material praxis is their own choice.
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What if there were anonymous shitposters on leftypol that did praxis
But didn't brag about it or ask for donations

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>>2657346
Well let's face it man, there's only so many reasons you wouldn't
>You don't like attention and keep a low profile. Possibly autistic and prob aren't a serious threat to the system
>You're a pussy. You don't wanna risk being incriminated for wrong think let alone wrong action, thereby keep a low profile and while that might be smart short term, it also means you are the easiest to compromise

It is natural to the human condition to want benefit. Be it physical benefit of donations or higher yearnings like ego boosts and praise.

Pic very related because let's say you were face to face with this gorgeous bitch whose wrong about everything.
>She knows you steal from Target. Scalping those pokemon cards to sell as singles, free money for the revolution and by revolution I mean you can pay your bills
>Assuming she doesn't just scream to garner mob attention over what's barely a misdemeanor, she won't sleep with you at the very least
>Sad… That's prime rib cunny lost to ideology. Zizak/Jesus wept.
>You know what would make you feel better? A Paypal donation to the ACP, or your discord channel full of other nerds saying she's a libshit and all the other leftists have a septum theory of value and maybe one of them will suck your peepee
>I mean you could just lie but that doesn't mean you gonna impregnate. Lying will just guarantee she leaves you alone. IE you're the coward or the autist.
>To take the lie further just for her delightful loins would be a detriment to you because you can only lie for so long because holy shit she's dumb. You'll either break and punch her or end up lying to yourself and find yourself becoming the reactionary.
>What ever will you do Che Guevara?

They're probably feds trying to cripple the left by making it completely irrelevant and out of touch.

>>2657093
>the time it will take to create the envisioned society is literally multiple lifetimes, ie even if revolution happened tomorrow, the task of creating the society we want doesn't end, if anything, that's when it really begins
yes i keep telling that to the puritanical dumbasses on here. Let's read some theory that says the same thing:

<What we have to deal with here is a communist society, not as it has developed on its own foundations, but, on the contrary, just as it emerges from capitalist society; which is thus in every respect, economically, morally, and intellectually, still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm


<Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke? No, no more than existing forces of production can at one stroke be multiplied to the extent necessary for the creation of a communal society. In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity.

Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism, 1847

<To my mind, the so-called “socialist society” is not anything immutable. Like all other social formations, it should be conceived in a state of constant flux and change. Its crucial difference from the present order consists naturally in production organized on the basis of common ownership by the nation of all means of production. To begin this reorganization tomorrow, but performing it gradually, seems to me quite feasible. That our workers are capable of it is borne out by their many producer and consumer cooperatives which, whenever they're not deliberately ruined by the police, are equally well and far more honestly run than the bourgeois stock companies.

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>>2657093
>"sex work won't exist, so there's no need to engage with it"
>"small businesses won't exist so engaging with them is wrong"
>"drugs will be banned under communism, so engaging with the people who consume them is wrong"
Boring, but I'll bite since I don't feel like grading papers right now:
Who says this?!
I swear half of the posts on this site sound like AI hallucinations for how completely disconnected they are from what literally anyone is saying. Or hell, what do you even mean by "engaging" anyways. Do you mean recruiting from those segments, adopting their ideas, struggling with them, or just talking with them? The weaselly way you use that word reflects the audacious dishonesty of this entire strawman "argument".

Sex work is inherently coercive and must be abolished. It's not a career, it's rape. Sex workers are lumpen and their right to life and safety should be defended, women's councils should be formed and armed to enforce this violently if need be, while pimps and Johns should be lynched.
The petty bourgeoisie cannot be relied on to be anything approaching a revolutionary class as a whole, especially in first world settler colonial contexts where their entire way of life relies on imperialism. Some few individuals in this class might place politics first and commit class suicide, but this isn't a behavior that can be relied on to be carried out with any kind of mass consistency. You cannot sweet talk a small business owner into supporting the revolution in any genuine way while remaining in their class position. Struggle where you can, but never get your hopes up.
Lastly, I don't think there's ever been a consistent communist position on drugs beyond "the masses should be clear-headed while decisions need to be made". I certainly don't know of anyone who has advocated that communists not "engage" with anyone who partakes in drug usage, especially since that's not an internally cohesive group in any meaningful way when you investigate it. What drugs are done is different along class lines, but drug usage has been shown to be a pretty universal practice across all class strata, maybe somewhat more prevalent among the bourgeois classes. It would be obviously meaningPost too long. Click here to view the full text.


