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The global economy is overproducing in general. Abolishing overproduction would not lead to drop in living standards, since with planning and rationing we can ensure decent living standards for 8.5 billion people using 30% of current production, and use the remaining surplus for luxury, free time, and science.
<Some narratives* in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries.
<However, this would require increasing total global output and resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown.
<Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within the imperialist structure of the existing world economy.
<Here we demonstrate that this dilemma can be resolved with a different approach, rooted in recent needs-based analyses of poverty and development.
<Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of production that are necessary to improve capabilities and meet human needs at a high standard, while ensuring universal access to key goods and services through public provisioning and decommodification.
<At the same time, in high-income countries**, less-necessary production should be scaled down to enable faster decarbonization and to help bring resource use back within planetary boundaries.
<With this approach, good lives can be achieved for all without requiring large increases in total global throughput and output.==
<Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investmentsPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>2854484
>Abolishing overproduction would not lead to drop in living standards, since with planning and rationing we can ensure decent living standards for 8.5 billion people using 30% of current production, and use the remaining surplus for luxury, free time, and science.

umm fuck your science. it's bourgeois. clearly the world is a zero sum game. every calorie that goes into a westoid tummy is ripped out of a third world tummy.

(jk anon, this is totally correct and has been correct for decades now)

>>2854546
>every american has a car, 3 iphones, a laptop, a gaming pc, a smart watch, a fridge, a microwace, AC, and hundreds of useless little trinkets they buy from time to time
even the homeless. it's true

>>2854546
And yet if you eliminate the inherent wastefulness of capitalism it becomes possible for literally everybody in the world to have a comparable living standard without growing global GDP.

>>2854546
Another farbage cigarflag post

>>2854484
search copper -> no results
search soil -> no results
search coltan -> no results
search concrete -> no results

Anyway the left should figure out if we need to expand the means of production to overcome scarcity or if we're actually overproducing and just have to distribute it better. The latter is probably more optimistic unless you want to start doing asteroid mining or we figure a way to save the topsoil and vanishing fossil water.



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‘Board of Peace’ to launch ‘Hamas-free’ camps as Israel tightens grip on Gaza
Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported that the first site will open in Tel Sultan, near Rafah, “within weeks”, and house civilians “with no weapons or affiliation with Hamas”. It added that the zone will be policed by a “multinational force”, known as the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which will be equipped with “non-lethal weapons” and operate from the Israeli Amitai Camp near Gaza under the command of the board. According to the report, while aid and temporary housing will be supplied to the areas, Board of Peace officials have pledged not to import concrete into Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trumps-board-peace-launch-hamas-free-shelters-while-israel-tightens-grip-gaza

So what's the lefty/pol/ Righist Cope Patrol's line on these countries joining the BoP under literal "chairman for life" Donald Trump?
· Vietnam (Ae Ea Ss!1)
· Belarus (Need I comment? Le last remnant of the USSR, guys!)
· Kazakhstan (/leftypol/ was REALLY SUPPORTIVE of when the Kazakh government and their Russian masters lethally repressed the proletarian-led (oil rig strike) protesters in 2022!)
· Cambodia ([search engine] Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) if you don't already know about Vietnam's responsibility for this mess)
· BRICS vanguard Indonesia, UAE and Egypt!

/LEFTYPOL/ SEEMS REALLY AVOIDANT OF THE TOPIC! WHAT GIVES?
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>ctr+f "china"
>only one hit from a grok generated post
communism by 2050

cope and seethe porky

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>>2857522
The cope is strong with this one

>>2857632
yeah porky is coping hard over being destroyed by CHYNA and the see see pee

>>2857683
>porky is coping hard over being destroyed by CHYNA and the see see pee
source? i'm watching livestream of china rn and all i see are transnational megacorporations littering the entire environ, you got source?



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Iranian McDonald's edition

>Iran agrees to US administered $300 billion private-sector reconstruction and development plan

>Hezbollah approved ceasefire with Israel on 19th of June, 22 Lebanese civilians have died since
>Israel is reportedly 'seething' and 'coping'
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Khubuz >>2857592

>>2847408
china can drop solar panels, batteries, and ebike factories anywhere on the planet in 90 days. this oil crisis is only going to entrench america's decline.

Insane that an trotskyist newspaper 19 years ago predicted everything about the current Iran war and what Iran needs to do to establish deterrence which is to nuclearize.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol//newspape/workershammer-uk/194_2006_spring_workers-hammer.pdf

New khubuz after racist mods removed last one >>2857731

>>2857732
it was deleted because it was a troll op, and you went in, and posted another exact troll op for the continued thread.
you spastic troll.



 

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


<Don't Tread On We Edition


OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
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>>2857218
Newsom knows the new game in the age of social media: double down and never apologize

>>2857218
only surprising thing is that his staff wasn't intentionally sending shit to the feds

>>2857372
Notice Non-Dixians demonize us in the same way as an internal colony that is only worthy of death.

>>2857381
Relativizing idiot. They see it as a threat because that is basic market competition logic at play.

