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STOP!
Don't make any assumptions, this is a genuine, good faith question and I am not being antisemitic. It goes without saying, but no, not all Jews are rich. However, in the US, a disproportionate amount of them are. 25% to 33% of Jewish families in the US have a net worth of $1,000,000 or more. Genuinely, why is this the case?

(https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/10/11/how-income-varies-among-u-s-religious-groups/)
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>>2856923
Yes that's why they try to force them into the IDF, not really for manpower reasons but more as an attempt to actually institutionalize them and attempt to turn them into 'productive' members of society.

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>>2854207
>>2854300
There is nothing especially complicated about this phenomenon. In my country there is an ethnic community known as the Memons. Although they make up less than 1% of the population, they are disproportionately represented among wealthy business owners. The Memons were traditionally a mercantile community rather than an agrarian one, they were primarily urban, engaged in trade and commerce instead of farming or manual labor. Over generations, this economic specialization allowed them to accumulate capital, experience and commercial networks, creating momentum that reinforced their success. Nepotism and in-group preference also contributed to this process by keeping capital within the community.

This pattern is not unique to the Memons. they are called "middleman minorities", communities that become disproportionately concentrated in commerce, trade, finance, or small business. like Chinese Indonesians, the Igbo of Nigeria and the Jews. These groups typically develop extensive family and diaspora business networks, exhibit strong in-group economic cooperation and maintain some cultural, linguistic, or religious identify that set them apart from the majority population.

Historically, European Jews occupied a similar socioeconomic niche. As a result they became disproportionately represented in commercial and financial occupations. Because Europe later became the dominant center of the global economy, Jewish communities accumulated considerable wealth and influence and became the most powerful middleman minority.

All the poor ones got murdered or went to Israel.

>>2857339
>like Chinese Indonesians, the Igbo of Nigeria and the Jews.
Chinese in S.E. Asia. Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Russia. Lebanese in Africa and Latin America.

Jews play a central role in the diamond trade. In New York there's the diamond district. The diamonds are mined in Africa and polished/processed in Israel.

>>2857623
Israel has large vaults full of diamonds, for the purpose of price fixing.



 

Genel Türkiye siyaseti ile ilgili konuşun!

Li ser siyaseta giştî ya Tirkiyê biaxive!

Şıma qısey bıkı Poliya Turika!

Yurtişi siyaseti p'ara yoxaleps!

تحدثوا عن السياسة العامة في تركيا!
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>>2845741
>>2844388
Stop using words you don't understand.

>>2845755
Than give a proper counter-argument instead of saying one liners which have no theoretical value.

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KCK: Neither Rêber Apo nor our Freedom Movement will accept faits accomplis.
The KCK Executive Council Co-Chairmanship stated, “For some time now, there has been a debate in the Turkish press and public opinion regarding the framework law. Interpretations that do not conform to, and even contradict, the peace and democratic society project pursued by Rêber Apo are being voiced in the press. Most recently, the proposals Rêber Apo presented in İmralı on May 24th and the meetings held by the DEM Party delegation with AKP officials have been presented as if they were new. However, no meetings have been held with Rêber Apo since May 24th. The proposals Rêber Apo presented after the May 24th meeting were to be evaluated by the government. These evaluations were to be conveyed to Rêber Apo, and the results were to be communicated to our Movement. However, this procedure has not been followed to date. Therefore, there has been no contact or development to be evaluated from that day to this. While Rêber Apo remains in isolation on such a historical and important issue, our Freedom Movement has had no information about this during this time.”

The KCK statement, which said, "Our Freedom Movement has stood by the process led by Rêber Apo and has made every effort necessary," further stated: "While we have made multifaceted efforts towards the democratic political solution of the problems, we have also taken important steps. We supported the efforts to enact freedom laws that would allow for free democratic politics. In this regard, although we see it as incomplete and insufficient, we found the report prepared by the brotherhood, peace and democracy commission to be positive."

<PASSING A LAW WITHOUT CONSULTING THE LEADERSHIP IS CONSIDERED A GAME, AN IMPOSITION, AND A CONSPIRACY.

The Peace and Democratic Society Process directly concerns us. We have frequently avoided making statements on behalf of the Movement to avoid negatively impacting the Process and the dialogues with Rêber Apo. However, recent policies, statements, and assessments have made it necessary to issue a statement and present our views to the public.

To say that a law will be passed, without consulting and discussing it with the leadership, without taking the Movement's opinion into account, and that it will contain such and such, is considered a game, an imposition, even a conspiracy. Indeed, Numan KurPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

there is over 240 police arrest on students in istanbul, ankara and other cities before natos ankara visit.

Intelligence chief has also been doing the rounds, visiting Iraq, visiting Syria. Is Turkey preparing to renew the war against the Kurdish freedom movement?