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After withdrawal of SDF | Members and families of IS*IS smuggled from Al-Hawl Camp
Al-Hawl Camp in Al-Hasakah countryside witnessed organized smuggling operations of ISIS members and families after the withdrawal of SDF from the camp that has held ISIS cells for many years, after the “International Coalition” forces refused demands of SDF to interfere to stop the attacks by local armed groups of the Syrian authority on the vicinity of the camp. According to local SOHR sources, smuggling networks took advantage of the security chaos and withdrawal of SDF to smuggle detaineea through several routes.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/376653/

Jerusalem churches denounce Christian Zionism as betrayal of faith
Christians made up around 12.5 percent of the population of historic Palestine before 1948, compared with roughly 1.2 percent today across Israel and the occupied territories. During the war on Gaza, churches were repeatedly bombed and at least 44 Palestinian Christians were killed, according to the committee. Zionist organisations, some of them funded by the Israeli government, including Ataret Cohanim, continue efforts to take control of church-owned properties near the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, close to the Christian and Armenian quarters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/jerusalem-churches-accuse-zionism-hijacking-christianity

Sadr urges Iraqi factions to set aside differences as 'great danger' looms from Syria
Sadr called on political parties to focus on what he described as mounting dangers, warning of severe consequences if divisions persist. “Leave your conflicts and your competition over this fleeting world… and pay attention to the dangers surrounding you… for neither God nor history will have mercy on you,” he said, as he appealed for unity amid regional instability.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/180120261

Museveni’s son threatens Bobi Wine after Uganda election
Uganda’s General Muhoozi Kainerugaba issued the threat on Tuesday just daysPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US justice department subpoenas Minnesota Democrats accused of impeding ICE efforts
A copy of a subpoena to the office of the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, obtained by the Guardian, requests guidance and policies related to immigration enforcement in Minnesota since last year. It also requests communication regarding those policies with other state agencies, as well as documents related to “hindering, doxxing, identifying, or surveilling immigration officers”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/minnesota-democrats-subpoenas-justice-department

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and US Sen. Bernie Sanders rally with nurses on ninth day of strike
The democratic socialists, speaking to a boisterous crowd of nurses in front of Mount Sinai West on the Upper West Side, called on hospital executives to return to the negotiating table to resolve the contract impasse that prompted some 15,000 nurses to walk off the job last week.
https://apnews.com/article/nursing-strike-new-york-bernie-sanders-mayor-mamdani-c6a23222b6275c553e78d033994a5a79

‘It Has to Stop’: Minnesota Police Chief Says Off-Duty Cops Racially Profiled by ICE
“In Brooklyn Park, one particular officer who shared her story with me was stopped as she passed ICE going down the roadway,” Bruley continued. “They demanded her paperwork, [but] she is a US citizen, and clearly would not have any paperwork. When she became concerned about the rhetoric and the way she was being treated she pulled out her phone in an attempt to record the incident. The phone was knocked out of her hands.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-racial-profiling

ICE arrests elderly, underdressed Hmong-American man inside his St. Paul home over mistaken identity, family says
The family of the man taken from the home, Chongly Scott Thao, says it was a case of mistaken identity. In an online fundraiser, they say ICE agents broke down the door, entered with weapons drawnPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

