/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I’m getting really fucking sick of the Palestine Movement’s obsession with “celebrity” activists and how much it prioritizes these western activists over actual Palestinians.

All the time on social media I see incidents of sone western activist living in America losing their job for speaking out against Zionism and then proceed to raise $20,000+ through a GoFundMe account in response. All of that money could have been better spent by being directly given to Palestinian families in Gaza who lost everything because if the genocide, or at the very least organizations with a good reputation for helping Palestinians in Palestine. Western activists will survive without your $100 donation, Palestinian families in Gaza won’t.

Tgis obsession with propping up the personalities of “activist celebrities” is one reason the Palestine a movement has become such a clusterfuck. I’m talking about people like Hasan Piker, Greta Thunberg, Chris Smalls, Ms. Rachel, Kehlani, and Vic Mensa to name a few. How about we start focusing on actual Palestinians? The flotilla activists are the same way: they receive so much money and support when they know full well the Zionist authorities won’t let them into Gaza, making the flotillas merely a stunt. Yeah, they were tortured in Zionist prisons but so have thousands of Palestinians who will never have their voices heard in global media.

Or, when Elias Rodriguez goes to trial in a few months you can be sure he’s going to get tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars in legal donations from Palestine activists. Gaza is suffering and yet you think giving money to a guy who will clearly be found guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison is a better use of your funds?

Celebrities and influencers should not be propped up on a pedestal at all but the same thing goes for these “I was fired for saying ‘Free Palestine’, I’m a martyr now, gib munny pls” types. Palestinians should be the ones centred here, not western activists who have made loads of money and clout for being pro-Palestine.

US strikes leave 10,000 Iranians without water as Kuwait desalination plant burns
Bahraini authorities repeatedly sounded air raid sirens, while Kuwaiti forces said they were intercepting incoming missiles and drones. Iranian state media also reported fresh damage to two bridges on the Bandar Abbas-Rudan transport route, while officials said at least eight civilians were killed in Friday's attacks in Hormozgan province. Meanwhile, senior Iranian military official Major-General Mohsen Rezaee said that Tehran would "abandon its restrained military posture" if US attacks continued.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-strikes-leave-10000-iranians-without-water-kuwait-desalination-plant-burns

Two US troops killed and one missing after Iranian attack in Jordan
The US Central Command (Centcom) said four US service members were medically evacuated to hospitals in Jordan but have since been discharged. Others who suffered minor injuries have returned to duty. Jordan's military earlier said it had intercepted 10 Iranian missiles fired into its airspace overnight, without reporting any damage.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8nynv8ze8o

Armed groups attack Malian military convoy in Gao region
Both the regional al-Qaeda affiliate, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), and the separatist Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) claimed responsibility for the attack in separate statements that spoke about “great human losses” and “serious material damage” on the side of the Malian army.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/18/armed-groups-attack-malian-military-convoy-in-gao-region
https://archive.ph/nYGaG

Cuba edges toward breakdown as power cuts and US meddling push society to brink
Ever since 3 January, when the US military abducted President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, Donald Trump has promised Cuba will fall. “Whether I free it, taPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Chinese consumption is entirely reliant on the exploitation of low-wage chinese workers to profuce stuff cheaply to then sell to the west and in 30 years time as as china develops their entire consumption will be based upon the exploitation of low wage workers in developing countries like vietnam and ethiopia to produce stuff cheaply so they can sell that stuff back to their own consumers aswell as the west.
Can someone please explain as to in what capacity china is communist other than their flag? No matter how you twist it they're literally just succdems.

Growing up in my country I constantly read in our textbooks that the British conquered us because they divided us and that this should serve as a reminder that national unity is the only way to avoid foreign domination. But the historical reality doesn't show that.

In most cases the EIC formed alliances with regional rivals and local elites who were acting in their own political and strategic self-interest. These groups were not passive victims manipulated into conflict, they saw cooperation with the British as the best way to advance their own ambitions and often they achieved many of their goals through those alliances.
While I'm thinking primarily about South Asia, the exact same narratives appear is most third world societies. Former colonies often claim they were conquered because the colonizers "divided and conquered" them, implying that major social, political or ethnic divisions either did not exist before colonialism and shouldn't matter now.

I'm curious have socialist historians or theorists argued against the simplified "divide and conquer" narrative or offered a more nuanced explanation of how colonialism relied on alliances with local elites, existing class structures, and pre-existing political conflicts?

Every single marxist-leninist state relies on using reactionary tribalism (nationalism) to maintain societal cohesion as they are utterly incapable of actually creating a unified class consciousnes among the populace.
And if the populace did develop class-consciousness they would quickly overthrow the marxist-leninist state and kill off every single member of the party-bureucrat that ruled over them.

This seems to be one of the best ways to win over normies. Everyone hates these damn things. Taking down a flock cam is now on the same level of widespread approval as shooting a Healthcare CEO, and less likely to get you caught.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7dPwD6Sjg&t

Is late-stage capitalism just the failing rate of profit and the effects it has on the world?

It seems to me this is all it is, capitalists have given up on giving crumbs to the western working class because the rate of profit has fallen and instead seeks out cuts and regulations of any kind to try to sustain surplus as much as possible.

If "late stage capitalism" is real, how do you explain the precipitous drop in inequality in the USA in the 20th century? If we reduced inequality before why can't we do it again?

Why is the Iran war just an air and naval war? Why are ground operations for any of the countries seem impossible?
Also does Trump actually expect to win the war by bombing Iran

On July 16, 2026, driven by severe financial losses and an imminent mass-layoff crisis, heavy overseas Chinese investment (such as British Steel, owned by China's Jingye Group) failed to reach an agreement with the local government after multiple rounds of negotiations. The UK government subsequently pushed through the emergency Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Act 2026 to force the dysfunctional Chinese-owned firm into public ownership (de facto nationalization), effectively stripping the original owners of their economic rights over the Scunthorpe plant.

​On July 17, 2026, China's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued scathing condemnations, labeling the move a "forced expropriation," a "severe infringement on the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises," and "a blatant breach of the China-UK Bilateral Investment Treaty". In response, Beijing explicitly backed Chinese enterprises in resolutely defending their rights through legal avenues, and warned that the move would severely shatter global corporate confidence in the UK's investment environment.
I don't know if you still remember:
In July 2023, due to Western sanctions, a large number of European and American companies (such as Denmark's Carlsberg, France's Danone, and Germany's E.ON) sought to withdraw from Russia. The Russian government subsequently signed presidential decrees transferring the Russian assets of these Western firms—which had refused to operate or could no longer function normally due to sanctions—to temporary state management, and even "selling" them to local pro-government buyers at heavily discounted fire-sale prices.
​In the first half of 2024, Western nations issued fierce condemnations, denouncing such actions as "illegal state theft" and "a flagrant violation of property rights". In retaliation, the European Union and the United States also began drafting legislation to freeze and plan the confiscation of Russia's sovereign central bank assets held in the West.
Looks like that's just how geopolitics works