/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Unions and students seek Columbia University board reforms after Trump deal
The decision comes after more than two years of what they say is disenfranchisement over the way Columbia's board of trustees has handled several issues, including permitting the police to target the student body multiple times while they were protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza and capitulating to the Trump administration’s demands over alleged violations of federal anti-discrimination laws.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/union-students-seek-reform-columbia-university-board-trump-deal

House Republicans vote to lift 20-year ban on mining near pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Congressional Republicans moved closer Wednesday to lifting a 20-year ban on mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, pushing a resolution to end the moratorium through the House despite environmentalists’ warnings that it could devastate a premier destination for campers, kayakers and canoeists. The resolution now goes to the Senate, and approval there would send it to President Donald Trump for his signature.
https://apnews.com/article/boundary-waters-mining-moratorium-congress-f30b8dc9575e64b4b9e957b86409577d

‘They’re Getting Nervous,’ Says Platner After GOP Drops $42 Million on Maine’s Susan Collins
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) boasted that the $42 million investment, most of which will go to an advertising blitz to help the vulnerable five-term senator cling to her seat in November, was the largest the GOP’s Senate Leadership Fund had ever spent in Maine.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/collins-gop-spending-platner-nervous

Prosecutors barred from reviewing material seized from Washington Post reporter
Natanson, who has closely reported on the ways the Trump administration has reshaped the federal government, had two laptops, two phones, a Garmin watch and other devices seized last week as Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Communist Party of the Philippines: Corruption, injustice, abuses drive Filipino youth to revolution
Over the past week or two, the US-Marcos regime has mounted a frenzied media and social media campaign to intimidate and threaten the Filipino youth, who, more and more are growing disenchanted amid deep and widespread social ills, and are being drawn to question the rotten ruling system and seek radical and revolutionary ways to end corruption, injustice and abuses by those in power. This campaign to intimidate and threaten the Filipino youth is part of Marcos’ arsenal of fascist tactics to maintain his grip on power and preserve the ruling system, by suppressing the youth’s and people’s aspirations for change. This blatant assault against the youth is spearheaded by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the NTF-Elcac, and their mercenary hacks behind the Marcos government’s propaganda machinery. They have mobilized funds to activate and coordinate their social media troll army to drown out posts critical of the Marcos government in a deluge of spam comments, and throw their weight around to push their narrative in the press and public discourse. The Marcos psyops campaign heightened after a student researcher from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 22-year old Jerlyn Rose Doydora, died on January 1 in Abra de Ilog, Mindoro Occidental, amid relentless aerial bombing and strafing by the AFP, following an armed encounter. Another youth, 24-year old Chantal Anicoche, was taken into custody by the fascist soldiers, and illegally detained for a week, before being surfaced amid public outcry. Three Mangyan children were reportedly killed in the aerial bombing which was carried out in the proximity of mountain communities.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/corruption-injustice-abuses-drive-filipino-youth-to-revolution/

The Imperialist Attack on Venezuela, the Crisis of Chavismo, and the Prospect of a Continental Anti-imperialist Struggle
We denounce those who celebrated Trump’s attack, seeing it as a liberation. Regrettably, many Venezuelan migrants believe Trump will liberate us. That is why we are on the front line of the anti-imperialist struggle against the neocolonial offensive, and we call for mobilization toPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2658256
Oh, someone beat me to it

>>2659304
The modern taboo against sexual and romantic relationships between post-pubescent adolescents and adults is conventionally understood as a moral imperative for the protection of the vulnerable. This explanation, however, functions as a surface narrative that obscures a deeper, more powerful generative mechanism. The taboo is not a timeless moral universal but a historically specific technology of social and libidinal management, engineered to meet the demands of advanced industrial capitalism. It operates through two interconnected mechanisms: the imposition of surplus-repression to fuel economic productivity, and a system of differential governance that transforms the taboo into a tool of elite consolidation and control.

The foundational logic of the taboo is economic, as theorized by Herbert Marcuse's concept of surplus-repression. Any society requires a degree of basic instinctual repression to function. Advanced capitalism, however, requires a massive additional quantum of repression—surplus-repression—to create the disciplined, future-oriented subjects needed to perform alienated labor. The adolescent, a being of immense and newly awakened libidinal energy oriented toward immediate gratification (the Pleasure Principle), represents a primary challenge to this order. The taboo is the central apparatus for containing this energy. Its function is to systematically block the adolescent's instinctual drives for authentic, non-instrumental erotic connection. This dammed-up energy is then sublimated, rerouted into socially and economically productive channels: the competitive pursuit of academic grades, the ambition for career advancement, and the disciplined patterns of consumption. The taboo ensures that the adolescent's libido is not discharged in a personally fulfilling but economically useless relationship, but is instead converted into the psychic fuel for the Performance Principle—the relentless demand for productive output.