What lies ahead in 2026?
As 2026 gets underway, British capitalism is entering another year in its long-running decline and disarray. This isn’t just a rough patch. Economic weakness, institutional decay, and social malaise are converging. Together they point to a system that has reached its limits. As the management committee of this broken system, the Starmer government is hated. But the anger goes deeper than just the government. The authority of Britain’s major institutions has collapsed. The police, the monarchy, the BBC, the courts, Parliament itself – none command any real respect. What’s striking is that the distrust comes from the left and right. The right sees ‘two-tier policing’ and a biased media; the left sees repression and corruption. All see the economic crisis and falling living standards. And increasing numbers draw the conclusion that these institutions are not neutral, competent, or legitimate. Westminster’s two-party system is now finished. Historically, Britain’s electoral system produced stable governments by rotating power between two large parties that could both, when push came to shove, be trusted to defend the interests of British capitalism. That arrangement is now breaking down.
https://communist.red/what-lies-ahead-in-2026/

“Bolivia Is Not for Sale”
“Fuerza, fuerza, fuerza! Fuerza, compañeros!” bellowed a man in a miner’s helmet into a megaphone. Marching through the sun-drenched streets in the haze of noisy firecrackers, thousands of miners, workers, peasants, civil society associations, and indigenous organizations in Bolivia descended on the city of La Paz earlier this month in the biggest social mobilization in at least five years. Beyond the city, road blockades led by union locals brought transport to a near standstill across the country. In the streets, the mantra was “Bolivia no se vende” (Bolivia is not for sale). The mass protests against the executive decree of newly elected Rodrigo Paz’s conservative government lasted nearly a month. While presented as the elimination of the fuel subsidy, which keeps gasoline prices artificially low, Decree 5503 would have also privatized key natural resources and implemented a wide range of austerity measures. The impressive display of workers’ might, combined with an effective negotiation strategy by the traPost too long. Click here to view the full text.


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What do you think about rightoids who idolize autocracies and isolationism like Juche?
They have been pushing for a multi-polar world and I have definitely seen rightoids that idolize centralized governments, mainly Russia but also places like North Korea and Juche for being self relying and so on.
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>>2657420
even fucking CNN states it but people here still believe communism is democratic so its *gotta* be about "the majority"

>muh haz
idk how that retard can correctly point out skilled professionals have vastly different material interests to proles and then say shit like "uhhh baristas arent proles bc uhhhhhhh purple hair"

There is no cohesive observable ideological core for the MIGA movement. It's a tool to control the cattle.
On top it's imperialism, on the bottom the tune changes every 5 minutes. One second it's "globalism sucks", the second "we invaded a country and kidnapped its president, and we're supporting regime change on the other side of the world, and we're sending more weapons to Israel"

>>2657422
>even fucking CNN states it
Maybe, just maybe, the fact that you agree with CNN, the libest of all lib outlets, that working class = white people without four year degrees, is a sign that you don't actually know shit about Marxian class relations and should probably study up.

>skilled professionals have vastly different material interests to proles
The labor aristocracy is still a segment of the proletariat. A programmer might have a higher quality of life than a factory worker, but at a fundamental level, they're both exploited by the bourgeois in the exact same way. Working class, in the context of Marxian economics, does not mean "poor person", it means anyone who provides a product or a service to an employer who then profits off said good or service. Poverty is an effect of this relationship, not a cause, and starts affecting more and more people further up the pecking order the more emboldened the bourgeois becomes and the further capitalism advaces.

>>2657420
why do you think the working class is comprised exclusively of white people

>>2657464
I don't. CNN sure does though.


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Can someone tell me about whether there are classes inside the proletariat other than the lumpenproletariat, the labor aristocracy, and the managerial class? Is there a pyramid for it? Is there a similar differentiation on the classes constituting the bourgeoisie? What'd the lower middle class be defined, as a term? Can someone tell me more about the view on the middle class in general?
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>>2642553
A Neuro surgeon did go to school for ten years and has to deal with a lot of bullshit even in the medical field to actually practice and adheres to strict practice or loses the medical license. So they cannot competitively be called bourgeois as we understand the term. They don't even necessarily own capital. They're just highly paid (because they're a fucking surgeon) and it's an overall reputable job that gets you lots of pussy and praise.

