/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2941512
you can tell this was made using chatgpt

>>2941498
>FLAVIO BOLSONARO HAS DECLARED HIMSELF PRESIDENT IN EXILE
should have just did another failed fat ass coup then commit seppuku

>>2941498
NEW GUAIDO JOKE JUST DROPPED

Winning hearts and minds.

I think im gonna make a thread about the ongoing neo-colonialism in haiti

US senator briefed on Trump's plans to restart Iran war says proposal is 'insane'
Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees, made the comments after American media reported on Wednesday that the US warned several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military offensive against Iran after the US midterm elections on 3 November. The warning sent by diplomatic and military channels is the latest indication that the US and Israel are preparing to launch another round of attacks against Iran, in an effort to weaken Tehran and force it to negotiations, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-senator-briefed-trump-plan-restart-war-iran-says-proposal-insane

Democratic lawmakers decry Osha’s push to roll back worker respiratory protections
Under the proposed rules, employers would face fewer requirements to provide workers with respirators masks when working with substances including “lead, asbestos, formaldehyde and inorganic arsenic, among other chemicals”, the lawmakers wrote in a letter to the Osha assistant secretary, David Keeling, a former UPS and Amazon executive.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/warren-lawmakers-osha-worker-respiratory-protection

Trump administration attempts to take down leak of ICE personnel data
The letter accused FlokiNET of violating its terms of service by publishing a “stolen” employee dataset and asked it to “remove or disable” the information. “The content is live and places more than 40,000 identifiable individuals at risk of harassment, stalking, and physical harm,” the letter said. FlokiNET said the letter concerned one domain, icepi.cx, which has compiled information about employees from a range of DHS agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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“Mediacide”: Francesca Albanese on Israel’s War on Journalism
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s new report argues that the destruction of truth has become integral to the destruction of the Palestinian people. The report, “Truth Under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide,” documents the killing of nearly 300 journalists and media workers in Gaza since October 2023, Israeli state censorship and incitement, and the role of Western media and digital platforms in reproducing Israeli narratives. Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous spoke with Albanese, an Italian international lawyer who has served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories since 2022. They discuss what she calls “mediacide,” Israel’s killing of journalists including Drop Site contributor Hossam Shabat, incitement on Israeli TV, bias in Western coverage, and the New York Times’ response to her report. Albanese has faced sustained backlash for her work. When she presented the report to the UN General Assembly on Monday, the Israeli and US representatives called her a “liar,” a “fraud,” and a “lunatic,” and the chair asked speakers to focus on the report’s contents. The US, Israel, and several European governments opposed her reappointment last year. Soon afterward, Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed economic and travel sanctions on her, citing her efforts to push the International Criminal Court to investigate US and Israeli officials and companies. Albanese, who is unpaid in her UN role, says the sanctions have cut her off from banking, and that her US-citizen daughter could commit a felony simply by having financial dealings with her. Her family is now suing the Trump administration.
Read the full UN report: https://docs.un.org/A/81/249
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mediacide-francesca-albanese-on-israels

Russia is selling Africa dependence disguised as partnership
This week, Moscow will host the third Russia-Africa summit, bringing together African leaders as President Vladimir Putin seeks to expand Russia’s economic, military and political reach across the continent. Yet Russia’s growing influence has done far more to advance Moscow’s interests and protect alPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2942047
what's the deal with haiti? clearly nobody's actually interested in helping the population so what are they getting out of it? in ukraine they can wear russia down and test high tech western weapons but what does haiti offer?

>>2942083

I think is for propaganda. Like, being from South America, I have seen gang violence all my life, and as the economy is getting worse in most countries around here (due to corrupted governments, I would say), people are getting more and more frustrated with the suffering of the day to day life, and as the majority of people lack proper education to pinpoint the actual causes and solutions to their problems (at least here in Brazil), people tend to be less sympathetic towards criminals, who also harm them.

So, the discourse of "a good criminal is a dead criminal" grows in popularity, especially when it was proven so effective in El Salvador (ethics and legality aside, it worked for what they intended).

Now, with so many governments leaning towards that approach here in south america, and some being in a alliance with the USA, and also financed/explored, this is a unique opportunity for Bukele to show that his approach could work outside El Salvador, making it even more popular, which would also help stablish far right leaders, who often do what USA says

>>2942444
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>>2942473
To simplify everything, please read this from Marx:
<Whence, then, arises the enigmatical character of the product of labour, so soon as it assumes the form of commodities? Clearly from this form itself. […] the Fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour, so soon as they are produced as commodities
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm
The form of commodities itself is therefore the fetish.
There is nothing more to conclude. You can only deny reality.

>>2942476
The commodity form is not a fetish you dunce, you misapellate the term because you fundamentally do not understand it. There are objective social forces in this world you will never understand until you actually contend with materialism, mark my words.

As to the rest, consider it unread. It's a Friday, I'm drinking. Ta ta!

>>2942479
>There are objective social forces in this world
Precisely – and these are fetishised into the form of commodities.
The fetishism of labour into the form of value is its mystification.
Value is an inversion of human relations into object relations.
It is a misrecognition of social production; an indirect expression.
The theory of Communism therefore is to directly express labour.
The value form is abolished because the fetish-object is abolished, etc.
>It's a Friday, I'm drinking. Ta ta!
Should I consider this a fifth time you have claimed to stop replying?

