/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Part of why the US is such a racialized society where everyone is obsessed with race and ethnicity is because the US was created by Anglos. These Brits, who came to North America in the 17th century had a very distinct method of colonization. They were extremely racist and didn't practice mestizaje like Spaniards or Portuguese. These latter groups were inspired by the Roman method of colonization, which involved mixing with the local population. Arabs did something similar in their conquests from the 7th to 9th centuries.

If the US had been colonized by a Latin-adjacent people, like Spaniards or Portuguese (though not French, since they were just as bad if not worse than Anglos), the US would not be the highly racialized society it is today. Reminder that the first interracial marriage in the Americas was not in 1853 nor in 1967 with Mildred and Richard Loving, but in 1593, since interracial marriages had been legalized by the Spanish Empire. But alas, they were colonized by Anglos.

To a certain extent this means that the racial problems in the US are inevitable and will likely not be resolved in our lifetime, if ever.(Too many America threads, take it to the general)

Should leftists learn other languages?
Rn I know only English, with some basic knowledge of some other languages. I kinda want to learn Chinese and Spanish past a beginner level so I can actually communicate with people outside the english-sphere, but also sort of want to know a non-western perspective on some socialist topics?
Ty for any answers.

- Child Marriage legal in most states and used to get around age of consent
- Common Law Marriage Legal
- Legal to have and carry a gun in all 50 states, many without a license of any kind
- Only country besides Philippines which has legalized bounty hunting
- Only country outside a few third world ones to not have maternity leave of any kind
- Only country to have 0 paid days off mandated, either holidays or vacation, or sick leave of any kind

why the fuck is borgerland like this

I keep seeing self-identified socialists, communists and leftists falling for liberal anti-communist memes and even self-identifying with them. Namely:

Collectivism. There is no such thing as "collectivism" as imagined by the liberals. By which, I mean there is no ideology that is the vulgar antithesis of bourgeois individualism. "Collectivism" in the socialist sense essentially refers to common ownership and management of institutions.

Under feudalism, almost every aspect of your life was predetermined before you were born, and the few decision that remained after birth were likely determined for you by your parents while you were still a very young child. Individualism, as originally formulated by the classic liberals, was essentially just a refutation of this. It asserted that people should be free to live their lives in accordance with their own conscience and pursue whatever path they chose, instead of these things being determined by birth or being prearranged by their parents. In this sense, communists are individualists.

Now, once liberalism started supplanting the feudal order with a capitalist order, the rising bourgeoisie was less keen on this interpretation since a person living their lives in accordance with their conscience didn't serve the ends of capital. You then begin to see the rise of a bourgeois individualism which re-centered individualism around the accumulation and reproduction of capital. This individualism pushed the idea that the ultimate form of freedom and self-expression was saving all your pennies in the hopes of starting some kind of business and rising through the ranks of the bourgeoisie. Communists are not this kind of individualist, but that doesn't make us some kind of antithesis of that.

It's been doubly confused by the entry of the counterculture movement in the West which, while it pushed for many good things such as the Civil Rights Movement, LGBT rights, rights for women, etc, also pushed a sort of cultural narcissism and has called these cultural narcissistic tendencies "individualism."

Authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is a meaningless liberal snarl word. All it means is either that you aren't a liberal or that you want people to submit to an authority the liberals regard as illegitimate. But all politics after the collapse of the feudal order have basically been about who or what the legitimate authority is. Any order that isn't libePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Incuriosity is thriving at the moment. People seem incredibly proud of publicly renouncing critical thinking in favor of asserting a frustratingly simplistic “thing good or thing bad” mindset. I think this is due to a confluence of factors, many of them corporate. Identity has been so totally enmeshed with consumer habits that we’ve arrived at the misguided belief that the media we consume should perfectly align with our good politics, or else it is evil and an endorsement of our enemies.

This is how you end up with conclusions like, “a character in this show did something homophobic, and therefore the show itself is homophobic.” We’ve been so thoroughly conditioned, in the ubiquity and loneliness of capitalism, to think of media properties as our friends, and when our friends do a bad thing, it feels like a betrayal.

