/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>Looking at the "what is Communism" thread
Shit thread, clearly anticommunist bait
>looking for a country where a Trotskyite revolution CAN succeed, and dedicating efforts to decisively win elections there.
wtf

Are you retarded and/or glowing

basically, all you want is LARP socialism / Marxism. Marxism demands praxis, not being bitches of social Dems and fascists.

You have three choices: rear-guardism in the core, or being social Democrat whores. Revolutionary death in some insurgency somewhere, I think only the Naxalites are still active and prominent. Or, moving to an ML country and conducting normal praxis there, by paying your taxes and accelerating socialist development.

I'm suggesting a fourth: find a core country vulnerable enough to the periphery and semi-periphery that has the conditions necessary for electoral victory, and then do it. Then build up counter hegemony from state backing, while under effective semi-periphery protection and support.

Bump

>>2609506
Why so you bump cringe you shit general

From an actual ideological perspective, Trotskyism was never that far off from its more popular sibling, MLism, and at this point they've basically coverged into the same thing anyway. To conflate Trotskyism with Demsocism is to admit that you've never read him.

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>>2607150
Samefag, stop trying to rehabilitate Fukuyama, its pathetic

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/thread

>>2609818
>a useless concept that is an analytical burden
i.e. you're too lazy to make your model fit reality or too cowardly to accept there will be edge cases, so all that's left is throwing the baby out with the bathwater and coercing reality to fit the model. which is doomed to failure
you'd go far as a bourgeois economist.

>>2609866
If your defense of Wallerstein's stupidity is "but, Fuck your mama…" that means you don't have a real defense.

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>>2609871

The individual obviously does exist. The only people who'd argue otherwise are retarded naval-gazing philosphers. Stop reading nonsense and start reading actual theory.

>>2609839
lmao sopranos is still the only one to really do it well. didnt cop out and give tony a sentimental ending like breaking bad. also the therapy scenes in are some of the best scenes but also harder to sit through than any of the kills because theyre so awkward. every time Tony goes on some horrific tangent clearly having no idea how offputting he comes across i have to pause to collect myself. peak tv

>>2609821
it lets you have your cake and eat it: people can enjoy it both as a power fantasy within the status quo and as a critique of the status quo.

>>2609973
a fun one here is pre-capitalist morality towards commerce: making money through inheritance without 'earning' it was considered noble and moral, while making it through trade was suspicious because you weren't producing it, nor were you getting it through your birth. you were conjuring money out of thin air by ripping people off by buying for less than a fair price in one place and selling for more than a fair price elsewhere. (in the morality of the time.)
today by contrast, most people who inherit their wealth try to hide that fact and pretend that they've earned it through business.

similarly, to be a male wage laborer - except perhaps at a young age - was often faintly shameful, since it meant you weren't capable of running your own household and needed somebody else to boss you around.

>>2609861
There's nothing wrong with anti-heros, provided their negative actions aren't glorified. Real people aren't perfect platonic beings, so if you want to do social realism properly, you need to depict people struggling against themselves.

>>2610210
Not only Tony but the show presented pretty much EVERYONE as a hypocrite and a douchebag. If the viewer still finds the character a 'role model', the viewer is a piece of shit, not the writer.

>>2610185
why would gay men find women attractive?

Every loli poster is as guilty as Epstein

>>2610188
Maybe if the woman is manly enough?

>>2610191
No, gay men are not attracted to botch lesbians either
>>2610188
Hetmoids unironically believe gay equals solely liking dick instead of the whole package (Masculine body, physical features, etc…), is peak projection as most hetero males see women as walking cum dumpsters

Moved to >>>/siberia/738323.

Manifesto is a trash introduction to Marx. It's the most dated of his works and treatlerites will claim that most the points in its program have been accomplished so communism is pointless, while conveniently ignoring that it was class struggle by organized labor that won them. Value, Price and Profit is a clearer introduction to Marx's work and better illustrates how workers are still getting fucked.

>>2608879
Technically there are still some points that arent really implemented even in the most advanced countries today.

>>2608877
you are a mass tor baiter and i wasn't quote mining but you are. your quotes do not function as a counter to what I was saying, and you add no additional text from yourself to aid
>>2608876
nobody called themselves an intellectual. they spoke out against anti-intellectualism. you derived the additional
>implication
because you are a shitty mossad CIA LLMslop mass tor baiter and one of many who have utterly ruined this site.

