/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2684844
Orban larps as anti Ukraine but funds pro Ukraine media in Slovenia. Now with Fico existing I couldn't care less if he gets removed (after all, Hungary is pretty poor)

>>2684844
no

>>2684978
for ukraine, it's what hungary deserves after like 20 years of orban

>>2684896
Honestly given that Europe and America may be going their separate ways in the near future there's an argument to be made that Orban is actually not the multipolarist candidate. His opposition to European integration is something that would weaken Europe's ability to form an independent pole and properly break with the US.

>>2685457
>US has like 100k soldiers on the ground spread around 30 bases from Romania to Germany
It's actually more like 60-70k, and more than half of them are in Germany. Additionally those bases can't operate without the cooperation of their host countries. It would be impossible to supply or maintain them without this. They aren't some kind of checkmate that guarantees US dominance in Europe in perpetuity.
>>2685468
Why do you think it's a bad thing for Europe to break out of the US orbit?
>and I shit on Iran/North Korea/Cuba/etc.
I don't shit on any of those countries. In fact I regularly speak out in support of them.
>as countries who have ZERO US bases on their territory
Cuba actually does have a US based at Gitmo.

lmao Italy is so pathetic allowing ICE in their country. What a farce all that patriotic bluster was during the ceremony. How can they even pretend to be sovereign anymore?

‘Awful News for Due Process’ as Court Backs Trump’s Mass Immigrant Detention
A three-judge panel of the right-wing 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled 2-1 that President Donald Trump’s reversal of three decades of practice by previous administrations is legally sound under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA). The ruling reverses two lower court orders.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/court-upholds-trump-mass-detention

NSA detected foreign intelligence phone call about a person close to Trump
Last spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) flagged an unusual phone call between two members of foreign intelligence, who discussed a person close to Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower’s attorney who was briefed on details of the call The highly sensitive communique, which has roiled Washington over the past week, was brought to the attention of the director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower

The left smells blood after shocking Democratic primary result
AIPAC spent over $2 million against Malinowski — a mainstream Democrat who had the group's support in the past — for his willingness to condition aid to Israel. The group reportedly favored former Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, who had support from parts of the Democratic Party establishment. Observers say that created an opening for Mejia, the most prominent progressive in the race, who was endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the Progressive Caucus.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/06/new-jersey-mejia-election-primary-democrats-left
https://archive.ph/1ecWu

Minneapolis protesters arrested during one-month anniversary of Renee Good’s death
Scores of protesters gathered across the street froPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

There Is One Marxism: Against “Western”, “Eastern” and “Third-World” Marxism By Nikos Mottas
The recurrent attempt to divide Marxism into “Western,” “Eastern,” “Third-World,” or other geographically marked variants reflects a deeper theoretical retreat from Marxism as a scientific worldview and a revolutionary method. Such distinctions implicitly transform Marxism from a universal theory of capitalist society and class struggle into a set of culturally conditioned perspectives, shaped primarily by geography rather than by objective social relations. From a Marxist-Leninist standpoint, this approach is fundamentally mistaken. Marxism is one, not because it ignores historical and national specificity, but because it rests on objective laws of social development that operate globally wherever capitalism exists. This point was already clear to Engels, who repeatedly stressed that socialism is not a moral doctrine or a national tradition but the scientific outcome of material analysis. In Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Engels insisted that Marxism arose not from abstract ideals but from “the material conditions of life,” and that its conclusions follow necessarily from the development of capitalist production. A science grounded in material conditions cannot be regionally plural in its foundations. Either the laws of motion of capitalism exist, or they do not. If they exist, then Marxism, as their scientific expression, must be theoretically unified. Marx and Engels did not present Marxism as a “European interpretation” of society. They formulated a materialist conception of history grounded in modes of production, class relations, and exploitation. These are not regional phenomena. Capitalism, once established as a world system, imposes its laws universally, albeit in uneven and contradictory forms. Marx’s stated aim in Capital was to uncover “the economic law of motion of modern society.” A law of motion is not culturally relative; it applies wherever the social relations it describes prevail. To speak of multiple Marxisms is therefore to imply multiple capitalisms governed by fundamentally different logics, an implication that collapses under any serious analysis of the world market.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/02/there-is-one-marxism-against-western-eastern-and-Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna especially for the idcom article

