/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2638928
It depends. China has never been imperialist. So either China is not capitalist since its ruled by communists or "capitalism" can exist without imperialism.

>why doesn't capitalism just not do imperialism? Are they stupid? Why give the people of the world reasons to hate the system? Why not just pay them well and not do wars?
Jesus fucking christ, my man, please for the love of any god that has forsaken up, read Das Kapital. Economic systems producing their own contradictions by their very nature, and the resulting instability and inability to exist in stasis, is THE core tenant of Marxism. Arguably, that is the very very very core of Marxism, it's very essence. Everything follows from there.

>>2640901
>Economic systems producing their own contradictions by their very nature,

but what if they didn't tho, you can see the contradictions coming and prevent them.

>>2640923
>but what if they didn't tho, you can see the contradictions coming and prevent them.
>Just prevent monopoly formation bro. Who should prevent it? Oh the government run by the monopolies
>Just prevent a falling rate of profit caused by increased mechanization even though it's a prisoners dilemma in which any party that doesn't obey the stagnation law becomes richer and more powerfull
>Just don't saturate the market bro even though being the first to produce more makes you richer and more powerfull bro
>Just don't do imperialism bro even though it's super profitable for the first clique of capitalists to do so and also they can then bully the others that didn't
>Just don't pay bad wages even though it's profitable and falling rates of profit as said above makes this the only way not to lose profitability
Read the fucking book my guy. "Just prevent contradictions by seeing them coming" isn't something that has ever happened. If you believe such nonsense then do not even post on this website or call yourself a communist again.

Yes, it was called mercantilism.
But eventually your country runs out of cheap labor and cheap resources so you have to get it from somewhere else.

The problem is capitalists control the internet and can shut down all the “organic” content they don’t like and boost content that aligns with their own interests.

>>2638112
This, the web domain holders don't have complete control over their domains, the IPs have to be negotiated away.

>i cant think for myself
lol

Trump ramps up Greenland threats and says US will intervene ‘whether they like it or not’
Donald Trump has doubled down on his threats to acquire Greenland, saying the US is “going to do something [there] whether they like it or not”. Speaking at a meeting with oil and gas executives at the White House, the US president justified his comments by saying: “If we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland. And we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/trump-greenland-threats-white-house

USPS worker fell into coma, was denied workers’ comp and fired after inhaling dust at Georgia distribution facility
A USPS worker in Duluth, Georgia, has now contacted the rank-and-file committee about a horrific ongoing experience at the North Metro Processing & Distribution Center. She says she suffered serious health issues while working during a construction project at her facility. After falling into a coma due to breathing dust and other particles, she was denied workers’ compensation. Management ignored her physician’s restrictions and then fired her.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/09/jmiv-j09.html

Footage From Phone of ICE Agent Who Shot and Killed Renee Good Released
As Ross continues circling the car and captures its license plate, Good’s wife, Becca Good, approaches him and tells him that “we don’t change our license plates every morning, just so you know.” Becca Good also asks Ross if he was “going to come at us,” and then recommends that he “go get yourself some lunch, big boy.” Shortly after this, other immigration officers begin moving aggressively toward Good’s car, instructing her to exit the vehicle.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/renee-good-shooting-video

Senators claim UnitedHealth is withholding internal documents from inquiry
The veteran lawmakers, both members of the powerful Senate finance committee, launched their inquiry last summer following a Guardian investigatPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

America’s neglect of Puerto Rico’s education system is at a breaking point
Imagine teaching in a classroom where rain pours through the ceiling, books are outdated and you have to buy your own supplies because you’d have to wait at least two months to get it from the central office. This is not a dystopian movie, but instead the reality for communities in the United States’ seventh-largest public education system: Puerto Rico. What would normally be considered unfathomable in any of the 50 states is the reality for over 240,000 public school students throughout the archipelago. I worked for the U.S. Department of Education, and after four years working in Puerto Rico, visiting dozens of schools and meeting with hundreds of students and teachers, I sadly realized what many of the island’s educational leaders long told me — that the federal government doesn’t care about Puerto Rico’s education system. For too long, the conversation about the Puerto Rico education system’s struggles has ignored a fundamental truth: U.S. government policies have systematically discriminated against Puerto Rican students. This reality is not incidental — it is a result of deliberate choices that Congress has made that define Puerto Rico’s relationship with the United States.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5678643-puerto-rico-education-crisis/
https://archive.ph/yu2ns

