/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I feel like grok as consistently shown itself to be more left-leaning than any of the other ai’s

retarded troll thread

>>2823578
He's a complete schizophrenic lobotomite, he'll call himself mechahitler after throwing out the most woke speech in the world.

Moved to >>>/siberia/786628.

They also end up like that they just start doing things behind your back instead

Moved to >>>/siberia/786632.

>>2818213
>>2818333
didn't deny there's a jewish-centric and jewish supremacist revisionist history, just pointed out that history of the non-jewish victims is not generally denied, even if it is also not mentioned often enough. I think it should be mentioned more often, in contrast to nazis, who deny all of it, or say it was all good

>>2818990
the techbros made everyone stupider and more reactionary in a matter of years

>>2818990
Sophie is based.
Calling reactionaries out for their contradictions is good. Even if done so crudely. These filth are not interested in good faith debate so telling them they are the real "Epstein sl4ves" in a way is praxis.

>>2818990
now imagine 2036

>>2822550
schizos can be right sometimes, even if they're right for the wrong reasons, or exaggerate their conclusions

>>2822489
>>2822521
When you say necessity do you mean in the Hegelian sense of dialectical development or in the colloquial sense of "it is the utmost necessity that I take a shit right now"

>>2815855
read the chapter from theories of surplus value where Marx addresses the ideas of the physiocrats.

>>2823029
Lenin's Empirio-Criticism and Materialism goes into painstaking detail on this, but here is a more "neutral" source:
>If causal inferences don’t involve a priori reasoning about relations of ideas, they must concern matters of fact and experience. When we’ve had many experiences of one kind of event constantly conjoined with another, we begin to think of them as cause and effect and infer the one from the other. But even after we’ve had many experiences of a cause conjoined with its effect, our inferences aren’t determined by reason or any other operation of the understanding.
>[…]
>Hume argues that there is no probable reasoning that can provide a just inference from past to future. Any attempt to infer [future events] from [past experience] by a probable inference will be viciously circular—it will involve supposing what we are trying to prove.
>[…]
>It is therefore custom, not reason, which “determines the mind … to suppose the future conformable to the past” (Abstract 16). But even though we have located the principle, it is important to see that this isn’t a new principle by which our minds operate. Custom and habit are general names for the principles of association.
>[…]
>Hume concludes that it is just this felt determination of the mind—our awareness of this customary transition from one associated object to another—that is the source of our idea of necessary connection. When we say that one object is necessarily connected with another, we really mean that the objects have acquired an associative connection in our thought that gives rise to this inference.
>[…]
>Hume locates the source of the idea of necessary connection in us, not in the objects themselves or even in our ideas of those objects we regard as causes and effects. In doing so, he completely changes the course of the causation debate, reversing what everyone else thought about the idea of necessary connection. Subsequent discussions of causation must confront the challenges Hume poses for traditional, more metaphysical, ways of looking at our idea of causPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2815883
Have you never been sleepy, drunk, or done something on autopilot and don't remember doing it? How much do you remember from your childhood? Were you conscious then?

muerte a toda la izquierda neoliberal de latam

>>2812263
I mean you might as well call Britain a Norman settler-colony. I think there is a reasonable argument to make that capitalism generally originated in the first place as the Balkanization of feudal empires into their underlying colonies. If you look into Hobsbawm's "Imagined Communities" the whole concept of the capitalist nation-state really originated from New World colonies. Cedric Robinson makes a similar point in "Black Marxism" that Europe basically colonized itself. A semi-colony is basically what the bourgeois state is.

>>2812205
this thread reminds me of this thread >>2810127

>>2822479
>I mean you might as well call Britain a Norman settler-colony
and Roman

>>2812205
Succdem on succdem violence

Protesters clash with ICE agents outside New Jersey detention center
Tensions mounted late on Sunday, however, when dozens of protesters heard that guards were preparing to move detainee Soto – who on Friday announced a hunger and work strike. The strike is demanding the immediate release of elderly and young detainees, as well as those with medical conditions, according to The City. Soto’s wife, Gabriela, has been organizing protests outside the facility. Gabriela , 28, tried visiting him on Sunday and as she was in the queue, spotted a man being pushed into a van.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/25/new-jersey-ice-immigration-protest

Rideshare drivers unionize in Massachusetts, creating the App Driver’s Union
The ADU will represent more than 70,000 rideshare drivers in Massachusetts, meaning it will be able to sit at the bargaining table with companies like Uber and Lyft to negotiate on the drivers’ behalf. The move comes nearly 18 months after voters in Massachusetts approved a ballot question that gave rideshare drivers the right to form unions.
https://whdh.com/news/rideshare-drivers-unionize-in-massachusetts-creating-the-app-drivers-union/

