/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Pressley Demands Israel Release US Citizen Sama Safi, Abducted by IDF More Than Two Months Ago
The Guardian reported in June that Safi, a psychology student at the West Bank’s Birzeit University, was arrested along with three other women around the same time. An Israeli military spokesperson told The Guardian that they were all arrested “after promoting hostile terrorist activity and additional terrorist-related activities.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/free-sama-safi-israel

HCA workers push for higher pay and more staffing amid billions in profits: ‘I’m struggling’
The hospital system has over 300,000 employees in the US and the UK, with 22,000 US workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who are in contract negotiations with HCA. Workers are asking for a pathway to a $25 an hour minimum wage, improved wage scales and raises that match the increased cost of living, along with benefits including paid vacation, sick time and bolstered work protections.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/union-hca-healthcare-workers-protest

Advocates Call for End of Deadly Tactic Used by For-Profit Health Insurers to Deny Treatment
The policy brief, published Monday by the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP), an anti-monopoly think tank, argues that the system is a massive drag on the US healthcare system, draining doctors of their time, fueling hiring shortages, and—most importantly—worsening treatable health problems for millions of Americans.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporate-care-veto

Judge temporarily blocks implementation of NYC's new pied-à-terre tax
The ruling pauses enforcement on the tax on second properties while a lawsuit brought by a group of homeowners moves forward. That lawsuit alleges that the city bungled the rollout by including many who live full-time in their homes on a list of 900,000 people who could be subject to the tax, as well as sending letters to 17,000 others.
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The Democratic Party Establishment Punches Back
Things came to a head with the undeniable success of DSA-backed candidates in New York City’s June 23 primaries. It was a test of whether the country’s most prominent democratic-socialist mayor would continue to align with the Democratic Party’s center and right wing or use his political capital — and, more importantly, the popularity generated by his program and campaign — to challenge them. While Mamdani initially pledged to support candidates on the Working Families Party line, including Democrats who were not endorsed by DSA, at the 11th hour he switched course to advocate for three insurgent candidates who won their primaries by large margins, undermining the designs of his party’s leadership. Mamdani made the political calculation that if he supported DSA’s candidates, he would gain more favor from his base and from the DSA rank and file (after facing backlash for his coziness with the police and his endorsement of Kathy Hochul for governor). House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s response was telling in its passive-aggressive restraint. When asked whether Mamdani’s endorsements had made him enemies in Washington, Jeffries confirmed that the two had “strongly” disagreed over his picks and warned that the mayor “has got work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.” It was the sound of a party leader trying to manage an insurgency rather than one confidently setting terms for it.
https://www.leftvoice.org/democratic-establishment-punches-back/

Hoisted from the Inbox: China Wobbles or Worse in Store?
Yves here. Some who are knowledgeable about China correspond with me. I sent around an article from Asia Times, China’s 25-year tax reach will cost it more than it collects. This measure seems so misguided (in terms of the 25 year part, not some collection of back taxes per se) as to seem desperate. From the top of the story: China is now chasing decades of unpaid tax on money its wealthiest citizens moved offshore, in some cases reaching back as far as 25 years. Call it what it actually is: a state deciding, after the fact, that wealth it once let leave the country is now fair game to reclaim. To be sure, taxing worldwide income isn’t radical policy. The UnitePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Sometimes i think the western left is retarded but then i look at what it used to be and i feel better

>>2888193
Didn't you say on here that you masturbated in the middle of class to some girl in the class? You've come a long way Shay. Even have your own flag and shit for posting your butthole for the mods. Even made the banner too.

>>2888203
Yes and she needs to do it again

>>2888249
>>2888254
I may not be able to ride dildos where i'm currently staying, but i'll post butte again soon; probably tomorrow.

>>2888853
No, he was wrong. USSR at the time was improving living conditions in all regards, led working class of all countries towards progress, was collectivizing and nationalizing everything private, democraacy was flourisihing, and then butthurt Trotsky comes out and says that this is not socialism, akshually. What then is socialism, remain impoverished and on the military dictatorship rails, necessary for continuing warfare?

>>2889477
>>2889477
> What then is socialism, remain impoverished and on the military dictatorship rails, necessary for continuing warfare?
Socialism is when you wear the yarmulke and light menorah.

>>2889338
He was right

>>2889270
Now that I think about yes, utopian communes and anarchist territories might be closer to merchant republic tbh

>>2889338
>>2889482
I read an excerpt from that someone posted here and don't know enough about Cromwell to even make the comparison but tbh alot of Betrand's critique were just your stereotypical lib pearl clutching over political violence. They just dislike it when its upfront but are perfectly fine with social murder at home and imperialism abroad its just not violence when they do it its some special other thing thats like totally different and morally justified! the existence of a state can totally happen without any violence or coercion involved guys! That being said Betrand Russell still an S tier liberal, especially compared to his successors in the Liberal tradition. At the very least inciting the lower peasantry against the kulaks is something that actually happend irl.

