/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2897111
The ideal is closer to the Paris commune and Marx laid out for Germany

>>2897185
socialism is everything and nothing at the same time. The term has become butchered

>>2897179
> randomly allocate everyone random goods, then allow them to trade them at will
People will view that as a burden and hate it overnight.

>>2897136
>the public are being unreasonable
you can thank Freud's nephew on how to deal with that.

>>2897088
I would classify most of these as misleading. Many of them aren't necessarily outright false, but they depend on intentionally misleading definitions and specific wording. Definitely a quiz with an agenda, and if you search around a bit they just outright spell that out. The goal is to "prove" that westerners think the world is worse than it is. Unfortunately the quiz did nothing to dispel me of the impression that shit is fucked. You can show a lot of untrue things by playing with numbers and words.

>>2897092
Yeah this essentially didn't see this post before I posted this >>2897095

>>2897095
Why do you think people in middle income countries generally think the world isn't fucked and is in fact getting better?

>>2897109
I'm not them, and how are we even defining middle income countries? It probably has to do with recent improvements in their material conditions. Material conditions have been generally improving for most people globally. I think that will soon change.

Moved to >>>/siberia/816873.

this made me a white nationalist bump this

This is too long. I will read it tomorrow. Remind me plox.

shit nobodi cares about

>>2896928
Must've been hard typing this with just one hand

Nonprofit sues over US push to auction areas of water around American Samoa for potential mining
It noted that the U.S. plans to sell leases with the intention of allowing mining across some 33 million acres (13.4 million hectares) of seabed off American Samoa that is rich in minerals including nickel, cobalt and manganese that are used to build batteries, electronics and other products. The lawsuit stated that the U.S. first must ensure that such activity will not destroy critical habitats or push species closer to extinction.
https://apnews.com/article/us-sued-deep-sea-mining-earthjustice-american-samoa-ca8adde08a645e0471a017e98c645836

Senate Democrats question USDA about data errors, staff losses
Six senators, led by Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, sent a ​letter to USDA Deputy Under Secretary Michelle Bekkering seeking details about USDA's data procedures amid growing concerns ​among farmers, grain merchants and investors about market-moving data produced by the agency.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/senate-democrats-question-usda-about-data-errors-staff-losses-2026-08-20/

Man suffered brain injury and severe bruising after ICE arrest in Virginia, records show
José Mejía Hernández, 45, was walking to a bus stop in Arlington on the morning of 11 August when two agents got out of an unmarked vehicle and started chasing him, according to one of his lawyers, Margaret Hellerstein. The man recalled being hit by some kind of stun gun, but did not remember what happened after that, only waking up hours later in the hospital, Hellerstein said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/ice-arrest-brain-injury-virginia

‘It kept adding up’: how add-on utility fees can lead to eviction for tenants
For more affluent tenants, Rubs can be an uPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

(TrueAnon )Episode 571: Drugs and Thugs
We are joined by Jack Poulson to talk about a little-known State Department agency that is sending machine guns to Ukraine, hiring mercenaries in Mexico, and selling AI to Colombia.
Read Covert Action Diplomacy by Jack Poulson (https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/covert-action-diplomacy)
https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/episode-571-and-167200550

AOC and Mamdani Should Stop Throwing the Black Lives Matter Movement Under the Bus
In 2020, a record number of people across the United States took to the streets in the movement for Black lives, demanding justice for George Floyd and victims of police violence. Last week, two of the country’s most popular progressives — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — threw this historic movement under the bus. Speaking to ABC, AOC said that, “Woke 1 was crazy” — a phrase attributed to a tweet by New York City Council member Chi Ossé, referencing his social media posts from 2020. Days later, Mamdani more explicitly repudiated a key demand of the uprising, saying: “I’ve made very clear that I do not believe in defunding the police.” But what’s actually “crazy” is calling yourself a socialist while believing in peaceful coexistence with the police.
https://www.leftvoice.org/aoc-mamdani-woke-1/

( 1995) Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm part 1: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism by Murray Bookchin
This short work was written to deal with the fact that anarchism stands at a turning point in its long and turbulent history. At a time when popular distrust of the state has reached extraordinary proportions in many countries; when the division of society among a handful of opulently wealthy individuals and corporations contrasts sharply with the growing impoverishment of millions of people on a scale unprecedented since the Great Depression decade; when the intensity of exploitation has forced people in growing numbers to accept a work week of a length typical of the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Yes this is an islamo third worldist thread

>>2896698
>global south
When did poor shitholes start calling themselves this? Was being third-worlders too humiliating?

