/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2659654
>time for deflection
You're damn right
>The source of the video is a Ukrainian telegram channel
>The post (https://t.me/exilenova_plus/15489) makes no mention of how the video was obtained or where this was and what specific bunker he'd be targeting, details Ukrainian telegram is usually all too eager to divulge in if it's proof of a Russian retreat where cameras and smartphones and shit get left behind
>The post just makes a point that this video should be shown around the world to "inform" them against volunteering in the Russian military, along with a Serious Sam reference
<Incidentally, the Ukrainian audience's top two reactions is 708 black moon face emoji and 542 laughing emojis
>As Ushanka points out, speaking Russian is not proof the soldier is Russian
>Russia doesn't need to conduct suicide bombings against bunkers, that's what FABs are for
>Charging at a bunker is a really bad way of reaching said bunker and there's no guarantees the African volunteer would actually run towards certain death over potential escape
>Posted 9th of January and this is seemingly still the sole article of proof that Russia is forcing African volunteers to be suicide bombers, quite a rare circumstance given how hard Ukrainians try to record everything

My guess, the video is ackshually Ukrainian with a captured PoW, eagerly shared for the aforementioned reason of discouraging the world from volunteering in the Russian military, but also because the video was going to be shared to its apparently thrilled Ukrainian audience anyway and it's best that Julian Ropcke is given a narrative he can report on and then has already dropped when/if the actual circumstances behind the video are revealed.

>>2659757
>if you don't support based Putin you're a lib
I absolutely dare you to justify how Putin's Russia is, in any way, defensible from a left wing perspective. I mean at this point, the population is utterly subjugated and blind to their class interests, totally consumed by either indifference, ignorance, or indulgent in state-enforced imperialism.

>>2659769
Oh, also 9th January is the day after the Oreshnik strike, so a story of betrayal and cruelty by Russian troops would be helpful.

>Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez assured US of cooperation before Maduro’s capture

>Exclusive: sources say powerful figures in the regime secretly told US and Qatari officials they would welcome Maduro’s departure

Before the US military snatched Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this month, Delcy Rodríguez and her powerful brother pledged to cooperate with the Trump administration once the strongman was gone, four sources involved at high levels with the discussions told the Guardian.

Rodríguez, who was sworn in on 5 January as acting president to replace Maduro, and her brother Jorge, the head of the national assembly, secretly assured US and Qatari officials through intermediaries ahead of time that they would welcome Maduro’s departure, according to the sources.

The communications between US officials from Delcy Rodríguez, who was then Maduro’s vice-president, began in the fall and continued after Trump and Maduro spoke in a crucial phone call in late November, the Guardian has learned, in which Trump insisted that Maduro leave Venezuela. Maduro rejected the demand.

By December, one American who was involved told the Guardian that Delcy Rodríguez told the US government she was ready: “Delcy was communicating ‘Maduro needs to go.’

“She said, ‘I’ll work with whatever is the aftermath,’” another person familiar with the messages said.

The sources say Marco Rubio, Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser, at first a skeptic about working with regime elements, came to believe that Delcy Rodríguez’s promises were the best way to prevent chaos once Maduro was gone.
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Unions and students seek Columbia University board reforms after Trump deal
The decision comes after more than two years of what they say is disenfranchisement over the way Columbia's board of trustees has handled several issues, including permitting the police to target the student body multiple times while they were protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza and capitulating to the Trump administration’s demands over alleged violations of federal anti-discrimination laws.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/union-students-seek-reform-columbia-university-board-trump-deal

House Republicans vote to lift 20-year ban on mining near pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Congressional Republicans moved closer Wednesday to lifting a 20-year ban on mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, pushing a resolution to end the moratorium through the House despite environmentalists’ warnings that it could devastate a premier destination for campers, kayakers and canoeists. The resolution now goes to the Senate, and approval there would send it to President Donald Trump for his signature.
https://apnews.com/article/boundary-waters-mining-moratorium-congress-f30b8dc9575e64b4b9e957b86409577d

‘They’re Getting Nervous,’ Says Platner After GOP Drops $42 Million on Maine’s Susan Collins
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) boasted that the $42 million investment, most of which will go to an advertising blitz to help the vulnerable five-term senator cling to her seat in November, was the largest the GOP’s Senate Leadership Fund had ever spent in Maine.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/collins-gop-spending-platner-nervous