A Palestinian Family Tale Made Epic in All That’s Left of You
Writer-director and actor Cherien Dabis’s All That’s Left of You is an epic for the ages that follows a single Palestinian family from their 1948 expulsion from what is now Israel, to living in a West Bank refugee camp in the 1970s, to the Intifada in 1988, all the way to 2022. In doing so, Dabis has given the much-maligned and vilified Palestinians a human face by telling their side of a story that has long been dominated by the Israeli narrative. Portraying Hanan, the female lead, Dabis convincingly ages over the film’s time span from a woman in her thirties to an elder in the twilight of her life. As the world-weary Hanan takes stock of the years, she reflects the hardships and enduring humanity of her besieged people. As Dabis reveals in this interview, the final scenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

war is coming

The State Department told American citizens to "leave Iran now" on Feb. 6, as negotiators for both countries met in Oman amid President Donald Trump's recent threats of military action.
"U.S. citizens should expect continued internet outages, plan alternative means of communication, and, if safe to do so, consider departing Iran by land" to either Armenia or Turkey, according to the Feb. 6 notice.
"Leave Iran now. Have a plan for departing Iran that does not rely on U.S. government help," the notice warned.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/06/americans-warning-leave-iran-now/88545097007/

>>2682467
At least she uses her wealth to help the poor.

billie is the most beautiful woman ive ever seen

>>2682500
She has psychopath eyes

>>2682504
And?

The communist manifesto describes this as Bourgeois Socialism.
It's better than your bog-standard capitalist, for sure, but that's a pretty low bar.

What's wrong with being a mutt doe?

>>2682469
Nothing its just an expression to dehumanize americans here, its a constructive insult.

>>2682228
>we can replace electronic vehicles with EVs and nuclear energy
EVs have less footprint than combustion engine yes, but it still has very high embodied carbon, you need raw earth materials to build EVs and to build the renewable energy grid that will fuel those EVs. Eventually we will return to the same dilemma that faced biodiesel where the macroeconomic of mass production of a renewable technology makes it only slightly less bad for the environment. Nuclear might be but i doubt that there is much political will among the people to massively increase the number of nuclear plants we have, not with the ghost of Fukushima
>we can replace monoculture fertilizer farming with hydroponics
man, we aren't just farming weed here, there are lots of food crops that aren't suitable for hydroponics, and the sheer amount of energy and technology you need to do mass hydroponic farming means that it is going to be very carbon intensive
>automated work is probably more efficient than human work in terms of CO2-emissions-per-x-produced or whatever
this is not just about how much CO2 emissions you create per unit, this is also about embodied carbon. Humans are natural organisms. We fuck, we are born, we eat, we shit, we die, we get recycled into nature. For automation, you have to mine things, then craft the pieces individually, then assemble them, then ship them, then scrap them, then recycle them. All of the above practices are extremely energy and time consuming, this is the difference between having an ox and a tractor

>>2682172
how does any of this "fight" climate change ?
and how is this even supposed to happen ever ?
>>2682174
every african country wants to industrialize

>>2682229
Actually in China it would happen in the cities first since urban birth rates are the lowest while rural-to-urban migration is decelerating. And since the largest cities are honestly pretty overcrowded(entire countries' populations live in Beijing or Shanghai alone), this won't produce serious problems except some more empty residential buildings.

>>2682233
>Eventually we will return to the same dilemma that faced biodiesel where the macroeconomic of mass production of a renewable technology makes it only slightly less bad for the environment.
Look at the stats, it's objectively like 6 times less bad. We don't need absolutely zero emissions, that's not viable, we just need to make less than the plants can absorb. At the very least global warming will slow to such a crawl that we'll have plenty of time to further advance technology.
>Nuclear might be but i doubt that there is much political will among the people to massively increase the number of nuclear plants we have, not with the ghost of Fukushima
This is China not Germany bruh, it's already building like 40 plants at this very moment. China is also developing thorium reactor technology which looks promising.
>the sheer amount of energy and technology you need to do mass hydroponic farming means that it is going to be very carbon intensive
IIRC the Chinese grid already has a capacity double that of the current usage. It can probably handle the needs of mass hydroponics, and the carbon emissions of that will depend on the greening of energy generation.
>>2682233
>this is the difference between having an ox and a tractor
I don't have a study for this but I'm 90% sure an ox would produce more emissions than a tractor per unit of land plowed. Because organisms, apart from being less efficient for a specialized task than machines, also have lengthy gestation and growth periods that require energy and CO2 emissions while said organism is doing nothing. Though, production/disposal CO2 "cost" is generally always less important than the "cost" of less efficient lifetime operation(once again, see le gas vs EV bar graph)

>>2681895
If a bourgeois exists in your country, it’s liberal, look at the Chinese flag, two of its stars are bourgeois

US job openings fall to 6.5 million, fewest since 2020, as labor market remains sluggish
The Labor Department reported Thursday that vacancies fell to 6.5 million in December — from 6.9 million in November and the fewest since September 2020. Layoffs rose slightly. The number of people quitting their jobs — which shows confidence in their prospects — was basically unchanged at 3.2 million.
https://apnews.com/article/jobs-labor-economy-ai-layoffs-1304701fb238015de750a931c4175579

Database of Court Filings Shows ‘Startling Pattern of Abuse’ by Federal Agents Against Citizens in Minnesota
The suit was filed last month by the ACLU of Minnesota and partnered law firms, which said that as part of President Donald Trump’s Operation Metro Surge, “masked federal agents in the thousands are violently stopping and arresting countless Minnesotans based on nothing more than their race and perceived ethnicity, irrespective of their citizenship or immigration status, or their personal circumstances.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-ice-violations-database

Minneapolis man is charged with threatening and cyberstalking ICE officers
Attorney General Pamela Bondi alleged in a statement that Wagner doxed and threatened law enforcement officers, claimed an affiliation with antifa and “encouraged bloodshed in the streets.” And at the White House on Thursday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt held up Weber’s photo at the daily briefing and said such conduct by “left-wing agitators” won’t go unpunished.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-officers-minnesota-threats-doxing-385b11ccd93a9805aa31d4e058689c44

Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank
His sleek Gulfstream jet – which he has called “my little rocket ship” – was used to transport the men from an airport near a notorious removal centre in Arizona to Tel Aviv. The jet made three refuelling stops en route: iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Can Mandelson’s downfall prompt revolt against the Labour Party he shaped?
KEIR STARMER is a dead man walking. His fake indignation at Peter Mandelson convinces no-one: claiming he believed in the integrity of a man nicknamed “the Prince of Darkness” would be a tough sell even if Starmer hadn’t such a track record of dishonesty himself. The Prime Minister has form on pretending he never said things he’s said. He’s still at it. In the Commons on Wednesday he admitted that he knew Mandelson continued to associate with Epstein after the latter’s conviction on a child sex offence. He had to: the Financial Times broke that story in 2023 and it was brought up by critics (including this newspaper) when Mandelson was named a likely ambassador to the US in 2024. Yet today he dissimulated, referring to “information that was not known at the time of his appointment… before he was appointed ambassador… he was asked whether he had stayed with Epstein after his conviction.” That was already a matter of record.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/can-mandelsons-downfall-prompt-revolt-against-labour-party-he-shaped

Mongolia’s Crisis Is an Opportunity to Transform Its System
On paper, the Mongolian state is becoming richer, with record exports, higher budget revenues, and decent rates of growth. Yet in daily life, it feels absent. Six years after winter protests that fused discontent over air pollution and corruption into a single story about trust or the lack of it, that story has only thickened. Since then, Mongolia has moved from outrage over theft of public resources to open constitutional crisis. In October of last year, parliament voted to remove Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav barely four months into his term. Three days later, the president vetoed the dismissal on constitutional grounds. Tsets, Mongolia’s constitutional court, deemed the president’s veto lawful, ruling that a parliamentary motion passed by the State Great Khural to dismiss the PM violated several procedural and constitutional principles. If Western media outlets notice any of this, they tend to reach for the easy frame. Earlier in 2025, Britain’s Times ran a breathless piece about a “Putin-aligned” President who had supposedly orchestrated a coup of sorts agaiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

tybna

>>2660197
They played us like a damn fiddle

Loli Gear..?

>>2619391
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>In Indonesia, concerns over the growing influence of white supremacy on young people. It follows a bomb attack last year on a Jakarta mosque. The November bomb attack in the Indonesian capital injured about a hundred people. A 17-year-old student is the chief suspect. Our report looks at how certain violent and racist ideologies are making their way into the home of the world's largest Muslim population.

why is stormfag nonsense being spread among the youth?

>>2680863
>Indonesia
>white supremacy
Are there even white people in Java?

is it worth asking about the upcoming elections in thailand

>>2682190
Military will win. What with the war and bombings down south.

>>2646147
stalin liked dostoyevsky THO

>>2646013
>I like Pierre because of his avoidance of the aristocratic traditions, but he didn't do much of anything to change it.

I feel like it wasn't from lack of trying, and because he was sabotaged by Tolstoy's religious delusions. As a character the desire was there, and iirc he does take on a more direct, practical role after the book, but yeah, he was too hopped up on idealism.

>>2646147
Tolstoy late in life was basically a Slavic Quaker

Dostoyevskiy is a reactionary piece of shit and Western fascination with him annoys me endlessl

>>2646202
Bulgakov wrote proto-new-age shit

>>2646168
they do, aside from Ilf & Petrov, but they're really hard to read without the cultural context

t. Russian

I like the movie.

>>2682075
>Dostoyevskiy is a reactionary piece of shit and Western fascination with him annoys me endlessl
i remember jordan peterson claiming he was the wisest man who lived.