Dems eyeing 2028 bids court Warren
Both potential contenders for president are more moderate than Warren, a frequent target of President Trump and conservatives because of her push for consumer protections and corporate regulation. Warren also has been talking with former Biden and Obama officials about how a future Democratic president could reshape the federal government in light of Trump's DOGE cuts, a person familiar with the discussions told us.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/24/democrats-2028-contenders-warren
https://archive.ph/uFL1W

OpenAI-linked PAC doubles down in Kentucky
Leading the Future — which has close ties with OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz — has had more success in GPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Party of Labour of Austria, Against the radical cuts at universities
As part of the federal government’s massive attacks on the working class with the new budget, universities are now coming under fire following a series of anti-people measures. Earlier this week, it became public knowledge that universities, colleges and university hospitals will be affected by cuts on a scale never before seen in history. The announced cuts in the higher education sector reflect the interests of capital, which seek to further commercialise education, science and public services under the pretext of supposed budgetary constraints. Here, too, the contradictions of capitalist crisis policy are evident: whilst billions are being made available for rearmament and subsidies for corporations, students and staff at universities, colleges and university hospitals are expected to bear the costs of war and crisis. Universities are already underfunded in many cases, and an increasing number of job positions are funded through so-called third-party funding. Universities are thus becoming upstream research institutions for the monopolies that fund university jobs as long as the respective research project is in their interest.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/Party-of-Labour-of-Austria-Against-the-radical-cuts-at-universities/

Is British Steel the Next Green Betrayal?
Just days after Britain’s right-wing party Reform won a huge number of local government seats in Lincolnshire, home of the UK’s last remaining coal-fired steel mill, Keir Starmer’s Labour government announced it will bring forward legislation to nationalize British Steel. But rather than save the mill and Labour’s remaining votes in the region, the move puts thousands of jobs at risk. British Steel has been in financial trouble for the past half decade. The ailing firm was bought by the Chinese steelmaking company Jingye Group in 2020. But despite a range of government financial incentives, Jingye claimed they were unable to run the mill profitably, losing around £700,000 a day. In 2022, the then-Conservative government entered into negotiations with Jingye Group to support the transition from coal-fired blast furnaces to electric arc furnaces, to ensure legal climate targets for decarbonization wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2810227
>Peru is a ticking time bomb to having a communist revolution
nah thanks to gonzaloids that will never happen

Why is Peruvian politics such a massive clusterfuck, even compared to most places in LatAm?

It's like Peru and Argentina are in constant competition for messiest political system.

>>2810227
Urbanization hasn't produced any political destabilization since the 80s at least, in fact the opposite is true: it is associated with collapsing civic participation and labour militancy (India is a very great case study here).

>>2810227
>Honestly Peru is a ticking time bomb to having a communist revolution.
there already was one

>>2810127
this thread reminds me very much of this thread >>2812205

my little socialist blackrock

>>2818489
It's not a result of Trump's personal traits, but his policy and the general geopolitical turn it represents are necessary results of the situation american capital is in. Desperate grasps at strategically important political-economic-militarry pivots worldwide are a direct imperative of the general interests of the most powerful groups of monopolistic finance oligarchy. Oil has been in Iran and Venezuela way before Trump… The contradiction between Cuba's worldhistoric example and the US has been there since the revolutionary victory. What changed, is that the empire is crumbling. If it wants to stay ahead of the developing Eurasian pole.


>>2817997
This whole post is a pure expression of the direct political consequences of economism. This revisionist-opportunist doesn't understand the dialectic of politics and economy, nor of social relations and productive forces, nor of internal and external policy. Ultimately, it's desbielief and mistrust in the power of the popular masses, borne of petite bourgeois angst.

Cuba's harmonious socialist development has been disturbed and tends to regress, at least indirectly, back to the rule of capital due to the counterrevolutionary defeat of the communists and the peoples of the globe, and mostly of the international proletariat at the turn of the century. By now capitalism has won in every corner of the world, including China. The existence of small gallic villages of humanity that function as pockets of REAL resistance to imperialism and not just as managerial differentiations of imperialism's essence (that is anticapitalist, meaning socialist resistance), depends on two factors. They cannot be rigidly separated as internal and external, they are deeply intertwined. The fate of the cuban, vietnamese, korean and lao revolutions doesn't depend on the help of imperialist powers that happen to rival US imperialism due to the movements of global capitalism; they depend mostly on the revolutionary reawakening of the world proletariat, on the victorious socialist revolutions that may happen. Unless a network of genuinely anti-impetialist, that is socialist, states that act with the principle of proletarian internationalism is developed, Cuba etc. cannot withstand the pressure of thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

it's kinda crazy how many "people" on here love victim blaming
basically the equivalent of "she should have worn different clothes"

>>2818410
>china helped cuba build their renewable energy power plant to ease the effects of the blockade.
can you provide proof of this

>>2823119
honestly cuba should do exactly the opposite. they should have realized they bet on the wrong horse 30 years ago or preferably earlier. playing north korea does no one any favors and never will.

