/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

This recent video by the Humanist Report is typical of the left, full of calls for empathy. He's frustrated that former MAGA supporters only turned after Trump fucked them with gas prices, grocery prices, their businesses, loved ones deported, scammed them with watches, etc. Complaining that they're selfish, don't follow the golden rule, don't care about foreigners getting bombed, how they're the main character. He's frustrated that when the left pitches medicare for all they have to push it as some cost cutting measure for the state or small businesses, instead of saving lives, or that opposing war has to be dressed in economic concerns, that apparently blowing up foreigners would be good if regular Americans benefited more.

In other words, he's frustrated people look after their own interests like Marxists always say. Funny thing, he's an atheist, I believe, but it seems he wants people to be Christian saints.

>>2911625
Anti-imperialists say the same about ex-soildiers

>>2911625
>>2911704
Moralizing and romanticism is common everywhere :/

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.

>>2909604
This leftychud gets it.
As regards class stratification, unless our biology changes, there will be specialists who are initiated into scientific disciplines because there is massive downshot potential for screwups. They will not be classes stratified, but classes networked like special cells in a body. Hence the advanced or esoteric feudalism.

>>2909651
My argument was this existed before antiquity under another name and exists even today. Absolute monarchy is a phase of feudalism as this control existed on a spectrum with the underlying property relations remaining feudal. It would be like comparing hoxhaist albania and titoist yugoslavia. Even tho they had radically different power relations, the property relations were fundamentally socialist.

>>2909491
It's not a materialist analysis (or whatever these words even mean to you), it's just picking up common similarities and saying "whoa look at that ! I just discovered that the USSR was feudal !". I remember some anon on 4chan coming to the same conclusion as you but to criticize communism.
>dude look the USSR had a politburo deciding production territorially
>and look at that ! feudalism had a lord that also decided production on his territory too !
<that must mean they're one and the same

I'm guessing the austrian economics bit is you agreeing with Mises' vague truisms ?

>>2911467
These are not common similarities, but deeper analysis into otherwise separate phenomena. It is not just the USSR I applied this to. The part you should be looking to is property relations, horizontal and vertical authority relations and ideological superstructure.

>Mises
More like understanding that the market is a natural calculator of SNLT and central planning attempts to mimic it are futile and instead Central Planning is more efficiently used as a tool within a market which is also how the USSR economy in the 1930s-1950s functioned, this not being a contradiction if your goal is proprietarianism, that is people owning property. Also Yugoslavia, China etc.

>>2912521
Before I go, I have my disagreements with cybercoms on this exact point.
>Mandated Full employment and Labor credits in the way presented by proponents of cybercommunism are indistinguishable from the vision set by the WEF.
Simply put, until I see visible simulations of said system that allows for freedom, it would not be a viable system.
If so, a system of guaranteed employment renumerated by labor credits with a parallel economy of private money is beneficial. In this case, private money demand will come from the government purchasing or allowing citizens to use labor credits to purchase goods and services produced in the parallel economy.
And this system will allow for the gradual withering away of the state bordigafags like so much.

>>2912337
>If you opened a history book
which one?
https://davidharvey.org/2015/06/listen-anarchist-by-david-harvey/

>>2912337
>decommodification
Is that like a "Hitler decommodified West Russia" joke ?

>>2912337
>open up ancient history book on egypt
>no anarchism to be found
>no mention of Spain 36
>didnt even know what communism was

interesting

What makes appeals to anthropology any different in essence than appeals to historicism?

>>2912841
That anthropology is more scientific

>>2912399
God was real for people a thousand years ago, it’s not real now, people in the future will scoff at einstein physics the way you scoff at the bible

>>2912396
Rape has nothing to do with reality which we can never fully know retard

>>2912397
Are you gonna wear your seatbelt? Will your airbags go off?

>>2912401
You can never fully know if my dick in your butt isn't your wet daydreaming…

>>2912432
Intuition is superior to knowledge for exactly that reason

>>2909195
>but the country probably still has one of the highest rates of atheism in the world
Supposedly

>>2907186
>>2909105
Many sections of the American right and left have a negative bias toward Europeans.