There's nothing wrong with calling someone privileged. You can be privileged without being bourgeois.

>>2657285
>they invested absurd amounts of money to become a professional who is so highly sought after theyd have to be incredibly stupid to suffer unemployment…… so that means they CANT be petit bourgeois (??)
lmfao ofc its a retard with a christcuck flag posting dumb garbage

>They don't even necessarily own capital
they earn stupidly high wages which lets them acquire assets you fat fucking retard

>You can be privileged without being bourgeois
the proletariat is immiserated and the bourgeous includes the petit bourgeois you braindead dipshit

why is everyone here a stupid amerilard bro. its incredible. nothing but bullshit after bullshit

>>2657272
>>2657285
>>2657293
Liberals - because they are bleeding hearts for democracy - just lump everyone into the proletariat because they think communism is about the "masses". Like, watch them go "uhh, actually bureaucrats are proletariat too since they don’t own the means of production."

Where would you put an engineer in the oil industry who oversees projects, makes three figures a year, has large shares in the company, has a pension fund and private healthcare? Is it by accident that they will vote for parties that cater to the oil industry? Cue some academic quackery about how they're literally brainwashed and not simply following their class interests.

The petty bourgeois is a constantly decaying class that has very easily spotted positions in society and in industry. Only here is this remotely controversial.

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>>2657285
Someone who earns a salary high enough to begin accumulating assets is very obviously not a reserveless wage-labourer.

Leaving Marxological justifications aside for a moment, do you really think that someone who works at an office and can look forward to having a nice career, eventually being able to buy a home etc. has the same immediate interests and need for association as someone working in a factory? The former obviously enjoys a position of relative security. The fact that home ownership gives people a stake in the stability of society is widely known to governments and policymakers. You can even find people like Peter Thiel talking about it openly.

That isn't to say that homeownership automatically makes someone petty bourgeois or that one becomes petty bourgeois only when one buys a home, but you have to take factors like this into consideration. A student who takes a minimum wage job but can expect to make 200k after finishing university is also not a proletarian in any meaningful sense of the term.

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>>2642530
>>2642553
>>2642561
>>2643609
>>2657293
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>>2657306
I'm glad to know leftypol has the same level of class analysis as CNN.


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SO LONG, SPACE COWBOYS

Recent news:
Keep in mind the previous thread lasted months, so these events are separated by weeks.

Suwayda conflict basically freezes.
Minor clashes between SDF & STG.
STG attempts to capture Omar Omson, the leader of a French foreign Islamist faction accused of kidnapping women, at his base in Idlib countryside. They fail and come to a truce.
More clashes between SDF & STG.
Small anti-Alawite pogrom in Homs caused by the murder of two Sunnis there, despite STG investigation revealing that there was no sectarian motive to the murder.
Protests by Alawites in the coastal region in response to the pogrom. Multiple deaths among protestors, counter-protestors and STG security forces.
Multiple deaths among US soldiers during a joint STG-US patrol in Palmyra. The attacker infiltrated and was a part of the STG's MoI and was with the patrol.
The STG-SDF conflict escalates. SDF agrees to withdraw from Deir Hafer in exchange for a ceasefire, but the STG & tribal auxiliaries keep advancing despite the ceasefire. Revolts by Arab tribes inside of the SDF and them losing a lot of territory makes them sign an integration agreement that basically amounts to capitulation.

Links:
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tl:dr kurds get fucked. we don't need you anymore now that we have jolani. integrate and stop being a nuisance or die

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>>2657120
>I'm pro Iraqi genocide
Shia v shia isn't genocide, dimwit.

>>2657150
they are the wrong kind of muslim

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>>2657166
Who? What?

You posted a statement by a US cumrag and moved the goal post 10 times since.

