/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>And the Nordics never even had colonies in the first place
Well ackchyually…

>>2890803
This changes everything…

>>2890121
It's not that I believe it, but there is a kernel of truth to it in that having a large neocolonial empire obviously makes it easier to outsource class antagonism and maintain higher living standards for workers in the metropole. It's just that people apply this thinking far too rigidly and dogmatically, in the process essentially reproducing the bourgeois notion that there simply isn't enough global wealth to support universally high living standards.

>>2890834
this is a good sabo post, i was sad (and mad) when you yelled at me for being mean to the burger troops.

neutralpedos are we really posting on here GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG

Thomson Reuters Slammed for Deal That Gives ICE Access to Private Profiles of Tens of Millions of Americans
More than two dozen watchdog organizations are calling on Congress to investigate reports that the data broker Thomson Reuters is making its investigative database available to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which they warn will make Americans vulnerable to Fourth Amendment violations.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/thomson-reuters-ice

Hospitals push for upfront payments as patient deductibles and out-of-pocket costs rise
Medical providers are collecting larger shares of what patients might owe at a time when rising deductibles mean patients are owing more for care. The preservice charge could be all or part of a remaining deductible, for example, or a sizable percentage of what the visit or treatment might cost. Those deductibles go up when hospital prices, drug costs, and labor expenses increase, as insurers try to slow premium growth by shifting more costs to patients.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hospitals-upfront-payments-rising-deductibles/

US Citizen Calls ICE ‘Unhinged’ After Agent Points Gun at Her
Footage recorded by American citizen Carolina Molina, which went viral earlier in the week, showed a masked federal immigration agent pointing a handgun at her an office parking lot in Falls Church, Virginia, as they detained two men.
https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-ice-agent-pointing-gun-at-us-citizen-in-virginia-falls-church-12312508
https://archive.ph/ozWi8

US appeals court voids formula used to avert surprise medical bills
The case concerned the No Surprises Act, a 2020 law requiring ​healthcare providers and insurers to negotiate reimbursement rates themselves rather than stick patients with huge ​bills for out-of-network treatments, especially in emergencies. … Tuesday's majority sided ​with the providers in Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Fidel Castro at 100: History Has Absolved Him!: Nikos Mottas Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism
It is against this background that Fidel Castro’s stature comes fully into view. The Cuban Revolution was not the work of one man. Revolutions are made by masses, through organized struggle and under concrete historical conditions. But denying Fidel’s exceptional role would be as absurd as reducing the Revolution to his personality. He became one of the giants of the revolutionary movement of the twentieth century not because history granted him some mystical quality, but because his life became inseparable from a revolution that overthrew Batista, confronted the Cuban bourgeoisie and U.S. imperialism, defended socialist power through extraordinary trials and placed a small Caribbean island on the side of peoples fighting colonialism, apartheid and imperialist domination across the world. Nor does Fidel need to be transformed into a saint. Marxism has no use for saints. He made mistakes; the Revolution made mistakes. Policies were corrected, experiments failed and contradictions were sometimes underestimated. The decisive historical question is not whether errors occurred, but which class interests were being fought, which power was being defended and in which direction Cuban society was struggling to advance. That question remains decisive today.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/08/fidel-castro-at-100-history-has-absolved-him.html

Defend the Cuban revolution! Defeat US imperialism! Fight for world socialism!
Emboldened by the immediate success of its January 3 attack on Venezuela, US imperialism has launched an unprecedented campaign of economic asphyxiation and military bullying of Cuba. The 60 year old blockade has been strengthened since the beginning of the year with a near complete oil blockade which has decimated Cuba’s ability to produce energy with devastating effects on the daily lives of millions. A systematic criminal and very effective campaign of secondary sanctions and diplomatic pressure has targeted all aspects of Cuba’s economy (tourism, mining, the export of medical services, shipping, trade). This is a brutal and cruel medieval siege with the aim of achieving surrender by hunger. Economic measures have been supplemented byPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

tyna

That’s also true of every other US based group after the civil war

Black Panthers were the only historically progressive thing to come out of the muttmerican left

t. leftcom

>>2889573
>muttmerican
>leftcom
The jokes write themselves

What's the difference between LARPers and Real Revolutionaries (TM)?

