/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2853969
>Gorbachev’s presidency had other unintended consequences. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the fifty-year-old Party head of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, who had effusively supported Gorbachev, suddenly announced he would become the President of Kazakhstan. Two weeks later, the Party head of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, said the same. Gorbachev reacted with genuine surprise: “How come? Without any advice and consent . . . I thought we had agreed . . . that there would be only one president in the country.” Karimov calmly replied: “It is the wish of the people.” Nazarbayev intoned: “People in Kazakhstan also say: can’t we have a president too?” Gorbachev then lamely agreed. Thus, he had recog-nized the right of the republican potentates to change the republican constitu-tion in the same way the Kremlin had done.
Do kind of feel bad for him sometimes lmao

>>2853969
exactly, but i think its a stretch to say he had the best of intentions. he was mainly ego-driven and wanted to be remembered as a great-man savior, a position that led him farther towards seeking out western and imperialist clout the more that the western media and diplomats humored him. the funniest part is the US & NATO didnt even particularly want, let alone expect, the USSR to collapse. better to have a unified 2nd rate power to equal parts exploit & compete against. not to say that the US didnt quickly jump on the decaying corpse of the soviets ofc.

that said i do pity him, hard not to when you read how regularly he fucked things up or stuck his head in the sand. i dont think he wanted things to be worse, my guess is that he just didnt have a sense of the real stakes involved & was equal parts delusional and self absorbed. he definitely wasnt the only incompetent moron high in soviet politics, and not the most incompetent, but there were also more competent and intelligent people trying to course correct at so many moments. and he climbed and sweet-talked for the job for most of his life. i feel pity just at the second hand embarassment but also incredulity & disgust

>>2854920
i think you're both being too charitable to gorbachev's intentions and not appreciating the direction he walked through the river, let alone its thick mud and strong currents, gorbachev's biggest ideological inspiration toward the end was social democracy (late perestroika, new union treaty, 500 days programmem etc.) and both this and many of his failures are not entirely his but can also be laid at the feet of the soviet system that, even outside of it's disregard to even some of the most basic tenants of marx/engles' socialism, was byzantine and filled with self-interested bureaucrats and careerists, the very same that strangled ogas

>>2854953
yeah wasnt even my intention to be particularly charitable but i get your point. im not even sure he sincerely believed in his brand of social democracy any more than he did his earlier brand of leninism. but if you read his later interviews and statements and can get past has contemptible his refusal of any accountability is, he did seem genuinely dishearted by the dissolution and the state of the former union states in the 90s going forward. thats not sympathetic but it does make him a bit more pitiable as a historical "character" compared to completely unfeeling snakes like yeltsin

>>2853969
>presidency

It needs to be said, that the office of President, was a pure Gorbachev creation, on the advice the traitor-wrecker Alexander Yakovlev. Yakovlev has advocated for a presidency multiple times, he got his wish in 1990.

There is a story of Yakovlev telling Anatoly Chernyaev, [in said man's diary], of Yakovlev convincing Gorbachev, of changing the political system, and taking loans from western countries.

>The Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev: January 28, 1990

Chernyaev: On Monday there was PB, discussing the “CPSU Platform” composed by Skakh and me and edited by M.S. The level [of discussion] is hopelessly bad. Although Egor did “quiet down” and was not too aggressive, though he did say that he is strongly opposed to “a multiparty system.”

By the way, M.S. picked new secretaries for the PB: Usmanov, Stroev, Girenko, Manaenkov, etc. “Good guys.” But they shouldn’t be above the level of a mid-level oblast committee. Why should they be in the highest echelon? He himself keeps talking about intellectual potential!

We spent the whole day in his office. He did not give up his positions on the multi-party system and private property, but ordered that we make it “more rounded.” He agreed with me that the term “Marxism-Leninism” should not be allowed into the Platform.

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>>2853515
Yeah I can't believe the private military contractors named after a Third Reich unit made up of the dregs of Russian society who are running blood gold mines would be fascists and do warcrimes. How utterly unbelievable.

>>2853772
Who do you think is backing the Tuaregs, and why do you think they'd try to trigger your knee jerk reaction against the forces of a government that recently kicked out the Nato forces occupying it, you fucking dipshit?

>>2855136
Thank you AES ally UAE for this gift to the african peoples!
Soon the the AES Egyptian military will critically escort the IDF into the last districts of Palestine to crush terrorism and safeguard peace and harmony under the PLO two state solution!

you've got a lot of reading to do

>>2855120
Communism is literally everything rethuglican propaganda says it is

Don't ask people here about communism, it's like astrology shit here.

>>2855112
>What are your solutions?
War of national liberation against israel. If youre talking abous jewSA instead the problem seems to be evangelical christians corrupted by israel.

