/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1447585
thats why the USSR famously didnt have a police force right you fucking tard

>>1447585
and yes by 'basically the same thing' my orginal point was the police are good if communists are running them, which im glad you agree.

>>1447659
Yeah damn, it’s almost as if Lenin realised this was a mistake- with him even admitting they had vestiges of the old government they had overthrown.

>g-glad you agree, cops in red are le based
You really didn’t read anything about what was posted did you?

>>1447668
I read it and I have read Lenin, I still havent changed my mind that a oolice force in a socialist country would be

1) good
2) needed

im a althusser type mfer its all about ideology

>>1447585
>they must belong, one and all, to the militia which is to replace the police and the standing army.
uncle Lenin seems opposed to a division of labour
>bureaucracy is.. le bad!
undialectical

Who is Don Quixote in this?

Amazon delivery drivers in Southern California join Teamsters union
Amazon delivery drivers at one of the company’s California facilities joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union said Monday, in a win for labor organizers that have long sought to gain a foothold at the e-retailer. A group of 84 workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Palmdale, California, won voluntary recognition by Battle-Tested Strategies, a third-party delivery contractor, to be represented by the Teamsters. That allows the workers and the Teamsters to sidestep the union election process, which can be challenging and last for many months.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/amazon-delivery-drivers-in-southern-california-join-teamsters-union.html

Biden administration faces backlash in Congress over US-Tunisia defence ties
The Biden administration was slammed and accused of hypocrisy regarding Tunisia during a feisty Senate hearing on Wednesday over its decision to slash economic and humanitarian aid while maintaining military support to the North African country as its democracy unravels. Joshua Harris, the State Department’s top official for North Africa, defended the Department’s 2024 budget request, which called for budget cuts in democracy promotion and economic assistance while preserving security aid like Foreign Military Financing (FMF), funds used to purchase American weapons.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-biden-faces-backlash-over-tunisia-defence-ties-congress

Lyft to cut 1,072 employees, or 26% of its workforce
Lyft shares closed up around 1.5% Thursday. The company has around 4,000 employees and had already implemented a 13% head count reduction in November 2022. Risher’s tenure as CEO started earlier in April. He has emphasized a need to streamline operations and get back to “better meeting the needs of riders and drivers” in employee communications and public messaging.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Grocery giants are screwing Canadians—and farmers have proof
The real cause of skyrocketing food prices is corporate greed and market concentration—and one group of farmers has the receipts. The National Farmers Union (NFU) has submitted data to the House of Commons agriculture committee which details how much retail food prices have risen compared to the prices that farmers receive for their goods. In fact, the union says retail prices have been completely “decoupled” from corresponding food inputs. This means that while grocery store prices reach record highs, the farmers who stock their shelves are not seeing any of those profits—and a small group of processing and retail corporations are lining their own pockets instead. “We need to be real about where the money is going,” NFU president Jenn Pfenning, who farms organic vegetables near Kitchener, Ont., told The Breach. Retailers and processors are taking larger portions of the money spent on food, while farmers are stuck with rising costs and stalled prices. “At the end of the day, retailers are posting record profits,” Pfenning said. “Farmers are, in many cases…posting either record or close-to-record losses and low margins.”
https://breachmedia.ca/2023-food-prices-grocery-giants-screwing-canadians-farmers-data/

Sri Lanka 2023: Anniversaries of Struggle
This article has not mentioned the names of the individual leaders associated with these events; nor has it interpreted these episodes of struggle. As Krishnamurti told Colombo, “an interpreter is a traitor.”(Sri Lanka Talks, 1957) The study and understanding of these events must be the work of the working class itself — as the meaning of history belongs to those who make it. How will these epic anniversaries be commemorated? Remembered with nostalgia? Forgotten with shame? Exorcised with fear? Celebrated with struggle? For context, President Ranil Wickramasinghe has argued that the scale of the crisis facing Sri Lanka today has not been seen since the collapse of the Rajarata Civilization. This diagnosis and his prescriptions were articulated in the early days of his presidency and his counsel is clear: a shock doctrine of neoliberal reforms courtesy of international finance capital. What’s less clear is the position of the mass movement whicPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon

>>1444792
Classical liberalism is preferable to absolute monarchy with radical islamistic characteristics.