>>2857396
Utterly wasting your time with a controlled opposition org filled with idealist liberals and feds instead of building the fucking revolutionary proletarian communist party, you "playing dumb" ass motherfucker. Bet you don't see that on your feed or whatever because it's entirely composed of rosa killers, grifters, entertainment, viral marketing and porn.



 

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>a picture of before 2023.
lemme show you the latest idc attempt to legitimize israel:
2026
lol, lmao even.


When the pedophiles more actively sweep, constantly vigilant to hide their crimes, then we become more active in attack, whittling away at the pedophile energy morale and overall cognitive. The more active defense of the pedophiles, the more successful our psychologic operation. The less active they are, the easier exposing them is. Win-win tactic is assured against these rotten pedophiles. PLA texbook asymmetric psychological warfare assure success against these no life pedophiles. The more these pedophiles try to defend themselves of their proven crimes, the bigger grave they dig. Give up now, pedophiles. Arent you tired? What do you fight for, aside your pedophile imperialist epstein sickness? Give up, pedophiles. Repent for your crimes against humanity.

BANNED WITHIN THE MINUTE, THE PEDOPHILES ARE PUTTING IN ANOTHER 8 16 HOUR SHIFT, ON FRIDAY NO LESS xD. YOU SAD EPSTEIN FUCKS

You child porn loving moderator. Imperialist epstein aristocrat devils who do notjing but but spend 12 hours average a day defend their child porn. All good people, all good things are on my side against you imperialist pedophile devils. you pedophile imperialist aristocrats are therefore doomed. You fight for child porn, I fight for what is right. No matter how sad and retarded the user base is by your pedophillic no-life ban cudgel, You will always be wrong because youre pedophiles and racist and imperialist, like epstein.

Give up, pedophiles, You know youre wrong. You lie to people constantly, but youre pedophiles and I have the proof. I have the leftypol-getchan moffin files https://getchan.net/GET/res/1011+50.html#1011
Youre all a bunch of marxless pedophile epsteins. Karmelo anthony did nothing wrong but youre all here defending the leftypol epstein child porn connection. >>2850007
Pay no mind to this retarded libsoc Agent Kochinskiite ziocom pedophile nor their lies, because he is totally wrong. This pedophile expends untold energy in 8 or 16 hour shifts, checking IP of every post waiting for me all day, banning me within the minute of posting, a post innocous and mere general consciousness shared by the board against the all combined braincells of the pedophile libsoc DSA namefags, all to hide the evidence of their affiliation to pedophile GETchanPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Can't believe id communism is fueling and feeding he zionist genocide machine


>>2857636
With so many crimes that it's actually committed why does Ukraine need to be punished for something it didn't do



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STOP!
Don't make any assumptions, this is a genuine, good faith question and I am not being antisemitic. It goes without saying, but no, not all Jews are rich. However, in the US, a disproportionate amount of them are. 25% to 33% of Jewish families in the US have a net worth of $1,000,000 or more. Genuinely, why is this the case?

(https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/10/11/how-income-varies-among-u-s-religious-groups/)
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>>2856923
Yes that's why they try to force them into the IDF, not really for manpower reasons but more as an attempt to actually institutionalize them and attempt to turn them into 'productive' members of society.

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>>2854207
>>2854300
There is nothing especially complicated about this phenomenon. In my country there is an ethnic community known as the Memons. Although they make up less than 1% of the population, they are disproportionately represented among wealthy business owners. The Memons were traditionally a mercantile community rather than an agrarian one, they were primarily urban, engaged in trade and commerce instead of farming or manual labor. Over generations, this economic specialization allowed them to accumulate capital, experience and commercial networks, creating momentum that reinforced their success. Nepotism and in-group preference also contributed to this process by keeping capital within the community.

This pattern is not unique to the Memons. they are called "middleman minorities", communities that become disproportionately concentrated in commerce, trade, finance, or small business. like Chinese Indonesians, the Igbo of Nigeria and the Jews. These groups typically develop extensive family and diaspora business networks, exhibit strong in-group economic cooperation and maintain some cultural, linguistic, or religious identify that set them apart from the majority population.

Historically, European Jews occupied a similar socioeconomic niche. As a result they became disproportionately represented in commercial and financial occupations. Because Europe later became the dominant center of the global economy, Jewish communities accumulated considerable wealth and influence and became the most powerful middleman minority.

All the poor ones got murdered or went to Israel.

>>2857339
>like Chinese Indonesians, the Igbo of Nigeria and the Jews.
Chinese in S.E. Asia. Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Russia. Lebanese in Africa and Latin America.

Jews play a central role in the diamond trade. In New York there's the diamond district. The diamonds are mined in Africa and polished/processed in Israel.

>>2857623
Israel has large vaults full of diamonds, for the purpose of price fixing.



 

I’m getting really fucking sick of the Palestine Movement’s obsession with “celebrity” activists and how much it prioritizes these western activists over actual Palestinians.

