/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

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>>2728789

The vanguard of every revolution has been disaffected intelligentsia. Despite how much Lenin praised the proletariat and how much Mao praised the peasantry, they never would have accomplished anything without the educated and underemployed. If masses of intelligentsia lose their jobs, that is a very good thing for revolutionary potential.

>>2729193
Sure, but the Western left has no shortage of intelligentsia.

I do imagine the "UBI" solution could backfire by giving potential revolutionary classes enough leisure time to organise instead of being perennially exhausted

>>2728032
a manga's gonna oversimplify, don't have a cow, maaaaan

>>2728813
The mode of production switching is what galvanizes revolution. The Marxists of the past were doing wishful thinking that the mode of production was switching earlier than it was in reality. But now with the rise of AI the mode of production is absolutley switching and the more superfluous the working class becomes it diminishes the exchange value that underpins all hirearchy. The bourgeois is outnumbered vastly by the proles and once all their monopoly money becomes worthless nothing can stop their destruction.

>>2725888
Why not just be independent? I'm a communist adjacent independent. You don't have to join a club or look for a new label. Nobody on either side these days has read the Federalists or Anti-Federalists or cares about the Constitution. I don't understand what made you want to belong to the right but at least it's good you want to break free, but you're going to have to sort this shit yourself.

Hung around the right and their whole personality is just racism and heil hitler. Only reason why I was drawn to it was because of the memes they make.

Back to basics. What is essential for inner peace? Hold fast to what is good and discard the bad.

>>2725462
Truth fears no scrutiny

>>2720883
>>2720891
>>2724641
Nationalism was born from liberalism itself, with the bourgeoisie forming national markets to destroy local cultures. Nationalist ideology was born by destroying the very local cultures of the internal peoples within a country, constructing an invented abstraction for the bourgeoisie to create the modern state.

Traditionalism offers nothing but being a useful idiot for finance capital, to then be discarded. All the nostalgia you feel is merely a refusal to see the development of current financial capitalism as the inevitable result of the decline in capitalist profit rates, which cannot be prevented. The past you fantasize about or wish to return to does not exist and never existed. You should stop clinging to illusions of seeing other workers as competition, believing in the discourse that Marx debunked in "Value, Price and Profit"—myths such as the struggle for higher workers' wages causing inflation—when the truth depends on the class struggle of workers in solidarity with one another as a class, and not abandoning another group of workers to be exploited more intensively by the capitalist.

Any separatism you fantasize about in the southern United States is not possible because the entire southern economy is integrated with financialized capitalist imperialism, and there is no national or regional bourgeoisie to carry out this type of separation.

All third-position groups were born from gangs and paramilitary groups that attacked workers with the police who organized against the interests of their bosses (hence the emergence of the Red Guard for the self-defense of these workers and their communities against the bourgeoisie and their henchmen). The very concepts of neoliberalism in current states have embryonic origins in privatizations (such as the privatization of German workers' pensions by private entities for speculation), the flexibilization of labor laws, and the purchase of bank dividends, which were carried out by third-position parties as a prototype of neoliberalism.

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Somebody cook

>>2728987
So there it is
>>2728989

>>2728790
You cant put Russian and Chinese foreign policy under one hat lol??
Russia has on one hand proven to just be a bad ally in general, leaving Armenia and Venezuela on their own. But on the other hand, them not helping Iran is more or less his way of "trying to maintain good relations with the USA". The US has effectively stopped supporting Ukraine, has tried to force a resource deal on Ukraine that would exploit them and keeps tightening the thumb screws in general. Russia knows this and in return doesn't want to land in conflict with the US in other theathers (i.e. Iran) even if the may very well help.
China on the other hand seems to pursue a policy of no military intervention anywhere whatsoever. Whereas Russia is active in e.g. Africa via Wagner, China only really builds up its influence financially to try and cement its image as the "friendly superpower that helps everyone" while they still just as much exploit the countries, claim their waters, fish in foreign territories etc.
>including an attempt on Putin himself
Source?

