/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

does anybody here know where i can find online english translations of the works of Camilo Torres Restrepo? it doesn't seem to be available on Marxists.org and i can't find anywhere i can buy them from.

I was told by someone on here that in order to be a Communist, I must "believe" in "Free Will." Somehow, I doubt this is truly a prerequisite, but if it really is the case, then so be it.

Before getting into "Free Will," there is no good evidence that human beings possess an immaterial “soul” that thinks, chooses, or survives bodily death. All available evidence indicates that what we have hitherto called a “person,” is an activity of a living brain in a living body. Mental states reliably track brain states; damage the brain and you damage memory, personality, judgment, and agency; destroy it entirely and the person disappears. No additional essence remains.

Human brains are biological systems governed by physical law. They are extraordinarily complex, adaptive, and self-modeling, which produces the powerful subjective experience and outward appearnce of "authorship" and "choice," but nothing in neuroscience suggests that brains initiate actions independently of prior physical causes. Also, introducing indeterminism or randomness does not rescue “free will” in the libertarian sense, since randomness adds noise, rather than control.

The popular notion of "Free Will" as an uncaused, self-originating power of the "soul" or of the brain, in more secular accounts of "Free Will," is therefore unsupported. What exists instead are constrained decision-making processes embedded in biology, development, and environment. Responsibility is not metaphysical; it is a social practice invented and enforced by humans to shape behavior while brains are still alive and responsive to incentives.

There is no evidence that accountability survives death. When the brain permanently ceases to function, the person is gone. What remains is matter, not an observing subject.

These conclusions are not radical inventions of modern science. The dependence of mind on the condition of the brain has been observable since antiquity through injury, disease, and degeneration, and has been progressively clarified by advances in biology, chemistry, and physics. What is new is not the insight itself, but the precision.

Resistance to these conclusions is understandable. They undermine comforting narratives of cosmic justice, personal exceptionality, and ultimate moral reckoning. Many cultures have developed religious and metaphysical systems that posit souls, absolute free wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The contemporary Right, in the form in which it exists today, did not emerge organically but was shaped through several distinct historical reconstructions.
Twentieth-century National Socialism, while not inventing the Right as such, left a deep imprint on later radical and far-right movements, especially in terms of political myth, symbolism, and methods of mass mobilization.
In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, figures such as Paul Gottfried helped reframe and rebrand parts of the post-conservative Right, coining concepts like “alt-right” and popularizing the narrative of “cultural Marxism.”
These ideas were then further transformed within online subcultures, including transnational internet spaces, where Western far-right discourse intersected with Japanese nationalist, aesthetic, and media influences, before being consolidated in the Western internet ecosystem.

Prisons have always fascinated me. They have thier own culture, their own laws, their own food, their own factions, their own politics, their own commodities even, yes, for example there are drugs that are harder to find on the outside than in certain prisons.
Honestly I wonder why don't we actively encourage people to go to prison and just tell them prisons are good? It is true for a lot of places. And we can flood the prisons to a point where most of the population is imprisoned. The country with the highest prison population is none other than the U.S.A. with over 1,8 million prisioners. Thats more prisioners than a lot of countries' populations.

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>J Stein - I Didn't Kill Myself edition

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How do Stalin-hating Leninists cope with the fact that all of the mass immigration into capitalist countries that Lenin supported due to "progressive potential" has not actually succeeded in breaking down national barriers and uniting the working masses against international bourgeoisie?
In fact the opposite happened. Workers became divided among each other and the bourgeoisie class has strengthened. On top of that, it was now proven that multi culturalism was a failure that only serves to help fuel the rise of reactionary ideologies.

Marx understood this, he even expelled Chinese workers from the international proletarian movement when they flooded the British labor market.

That face when all the european right wing parties are in the epstein files…

When will all the AfD and Aurchuds kill themselves? How retarded can the working class get?

As I understand, Sartre is in opposition to Marx when it comes to how he views the individual. For him, the individual is condemned to be free, which contradicts the marxist historicism and dialectical movement.
However, he tries to come back to Marx through his book "critique of the dialectic".
Anybody QRD ? I'm interested in learning more about him. I've only read "Is existentialism a humanism ?" and mainly viewed it as midwit philosophy that reduces everything to human agency. Am I missing something ?

here's a chat i had with a coworker
>[some unimportant convo but we get to the point of 'what has to be done' regarding the obvious crisis le western world is in]
<me: yeah I think we need a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat, we need to smash the bourgeois state and establish a worker's republic and expropriate the expropriators
>cw: w-what? b-but that's communism? 100 gorillion vuvuzela etc
<me: the bourgeoisie and their historians are degenerate retarded pedophiles financing every political tendency under the sun (liberalism, fascism, anarchism) except communism and have been lying about everything and you want to tell me they are correct about communism?
>cw: well.. uhm.. huh… uhhhh
<me: read marx bla bla [epic propaganda time]
Why don't you do this? Why don't organizations take a stand against the falsification of history? Am I the only one that thinks 'historical nihilism' is a bad idea? I think the western left is deeply historically nihilist.