Take the L as your mother takes my D

NEW

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>>2657193

>>2657193


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I've come to the conclusion that right wingers (especially American ones) are completely indifferent to the idea of them or anyone they care about being killed. You might see them fearmongering about it every time there's a minority in the news for doing something violent, but they react that way any time a minority is in the news for any reason, good or bad. Or on TV at all. Or even just out on the street. It's the fact that they're forced to be reminded that minorities exist at all that is truly making them lash out.

Conversely, when a cishet white person kills someone, even if it's someone they allege to care about, they shrug their shoulders and think nothing of it. White guy shot my husband? Well it wasn't a trans so I don't really care anymore. White guy shooting citizens in their cars without consequence? Whatever, at least I see fewer brown people outside. My own child dies because I didn't get them vaccinated against measles? Well, that was my decision, and I'm white, so who cares? Half my family drowns or starves because the president tricked me into refusing disaster aid? Why should I care, rich white people can do whatever they want! And don't even get me started on their military cuckoldry fixation.

What do you even call this phenomenon? Psychopathy? Extreme NPC Syndrome? It's hard to even believe that people like this are real, let alone such a large percentage of the population.
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Death is scary though

Yes they did not fear death, where do you think the day of the dead came from?

>>2655428
Indeed. Inca was a young empire with tributary relations with communities, which communities already had tradition of communal labor obligations and communal system before empire. It's legit.

>>2655434
Life is worse.

>>2655428
That's just a quote from the article he's responding to, which talks about the Day of the Dead celebration they are participating in. He uses this to make a broader point about the Amerindian civilizational culture, specifically the Inca

>We have taken this article from an Italian children’s comic just as it is and under its own title. It is one of countless rehashes of U.S. “cultural” production which pass from tabloid to tabloid and from review to review without the hacks in service noticing anything other than the degree of effect of each piece that circulates. This umpteenth copycat has not even dreamt of the deeper meaning that its diffusion hides, albeit in a conventionally conformist guise.
>The noble Mexican population, having become Catholic under the merciless terror of the Spanish invaders, would show that they have remained “primitive” by not being terrified and horrified of death.

>If under the guise of the squalid Catholic saints the most ancient form of a not-inhuman divinity, like the Sun, continues to live, this brings to mind what knowledge we have — all too often a travesty! — of the Incan civilization that Marx admired. It is not that they were primitive and ferocious enough to sacrifice the most beautiful specimens of their young to the Sun who cried out for human blood, but that such a community, magnificent and powerfully intuitive, recognised the flow of life in that same energy which the Sun radiates on the planet and which flows through the arteries of a living man, and which becomes unity and love in the whole species, which, until it falls into the superstition of an individual soul with its sanctimonious balance sheet of give and take, the superstructure of monetary venality, does not fear death and knows personal death as nothing other than a hymn of joy and a fecund contribution to the life of humanity.

This is when he starts talking about primitive communism and shit. Which makes sense, because they were the ones sacrificing the "most beautiful specimens of their young", not this little tribe by the lake where they dress up for day of the dead

>>2655472
>life is worse
Explain. Also, how does one learn to not fear death and precarity? (Inb4 muh voluntarism)


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The absolute state of the discourse on this board lately is pathetic. It’s almost 2026 and I’m still seeing "socialists" parroting CIA talking points like they’re reading from the Black Book of Communism. It’s time to filter the radlibs and the ultras who care more about moral purity than winning.

If we actually apply historical materialism instead of utopian wish-casting, it becomes obvious that Stalin and Deng aren't just "good" – they are the two greatest practitioners of Marxism in history because they did what Western leftists refuse to do: they prioritized the survival of the revolution over the approval of the bourgeoisie.

1. Stalin: The Shield
Stop crying about "authoritarianism" and read Losurdo. His Critique of a Black Legend completely exposes how the "millions dead" narrative is just recycled Nazi war propaganda that the West adopted during the Cold War. The "Holodomor" wasn't a genocide; it was a combination of kulak sabotage and cyclical drought that the Soviets eventually ended through collectivization. Stalin understood that you don't survive capitalist encirclement with good vibes. He took a country of wooden plows and turned it into a nuclear superpower in a single generation. He purged the fifth columnists because he knew a war of annihilation was coming. Without that "authoritarianism," the Wehrmacht would have wiped the Slavs off the map.

