/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Are you ready for the Venezuela red guards and the little book containing Hugo Chavez though? Maduro is about to kick out all the capitalist roaders and establish a true socialist republic. TRUST THE PLAN!

Bolivian judge orders the arrest of former President Morales in sex abuse case
Morales, who enjoys strong support from many Indigenous and rural populations in Bolivia, continued to be backed by leaders like Isidro Vaca, who said the former president was in hiding because he believes he would not receive justice under the current government.
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-evo-morales-sexual-abuse-court-president-arrest-luis-arce-20a2d20b067bd59618ebef3a8ad1c9e0

“More than 30 killed in ELN offensive in northeast Colombia”
According to Ombudsman Iris Marin, the people were killed in what appears to be an attempt by the ELN to assume full control over Catatumbo. Among those who were killed were five demobilized former FARC guerrillas and an unknown number of community leaders, said Marin on social media platform X.
https://colombiareports.com/more-than-30-killed-in-eln-offensive-in-northeast-colombia/

Power cuts hit Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area and other parts of Argentina
Several areas in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and Rosario in the province of Santa Fe have been suffering prolonged power cuts which enraged residents who, in addition, were deprived of state subsidies on their electricity bills and are therefore paying full fare in exchange for… literally nothing.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/01/17/power-cuts-hit-buenos-aires-metropolitan-area-and-other-parts-of-argentina

Hamas and Palestinian Resistance Forces Declare Ceasefire With Zionist Regime
Zionist forces are required to fully withdraw from all areas of the Gaza Strip and return to the pre-war borders. The Rafah crossing must be reopened, with Zionist forces withdrawing entirely from the area The entity is mandated to ease the travel of injured individuals for treatment abroad. The entity must permit the daily entry of 600 aid trucks, as per a humanitPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Even in comparison to other Asian tigers, China has seen a level of population decline that was only seen during its “century of humiliation.” Fucking ten million people are gone from that country since 2020. Barely a decade ago.

No, the “but there population is big” isn’t an excuse. China is losing people disproportionately faster than other East Asian countries. The level of decline experienced is similar to the decline seen by many post soviet states.

I doubt this trend will last long. After all, it only took Russia a few years to regain a lot of their lost numbers. However, action still needs to be taken to fix whatever hell is going on there. Just look at the shape of this graph. Looks like a fucking mountain.

What is the current state of maoist insurgencies and people's wars throughout the world? Turkey, India, Philippines, Peru, Nepal, also those who took part in Rojava, etc. I haven't followed them for a while. And what do you guys think about them?

Communist view The 'baby M' case is one of the most interesting historical instances for me. feel it should be discussed more
For those unaware, the Baby M case was a legal battle in the 1980s over the custody of a child born through surrogacy. Mary Whitehead, a housewife married to a garbageman, agreed to serve as a surrogate for William and Elizabeth Stern, two wealthy Jewish working professionals, and was inseminated with William's sperm. However, after giving birth to the child, named Baby M in court documents, Mary Beth changed her mind and decided she wanted to keep the baby. A legal battle ensued, which ultimately ended in William stern's favor. What's interesting to me, however, is despite their resources, most of the public and people from across the political spectrum were supporting Mary Beth Whitehead. Feminists and right-wingers marched together, saying it's immoral to sell a woman's body for a childless couple

I made a thread a while ago discussing how technological advancement is both slowing down, and that the use of pre-civilizational or ancient technology is being used way more often than before. I still stand by my beliefs. In fact, I think the future will see a specific trend emerge. This trend is primitivization.

Primitivization is a real world. However, it isn’t used often. Basically, logistical, resource, and manufacturing restraints are putting limits on how complex most technologies discovered and used today can be distributed. Consumer goods of the future will involve less electrical components, less mechanical movements, and less rare resources.

Expect to see escalators and elevators replaced with staircases. Expect to see skyscrapers and automatic doors replaced with flats and doorways. I don’t even have to say anything about how basic and primitive most architecture internationally has gotten. Expect to find that most of the electrical utilities you use today to be replaced with ancient designs. Hell, you can even expect to see steel and concrete to be replaced with stone, cement, and adobe.

These designs include wind catchers, aqueducts, and more.

You get the idea. The focus of manufacturing today is on consuming less. Using primitive designs saves manufacturers much more money. Primitive designs also tend to just work better than the overpriced overengineered garbage being mass designed these days.

By the way, primitivization also ties into military tech too. Artillery-based weaponry is coming back, and with it, so is siegecraft given how the Sudan and Ukraine wars are going.

>”Have you seen that new Tiktok-“
Tik Tok? That’s dusty and last year, I’m on Red Book now.

The concentration of American capital in the tech sector has caused it to shut out the last non Zionist-shill imperialist apologia and outright reactionary content in an attempt to further solidify its control over the marketplace

This is a good thing. The less Americans with access to the internet the better.

I don’t buy into the whole socialism by 2049 thing but China really might win by just doing nothing.

When I was at the store the other day, I noticed that a can of coconut cream advertised itself as using "no monkey labor". I was unaware that monkey labor was used in coconut farms. Looking it up, it turns out that coconut companies in Southern Thailand have been kidnapping wild pig-tailed macaques, an endangered species of monkey native to the region, chaining them up, removing their canine teeth to prevent them from biting their handlers, and making them harvest coconuts. Macaques are smaller and more nimble than humans, and are better at climbing trees, so they're more efficient than human workers, and since they're slaves and not proletarians, they don't have to be paid because they're not allowed to leave. This makes them highly profitable, and they're almost universally used in the parts of Thailand where they can be found. When not being made to pick coconuts, coconut monkeys spend their lives chained to trees, pacing repeatedly, which is typical behavior of captive animals.

This is all pretty par for the course as far as international capitalism goes. It's pretty similar to the various atrocities you can see in the palm oil, banana, chocolate, and meat industries. It only inspired me to make this post because, on google, I came across a reddit post from someone who noticed the same sticker on the same brand of coconut milk as I did.
https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1dsec4h/this_can_of_coconut_milk_says_it_does_not_use/

The thread is filled with people defending the use of monkey slave labor. Seriously. The top comment is an article from NPR which takes a "neutral" stance on the issue, quoting Arjen Schroevers, a Dutch man who moved to Thailand in his 40's to marry the owner of a "monkey school". In his open letter to PETA, he defends the use of monkey labor in broken English on the grounds that the monkeys are not beaten (though there is quite a bit of footage of them being strangled and whipped), and that Thai coconut farmers have used macaques to pick coconuts for decades. He reaffirms that the monkeys are kept chained to prevent them escaping, and that they are transported in cages.

This is good enough for the redditors, who scoff at "extreme animal rights activists" and say "not all animal labor is cruel", with another saying "i follow an InstaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/

Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)

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The idea of working for the sake of working is fascistic in nature and we should ensure for more automatisation of work wherever its possible to ensure more comfortable working conditions and times for everyone and henceforth more easily strive towards a more equal world.