>>2942483
i'm actually not sure you understand what "fetishism" means in this context

>>2942484
What do you feel I misunderstand?
Fetishism in this context is commodification; the inversion of social relations between men into social relations between things, by the spectre of "value"; a phantom-like objectivity which stamps products with its mark; namely, social labour, indirectly received in its quantity. The fetishism (e.g. superstition) is thus an attribution of commodities possessing a thing called "value" as an intrinsic property. Value is an abstraction, which by internal dialectical development, conceives the capital relation, and so on, where mystification is most intense (e.g. in the "trinity formula" of the "prices of production"). Communism thus seeks to abolish fetishism by abolishing the form of value (e.g. the commodification of production, thereby directly representing labour):
<The life-process of society, which is based on the process of material production, does not strip off its mystical veil until it is treated as production by freely associated men, and is consciously regulated by them in accordance with a settled plan
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm
Thus, the "settled plan" (e.g. central plan) is the rational form in which social production proceeds, without internal contradictions of value (e.g. the precedence of exchange-value in capitalist production leads to general crises – which as we see today, even threaten civilisation). Fetishism is itself a primary irrationality on which all other irrationality proceeds. The moderns are more superstitious than the ancients, etc.
<The mode of production in which the product takes the form of a commodity […] makes its appearance at an early date in history […] its Fetish character is comparatively easy to be seen through. But when we come to more concrete forms, even this appearance of simplicity vanishes […] superstition
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm
<nowhere with the Romans do we find that the right of private property was mystified as in the case of the Germans
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>>2942460
>So you see, phrenology is not the baseless art which Hegel imagined.
I said it before and will say it again, if Marx was alive today he would be a 4chan regular and a theorylet.

>>2942464
>Lassalle said he should just prostitute out his daughter if he wanted money so bad
Ok that's faggy on Lasalle's part. What's with these jewish lawyers and cuckoldry?

Social Democracy offers a decent living standard for the working class and a good environment for socialists & communists to dwell and develop. Thus it's preferable to all other forms of class society and bourgeois rule. Real Social Democrats are reformists and cling to bourgeois society, but at least they aren't anti-communists.
SPD, PS, Labour and the like aren't Social Democrats though, despite the name. They're far-right neoliberals and their political program is to undo everything what the OG Socdems achieved in terms of worker's rights.

>You need to fuck the workers so hard that they'll start a revolution!!!
No, fuck you. That’s not how it works + I don't want to suffer even more.

>>2942481
>I don't wanna be exploited!
Sorry, the bourgeois surplus expropriation will continue.

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Biggest nophono in history
>VENEZUELA WILL BE THE NEXT VIETNAM
>MADURO WILL RESIST AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIGHT
then the government coups duro with trump's help

>>2939870
People were very disillusioned with the extreme poverty since Chavez died and there is no national identity to fight for either. All the states of new world are artificial and neither represent the colonists nor the natives.

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>>2939993
lole its because there was no leadership, the PSUV had already organized a deal with the US, selling out Maduro with all potential successors being US-aligned. So the Party and the Military are under the authority of those who were working with the US.

>>2942427
Still kinda sad how only 286 likes and 308 comments. I am going to bet its mostly bitching and moaning from gusanos
>HOW DARE YOU DEFEND FIDEL!!!11!!

>>2942131
That includes Canada, Russia, and Scandanavia

>>2942099
Cuba has been fighting the 100 gorillas for decades now, that's no baby.

>>2942443
No, as the ice melts those are going to be the only countries with arable land, this period will last for two years

>>2942449
>as the ice melts
It releases even more nasty shit into the air (such as a lot methane), and messes up the atmosphere globally. EVERYTHING gets warmer, and EVERYTHING now has to deal with a significantly more toxic atmosphere.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5

>>2942211
midwit thread

>>2942220
>The EU has already announced
oh well if they say it, its as good as done!

>They're working to reduce dependence on US software and military tech
no, they're talking about it, a lot, since at least trump 1, and not anything of consequence was ever done about it

>They're making a digital Euro
so basic bitch modernization

>setting up trade barriers to Chinese and demanding Chinese tech for market access
sounds like thats exactly what an US vassal would do

>middle powers are doing, they are simultaneously looking for advantageous trade deals with both US and China while working to become independent
so they're just doing the rational thing according to their interest? why is the EU in economic suicide mode for the full benefit of the US then?
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Donald Trump has been a China hawk for years, and he waged a brutal trade war against the country. So why did the US leader invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington, DC for a summit? The White House dinner, featuring the CEOs of top corporations, helps explain why. Ben Norton analyzes the complex state of US-China relations following Trump's failed trade war.

Topics
0:00 Xi Jinping visits USA
1:20 Cold War Two
2:07 Cold War One history
3:16 USA sees China as threat
4:48 Trump's trade war backfired
6:02 US-China economic integration
7:10 Trump's tariffs hurt manufacturing
8:05 Rare earths and critical minerals
9:52 Strategic stability meaning
11:26 Trump-Xi summit in Washington
12:16 Corporate CEOs attend dinner
15:53 Scott Bessent met at JPMorgan
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>>2942211
>real threat
>Europe, Russia, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, Gulf monarchies, Canada
lol?

EUrocrat narcissism and stupidity has no limits, amazing.

>rapidly distance themselves from US and China.
Washington and Beijing are in tears.

Moved to >>>/siberia/835350.

>>2941928
Probably thinking dialectically or something

>>2941928
Clinging to hope despite full evidence to the contrary, pure idealism if you will

>>2941963
kek, so maoism?

Color revolution o algo

>>2941928
Just be a Marxist-Leninist silly

Why the fuck would I want to eat like a prole?

>>2941634
>Get that tasteless slop out of here.
how to admit you can't cook, without saying you can't cook.

Moved to >>>/siberia/835207.