/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Anti-Human Rhetoric is a Tool of Capital and Must Be Rebuked; Empathy as a Revolutionary Weapon

Published in HOUDINI Magazine, 2025-02-25

Anti-human rhetoric is the poison gas of capital's last stand, manufactured, weaponized, and pumped into the lungs of the masses through every crack in this rotting empire. These phrases, "fuck around and find out," "leopards ate your face," are not just words. They are the ideological jackboot on the throat of solidarity, the death rattle of a system that must dehumanize to survive.

"You didn't," not you specifically, but the vague caricature of you that someone's created in their mind. That caricature deserves to die, so when people die, it's okay. It's fine. The normalization of death is something you must sit with; it's a deeply entrenched part of capitalist culture.

"You shouldn't have been yelling on the subway. You shouldn't have been at the wrong place at the wrong time. You fucked around and found out. It's fine he strangled you to death. Sucks to suck." When they laugh as families lose everything in natural disasters, when they shrug as families are bulldozed from their homes, they reveal the truth: capitalism cannot breathe without suffocating us first. This is "culture"; it is the deliberate erosion of our capacity to see each other as human beings, not competitors in their death-match marketplace.

We have to rebuke this anti-human rhetoric. We, as communists, have to rebuke this anti-human capitalist rhetoric. How we can do this is by rejecting the postmodern, ironic detachment from existence that's been cultivated. Meaning what you say. Be sincere. Be empathetic, more empathetic than anyone else around you. Spread empathy. There's no limit to how much sincerity you can put out into the world.

I went to a business seminar when I was 20. Just sat in to see what it was about. The guy was talking about empathy like it's a weakness. "You can't get too attached. You've got to grind. Isolate yourself. Work on yourself. The only person that matters is you." That's the "fuck you, I got mine" culture we're trying to destroy. They teach isolation. They sell apathy as "self-care". But we say: Empathy is our artillery. It is how we challenge the alienation of capitalism. It is our greatest strength.

You want to know why they preach empathy as weakness in their business seminars? Because they know, they fucking know, that if we truly felt each other's pain, iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2910962

the thing of it is, everyone does have empathy, it's a universal human instinct and it's not really a burden, if anything the burden is ignoring one's own empathy which is something that requires continuous and tremendous, albeit often-unconscious effort. there's a reason why greedy rich people and cruel abusive people and pathological liars and other immoral people tend to become extremely defensive and angry or have a narcissistic meltdown if ever they are confronted or exposed for their behavior, why they tend to live lives of tremendous excess and extravagant spending, why they tend to only ever be concerned about extremely small petty things, why they tend to engage in high-risk/impulsive behaviors like gambling or substance abuse or compulsive sex, why they tend to often seem like they are playing a character all the time and not really being themselves and don't seem to think that their life is real and that it's just a movie where they are the main character or a video game where they are the player and everyone else is an npc - they do all of these things because they have an extremely guilty conscience, they are constantly doing everything they can to escape from reality and not think about who they are and what they've done, they are constantly running away from deep feelings of guilt and shame, which means they do have empathy. a person without empathy wouldn't need to go to such lengths to escape from reality. jeffrey dahmer had empathy, that's why he was a raging alcoholic and was wasted 24/7. elon musk has empathy that's why he wants to become a trillionaire and why he ran and hid from his own children and why he rants and raves about empathy being a weakness and a disease like he's trying to convince the world and himself that he doesn't have empathy. the real problem is, there is a limit to how much guilt a person can psychologically endure, we all hold ourselves to account for our crimes whether we realize it or not, and the accounting is scrupulous and sometimes even overzealous. the more a person dissociates from reality, the more numerous and egregious their crimes tend to get, the worse their crimes get and the more guilt they carry the more they dissociate, and eventually the rap sheet gets so bad that they will quite literally break from themselves and become permanently insane from the enormity of their crimes and nPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Did Maupin get zucked?