 

I’m getting really fucking sick of the Palestine Movement’s obsession with “celebrity” activists and how much it prioritizes these western activists over actual Palestinians.

All the time on social media I see incidents of sone western activist living in America losing their job for speaking out against Zionism and then proceed to raise $20,000+ through a GoFundMe account in response. All of that money could have been better spent by being directly given to Palestinian families in Gaza who lost everything because if the genocide, or at the very least organizations with a good reputation for helping Palestinians in Palestine. Western activists will survive without your $100 donation, Palestinian families in Gaza won’t.

Tgis obsession with propping up the personalities of “activist celebrities” is one reason the Palestine a movement has become such a clusterfuck. I’m talking about people like Hasan Piker, Greta Thunberg, Chris Smalls, Ms. Rachel, Kehlani, and Vic Mensa to name a few. How about we start focusing on actual Palestinians? The flotilla activists are the same way: they receive so much money and support when they know full well the Zionist authorities won’t let them into Gaza, making the flotillas merely a stunt. Yeah, they were tortured in Zionist prisons but so have thousands of Palestinians who will never have their voices heard in global media.

Or, when Elias Rodriguez goes to trial in a few months you can be sure he’s going to get tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars in legal donations from Palestine activists. Gaza is suffering and yet you think giving money to a guy who will clearly be found guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison is a better use of your funds?

Celebrities and influencers should not be propped up on a pedestal at all but the same thing goes for these “I was fired for saying ‘Free Palestine’, I’m a martyr now, gib munny pls” types. Palestinians should be the ones centred here, not western activists who have made loads of money and clout for being pro-Palestine.
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>>2857005
This is why social imperialism was progressive

>>2857090
How many colleges have actually divested?

>>2857090
>you are parroting a culture war talking point squealed by chuds in an attempt to stall momentum

Sure BDS loser
>NO YOU ARE CULTURE WAR
>TRUST THE PLAN
>THE STORM IS COMING

Come back when you have something to show for it. Actually don't. You'll just pretend it was you who got things done, like with SA, and the liberals will happily build their mythos around your brand of ineffective posturing.

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>>2855056
>Civilians
Normalization detected.

Israel has no right to defend itself, nor exist.
There is no acceptable level of warfare against Palestinians, who are a colonized people.
There aren't any acceptable rules of engagement for the Jewish state to perpetuate it's settler colonialism.

I hate Hasbara threads



 

ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
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Non si smette mai d'imparare

>>2829865
Na tristezza

Bump

Sembra che il fascismo vincerà in Italia. Voglio dire, a questo punto la maggior minaccia del governo Meloni non è neanche uno della sinistra, ma un ex’generale capitalista, razzista e omofobico che vuole che l’Italia sia ancora più schiava all’America ed Israele (ma del resto, nessun politico in Italia può avere una carriera senza viaggiare a Washington DC per dichiarare massima lealtà alla casa Bianca e Tel Aviv). Ovviamente, sto parlando di Roberto Vannacci del “Futuro Nazionale”, che ora ha 5% dei sondaggi. Credo che l’italiani abbiano già capito che votare non serve a nulla, ma credo che Meloni cercherà di allearsi con lui per poter rimanere in potere per lungo sebbene i sondaggi di Meloni non sono le migliori.

>>2857100
Elettori di destra i più cojoni in assoluto. Le proposte di Vannacci sono tutte minestra riscaldata, tutta roba già proposta da salvini e meloni. Paese bollito.



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A peasant, a shepherd, a simple worker from Donbass, he became the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Was such a thing possible under capitalism?
"I learned to count to 30, and my father decided that learning was enough for me," Khrushchev recalled. "All you need is to learn to count money, and you'll never have more than thirty rubles anyway. My father dreamed of saving up, returning to the village, and buying a horse to grow enough potatoes and cabbage to feed the family. But we never got a horse. My parents cherished this dream even after 1908, when we finally moved to Yuzovka. There, my father worked in the mines, my mother washed clothes, and I cleaned steam boilers."
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So there were different social classes under Stalin's government and commodities like horses were bought and sold? But some Brazilian autist told me Stalin achieved socialism. How could this be?

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>i was colonisated

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Tell the Slav subhuman not to reply to my posts with irrelevant garbage please



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I think it’s interesting to observe the pattern of technological development in Africa compared to NATO. A lot of what’s being made there is surprisingly specific, pragmatic, and efficient compared to many new western technologies that often serve as solutions to problems western companies make.

Technologies built around mobile systems; efficient use of clay, cement, and steel metals; decentralized utility and logistics systems; a lot of work related to solar power which im happy for; some oddly specific technological developments surrounding armoured cars, surveillance, and border security etc.

