/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

U.S. intelligence warns Israel is likely to undermine Iran peace deal, officials say
Israel appears intent on maintaining military operations against Iran’s proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon, an aim that would flout a core element of the fledgling agreement that calls for an end to hostilities in that country, according to intelligence reports, including one circulated this week, said the officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/19/us-intelligence-warns-israel-is-likely-undermine-iran-peace-deal-officials-say/
https://archive.ph/XVWBK

Maine Democrats pick progressive Dunlap in key House race after Golden exit
Maine Democrats nominated state auditor Matthew Dunlap to run in the state's 2nd Congressional District, a closely watched race that could ​help decide control of the U.S. House of Representatives ‌in November, U.S. media projected on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/maine-democrats-pick-progressive-dunlap-key-house-race-after-golden-exit-2026-06-19/

A city’s push for facial recognition on public buses ignites debate over security and privacy
Supporters and opponents alike view the effort as a major litmus test for tapping the AI-powered software on a U.S. public transportation system, positioning Kansas City as the latest epicenter of a fierce debate over whether the safety benefits of artificial intelligence are worth the privacy costs. “The idea of running face recognition on a camera that is pointed on live spaces in public is a line that until recently has never really been crossed in the last 25 years,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for the Project on Speech, Privacy and Technology at the American Civil Liberties Union.
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When the Iran War is Over: Why the West Bank May Be Netanyahu’s Next Front
Unable to deliver ‘victory’, Netanyahu turned perpetual war into a political strategy in its own right. The result has been a genocidal war in Gaza, widespread devastation in Lebanon, and a dangerous confrontation with Iran that has repeatedly brought the region to the brink of a wider catastrophe. For a time, this formula proved politically sustainable. Netanyahu successfully enlisted unwavering US support to keep the fires of war burning. At the same time, the failure of Europe and much of the international community to hold a wanted war criminal accountable provided him with the political space necessary to continue his bloody calculations. Yet that formula may be nearing its limits. While this possibility may appear encouraging, it comes with a serious warning. If Netanyahu can no longer sustain the wars that have prolonged his political life for nearly three years, he may escalate where resistance is weakest: the occupied West Bank. Regarding Iran, there is growing recognition that the current confrontation is unsustainable indefinitely and that some form of arrangement will eventually emerge. Likewise, regardless of whether Lebanon is formally included in any future agreement, Israel’s ambition of permanently occupying parts of Lebanese territory remains untenable.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/19/when-the-iran-war-is-over-why-the-west-bank-may-be-netanyahus-next-front/

Philadelphia Ward 22 Democratic Organizing Meeting Controversy, Fraud Accusation & Scuffle Outside
On the evening of Monday, June 8, across the city, Democratic Party ward organization meetings convened to select ward leaders from among committee people, who were just elected in a May 19 primary. The “open wards” movement flipped several wards around the city, but in a controversial meeting, Ward 22 leadership refused to allow a person-by-person vote. In the heated meeting, Cindy Bass, the previous term’s ward leader and city council member, quickly held a voice vote, declared herself once again the chair, and closed the meeting within a few minutes, a recording obtained by Unicorn Riot showed. People spilled out of the Germantown Seventh-Day Adventist Church on ClPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2844841
I’m pretty sure the government labeled very specific groups of Americans as terrorists

>>2844856
Look up the Patriot Act.

>>2843653
Libs are right to do it, grammatical gender is stupid (except in cases like Swahili where they've got a whole case system instead of making doors and clock radios women like they're a hack mangaka hawking soft porn

God this website attracts some of the worst posters known to man

>>2844822
>complains but adds nothing to the discussion
was your post about yourself?

>>2843513
>English is probably the easist language in Europe, it has no gender, and barely any conjugasion, and no invisible letters.

still could be better. imagine if the spelling and conjugation were actually consistent. it would be an unstoppable language

>>2844787
>if you simplify english any further you can just go back to grunts and screams

based

>>2844795
Force kids to learn it and all federal officials to speak espertano to make muti-cultural commucation easier

American national bouj, about 150 years too late

>>2819110
i feel bad for deaf people who think the easter egg subtitles are what he's actually saying lol

>>2819110
the guy is wrestling with the contradictions but still coming up short. he thinks a mid sized regional business won't be destroyed like a mom and pop shop, but it will be. it just can't compete with a monopoly. this is why the teddy roosevelt era bourgeoisie in america did trust busting, while across the pond lenin was nationalizing monopolies and having them owned by the proletarian dictatorship. those are your two options. break up the monopolies which is just kicking the can down the road since it resets competition, punishes "winners" and makes the future emergence of new monopolies inevitable, or build a new mode of production centered around worker ownership of monopolies.

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>>2843564
Look at the CPGB-ML or the WSWS guys. Neither Harpal Brar nor David North have made any theoretical innovations. They are (or were, Brar is dead now) business owners.

>>2842804
>workers already have class consciousness
can they hurry up with the revolution then?

>>2842505
was polpot the first communizer?

>>2844083
Then I guess his critique was against the Italian Communist Left, primarily against the various ICP's. This would make sense as he specifically calls them out in the text. Either way, I think this text of his is one of the best critiques against the party form.

