/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

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Just as we have rejected anglo propaganda about Stalin and lenin, should we also reject anglo propaganda about Pol Pot?

He was basically a socialist who wanted to build his country in peace so anglos made up lies about a supposed "genocide". Sound familiar?

Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.

Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.htmldprkDPRK

I know the scum elite escaped to the US in the 60's and in the 90s with the death of USSR Cuba went through some bad shit and people had to flee, but why do nowadays that still happens?

Although I’m not described as an avid supporter of capitalism by those around me in this thread I’ll argue that unemployment can actually be beneficial to a state

For one thing the reason why unemployment occurs is do to shortages of capital or because potential workers aren’t actually qualified for their jobs, this is surprisingly the most accurate reasons despite modern capitalism’s flaws as it’s been documented that most engineers in India and China aren’t qualified for their positions explaining as to why innovation is so slow there compared to the USA Britain and France despite the difference in the population of professional workers. As for the rest of the labour force it’s the same situation which is why in modern times so many employers both private and public are looking specifically experienced older workers.
For another having more workers doesn’t necessitate more revenue especially when it comes to societies with productive tools like construction and factory equipment or computers and printers, the more productive a tool becomes it naturally forms its own costs from maintenance repairs or simply developing the tool to begin with and when the potential costs for operating said productive tools overlap how much revenue is produced it’ll get cut and so will jobs, this happens regardless if wether or not the employer is part of a corporation small buissness government owned institution etc and honestly that’s justifiable as well.
In the end the right to work is only justified under the presumption that the labour produced overcomes the costs to produce the good that labour made as too many unqualified and expensive workers can ruin any body of society regardless of how large including the federal government if drastic measures aren’t taken to reduce costs and raise per capita productivity

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Too much spending in the wrong areas with not enough revenue is fucking over China. What the hell is xi gonna do to fix a problem like this? Build more cities and factories, just sell more random shit exclusively between Chinese states, fellas give me something because this is gonna have dire affects for other countries whose trading partners are China and not the tyrannical regime that is NATO(Use the China General)

Name a country more cucked.

Having a nihilistic existential crisis? Feel like your work, being exploited by porkie, can't be used for yourself? Have huge shitlists, lots of vendettas and revenge fantasies you can't fulfil yet?

Joseph Stalin was there. Joseph Stalin believes in you. So believe in Joseph Stalin. These excerpts from biographies about Stalin remind us to WORK STEEL HARD for ONLY ourselves and the future revolution.

< The contours of Joseph's later personality were already disclosing themselves. He was dedicated to self-improvement through daily study. His capacity for HARD WORK, whenever such WORK was useful, was IMMENSE.
- Service, 2004

<Stalin brutally, artfully, INDEFATIGABLY indefatigably BUILT a personal dictatorship within the Bolshevik dictatorship. Then he LAUNCHED and saw through a bloody socialist remaking of the entire former empire, presided over a victory in the greatest war in human history, and took the Soviet Union to the epicentre of global affairs. More than for any other historical figure, even Gandhi or Churchill, a biography of Stalin… eventually comes to approximate a history of the world.
- Kotkin, 2014, page 4

<Perhaps the best that could be said about Oddball, Pockmarked Oska, and Koba the Priest was that he was the quintessential AUTODIDACT, NEVER CEASING TO READ, no doubt as solace, but also because he remained DETERMINED to IMPROVE and ADVANCE himself.
- Kotkin, 2014, page 117

>Trotsky famously wrote that "Stalin did not create the apparatus. The apparatus created him".
<This was exactly backwards. Stalin CREATED the apparatus, and it was a COLOSSAL FEAT… To be sure, we shall see him learning on the job, committing significant mistakes, and it would be a while before he emerged as the recognised Leader (vozhd') not just of the party but of the country. But he demonstrated SURPASSING ORGANIZATION ABILITIES, a MAMMOTH APPETITE FOR WORK, a strategic mind an unscrupulousness that recalled his master teacher, Lenin.
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(This is not an identity politics or feminism vs. anti-feminism debate thread. Please don't use it as such.)

Why have women always been subjugated in some way or another? What are the material roots of this sex-based social hierarchy that has permeated virtually all human societies throughout history, and what actions should we as socialists undertake to achieve equality between the sexes?

There was a brief discussion about this in the prostitution thread, but it quickly got buried between all the other conversations going on at the same time. Feel free to share your thoughts - maybe we can come to some sort of conclusion here.