/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

IMHO, this tweet misses the real point. This is massively stimulative fiscal action, yet job numbers are shrinking, and the economy ex AI sucks:

https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1993758315134746854?s=20

>BREAKING: The US Treasury posted a $284.4 billion deficit in October, the worst opening month to any fiscal year in history.

>This exceeds the previous record of $284.1 billion in October 2020, during the historic pandemic response.

>Government spending jumped +18% YoY, to $688.7 billion, bringing the 6-month moving average up to ~$590 billion. To put this differently, US government expenditures averaged ~$22.5 BILLION per day last month.

>The deficit spiral is accelerating at a record pace.

>>2578045
this is why america is getting stuck in in more seemingly pointless conflicts

There was an incident in the "Cacilend" encampment today, there was a fire and also somebody got shot in the leg. The attacker was some 70 year old ex-State Security guy and his motives are unknown. It's unclear why the fire happened but people are speculating that he somehow set fire to the gas heaters they have in the tents.

For a while now SNS has been trying to spread a conspiracy theory that the canopy collapse was actually a terrorist attack by the opposition. It started several months ago when they platformed the estranged father of one of the canopy collapse victims at one of their big events, where he made the claim that it was a terrorist attack. Lately they have been trying to push that more, and Vucic played on TV a video of opposition politician Misa Baculov walking next to the train station looking at his phone the morning before the collapse. They have been making allegations of the opposition planting "microexplosives" on the canopy and on that on the video Baculov used a "special app which functions as a detonator" on his phone.

Today, they've been claiming that this incident was caused by the "blockaders" and Vucic called it a terrorist attack. SNS affiliated media has also been posting articles about how Baculov was seen walking towards Cacilend during the incident.

Bummmmp

There was a big (peaceful) protest on the anniversary of the canopy collapse and there was generally a bit of revival of various activities in the protest movement around it. On the day of the anniversary, Dijana Hrka who is the mother of one of the canopy collapse victims announced that she would hold a hunger strike in front of the parliament (which also means it's in front of the Cacilend encampment) and that has been the focus lately. As a response, SNS has organized "parties" in Cacilend which were pretty obviously attempts to harass her, especially playing loud music and especially a song by Baja Mali Knindza whose title is something like "The mother came to look for her son" when translated. Also, there has been a pretty much all the time a mass of people who have come to support/guard her.
There was a potentially dangerous situation tonight because she gave the Cacilend people an ultimatum to stop playing music tonight or else she would call on people to forcefully enter Cacilend (Cacilend is surrounded by a fence) which would have very likely resulted in violent conflict. That would be pretty much the closest thing to an open to call of violence from the anti-SNS side of the protests since the beginning. I think the only other thing which could be a interpreted as a call of violence was the "you have the green light" thing for the Vidovdan protest.
Also, I think that it's pretty problematic that a single person (who is obviously not in the best state of mind) suddenly holds so much sway with the protests.

So nothing really happened regarding the stuff from my previous posts. The hunger strikers have up after two weeks and there was no big Cacilend conformation.
The student movement is still alive but probably the most dead it's been the past year. There is only one faculty which restarted its blockade, the others are operating normally in the new year except that the start of the year was late.
The NIS situation is still unresolved, I am not sure what the SNS government is planning, maybe they're just waiting for Russians to agree to a deal where NIS is sold to a third country. They floated the idea of nationalizing NIS but they have not done that yet. The oil refinery in Pancevo is stopping production because of a lack of oil, which means they're already losing money. If there is no solution in the coming months then the government will have to spend a lot of money on importing finished oil products and subsidizing the cost, or they can not subsidize it and cause an oil crisis in Serbia.

>>2539975
I think Mao and Nixon raping Vietnam together also contributed

>>2544451
Marxist-Leninist classic

>>2550192
State opression doesn't make you right, martyr.

This movie was dogshit, a truly embarrassing vanity project for Decaprio.

