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 No.296564[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

QTDDTOT - Questions that don't need their own thread. The last one died, so here post your questions here.

I'll start, why is a centralized authority important to achieving communism and why is this seen a positive aspect.
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>>1405358
Dunno, I guess a Marxist would critique this theory by pointing out how the US actually industrialized and that this also happened under huge governmental intervention and planning, creating a false dichotomy.

 No.1405394

>>1405378
so can it be changed to this idea that the borg of non comprador countries create a developmental state to facilitate industrial or other development for their own interests and desires
meanwhile in socialists states, the proles and the vanguard create the development state for the interests of the prole, vanguard and etc

 No.1408508

What's that Russian video sharing website where you can find plenty of tv shows, films and series both from contemporary Russia and the Soviet era?

>>1141180
A huge faggot that at some point got tired with the marxist scene, came up with some supposed gotcha about some point of Marx theory he found to be "unscientific", so he could switch to Craxi's socialist party at the height of its influence (the 80s) and then switch to Berlusconi's pimps and whores party after 1994. He died suddenly of a heart attack in 2001 or something while he was at a spa.

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>>1397114
Investment bank that a lot of Silicon Valley companies bank with did a lot of risky investments after the Trump admin deregulated banks of their size and the pandemic commodity bubble happened, and now they can't pay back their depositors

 No.1411085

Does anyone have a Marxist history of post-independence India? Preferably stuff that's recent enough to cover Modi and the neo liberal sectarian turn it's taken since 2014


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 No.1410891[Reply]

>the local $TENDENCY book shop invites people for a pub event
>two cops show up, says you have no permit
>oh shit, porky knows, shut it down!
>don't have a plan to just kill every cop if provoked
why is $NOTMYTENDENCY like this?
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>>1411041
sacre bleuey

>>1411048
unfathomably cursed

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>>1411056
I believe you mean unfathomably BASED my friend

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>>1411041
sorry I can't hear you over the sound of best girl

 No.1412306

Wtf is this thread

 No.1412390

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>>1412306
it's a shitposting thread mate


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 No.1356916[Reply]

Marxism-Leninism, Social Anarchism, Democratic Socialism… which do you consider allies/comrades? Where do you draw that line?
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 No.1407425

As a Marxist-Leninist

>Marxist-Leninists

 No.1407838

If you're in the United States, there is literally ZERO reason why you shouldn't be working alongside literally anybody that doesn't get their back-pocket stuffed by the bourgeoisie.

 No.1410916

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>>1356973
I would take a trot and even a libertarian any day over "progressive liberals". Wtf is wrong with you?

 No.1410927

im happy to use any of them up to a point

 No.1410933

Anyone who isn't an unironic Posadist by 2025 gets the wall or the rope, or worse, let to the hyperintelligent AI dolphins


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 No.1410863[Reply]

Pakistani court grants Imran Khan protection from arrest
Since November, Mr Khan has avoided appearances before courts in Islamabad in at least three cases, including a corruption charge, when he was wounded in a gun attack at a protest rally in the eastern Punjab province. Mr Khan, who denies all charges against him, says his life is in danger and that’s why he is seeking bail to avoid appearances before judges in multiple cases. The former prime minister claims that he is being victimised by the government of his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/pakistani-court-grants-protection-imran-khan-arrest

India opposition leader loses his Parliament seat after being convicted of defamation
Key Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has lost his parliamentary seat after a court found him guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname and he was disqualified from the lawmaking body, a parliamentary statement said on Friday. Gandhi, who represented a constituency in southern Kerala state as a member of the Congress party, was disqualified from his membership in the lower house of Parliament from March 23, the date of his conviction, the statement said.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/1165822683/india-rahul-gandhi-parliament-seat-defamation-modi