Building upon this foundation of mass libidinal discipline, the taboo operates as a dualistic system of social control, applied differently to the general populace and a ruling elite. For the masses, this is its exoteric function: the taboo is enforced as a sacred, absolute, and inviolable moral law. Publicly and legally, its violation is framed as the ultimate transgression, a monstrous act that dissoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2659462
Mods please permaban this poster

>>2659304
its in context of how homosexuals were treated worse for the same sex crime committed by heterosexuals, u fucking illiterate bad faith retard

>>2659594
And?

>>2658956
Anon the US economy is being carried by AI, when that pops and the US goes to shit, all of its allies will go to shit.

But by then Ima be in the mountaines enjoying my nice cave away from all the bullshit

>>2659471
>I do not know what economic system will dominate the world in the future,
Privately owned AI economic planning probably. Lumpens (80% of population) get the oven treatment.

>>2659535
when AI bubble burts the US will print money and force the entire world to pay for it.

>>2659471
>It is almost certainly not going to be the dominant global economic system in 50 years time (for it to be so, we would have to assume extreme levels of resilience against the ever-increasing discontent generated by social inequality and the destructive effects of climate change and resource scarcity.)

You are seriously underestimating it's ability to adapt, There have been periods where the common people suffered more and capitalist imperialism was producing apocalyptic wars all over the globe on a regular basis. A posadist will use this as evidence to support his belief of annihilation war as the only real means of getting rid of it; Maybe we're so far into it the only solution is to start over.

I really hope you're right, But don't say this is a matter of certainty.

>>2659535
>But by then Ima be in the mountaines enjoying my nice cave away from all the bullshit

l0ol the common man always has this tendency to just anticipate societal collapse as means to get out of his misery because we're too attatched/dependent to the system now. Not to mention we see it as a chance to be prosperous and have an even field of competition

>>2659253
europeans are the very definition of a useful idiot.

It’s so much more than outsourced security. Europeans are Americans culturally now look at all the kfc and McDonald’s Irish and English are getting yankee accents . Don’t believe me go to a protest in France and wave an American flag the cops will not hit you and will back off . The cops will attack anything but you . They are America now

>>2659253
I love trump, I love him, I want him to ACCELERATE AND ACCELERATE AND ACCELERATE at destroying the western world.

Yes he is bad and has done numerous horrible things, but if this is what it takes for it to all go to shit and for the hegemony of the United States to fall then so be it.

>its plunder that it gets for fucking over the 3rd world
there is no plunder to be had in the turd world. most value is created in the North. the US primarily exploits Europe, through seniorage

>>2658182
does kinda sound like teen fanfics lmao

>>2655382
>"Capitalism" without the bourgeoisie around isn't capitalism anymore. Once workers own the MoP it's the beginnings of transition to socialism aka lower stage communism. What you are describing is the higher phase of communism.

Marx and Lenin both explicitly say so but people on here get mad when you point this out LOL. If they don't like it they should just abandon Marxism Leninism and come up with their own ideology founded on different principles: >>2658249


>>2658282
1. they do address your "points" no matter how much you insist they don't
2. with the exception of Trotsky, nobody I quoted is a revisionist, modernizer, or falsifier. and the quote I dropped from Trotsky is still correct anyway despite his problems. Same with Stalin, Kim Il Sung, Mao, Deng Xiaoping, or whoever else you may apply these labels to.
3. Deng was right and I will quote him because Deng was Marxist-Leninist.

>>2652779
Jewish privilege

>>2655351
>>The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity.
from this it doesnt follow that any society where there is commodity production for exchange value is capitalist
you should read a logic introduction before getting into more complex works like capital

>>2655882
>the issue is that marxists dont into political science properly, so define class and the state incorrectly. all societies are class societies by virtue of status, which orders people differently. status can be defined by any metric, but there is always inclusion and exclusion.
>>2655891
>Marxists have defined both properly, it‘s just that you are a midwit who thinks arbitrary value systems constitute a class. It‘s about societal systems and relations that are consequential, i.e. who owns the means of production under capitalism and who does not.
Why do Marxists act like only capitalism has classes, didn't feudalism have classes as well?

>>2657876
>Why do Marxists act like only capitalism has classes, didn't feudalism have classes as well?
Is this a serious question? Let's read the opening words of Chapter 1 of The Communist Manifesto (1848)


<The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

<Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Right there, in the opening sentences, is the acknowledgement that class struggle predates capitalism, and that different forms of class antagonisms have existed throughout history, alongside different modes of production.

