/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1838263
The US is not the user of its currency, it is the issuer. The way dollars get from the mint to the economy is through the federal spending of dollars it has issued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vi528gseA
This was more or less discovered through the funding of WWII and members of the monetary government immediately began ruminating on these observations which disproved previous monetary theories.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/taxes-for-revenue-are-obsolete.html

>>1837208
>Funding wars, that is money taken out of the pockets of social programs to fund a military complex.
Libertarian moar-treatism and "it hurts veterans to fight wars" shit is so played out. I'm not actively hostile to people who espouse it, but this undermines the foundation of understanding the geopolitical cost of these wars. Reinforcing the imperial system indirectly fucks workers in many other ways, it's not a muh tax dollars thing. That's not even how government spending and money creation work.

>>1837574
Well I mean for starters it's the only country I know of that officially nationalized a neo-nazi militia with a history of deadly hate crimes. In case I have to put the dots together for your tard ass, that means the Ukraine state officially recognizes neo-nazis as a representation of their nation. If you're "yeah, so what?" to arming and enabling the actions of a militant neo-nazi group, your question isn't in good faith and you're just one of them. Even liberal thinktanks like the ECRI agree with me.

No fucking shit.

Why are people taking this thread seriously?

I donated to MSF and had it earmarked for Ukrainian causes. That's a way to be conscientious of what both NATO and the Russians are doing; i.e, NATO wants to fight the Russians down to the last Ukrainian, and the Russians have to break Ukrainian society.

This is surgery; if the Russians do not win, the world will suffer, but the Ukrainians do not need to suffer so much.

Cause → Effect → Cause → Effect, there was never a beginning only a infinitley looping chain of causality recurring back upon itself that motivaties the logic of the universe. Nothing can exist outside of causality and any thoughts you create are bound by prior causes independent of your nonexistent personal control. The idea of a self conception independent of the collective godhead of the universe is a narssicistic and egotistical construct resulting from the material desire to explain ones own conscious existence, a delusion basically. Throughout human history all humans have understood this to some degree its only in the modern day of hypercapitalism that attempts to push individualism to the extreme that the idea of an independent "self" with no concept of God is taken even remotely seriously.

>the brain is material, so is the mind
>the more accurately your understanding of the world reflects reality, the more effectively you can make decisions
>the enemy in the class struggle consistently uses propaganda to fight for a false consciousness in the workers
>false consciousness prevents many workers from organizing and actively engaging in class struggle, instead simply suffering and allowing the historical process to unfold more slowly, while the bourgeoisie have more time to gather resources and strength
>the natural trajectory of the class struggle is the victory of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie
>therefore, the dialectics of class struggle can be expedited and historical progress hastened by raising the class consciousness of the workers
QED

>believe
it's a useful model for understanding the world, like quantum mechanics.

>>1839181
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>>1838598
Materialism is epistemology, choice in believing it is ethics. Trying to prove why you should do something is outside the direct scope.

That said, we can take ethics materialistically, so, "why, given my specific existence as a human (i.e. being a material being, whose entire experience is mediated materially, and who currently holds certain values, embodied in various axes, circuits, systems, and so on, given to us both by our biology, our socialization, and their interaction…), should I believe in materialism?"

The answer is because humans have needs to meet and values to fulfill that require making specific interventions in reality, and materialism is the only philosophy that is not either against or neutral on the claim that we can produce knowledge.of the world (because we live in it and are ourselves material, and learn via interacting - idealism can't fully accept science even though some eclectics want irrationality on one side (for special cases or to fill gaps in knowledge), and science on the other) because it posits either an irrational world governed solely by gods whims, or that our experience of the world is not direct, because our consciousness is otherworldly and not material). Because of that it is the philosophy behind the practice of producing knowledge. The knowledge that you need in order to make accurate interventions in reality to meet your needs etc.

Mercedes unionization vote in Alabama will likely get a boost from UAW deal with Daimler Truck
Union officials at the North Carolina rally pointed to Mercedes as the next organizing target, as well as other automakers with plants in the South, including Nissan (7201.T), BMW (BMWG.DE) , . "We set an example for the entire South. I hope Mercedes in Tuscaloosa (Alabama) was paying attention to what we're doing," said Corey Hill, president of UAW Local 3520, which represents Daimler Truck workers in Cleveland, North Carolina.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-deal-with-daimler-truck-boosts-energy-ahead-mercedes-vote-alabama-2024-04-29/

Columbia Students Occupy Historic Campus Building, Renaming It After Child Killed by IDF
Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a student-led advocacy group, said in a statement following the takeover that Columbia's leadership "forced protesters to escalate by contributing to a genocide while refusing to follow baseline standards of conduct that make negotiation possible."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-hamilton-hall