>>2844150
Slow and steady wins the race!

>>2844151
No, that was just a dictatorship with a planned economy centered around commodity production.

>>2844350
>Slow and steady
why? they already got class consciousness what else do these fuckers need?

>>2844138
sir i am a sober man in his 30s with a family. but i am smart enough to know that crime is a byproduct of poverty, and that the US prison system exists to enslave, and that pigs plant drugs on homeless people, and that the CIA flooded the cities with crack. i have an empathy first approach when it comes to the victims of this society, be they the crackheads, or the working class families who have to step over them on the way to work. but not the pigs.

>>2844146
>so are you saying the cops are a part of the problem in places like this? I can see it.
imagine if firefighters secretly started fires in order to get higher budgets? That's how crooked cops are with crime.

>>2844149
yeah it's cringe and i wouldn't do it but people just react to the pile of shit they live in. even the ancient romans scribbled graffiti on everything.

>>2844155
>LA and philadelphia are essentially like 3rd world countries, correct?
well if you look at a lot of third world countries they are very poor but the streets are cleaner because the people there are fit, sober, disciplined and have respect for their society

>i guess maybe im being close minded and imagining all leftists as college students

i just want socialism. for me that means an end of a society that centers around profit, money, and exploitation.

20 million people die due to capitalism every year. Capitalism kills more people than any alleged death toll attributed to communists in over a century, every 5 years. That doesn't even go into the actual politically motivated murders, colonialism, etc

>>2818672
>i'd argue both existed in some form in the roman period
elaborate

>>2818388
>and theory of evolution in 1377:
This is amazing.

>had a labor theory of value
This is retarded.

>>2818388
>At this point we come to the first stage of man after (the world of monkeys). This is as far as our (physical) observation extends.
Heraclitus already makes the same point (500 BCE):
<The wisest man is an ape compared to God, just as the most beautiful ape is ugly compared to man.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments_of_Heraclitus_(annotated)
>Now, as we shall mention, labor is the real basis of profit
Khaldun contradicts himself in Muqadimmah (Ch. V) as regards the nature of profit (ribh) as we may read from section IX:
<It should be known that commerce means the attempt to make a profit by increasing capital, through buying goods at a low price and selling them at a high price, whether these goods consist of slaves, grain, animals, weapons, or clothing material. The accrued (amount) is called "profit" (ribh). The attempt to make such a profit may be undertaken by storing goods and holding them until the market has fluctuated from low prices to high prices. […] Therefore, an old merchant said to a person who wanted to find out the truth about commerce: "I shall give it to you in two words: Buy cheap and sell dear.
https://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/Muqaddimah/Chapter5/Ch_5_09.htm
The classical LTV maintains that surplus labour leads to profit by selling goods at their value, not above their value. The "profit" incurred from labour is also used very generally as an adjective of gain, where "ma'ash" appears synonymous with ribh (Section II):
https://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/Muqaddimah/Chapter5/Ch_5_02.htm

>>2818714
>>2844087
Sources on Aquinas' theory of value can be give thricefold; "A Letter on Credit Sales and Usury" (1262), Summa ii.ii.77 (1274), Summa ii.ii.78 (1274). In the first case, Aquinas speaks of Just Price (worth/value) as opposed to "usury", which he defines as setting an additional price upon a good for the delay of payment. Aquinas later presents the injustice of this being in the lack of substance attached to time; he does not say what defines justice here, but only injustice, which is not selling a thing what it is worth. Later, we move on to the Summa - in the first case, Aquinas clearly borrows his viewpoint from Augustine (De Civ. Dei xi, 16, 426 CE):
<according to the utility each man finds in a thing, there are various standards of value, so that it comes to pass that we prefer some things that have no sensation to some sentient beings […] even when valued by men themselves (whose nature is certainly of the highest dignity), more is often given for a horse than for a slave, for a jewel than for a maid […] the former considers what value a thing in itself has in the scale of creation, while necessity considers how it meets its need
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120111.htm
Value to Augustine is thus twofold, between natural worth (in the order of creation by reason) and pleasure. Aquinas uses the same terminology in Summa ii.ii.77:
<the price of things salable does not depend on their degree of nature, since at times a horse fetches a higher price than a slave; but it depends on their usefulness to man.
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3077.htm
So then, price to Aquinas depends on usefulness, which is also directly caused by the substance of things:
<Gold and silver are costly not only on account of the usefulness of the vessels and other like things made from them, but also on account of the excellence and purity of their substance.
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>>2818388
Guanzi, Chapter 13: "Eight Observations" (《管子・八観第十三》). wealth would not be produced without people exerting efforts. All wealth under heaven grows out of exertion of strength; strength grows out of exertion of the physical body."
The Revival of Religious Knowledge (Ihya 'Ulum al-Din), Imam Al-Ghazali
a broker could hardly be able to dispense with telling lies, and overvaluing a commodity, just to publicize it on the one hand, and in view of the lack of adequate estimation of the work done in it, which sometimes might be little and sometimes much on the second hand, and it is not the work itself but the price of the sold thing that is given priority in assessing a broker's charge on the third hand. This is practice, which is, to be sure, a kind of injustice, for indeed, it is the amount of effort exerted that should be considered."