On the right, this often means portraying Americans as rugged individualists, pioneers and cowboys compared with supposedly soft and safe Europeans. This conveniently ignores the enormous scale of warfare and violence taking place in Europe at the same time. More men likely died in a single 19th-century European battle than in all the violence associated with the Wild West.
On the left, it tends to mean praising America for its openness, diversity, liberalism and role in defeating fascism. On the far left, it’s more about seeing America as merely slightly better and freer than Europe.

Both versions are objectively wrong, but I they ultimately serve the same purpose, allowing Americans to self-mythologize a story about why America is uniquely different and superior to Europe.

>they are anti-intellectual
Oh, so they'll vote for the next retard and unknowingly spread more far-left propaganda for us by not getting the point?

>>2897720
No they don't, theyll be dunking on women one moment, then displaying false empathy as an excuse to dunk on a group they hate and would like to exterminate

>>2898250
>>2910118
Atun-Shei’s and Portable Orange’s videos on the American Revolution are a great example of the left-wing version of this crude anti-European American bias. It's less love for America and more like a deep hostility toward Europe, combined with a desperate desire to distance America from its European origins. Like the libertarians they also place far too much emphasis on the Minutemen. Atun-Shei literally states that the Minutemen alone won the war and defeated the strongest Empire in the world. That is such a moronic claim that it would be instantly disproven with even the slightest bit of research into the American Revolution. It literally calls into question everything else he has ever said about history.

Their main difference with the libertarian version is that they will point to some obscure unit that included free people of color as something particularly praiseworthy, while also trying to emphasize that the farm boys were lower-class men. I’m sure the common British foot soldiers weren’t exactly living in luxury, in fact they were undoubtedly much poorer than many American settlers.
Another thing the libertarian right and leftist have in common is the way they view Europe as essentially one unified culture. The right tends to portray Europe as bureaucratic, stuffy, socialist and bland, while the left often portrays it as Fascistic racist nazis. Both sides also seem to have a particular fascination with ignoring the mere existence of the Continental Army for whatever political reasons.

>>2911196
and might makes right last i checked so maybe that means aryanoids are inferior cucks

>>2911179
>>2911187
>racial difference in cognition and physical traits
uyghur i know you're a retarded zoomer with no historical knowledge but 30 years ago no one in the mainstream thought china could build a space station on their own or conquer the car market with electric cars or push out humanoid robotics. the average view of chinks was of child labor sweatshops churning out cheap plastic. the problem with racists is they don't understand how every single "race" was stereotyped as incompetent and useless and incapable of advancement up until the evidence finally became insurmountable that they had indeed advanced. the same criticisms made of africans today were made of japanese, koreans, and germans in the past. you simply don't study anything and are retarded so you don't understand how you're repeating those same mistakes.

>>2911187
I agree with the whole cognitive difference thing, but why can't you agree that cognitive differences change? You appealing to materialism selectively is very fake and gay.

>>2911211
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independent of how the Chinese were “viewed” Chinese and other East Asians have scored on par or even above whites in psychometric testing since literally the beginning

I don’t see where you’re going with this, the science never lied about the Asians regardless of what the vulgar masses though of China as a nation state

>>2910981
Meant for >>2905195

>>2911440
So how would you go about doing this?

>So what are the flaws of dengist economics?

if you don't have a massive unemployed population along with a shitload of exploitable resources that foreign investors want then you're just gonna collapse

>>2865198
<So what exactly is bad about this generally speaking? Especially on a neoliberal Earth where the international elite, outside of china, can flee and go anywhere and has no accountability? The strategy of dengist economics has produced the same results that people like Mao and Stalin wanted out of their countries like mass industrialization, electrification, and prosperity but at the same time holding their own societal elites accountable.
I guess in the long run its not sustainable because its a partial market economy and suffers the same flaws as capitalism. But it may be worth it in the short to medium run to have industrial capitalism on the most favorable circumstances to China rather than no limits colonial exploitation version

>>2865198
The main thing is that it's a poor fit for a very large country such as China which ends up with large internal town-country contradictions.

>>2911926
>Can AI Own and Create Intellectual Property?
A dead squirrel can own intellectual property but this doesn't mean it should.

>>2911947
>even the smartest AI is nothing but a can opener.
for now.

>>2912045
Technological developments reach plateaus eventually, especially when the aim is to make a machine "more life-like" (because, let's be honest, that's always the primary goal of people with a massive God complex, not actual utility). Life has a biological vessel, which a machine based on metal can only imitate. It's fundamentally unable to enter into social relations, even if it is able to "think" or even be "self-aware".

And value (in the Marxist sense) is nothing but a social relation. A machine cannot properly own things under capitalism or economic systems derived from it.

>>2911954
The idea that a technology that was entirely built off of stealing data and intellectual property can turn around and claim copyright is just a non-starter.

DOJ went after protesters for felony assault, but juries, judges were unconvinced, AP analysis finds
The dismal record has raised questions about rushed investigations and aggressive charging tactics by prosecutors under pressure to show the Trump administration is cracking down on people who assault law enforcement. It comes as the Justice Department is facing broader setbacks in politically charged investigations, with grand juries repeatedly refusing to return indictments and trial juries granting acquittals.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-protests-prosecutions-doj-arrests-54db940f84a0e89c61ba53a2eed43a25

Mississippi police say more arrests to come in death of woman found hanging from tree
Police sought and found Jarques Ratliff, 51, who is Black, and arrested him when they encountered him walking on the street, authorities said on Friday. Jackson’s police chief, RaShall Brackney, also said on Friday that additional arrests are expected in the case. Ratliff should appear in Jackson municipal court no later than Monday morning, said André de Gruy, Mississippi’s state defender.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/mississippi-police-arrests-tasia-fortune-death-tree

Jewish institutions' security spending in U.S. tops $1 billion
Synagogues are increasingly moving beyond security guards and cameras to layered, year-round systems that include hardened entrances, trained congregants as security personnel and coordination with police. More than 7,100 volunteers now help protect more than 500 synagogues and events each week, according to Community Security Service (CSS), a nonprofit that now protects more than 500 synagogues across the U.S.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/12/jewish-security-spending-holy-days
https://archive.ph/xa0fv

Alaska drops voter misconduct cases against American Samoans who wrongly checked ‘Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’ Interview by Zoe Williams
The World Economic Forum get-together in Davos, Switzerland, has always had a twin purpose – to provide a platform for the super-rich to describe all the good they are doing on poverty and climate, and to give us a glimpse into their enviable lives. This year what we witnessed was, quite brazenly, the world’s richest men gathering to discuss the real estate possibilities of a mass grave. At that same Davos, Donald Trump announced his Board of Peace for the reconstruction of Gaza – it has delivered nothing substantial in the seven months since, but more significantly, Klein says, “we’re being hit with so many extraordinary events that it’s hard to hold on to what a big deal it is: they have announced a privatised United Nations”. “I think we understand that wealth compounds, right? Certainly rich people understand that wealth compounds,” Klein continues, speaking to me from her peaceful, roomy study in British Columbia. “But I don’t feel like we spend a lot of time really thinking about the implications of what it means for that much wealth to be compounded, and what that does psychologically. Part of the new shamelessness we’re seeing is just what happens when this amount of financial, mediagenic, technological and military weaponry is concentrated in the hands of this very small, unaccountable group of people. They stop trying to seduce us in any way.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/12/naomi-klein-extreme-wealth-has-a-deranging-effect-it-turns-you-into-a-supremacist

The Tragic Events in Chile: A Lesson for the Revolutionaries of the Whole World by ENVER HOXHA
In Chile it was believed that the relatively old-established democratic traditions, parliament, the legal activity of political parties, the existence of a free press, etc., were an insurmountable obstacle to any reactionary force which might attempt to seize power by violence. The reality, however, proved the opposite. The coup d’état of the rightist forces proved that the bourgeoisie will tolerate certain freedoms just so long as its essential interests are not affected, but when it sees that these interests are threatened, itPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2912134
>Violence erupted in the town this week as residents protested over the killing of Sami Shekhmous Hiso, a former Kurdish fighter. Hiso, also known as Sepan, was reportedly kidnapped before his body was returned with bullet wounds on Thursday in the northeastern Hasakeh province.
His relatives had said he was beheaded.

Killing of Kurdish soldier tests Syria integration
The killing of a Kurdish member of the Syrian Ministry of Defense has raised questions regarding security dynamics in Syria, particularly as the country undergoes a restructuring of its security and military institutions in the northeast.