Worse yet, we’ve come to think of art—all art—as commercial goods that warrant this calculation of the “Moral Nutrition Facts” to ensure we’re not feeding anything “bad” to our brains. So we arrive at a place where art is constantly screaming its own virtues at us. All the rough edges get sanded away, and the lines between “good person” and “bad person” are boldly drawn with one of those ridiculously large Sharpies in mass-produced, infantilizing literature that reassures us that we are good people for putting it on our shelves.

Whatever happened to "no ethical consumption" or denouncing consumer politics? Leftoids have bought into it fully now.

Hello anons. Your local black comrade today has decided to open a thread for your best capitalist appropriation of Black History Month and Martin Luther King Jr.

Post your best shit.

These were from our own black community this year for MLK Day.

Post that good ole bullshit they do every year during this.

Many here will agree that in order for the world to heal the American system must collapse. I mean signature brand of corporate capitalism it represents and upholds and not America per se, supposing that it can outlive the socioeconomic mode it has so firmly bolted to its national identity. History as it stands is arrested in its progress; time is at a standstill and will remain in decayed stasis until the American system implodes. This eventuality is the one and only means for the world-historical process to advance to the next stage. There is no other option. No other way forward.

It is inconceivable that the system which has gotten us to this condition of horrible and worsening disrepair can correct the mess it has created, as its very existence is the exact cause of this disorder and it must feed of that devastation to sustain itself. The production of global crises is a byproduct of the system performing tasks it must do to sustain itself. Therefore its very existence is in stark contrast with the solution.

I say this because there is no other solution, no other cure, no hope for humanity if American capitalism persists to be the dominant template for political economy. The ONLY way that humanity can advance is if the American system not just continues to decline, but terminates.

The great epochs of history are defined not so much by the ephemeral empires that fill its pages, but by their fall and the effects that has in all that is to come. The world entered a new phase with the collapse of the USSR and in the wake of it the American system took hold. Its arc of ascendancy was brief, with unbridled capitalism quickly and greedily using up its fuel, and now keeps the world in a stagnating holding pattern. Now the sinews of debt have been worn threadbare from abuse and the whole ponderous structure of a once muscular framework falters and teeters on the brink.

The American system seeks to make its absolute and permanent basis a mode of economy which is inherently unstable and erratic. Thus its behavior as a state, driven as it is by such a chaotic actuator, is equally volatile. Its logic leads inevitably to war or economic and environmental disaster. The most concentrated center of power is built to self-destruct.
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Here's an entire thread about the crimes of a group called "NS/WP" (including that bath tub dismemberment video) (see 1st picrel):

https://watchpeopledie.tv/h/beheading/post/18885/the-bathtub-dismemberment-of-stanislav-batsyuk/417659#context

This is the same group behind the attacks on Russian military targets as seen in the next 2 pics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_commissariats_attacks

Here's a short video about Alexei Navalny - somebody who was praised by CNN & Biden:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yba-LJ8clgc

Putin's stated mission was to "denazify" Ukraine. Since 2013/14, the Ukrainian right has been at war with Russian proxies in the DPR/LPR republics of Donbas for 8 years and the current war with Russia. These groups include the Azov Brigade, Right Sector and the Misanthropic Division.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jiBXmbkwiSw
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This is a thread only for people who actually do IRL organizing to exchange tactics and ideas. Its time to stop whining about bullshit like Wiccans or shizo pedo rape cult conspiracies, and actually get some actual lessons out of each other, for fucks sake.

Explain your situation, ask a question on what you would like some advice on, and give insight into what you do right now and how successful you are.

Let me start off
>I am the chairman of a local chapter of a socialist nation wide youth org of a european country
>We have, on paper, 90+ youth members in our local chapter
>We have, on paper, 1000+ members nationally
>Recently formed out of a split, still very much in flux
>The real local cadre is around 10-15 people with varying levels of commitment, about 6 people at each weekly or so meeting
>The ideological and practical education of our cadre is low
>Following a broadly orthodox marxist line, as opposed to classical marxist leninist, or maoist, but also containing trotskyites and anarchists

Now the thing I would like your feedback on is explaining how you conduct meetings, how to educate cadre, how to retain cadre, how to ensure people show up, what communist youths are even supposed to do. So let me sketch out what we do now

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