>>2843087
>The Cultural Revolution was actually a ploy to destroy worker's communes
Gotta hand it to you, that's a new one. Too bad it's a bald-faced lie though.

>>2841979
>>2842746
I am a Marxist-Leninist and I respect the Cultural Revolution and defend it against the narrative of capitalists and revisionists who invent excuses to justify class conciliation.

From what I know, the book "The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village" by Dongping Han is a better book that writes about the era than Gao Mobo.

I searched and I think I found a link to this text available on the internet if you want to read it:

http://www.socialiststories.com/en/writers/Han-Dongping/The-Unknown-Cultural-Revolution-Dongping-Han.pdf

>>2842746
Truth nuke.
If someone is in mostly ignorance (non-pejorative) of a thing they'd always be better served just using a search engine, rather than asking leftypol. For most things.

the cultural revolution was college brats persecuting actual communists for knowing too much science and economics. look at the way those mobbed up radlibs treated actual veterans of the global antifascist war.

CCP is not communist and China is not socialist

it's never been more over

Republicans blast Trump's Iran agreement as details emerge
U.S. President Donald Trump's interim deal to end the Iran war met scorching public criticism from some of his fellow Republicans as copies of the signed agreement circulated on Capitol Hill on Thursday. One Republican senator called the framework pact announced this week the "worst foreign ​policy blunder in decades," another said some reported provisions seemed "ill-advised," and some pro-Republican commentators also broke with Trump over the agreement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/republicans-blast-trumps-iran-agreement-details-emerge-2026-06-18/

Teamsters federal monitorship ending after 37 years
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has been subject to oversight since 1989, when it signed a consent decree aimed at eliminating the mob's influence in the union. "Being the general president of the Teamsters, if I even think it, they want to indict me over it," Teamsters president Sean O'Brien joked on his podcast in early 2025 about the union's lingering image.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/teamsters-sean-o-brien-federal-oversight
https://archive.ph/1AYfR

Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George to be next mayor of Washington DC
Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George is slated to be the next mayor of Washington DC after her opponent conceded on Thursday. Lewis George, a city council member, ran on a platform of expanding childcare, education and housing, and revoking the district’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/janeese-lewis-george-dc-mayor

Susan Collins Ads Brag About $190 Million for Rural Hospitals. It’s a Band-Aid on the Gaping Wound She Helped Inflict
According to one analysis, the GOP law’s estimated cuts to federal Medicaid spending in rural areas over the next decade will amount to nearly Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Colombia in the Eye of “El Tigre”
On Monday, June 8, I received terrible news from my friend Rosa, a youth activist and the founder of three community gardens in the impoverished neighborhoods of northern Bogotá. Thugs had destroyed one of their spaces, the Pollinators’ Garden in Suba. Emboldened angry men with machetes, shovels, and axes chopped down tomate de árbol and avocado trees, multiplying banana fronds and fruit, lavender, rue, kale, oregano, basil, and many other vegetables and herbs. I wept when I saw photos of the dry brown earth where once I had walked with her and her friends through the overflowing, tangled green. “They weren’t afraid of anything,” said Rosa (whose name has been changed for anonymity). “They did it in broad daylight.” I commiserated. “It’s as if their guy has already won,” she added. Colombia’s second round of elections this Sunday will steer the country into one world or another: a feast of hatred, exclusion, violence, or a continuation of an imperfect progressive experiment. After the first round, on May 31, Senator Iván Cepeda of the leftist Pacto Histórico had 9.64 million votes, and lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, a newcomer to politics with neofascist aesthetics, unexpectedly pulled ahead, with 10.31 million votes. The candidate in third place, Paloma Valencia, a traditional conservative originally favored by former right-wing President Álvaro Uribe, was eliminated.
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/colombia-election-cepeda-abriella-trump

Resignation letter of top Party for Socialism and Liberation cadre Walter Smolarek
I have been a member of this organization for 17 years, more than half of my life. When I first joined, I used to sneak out of my parents' house to attend Party meetings and had to open a P.O. box to receive Party literature. I spent years building Party branches in various cities — Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Asheville, Baltimore, Louisville, Lexington and elsewhere. I was elected to the Central Committee three times, and before that was an observer present at every CC meeting for seven years. I worked for over four years on the Loud & Clear podcast alongside Brian Becker, then later on The Socialist Program. When the National Communications Department was established in 2022, I was made its director, and I havePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>On top of that, I doubt most people here would actually enjoy to live in Russia or Iran, especially considering half of you are gay or trans. You would get beaten up by Putinists daily for being atheist communist faggots.

i already live in a third world country retard.

>>2835509
>>2835515
>I don't care about historical contex
People are still taking OP seriously after this confession

>>2842800
Il not saying it because it's intellectually defensible but tactically. "Muh historical conditions" is second only to "muh material conditions" in campist infinite goalpost moving for why totalitarian fascist regimes are defnesible to the end of time so long as they oppose the USA.

>>2842750
Do you enjoy it though?