>>2822549
Where is it feudal still? The Philippines? I’m asking in good faith

No, not on the scale of a nation-state at least, the development of capitalism in the last pockets of pre-capitalist antiquity happened in conjunction with post-WW2 "de-colonization". As a rule of thumb, the remnants or regressions to previous modes of production occur only in nations where due to failed states, war or absolute poverty it is impossible to maintain a capitalist economy, and even then it's iffy because capitalism does maintain institutions like slave labor and tribute in other forms in specific instances.

>>2822553
Of course it does, he's a Marxist. Do you think a Marxist would abandon materialism? And yes, it does mean feudalism is fake.

>>2821673
There never have been feudal societies. Feudalism is a myth. It never existed and was cooked up by 18th century writers to malign the medieval past. There was never such a thing as a feudal system, even in Europe.

>>2821704
>Pockets in Peru, bolivia, guatemala, Chiapas mexico, have haciendas.
Resemble European manorialism, but there's no serfdom and they are also aimed at cultivating cash crops for a global market.

>In the sahel, Ethiopia, and west african states there are also bonded labour and hereditary lords,
Sahelian states were tributary systems and also relied on slavery, they didn't have a European style landed aristocracy and still don't. Much of the Sahel remains nomadic or semi-nomadic.

>India still has zamindars that own large swaths of land that own debt slaves
In Mughal India, zamindars were revenue collectors who collected taxes in kind and used them to provide services to the local community and to the Emperor. Zamindars didn't own any land because all land legally belonged to the Emperor, who in theory appointed zamindars to districts on a rotating basis. There was no serf class and zamindars couldn't compel peasants to do anything. It was the British who turned zamindars into large scale landowners and in any case the system was legally abolished in India in the 70s, although zamindars and their descendants remain private landowners.

>probably most feudal of all, afganistan
This is just sillly. Afghanistan is dominated by large tribes structured according to segementary lineage system. These tribes don't have chiefs or leaders, they settle their disputes through councils, and while they have "kings" they don't really have any legal authority and ordinary people don't have to follow them. Land is seen as the collective property of a kin group, not just an individual owner. There are no serfs, no landed aristocracy.

>>2822553
you're right for once
>>2822846
you basically ignored everything he said and just reasserted your position

>>2822917
>press was saying CHP was going to plan to try force early elections too,
could they do that? they're a minority in turkish parliament aren't they?

does anyone have the sauce mentioned in picrel

US-Saudi venture to build Shahed drone clones in Riyadh

A joint venture between a US defense startup and a Saudi firm is building a factory near Riyadh to manufacture combat drones modeled on Iran’s Shahed system, which has been used to pummel Gulf countries over the past few months.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/25/2026/us-saudi-venture-to-build-shahed-drone-clones-in-riyadh

The Geoeconomics of the UAE’s New Free Zone for Defense

In early May, the United Arab Emirates announced plans to establish a new defense-focused free zone in Abu Dhabi. The Tawazun Council for Defence Enablement and Abu Dhabi Ports Group will jointly develop Al Selmiyyah Defence Industrial Free Zone through a strategic partnership, though a specific project timeline is not yet available. The initiative seeks to attract global defense firms to the country as part of broader efforts to localize defense manufacturing and build an “advanced and sustainable national defence industrial base.”

https://agsi.org/analysis/the-geoeconomics-of-the-uaes-new-free-zone-for-defense/

UAE defense giant EDGE to acquire ‘controlling’ stake in Italian engine maker

The EDGE Group, the UAE’s largest defense conglomerate, signed an agreement today to acquire a “controlling stake” in Italian engine maker CMD (Costruzio ni Motori Diesel), the company announced.
“The agreement, which is subject to customary closing conditions and applicable regulatory and governmental approvals, represents a strategic move to expand EDGE’s footprint in advanced engineering, Industry 4.0, and power solutions,” EDGE said in the statement, noting the deal is expected to close by the end of the year.

https://breakingdefense.com/2026/05/uae-defense-giant-edge-to-acquire-controlling-stake-in-italian-engine-maker/

>>2822986
IDK what the route to that is, tbh. I guess it's a moot point now, until at least the CHP leadership is resolved.