>>2916166
>Did Maupin get zucked?
What was the vidrel about?

>>2916699
Not reading books.

He made a few interesting points

• People are oversocialized into socializing their negativity into good, so they invent ways of reframing shitty behavior as good. The left does this more than the right.
  
• The more technology a society adopts, the more things people can do. Consequently, there's a greater the need for regulation.
  
• Technology and science are ambivalent and people can be terrible. More technology means we will witness more evil.
  
• There was more freedom in a medieval dictatorship than a modern democracy because they didn't have surveillance technology.

>>2916232
>The more technology a society adopts, the more things people can do. Consequently, there's a greater the need for regulation.
Samefag. This here means that people in industrial societies will be regulated to keep their behavior predictable, rules, dependence, conditioning and so on.

Some quotes from his manifesto
>The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system.

>The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

>Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.

>>2916058
>this is the era of Earth First zines, Earth Liberation Front fires, and all that stuff, it needs to be considered in this context and who the audience was.
That's an interesting point.

i feel like every writing rightoids tout as their best are retarded, its either this shit, siege or maybe the turner diaries if you're dealing with an older faggot

>>2916232
> People are oversocialized into socializing their negativity into good, so they invent ways of reframing shitty behavior as good. The left does this more than the right.
If you spend more than 10 seconds to actually conceptualize this in your head youd realize how meqn8ngless it actually is "oversocialized into socializing behaviors as good" no shit. Good is a positive word and want to be seen as good because we are social animals and being perceived as good will get people to like you. Its not a social phenomenon. Its a defence mechanism for justifying your actions to others even when you know you are doing them for a selfish and harmful reason. Its not as deep as Ted thinks it is.
> The more technology a society adopts, the more things people can do. Consequently, there's a greater the need for regulation.
This would imply that people remain equally as free as in ye olden days because the system regulates itself accordingly which goes against teds whole thesis. In how different of a position is a person who cant do shit but is free to do it from a person who can do anything but is not allowed to do it. Also this adresses regulation on a larger societal scale not personal inalienable freedoms and autonomy which is whats more important to Ted.
> Technology and science are ambivalent and people can be terrible. More technology means we will witness more evil.
The average elementary school kid reaches this conclusion on their own.
> There was more freedom in a medieval dictatorship than a modern democracy because they didn't have surveillance technology.
This is the only one I actually like as it actually has substance and potential. But this deals with the enforceability of laws more so than whats actually permitted. I live in a third world shithole that is in liberal terms officially orders of magnitude less free than the United states or France but I can get away with shit that i wouldnt dare think about in one of those countries. While i agree with Ted on this one completely and without reserve (i spent quite a bit of time thinking about this topic in particular, how governable are extremely remote places like rainforests, Arctic Canada, Tibetan mountains and extremely rural expanses of subsaharanPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2876653
That's actually pretty despicable behavior and how you see substance users really tells me a lot about you.

>>2875832
We have like 5 years max to accomplish this before AI and drones make revolution impossible. After that ruling class has nothing to fear from the masses and can treat them as badly as they want.

>>2916496
>voting
Do goyim really?

>>2916508
Really? AI isn't some magical box, they are sycophant machines and drones are not invincible.

>>2916508
Drones go both ways

>>2916040
make some sense

Do Hasan next

>>2915782
have you retards considered the fact that in the past the only ones who would have had the ability and education to understand complex marxist theory would have been people who were better off economically?? the vast majority of the world was illiterate peasants/rural folk for literally all of human existence. of course only those born into the elite have the power to change it. its different now

>revolutionary theorists before universal literacy was the global norm were from social strata that could afford education

Wow I never guessed

>>2916254
>its different now
literacy is decreasing and the young impoverished adult watches short form tiktoks about how to be a tradwife grifter, or groyper or cryptocurrency gambler

>>2916074
>Also they didnt invest enough in media and negative polarization. Conservativsim and free market types should be seen as the anti-american weirdos, forgien assets and criminals.
This is the biggest part. They allowed for them to have free reign on "Americanism" and it all went to shit once FDR died and there was no real way to combat anything.

