/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

i see people here constantly talk about theory and the writers of said theory so i'm kinda curious what everyone's taste is for stuff outside of philosophy.

After reading a book called "Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet" (it's a free book, you can read it here: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m#page=12)
I got brutally black pilled about the question of resource and growth in a finite planet, and space trade is a pipe dream, it's over for mankind if we don't change our ways, I guess some form of planning is the way out, and even more unpopular solution would be population control, I just don't know, man.

During new military incursion | Israeli machineguns attack western Daraa countryside
An Israeli forces patrol of two tanks and a military vehicle, advanced into the outskirts of Wadi Al-Raqad in Al-Yarmouk Basin area in western Daraa countryside, this coincided with attacks with machineguns on the agricultural land and the road leading to Wadi Al-Raqad.
However, no casualties have been reported.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/384828/

Oman proposes joint control of Strait of Hormuz as mediators expect talks 'breakthrough'
According to two sources who spoke to Reuters, the Gulf-backed plan proposes a joint regional mechanism to manage the key waterway, with those using it paying voluntary fees to fund the cost of its maintenance. This will include funding to cover navigation, environmental protection and search and rescue services. The proposal draws on the model of the Strait of Malacca, which lies between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is jointly managed by neighbouring states Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oman-proposes-joint-management-strait-hormuz-mediators-expect-breakthrough-talks

Gaza's Palestinians question role and limits of planned multinational force
According to Israeli media reports, the initial phase would involve deploying approximately 200 personnel from countries described as "friendly," including Uganda and Morocco. The force would oversee areas outside Israeli military deployment zones while coordinating closely with the Israeli army. The proposal also includes establishing a humanitarian zone known as "Green Rafah" west of Rafah city, where displaced Palestinians would be relocated after passing through Israeli security checkpoints.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gazas-palestinians-question-role-limits-multinational-force

Africa's richest monarch names a $1 billion highway designed to connect Europe and West Africa after Trump
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How come they didn't manage to build decent cadres to lead the country? Why someone like Khrushchev managed to be the next into power? How the rise of revisionism could've been prevented?

They get nowhere enough hate as they deserve for what they're doing in Kashmir……Also, Being ruled by a repressive fascist wanna be regime for the last decade

>greatest influences on humanity of almost anyone who ever lived
>provided the model for Stalin, Mao and communists throughout the world
>educated barbarian
>autistic wanderer.
>the end justified the means
>massive ideological intolerance
>unrepentant defender of everything he had done.

As a child
>bumptious, intelligent and often unkind
>behaviourally disordered
>slow to walk and screamed bloody murder if he fell
>used to hit his head on carpets or floorboards
>mother thought that he might be mentally retarded
>lack of empathy as a child, but at the same time, could be charming.
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Recently saw a discussion in regards to "Third Worldism" as in MLM + unequal exchange (a non-Wallerstinian branch of world systems theory) having grown in influence in the anglophone/western, largely online, "communist" spaces.
Here is my dialectical engagement, as they were on to something important, not usually recognized, but also partially incorrect. I attempt to correct it ITT.

Unequal exchange, Mao/Chinese aesthetics and purely performative MLM rhetoric has grown in recent years… But with time comes change.

The original 90s ThirdWorldism "movement", centered in north-america diverged from MLM on a variety of theoretical issues, most crucially the revolutionary nature of the proletariat. They supplemented their divergence with integrating post-Marxist turns happening in word-systems theory (which was ongoing in western academia between the 80s and 90s). As ""Maoism" ThirdWorldism" largely accomplished nothing, other than maybe increasing confusion in the communist movement during the era of blackest reaction, we mostly remember them by their cartoony writing and online media available through archives from that era.

So if 90s Third Worldism was a north-american revisionist offshoot from MLM which integrated non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and rejecting revolution in the imperial core for rhetorical "support" of [far off, peripheral countries]… What are the particularities of the contemporary expression?

2020s Third Worldism can be observed as being a north-american right-wing revisionist movement which retains both the non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and the purely symbolic appeals to Mao, but now replacing the "MLM" pretender framing for the simpler, safer state ideology of social-imperialist China; that also just so happens to feign adherence to 'Mao Zedong Thought', even after it was systematically replaced with the Bukharinist-Dengist capitulationist counterrevolution. which is continued today, the true basis for Xi Jinping Thought, as the bureaucrat-monopoly capitalist heading the political line of the party has only deepened the cementation of a new pole in the capitalist imperialist world system since Deng, when neither as many NEZ, stock markets, overall % of bourgeois in the party or billionaires existed in China. Mao Zedong Thought lives on in the rural and urban areas of any militant area of the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
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French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!

Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!

Militaries emerged primarily as institutions for securing wealth rather than territory. Early organized violence could have been driven by the need to protect trade routes, seize productive farmland, monopolize valuable resources, and enforce tribute, with political borders forming later as a byproduct of sustained economic extraction rather than the original objective. Militaries developed as mechanisms for managing large populations of ambitious young men whose competitiveness threatened internal stability. By channeling status-seeking, aggression, and risk-taking into campaigns against external rivals, societies reduced domestic conflict while rewarding martial success with prestige, wealth, and opportunities that might otherwise have fueled feuds or political unrest. Militaries originated less to defend against outsiders than to consolidate power within early states. A ruler with a permanent armed force no longer depended entirely on temporary loyalties from local clans or nobles, making it easier to suppress rebellions, enforce taxation, and transform personal authority into centralized government. External warfare then became as much a justification for maintaining the army as its original purpose. Militaries may have arisen as ritual institutions before they became effective fighting forces. Public displays of discipline, uniforms, ceremonies, and collective sacrifice could have served to bind otherwise unrelated communities into a shared identity, with the practical business of warfare growing out of cultural traditions that already celebrated organized violence as a marker of civilization and belonging.

There sad and disturbing development according to DropSiteNews.

https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/2065526500640645566


🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel unveiled a sweeping set of economic reforms Friday, casting them as Cuba’s path through the crisis driven by a “criminal energy blockade” by the United States that has left the island nearly without fuel.

Only 1 oil tanker has reached Cuba in the past 5 months, Díaz-Canel said, a collapse that traces to January, when the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and cut the flow of Venezuelan oil, then threatened tariffs on any country that supplied Cuba.

Havana now endures blackouts of up to 15 hours a day. Among the most devastating consequences of the U.S. policy is that the Cuban government has been forced to postpone tens of thousands of surgeries for its citizens.

The Cuban President today named national defense as the first priority, citing preparations under Cuba’s “Whole People’s War” doctrine. The full 2026 reform program includes:

🔹Enterprise & Markets
🔸 Overhaul the economic management system, easing the conflict between central planning and incentives for production
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