/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

In quantum mechanics, the state of a physical system is described by a wave function. Before measurement, the system does not have definite values for every measurable property. Instead, the wave function gives probabilities for the different possible outcomes that could be observed.

After a measurement is made, the system has a definite value for the measured property. This requires a sudden change in the wave function: before measurement, it describes many possible outcomes, but after measurement, only one outcome remains with a 100% probability while all others become 0%.

If these other possibilities are not removed from the wave function, the predictions for future measurements of the same system would be incorrect. This transition from many possible outcomes to one actual outcome is called wave-function collapse.

The problem is that collapse is not described by the Schrödinger equation, which describes how quantum systems evolve over time. The Schrödinger equation only describes the continuous evolution of the wave function; it does not explain when or why collapse happens.

Because collapse is not produced by the Schrödinger equation, its cause cannot be found within the physical processes described by that equation. The main problem in quantum physics is explaining how a system goes from an undefined state containing multiple possibilities to a state with one definite outcome. Since all known physical interactions are already described by quantum mechanics, the cause of collapse cannot simply be another physical interaction within the same framework.

After a century of debate, collapse remains one of the central problems of quantum mechanics. On one hand, collapse seems to contradict the Schrödinger equation. On the other hand, it seems necessary because without collapse there would be no single physical event. The wave function contains possibilities, but an actual event requires one possibility to become real while the others are eliminated.

Quantum mechanics therefore challenges the idea that reality exists as a continuous physical world with definite properties at every moment. Instead, it describes reality as a series of events where definite properties appear only when they are measured. Before collapse, the properties of the system are not determined.

This does not mean that a quantum particle is literally in many places at once. A non-collapsed wave function does not describe one Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Fire erupts on ships at Egypt’s Damietta port
The Reuters news agency, citing British maritime security company Ambrey, reported that a US-owned floating storage tanker at the port had been hit by a drone. Crew members were evacuated, and the fire was brought under control, the report said. There has not been any claim of responsibility. The incident comes as US President Donald Trump promised to hit Iran “hard” following a wave of Iranian missile attacks targeting US bases in the region and US-Saudi Arabia joint attacks on a Tehran-backed armed group in Iraq, which killed at least 20 fighters.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/29/fire-erupts-on-ships-at-egypts-damietta-port
https://archive.ph/5HGMC

Israeli forces assault MK while storming memorial event for slain Palestinian activist
Israeli border police assaulted a Knesset member on Tuesday while storming a memorial event for a slain Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank — a move described as showing Israeli forces' "clear descent into fascism". The attack took place in Umm al-Khair at a memorial gathering for Awda Hathaleen, who was killed in 2025.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-assault-mk-storm-vigil-palestinian-activist

Ahmet Davutoglu, former PM turned Erdogan critic, ends political career
“This is not a decision of surrender. It is a decision to distance ourselves morally. This is not giving up on politics; it is a call for everyone to rethink politics,” he said. He warned that the introduction of the executive presidential system in 2018 had eliminated checks and balances and accelerated authoritarianism, which “could give way to a permanent authoritarian system.” Davutoglu founded the Future Party in 2019, hoping to draw voters away from Erdogan's long-time ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and create an alternative conservative movement with democratic credentials.
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As an ancap, i feel like we dont act as radical as our ideology says we are

I would personally prefer a more radical outlook on the world. We have an advantage over the communists, and that is reality. But, where you look, you see the communists capturing the political radicals

Sad!

Was he even wrong?
>Paris Commune was preceded by the Franco-Prussian war, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>Russian revolution was preceded by the deadliest war in history at the time, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>WW2 preceded the communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, Korea, and China. The contradictions and crisises developed the revolution

why would nuclear war not have the same effect if not a greater effect? Would nuclear war not be a global crisis that would bring about the conditions for international revolution?

Doing a bit of macroeconomics research, I recently discovered that the South Jiangsu region (Sunan, or Wuxi, Nanjing, Suzhou, Changzhou) is apparently first world China, with living standards matching or exceeding Japan and South Korea.

It is also aggressively state led, sort of the Chinese Nordics, with strong SOEs and TVEs.

What does Leftypol think, given that this is essentially Communist Singapore?

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https://dsa-lsc.org/

Anyone got anything to say about the DSA libertarian socialist caucus?

Seems like a way to bring people who would not normally support democratic socialists to be more cooperative with electoralism.

Im already skeptical of the DSA, but at the same time i see no other even vaguely socialist or communist project actually doing anything on a mass scale in the country.

Ive also not been as involved in politics in the past few years, trying to keep my head down to not be a target again for the sake of my family, but i feel like this may be a safer option.

Ive met DSA folks in the past, and my thoughts on them are similar to meeting many other leftists. "gee, they see nice, hope they actually fucking do something," and they kinda have.

Anyway, thoughts?

>one single corporation (the Party) owned 100% market share and banned all market competitors by forcelabor >unions were stripped of power and turned into corporate HR departments to boost factory quotas
>Article 12 of the Soviet Constitution literally mandated "he who does not work shall not eat" (the ultimate grindset)
>the Nomenklatura acted as C-suite executives enjoying private dachas, exclusive luxury stores (Beryozka), and special limousines
>workers owned zero stock equity, had zero say in management, and worked strictly for fixed fiat wage labor

The USSR was not socialist; it was just State Monopoly Capitalism taken to its logical extreme.

Materialists sometimes become Moralist-Materialists and inadvertently reproduce Abrahamic logic in Secular form. For instance, take these two conflicting forms of morality in the bible:

>Exodus says God punishes people intergenerationally, for the crimes of their ancestors

versus

>Ezekiel says God punishes people individually for their crimes

Now obviously materialists don't believe in supernatural entities like God, so it is up to humanity to catch and punish "crimes" but in deciding what "crime" is morality is created and conflated with legality. You can see this in the accumulation of unpunished crimes. Many if not most crimes go undiscovered, and the ones which are discovered may often go unsolved, and therefore unpunished. An unsolved and unpunished crime challenges the legitimacy of the law. People reinvent morality forms like Karma in secular form to excuse this systemic weakness.

For instance, the vast majority of slave owners died happy, fat, and unpunished. This distresses a great many people, even after slavery ended, so an Exodus style morality is created: intergenerational privilege passed down from abolished institutions becomes a crime in itself, not legally punishable, but morally punishable almost as severe as the crime itself, and the Exodus style morality is applied. Against this Exodus style morality comes the Ezekiel protesting "But I personally did not do anything."

There is an ever ending debate in humanity it seems regarding whether crimes are merely breeches of the law or of a sacred morality which is objective and above the law. There is a never ending debate whether children should be punished for the crimes of their parents, since they benefited indirectly from the spoils of those crimes.

But Exodus style morality can only apply to the crime which is discovered, but as yet unpunished. It cannot apply to the crime which is both discovered and unpunished. Therefore the Exodus style morality becomes an excuse to punish generations for the crimes of their ancestors, while excusing the crimes of individuals as long as they were sufficiently able to hide them and get away with them.
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i see people here constantly talk about theory and the writers of said theory so i'm kinda curious what everyone's taste is for stuff outside of philosophy.