Laid-off: Former Tyson Foods chicken farmers face high costs switching to eggs
Some U.S. farmers who once raised chickens for Tyson Foods to slaughter are shifting to sell eggs instead after the meatpacker closed six plants, a move that left local suppliers with limited options for work. In one example, former Tyson suppliers in central Virginia formed a cooperative that will produce cage-free eggs for Indiana-based Dutch Country Organics on a dozen farms, after Tyson closed its nearby Glen Allen plant last year.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/laid-off-former-tyson-foods-chicken-farmers-face-high-costs-switching-eggs-2024-04-30/

Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Argentina: confront capitalist reaction by fighting for a workers’ government!
The government of Javier Milei is once more accelerating the deterioration of workers’ living and working conditions. Adding to the list of government subsidies which have been eliminated over the past few months, today he is attacking subsidies for long-distance train fares as well as those that serve the suburbs of Buenos Aires, which many poor workers depend on for their daily commute. Ticket prices will rise an average of 54 percent, although they will rise by 2,000 percent for long-distance trains. The first water, electricity and gas bills of the month are arriving with astronomical increases after subsidies for these utilities were also cut. Inflation has exceeded 100 percent in the 155 days of Milei’s presidency, which throws into glaring relief the contract negotiations for below-inflation raises and the ceiling on wage increases applied by the government, accepted by the CGT trade union confederation. Argentina is experiencing conditions of extreme ‘stagflation’ – i.e. simultaneous high inflation and economic contraction – despite the fact that the collapse in consumption of ordinary workers is applying a downward pressure on inflation. This policy of wage restraint is being combined with state austerity to reduce the fiscal deficit by more than 5 percent of GDP. The result for the government is a nice accumulation of funds, at the expense of the blood and sweat of the working class. These funds will then be disposed of by paying off the enormous illegitimate debt owed to the International Monetary Fund, among others.
https://www.marxist.com/argentina-confront-capitalist-reaction-by-fighting-for-a-workers-government.htm

Congress Is Trying to Stop Automatic Flight Refunds
The Biden administration last week announced a new rule promising that when airlines cancel or significantly delay flights, passengers will automatically be given their money back without having to “navigate a patchwork of cumbersome processes to request and receive a refund, searching through airline websites to figure out how make the request, filling out extra ‘digital paperwork,’ or at times waiting for hours on the phone.” But just days after that announcement generated Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>Poolish Kulaks cucking out
Pathetic…

Thanks News Anon

>>1840295
>rightoids launching explosives at a protest
wow sure hope the police do something about it.

>>1840295
3.mp4
That shit can easily inflict lifelong tinnitus and other hearing damage. If protestors were throwing firecrackers at cops they'd probably get locked up for life

>>1840110
>trying to hold a position without guns
If they know you're armed, they will wait you out. Otherwise, piggies will have fun cracking skulls

Moved to >>>/leftypol_archive/590672.

>apolitical
No such thing.

>>1839244
>Liberals, as I've said many times, are a 5th Column, the sort of treacherous bastards that use platitudes and pretend to be for the greater good, but will stab the people in the back without even a thought, should it fit their needs.
Literally what the liberal INC and Sarkari leftist cucks of CPI-M have been doing in my country.

>>If all Genocide Joe libs were slaughtered the only opposition to Republicans would be socialists
implyin republicans and democrats r blue vs red when they're dark red vs slightly lighter dark red. this is also wrong lol, y r their only three notions of political thought? that's not the case in burgerland
>Why do you want to save liberals?
bc im not an edgelord and actually want progress in [insert my country], and this can be acomplished more efficently and productively without unnesecary violence. they're better off my allies than dead, who's gonna plow the fields? kek
>Are you saying you want to be in a massive grave with them?
ooo scary threat, i'd legitimately kill u in a fight btw
>Are liberals your comrades?
nah wish they were then we'd be gettin more shit done
>>1839059
reallllll

>>1839040
>>1839839
mb forgot 2 tag

>as liberals uphold the veneer of civil genocide and non-violent colonialism.
I disagree with this, they clearly don't.

Otto Strasser was also offered a position in the GDR's government which Otto refused because he wanted to live in his old home in Bavaria

>>1839616
Nice whataboutism, but I hate NATO and I will not defend them.

>>1839619
Damn, this is the ugly bastard from Hentai.

>>1839619
Just why

>>1839515
>the more I see how opportunist
welcome to the real world

is Systems Engineering relevant at all to cybernetic communist planning?

>Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles. At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinking principles to organize this body of knowledge. The individual outcome of such efforts, an engineered system, can be defined as a combination of components that work in synergy to collectively perform a useful function.

<Issues such as requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability, and many other disciplines necessary for successful system design, development, implementation, and ultimate decommission become more difficult when dealing with large or complex projects. Systems engineering deals with work processes, optimization methods, and risk management tools in such projects. It overlaps technical and human-centered disciplines such as industrial engineering, production systems engineering, process systems engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, control engineering, software engineering, electrical engineering, cybernetics, aerospace engineering, organizational studies, civil engineering and project management. Systems engineering ensures that all likely aspects of a project or system are considered and integrated into a whole.

>The systems engineering process is a discovery process that is quite unlike a manufacturing process. A manufacturing process is focused on repetitive activities that achieve high-quality outputs with minimum cost and time. The systems engineering process must begin by discovering the real problems that need to be resolved and identifying the most probable or highest-impact failures that can occur. Systems engineering involves finding solutions to these problems.

is this a field worth studying if I want to contribute to cybercom in the future?

>>1838381
Why are you pretending that post >>1838317 actually asked that by removing the “” only for you to give a glib non-solution while post >>1838317 answered exactly that question in detail?

>>1838317 (me)
Need to fix a sentence:
But then the day comes when everything newly produced cannot be obtained with the old DCPs.
But then the day comes when nothing newly produced can be obtained with the old DCPs.

Dealing with a few additional questions one might have:

“Some things can be stored for months, but a salad bowl from the supermarket expires after a few days. Your alternative scheme for dealing with oversupply does not work with such a short time span. You have to lower the salad’s DCP price, don’t you? So you have to give up fixing the DCP price strictly by labor content.“ I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED BY A SALAD. If people who take the old salad instantly get QPs for doing that, the salad’s DCP price can stay fixed over the days.

“This proposal feels very similar in effect to just having one currency and prices that fluctuate. Aren’t you just playing word games without changing anything?“ You will see it is a different system when you think about it for a while.

Within capitalism, when it comes to a mass-produced thing with long shelf life, an improvement in production method leads to a necessary change in value for both new units as well as units already on the shelves. Socialism with non-dated budgets needs a corresponding procedure for reassessment, which gets complicated when things produced by new cheap methods are not strictly identical to older things. With DCPs such reassessments are not a pressing issue. We may do without them.

Within socialism, the center will use some in-kind planning for allocating resources between ministries, but doing this exclusively (assuming that’s even possible) would amount to micro-managing everything from the center with no decision-making power left for the ministries. Money budgets on the other hand lead to chaos and inequality over time. Two-dimensional budgets of DCPs and QPs allow for nuance. Suppose some ministry gets tasked with something that requires not much labor, but is very important. So the center allocates to that ministry a low budget of DCPs and a high budget of QPs.

“How do foreign entities interact with that system?” I do not have a full answer, but I can tell you the two-dimensional system allows for fine-grained control. I believe that as long as wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1839420
>the center
>ministries
where does this idea that we want to reconstitute the Soviet system come from? not that this is even remotely how that system worked either
>Suppose some ministry gets tasked with something that requires not much labor, but is very important. So the center allocates to that ministry a low budget of DCPs and a high budget of QPs
this sounds like khozraschet and the retarded system of planning in the late USSR in general
>two-dimensional system
>not advocating for billions of dimensions
you might as well be advocating for the single-dimensional system of exchange

>>1839420 (me)
Forgot to mention: DCPs are in electronic accounts and cannot be transferred between citizens. They are used up in consumption and do not circulate. For foreign trade however, the government issues a type of DCPs that can be traded between foreign entities. (So far, this is like the LVs in TaNS.)

QPs are also like that, with one more restriction: The QPs issued to foreign entities cannot be traded between them.

By 1989 it was far too late 2bh. Karmal should have been in the head seat since the beginning, I think the Khalq faction has been proven to have been too far to the Left. Amin is a scumbag who was uniquely appalling for sure but even under Taraki a lot of resistance was generated that should have been expected considering their stage of development and could have been avoided had the government pursued a different policy towards the beginning.

>>1839029
i go back to 1979 instead and stop a certain peanut farmer from agreeing to operation cyclone

The conditions are not great, even with hindsight, without Soviet support, the Democratic republic of Afghanistan will fall or have a weak grasp over the country. At best, with hindsight, Najibullah can avoid his death.

Also remember, Gorbachev totally sold Najibullah out for western headpats, with no geopolitical gain whatsoever.

