/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

A lot of people have the mistaken notion that all police personnel or civil servants are in some kind of big joint conspiracy, that they 'deceive' the other sections of the population or that they are 'fake' protectors of order, etc.

In a society based on capital, 'order' by default means nothing but the smooth running of business and the safety of property to ensure accumulation and investments proceed as is desired, which appears masked as being in the interests of the entire population. The function of law is guaranteeing the inviolability of this system, to aid the reproduction of existing social relations and ensure a stable atmosphere such that 'business as usual' can proceed 'peacefully'. This is what the police and civil service enforces.

The existence of 'unruly' elements, from criminals to beggars to striking proletarians, is a disruption of this same order, their subsequent repression being a restoration of the same. The policeman who beats a worker to drive him back to work does so not out of special malice or greed, but because they genuinely view it as their task to fend off such 'disruptive' acts, to restore 'order' and the 'rule of law'. The problem isn't them being 'fake' protectors of order, but the fact that this order is nothing but an order for capitalism.

As long as private property exists this will necessarily be the case, the police and civil services cannot be 'reformed' but only directly abolished because their very nature corresponds to the needs of capital. To say police brutality is 'undemocratic' etc is plainly wrong.

This thread is dedicated to our accomplishment of having broken the upper limit of sea surface temperature and the lower limit of antarctic sea ice amount charts this summer, hence ushering our species firmly into the capitalocene. Good job guys! Welcome to the future.

Here's an article about that:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate

As for the news, there is a drought blocking shipping at the Panama canal, bad wildfires in North America and Greece, persistent heatwaves in eastern Europe and northern Africa, and floods in central and eastern China.

Here's the latest report from the IPCC
<AR6 Synthesis Report Climate Change 2023
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/

The website of NASA about climate is great for getting data and visualizing climate change
https://climate.nasa.gov/

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Paging Anne Marie Slaughter and Amy Kloubuchar.

I was listening to this EXCELLENT "video essay" by the widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst Caleb Maupin, and considering qualifying his interesting analysis of the pharmaceutical industry's effects on the treatment of mental issues, and was about to make a comment noting that even if ultimately with people the issue is with us, that we live in capitalism, not FULL COMMUNISM. When he mentioned you two, small world isn't it.

The Biden administration could bring Israel to heel in an instant. Genocide Joe, sorry I meant President Biden could with a short simple phone call to Netanyahu two sentences "Time to recognize Palestine or no more weapons for the GENOCIDE, he's still got it in him. Although he may not in a few years. Time will tell. At this rate the best chance for Biden to win this is to prove he can still be presidential.

How?

The answer is simple. President Biden forces a ceasefire on Israel NOW. He forces a real settlement and Israeli recognition and withdrawal from the internationally, look it up stupid see how many members of the United Nations recognize Palestine. That's a lot of free positive press and social media activity for Biden especially on TikTok is it etc whatever? He could really do with that right now

I'm deciding whether I should consult for the Trump campaign however much it would make my skin crawl to have ever worked for the Republican party. This happens I will not and will never work for the Republicans, everybody wins.
We've worked together, you know what I can do. I could do with the money given this ECONOMY very important this election

This doesn't happen soon, and this can't be an October surprize the sooner the better. YOU are losing the grassroots activist party base, and you need them to get out the vote STUPID. I may throw the election for the money. Maybe I won't I'm still considering my options, and I'd really rather not.

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Countries like Canada and Australia are notorious for being resource economies, because their businesses are violently uncompetitive. Corporatism is so bad particularly in Canada to the point where the FG here can’t record how many registered businesses here exist.
In contrast the USA has around thirty-one million businesses, and china has fifty-eight. The ratio of people to businesses in those two countries alone keep many from being genuinely enslaved to super corps like in South Korea. Even if you hate libertarians, ‘classical liberals’, and globalists, you have to admit the idea; that keeping economies free and competitive does help ordinary people and keep them from poverty and unemployment. Making it easier for these owners to have small pieces of land and access to trade in domestic and foreign markets only helps both the capitalists and their workers find opportunities for success.

>wait until your enemy's bourgeois-inflicted demographic crisis causes you to have more active soldiers than they have people under 60
>win
what is this strategy called?

So I have this fascination with neo-nazis and I need to understand this.

Why the fuck are all neo-nazis like this meme?
It literally makes no sense whatsoever.
So neo-nazis are hardcore into holocaust denial I have yet to see a neo-nazis who does not shit and piss himself if someone mentions the holocaust.

So according to neo-nazis
<1) Hitlers Germany is the perfect government
<2) Hitler is the smartest man alive
<3)Hitler hated the jews
<4)Jews are responsible for everything evil in the world
And here comes the comedy part
<5)Hitler did not want to exterminate the jews
<6)The holocaust did not happen
<7)Hitler did not want to exterminate the jews
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The notion that 'classical Marxists' thought it was necessary for large-scale production to completely dominate in all branches of the economy before a given society could be considered ripe for communism is a complete misconception. Not only did they never make such a claim because no country in the world then would fit these criteria, but there in fact are a number of cases where this position was explicitly argued against - Luxemburg writing against Bernstein and Trotsky in his polemic against Rozhkov both dismiss the idea entirely.

Even the German 'left-communists' (their other erroneous views aside) correctly noted that an economy could become mature for communism only taken as a whole and not in terms of individual enterprises, and that in agriculture, small-holding had as yet not been demolished at all.

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This is NOT a drill.

Chomsky appears to be on death's door. He's 95 and just had a stroke.

At the very least, give him your prayers, say psalms for a full and speedy recovery (he's Jewish so it makes sense to do the Jewish tradition), give him your positive energy, and all that.

Use this thread to keep everyone updated.

I can't believe he may finally go. I truly believed he would live to be 100 or never die.

JVP made a cringepost on Insta the other day referring to Stonewall as an "intifada". https://www.instagram.com/p/C8wecjWOxOo/

Basically JVP wants an independent Palestine in name only. Their conception of a free Palestine seems to be the western hegemonic liberalism Israel represents just with Palestinians performing it. Like Cuba or Sweden with Palestinians.

Look I get it, Biden is old. However do you really want Trump back? Biden has actually done a pretty damn good job with the economy/border etc. I know you little socialists think he isn't good enough but it's time to grow up & do the right thing.

Biden 2024(USApol)