/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Borders are an archaic and barbaric concept. No human is illegal unless they’ve committed a crime. A REAL crime. Not just the crime of being from Mexico. Our immigration systems are purposefully undermined, underfunded, and extremely limited in the amount of people they let in to the point of functional impossibility.

Lynch ICE in the street.

This history of socialism shows, with perfect clarity, that a fully planned economy is plainly inferior to a socialist market economy. This is not to say that fully planned economies are bad, they absolutely do have their strengths. But economies that are partially planned, directed rather than dictated, have all of the same strengths, while being infinitely more flexible. The socialism of then may have raised millions out of poverty, but it was the socialism of now century that raised them into luxury, luxury greater than anything the capitalist world has ever been able to provide.

Western "Marxists" are fucking obsessed with the idea of command economies. Half of them say that AES states are not actually socialist; this is wrong. The other half says that AES states have only temporarily adopted markets, and will return to the Golden Path as soon as possible; this is also wrong, and much more egregiously so, be because it requires ignorance of and/or cognitive dissonance towards the official statements and actions made by these nations.

Western "Marxist" arguments in favor of command economies are, likewise generally rooted in ignorance, not understanding that the lifestyles they have/aspire to would be unfeasible within a purely planned system. Those that are not rooted in ignorance are instead rooted in aceticism, in poverty worship, in an intellectual cancer that must be rooted out by whatever means necessary.

Sure, we may, at some point, obviate markets. But it would require a fundamental change in the means of production that, by my calculations, is far, far away from where we are now.

In any case, you would do yourself well to stop worshipping the corpses of Stalin and Mao and join the rest of us in the 21st century.

This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/

Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)

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>Paul Cockshott
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Let's rehearse the facts:
>The US bombed Cambodia harder than they did in Nazi Germany and Japan
>The majority of the urban population were refugees from the countryside when the cities were emptied.
>Life expectancy dropped to its lowest point in 1975, before the Khmer Rouge took over. Afterwards, it began increasing.
>The Khmer Rouge successfully did all they could do prevent famine.
>The Khmer Rouge was not peasantist/primitivist. There was investment in light industry, healthcare and education.
>Thousands were killed in the Vietnamese invasion. More refugees fled per year from the puppet regime than from the Democratic Kampuchea.
>The central government ordered a stop to all killings on several occasions.
>The CIA only supported the Khmer Rouge after Vietnam took over to fuck with the USSR. The same CIA that bombed the country to rubble

Am I saying the KR was good? No. But blindly believing in propaganda is stupid.

can we get a thread going about the protests going on in albania right now ? i wanna know more about what's going on as a foreign retard and we seem to have no thread about it despite it going on for about a week at this point.


fuck your stupid limit, faggots

Anarkids come out AGAINST accessible high-speed rail system.

Please tell me again how anarchism isn’t simply petit-bourgeois rebellion?

They are calling a project that will greatly increase accessibility and reduce the car and oil monopoly “anti-indigenous” or whatever. How can anyone take these people seriously?

Just rediscovered this piece of Ben Garrison worthy drivel. It accordingly needs a Lefty makeover. Can anyone good with video editing help?

I'd suggest that Soviet victory monument as the female voice, include Melenchon and Corbyn as male voices, the rising darkness is a porky lol

I’m an anarchist who spent years exploring Islam in my teen years in the early 2010s only to convert to Catholicism in 2018 on the basis Catholicism was the most historically-accurate religion and the only explicitly anarchist faith. It pains me to see how many leftists still believe Islam ought to be the global liberation theology, and that leftists should throw out Western thought (including DiaMat) in favour of Islamic epistemology. So much of Islam begs the question and is not at all what the left should be embracing in terms of a theological worldview.

So as a Catholic anarchist in the tradition of Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day, I have sone questions for Muslims:

1. Muslims claim the Bible is corrupted. So WHO did the corrupting and WHY was it corrupted? The argument I hear the most often is that Jewish and Catholic priests corrupted the Bible in order to reinforce their hierarchical power, but no one can point to when this happened or how they did it. Also, Jewish priests had no political power at that time and the Church was always counter to the state, so why would they need to “corrupt” Scripture to promote hierarchy?
   
   
2. In the same vein, why does Islam place so much emphasis on the state when Jesus established the Church specifically to abolish the state? Islam demands a worldwide Caliphate with a very stringent political hierarchy. Why would that be needed if Christ’s Church is anti-statist?
   
   
3. Also, the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, especially on his doctrine of natural rights, is 100% anti-state and anti-hierarchy. Thomism is arguably the backbone of anarchist thought. It even attacks private property. Why does Islam have zero equivalent?
   
   
4. Catholics have historically had the most anarchist results due to Catholic Social Teaching emphasizing the inherit dignity of all people. If Islam is true, why does Islam only result in authoritarianism?
   
   
   

(HOW IS LEFTYPOL THE VOICE OF ISLAM)

The strong Sino-Israeli relationship should bury the illusions that many leftists have about the PRC’s purported socialism. With the transition to apolitical, business-first developmentalism during the Reform and Opening Up, the PRC decisively turned its back on the history of Third World solidarity and the Palestinian cause. The orientalist socialist fantasy and an excessive fixation on the past do not bring us closer to liberation but instead obscures the ongoing forms of collaboration that needs close scrutiny and unambiguous callout.

guillionaire, n.
Pronunciation: /ˌɡɪljəˈnɛə(ɹ)/, /ˌɡiːjəˈnɛə(ɹ)/
Etymology: A portmanteau formed from guillotine n. + trillionaire n. (after billionaire n., millionaire n.).

Definition

1. Slang (chiefly derogatory, political).
   

A hyper-wealthy individual, specifically a trillionaire or multi-billionaire, whose immense wealth is viewed by critics as exploitative, unethical, or a direct symptom of extreme societal inequality. The term is heavily associated with anti-capitalist rhetoric and populist movements advocating for the radical redistribution of wealth.

1. Historical/Symbolic.
   

An individual targeted for economic or social ruin (metaphorically "executed") due to their extreme financial status, often referencing the historical use of the guillotine during the French Revolution against the aristocracy.

Quotations
• 2021 Twitter 14 May: "If the wealth gap keeps widening like this, we won't just have billionaires anymore. The age of the guillionaire is coming, and it won't end well for them."
• 2023 Jacobin Style Mag. Oct. 42: "The tech moguls of today have transcended ordinary greed; they are guillionaires building private rockets while the rest of the world burns."
• 2025 Radical Economics Q. III. 115: "Taxing the guillionaire class out of existence is no longer a radical position; it is a baseline requirement for democratic survival."

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