Unironically adopt Shavian.
Shavian.info

english is a fag language that must be destroyed. i am skull face

>>2843382
Wrong. I bet you were all like "tee hee :^)" when posting this too.

English is already being changed by every generation o algo. Now we speak by adding memes bruh and ebonics fo real and gen z slang is being added as well no cap. Its improving every year ya kuch aur.

Lead rhymes with read
Read rhymes with lead
But lead doesn't rhyme with read
Neither does read with lead

>>2892514
That would be Hungary and the Czech Republic

>>2893172
Literally just use AMD

>>2892982
בולבול שחור וגדול

>>2892193
Raid shadow legends has basically jack all fanart or fanfics so you know it's spiritually israeli

>>2896435
source?

>>2896448
>we shouldn't support unions to maintain 8hr work day
Who is saying this?

>>2895962
Based.

>>2896489
?

>>2890834
this is a good sabo post, i was sad (and mad) when you yelled at me for being mean to the burger troops.

neutralpedos are we really posting on here GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG

>>2890803
Delaware also used to be a Swedish colony.

>>2888716
The fact that the America's manufacturing industry is so rent-sought makes me doubt this. The US can't build anything and won't be able to until the current financier class is removed or reigned in.

The avarage american doesn't have anything to do with your shitty turd world culture and low trust society

>>2893413
Read Wang Ming

>>2894815
ok hitler

>>2894908
Credit crisis/inflation/fuel embargo/TOPTF, the crisis in part set the stage for Reaganite make believe anything goes voodoo economics.

>>2893417
> Yeah those corporations didn't compete in a free market
The world was then and has been since the the end of WW2, a socialist world. Socialist as Marx understood it. Yeah because allocation by markets and profitability doesn't matter anymore or matters very little in allocation of production. The allocation of resources is all centrally planned and about if the company useful to the elite and their state apparatus, if they are they can stay and grow and they never even need to be profitable, because they get propped up by the state through various channels and associated insiders, if you are not or you don't matter you just float there and die off with the next economic shock. Markets and profitability don't matter, nor do companies live or die by it. That's why there are multi billion dollar unprofitable companies floating around at the top of the economy. Doesn't look like capitalism to me. It's all just state socialism everywhere with different goals. USSR was just a one big corporation with the goal of ensuring russia's et al. survival, industrializing and expanding productive forces, with the party at the head doing all the same things that a sovereign Russian liberal government would have done in their place, with maybe a small smidgeon of humanity, piece of the pie and dignity left to the workers under communism. Mutt and wider western bourgeoisie socialism is just there to keep the society itself from collapsing, proles down and the old age old families and social order in power. The existing social pyramid is justified with a story of competition in the free market and a thin veneer of pretense capitalism. The meme you people keep falling for.

China and the west look the same because they are the same fundamentally. China just has more economic freedom of movement, less gunk and less intermediate steps, in the systems gears and the elites understand the game better. While the west is in terminal collapse and the ideological bourgeoisie/elite is hellbent in wrecking their systems for the sake of appearances and their own personal appearance of power and of them still being relevant and at the top of the world power instead of accepting reality and reforming politically.

>>2896479
>The world was then and has been since the the end of WW2, a socialist world. Socialist as Marx understood it. Yeah because allocation by markets and profitability doesn't matter anymore or matters very little in allocation of production. The allocation of resources is all centrally planned and about if the company useful to the elite and their state apparatus, if they are they can stay and grow and they never even need to be profitable, because they get propped up by the state through various channels and associated insiders, if you are not or you don't matter you just float there and die off with the next economic shock. Markets and profitability don't matter, nor do companies live or die by it. That's why there are multi billion dollar unprofitable companies floating around at the top of the economy. Doesn't look like capitalism to me. It's all just state socialism everywhere with different goals.

What you call "socialist" in Marxist theory is called monopoly capitalism. Socialism as Marx understands it is when the worker's control the means of production.

In Marxist theory, competition is merely a phase before accumulation takes place. After that comes monopoly capitalism (and imperialism). Your are correct in your analysis that competition is not that important today in capitalism and that everything is controlled by monopolies. But you confuse that with socialism for some reason.

>China and the west look the same because they are the same fundamentally.
You are not qualified to make that determination. You don't even know what socialism is in Marxist theory. China and the west are not the same.