Prosecutors barred from reviewing material seized from Washington Post reporter
Natanson, who has closely reported on the ways the Trump administration has reshaped the federal government, had two laptops, two phones, a Garmin watch and other devices seized last week as Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Communist Party of the Philippines: Corruption, injustice, abuses drive Filipino youth to revolution
Over the past week or two, the US-Marcos regime has mounted a frenzied media and social media campaign to intimidate and threaten the Filipino youth, who, more and more are growing disenchanted amid deep and widespread social ills, and are being drawn to question the rotten ruling system and seek radical and revolutionary ways to end corruption, injustice and abuses by those in power. This campaign to intimidate and threaten the Filipino youth is part of Marcos’ arsenal of fascist tactics to maintain his grip on power and preserve the ruling system, by suppressing the youth’s and people’s aspirations for change. This blatant assault against the youth is spearheaded by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the NTF-Elcac, and their mercenary hacks behind the Marcos government’s propaganda machinery. They have mobilized funds to activate and coordinate their social media troll army to drown out posts critical of the Marcos government in a deluge of spam comments, and throw their weight around to push their narrative in the press and public discourse. The Marcos psyops campaign heightened after a student researcher from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 22-year old Jerlyn Rose Doydora, died on January 1 in Abra de Ilog, Mindoro Occidental, amid relentless aerial bombing and strafing by the AFP, following an armed encounter. Another youth, 24-year old Chantal Anicoche, was taken into custody by the fascist soldiers, and illegally detained for a week, before being surfaced amid public outcry. Three Mangyan children were reportedly killed in the aerial bombing which was carried out in the proximity of mountain communities.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/corruption-injustice-abuses-drive-filipino-youth-to-revolution/

The Imperialist Attack on Venezuela, the Crisis of Chavismo, and the Prospect of a Continental Anti-imperialist Struggle
We denounce those who celebrated Trump’s attack, seeing it as a liberation. Regrettably, many Venezuelan migrants believe Trump will liberate us. That is why we are on the front line of the anti-imperialist struggle against the neocolonial offensive, and we call for mobilization toPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2658256
Oh, someone beat me to it

>>2659304
The modern taboo against sexual and romantic relationships between post-pubescent adolescents and adults is conventionally understood as a moral imperative for the protection of the vulnerable. This explanation, however, functions as a surface narrative that obscures a deeper, more powerful generative mechanism. The taboo is not a timeless moral universal but a historically specific technology of social and libidinal management, engineered to meet the demands of advanced industrial capitalism. It operates through two interconnected mechanisms: the imposition of surplus-repression to fuel economic productivity, and a system of differential governance that transforms the taboo into a tool of elite consolidation and control.

The foundational logic of the taboo is economic, as theorized by Herbert Marcuse's concept of surplus-repression. Any society requires a degree of basic instinctual repression to function. Advanced capitalism, however, requires a massive additional quantum of repression—surplus-repression—to create the disciplined, future-oriented subjects needed to perform alienated labor. The adolescent, a being of immense and newly awakened libidinal energy oriented toward immediate gratification (the Pleasure Principle), represents a primary challenge to this order. The taboo is the central apparatus for containing this energy. Its function is to systematically block the adolescent's instinctual drives for authentic, non-instrumental erotic connection. This dammed-up energy is then sublimated, rerouted into socially and economically productive channels: the competitive pursuit of academic grades, the ambition for career advancement, and the disciplined patterns of consumption. The taboo ensures that the adolescent's libido is not discharged in a personally fulfilling but economically useless relationship, but is instead converted into the psychic fuel for the Performance Principle—the relentless demand for productive output.

Building upon this foundation of mass libidinal discipline, the taboo operates as a dualistic system of social control, applied differently to the general populace and a ruling elite. For the masses, this is its exoteric function: the taboo is enforced as a sacred, absolute, and inviolable moral law. Publicly and legally, its violation is framed as the ultimate transgression, a monstrous act that dissoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2659462
Mods please permaban this poster

>>2659304
its in context of how homosexuals were treated worse for the same sex crime committed by heterosexuals, u fucking illiterate bad faith retard

>>2659594
And?

