/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

One aspect that was at least somewhat unique to India was that the ruling dynasties of many of these kingdoms were Turko-Persian elites governing a population that was overwhelmingly Hindu, along with a large number of Indian Muslims. The royals generally showed only slightly more tolerance toward the latter, but overall they cared little for either group beyond maintaining their rule.

>>2869847
That's just an excellent example of how colonized societies have their own reactionary ideological complexes that function just as effectively to suppress revolution as any first world treats.

>>2869891
Your comment is literally what I was saying. Western leftists can't connect with conservative peasantry whose views are rooted in religious principles and values. You simply can't approach them using that kind of language or those terms. They need a leader who won't offend their religious or national values, but who also projects an image of strength that they can rally behind.

It's just standard third world seething. Ethnic fracturing killed Austria Hungary and Yugoslavia, but those countries are doing okay nowadays (well Croatia and Slovenia at least)

>>2869961
Like I said, I think it's basically after the fact justification for your Frankenstein state's existence, no matter how arbitrary your borders are or how little the people have in common, you just point to some empire that peaked 400 years ago and fixate on the handful of years when it reached its maximum extent, pretend that somehow validates your modern state, ignore the far longer history of independent kingdoms and states and then declare that every division is somehow the fault of colonialism.
Like in South Asia you see this with the Mughal Empire in both India and Pakistan. People always bring up a map of the Empire at its greatest extent under Aurangzeb and Aurangzeb did march his armies into those regions and claimed them, but they ignore the fact that these regions were tributaries rather than fully integrated parts of the state. They weren't incorporated into the same tax system, bureaucracy or even the same currency. Almost immediately after Aurangzeb's death, the whole thing began to collapse and for most of their history the Mughals effectively ruled little more than Delhi and its surrounding regions.

Class consciousness will come about naturally as the means of production develop to a point where the Capitalist class increases it's repression as their position becomes obviously pointless to even 80IQ wife beaters.
This is why I'm actually an AI accelerationist. AI is absolutely the technology that makes it pretty fucking obvious "Why do you exist?" a question to swaths of the PMC and Capital class when AI outperforms them in every way.

>>2868482
Marxsisters…

>>2859322
Because they don't. The US paints China as having that to normalize it when they do it.

>>2869890
never been to china award

>>2869907
Depends what you mean by mass incarceration I guess. China's incarceration rate is 119 per 100 000, on par with Spain, France and Portugal. Lower than UK, Australia and US (obviously).

Btw people need to stop spouting the outdated "highest incarceration rate in the world" statistic about US because El Salvador absolutely prison-mogs them.

>>2869925
>Btw people need to stop spouting the outdated "highest incarceration rate in the world"
I think you're misremembering. People always said that the US has the largest prison population total which is still true.

>>2869927
I saw someone say "both in relative and absolute numbers" just the other day but you're right. US was supposed to start outsourcing prison population to El Salvador anyway lol (although I don't know what happened with that)

Where is the third one?

Engels in 1886 prophecied the impending end of capitalism in his own time. That was 140 years ago.

late stage capitalism is just what westoids call the rescinding of bribes after the USSR fell

>>2869743
He didn't even know about imperialism

there is nothing late about capitalism right now, expect it to continue for quite a long time

Really if you think about it the failing rate of profit for the capitalists is what late stage capitalism is, capitalists making less money and desperately trying to retain wealth at the expense of the working class and the entire planet.

>look at chart
>economic inequality only increase 4 percent
huh

Here's the ratio of Corporate profits divided by GDP from 1947 to 2026. You can notice some things.

1) Declines in RoP creates recessions, after which the RoP recovers.

2) The average RoP has been increasing.

3) We have passed the longest period without a real recession.

My theory is that globalization has been a gigantic boon for capitalism, much more than communists realize. World trade as a % of GDP has increased from 25% in 1970s to 60% today. This highly globalized world based on expansion of capital to underdeveloped countries has massively boosted rate of profits.

This is why the capitalist class has been so reluctant to on-shore manufacturing and services. They know they're getting de-industrialized, and that China is eating their lunch, and that their military strength is suffering. But the profits are STILL so goddamn high that they want to ride this gravy train a while longer.