>>2604680
>convert [boring egostical wankfest] into 6 bullet points please
reading books is so 2020

>>2609154
this, I don't think it really matters

Better than 80 autism score Jamal having 16 baby mamas. Billionaires having loads of children is unironically eugenic.

power corrupts i guess. who knew?!

It'll lead to more incest maybehaps.

>>2609154
Are they actually giving these kids inheritance? I assumed this was a strat to circumvent inheritance and keep money to the grave.

>>2609102
i would happily pay double for rice and beans and the other foods I eat most often if it meant there were less school shootings, fentanyl addicts, and imperialist wars. but these trolls don't believe me. it's a never ending struggle session with them. they could harrass actual reactionaries but they curiously spend their infinite free time at their cobalt mining job to harass americans. because they are CIA LLM bots.

The stuff that the Chagos poster and other "Maoist Third Worldists" say is basically American Exceptionalism, but in the reverse. Saying that America is uniquely evil in history but when you honestly look at history it's not that unique. Even African slave kingdoms enslaved other African tribes and sold them to the Europeans.

It's basically yet another form of burger Protestant Christianity and "Original Sin" all over again.

>>2609191
Chagos poster repeatedly said that he is not a TWist though.

>>2609036
The fact of the matter is that Hegel ended up being right in his analysis of the state as the representation of the general interest of a people by encompassing all parties, when the focus is on the Western states.

The invasion of Greenland is planned for 31st December 2025. Do not ask how I know.

>>2606249
Based

Ukraine is the definition of a nonhistoric, reactionary people. It will not exist after total Russian victory.
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>>2606249
russians are settlers eveywhere east of the urals and in central asia

>>2609456
Learn how to read

>>2606249
>The USSR resolved all 'colonist' question. After the 70 years of the USSR, no one was a 'colonist' anywhere in the USSR anymore.
What did they do to resolve this? If it's the same people on the same land, they are by all means 'colonists', with the only difference being that they live under a different form of social organization, one which is still being imposed by the same people.

Of course, I don't believe in magical legitimacy of land. People live in a place or they don't, and authority either asserts itself, or it doesn't.

>>2606261
Making a smartass meme very much is a response though. You might not think of it as such, but are indeed communicating a sentiment in a public forum. Shitposting is just as much a part of the dialectic as anything else.

>>2606353
This. It's a worthless plot of land with zero real-world significance that nobody cared about until Russia attacked it. It's currently the puppet state of a capitalist power, and the people trying to claim it are another, smaller capitalist power. Both arguments either way are stupid; the belief that Ukraine has some kind of magical "right" to exist is idealism, the belief that Russia is the lesser of two evils is the same logic that American politicians use to uphold the status quo.

I know the internet has turned people retarded, so I feel now is a good time to remind everyone that you don't need to have an opinion on literally everything that happens. There's much more important things to spend your time and energy on then stupid fucking Ukraine.

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/instacart-ends-ai-pricing

US pauses offshore wind projects over security concerns
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd74lyr094vo

Democratic-led states sue to block US consumer watchdog's defunding under Trump
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https://www.reuters.com/world/democratic-led-states-sue-block-us-consumer-watchdogs-defunding-under-trump-2025-12-22/

Baltimore residents rally against BGE rate hikes, demanding public utilityPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Keir Starmer’s Government Is Leaving the Hunger Strikers to Die
By the standards of even the most forgiving and lenient Santa, it can’t be said that Keir Starmer’s government has been good this year. We’ve seen a manifesto-breaching budget that was leaked ahead of time, embarrassing U-turns on scrapping the two-child benefit cap, welfare reform and cutting pensioners’ winter fuel payments, and bursts of vicious briefing and leadership plot speculation amid Labour’s increasingly dire polling figures. Then there were the Tommy Robinson-approved plans for asylum seekers, support for Israeli football hooligans’ right to rampage through Birmingham and yet more cabinet cowardice over Israel’s continuous campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. And if this wasn’t enough to warrant a lump of coal in the government’s stocking on Christmas morning, 2025 also saw Starmer’s weaponisation of anti-terror law in the form of the proscription of Palestine Action, ie protecting UK sites of Israel’s largest arms manufacturer while nanas in their 80s get carried off by cops. With parliament’s Christmas hiatus beckoning, there’s one shameful chapter left wide open: the six hunger-striking prisoners, who become more likely to sustain irreversible physical damage or die with every hour of government inaction.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/19/keir-starmers-government-is-leaving-the-hunger-strikers-to-die/

Chile Applies New Anti-Terrorism Law to Mapuche Youths; Prison Denies Basic Rights
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