>>2916064
not a good excuse for bombing people even poorer than you

>>2916107
something might happen

>>2915839
How tf did this freak with purple hair say something that was smart? The moment you see those things, you run far away because they're either a liberal or a fed or both.

>>2916197
judgin books by covers are we

>>2915530
Go back to /pol/ retard.

>>2916356
every single tech CEO pushing this rogue AI narrative is a jew

>>2915530
LLMs are not at the base. neural networks with backpropagation are at the base and LLMs are just one form of that.

>>2915406
zero args

>>2915406
>the only thing 'brutal' about that post is how shit it is
sage post. i think this image board is a little dumber in the visual and abstract reasoning department than /pol/. it's also more apologetic of cuckoldry.

>>2916294
uhhhhh fragging is le BAD, actually!!!11111!! stupid prole adventurism!!11!!

>>2916336
This. Never shoot your commanding NATO officer, my fellow leftists. It is um anti worker to rebel or something.

jeff bliss the proto-houdinian

>>2916372
All leftist infighting is like who can out-schizo-retard who. Do you know how they fight? They're like, "actually you're the glowie and I'm the revolutionary," another is like "no-no-no, I'm the revolutionary and you're the glowie," and then a guy goes "YOU'RE ALL GLOWIES, THE CIA CONTROLS ALL OF THIS."

>>2916294
define lumpen

Judge rules EPA illegally terminated $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans
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https://apnews.com/article/climate-solar-for-all-trump-biden-lawsuit-0bae42fcf85906ea48ee0f6f4d6c83a9

Trump signs bill imposing sanctions on Russia and giving him more power to levy tariffs
But it also gives Trump wide leeway over its implementation, including which countries could face tariffs, and which tariff rates could be imposed. It also gives the president sweeping discretion over whether sanctions provisions can be waived against certain countries. Controversially, it allows Trump to impose tariffs of up to 100% on buyers of Russian energy, including China, and on other countries that help Moscow to evade sanctions.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/trump-signs-russia-sanctions-bill

Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown
The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis each publicly responded to Amodei’s proposals in agreement.
https://apnews.com/article/antitrust-lawsuit-ai-slowdown-anthropic-openai-spacexai-google-960af4308161eaf4ed13c383b0ce1c1b

FBI warned immigration authorities about fake tradwife dating profiles
The FBI’s Chicago field office distributed a memo in February warning the country’s law enforcement agencies that a small grouPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Mary Wallopers’ ‘Paddywhackery’: an antidote against pessimism
In a recent interview with Spill Magazine, Charles Hendy – founding member of the Irish folk band The Mary Wallopers – had this to say about creating folk music today: “People like to think folk music is really people just sitting around singing ‘Kumbaya’… The folk songs of antiquity up until now are not like that. Folk music is not meant to be soft. It is hard music. It is social, political and it is aggressive. We want to inject a bit of that into it.” Ironically, today it’s the leaders of the official ‘left’ who are doing little more than sitting around singing ‘Kumbaya’ while the world burns. The Mary Wallpapers, meanwhile, are releasing their third and best album to date, Paddywhackery. This album isn’t just a criticism of capitalism, but a powerful antidote against pessimism – a clarion call to the working class and the oppressed to recognise their collective power.
https://communist.red/the-mary-wallopers-paddywhackery-an-antidote-against-pessimism/