All the time on social media I see incidents of sone western activist living in America losing their job for speaking out against Zionism and then proceed to raise $20,000+ through a GoFundMe account in response. All of that money could have been better spent by being directly given to Palestinian families in Gaza who lost everything because if the genocide, or at the very least organizations with a good reputation for helping Palestinians in Palestine. Western activists will survive without your $100 donation, Palestinian families in Gaza won’t.

Tgis obsession with propping up the personalities of “activist celebrities” is one reason the Palestine a movement has become such a clusterfuck. I’m talking about people like Hasan Piker, Greta Thunberg, Chris Smalls, Ms. Rachel, Kehlani, and Vic Mensa to name a few. How about we start focusing on actual Palestinians? The flotilla activists are the same way: they receive so much money and support when they know full well the Zionist authorities won’t let them into Gaza, making the flotillas merely a stunt. Yeah, they were tortured in Zionist prisons but so have thousands of Palestinians who will never have their voices heard in global media.

Or, when Elias Rodriguez goes to trial in a few months you can be sure he’s going to get tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars in legal donations from Palestine activists. Gaza is suffering and yet you think giving money to a guy who will clearly be found guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison is a better use of your funds?

Celebrities and influencers should not be propped up on a pedestal at all but the same thing goes for these “I was fired for saying ‘Free Palestine’, I’m a martyr now, gib munny pls” types. Palestinians should be the ones centred here, not western activists who have made loads of money and clout for being pro-Palestine.
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>>2857005
This is why social imperialism was progressive

>>2857090
How many colleges have actually divested?

>>2857090
>you are parroting a culture war talking point squealed by chuds in an attempt to stall momentum

Sure BDS loser
>NO YOU ARE CULTURE WAR
>TRUST THE PLAN
>THE STORM IS COMING

Come back when you have something to show for it. Actually don't. You'll just pretend it was you who got things done, like with SA, and the liberals will happily build their mythos around your brand of ineffective posturing.

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>>2855056
>Civilians
Normalization detected.

Israel has no right to defend itself, nor exist.
There is no acceptable level of warfare against Palestinians, who are a colonized people.
There aren't any acceptable rules of engagement for the Jewish state to perpetuate it's settler colonialism.

I hate Hasbara threads



 

ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
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Non si smette mai d'imparare

>>2829865
Na tristezza

Bump

Sembra che il fascismo vincerà in Italia. Voglio dire, a questo punto la maggior minaccia del governo Meloni non è neanche uno della sinistra, ma un ex’generale capitalista, razzista e omofobico che vuole che l’Italia sia ancora più schiava all’America ed Israele (ma del resto, nessun politico in Italia può avere una carriera senza viaggiare a Washington DC per dichiarare massima lealtà alla casa Bianca e Tel Aviv). Ovviamente, sto parlando di Roberto Vannacci del “Futuro Nazionale”, che ora ha 5% dei sondaggi. Credo che l’italiani abbiano già capito che votare non serve a nulla, ma credo che Meloni cercherà di allearsi con lui per poter rimanere in potere per lungo sebbene i sondaggi di Meloni non sono le migliori.

>>2857100
Elettori di destra i più cojoni in assoluto. Le proposte di Vannacci sono tutte minestra riscaldata, tutta roba già proposta da salvini e meloni. Paese bollito.



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A peasant, a shepherd, a simple worker from Donbass, he became the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Was such a thing possible under capitalism?
"I learned to count to 30, and my father decided that learning was enough for me," Khrushchev recalled. "All you need is to learn to count money, and you'll never have more than thirty rubles anyway. My father dreamed of saving up, returning to the village, and buying a horse to grow enough potatoes and cabbage to feed the family. But we never got a horse. My parents cherished this dream even after 1908, when we finally moved to Yuzovka. There, my father worked in the mines, my mother washed clothes, and I cleaned steam boilers."
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So there were different social classes under Stalin's government and commodities like horses were bought and sold? But some Brazilian autist told me Stalin achieved socialism. How could this be?

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>i was colonisated

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Tell the Slav subhuman not to reply to my posts with irrelevant garbage please



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I think it’s interesting to observe the pattern of technological development in Africa compared to NATO. A lot of what’s being made there is surprisingly specific, pragmatic, and efficient compared to many new western technologies that often serve as solutions to problems western companies make.

Technologies built around mobile systems; efficient use of clay, cement, and steel metals; decentralized utility and logistics systems; a lot of work related to solar power which im happy for; some oddly specific technological developments surrounding armoured cars, surveillance, and border security etc.

From what I infer a lot of this behaviour is driven organically by the geographic conditions of the continent in general. Many of the resources on the continent are stretched across vast distances, sparse/scarce in supplies, and broken up by unusually poor terrain. This often means that any technological developments made are unusually way more specific, pragmatic, and efficient in use for immediate and existing problems compared to tech made outside of it where figures or promises on features surrounding what the tech can do. Sometimes, this does *alot* to change how people approach life. It’s only recently that a lot of changes were made so that desert sands and earth could be used conventionally at scale to produce modular construction kit—this is huge on construction in general since it offers a way to build on the scale that china did *without causing the same level of ecological destruction*.

bump

by Africa do you count North-Africa or just Sub-Saharan Africa
?



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