>>2890717
not knowing and not satisfying the success condition available according to the present condition the movement finds itself in, vs knowing it or at least satisfying it by luck

Just a missguided form of class anger that's end reaction is usually a mass shooting.

>law enforcement agencies
Don’t care what illiterate porky shocktroopers think

>>2884896
All of those mass shooters have either a direct and/or indirect (via immediate family) connection to state militaries and security apparatuses.

>>2884896
The US populace is highly medicated. If that were the case the streets would be a warzone. I bet WITHOUT these medications (and other treats and pacificsation tools, screens, entertainment, music, porn, etc.) it would get much worse.

>>2890519
I don't think it's all pacification tbh. After all politics is done, what next? More politics? Happiness?

I'm referring to the arrival fallacy of course. Unless an individual has an idea of their own retirement from politics, they possess Yukio Mishima's bullshido madness >>2885001

Bruce Lee was better anyway.

The thing with the "oligarchic world" is it's extremely easy for both state actors even at their weakest point or just lone wolf types to litteraly kill said oligarch and their family therefore to submit them, and they are well aware of that. I mean look at what Putin did.
Nobody is actually ready to die for Elon Musk or Peter Thiel, they can't buy honor and fidelity just mercenaries, nobody was even really ready to die for Walt Dysney and Henry Ford and these guys were actually geniuses.

It doesnt matter if Trump is a retard if he want he can litteraly ask his supporter both in the civilian population or the federal agencies to murder wathever billionaire he dislike and theyll do it and hell get away with it, likewise for a lib president. The power of the oligarch is extremely fake and gay, there's a reason Tyler Robinson freaked them out so much recently to the point of implicitely backing down on their RW signaling, they litteraly did nothing as a response for a reason.

The Russian state has been completely pillaged and the copper wires stolen after 1991, the military was in shamble and it took Putin what? 5 years to submit these guys? No need to make mountains out of molehills.

>>2888791
>then started astroturfing people curtis yarvin out of goddamn nowhere to spread and manufacture consent for a corporate and libertarian society,
No, not out of nowhere. That kind of stuff has been around for a long while and needs deconstructing.
>>2884944
>>2885001

>>2890487
Why all the violence? The people have to want the right thing?

>>2848797
Was it "Red China's Green Revolution" by Joshua Eisenman?

>>2848798
I don't think so but thanks for the recommendation

I wish the Chinese proletarian Maoists well
Talk about a concentration of the revolutionary subject holy shit

what kind of "maoism" MLM? MZT? M3W?

>>2848797

https://pdfhost.io/v/yRUsEMAX63_All_power_to_the_masses_copy

Is this what you're looking for?

Kill yourself

Ok but sending DKAs (DeadKirkAdult) is kinda based

>>2890366
clitty leak or whatever this websites shit version of it

>>2890134
Well currently Chinese are occupying learned institutes so they obviously would call for such a thing. As far as intelligence goes a concrete definition of it has not been defined.

>>2890143
>Well currently Chinese are occupying learned institutes
what does that have to do with "philosopher kings"
>so they obviously would call for such a thing
1 question, 2 statements

1. why should i care what any one "calls for" instead of what they actually do?
   
2. I see no evidence that they would "call for" philosopher kings
   
3. your conclusion is completely unrelated to your premise. "occupying learned institutes" has nothing to do with "philosopher kings" or even with the more general "rule by the wise" since a person can be wise without being educated, and vice-versa.

aristocracy can be argued for in cybernetic terms. the aristos are fit to rule because they are the wisest, the most knowledgeable. they have the most accurate model of society. the good regulator theorem and the internal model principle both state that to regulate a system you must have an accurate model of that system. without such modelling good regulation cannot be effected. therefore the aristos, the vanguard, should rule

>>2890161
But what may qualify "the best"?
Plato properly sees that duty to the public good must be made by the decoupling of power from money, from a lack of personal possession, and by constant self-improvement (e.g. eugenics). The entrepeneurial aristocracy of people like Yarvin sees money, power and wisdom as all synonymous, and so aristocracy becomes plutocracy.

>Idealist political philosophy
>Preservation of class society
>Anti-democratic elite rule
>Eugenics

Holy shit Plato was ML??

