/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>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.

Up up

Interesting. Do you have any secure email?

>>2648621
this might sound retarded, but why not unite all comrades of Latin America for a wider class struggle?

like I always seem to hear about these 1000 different paramilitary groups who are mostly ML but gang why not unite?

Big if true.

my bf doesn't like the idea of me going and i tend to agree even tho you'll probably do mostly training drills til it's not sustainable anymore for either party, which is fine, it's also probably the best case scenario.

i'm gonna have to sit this one out because i don't wanna make my family worried at this point in my life but i hope ya'll come out alright and honestly have a good one in general, tell us cool stories without revealing anything important when you're back or if you have a chance to log back in after awhile.

>>2655957
>implying authentic eastern buddhist monks aren't also rapists
>don't ask teh dalai llama about sucking tongues
Buddhism doesn't adhere as a whole to the dalai llama, buddhism isn't even a united "religion" its more like hinduism with several hundread different sects, routes, offshoots, lineages, teachings and whatnot often contradicting eachother.
These pics doesn't even illustrate the full extent of it.

>>2655957
>>2656049
For reference most of the largest buddhist schools and traditions do not follow the tongue sucker:
Theravada Buddhism (Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia)
Zen Buddhism (Primarily in Japan, Korea, China where it originated as Chan Buddhism, and Vietnam as Thiền)
Nichiren Buddhism (Japan)
Pure Land Buddhism (East Asia broadly, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam)
Shingon / Esoteric Buddhism (Japan)
Drukpa Kagyu Buddhism (Bhutan)
These are just a few examples that don't follow or endorse the tongue sucker who is part of Tibetian Buddhism, and even within Tibetian Buddhism there are many sects which don't approve of him.

>>2656049
He's still correct. It used to be so common that it was a meme that western hippies would go to India or Thailand or whatever to learn le eastern wisdom and end up getting scammed or raped by their guru.

>>2656138
>goes to poo throwing festival village
>gets poo thrown on face
<HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED TO ME?????
Jai shri ram

Faith belongs to the proles

>>2655155
I’ll have a read of them

>>2655112
Is he a liberal Zionist I’ve met the guy and he seemed genuine and I know he literally called Hamas courageous heroes or something to that effect on October seventh

Hakim

>>2655172
No Pappé isn't a liberal zionist, they're chatting shit or just mean 'jewish' because he is incredibly, incredibly basedman.

>>2656095
Cuckim is a pisslamist crypto baathist dog (average ML)

Tankies should've predicted the fall of neoliberal shitholes like Syria and Venezuela

>>2655499
There's a difference there in that Ba'athist Syria with Russian support were on the defence against a foreign coup and that's why Anarchists and libs hate them, mistaking the coup attempt as popular radical dissent that the US is merely backing, either out of benevolence for libs or, for anarchists, the belief that the US will think they're coup'ing Assad (or whomever else) but ackshually Rojava (or whomever else) is going to exploit the situation and snatch victory away from the US.

Tankies supporting le authoritarian dick-tatorships aren't promising anything, they're not manufacturing consent for "something better" in the short term for a specific nation, what you see is what you get.

>>2655541
They did though, it's just people in neoliberal gardens where nothing ever happens called them tankies and to kill themselves

>>2655499
>russia hung assad out to dry
assad is living safely in moscow, always hated ruling syria, and has gone back to medical school, this time in opthalmology.

>>2655430
Threadly reminder that there are more Tankies than Anarchists In NE Syria.

>>2655689
Why exactly do you think adventurist martyrdom would accomplish this?

>>2655691
when you nail him down he just throws out wild accusations until one of them successfully baits you into arguing back. he's trying to bait you into changing the subject. just stop replying.

>>2655691
You live in the blowing up children capital of the world, where you enjoy the spoils afforded to you by children getting blown up. When people say "stop doing the things that enable the blowing up of children", you shit your pants, because you're an accomplice.
>>2655693
One less american taxpayer to fund bombs for blowing up children

>>2655704
You live in fucking Germany, hypocrite. You think they don’t suck IDF cock?

>>2655031
Not sure if parody or not 10/10

>>2654900
I know, but they're inconsequential anon. There might be a few "leftists" in Israel (imo their primary concern as leftists should be to get the fuck out of there, but whatever), but there is no "Israeli left"

Born to late to experience the first socialist revolutions, born to early the experience the next revolutionary socialist wave, born right in the era of the blackest reaction

>>2654890
This isn't feudalism, it could be a slave economy, or maybe capitalism. It is too vague of a definition.
Anon, please start reading theory.

