/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I've been thinking about this for years: what if we gave homeless people money / food / clothing / etc and political literature with the deal that if they study it, don't sell off the books (at least until they're done with them) and answer correctly when tested on the material that they should receive more money and goods than they would get by simply selling off the books. Could we get homeless people to read the likes of Hegel, Marx, Kant, Kropotkin, Gramsci, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Emma Goldman, Mao among other authors in their spare time by simply rewarding them for it? Has anyone tried it here?

We've seen that it works with christian reactionaries, why not try it ourselves? Are there any organizations that do? As far as I'm aware I've only heard of the anarchists from Food Not Bombs doing it (1st picrel) as well as general assemblies of squatters.

Why not try the same with migrants and refugees? They're in a desperate situation too. The migrants from the middle east mostly speak arabic, so the language barrier is a bit problematic, yet there exist many translated works. Even Stirner has been translated into arabic (2nd picrel). Rightoids hate refugees and refuse to work with them, this seems like a great situation for us to work with them instead and help them.

Rule based world order strikes again

In what world does a moral govt not only sponsor genocide but has presidential candidates go sign of shells with finish them off

FACE IT:
PETIT BOURGEOIS, PMCS, LABOR ARISTOCRATS ARE THE GLUE THAT HOLDS CLASS SOCIETY TOGETHER

The more and more I study capitalism the more I come around to the idea that the ruling class wants to defend itself by defining what it means to be ruling class through including non economic and more widespread forms of privilege.

The reason "social conservatism" goes with capitalism is because a ruling class usually can't rule on its own. It needs a middle strata of people who have some amount of power, not enough to rule, but enough to be invested in the system continuing. Absolute monarchs had the aristocracy/nobles. And in capitalist society you have the petit bourgeoisie, labor aristocrats i.e. high level tradesmen, high paid white collar workers and managers, etc.

Similarly you can define the ruling class as simply all white men (jacksonian populism, us southern ideology), or the nation, religion, or certain ethnic supremacy, etc. The whole point of conservatism is to sublet some of the privileges of the ruling class to middlemen who, on account of their position often being more precarious, will fight to defend the system even more ferociously as they fear their status slipping from the middle to the low. An example of this in the US would be small business owners/petit bourgeois being right wing populist as they fear being re-proletarianized and slipping back into the class status of being a wage worker.

There are two ways people can react to domination, either by rejecting hierarchies, or by desperately looking for some way to not be on the bottom of the hierarchy, usually by trying to puff oneself up by putting other people/groups down and trying to drag them down on the social ladder. Liberals usually explain this as reproducing trauma or something but it is true.

For the same reason a kid who's being beaten at home by his dad doesn't stand up to his dad (often because he really can't) ends up taking it out by becoming a bully at school i.e."i'm gonna hit you harder than my dad hits me".

For example males who's cultures have been victims of enslavement, colonialism etc. often react to these humiliations by adopting ultra masculine or macho chauvinist attitudes over women and LGBT of their same race/group.

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Fellow burgers what's the plan for when the US just decides to give up the ghost and bring cold war anticommunist death squads back home, we don't really have a vanguard yet and most communist organizations are usually based out of major cities so comrades in mid level cities and rural areas can't really meet, granted communist groups developed out of worse off countries but there feels a difference between the NDF in Marcos' Phillipines or the insurgencies against Pinochet and THE imperialist power

>it was reported that early on in his imprisonment Kaczynski had befriended Ramzi Yousef and Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing, respectively. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship which lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001.
so a white nationalist, a pakistani islamist, a practicing anarcho primitivist and a cuban american gang leader were all sharing a single cell block together and apparently got along well together, how would their ideologies have clashed and what conversations they could have had?
also what are some examples of unlikely political friendships in history?

At least 40 killed in Rafah after Israeli missiles hit camp for displaced
“The massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army in the refugee tents northwest of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip has left 40 martyrs and 65 wounded,” Mohammad al-Mughayyir, a senior official at the civil defence agency, told AFP news agency.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/27/dozens-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-rafah-following-hamas-rocket-attacks
https://archive.is/qc7mo

New settlement in occupied Afrin
The so-called "Al-Watan Engineering Construction" Company published on its virtual communication website that it was nearing the completion of putting the final touches on the project to construct 2 buildings in the city of Janders in the occupied Afrin countryside, for the benefit of the so-called "Sun of Hope Organization."
https://hawarnews.com/en/new-settlement-in-occupied-afrin

Argentina's 300% inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town
Between January and March 2024, arrivals from neighbor Uruguay - who spent $1.3 billion in Argentina last year - fell 25% versus a year ago, Uruguayan outbound tourism figures show.Border towns in Paraguay, Chile and elsewhere have seen lower local demand for Argentina imports, but others have cheered the shifting trend, which has also meant fewer locals making day trips to Argentina to look for bargains.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentinas-300-inflation-propped-up-peso-spawn-paraguay-border-ghost-town-2024-05-27/

Protests shut streets in Armenia's capital, roads in other parts to demand the prime minister resign
The demonstrations are spearheaded by Bagrat Galstanyan, a high-ranking cleric in the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese in Armenia’s northeast, where the returned villages are located. AlthoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

What does /leftypol/ think of the riots in New Caledonia? Quick rundown for those not in the known:

>New Caledonia is an island in the South Pacific near Australia, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands
>It was colonized in the 19th century by France
>Typical colonial shenanigans. Enslavement, forced labor, French settlers moved in that still control most of the land and economy
>Violent independentist movement in the 20th century resulted in the Noumea Accords which called for three referendums on Independence
>Voting in the referendums and other local matters was restricted to long-term New Caledonia residents who were living there in 1998
>BUT at this time the white settler population, as well as other outsiders who got there by also being part of the French colonial empire (Polynesias from Tahiti, Walis and Futuna, Cambodians, Vietnamese) were already the majority of the population
>Unsurprisingly, all the non-locals voted to stay with France and each referendum failed
>France is now unilaterally breaking the Accords and letting over 10,000 people be added to the voting rolls (who will all vote for pro-France politicians ofc)
>young Kanaks (the name of the Indigenous people of the island) are revolting now over this, some police killed, Micron seething and sending in more police/military, TikTok shut down

What would you do if you saw a guy with nazi symbolism on the street?

ayo I'm your resident Maoist lumpen and I'm here to teach you how to do cybercrime

Is there any merit whatsoever to other possible elements that might factor into one's political bias other than [material conditions] +[ideology]? For example, the claim that people low in openness-to-experience and high in conscientiousness skew conservative? Or that other claim that conservatives have larger amygdalas (in relation to liberals,), and therefore are more prone to outrage baiting?
Is there any merit? Is it all dog? Or is it true but negligible in impact? True but a posteriori instead of prescriptive etc.