Chad says it has nationalised all assets owned by Exxon Mobil
Chad has nationalised all the assets and rights, including hydrocarbon permits and exploration and production authorisations, that belonged to a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, the West African nation’s energy and hydrocarbons ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Exxon Mobil said in December 2022 that it had closed the sale of its operations in Chad and Cameroon to London-listed Savannah Energy in a $407m deal, but the Chadian government contested the agreement, saying the final terms were different from what had been presented to it.
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Los Angeles schools to reopen after three-day workers' strike
The Los Angeles Unified School District and the Service Employees International Union Local 99 failed to reach an agreement during the work stoppage, which ended on Thursday with another day of picketing and rallies by striking bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers and other low-wage earners.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/los-angeles-schools-reopen-after-three-day-workers-strike-2023-03-24/

Disney union announces $18 minimum wage in new agreement proposal with company
The union, which represents about 45,000 Disney workers, has been pushing for an $18 minimum wage for employees amid inflation and rising costs of living, union leaders announced. In February, the company reached out to the union with a contract offer that included $20 per hour wage for full-time, non-tipped STCU roles and a nearly 10% average pay increase within the first year.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/03/23/disney-union-to-make-announcement-after-negotiations-with-company/

In Blow to Koch and Exxon, Federal Judges Say Minnesota Climate Suit Belongs in State Court
Minnesota on Thursday scored a significant procedural win in a lawsuit seeking to hold Big Oil accountable for lying to consumers about the dangers of burning fossil fuels and thus worsening the deadly climate crisis. In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit agreed with a lower court that the state's climate fraud lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil, and Koch Industries can proceed in state court, where it was filed.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minnesota-climate-lawsuit-proceed-state-court

Ocean salmon fishing ban off California and Oregon as stocks plummet
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(Chapo Trap House) Bonus: L.A. Teachers’ Strike
Will talks to Betsy and Gloria, two LA public school teachers, ahead of the three-day teachers’ strike planned to begin this Tuesday. They discuss their demands, the conditions in the schools, engaging the local community, and challenges from the LA school district superintendent.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-la-teachers-strike

Build the movement to oppose AUKUS nuclear submarines
Anthony Albanese’s March 13 AUKUS announcement about how Australia would be acquiring nuclear-powered submarines is a massive escalation of militarism in the Asia-Pacific region and undermines peace in the world. Over the next three decades Labor and the Coalition have committed to buying, building, operating and maintaining a fleet of more than eight nuclear powered submarines. It amounts to the single biggest investment in Australia’s “defence” capacity since colonisation. The AUKUS program also represents an extraordinary waste of public money. The program will exceed $368 billion — more than doubling the $170 billion projected cost a week ago — with working people expected to contribute more than $3 billion over the first three years. To do this when we face the fight of our lives to stop runaway global warming and a growing cost-of-living crisis displays utter contempt for ordinary working people. Albanese’s enthusiasm to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States means that every part of the federal budget is under threat. Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s offer to negotiate budgets cuts, including to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, to pay for the submarines was probably support Albanese could have done without, as it was made very clear who will be paying.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/build-movement-oppose-aukus-nuclear-submarines

[Proletarios Revolucionarios] On revolutionary defeatism and proletarian internationalism in the current war between Russia and Ukraine/NATO
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>>1410863
>chad nationalized all assets owned by exxon mobil

 No.1410922

tybna


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 No.1408601[Reply]

When do you think Japan Nippon will finally stop being a bitch of United States imperial core hegemony, and embrace its socialist destiny?

I think 2222 is the year
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 No.1410510

Yes, I defend Japan on the internet.
No, it has nothing to do with my loli fetish. Stop with your racism, not all japanese people are pedophile or perverts, even tho they have organized the biggest mass rape in all of history. I mean, it doesn't even matter, OK??!! Stop thinking about it!!!

 No.1410577

>mfw when i'm guilty of things my ancestors did because a retard on an imageboard says so

 No.1410603

>>1408601
>socialist japan
vidrel

 No.1410611

>>1408601
>When do you think Japan Nippon will finally stop being a bitch of United States imperial core hegemony, and embrace its socialist destiny?
material conditions

 No.1410637

>>1410481
There's nothing to "debunk", it's eurasiaposter doing idealist blithering under a pretentious, verbose coat of paint as normal.