Video of the Italian protests

>>2683447
It does not surprise me that this westoid anticommunist anarcho retard eventually became honest enough to admit he's a fascist

>>2684952

we have a saying here that says "when you're just going i've already went and came back 2 times"

>>2685365
Here it's "I have dived where you swim"

>>2683930
> Pharma companies would make infinitely more money for far less effort by putting a cent on the price of paracetamol.
but then the water would be full of hormone piss that turns the frogs gay, and we can't have that

>>2682407
>materialism → info-essentialism
lol

>>2685286
stop playing slop like gta and start playing REAL games like this

There is a better version of the hanged chudjak

>>2685345
full body

>>2685308
>not xonotic
>not super tux kart
>not even di$co ely$ium
unfriended

>>2685155
Humans need work though, people that are idle all the time are depressed or some other form of mentally ill, without schedule, without structure people will just kill themselves

The historical Jesus was basically a proto-Communist and never claimed to be a God.
Yet 99% of Christians from 200 AD onwards have been essentially Hitlerian.
Curious huh?

In any case, from a purely numerical perspective we cannot afford to alienate everyone who isn't an ardent materialist atheist redditor, but that doesn't mean we have to endorse religions either.
The key is to be nuanced and use judgement when presenting these things.
If you spend all day waving your fedora in the face of a retail worker or manual labourer, maybe you can walk away feeling intellectually superior (your position is in fact more correct of course) but in real terms you have achieved nothing but stroking your own ego and further alienating the masses from Marxism.

>>2685176
Constantine might be the singular worst human being in history actually

>>2685155
>Things will become fully automated
Buahaha!! No. Technocrats are escapists. Call me when that magical AI scam bot can mow my lawn and do my laundry.
This civilization won't last another century before we go medieval mad max style.

>>2685192
There is no final crisis like that and never will be, all that Fallout and Mad Max shit is cope, collapse happens over millennia, your life is to live the exact same day over and over again but slightly worse for the rest of your life.

>>2634449
sounds like a CIA psyop to me, everyone knows socialism is when people that aren't from countries that are majority white european descended have a stonk market and become powerful militarily.

>>2634377
Okay Nick Land. If you're not gonna use those Lenin books, can I have them?

>>2641983
shieeeeeet

Installing Marx. Uninstalling inequality. Chennai reaffirms red. The commanding statue of Karl Marx now stands at the Connemara Public Library, Chennai. We draw strength from progressive ideas, no matter where they come from. When forces of domination attempt to prevail, we resist them. This is the essence of our Dravidian Model,” the CM of Tamil Naidu, Mr MK STALIN said in a X post.

The request to have a statue of Karl Marx was made by physics professor Marx Anthonisamy.
Second pic: Prof Anthonisamy
Third pic: Chief Minister MK Stalin

>>2684938
>t do the masses of MENA, the working and middle class, care about the Palestinians?
A lot for identiterian reasons.
What, however, is a care worth?

>>2684979
Mind broken by Big Mehmet Cock
>muh metaphysics!1111
Class consciousness is the party. We have elements of the historical party, it is active and real even it lacks mass support right now, it is getting there slowly with each bout. You have nothing, you have no party, no real movement, all your "communist" parties are socdems in the pockets of Xi and the Ayatollah, the few that are self aware of you relegate themselves to reddit shitposting. All you can do is standby impotently, eagerly waiting for us to liberate you and elevate you to humanity.

>>2684964
baathism was nothing but fascism in red, arab robes

>>2684964
Ba'athism was non-Marxist "socialism" (i.e. not socialism) that had plenty of positive qualities, but was no substitute for communism. It was also waffling in its supposed anti-imperialism. Let's not forget that Saddam Hussein was a US ally before he bit the hand that fed him, and Hafez Al-Assad contributed troops to Desert Storm.
>Do not mistake their weak organizing as the proles being brainwashed
I detest the term brainwashing, but it's absolutely true that many workers and peasants in MENA are gripped by false consciousness. It's also true that a lot of Westerners are too fat and comfortable to revolt, but I don't think that's any better than revolting because you want to be able to murder your neighbour for having a different interpretation of the Quaran than you. Sectarianism and religious delirium is just as corrosive to class consciousness as being bribed by treats, except more personally destructive.