>>2869745
My bad, here's the chart.

>>2869745
As for how this relates to inequality, there's been a lot of government spending for social services (one of the reasons why the US debt burden as % of GDP has increased so much). That spending keeps inequality down. That kind of spending also does not depend on present RoP but on future RoP. The US also exports a shitton services which doesn't get talked about. Their tech monopoly and service industry in general helps keep the RoP up.

That's why the real action is gonna happen once China moves up the value ladder and starts exporting services and advanced tech as well. That's when US RoP is gonna get hit HARD and they know it, which is why preparations for WW3 are underway.

>>2869428
infantry and mechanized are more useless than they have ever been. troops during the war on terror had to go on idiot patrols to get blown up by mines. now with fpv drones it's the mines that go on patrols.

given that the average american soldier would actually be on welfare if they lived in the first world the burgerreich focussed on small teams of rapists they call "special" forces. these guys are great at toppling the failed states of US interventions with terrorist attacks, but they're fucked if they have to fight a whole army.

>War in the Middle East takes an ugly turn as US forces target an Iranian water desalination facility, destroying it almost entirely and leaving close to 10,000 people without drinking water. With roads and bridges destroyed, getting water to the affected rural communities will be extremely difficult but efforts are already underway.

Looks like the USA is officially taking the genocide route.

>>2869443
>They can completely collapse the country with conventional weapons as well.
No they can't. They dropped far more bombs on North Vietnam (which is also much smaller) during that war and the country didn't collapse. In fact MacNamara conceded in private meetings that the bombing was having virtually no effect on Hanoi's ability to sustain the war. You can't win wars with air power, it's been proven over and over and over again. Rich imperialist countries like the US just keep trying it because if they could somehow get it to work then they would be able to subdue any country at virtually no cost to themselves. They're trying to will it into existence but it always fails.

>>2869722
Dropping bombs in the middle of the jungle isn't strategic bombing. And why bring up Vietnam? It worked for them in Iraq and Syria. It truly doesn't matter them if they change they "regime change" Iran if they can just take them out of the equation.

Should also note, to whatever extent Iran is winning the war is also through their ability to bomb military and civilian targets. If they didn't have that capability they would have zero leverage.

>>2869655
How did China come under ownership of British steel manufacturing plants? What happened to the original owners?

>>2869674
I don't know if you just misspoke, but the Chinese bought the British plants, not the other way around. They also own Heathrow airport and the Hinkley nuclear reactor and a bunch of other things in Britain.

>>2869180
>autistic people hate change
Nah that's allistic people. Autists cause change that allistics can't understand.

>>2869439
Worked with autistic children before. Children with autism will often scream and throw tantrums when having to transition between activities, including activities they enjoy.

>>2868836
lemmygrad is a decentralised reddit-like which is growing but it's less of a free for all screaming match.

>>2868979
>>2869180
it's not just vanity: imageboards make it impossible to filter bots and trolls. associating users, accounts, and a verified email makes that so much easier and gives admins receipts for following up on serious abuses of the platform.

>>2868836
Imageboards aren't dying because of any intrinsic flaws in their design, but largely just because of the culture around them. 4chan is by far the biggest imageboard around and sucks all oxygen out of its competitors simply by proximity. The issue is that 4chan is actively repellent to most quality posters by virtue of the (largely deserved) reputation as "that website for retarded nazis" which it has fostered since the early '10s. As a result, the biggest influx of users they've had in the past fifteen years is to this day made up of 2016 election tourists, and the most active and culturally significant boards on the website like /pol/, /b/ and /r9k/, are all overran with them. All the while, the more benign interest-focussed boards like /a/, /v/, /lit/, /fa/, etc are running on fumes, fueled largely by the same group of oldfags which have been using the site for decades by this point. The slow trickle-in of comparatively newer users brings with it only further culture war baiting and low-effort trollposts, so the quality of posts on the site is in a continual noticeable decline. At the same time, all the biggest alternative chans cater towards people who manage to get themselves banned off of 4chan proper, and are accordingly unusable shitholes and/or glorified fed terrorist recruitment forums from the start. The only way you're even going to be aware of the existence of better imageboards is if you've been around to see this fiasco from the beginning or if you've found yourself attracted to 4chan-adjacent culture, which means that the target demographic is made up of a continuously shrinking cohort of oldfags and a larger group of low-quality post-2016 posters (obviously generalizing here). The only way you're meaningfully going to be bringing in new blood is by producing OC posts and memes that can be organically shared across other forums and social media, thus bringing in interest in the source board.