>All of X people in Y country are uniformly Z regardless of time and place

is baby-brained horse piss that shouldn't be taken seriously, and the fact that people who sound a hell of a lot like nazis when it comes to characterizing entire countries and cultures have to nazijacket anybody who calls them out on their reactionary BS like here >>1410510 tells you exactly the caliber of intellect you're dealing with. They're not worth engaging seriously, they're imageboard-brained contrarians who are seriously brain-damaged enough to think that idealist essentialism is as good as material analysis


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 No.1409942[Reply]

1. U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will hold their next scheduled summit in Lithuania, Vilnius, on July 11-12, 2023.
https://archive.md/qqbvr

2. NATO’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said he wanted NATO members to agree that spending 2% of GDP on defence as a minimum at the alliance’s next summit.
https://archive.md/IZLP3

PDF & pic related are my calculations concerning the strain this new policy will have on all member countries and aspirants using the latest World Bank data on $GDP, and %GDP spending on military, education, and healthcare. The total increase in military budget by my estimation will be $50.39 billion worldwide. This increase in state spending will bring the worst outcomes for Iceland, Luxemburg, Bulgaria, Albania, and North Macedonia, while being significantly detrimental to Italy, Hungary, and Georgia (if accepted as member), and bring some strain to the economies of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Slovakia.

Which means that 13-14 countries are about to get worse economically, which roughly means 277 million people living worse off due to the needs of NATO's leading superpower, the USA.

3. What to do?
If you are one of these 277 million people, recognize what this increase in military spending will inevitably mean for you and your countrymen: austerity and a decrease in essential state spending (infrastructure, healthcare, education, etc.). Even if you are not a member of any political organization, please send this information to your preferred political groups. All I'm asking is a single e-mail.

If you are a member of other NATO countries not really affected by this proposed change, you must oppose continent-wide austerity any way, but surely you must be against NATO either way. You can organize protests, send e-mails too.

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>>1409960
.png followup

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>>1409942
Will Iceland fuck off from NATO or will it bend?

 No.1410167

thanks op

 No.1410308

>>1410167
cheers, comrade

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Sorry, had to reconfigure and readjust sum things.

Made the table more "scientific," so to say.


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 No.268992[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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
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 No.1408895

>>1408864
need nord korean gf

 No.1408899

>>1408864
look at all those actors wandering around !

 No.1409638

how true is this?

 No.1410182

>>1409638
people couldn't possibly live normal lives in le evil country! We need to sanction them to hell and back and decimate them.

 No.1410208

>>1409638
one of the influencers was a north korean girl with an impeccable british accent, no doubt she's the daughter of a DPRK apparatchik, but the kind of content they were making seemed to me like it was meant to attract tourists, so its propaganda in the same way ohio.gov/tourism is propaganda


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 No.1408516[Reply]

With all amount of ColdWar-esque rethoric and double-standard "call-out" from U.S. empire officials on the visit. I'm interested how YOU comrades see this visit and its course?

Any resources from Chinese media?
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>>1408654
posting this shitty pdf should be a bannable offense

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>>1409186
>a few hundred nuclear warheads blanketing Western Europe and the United States will dampen their spirits
Probably do more than that.

>>1409193
The U.K. is, that's true. The E.U. is expected to achieve negative growth this year?

Russia seems to be handling the sanctions well, but the war is coming with costs. For one, arms sales. Russian military equipment has performed worse than many expected. There are more competitors on the world market these days. Look at Vietnam, traditionally the top buyer of Russian weapons. Russia's demography isn't helped by war losses and emigration.

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Deploy the Kissinger (and Ray Dalio)

>Spy balloons over the American midwest, warnings from Beijing of a clash if Washington “doesn’t hit the brakes” and intense congressional scrutiny of investment in China — there could hardly be a less auspicious time for US business to attend Beijing’s flagship investment conference.

>But this weekend, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, investor Ray Dalio and American business chiefs including Jon Moeller of Procter & Gamble will head to Beijing for what has been billed as an opening-up party after three years of a strict zero-Covid policy.

>Many of the business figures attending the China Development Forum will be seeing their mainland operations and meeting Beijing officials for the first time in three years. But while the Davos-like event is focused on “opportunities and co-operation” as the Chinese economy rebounds from the pandemic, the headwinds facing US business interests in China are also coming from Washington.
https://archive.is/AD9Wt#selection-2049.0-2052.0

 No.1409848

>>1408917
Underrated post

 No.1410173

>>1409110
The blockade narrative requires way too many things to go right for america in the long term and for everything to go wrong for china as well.