>>2855112
>these Zionist assholes
Capitalists are also bad even if they aren't zionists

India’s Cockroach Janta Party: a lightning rod for Gen Z rage
“Those in power think citizens are cockroaches and parasites. They should know that cockroaches breed in rotten places. That’s what India is today.” These are the words of Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) – the ‘Cockroach People’s Party’, a play on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), the ‘Indian People’s Party’. In just a few days, the party garnered over 22 million followers on Instagram, 220,000 followers on X, signed up one million members, and has the ruling BJP government terrified. What started as a satirical online joke has become a lightning rod for the profound anger and indignation of India’s youth that is terrifying our rotten ruling class.
https://marxist.com/india-s-cockroach-janata-party-a-lightning-rod-for-gen-z-rage.htm

Left must not give Burnham a blank cheque
Burnham himself is a blank piece of paper onto which everyone in Labour projects what they most want to see. He was firmly in the New Labour mainstream during the Blair-Brown governments, lurched to the right during his own leadership bid in 2015 but then reinvented himself as an interventionist mayor in Manchester, within the considerable limitations of the post. In recent weeks, as he was seeking election in Makerfield, he articulated a range of positions – on standing up to the bond market, on electoral reform, on justice for the Waspi women – only to walk them back almost immediately. Given that Keir Starmer was partially undone by his endless U-turns, this is hardly reassuring, given that Burnham has not even been subjected to the full-force pressure of vested interest that will be brought to bear on him in Downing Street.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/left-must-not-give-burnham-blank-cheque

Pride: From Stonewall to Social Revolution
Every June, politicians, corporations and state institutions wrap themselves in rainbow colours and speak of diversity and inclusion. Yet the history of Pride did not begin in boardrooms or parliament. It began in resistance. The Stonewall upPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2855086
Millions

Tybna!

>>2855167
>>2855167
Kek the filter does it again

>>2854111
>class anger
Small capitalist anger

Porky shocktrooper down

>>2854126
Left one not bad either

>>2854098
>what the hell happened on january 6th, 2021 again?
A literal inside job just like 9/11. It was allowed to happen. Cops let the putschists in. Vid related.
>>2854550
>Democrats not executing the enablers and organizers was such a cuck moment.
That would require them to not be liberals.

It’s right up there with the Kirk assassination as a peak news day. Man do I wish more died though, what a shame.

South Africa status???

>>2847602
reads more like right wing jibber jabber but with "bourgeois" thrown in tbh

https://soyjak.st/pol/thread/3683082.html
Anybody wanna dox this guy

>>2854809
let the retard enjoy pride how he wants

>>2849953
>>2848660
Remember to high five them with a mace on your hand

>>2851297
Funny thing is that, if so-called “race science” was real, then they would be 100% justified in taking welfare, on the top of affirmative action and DEI being justified too. I mean, you never see these chuds ever question gender quotas despite biological differences between males and females being greater than that between ethnicities save for extreme examples like the Congolese pygmies.

Then again, the average chud is just a shitlib so don’t expect consistency from them.

in europe, the ac is turned off when it gets too hot

>>2854630
Why even go on twitter any more, it's just everyone trying to bait everyone all the time

>>2854642
probably has to do with the fact that bitcoin has been steadily going down for the last year or so

Petro maintains leadership role on Colombia’s left
The two leaders met at the Casa de Nariño in response to the loss of the elections to the far-right candidate, which led to fighting among the leftist coalition that formed around the Historic Pact party to support Cepeda’s candidacy.Gustavo Petro and Senator Ivan Cepeda will jointly lead the political opposition to President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, they announced after a meeting at the presidential palace. In a post on social media platform X, Cepeda said that Petro “is our supreme leader and the architect of the first progressive government.”
https://colombiareports.com/petro-maintains-leadership-role-on-colombias-left/

Colombian Forces Destroy 81 Illegal Mining Operations in the Choco Department
The Army stated that the action directly impacts the illicit economies of the Clan del Golfo, also known as the Gaitanista Army of Colombia (EGC), considered the largest criminal organization in the country. According to military intelligence, the Clan del Golfo obtains part of its income from illegal mining in the Colombian Pacific region, in addition to drug trafficking, extortion, and armed territorial control.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-forces-destroy-81-illegal-mining-operations-in-the-choco-department/

El Salvador's Bukele seeks party nod for third term after constitutional change
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has registered to seek his party's nomination for the 2027 ​presidential election, pursuing a third term after allies in ‌Congress changed the constitution to allow indefinite re-election, the head of the ruling Nuevas Ideas party said on Sunday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvadors-bukele-seeks-party-nod-third-term-after-constitutional-change-2026-06-29/

Collapsed hospitals and morgues raise health fears in Venezuela's earthquake zone
The emergency Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

(TrueAnon)Episode 558: Zone Time
We’re joined by Natasha Dow Schüll to talk about GAMBLING, MONEY, The Machine Zone, the Ludic Loop, and MORE.
https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/episode-558-zone-162397774