2. Deng: The Sword
The hate for Deng is even more embarrassing. You guys claim to care about the poor but hate the man who oversaw the greatest poverty alleviation program in human history? Deng understood that "poverty is not socialism." He developed the productive forces necessary to compete with the West. And regarding 1989: He saved China from the fate of the USSR. Tiananmen was a textbook color revolution, backed by Western NGOs and intelligence. Deng saw Gorbachev selling out to Pizza Hut and realized that sometimes you have to crush a counter-revolution to preserve the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Because he had the spine to do that, China is now mogging the US economy while Russia spent the 90s getting looted by oligarchs.

TL;DR
Parenti said it best in Blackshirts and Reds: you people want a revolution without a revolution. You want a clean, safe process that never makes mistakes and never exercises power. That doesn't exist. Stalin secured the state; Deng secured the economy. If you reject them, you’re not Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>2647795
Don’t forget Franco, Juan peron and joe Biden

>>2647795
But they didn't alleviate poverty, though. Americans remained poor until Marshall Plan. ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler both failed to alleviate poverty, too

>>2629216
>Luxembourg, Panenkoek, Bordiga
Their legacy is 12 belgian boys and 3 art hoes.

>>2656667
clearly it's bigger than that since leftchads own leftypol and the brains of thousands of mls

>>2656816
Being very annoying and retarded doesn't mean you own anyone's brain anon, Im so so sorry to break it to you


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What you should know about the Syrian government-SDF truce agreement
A central pillar of the ceasefire deal revolves around the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces into Syrian state institutions. Under the truce deal, SDF fighters and security personnel are to be individually vetted before being integrated into Syria’s defence and interior ministries. Civilian institutions that were previously administered by branches of the SDF are also stipulated to be absorbed into state structures, per the agreement. Al-Sharaa said that the current ceasefire plan remains in line with the 10 March agreement, which called for the integration of all civil and military institutions to be under the control of Damascus.
https://www.newarab.com/news/explainer-what-know-about-syrian-government-sdf-truce

ISIL fighters flee jail as Syrian army clashes with Kurdish-led SDF
The Syrian Operations Authority also told SANA that control of the al-Aqtan prison and security facilities in the city northeast of Raqqa would be assumed by the Ministry of Interior following the operation, and claimed that the SDF had deliberately released ISIL members. The army did not say how many fighters had been released from the prison. The SDF said in a statement that it had lost control of the prison after an attack by the army, a claim that the military has denied.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/19/isil-fighters-flee-jail-as-syrian-army-clashes-with-kurdish-led-sdf
https://archive.ph/ZULKx

Iran suspends reformist newspaper Ham-Mihan over protest coverage
The first was an editorial by Ruh titled "From January 1979 to January 2026", published in the issue on 16 January 2026. The second was an article by Laleh Mohammadi titled "When the sanctity of treatment collapses", published in the issue on 8 January 2026. The article featured on the front page under the headline "The story of hospitals from Ilam to Sina". It also accused security and police forces of attacking hospitals during the protests.
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Judge refuses to block new DHS policy limiting Congress members’ access to ICE facilities
Cobb said she wasn’t ruling on whether the new policy passes legal muster. Rather, she said, plaintiffs’ attorneys representing several Democratic members of Congress used the wrong “procedural vehicle” to challenge it. The judge also concluded that the Jan. 8 policy is a new agency action that isn’t subject to her prior order in the plaintiffs’ favor.
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-shooting-congress-visit-ice-5eb6749b18d59ed8c47b5eeab9784432

Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline
One month after this deadline mandated by Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act, however, Trump’s justice department has not complied with this law, prompting questions about when – and whether – authorities will ever release investigative documents about the late sex offender.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/jeffrey-epstein-files-unreleased-trump-doj

DOJ says won’t investigate ICE agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Good
Speaking to Fox News on Sunday night, Blanche said the civil rights unit of the Justice Department would not bow to pressure to investigate the shooting death of Minneapolis resident and mother Good, 37, earlier this month. “We don’t just go out and investigate every time an officer is forced to defend himself against somebody,” said Blanche. “We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate.” “So, no, we are not investigating. And if there comes a time when we need to, we will, but it’s not now,” Blanche added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/19/doj-says-wont-investigate-ice-agents-fatal-shooting-of-renee-good
https://archive.ph/Gn9ix

DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor
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BONUS - I Want My M(amdani)TV (Chapo Trap House)
Over the holiday, Will and Chris caught up with Donald Borenstein, Andrew Epstein and Debbie Saslaw of the Mamdani media team to discuss how their video and online strategy helped win the campaign’s stunning victory. We look at their team’s success as the result of years of NYC organizing, how the candidate’s principles and policy informed the media strategy, the right and wrong lessons on political communication from their campaign, and the bizarre outsider art of Adams & Cuomo’s video output. PLUS: production, editing, color grading & gear talk for all you A/V heads.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-i-want-my-mamdanitv

CP of Greece, Mass event at the Athens University of Economics and Business: Solidarity is our weapon–The people of Venezuela will win!
Following the mobilizations that unfolded from the very first moment of the imperialist intervention in Venezuela, members and friends of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) from universities in Athens gathered on Thursday, 15 January, at the Athens University of Economics and Business for an event in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and, more broadly, with the struggles of the peoples worlwide. At the opening of the event, KNE members formed the slogan “Solidarity with the people of Venezuela” using pickets inside the packed amphitheatre where the event was held, while chanting slogans in solidarity with the struggles of the peoples. The event was attended by Themis Gionis, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-Mass-event-at-the-Athens-University-of-Economics-and-Business-Solidarity-is-our-weaponThe-people-of-Venezuela-will-win/

Toronto Is Segregating Dissent
The mainstream media and political response to these incursions into a Jewish neighborhood was swift, framing synagogues as being targeted. This account omitted two critical facts: first, that protests targeted secular commercial rPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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It doesn't matter if everyone has to wear red on Tuesdays, or sing Maoist songs at their workplaces. So long as everyone does it there's no material consequences. The moment actions start to change the material conditions of man, or the structure of power they become significant. Is there room any longer for: peace, freedom, equity, and fairness? Spooks. The moral principles and value to institutions which have made our social fabric have run their course. Only power and material conditions remain.

>Tuesdayism
>Maoistism
>consequencism
>actionism
>changism
>significantism
>spookism
>moralism
>principleism
>valueism
>institutionism
>socialfabricism
>remainism
readism marxism

>>2643767
Define for me power materially

>>2644048
Your five words have tied me in a bit of a knot. These two forces were intentionally distinguished from one another, but perhaps this was wrong, and power is empty without material implications.

Trying to untangle this knot, I've run into several problems. The most significant is thinking in terms of there being things which rather than being materially inconsequential are in fact immaterial. Spooks.

So you can debate whether or not hate speech legislation is material consequential, is it enough, but you can't debate if it's material. Or that there's something like an immaterial power. This should have been obvious.

The second mistake is the idea that potential to use force (the monopoly on violence) is the same as using it, and what the implications of this are? Potentials are empirically immaterial - an immaterial power. So there's nothing special about threats except that they might elicit a reaction with material consequences.

>>2644136
>Potentials are empirically immaterial - an immaterial power. So there's nothing special about threats except that they might elicit a reaction with material consequences.
To put this most clearly, it's only that material implications of the removal of arbitrary threats of violence by coordinated threats of violence that would implicate the validity of its removal.

Once you've reject the materially inconsequential, how do you structure the remaining space of material consequences?

My instinct is to go against suffering, allowing for some in "skillful means" to reduce suffering.


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