>>2658956
Anon the US economy is being carried by AI, when that pops and the US goes to shit, all of its allies will go to shit.

But by then Ima be in the mountaines enjoying my nice cave away from all the bullshit

>>2659471
>I do not know what economic system will dominate the world in the future,
Privately owned AI economic planning probably. Lumpens (80% of population) get the oven treatment.

>>2659535
when AI bubble burts the US will print money and force the entire world to pay for it.

>>2659471
>It is almost certainly not going to be the dominant global economic system in 50 years time (for it to be so, we would have to assume extreme levels of resilience against the ever-increasing discontent generated by social inequality and the destructive effects of climate change and resource scarcity.)

You are seriously underestimating it's ability to adapt, There have been periods where the common people suffered more and capitalist imperialism was producing apocalyptic wars all over the globe on a regular basis. A posadist will use this as evidence to support his belief of annihilation war as the only real means of getting rid of it; Maybe we're so far into it the only solution is to start over.

I really hope you're right, But don't say this is a matter of certainty.

>>2659535
>But by then Ima be in the mountaines enjoying my nice cave away from all the bullshit

l0ol the common man always has this tendency to just anticipate societal collapse as means to get out of his misery because we're too attatched/dependent to the system now. Not to mention we see it as a chance to be prosperous and have an even field of competition

>>2659253
europeans are the very definition of a useful idiot.

It’s so much more than outsourced security. Europeans are Americans culturally now look at all the kfc and McDonald’s Irish and English are getting yankee accents . Don’t believe me go to a protest in France and wave an American flag the cops will not hit you and will back off . The cops will attack anything but you . They are America now

>>2659253
I love trump, I love him, I want him to ACCELERATE AND ACCELERATE AND ACCELERATE at destroying the western world.

Yes he is bad and has done numerous horrible things, but if this is what it takes for it to all go to shit and for the hegemony of the United States to fall then so be it.

>its plunder that it gets for fucking over the 3rd world
there is no plunder to be had in the turd world. most value is created in the North. the US primarily exploits Europe, through seniorage

>>2658182
does kinda sound like teen fanfics lmao

>>2655382
>"Capitalism" without the bourgeoisie around isn't capitalism anymore. Once workers own the MoP it's the beginnings of transition to socialism aka lower stage communism. What you are describing is the higher phase of communism.

Marx and Lenin both explicitly say so but people on here get mad when you point this out LOL. If they don't like it they should just abandon Marxism Leninism and come up with their own ideology founded on different principles: >>2658249


>>2658282
1. they do address your "points" no matter how much you insist they don't
2. with the exception of Trotsky, nobody I quoted is a revisionist, modernizer, or falsifier. and the quote I dropped from Trotsky is still correct anyway despite his problems. Same with Stalin, Kim Il Sung, Mao, Deng Xiaoping, or whoever else you may apply these labels to.
3. Deng was right and I will quote him because Deng was Marxist-Leninist.

>>2652779
Jewish privilege

>>2655351
>>The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity.
from this it doesnt follow that any society where there is commodity production for exchange value is capitalist
you should read a logic introduction before getting into more complex works like capital

>>2659292
How on Earth is religion dead when atheists are gonna be outbreed by 2050? This sheer arrogance by the atheists about their blah blah blah inevitable enlightened victory is just pure bourgeois whiggism. The future is Africa, and Africa is the most religious place on Earth

>>2659319
everywhere else is rapidly becoming less religious, you retard

>>2659272
To be fair the Dalai Lama and Gelug are one of the smaller sects

>>2659323
That's not true. The prediction of a rapid fall has been disproven because it has relatively stabilized for years now. Religion is far from dead especially when the countries reproducing are religious while countries like in Europe are declining

>>2659348
>That's not true
look at religious statistics in latin america, it has been depreciating for years, even in religious heartlands in europe it's fallen too
>The prediction of a rapid fall has been disproven because it has relatively stabilized for years now
the prediction of a decline has been shown to be true, when the right conditions have emerged
>Religion is far from dead especially when the countries reproducing are religious while countries like in Europe are declining
your statement is half-true, but the countries that are getting more religious (in africa only) are only getting more religious in the short term, because they are reaching stability and decent development, yet in the few countries in africa that are mostly developed, they have fallen

I think it was Houdini who linked the following [^1] last year which I read in passing about the United Freedom Front (UFF) which seemed to indicate that a large part of what they were doing was in solidarity with the third world. RAF if I remember correctly trained with Palestinians, and there were a number of other groups which strongly advocated these causes. So it's not entirely outlandish to say that this might be the motive. The state of the people.