>>2577903
Funnily enough, the Falangists ended up becoming a somewhat pro-Soviet RW faction in the West. Their ideology was essentially centered around opposing everything the US supported. There was even a funny incident where Falangists attended World Youth Day in Cuba on a Soviet ship. They actually got along with the Yugoslav Partisans and sang The Internationale with everyone before singing Cara al Sol (the Falangist anthem). At that point, Castro reportedly said something along the lines of:
>"Comrades! I know what you're up to!"
They then gave him a signed copy of José Antonio Primo de Rivera's speeches. Supposedly, Castro had some respect for Jose Antonio as a nationalist (and Che similarly felt the same about Juan Peron)

Oh boy Israel just raided yet another southern Syrian city.

Öcalan spoke mostly about Syria during the meeting:
"The March 10th Agreement between Mazlum Abdi and Shara must be implemented. Those there will listen to me, too."
Gülistan Koçyiğit, a member of DEM, who attended the Commission's visit to İmralı, explained what Öcalan said during the meeting:
"The Syrian issue was the main focus of the meeting. The delegation members also asked more questions about Syria."
"He said he attaches importance to the March 10th agreement and that it must be implemented. Perhaps it's worth noting that this is the most fundamental and underlined point in the Syrian context.
In this sense, he expressed the need for integration of the armed forces into the army, but also for local security forces.
He described one as the Ministry of Interior and the other as the Ministry of National Defense. "You can think of it as two," he said. "One will be integrated into the Ministry of National Defense as an army. The local security forces will be local security forces under the Ministry of Interior. "It could be considered that way," he said. He emphasized the need for thorough discussion of this issue.
I must say that Mr. Öcalan's stance on Syria is very constructive. He believes that the problems there can be overcome through dialogue.
And he clearly and directly stated that he would be very effective in this regard. When asked this question himself, he said, "Yes, the people there will listen to me, too."

For a very long time, the Assad regime existed, and its characteristic feature was ultimately a dictatorship, and it remained so for years. Today, there's a Sharia regime. If true democratization doesn't occur, it will ultimately lead to a dictatorship. In that sense, we must emphasize that one of the fundamental things he described as essential is local democracy.
<https://x.com/serbestiyetweb/status/1994326169127158085

>>2575263
Any update on this? I'm confused how it's related to Syria, did Syrian related factions do the attack?

>>2576810
Yeah if there's one thing dictatorships fear it's the awesome power of local democracy

>>2576951
which is why they say it has to be armed.

>>2576810
>Any update on this? I'm confused how it's related to Syria, did Syrian related factions do the attack?
semi related with Kurdish groups in Iraq that have supported the Kurdish groups in Syria, financially, militarily, and politically. also, the plants in Iraq have processed in those refineries and plants in the past, which makes me wonder if the attack was to sabotage any Kurdish income.

>>2568916
One of the western-facing tour companies (Young Pioneer Tours) are saying they might be back up for tours late this year/next year.
I'd like to visit properly though, yea, outside of Pyongyang and the tourist circuit. Even though that would probably be harmful to open up in such a way currently.

the purge of all the symbols related to reunification is quite extensive

Following last year, modern cultural housing has been built again at the Hyongsan Vegetable Farm in Hyongjesan District, Pyongyang.
(Pyongyang, November 23, Korean Central News Agency)
Seonkyong Village has emerged at the Hyongsan Vegetable Farm in Hyongjesan District, Pyongyang City, bringing smiles to the faces of the blessed people.

Following last year, the farm, which has once again welcomed new houses, is home to modern cultural houses that are spread out like a painting, a treasure trove of happiness created through the ardent love and devotion of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The local meeting for new residents was attended by party and government officials, construction workers, and agricultural workers from Pyongyang and the Hyeongjesan district.

At the meeting, following the speeches, the certificate of residence was handed out and discussions took place.