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 No.1341842[Reply]

Scary Labour Stories

A thread for all your narrative needs, post your own and other workers' tales.
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 No.1369622

>>1369480
As far as I could tell they were just putting finishing touches on the guns but ya it looked neat. Also turns out the position itself is called a gunsmith but the actual place is called an armory? idk. At first I was all conflicted about making weapons but they mostly just made hunting rifles so meh
Ive got a few more interviews today, wish me luck. This time I won't imply that I'm going to unionize their shit as soon as I can
>>1369610
I kneel

 No.1371067

>>1369610
No, you fool, you're supposed to fuck them to move upwards!

 No.1371068

>>1369327
>not wearing a recording device check recording consent laws in your jurisdiction first

 No.1371069

>>1369493
The polar opposite is Uni teaching, in certain courses, because you're teaching people who actually want to be there. I couldn't handle kids.
Seriously, they let you be in charge without what seems like essential training? I think that calls for union discussion.

 No.1409931

>>1371069
>they let you be in charge without what seems like essential training? I think that calls for union discussion.
Nah not in charge, I'm just a Teaching Assistant. I'm going to join a union though, just in case. Things like helping kids go to the toilet (they have to be reminded a lot of the time, and the wheelchair-bound kids need assistance) is dodgy territory, and honestly I'm not comfortable doing it for fear that I'll do something wrong and upset or hurt them. Luckily there are staff there who are trained to do that kind of thing, but some of them kind of expect agency staff like me to do it as well, and… yeah, I'm still not comfortable with it.
>The polar opposite is Uni teaching, in certain courses, because you're teaching people who actually want to be there. I couldn't handle kids.
I'm still there, but I want to go up to Further/Higher education, because that's where things start getting interesting. As useful as being able to coerce 6 year old children into their chairs is, I'd rather get better at explaining things to people and encouraging them to think about concepts and create things for themselves. The 10-12 year olds are a little bit better in that regard, but 17-21 is the age range I'm moving towards. I really flourished when I studied Music at above-school level, so that's where I want to end up.

Also phonics is bullshit, at least for the English language. Our spelling is just too inconsistent, and I have a feeling kids just kind of end up working it out for themselves - except our kids have special needs, so they struggle with it even with 1:1 assistance. I get the impression that some of them don't practice at home all that much either, which is absolutely vital for any skill.


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 No.1409663[Reply]

If your economy becomes so deregulated that there is no separation between commercial and investment banking, and every dollar the proletariat puts in their savings account collects interest from the investment the bourgeoisie are doing, then does that mean the proletariat is investing and owning means of production on a microscopic scale, even though they still have to sell their labor power? Retirement plans also similarly will do private sector investment. It seems that capitalists are really muddying the waters so that the distinction between prole and booj becomes less obvious, no?
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 No.1409832

>>1409823
amerikkkan capitalism makes usurers of us all

 No.1409896

>>1409663
>and every dollar the proletariat puts in their savings account collects interest from the investment the bourgeoisie are doing
My interest rate is litterally zero percent. What the fuck are you talking about.

Also, class is from classificaiton, trying to put things into categories based on shared traits. Its not a hard binary. Its a view of interests. If you get 50 dollars of interest a year (yeah as if) while you work for all your other income, then you dont really care what happens to the bourgoiesie, youre a prole. Similarly, if you work in the corporation you own, but 90% of your income comes from the fact that you own it rather than the value you actually add yourself, youre bourgoies.

New marxists (and plenty old fucking retarded boomers and gen xers too) need to get it through their fucking skull that classes describe economic relations, they describe your interests as it pertains to your economic position in society, it is by definition not a natural, hard binary and by definition, in flux.

 No.1409897

Also stop posting kim possible characters your threads take up half of the top of the catalogue.

 No.1409903

>>1409896
you haven't met le dialectics crowd then

 No.1409932

>>1409897
I'm not OP, but I think it's a fun gimmick.


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