:[^1] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/18717/

>>2658554
>Isn't this view of "homo economus" widely rejected, including by leading experimental psychologists and even behavioral economists.

They also reject communism.

>>2659182
>They also reject communism.
That's true, perhaps I can think of a better argument than appeals to authority. Based on my limited knowledge, but our shared experience as human beings, we know definitively moral emotions exist, that these can be contrary to self interest, and that people can act on them. For me the trouble seems to be this action, but it applies to self-interested action also.

The only question that follows is are our moral emotions, goodness, the crown of mind, or are there other higher moral or rational factors that should govern us. In fact people with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions, where emotions including moral emotions are processed in the brain, are completely capable of making "rational" moral choices if given as a thought experiment, but in practice act completely out of line with their stated morality. Lastly experiments have shown that "rational" morality in practice largely serves to retroactively justify moral emotions. The conclusion is that reason can at best influence our moral emotions which is foundational to moral action.

More than this, even if we accepted "homo economicus" it would be difficult to justify first-world revolution in its terms.

>>2655882
>the issue is that marxists dont into political science properly, so define class and the state incorrectly. all societies are class societies by virtue of status, which orders people differently. status can be defined by any metric, but there is always inclusion and exclusion.
>>2655891
>Marxists have defined both properly, it‘s just that you are a midwit who thinks arbitrary value systems constitute a class. It‘s about societal systems and relations that are consequential, i.e. who owns the means of production under capitalism and who does not.
Why do Marxists act like only capitalism has classes, didn't feudalism have classes as well?

>>2657876
>Why do Marxists act like only capitalism has classes, didn't feudalism have classes as well?
Is this a serious question? Let's read the opening words of Chapter 1 of The Communist Manifesto (1848)


<The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

<Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Right there, in the opening sentences, is the acknowledgement that class struggle predates capitalism, and that different forms of class antagonisms have existed throughout history, alongside different modes of production.

>>2656548
The comparison between Tang era China and the USSR is so blatant. The system of Nomenklatura is basically the 1:1 "merits" system of the Tang era with all it's flaws.
USSR fell for the same reason Tang did as well largely. Corruption and Stagnation.
>>2655976
"Soviet bureaucrats owned nothing"
Technically but not the reality. Basically the way you did anything in the USSR was through bribes. This is why the Red Directors all had mansion dachas and several cars.
Watch the Soviet movie Beware of the Car which is about the brazen corruption in day to day life.

>>2655128
>dialectical materialism can not predict the emergence of classes for a radically new system
Dialectical materialism isn't a determinist predictive science. It's only a tool that explains how individuals come to change their environment.

>a posteriori
Yes. This is what it seeks to do.

>What‘s the solution for that?
Have democracy ?

>because an unknown amount of new class based systems are ahead of us that will each require another revolution
What do you think would've happened if, say, Trotsky had been in power and had allowed for the soviets to retake their original power ? Why do you think socialism must necesarrily have an upper class ?

>Marxian analysis will be sufficiently expanded upon to be able to predict the emergence of new classes a priori
I don't think you actually understand dialectical materialism. This method doesn't aim at predicting things a priori of their arrival, it aims at analyzing contemporary and past societies through the lens of materialism (so no external forces) whilst retaining a part of individual agency (individuals can reshape their environment).
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>>2658175
>Trotsky had been in power and had allowed for the soviets to retake their original power
Trotsky had no desire to do this lol and it was Lenin who emasculated the soviets anyway, not Stalin.

Bump

>>2655332
Voznesensky had lost some documents and Stalin killed him for that. There wasn't any evidence outside of the USSR that Voz rly was a spy. The USSR accusations alone are insufficient.