>>2684938
>do the masses of MENA, the working and middle class, care about the Palestinians
Yeah generally.

>>2682976
In TNG, Councillor Troi had to wear a revealing outfit (despite being Star Fleet and working upon the bridge) for about 4 series until the episode where Captain Jellico takes over the Enterprise and makes her wear a regular uniform. This was 1987 - 1991. Then in series 4 (1997) of Voyager they had Seven of Nine wear those tight cat suits which I never thought suited her.

>>2683581
>In TNG, Councillor Troi had to wear a revealing outfit (despite being Star Fleet and working upon the bridge) for about 4 series until the episode where Captain Jellico takes over the Enterprise and makes her wear a regular uniform. This was 1987 - 1991. Then in series 4 (1997) of Voyager they had Seven of Nine wear those tight cat suits which I never thought suited her.

I guess Troi's outfit is "revealing" by comparison with its lower neckline but in every other respect it is the same form fitting outfit most characters wear. Especially before the uniform redesign, where depending on the actor and whatever size they had available, sometimes they might as well be painted on.

There's not really any excuse for 7 of 9 though. Like with Troi, there's definitely a sex appeal factor (which I think is necessary to a degree), but with 7 it really was just shameless "look at these huge boobs you stupid nerd."

I think that if you came at it from a certain angle, 7's outfit could really work given her character. She's spent most of her life as a Borg, and a grey, form fitting jumpsuit could be a practical choice. So for us the viewer and the humans on Voyager, it reads as a sexy catsuit that really shows off her body. 7 doesn't even consider this because her whole life she's never had to consider her physical appearance, how others interpret it, and how these social perceptions effect her.

I'm kind of thinking about Data and his interactions with his mother, where iirc she talks about the problems Data caused at first where he walked around the colony naked because he's an android that didn't need to wear clothes. Dr Soongh had to program special modesty subroutines into him iirc.

But then, that really underscores the problems with voyager, doubly so. They didn't know what they were doing, had no strong ideas guiding the story, and 7 is just them flailing to try and boost ratings by stuffing boobs in a jumpsuit.

DS9 has a humorous depiction of a hyper capitalist hyper misogynistic society, in the Ferengi. Females are not allowed to earn profit or even wear clothes however this changes by the time the show finishes.

I remember an episode of Sliders where they slide to a dimension where males are oppressed and Rembrandt (a male character) is used by a woman. Some critics say why couldn't they just depict an even more sexist society (against women) like the Ferrengi, rather than switch roles, but I think it's a valid allegory (not sure that's the correct word).

why is this pop culture shit on the main board lmao

>>2685074
Lib tourists think everything is political, hence shitting up the politics board with their radlib analysis of pop culture

>>2683266
>>Was right proving wrong Marx and Engels on the origin of money (although they were relying on contemporary anthropologists)
He wasnt even the person that discovered this. By early 20th century economists had already known about Sumeria's use of debt as money instead of the meme of money coming from barter.

Genuinely, what the hell was his problem?

>>2685049
he was european

>>2685049
as cockshott says, he was a Madman

>academioids
why even add the -oid like academics have anything to do with communism at all

>>2684740
>ukraine has an active communist movement as well
In jail. GTFO Nafo glowtard

>>2684814
might not be a nafoid, could be a time traveler

>>2683419
>centre right
>honor nazis
do not be deceived. it happens elsewhere in Europe too. Out of all neonazi influencers we have in Slovenia, most of them are associated with SDS and NSi center right parties, or "ex" associates of these parties.
Among the hitler worshippers, hardly anyone is from the SNS which is our "far right"
The center right is the most pro-nazi phenomenon currently in Europe.

1. Ukraine has effectively banned socialist parties which makes it fascist in practice even if it still retains many features of a liberalism.
2. The Ukrainian security apparatus and military is riddled with open fascists who use Nazi imagery.
3. Fascist ideas and figures are made mainstream in Ukraine and even upheld by self-identified liberals.