As the new housewarming season began, the farm village was bustling with excitement, as if on holiday. Workers visited the new homeowners and shared in their joy by giving them daily necessities. (End)

A friendly match between our country's national women's football team and the Russian national women's football team.
A friendly match between our country's national women's football team and the Russian national women's football team was held at Kim Il-sung Stadium on the 27th.
Workers, athletes, football enthusiasts and members of the Russian Embassy in our country from Xi'an watched the friendly match.
The match ended with our country's national women's soccer team winning 5-2.
The match served as a good opportunity to deepen the friendship between the athletes of the two countries and to develop soccer skills. (End)

A friendly match between our country's Ice Hockey team and Russia's Maritime River team for men under 17 years old will be held.
The Russian Coastal Men's Ice Skating Team under 17, which is visiting Pyongyang at the invitation of the Ministry of Sports of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is conducting joint training and friendly matches with our country's Taesongsan Sports Team, exchanging sports skills and experience.
A friendly match between the Daeseongsan Sports Team's under-17 men's ice skating team and the Russian Coastal River's under-17 men's ice skating team was held at the ice rink on the 26th.
Xi'an workers, athletes, and members of the Russian Embassy in our country watched the game. (End)

>>2577984
>wins womens -17 fifa world cup
>nobody cares hush hush
Is it true the western media tried to make it seem North Korea was lying that it won the standard world cup when they were really celebrating the womens -17 world cup?

>>2570930
The German fascist National Socialist Party arose in 1919 (the official name — National Socialist German Workers’ Party — reflected the desire of its organizers to exploit the influence of socialist ideas among German workers in the interests of extreme reaction). Amid a deepening political crisis, relying on support from major monopolies and forming an alliance with influential circles in the Reichswehr leadership, the leader (“Führer”) of German fascists, Adolf Hitler, received a mandate to form a government in late January 1933. By staging the Reichstag fire and blaming the communists (see Leipzig Trial, 1933), the German fascists within a few months completely “synchronized” the country, unleashing bloody terror on all democratic and liberal currents, imprisoning and physically eliminating all real and potential opponents of the Nazi regime. After the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party and all traditional bourgeois parties were banned. All public organizations—especially trade unions—were dissolved; parliament was stripped of its prerogatives; all forms of public oversight over the state administration were abolished. The dictatorship mechanism created by National Socialism included a terror apparatus marked by extreme brutality (SA, SS, the Gestapo, the “People’s Court,” and other organs of fascist justice), an apparatus for organizing influence on the population (the National Socialist Party, the National Socialist Women’s League, the Hitler Youth, the German Labor Front, the “Strength Through Joy” organization, etc.), which controlled all forms of public activity, as well as an apparatus for propaganda control of the masses (headed by the Ministry of Propaganda). In close alliance with the military leadership, Hitler's government carried out a rapid militarization of Germany. A course was immediately taken toward militarizing the economy, accompanied by the implementation of various forms of state-monopolistic regulation (state investments, primarily for military purposes; tax policy; credit policy and planned inflation; administrative control over economic development; forced syndicalization or cartelization of industry; creation of new associations of monopolists, etc.). International agreements limiting Germany’s armaments were broken, and a series of aggressive acts were carried out to strengthen the military-strategic positPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2528259
Trump isn't fascist. He is a liberal. ACP is fascist, and will become popular when the communist movement starts to grow.

>>2571043
Haz is the American ᴉuᴉlossnW.
Screencap this

>>2528259
The capitalists dispense with liberal democracy when they can no longer agree on matters between themselves. This usually happens during a crisis of capitalism which tends to be associated with communist resistance. Economically, fascism mostly boils down to measures reducing overheads of commercial profit.

>>2577948
I guess I'd basically describe fascism as a civil war between the capitalists within a state. It's not really different than an inter-imperialist war but within a state rather than between states.

>>2565345
>If you own a bakery and pay the worker the full value for every bread he bakes, you can't buy intrigents, an oven and everything else you need to run a bakerery.
Right.
>You need a minimum of profit to keep it running, don't you?
Profit isn't sales minus wages. Regular business expenditures are not defined as something that is deducted from profit, rather profit is what remains after these expenditures. Saying "I regularly buy ingredients for my bakery from my profits running the bakery" would be an abuse of language to any accountant, Marxist, and (I hope) most people in general. On the other hand saying "I put my profits into expanding my business" or "I put my profits into a new project" is normal language. The difference is what you really have to do to just keep going and what you don't need to do but choose. The boundary between these two cases can get blurry at times.

Is it possible to be anti-imperialist but at the same time not care about nationalism liberalism movements as these have very little to do with socialism?

Where does one find good sources/history books on AES thats isn't very clearly anti-communist brainrot and/or uncritical praise? Having trouble finding shit that isn't one or the other its just idealism and authors trying to make a point about current political debates instead of just conducting material analysis of the past.

>>2573157
IMHO being against imperialism is actually a fairly common belief worldwide much like finding overt racism distasteful. Its why in past natlib movements you'll end up with seemingly unlikely alliances between commies,secular nationalists and religious traditionalists since imperialism is just that shitty and awful. So i'd reckon being anti-imperialist is like being against Zionism,Nazism or the Klan. More of a litmus test for if this person isn't a complete reactoid psycho that likes killing children and rape than a serious measure of there political stance.

>>2564730
Sometimes all I have to do is ask a mfer how much they get payed an hour and than ask em how much money you think you just made the boss in that time.

Lenin himself was obsessed with the emergence of new media and its uses for popular propaganda purposes. He would probably smack your face for writing such petit bourgeois drivel that is ultimately rooted in idealist cultural pessimism.

>>2577446
marx was a revisionist

>>2577570
yeah, he revised utopian socialism into scientific socialism.

>>2577835
Labour vouchers are for retards of course I don't mean that

>>2577801
You are dancing around the question. Concretely, how will a person involve himself in production? What social relations, are involved in the organisation and process of production?

I like Marx and Engels of course, but what you are doing is saying what attributes could describe communism. Like saying capitalism is exploitive, highly corrupt etc.
How does production actually happen? Under capitalism it is private property, wage labourers produce goods to exchange on the market for which they are reimbursed their own cost of reproduction.

>>2577836
>>2577841
chatbot or zero reading comprehension?

>>2577843
Wants to discuss actual social relations of communism productive organization and not just basic principles, must be bot.

God you are worse than reddiors

WTF is that first reply.
>>2573875
>Marx decisively made sure to never leave a direct manifesto on what to do, it should be noted however he derided labor notes
Marx and Engels literally wrote the Communist Manifesto (with ten points (quoted by >>2577801) and they were tentatively in favor of labor notes, as can be inferred from Critique of the Gotha Programme (quoted by >>2576132) as well as a few other comments ("no more “money” than a ticket" - Volume I "These vouchers are not money" - Volume II).

in this house, dessalines is a hero!

Preface to the Second Edition

The book you are about to read appeared in 1954, published by Les Presses Libres, in Port-au-Prince. The printing was paid for collectively by a subscription paid by researchers in Haiti at the time: historians, history professors, and enthusiasts of Haitian history. Editing was performed by our whole family, meaning my grandmother, my mother, the author (who, in 1954, had just turned fifty years old), my brothers Daniel, Jacques, and yours truly. I had just turned ten, Daniel was fourteen, and Jacques, nine. The youngest, Max, was only five. Our parents never thought we were "too small" to deal with serious matters. I am very grateful to them.

Étienne Charlier's Overview has since been unavailable for more than fifty years. This is quite paradoxical, given the book's widespread critical success and the fact that it represented, for generations of rhetoric students, a true Holy Grail: the only Haitian history work covering the entire first part of the baccalaureate curriculum. Innumerable young people searched for it in vain, finding, in the best cases, only photocopies of chapters. Some also — the luckiest ones — bought a copy in more-or-less poor condition at exorbitant prices, which they immediately rushed to "crunch" from cover to cover, anticipating the looming exam. The publication of this edition finally changes a disastrous state of affairs for our young people, whose admirable patriotism deserves to be nurtured and supported by the best possible education. That is, by the most complete and reasoned knowledge possible of Haitian history. A people without history is a people without memory, a philosopher said. We have an exemplary history, both through its successes and its failures. We absolutely must know our roots. Étienne Charlier's book is certainly not the alpha and omega of historical science. But it is the work of a scrupulously honest historian, with an analytical mind devoted to truth that any reader, more than fifty years after the first publication of the work, cannot help but admire. For our young people, and also for our not-so-young people, such a work can only be enriching.

I would, however, feel remiss if I did not point out that another historian, a Trinidadian one, did just as well. This refers to C.L.R. James and his book The Black Jacobins.

Should we recall that Haiti, “bastard daughter of colonists and the sea” according to a poet, and Post too long. Click here to view the full text.