>>2889128
The move you missed is conservatives claimed hierarchy is revealed by market competition. This rubs some cons the right way because they think it should be revealed by who's best at cleaving skulls with an axe instead of manipulating stocks and other effete financial BS.

>>2889144
Jews are an ethnoreligious group originating from the ancient Hebrews of the Middle East. While many Western Jews (such as Ashkenazi Jews) have light skin and may be perceived or identify as white today, the global Jewish population includes people of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.

>>2889179
>Revealed by market competition
Only in a cursory sense; the reactionary prefers monopoly over the endless struggle for economic power. This is why the classical tories were all protectionists and interventionists who controlled prices to specifically benefit the landed aristocracy against the bourgeoisie. During the repeal of the Corn Laws in the mid-19th century do we see the replacement of Tories with Peelites, who go on to create the Conservative Party (1834-), which is thoroughly liberal in its agenda.

>>2889144
In the US and anglosphere sense of whiteness, yes.

>>2889144
Best jewfu.

Pressley Demands Israel Release US Citizen Sama Safi, Abducted by IDF More Than Two Months Ago
The Guardian reported in June that Safi, a psychology student at the West Bank’s Birzeit University, was arrested along with three other women around the same time. An Israeli military spokesperson told The Guardian that they were all arrested “after promoting hostile terrorist activity and additional terrorist-related activities.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/free-sama-safi-israel

HCA workers push for higher pay and more staffing amid billions in profits: ‘I’m struggling’
The hospital system has over 300,000 employees in the US and the UK, with 22,000 US workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who are in contract negotiations with HCA. Workers are asking for a pathway to a $25 an hour minimum wage, improved wage scales and raises that match the increased cost of living, along with benefits including paid vacation, sick time and bolstered work protections.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/union-hca-healthcare-workers-protest

Advocates Call for End of Deadly Tactic Used by For-Profit Health Insurers to Deny Treatment
The policy brief, published Monday by the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP), an anti-monopoly think tank, argues that the system is a massive drag on the US healthcare system, draining doctors of their time, fueling hiring shortages, and—most importantly—worsening treatable health problems for millions of Americans.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporate-care-veto

Judge temporarily blocks implementation of NYC's new pied-à-terre tax
The ruling pauses enforcement on the tax on second properties while a lawsuit brought by a group of homeowners moves forward. That lawsuit alleges that the city bungled the rollout by including many who live full-time in their homes on a list of 900,000 people who could be subject to the tax, as well as sending letters to 17,000 others.
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The Democratic Party Establishment Punches Back
Things came to a head with the undeniable success of DSA-backed candidates in New York City’s June 23 primaries. It was a test of whether the country’s most prominent democratic-socialist mayor would continue to align with the Democratic Party’s center and right wing or use his political capital — and, more importantly, the popularity generated by his program and campaign — to challenge them. While Mamdani initially pledged to support candidates on the Working Families Party line, including Democrats who were not endorsed by DSA, at the 11th hour he switched course to advocate for three insurgent candidates who won their primaries by large margins, undermining the designs of his party’s leadership. Mamdani made the political calculation that if he supported DSA’s candidates, he would gain more favor from his base and from the DSA rank and file (after facing backlash for his coziness with the police and his endorsement of Kathy Hochul for governor). House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s response was telling in its passive-aggressive restraint. When asked whether Mamdani’s endorsements had made him enemies in Washington, Jeffries confirmed that the two had “strongly” disagreed over his picks and warned that the mayor “has got work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.” It was the sound of a party leader trying to manage an insurgency rather than one confidently setting terms for it.
https://www.leftvoice.org/democratic-establishment-punches-back/

Hoisted from the Inbox: China Wobbles or Worse in Store?
Yves here. Some who are knowledgeable about China correspond with me. I sent around an article from Asia Times, China’s 25-year tax reach will cost it more than it collects. This measure seems so misguided (in terms of the 25 year part, not some collection of back taxes per se) as to seem desperate. From the top of the story: China is now chasing decades of unpaid tax on money its wealthiest citizens moved offshore, in some cases reaching back as far as 25 years. Call it what it actually is: a state deciding, after the fact, that wealth it once let leave the country is now fair game to reclaim. To be sure, taxing worldwide income isn’t radical policy. The UnitePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna