/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

For context (feel free to skip this paragraph, though, if tl;dr), I've always considered myself an individualist anarchist and an illegalist. I've never had anything against collectivist anarchists, and in fact I tend to agree with them on a lot of things, but I've just never had the patience for a whole lot of theory, and I'm perfectly frankly a selfish piece of shit who does want a better world for everyone but is primarily interested in making things better for himself (and others, in parentheses) right here and now to whatever degree possible. I've read the Communist Manifesto once and some Bakunin here and there and remember little of any of it; the sum of my political philosophy is more or less that the capitalist system/the state has stolen from me, so I don't regard any of its institutions as valid and regard myself as existing outside of them. I am serious about putting illegalist philosophy into practice; ACAB means ACAB, I don't call the police, and I don't steal from small or minority-owned businesses, but banks and retail chains are fair game. The point being, I'm not entirely new, but also not especially educated when it comes to political theory.

I've always regarded Marxist-Leninists as a strange but mostly pleasant variety of exotic creature that I occasionally interact with by chance, and although I disagree with some of the things I've heard coming out of their mouths (for example, they seem to be very quick to explain why mass civilian deaths under Stalin both didn't happen and were unavoidable but also totally justifiable even if they did), I've rarely or never had a bad experience, so I don't judge too much, but I don't understand them.

At any rate, I spent the last few days on a caffeine-fueled bender reading through various internet shitposts until I came across pic related and downloaded a copy, and it's so obviously full of blatant lies, half-truths, and misinformation even to someone completely uneducated like me that a light switched on in my brain and I immediately started downloading every legitimate book on communism I could find just so I can have some idea what I'm talking about when I confront people who think like this in meatspace. But I'm getting overwhelmed by the enormity of it all. Marx? Seems like I could get away with rereading Communist Manifesto and the 2024 version of the first volume of Capital for now while I wait for the second volume to get a retranslation. Che? Well, he's got a couple of sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I own the work place and you don't. You have to beg me for a job. You can have the job only if you produce more revenue than I pay you. I'll pay you enough to stay alive but not enough to escape your circumstances, unless it looks like you're a total bootlicker and I can use you to keep your peers in line. I need you alive so I can use you, but I need you weak so you can't fight back. Who am I?

Eugenics is one of those words that people flattened to be absurdly broad and shallow. It was a specific movement, with key goals and philosophies.
But people today employ the word any time someone makes a decision about their offspring that isn't randomly selected breeding.
Today on xitter i see right-wingers and a few left-wingers harassing a couple that decided to terminate a pregnancy due to the baby having down syndrome as "eugenic".
What caused this bastardisation of the term?

note: i don't proclaim to be super-knowledgeable about offline optics, but with the world becoming increasingly online, i do feel this will inevitably bleed into real-life consequences, as they have done with the online right's success from 2014 to about present-day

as a veteran of the culture wars on both sides since pretty much just after the gamergate days and pre-trump 1, i've seen a lot in my 10+ years being politically involved in the modern age. i've wasted most of my twenties autisticly hyper-analysing political dynamics and persuasion to try and develop theories and praxis on how to help socialist politics gain power in the face of the enormous pressure ultra-capitalism places on them. i'll try and keep this simple, no deep citations of marxist scripture that will make normies turn off their brains, just basic techniques and strategy that i think would personally help the left as a general movement

mainly, win the humour war. i'm not going to say i can always understand what is and isn't quality humour, but that goes even for the greatest of comic minds, not every joke is going to land, but some risk and vulnerability is expected from the comic is needed. anyway, humour i believe is derived from subversion and surprise. subversion often involves the target and the whole "punching up" rule in comedy can be constituted as that. so why is/was 4chan rightoid slop humour "kill da uyghurs and jews deus vult" stuff considered funny by enough of a die-hard audience? because it was subversive. it did something new, and got the reactions it desired. why is it not funny now, or how do you not make it funny to a wider audience? not through outrage or indignation, but simply fatigue and boredom. the shock is the humour. take away the shock and it fades. act like you've seen this shit before and it's almost become normal, without actively normalising it, because you're still critiquing it. you can combine the shock and edge they once had, and instead turn it on the rightoids. they bring what they think is a pipebomb telling you to "kill yourself, commie beautiful lady😍🥰"? bring a precision airstike "i remember when that was funny and hip in 2017. running on exhaust fumes, you epstein apologist dronefly?" i'm not saying it's the apex of comedy, but you're bullying them back harder and more eloquently and put them in a position where they have to think and not operate on autopilot, something naturally leftists will fucking obliterate rightoids oPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

What does anarchy look like?
How can anarchy be achieved?
Which current groups best represent the movement?
How can we all fight to destroy authoritarian capitalism in our daily lives?

I find it hard to believe that rich countries "exploit" poorer ones, in the Marxist sense.

Firstly, its clear that the higher productivity of workers in rich countries is the reason for greater material wealth. Similarly its primarily the lower productivity in poorer countries for the lack of material wealth.

So now you can ask, "do rich countries have high productivity due to exploitation of poor ones"? And the answer is no. They have high productivity due to more automation of production processes.

Secondly you can ask, "do poor countries have low automation because of rich countries"? The answer is no. In fact, rich countries even outsource production to poor ones and help them increase their productivity via tech transfer, capital for building factories etc. The low automation in poor countries is because they start out from historically low base.

Now you can indeed blame colonialism, but I'm talking about existing processes rather than the lingering effects of 70 year old ones. But to be even more accurate, it was colonialism that enabled the development of capitalist relations in the first place, even if those relations were later strangled by the colonizers.

Japan is nowadays seen as the lap dog of the USA. Not a threat unless the USA commands it. But there are some similarities to the past. The US sanctioned Japan in the early 1900s, one of the reasons that pushed Japan to the war. Now the US is forcing Japan to invest more in the army, thus raising taxes and burdening the population. Recently the US demanded Japan $550 billion for nothing in return. This is raw power. The US is pushing Japan towards a path with no exit.

The nationalism and racial myth survived WW2, and the Japanese government has steadily maintained them. Up to this day, the Japanese population believe in the uniqueness and superiority of the Japanese race and culture. As such, Japan has rejected foreigners, choosing racial purity over survival.

All of this along with the severely worsening living and economic conditions is pushing Japan to choosing between obeying and dying, or disobeying and starting a war, similar to WW2. Any path they choose is basically suicidal.

To avoid a pacific war theater, the US must stop abusing Japan and offer some support. This is one of the tasks of the American left. Don’t ignore Japan!

How come socdems chads have no trouble winning elections but communists do? How come literally nobody likes any of you guys irl?

A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.

Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.

This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!

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>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

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💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
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