>>2654925
Frankly you are being a pedant, because you know what I mean, you are beholden to rich powerful interests.

>>2654920
Just as the Frankfurt School reimagined the left, I think it falls on us to do this same thing now. In regards in particular to places like Chins.

Clashes around Aqtan prison. It also seems that the US coalition has arrived in the area, probably to make sure the prisoners don't escape.

Abdi's in Damascus.

>>2654998
Arab cope map lmao

Hesen Şero: Gang cells want to stir up trouble in Cizîr.
Militant groups affiliated with the interim government in Damascus are continuing their attacks on the prison located between the cities of Raqqa and Shaddadi, where ISIS militants are being held.

Hesen Şero, Co-Chair of the Executive Council of the Cizîr Canton Autonomous Administration, stated in his statement regarding the issue that the ceasefire was clearly violated by the militia groups affiliated with the Interim Government of Damascus, and that clashes were continuing, especially in Şedadê.

Hesen Şero stated that numerous gang cells affiliated with the Provisional Government of Damascus were attempting to stir up trouble in the Cizîr Canton.

Police attacked the march in Amed, and resistance spread throughout the city.
A march was planned to protest the attacks by HTS and other militia groups, supported by the Turkish state, against Northern and Eastern Syria.
The march, which was attended by Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chairs Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar and Keskin Bayındır, as well as representatives of political parties and civil society organizations and numerous citizens, was blocked by the police.
Following this, the public marched from the Human Rights Monument in Koşuyolu Park, chanting slogans.
While some citizens fainted during the police's use of tear gas, the protest continued in different locations.
Young people who gathered in the city's side streets also continued their marches. The protests are continuing in scattered groups on many streets and avenues of Amed (Diyarbakır).

SDF: Shaddad Prison has been released from the control of our forces
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>Letter of Imam Khomeini,

>The Great Leader of the Islamic Revolution and Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran,

>To President Mikhail Gorbachev, Leader of the Soviet Union

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Your Excellency Mr. Gorbachev1, Chairman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

With due wishes for the happiness and prosperity of Your Excellency and the people of the Soviet Union.

Since your assumption of office there has been the impression that Your Excellency, in analyzing world political events, particularly those pertaining to the Soviet Union, have found yourself in a new era of reassessment, change, and confrontation; and your boldness and initiative in dealing with the realities of the world is quite likely to bring about changes that would result in upsetting the equations of power dominating the world. I have therefore found it necessary to bring certain matters to your attention.

Even if your new approach and decisions are merely used as a means to overcome the party crisis, and to solve some of the problems confronting your people, your courage in reappraising a school of thought that has for decades enchained the revolutionary youth of the world behind its iron curtain is indeed worthy of praise. If, however, you are considering taking a further step forward, the first thing that will ensure your success is that you re-evaluate your predecessors’ policy of obliterating God and religion from society2, a policy that has no doubt given the heaviest blow to the Soviet people. Rest assured that this is the only way whereby world problems can be dealt with realistically.
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Peak leftist"com" moment right here: >>2563161

Read Bordiga.

Way to screw over The Republic of Nicaragua

>Uncritical support
Stopped reading.

Uncritical support is for (and I mean this in its proper medical definition) retards. No exceptions.

>>2563041
>chinese triad operated casino resorts
..you mean deus ex didn't make that part up?

third parteis have no chance because the system had made it impossible for them to prosper, the only way a third party might win is by being funded by a billionaire.

Anyways, i dont vote at all

no i didn't notice because i'm not american
now get the fuck back to your containment thread

>>2652012
French and greek people called, they want to smack some sense into your bitch ass

>>2651997
>Honestly, what the fuck are Amerifats even doing?
Honestly real

Despite the fact that the two parties are currently very strongly merged with the state and getting a third party on ballot or getting past gerrymandering and voter suppression can be very hard, that could be changed if we started at a state level and worked up. The truth is a successful enough third party would be able to win and trigger a split between the legislative and executive branches (which is already underway anyways surprisingly) and likely bring up much more fundamental issues of state power being being beholden to the bourgeoisie in more sinister ways. Fundamentally our elected representatives don't hold real power, the deep state, which consists of unelected officials, the permanent members of the military, the supreme court, police, the bourgeois media, bourgeois think tanks, private security, and three letter agencies, holds power.

If we had a communist party that didn't tail democrats, that focused on studying the issues important to working class people and finding the solution that's in our best interests, and went door to door popularizing their policy positions and building alternative media based on face to face interactions, they could likely become a huge presence. Instead they do other shit, god knows why

I was told we should not engage in bourgeois politics and elections.