>>2656548
The comparison between Tang era China and the USSR is so blatant. The system of Nomenklatura is basically the 1:1 "merits" system of the Tang era with all it's flaws.
USSR fell for the same reason Tang did as well largely. Corruption and Stagnation.
>>2655976
"Soviet bureaucrats owned nothing"
Technically but not the reality. Basically the way you did anything in the USSR was through bribes. This is why the Red Directors all had mansion dachas and several cars.
Watch the Soviet movie Beware of the Car which is about the brazen corruption in day to day life.

>>2655128
>dialectical materialism can not predict the emergence of classes for a radically new system
Dialectical materialism isn't a determinist predictive science. It's only a tool that explains how individuals come to change their environment.

>a posteriori
Yes. This is what it seeks to do.

>What‘s the solution for that?
Have democracy ?

>because an unknown amount of new class based systems are ahead of us that will each require another revolution
What do you think would've happened if, say, Trotsky had been in power and had allowed for the soviets to retake their original power ? Why do you think socialism must necesarrily have an upper class ?

>Marxian analysis will be sufficiently expanded upon to be able to predict the emergence of new classes a priori
I don't think you actually understand dialectical materialism. This method doesn't aim at predicting things a priori of their arrival, it aims at analyzing contemporary and past societies through the lens of materialism (so no external forces) whilst retaining a part of individual agency (individuals can reshape their environment).
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>>2658175
>Trotsky had been in power and had allowed for the soviets to retake their original power
Trotsky had no desire to do this lol and it was Lenin who emasculated the soviets anyway, not Stalin.

Bump

>>2655332
Voznesensky had lost some documents and Stalin killed him for that. There wasn't any evidence outside of the USSR that Voz rly was a spy. The USSR accusations alone are insufficient.

>>2653868
also asianometry has many good videos on Singapore, he even made a playlist of his videos. They tend to lean positive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZEbejmz9Uw&list=PLKtxx9TnH76TS34YoUFNgTdAB1qNE4wTK

>>2653868
>the city has become more neoliberal over time. Also, its tax haven policy is distorting the economy and making the cost of living unaffordable for many Singaporeans over time
This seems agreeable and well documented even though the city has something like three times the home ownership of NYC (with 80% the GDP PPP per capita) largely because of what remains of the policies.

>>2653615
But what isn't really emphasized is the shifting narrative by and of PAP to suit current tastes, discarding and obfuscating history when needed.

>>2654044
Yea home ownership is high but the newer homes are smaller and smaller than old ones, with people needing more and more government subsidies to get one. All of this is because HDB is being seen as an asset rather than a service.

>>2654305
>But what isn't really emphasized is the shifting narrative by and of PAP to suit current tastes, discarding and obfuscating history when needed.
fair enough

>>2652564
Finally a decent post in an otherwise questionable thread
>despite exploiting the tariff situation like Carney and Albanese did.
I'm curious to know how in your view Albanese has put the tariff situation to good use, aside from attempting (so far rather fruitlessly) to secure some concessions for the steelmaking and aluminium industries as well as agriculture, he has been far more meek and willing to turn the other cheek about the whole thing than Carney has.

>>2600880
Is that Fidel Castro?

>>2571465
Manufacturing consent is the only useful work of his imo and even then there are other leftists that essentially say the same thing. Chomsky always rubbed me the wrong the way for how intertwined he was with the bourgeoisie.
Perhaps I'm being romantic but the best leftist philosophers either partake in revolutionary activity or lose their minds and commit suicide from the pressure of living in a capitalist society and not being able to do anything about it, ~Mark Fisher, Debord, etc

>>2570863
Lula made a "pact with the devil" (think high-finance, tech, WEF-types) and that's how he got out of prison and became the new president of Brazil while Bolsonaro was arrested. He puts up a facade of leftism, but Brazil is increasingly becoming a dictatorship controlled by financial elites in the Avenida Paulista and Wall-Street, with the judiciary and legislative serving as the actual administrators. The Brazillian Presidency is a symbolic/ceremonial role a this point.

>>2600880
FIDEL NO

>>2658667

Despite her being written as the cartoonish le evil communist girl she only speaks the truth.

the cosmic microwave background is observable and this thread is bad bait. yes there is a 378,000 year gap of unknown events where we can only extrapolate that the universe expanded from a singularity based on the rate of the expansion which occurs after the universe was no longer invisible. It remains the most plausible explanation, and it is not a "hole to be filled by God." Until we have a way to study events before the recombination, which occurred when the universe was an estimated 378,000 "years" "old" it will likely remain a dominant explanation in cosmology.

You got em OP

>>2658685
>the cosmic microwave background is observable
???? WTF does this even mean?
Funny how this magically was not a problem before the 1990s.

>Dominant
Explain how the big bang can create time first.

>singularity
Peak garbage not different from saying MAGIC, MAGIC did it.

>the rate of the expansion
Explain how time can have a beginning first.

>observable
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