The Uprising Wastes a Good Class-Struggle Story
In 1381, more than a hundred thousand poor English people rose up demanding an end to serfdom. During the uprising, they killed a coterie of hated government officials, and, in turn, the fourteen-year-old King Richard II massacred thousands of them. The best-remembered figure of the English Peasants’ Revolt is one of its leaders, John Ball, whose speeches and sermons captured the spirit of what would eventually, centuries later, develop into socialism. “When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?” he famously asked, meaning that in the Garden of Eden, the Bible’s first people labored only for their own sustenance, with no concepts of lords and serfs. As a socialist and fan of medieval period pieces, I was excited to see the new film The Uprising, which dramatizes the English Peasants’ Revolt and stars Andrew Garfield as a fed-up farmer-rebel. The subject matter has the makings of a thrilling class-struggle movie — and indeed, Garfield and director Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, two films in the Bourne trilogy, and Bloody Sunday) promoted the movie as a tale of resistance to oligarchy. As The Hollywood Reporter writes, “The Uprising feels strikingly of the moment. MPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2915491
I am not even a right winger. I have written some of the harshest criticisms of monarchy and the tsar and in defense of the Russian revolution. That criticism of monarchy was good. I support executing the tsar. That is why I said most and not all criticism of monarchy is "faggotry." Anti-monarchism is good when it comes from communists.

Revolution against a monarchy has to be communist. Otherwise you are just replacing an easy target (a monarch) with a nebulous group of investors that is harder to defeat. In effect this kind of anti-monarchism strengthens the class system instead of overcoming it. This is why my alarm bells immediately went off when I saw the OP prattling on about abolishing the monarchy without talking about abolishing capitalism. Frankly I think this thread is stupid and that is the basis of my reaction.
>>2915497
>At least the nebulous capitalists are not by blood above the law, fuck em.
What is this bullshit idealism? Nebulous capitalists are above the law, that is why we call it called bourgeoisie law. This is Marxism 101. Its much easier for us to deal with monarchs in the modern day. We know where they live and we know how to behead them.
>Time to finally rid the world of this retarded remnant of pre-modernity.
What for? For more capitalism? Do you think McDonalds burgers will taste better iff there is no king in Buckingham palace?
>>2915527
good post
>>2916039
There are no right wingers in this thread. I made the post the person was complaining about and I am not a right winger. Instead of making up things about people come here from 4chan why don't you talk about the influx of redditors here. This thread talking about abolishing monarchy without establishing communism should be on reddit.com/r/politics.

>>2915491
They’ve come to seethe over their recent and ever increasing failures and losses

>>2916075
>muh reddit
yes ik you got an account there lil bro

>>2916075
>What is this bullshit idealism? Nebulous capitalists are above the law, that is why we call it called bourgeoisie law. This is Marxism 101. Its much easier for us to deal with monarchs in the modern day. We know where they live and we know how to behead them.
You know what, you're right. I just really hate these incestuous parasites, their pomp and the retards defending their backwards institution.

If republican sentiment is on the rise, I would say that is a good thing. It is often only the workers' parties in these nations that want to abolish the monarchy, so that should be an opportunity for us.

>>2915697
>Chimerican
maybe the word you're looking for is "Capitalist"

>>2915755
i'm actually not familiar with this, link the vid or article you're paraphrasing, sounds hilarious

>>2915763
There is no alternative

>>2915769
That's what they said about slavery, serfdom, arranged marriages, footbinding, bridge price, child marriage, forced marriage, debt bondage, debt prison, segregation, primogeniture, corvee, vassalage, caste, women being unable to vote, men without property being unable to vote, aristocratic legal privileges, coverture, eunuch castration, concubinage, harems, honor killings, trial by ordeal, presumption of guilt, judicial torture, criminalization of homosexuality, criminalization of interracial marriage and sex, criminalization of adultery, accusations of witchcraft, religious tests for public office, legally enforced ghettos for religious and ethnic minorities, public executions as mass spectacle, child labor, exposure and abandonment of unwanted children and elderly, cosncription… but these things have been abolished in most places and continue to be abolished.

I suggest you listen to this:

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-241-the-disempowering-politics-of-inevitability-part-1-data-centers-and-llm-as-the-future

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-242-the-disempowering-politics-of-inevitability-part-2-us-empire-as-mysterious-teleological-force

>>2913989
more appropriate thread image