>>2729047
>bad ally in general, leaving Armenia and Venezuela on their own
venezuela they couldnt have done shit, armenia fucked around cozying up with nato and refusing to give basic concessions despite being in the weak position until being face to face with the consequences

>>2729047
>them not helping Iran
except they are helping iran

That's why I say: if they're going to nuke the world, let it be before the time I get on the bus.

heh

>>2728349
The American ones, especially the anti missile missiles, are gold plated shit, the Chinese and Russians have better and more reliable models

>>2728305
If you do this without keeping a connection to grassroots organizing/left social spaces you'll just lose yourself and become another cog. In order to reduce cognitive dissonance, when someone has conflicting beliefs/morals and actions, one of them has to conform to the other. If you maintain your employment it will inevitably your morals and beliefs that bend to accommodate your actions.

If you have and maintain connection to organized communist efforts, this is a very good idea.

>>2728464
>If you maintain your employment it will inevitably your morals and beliefs that bend to accommodate your actions.
What is the mechanism behind this hypothesis?

>>2728517
It happens all too often. I don't think it's impossible to get to these positions as a true double agent, but you'd have to be connected firmly to the people/party/objective you're committed to. Like the Scientologists and other cults plant agents in government. You'd have to be a true agent. No wannabe leader shit.

I agree with OP

>>2727536
Same in Arabic, they’re weirdly unbiased. They run articles about how Gulfies feel betrayed etc, yet the actual reporting is slightly pro-Iran. I highly respect them for that, considering Qatar is being bombed.

>However, the US and Israel are still looking for new ways to escalate kinetically. From Axios in U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran’s nuclear stockpile:

>>The U.S. and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war, according to four sources with knowledge of the discussions.

>If the IAEA were involved in such an operation, this would confirm it is not a good faith actor. Iran-connected sources contended that the IAEA assisted in the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists by providing information about their whereabouts.

>Now assuming this raid is executed and does not become Bay of Pigs 2.0, Trump’s team may intend to use this as a cross between the Caracas raid and pre-negotiated “obliteration” strikes on Iranian nuclear site, which ended the 12 Day War. Trump might declare victory and stop attacking and expect Iran to stand down.

But even if that is what transpires, it solves nothing for Iran. First, Israel is sure to regard this resolution as unsatisfactory since they want to eliminate Iranian missiles, and better yet, balkanize Iran. So Israel is sure to find a way to resume a hot conflict as soon as possible. Second, after reaffirming that he had indeed “obliterated” the nuclear sites last year, Trump has recently maintained that somehow the Iranians are very far along with rebuilding their enrichment program.

>We discussed earlier what a nutty idea the idea of taking Kharg Island, first voiced publicly by Keith Kellogg, is. Look at a map. It is in the north end of the Persian Gulf. Daniel Davis and others have discussed long form that sending a convoy open the Strait of Hormuz was asking for a turkey shoot of US vessels. This sort of operation would be that, cubed.

>Nevertheless, there are more signs of force mobilization[…]

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>>2728525
Iran's best chance by far would be to bait America into a ground invasion, which they could then grind down with endless guerrilla warfare from their mountains ala Afghanistan but with A LOT more and better weapons for the guerrillas.

Hezbollah uses tactics it learned from, then taught to Iran. Most of what they do is IED followed up almost immediately by an infantry ambush at close range. You have to fight at close range against these western pattern armies because their fire support is so devastating. If you're right on top of them, they can't call in any airstrikes, so you can fight them man to man. At that point, the element of surprise counts for a lot and pre-positioned infantry ambushes can cause massive damage.

If Iran can bait America into a ground invasion then they can actually WIN this war, instead of just surviving it.

>>2728550
I dunno I think the western armies infantry is gonna be very vulnerable to getting attacked by light quadcopter FPV's and I'd be surprised if Iranian forces don't have them.
Western militaries are just still used to the idea that they're going to have dramatic technological advantage over their opponents and this simply isn't true anymore.

>>2727603
>magacommunism is a failure. Haz was wrong
>>2727594
>you are telling me haz was wrong?
The plan to turn MAGA into communists by being homophobic and anti-war has unfortunately failed because it turned out that MAGA is less homophobic and more hawkish than non-MAGA Republicans.