Russell was a tepid dork, the fact two people seem to agree with his views on anything ITT is embarrassing

>>2885576
Vanguard party bureaucrats represent a new de facto bourgeois through their effective control over the means of productions via the state. The vanguard party extracts surplus value, directs investment, and disciplines labor.
Hand-waving this by claiming "well ackshually the vanguard party represents the proletariat" is idealist nonsense. What materially incentivizes the vanguard party to represent the proletariat when they are a monopoly on the political economy? Nothing, as the vanguard party’s material interests will almost always diverge from the working people’s.
Left-coms and Trotskyites are retarded in their own regard, but they are actually correct in their critique here.

>>2888864
This whole illusion that the state is independent from the people composing it is exactly what I mean. No state can impose such draconian rules without the majority at least tolerating my oppression. State laws don't matter without nosy neighbors calling the cops. Nazi cops exist because Nazi citizens want them to. This idea that the state or capital are alien powers from above is simply commodity fetishism.

>>2889063
On this I basically agree. The state is a mere apparatus, and in a world where the apparatus is controlled by malicious people it is better that it be dismantled and kept out of our lives. Far too many have an odd state fetishism: "if i were in charge, I would like to abuse the law to persecute my enemies, therefore the apparatus must be preserved and defended so that I can play with it in future… Even though those playing with it now are committed to my destruction…"

>>2885583
>words words words
divide a whole into thirds thirds thirds?

I cant believe Chomsky is the only prominent intellectual who repeatedly said this. It should be common knowledge by now

>>2889681
No, but I still expect better results than it's long economic stagnation. Which lead to the economic collapse that happened shortly after hoxhas death.

Like if it sustained itself than I could respect it. But it wasn't even able to do that.

>>2889696
>ambiguity
We already live under a "planned" (and yes fully planned) economy. Firms like BlackRock employ more people than the Gosplan ever did. Small businesses plan, multinationals plan production, consumers plan expenditures.
Planning is not has never been unique to any mode of production.

>>2889730
you are equivocating between systems where each firm (or holding company, or whatever) plans for itself (and even then, often in a fairly hands off manner: make me money, appoint an irish gaelic speaker to the board, or i'll sell my shares and someone else can decide) and systems where every firm in the country is set an arbitrary target like "increase the number of ton-kilometres moved by rail by 10% from the previous year"

since there is no serious mode of production not reliant on some form of planning (does a hunter gatherer not plan to hunt and gather on a given day?) it conveys absolutely no information to require one rigidly specify: "centralised, indicative, or cybernetic" planning every single time.

>>2804361
It just works. How the economy is organized doesn't even matter that much outside of other factors (even far-rights agree there was a book on it Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Scumpeter) . Most big companies are top down. Economic calculation problem etc all bullshit that can be debunked (look at Chinese prices compared to neighbours like Japan) and planning with modern tech is more efficient.
Tito's Yugoslavia was probably the shittiest long term "socialist" economy.

TRUKE on the second they aren't and can't advance into socialism like this

Maybe some truth on the 3rd as they tend to focus on immediate needs. I think there's a middle path w all the experiences from planned economies. We could cut down on the slop and focus on higher quality cultural products (not high brow)

OP,

when gators stroll around slowly they always seem to put on a trollface "u mad bro" smirk

>>2889186
>South Carolina is an alligator infested shithole
What the fuck is wrong with you? This is a boon. You obviously never had fried gator before.

>>2889186
living here in SC isn't terrible. charleston is pretty looking and greenville is one of the fastest growing economies in america. columbia is two hours from the mountains, two hours from the beach and 2 hours from the fun cities in north carolina. one of the better southern states

>>2889708
Looks pretty nice, the hot climate would probably kill me though. What are the fun cities in NC and why are they fun? 30 years ago I almost ended up in Greensboro in a McMansion as my dad had an offer for a good STEM autist job there and seriously considered moving to the US.

Moved to >>>/siberia/813417.

ngl, most of the Marxist definitions of fascism are only better than the fascist definitions of fascism.
daily reminder of that conference in 1931 when fascists and Fascists couldn't decide what the fuck they were doing at all

>>2872619
It is, along with bullshit like
>they enjoyed pure dominance and shaped society.
Or
>they've never faced political repression and they've been incredibly dominant in academia for nearly 50 years.

You should get off the internet and do something to connect back with reality.

>>2822650
/thread

>>2816626
>>2822821
The mass games is a thing slavic Communists adopted from the sokol movement it later spread to non Slavic socialist states

>>2816723
>I wouldn't go as far as saying it's the main factor like someone said in a thread a few days ago though.
That was me. I was basing it off of the views of Arno Mayer who himself sees fascism as counter-revolution in the era of mass politics. I think that this is a pretty decent definition for Marxists whether you follow Mayer in his analysis of the persistence of the old regime into the 20th Century or not.