Frankly, the idea to pivot this website to a setup more like traditional forums or social media is a non-starter. You're never going to be able to out-reddit reddit or out-twitter twitter, those markets are already thoroughly captured and both already contain far-left ecospheres. It's also just undesirable to begin with. Imageboards, for all their flaws, have unique quirks which are worth preserving. The ability to post anonymously anPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2869568
>Imageboards aren't dying because of any intrinsic flaws in their design, but largely just because of the culture around them.
the culture is a byproduct of the design. antisocial chuds love taking advantage of anonymity

>>2868181
>The state is converted into the "administration of things", which means that it loses its political character (e.g. class struggle)
Man is a political animal.

>>2868328
Politics will purely be about personality and policies around the edges

Capitalist realist bs
just trust the plan bro

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https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/western-cape/nehawu-reaffirms-support-for-sacp-ahead-of-lge-2026-cites-ancs-deviation-from-socialist-ideals/

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https://www.newsclick.in/kashmir-rising-heat-exposing-blind-spot-rural-healthcare

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https://apnews.com/article/india-cockroach-janta-party-sonam-wangchuk-688cd957d2db3b1206193df046140bb4

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Critics Warn Bipartisan Bill to Abolish UNRWA Will Be ‘Death Sentence For Thousands of Palestinians’
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/abolish-unrwa-bill

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https://www.axios.com/2026/07/17/epstein-survivors-blanche-meeting-reaction
https://archive.ph/M8QKb

Mullin pushes states to comply with election demands, echoing Trump’s claims about midterm risks==
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https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-mullin-dhs-voter-fraud-save-6871e13d3f0e2caadaf56f9b2bc1580d

GEO Group worker arrested in shooting of protester at Colorado ICE facility
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Buenaventura Durruti: You don’t argue with fascism, you destroy it
Comrades: the worker militias aren’t slacking on the Aragón front. They attack and defeat the enemy and win ground for the revolutionary cause. And this is only a prelude to the great offensive that we will soon initiate across the entire Aragón front. You, workers of Spain, also have an important role to play, because we can’t win the revolution with guns alone; we also have to produce. There is no such thing as a frontline and a rearguard, because we all form one block that has to struggle in unity toward the same goal. And our objective can be none other than building a Spain that represents the working class. The workers fighting on the front and in the rearguard don’t fight to defend bourgeois privileges. They fight for the right to live with dignity. Spain’s strength is in the working class and its organizations. After victory, the CNT and the UGT will meet and come to an agreement about the country’s economic and political structures. Those of us on the battlefield aren’t fighting for medals. We don’t fight to be deputies or ministers. And when we’re victorious and return to the cities and villages, we’ll fulfill our responsibilities in the factories, workshops, fields, and mines that we left. Our great victory will be the one that we win in the workplaces.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/buenaventura-durruti-you-don-t-argue-with-fascism-you-destroy-it

Spain’s Social Revolution Against Fascism
The Spanish Civil War is often portrayed as a struggle between democracy and fascism. But such an approach clashes with the sociopolitical reality of Spain in the 1930s. Social, economic, and political polarization in Spain in the years leading up to the civil war, along with the resulting failure of a bourgeois-democratic republic (1931–36), led to the outbreak of both the war and the revolution. The Popular Front’s electoral triumph in February 1936, rather than ushering in a new era of social reform, laid bare the inability of Republican democracy to overcome a ruling class determined to prevent any challenge to its power. The Popular Front’s victory sparked a new wave of mobilizations by the working masses, both urban and rural, which the Republican gPost too long. Click here to view the full text.