>>2725744
Actually I think you have it backwards

The simplest theory of everything bad in society is "bad people made it happen on purpose". You just need to know that people have power and agency. It's much more complex to explain the relationship between commodities, gold, labor, capital, the proletariat, the bourgeoisie, markets, the state, and so on and how this is a system which produces certain results regardless of any subjective variance and agency in the individual participants.

So while I also agree with validating conspiracies as real and not reducing everything to market incentives and selection forces, if you veer too far towards individual agency you get an idealist and liberal understanding of how society works. It leads to "just get rid of the bad apples" and "capitalism is bad because greed", and these necessitate liberal solutions that ultimately maintain capitalism. This is why conspiracy theories are so much more popular among the masses. The answers are mentally easy and don't challenge the system, only scandalize it.

>>2728472
If we kill all the bad people, they no longer exist, they can no longer do bad things. It's that shrimple.

>>2728474
And, frankly, bad people are like animals. They only understand the kind of language, of I am going to physically inflict pain on you in certain amounts for a certain time. This is the only thing that deters them.

>What uyghas wan' do when you see me off camera
>uygha strip who? I'll beat you till you lavender

>>2728475
Let's see Musk get beat once til he's Lavender and what he ever has to say again after that. Let's see his facial geometry get rearranged.

Occam's Razor, is I am going to flay all your skin from your flesh with a razor. Funkytown time nah mean?

Depends on which part of the U.S., I'm moving to Houston to work as a rent boy for oil millionaires $$$

I hope the No Kings marches inspire more "Never Trump" Republicans to defect and impeach the orangutan

It's a shame they locked Houdini up in Florida because he could get in on this

>>2727928
Jesus preached socialism and it was first practiced as described in the book of Acts where "everyone had everything in common". Deacons (servants) were responsible for the distribution of goods. This was the inspiration for what came later. Now the nascent church was scattered when persecution by the Jews intensified after Steven and James were martyred but the missions still sent supplies to whoever was in need. This broke down gradually over time because of the influence of politics on the religion. The co-opting of religion to serve politics has given us the madness were experiencing today. The separation of church and state is necessary to protect the integrity of both, so Christian socialism is just as bad an idea as Christian nationalism. The ASP exists in a few states to try to influence elections by promoting the socialism found in church teaching but the aim isn't a utopian end but because they believe that "God made us all equal in his image and that no man should be born into, and live in, poverty".

Christian Socialism was debunked by Marx and Engels 178 years ago. Nothing more needs to be said.

>>2728011
Marx and Engels are dead, ELN is alive

>>2727410
my genes are just more likely to be miserable and depressed and anxious all the time, but they all live into their 90s somehow
idk anon have you tried mushrooms or anything? i heard it can kinda rewire your brain somewhat
i also heard exercise and stuff makes you more resistant to toxic co2 air but i am scared of going outside so i dont get much exercise and probably get a lot of co2

>>2727416
>idk anon have you tried mushrooms or anything?
Me? No, I haven’t.
>i heard it can kinda rewire your brain somewhat
Temporarily.
>i also heard exercise and stuff makes you more resistant to toxic co2 air
it does.
>but i am scared of going outside so i dont get much exercise
Hope you have enough space for indoor workouts. Usually what I do. Really only go outside for sun and fresh air.

>>2727424
>temporarily
is it really only temporary? does it slowly go back to normal over the years or something?
>Hope you have enough space for indoor workouts. Usually what I do.
im not even sure what an indoor workout would look like, is it very expensive? i dont have much of anything so theres plenty of free space i guess

>>2727426
Yeah, it temporary. Still may be good for therapeutic effects though.
https://www.americanbrainfoundation.org/how-psychedelics-affect-the-brain/
>im not even sure what an indoor workout would look like, is it very expensive?

Depends on what you’re going for, but it can be relatively cheap. Plenty of second hand stuff out there too. Just stay from nordictrack.

>>2727446
interesting, it says effects can linger for like 3 weeks but you hear a lot from people who say that they like took it and it cured their depression or anxiety or induced ego death or something and it didnt go away, whats the deal with that?
>Depends on what you’re going for, but it can be relatively cheap.
cardio probably since i assume thats what helps vs co2 and it helps vs all the other heart killing shit we deal with