>>2882713
This

>>2882738

Westerners who Orientalize asia, or live in such a shithole country with no basic public services, that basic needs being met for women seems like feminism. women in north and south korea live in chains in the work place, family and political life.

>>2882713
le womanz bad

>>2889118

East Asian women are the prettiest though. Japanese, Korean and Chinese women are top tier

>>2889122
if you love women you should hate feminism

>>2878060
Cubans are built out of tough stuff. They produce a lot of combat sports athletes too. A lot of the guys killed during Operation Maduro Booty Snatch were Cuban, but the thing is they did actually shot back at the Yanquis and died in combat.

It's not inconcievable to me that they give in from sheer exhaustion in the end, but I don't get the same feeling. Sometimes you have to trust your intuition, especially when your intuition says "I'm about to get my ass kicked." Which Cubans are very good at doing.

Your brain evolved to have a "I'm in danger" sensor, a "I'm going to get my ass beat" detector.

>>2889260
So the whole "China isn't helping!" bit was bullshit?

Realistically, how long would the FAR be able to hold out the invasion?

No reason to invade when you can just tighten the blockade forever

Student loan borrowers face steeper ‘marriage penalty’ under new repayment plan
The U.S. Department of Education’s new Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, increases the “marriage penalty” for borrowers, said Douglas Boneparth, a certified financial planner and the president of Bone Fide Wealth in New York. A marriage penalty typically occurs when a married couple pays more in income taxes by filing jointly than they would if each person filed as single.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/student-loan-marriage-penalty-rap.html
https://archive.ph/oCqdU

July was hottest month ever recorded in US as heatwaves scorched country
Last month’s average temperature was 3.3F (1.8C) higher than the 20th century average for the contiguous United States, which excludes Alaska and Hawaii, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/july-hottest-month-ever-recorded-heatwaves

Congress' disappearing town halls
August recess once meant lawmakers returning home to face constituents — sometimes friendly, sometimes furious. After a wave of explosive confrontations last year, many lawmakers have stopped them altogether. Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) is among the dwindling number of lawmakers who still regularly subject themselves to the traditional, open town hall. "You've got to show up in the town square and answer the questions. I told people I'd do it when I ran, and I kept my promise," Flood told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/10/house-republicans-congress-town-halls
https://archive.ph/eHFMb

Omar Demands Answers After ICE Agent in Car With Mismatched Plates Spotted Outside Her Town Hall Event
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Milburn is wrong about unemployment — and branding primary schoolkids failures won’t help
MINISTERS should give short shrift to Alan Milburn’s damaging proposal to brand children failures from an early age. Milburn is entirely wrong in viewing youth joblessness as primarily down to either education or the mythical generosity of the social security system. It is an economic problem. Britain has the lowest level of investment of any G7 country, a bottom-rank position it has clung to almost every year for three decades. Economists have long identified its short-termist corporate culture, exacerbated by the encroachment of private equity investors on a growing number of sectors. Equity markets and institutional investors put pressure on firms to prioritise short-term returns on capital and maximum dividend payouts — often undermining the longer term viability of the business or service in question, and discouraging investment either in technology or training. Instead of making up for a lack of private-sector investment with greater public investment, Tory and Labour governments have consistently cut it, while grand claims to possess an “industrial strategy” usually turn out to be overblown — dependent on lavish bribery to underwrite private profits in return for minimal promises on investment or jobs, which are then often broken without serious consequences.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/milburn-wrong-about-unemployment-and-branding-primary-schoolkids-failures-wont-help

Ceuta and the Ugly Face of Europe’s “Progressive” Nationalism
Earlier this month, more than 50,000 Moroccan migrants swam three miles through the open ocean to Ceuta, a Spanish colonial enclave city on the Moroccan side of the Strait of Gibraltar. These migrants are largely young Moroccan men and boys who are unemployed or precarious workers in search of a future. Youth unemployment is around 37 percent, and the Moroccan government represses political dissent. The mass exodus shows that tens of thousands of Moroccan youth would quite literally rather risk their lives than remain in Morocco, where resources have been funneled towards the 2030 World Cup and multinational industry, and away from the wellbeing, health, and opportunities of itsPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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EASTERN BLOC: MiG-21 Phantoms Over Vietnam

https://houdinimagazine.com/articles/2026-08-10-eastern-bloc-phantoms-over-vietnam

From the iron curtain of East Berlin to the monsoon-soaked jungles of Vietnam, from the parade grounds of Moscow to the revolutionary plazas of Havana, Maxwell Houdini takes us across the Eastern Bloc in this new column that blends period music and period military history. This is EASTERN BLOC.

Pokémon Go Used to Train Drones That Kill Innocent People for Profit

https://houdinimagazine.com/articles/2026-07-30-crushing-reality-pokemon-go-genocide

Pokémon Go united millions in a borderless celebration of nature and community but that same data is now fueling AI targeting systems for lethal drone warfare. The world’s most beloved franchise has had its humanistic soul was strip-mined for weapons company profit, a betrayal no terms of service could ever justify.

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