Josip Broz Tito: Concerning the National Question and Social Patriotism
What are the phenomena of nationalism? Here are some of them: 1) National egoism, from which many other negative traits of nationalism are derived, as for example — a desire for foreign conquest, a desire to oppress other nations, a desire to impose economic exploitation upon other nations, and so on; 2) national-chauvinism which is also a source of many other negative traits of nationalism, as for example national hatred, the disparagement of other nations, the disparagement of their history, culture, and scientific activities and scientific achievements, and so on, the glorification of developments in their own history that were negative and which from our Marxist point of view are considered negative. And what are these negative things? Wars of conquest are negative, the subjugation and oppression of other nations is negative, economic exploitation is negative, colonial enslavement is negative, and so on. All these things are accounted negative by Marxism and condemned. All these phenomena of the past can, it is true, be explained, but from our point of view they can never be justified. In a socialist society such phenomena must and will disappear. In the old Yugoslavia national oppression by the great-Serb capitalist clique meant strengthening the economic exploitation of the oppressed peoples. This is the inevitable fate of all who suffer from national oppression. In the new, socialist Yugoslavia the existing equality of rights for all nationalities has made it impossible for one national group to impose economic exploitation upon another. That is because hegemony of one national group over another no longer exists in this country. ….
https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1948/11/26.htm


Earthquakes in Venezuela Show Consequences of State Neglect, Social Inequality, and Imperialism
The crises facing Venezuelans today caPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna

>>2854198
Not so much great, more a return to the to the norm. Quite funny the best the USA were able to get out of unopposed hegemony was a few decades max.
>Türkiye coming to Gaza's aide
Lol. Lmao. They could have turned off the taps and stopped this at any point.

>>2854198
>unites the muslim world with now Türkiye coming to Gaza's aide
stopped reading

go back to plebbit pakistani cuckslamist

>>2854198
>with now Türkiye coming to Gaza's aide
Dont hold your breath waiting for this.

>>2853861
>I've still never thought that "mercantilism" should be considered its own economic system or mode of production though.
The period was never self-described as "mercantilist". It is a derisive term given by liberals, especially after Adam Smith. The term "capitalism" itself is also a 19th century term, when according to Marx, capitalism existed since around 1500 CE, in development.
>>2853854
The Mercantilist period began around 1600 CE and can be seen in various tendencies within the British, Dutch and French empires of the time. We see literature in the early 17th century (highlighted in Antoine Montchretien's "Traicte", 1615) that merchant guilds in the City of London were growing in social power following the joint-stock company of the East India Company (est. 1600), immediately followed by the Dutch East India Company (est. 1602). New legal frameworks such as the laws of the sea (maritime law) were being debated, regarding new mercantile systems of global trade and colonial capture. We see an emphasis on a growing industrial base at the same time however by Antoine Montchretien's primary account of the manufacturing of both Britain and the Netherlands (who were coincidentally the two great protestant powers which in establishing a national church - rather than submitting to Catholic internationalism, economised church property. Marx discusses this in regards to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536-41, were former Church property became privately leased, which if you are inrerested in the saga of British law, overthrow internal debates about "mortmain", or the "dead hands" of "corporate" property). The most famous mercantilist writer is Thomas Mun's "England's Treasure" (1640), in which he emphasises a "balance of trade" as his main objective, which of course is entirely reasonable. Soon after this, we get William Potter (1650) who is subverting the dominant discourse away from the "usury" of creditors for the sake of expanding commerce (Marx also viewed this turn as the interests of industrial capital overtaking interest-bearing capital). This is followed up by Josiah Child (1668) on the same premises. Each of the men demanded a further lowering of the national rate of interest (which since the starPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2853861
>>2853854
>>2853921
To add something basic which was overlooked, William Potter in 1650 proposes a "land bank" to establish lines of national credit for investment, and Marx calls Josiah Child a precedessor to the creditors who establish the Bank of England (1694), which then becomes integral to the national investment in industry, by collecting funds for large-scale development. In the same time, the Netherlands had established a central bank. John Law in the early 18th century was also advocating the same policy for France. The foundation of central banks is then internal to mercantile debates. John Locke himself became a member of the Board of Trade in 1696, like how Isaac Newton became Bank of England treasurer, who in 1717 established the gold standard. So then, interest-bearing capital loses primacy by the consolidation of credit for the sake of investment into industrial capital. Now, the world's first central bank has an interesting history. It was established by the Knights Templar in the 12th century, setting up franchises all over the place, such as the Temple Bank in the City of London. The assets were eventually seized on October 13, 1307 (which was also a massively corrupt era of the Catholic Church - the accusations of the Templars being idolaters who worship Baphomet equally apply to the institution as a whole - even barring the later selling of "indulgences" to piss off Luther). This was the beginning of the end of the medieval era, as the Black Death came soon after, along with the dissolution of feudalism in England, and the rediscovery of antiquity in the Renaissance, finally leading up to the Protestant Reformation.

>>2853673
>Muslim opinion of Jews: -8
>Atheist opinion of Jews: -17
Damn

>>2853610
>no israelis
antisemtic

>>2854002
You are reading it wrong. The vertical collummn is the group who is being rated horizontal is group giving rating. Every single group has positive opiniom of Jews, but this was an old rating before oct 7. Seems the jewish media does the PR campaign well, but I think the last few uears may have finally been a bridge to far even for the best hasbara.