Sipan Hazni, a young Kurdish man and former fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who had recently joined the Syrian Ministry of Defense as part of the January 29 integration agreement, was abducted in Hasakah and subsequently found dead, having reportedly been shot and stabbed.

Security forces in Hasakah conducted an investigation after it emerged that Hazni was missing, with his body found near the village of al-Jamil. The local authorities apprehended a suspect who had attempted to flee on a motorcycle, and said investigations are ongoing to finalize the case before referring it to the judiciary.

Hazni’s uncle, Ahmed Hasso, told The Amargi that the family had been informed of his abduction prior to the discovery of his body. Videos purportedly showing Hazni’s abduction and killing spread on social media.

As a member of the SDF, Hazni fought on the front lines during the years of the war against ISIS. Hasso said that the family is demanding justice and accountability for the killing. “If fighters who align themselves with the state are killed in this manner, how can others trust the state?” he asked, in comments to The Amargi.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that his abduction was related to accusations surrounding the killing of members of the Bu Hassan clan of the Baggara tribe, which had occurred two years prior.

The killing has triggered protests in numerous Kurdish localities. Ahmed emphasized that the family does not wish to inflame conflict between Kurds and Arabs; rather, they seek accountability and are determined to ensure that justice is served for Sipan.

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>>2912153
The people of Rojava rose up for the slain fighter Sîpan.
In the mass marches held in the cities of Qamişlo, Çilaxa, Hesekê, Girkê Legê, Tirbespiyê, Dirbesiyê and Dêrik against the kidnapping and murder of Hesekê Brigade fighter Sîpan (Samî Şêxmûs Hiso), the murderers were demanded to be held accountable.

The people of the towns and cities in the Hesekê province organized mass marches against the brutal murder of Hesekê Brigade fighter Sîpan (Samî Şêxmûs Hiso), who was abducted by armed groups.

<QAMISHLI
In the city of Qamishlo, thousands of people marched from Sonî Junction to Martyrs' Junction. During the march, slogans expressing loyalty to the martyrs, condemning the martyrdom of Sîpan, and demanding accountability from the perpetrators were chanted.
The crowd gathered at the Martyrs' Junction observed a minute of silence. Afterwards, a statement was read on behalf of the Qamişlo People's Initiative.
The statement noted that the assassination of Sîpan was the third such crime recently committed. It stated that behind these crimes were forces seeking to thwart the integration process and prevent Kurds from obtaining their rights within the Syrian state.
The statement noted that certain forces were attempting to implement their own plans by trying to destabilize the country, create fear and insecurity among the population, and plunge the region into crisis.
The statement called on the interim government to shed light on this crime, launch a transparent investigation, and prosecute the perpetrators in accordance with the law. It also urged the public to remain vigilant, united, maintain their unity, and not allow any party to use them for their political gain.

<CILAXA
In the city of Çilaxa, a protest was held in front of the PYD's headquarters in the Resafa neighborhood, with the participation of citizens, families of martyrs, representatives of political parties, opinion leaders of Kurdish tribes, and members of women's movements. A statement was read there on behalf of the People's Initiative.
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>>2912046
And the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, even a shit hole country under an egotistical drunk dictator who tried to make himself a literal king, the vast majority of my country’s projects that still exist to this day were done under him in the fucking 1950s and 60s.

>>2912060
if you extend to the 20th and 19th centuries there are alot more examples but if you take post cold war theres no way atlanticist imperial finance capital will allow global south countries to do that without a coup, esp. in latin america.

Who are you willing to see get decimated in the name of developmentalism if it doesn’t end up being the national bourgeoisie? Migrants? Some religious or ethnic group? Sexual minorities? Communists themselves if they oppose the regime? Development may be progress but it always comes at someone’s expense

>>2912130
That's why it has to be destroyed and the support has to come from anywhere, whether from Fascists, Russian,or Iranian imperialists. If Western leftists can offer aid that would be appreciated, but most probably won't.
>>2912135
I'm aware of what will come, I am not a western leftist. A few ethnic groups will be forcefully assimilated, including those related to my mother's family and that will be worth it.

>>2911988
Welcome back Deng Xiaoping!