From what I infer a lot of this behaviour is driven organically by the geographic conditions of the continent in general. Many of the resources on the continent are stretched across vast distances, sparse/scarce in supplies, and broken up by unusually poor terrain. This often means that any technological developments made are unusually way more specific, pragmatic, and efficient in use for immediate and existing problems compared to tech made outside of it where figures or promises on features surrounding what the tech can do. Sometimes, this does *alot* to change how people approach life. It’s only recently that a lot of changes were made so that desert sands and earth could be used conventionally at scale to produce modular construction kit—this is huge on construction in general since it offers a way to build on the scale that china did *without causing the same level of ecological destruction*.

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by Africa do you count North-Africa or just Sub-Saharan Africa
?



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Why was the soviet union dissolved when the population voted against it?
I thouht the proles were supposed to be in charge? Did ML's lie to me? I dont believe it.
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>>2857113
yes actually

>>2857137
I said it unironically. How gorbachev and his clique could be so naive is beyond me. At least CPC has learnt her lessons about this catastrophy.

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>Why was the soviet union dissolved when the population voted against it?
<Revisionism and its consequences for the human species

>>2824516
the population voted for the new union treaty/gorbachev's conception of the union, regardless of if that was right or wrong, once it became clear that dream was dead, they moved on

>>2825014
da jooz are not responsible for your inability to plan an economy



 

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.html
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>korea was korea
>japan invade korea
>ww2 end, soviet occupy north, burger occupy south
>north invade south
>war end with country split
>both countries want reunify
>south gets more and more "democratic" over time when north remains "authoritarian"

This is the narrative burger media presents. it is the hegemonic narrative. I especially find the bits highlighted to be oversimplified or even objectionable. How do we take back this narrative and tell the real story outlined in pic related? Sometimes it feels impossible.

>>2853837
Do not slander SWCC, SWCC is ally of Juche, SWCC helps Juche dodge sanctions.

>>2855206
Idk if you are actually asking for more than bitching about it online. I usually remind people who think this that while the heroic yankees dismantled the People's Republic of Korea, the evil dictator Kim did not, also asking if they even knew about this in the first place. Usually gets a good amounts of cope from people.

>>2855207

You have no idea how most DPR Koreans view the "the wild old man" from Sichuan and his associated reforms.

This Month in North Korea | June 2026



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>people on the first world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to the third world for more profit
>people on the third world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to ???

why hasn't this happened yet? it seems like the easiest way to revolution
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>>2829020
all unions should provide militant arms and martial arts classes.

>>2829020
>but if it comes to the point where it fights for injustices at the expense of maintaining/enhancing your rights then it ceases to be a labour union
This can be how you end up with a labour aristocracy though. For example, it was common in the past for dockworkers to show solidarity with people in colonial or fascist countries by refusing to load or upload goods bound for or coming from those countries. To take a comteporary hypothetical, if a dockworker's union and management are in negotiations, and management offers a contract that includes large wage and benefit increases in exchange for a pledge not to boycott military shipments to Israel, should the union take the deal?

>>2829034
>should the union take the deal?
You're describing the economist issue. Syndicate action has to be made political, otherwise it is just economism. But it is hard to repoliticize syndicates.

>>2808692
>why hasn't this happened yet?
Coordinated effort by porkies to keep unions disorganized.

>>2808692
>people on the third world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
The third world is filled with small capitalists and reactionaries that prevent that violently.



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We can all agree that a Bourg Republic is better than a Bourg Monarchy and both are most certainly better than a Feudal Monarchy, but is a Feudal Monarchy actually better than a Feudal Republic? There were a lot of Republics in before the Age of Revolutions (Venice, Genoa, Florence), but they were closed off to all but less than 1% of the population, that being the Nobles of course. So that begs the question: Was it better to be a Peasant in a Feudal Republic like Venice or a Feudal Monarchy like France? Were Republics in Feudalism just glorified Monarchies where the Nobles held total control?

Bonus Question: What Country in the pre-Capitalist age had the best conditions for Peasants? Pre-Agricultural civilizations don't count.
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>>2855394
You’re right, each peasant had more land to till and thus a bigger surplus and the plague wiped out half the nobles too, so that’s only 1/4 of your harvested grain surrendered instead of 1/2 or 2/3 in the century before the plague

>>2855384
lol she absolutely did not argue they were the end point of history

but yes it is a fantastic book and should be in the 2nd tier of required reading after the marx essentials

>>2855386
only have the epub, plenty of good free ereader software around tho

Literally 0 people actually answered the main question

>>2855361
feudal republics were better mainly due to the fact that you could actually leave the fields and do other shit with your life

>>2856930
How could that be the case when nobles had a higher level of control over the government?



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