>>1839029
kill gorby and yeltsin and prevent ussr fall. Najibullah was based and effective, but he could not do miracles.

https://investigaction.net/en-1989-un-petit-stalingrad-afghan/
<In 1989, a little Afghan Stalingrad

>On February 15, 1989, the last Red Army soldier left Afghanistan, punctually honoring Mikhail Gorbachev's February 8, 1988 announcement of withdrawal to the United Nations General Assembly[1]. A perfectly organized withdrawal (in stark contrast to that of the United States, in August of that year) which resulted from the failure of negotiations in which the Soviets sought to negotiate their departure in exchange for a halt to American and Pakistani interventions, and which could only augur the imminent, almost automatic fall of the progressive Afghan government[2].

>This is exactly how the intelligence services and political administrations of the USA and Pakistan understood it, and decided to act without delay to "finish the job". In its February 11, 1989 edition, the New York Times revealed the existence of a secret meeting of the U.S. Security Council that had taken place on the 9th, concluding that, according to intelligence information, Mohammad Najibullah's government would only hold out for another three to six months, and recommending that President George H. W. Bush continue to arm the Mujahideen for this new and "final fighting season". The New York daily commented: "The Bush administration's decision confirms that the political objective of the United States is to accelerate the collapse of the Kabul government, now that the withdrawal of Soviet troops is virtually complete[3]." The participants in the meeting were thus following the advice and predictions of Mujahideen leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who had just declared that "the fall of Kabul will not be counted in months, but in a couple of weeks, and will take place without too many clashes in the city[4]." So they decided to precipitate it. Significant detail: at the meeting to which Pakistani officials were invited, no representative of the Afghan insurgents was present. This absence was explained by the same New York daily, which quoted a senior PPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1839029
I've never really liked questions like this, mostly because of >>1839293. Individual actors can steer the specifics of history, but the big picture is a result of material conditions that exist beyond any one man.

>>1830073
> Francs
Anon, from which decade is that source from?

>>1830220
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/outsourcing-exploitation-global-labor-value-chains/

There is a fantastic article written on it by Intan Suwandi, Author of Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism

I recommend the series the article is a part of by OpenDemocracy, called decolonising the economy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/decolonising-the-economy/

Also in this is, John Smith's article, Imperialism in a coffee cup, Smith and Suwandi are really the best current authors on Imperialism, best explainers of it.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/imperialism-coffee-cup/

>>1829354
the swan song of the desperate burger

>>1590991
What if I prefer one socialist pole instead of multiple capitalist poles?

>>1839477
Well better tell China to start moving for global hegemony then, instead of cross-linking the imperial periphery and permanently destroying the global empire ☺️

Bro trusted the Russians too much. Why the hell would you trust the Russians?

Hopefully not too late, but Benes Ayo "Black Lenin" made a video discussing what happened to Bentley. Benes lashes out pretty strongly.
The video was posted a week ago.
Here's a quick summary, in the video it's pretty wordy, don't feel like translating everything in detail.
>Ayo Benes is upset about Bentley being killed
>blames it on the 5th brigade of the DPR aka Oplot Brigade (there were "rumours" prior that it might be a Buryat tank brigade)
>Benes says he served in this very brigade in 2017 and it was pretty normal back then
>however after Zakharchenko (leader of DPR at the time) got assassinated in 2018, some parts of the brigade fell into disarray, alcohol and drug use became common among military personnel, with intoxicated soldiers commiting all sorts of crime
>some of the leaders of the brigade committed fraud and racket in major towns
>Benes assumes that the situation probably didn't change much since then
>says Bentley may have been killed because he saw all the dirty deeds the leaders of the DPR did there and the corrupt system just couldn't cope with a righteous person pointing all of that out
>Benes ends up cursing the russian govenrment, political and military figureheads, including Putin, and the russia mass media for going against the people in an attempt to hide yet another case of a proud people's warrior getting killed by the pawns of the system

>>1838816
>Bro trusted the Russians too much. Why the hell would you trust the Russians?
Ok glowie

>>1838780
Worthless conversation because it discusses the official diplomatic actions of peripheral countries trying to skirt sanctions as being some kind of indicator that the global south condemns the war in Ukraine. China doesn't even condemn or condone the war, people act like they can just flip the communism switch but they are still a developing (actually this time, not just a ruse to refer to undeveloped, maldeveloped areas). The major crisis triggered by this war was the US secondary sanctions. Don't forget sanctions are a global siege not just on one country but its trading partners. The periphery didn't even have time after Covid to get its shit together before the war hit.
You can't view diplomatic actions as being a barometer of opinion in a government or a country that's retarded, you gay Nazi.