>>1447376
You're eating from the trash can of ideology right now. The "absolute monarchy with radical Islamist characteristics" is a puppet regime of American imperialism, and the Brits before them. Wahhabism would never have become prominent were it not for the Brits using them to destabilize the Ottomans. The United States is not a "classical liberal" regime, nor is it really trying to spread those values abroad. The united States uses dollar hegemony, the IMF, the World Bank, and it's veto power on the UN security council to keep the third world underdeveloped

>>1444203
Who knows what kind of backchannels the Saudis have with the Chinese, and how long the Chinese have been buttering them up and reassuring them to make this plunge. However, a few general facts are of the case here.

1. One is a fact of human nature: which is that people are generally uncomfortable with uncertainty. By jeopardizing the petrodollar–which the Saudis benefit from by the way, it's not like they are getting shafted–the Saudis introduce massive risk into the oil and currency markets.

2. China would benefit most from this departure . SA's benefit is more ambiguous . Therefore the question is how good is China at persuading SA to get on the Yuan regime.

3. Russia has little to do with it. Both countries above all are petro-states, one is OPEC, the other is not. Which makes them direct competitors. That means Russia must either choose against its financial interests by supporting an alliance with Saudi Arabia, or choose against its political interests by not doing so and therefore encouraging them to remain aligned with the petrodollar.

4. The House of Saud is an extremely bourgeois, capitalist, regressive and reactionary antiquated institution. Their decision ultimately and exclusively comes down to what directly benefits the Saudi Royal Family. If

5. A collapse in the US economy may well spell a global collapse. China unlikely has the resources to serve as an immediate substitute to swoop in and pick up the slack if the US falls. Complex global market economies are extremely interdependent and interconnected. There is no clean separation between one national economy and the next.

>>1447391
(me)
I'm the first one to admit this is a thin analysis, considering that there are so many possibilities and factors in play. Here are some more details.

The US is currently a great source of uncertainty, with its poor leadership, internal division, inconsistent policies that could shift diametrically every four years per presidential election cycle, and downtrending track record. The Saudis were never once ideologically aligned with the US, it was always about oil money.

China instead presents the possibility of a more unified, disciplined, and secure political future. The CCP has chosen not to contest Xi's power and instead lend their support in solidifying it. China's general outlook is much more clear, concentrated, and reliable whereas the US is all over the place . Maybe China is just better at hiding its problems, or maybe it has fewer or lesser.

The Saudis despise Americans and hold them and their culture and values in broad contempt . China's political style and values are more congruent with SA's. And before you say IDEALISM-→ know that politics is driven by people, and people are driven by emotions, not pure rationality. How people feel about it matters. History has been decided on the mere whims of the powerful before. Such whims are amplified immensely when dealing with autocratic absolute monarchies

>>1447391
>>1447408
I don't know why some people on this board get so flustered by Hegel when you see people deliver sub-Hegelian and even sub-Fichtean analyses of "national spirit" like this, then relay that these national spirits (alongside a touch of individual whimsy, apparently) are why political events happen.

>>1444083
>We can learn from history, mate. Of how the West arms opposition leaders in enemy countries to advance their goals.
You twat you knew exactly well which direction this OP was going to go in, and oh look, it did.

>>1445942
>Outside of sticking it to NATO and the US
Which he doesn't really do since they push for oil and grain export and then whine about how "western partners lied to us again, oh no".

>>1444060
He will die in prison and the west will have to find a replacement for him

>>1446009
>You twat you knew exactly well
It's just a classic hypothetical question regarding his domestic and foreign policies, and you're the one seething.

Piers is a coward and will only invite on people he feels supremely confident debating so tbh there's a bit of a self selection bias already in the system with just Piers alone without any other external factors.

>>1447021
>The case for cancel culture
Oh no no no

politicians too

>>1447024
That guy has his book on display on the shelf which he's trying to sell and he utilizes political "ideology" to give himself leverage and to acquire attention and resources from the public which preferred to give it to others in the past. It's a business.

It’s amazing to me how many talking heads and commentators invited on are ex-deepstate

>>1438914
go back to your general, burger. you are not wanted.

>>1439273
Fair enough. Also the more I read about him the more I get the sense that he may have had good intentions on certain issues (colonialism was one), but was too hemmed in by the class interests of the American state, not to mention the glowies. I think it was his attempt to push back against these forces that got him killed. Just goes to prove Marx correct once again.

>>1439618
Jfk father was a huge Nazi sympathizer too that may have colored his lens. Not in the way retards use it today to talk about Republicans. His father was an ambassador to UK and actually wanted isolationism against Germany and really disliked Jews. Read about his views here

This may have led the view where in a diary a young jfk once wrote that Hitler would be remembered as a legend

https://people.com/politics/jfk-diary-auction-fascination-hitler-legend/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39371715

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Sr.

That scum Bernie again trying absolutely anything he can to force all progressive forces into the deadend Democratic Party.

Thanks News Anon

>>1446626
Oh Boy I wonder how well that's going for the British Parliament right now that Bank of England is pissing off the Citizens.

>>1446624
>Bernie Sanders endorses Biden, rules out 2024 bid of his own
Another great win for social democracy

>>1446620
kinda hot actually

>>1446699
>You don't have a better word because you don't understand the things you're complaining about
Beyond this board, I didn't complain about anything. You're free to mention this "better word" any time.
>Please read theory
Reading theory in general wouldn't tell you this.


>>1446713
>One issue with the deranged confused 'antiwoke marxist' is that they call idpol idpol over and over whilst engaging in a deeper, more confused, stronger form of identity politic by allowing themselves to be drawn into a frame of propaganda spread by the bourgiois against 'wokeness' as anticommunist propaganda,
I've never thought this explanation made much sense. It's too easy to say "no, you're the identitarians," but doesn't this make the argument into a competition between identity claims with no exteriority? You seem to imply both sides are essentially identitarian in saying a "more confused, stronger form of identity politics."

It's true that some opposed to identity politics can engage in confused identitarian arguments, but it certainly isn't true of everyone who criticizes identity politics on the left. Adolph Reed and Todd McGowan are largely critical of identity politics, for example, but it would be hard to level the same accusations against them.
>because porky realizes that black liberation, lgbt liberation, etc has embeded itself into american culture to the point companies have realized paying lipservice pays dividends because the american population, on average, by demographics, is at least slightly 'woke'
This really fails to ask the critical question here. Sure, there's a portion of the population who'd consider themselves progressives in this sense, or who are broadly sympathetic to "woke" messages in media, but there's also a portion of the population that isn't. One might expect something proportional (pro vs. anti, given that ostensible advocacy of one side will antagonize the other) if the question were merely demographic, yet this isn't the case: one does see the predominance of "progressive" or "woke" messaging, with conservative messaging consigned to a few media ghettos. This naPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1446051
Sacvan Bercovitch was writing about this stuff 50 years ago.

>>1446808
'tis true

Sage&hide

I think wokeness is like…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… a religion……………………………………………………………………….

>>1419883
>>1419958
>>1419966
Talk about economics you retard. All this hooey doomerism/conjecture without even a droplet of materialist thinking is reactionary garbage.
>satanism
>eugenics
>eating bugs
Ah. Ok. You are a reactionary.

Bugs are not for eating

>>1419067
Yes, and how did it get that way, anon?

In the sense that he argues that stuff like public spending is simply the result of ruling party interests being aligned with the interests of the population, it seems like one of the least bad videos that commit the awful sin of terribly simplifying complex social structures. at least it doesn't pretend that social spending is due to elected leaders' intrinsic moral superiority or whatever dumb thing liberals tend to fantasize with.

>>1446702
>how did it get that way anon
They stopped policing who was a communist and who was not in the party, or you think it was always like that ?.