/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Out of curiosity, do any biological women use this website, lol.

>>2873499
What are you seething about, exactly?

>>2873729
Sir, HRT changes your biology.

>>2873729
>Out of curiosity, do any biological women use this website, lol.
They're sure as fuck not going to tell you, anon.

>>2873499
Im not encouraging shit, I just said its based because it is

Pete Hegseth Puts New Price Tag on Iran War With Billions Requested
The updated tally came as Hegseth appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee, where lawmakers are weighing the White House’s request for $87.6 billion in additional funding—money the administration says is needed to cover “urgent needs” tied to the conflict and to “reinforce peace through strength.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-pete-hegseth-iran-war-cost-billions-senate-funding-request-12225493
https://archive.ph/J3hWP

US appeals court overturns ruling that freed Columbia activist Mahdawi
In a decision on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals — made up of two Trump appointees and one judge appointed by former President George W Bush — ruled the lower court shouldn’t have ordered Mahdawi’s release because the case should have been resolved in the immigration court system, which is overseen by the US Department of Justice. While the ruling doesn’t order Mahdawi’s immediate re-arrest, it removes the order allowing him to be released. The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents him, however, said there was no legal basis to deport or re-detain him while the appeals process continues.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/21/us-appeals-court-overturns-ruling-that-freed-columbia-activist-mahdawi
https://archive.ph/3OkdO

Trump admin freezes more than $1 billion in Medicaid funds
The Department of Health and Human Services said it also will expand its authority to remove bad actors from federal health programs and possibly bar them from returning. CMS said it reviewed California's claims for certain in-home care programs after identifying spending growth that exceeded national trends and other claims officials said require more documentation. The agency also cited Medicaid claims in 14 service areas in Minnesota that it said require additional documentation, including expenditures linkPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Francesca Hong Wants To Be America’s First Socialist Governor
The Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor has gone haywire. Over the last week, Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez dropped out amid a campaign finance scandal, and a candidate who had suspended his campaign, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, rejoined the race — immediately nabbing an influential endorsement from current Gov. Tony Evers. Meanwhile, state Rep. Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, has surged in recent polls. Is this last-minute shakeup a coincidence, or part of a concerted effort to keep Hong from securing the nomination? Today on Lever Time, David Sirota speaks with Hong, the candidate in the middle of it all. They discuss the opposition to her grassroots campaign, why she thinks her politics are better positioned to defeat Republicans, and why she believes the entire debate over “electability” misunderstands this political moment in the United States.
https://www.levernews.com/francesca-hong-wants-to-be-americas-first-socialist-governor/
https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-2acsi-2f904fad

How Egg Price-Fixing Went Unpunished
Despite acknowledging he thinks about Americans’ financial situations “not even a little bit,” President Donald Trump has made a show of addressing the cost of living through a variety of initiatives. These have included, among other things, establishing TrumpRx.gov to sell generic drugs, occasionally suggesting that he’ll directly send checks to Americans, and warnings to grocers to voluntarily reduce beef prices. One example is the recent investigation by Trump’s Department of Justice (DoJ) into three egg producers for collusion and price manipulation. Cal-Maine, the country’s largest egg producer, worked with two competitors to manipulate egg prices from 2022 to 2025. Annual profits at Cal-Maine alone rose from about $200 million a year to over $1 billion a year. The case was settled earlier this month, resulting in a $3 million fine and agreement to donate fifty milliouyghs — basically a slap on the wrist. The egg producers no doubt settled out of court because of the strength of the evidence against them: conference call and message records demonstrating Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2873619
>agreement to donate fifty milliouyghs

Heh

Tybna

>>2873619
>As Jaser Abu Mousa notes in Foreign Affairs, this is yet another sign of the deteriorating relationship between Tehran and the Palestinian movement:

<Iranian leaders seemed frustrated that Hamas launched the attacks of October 7 without giving them sufficient warning. Iran, in turn, did not do much for Hamas during the war in Gaza. Hamas then did little when Iran itself came under attack. Both entities are currently rebuilding, but Iran’s new leaders are more focused on controlling the damage in their country, rebuilding, preserving their nuclear program, and managing a cease-fire than on aiding their onetime ally.

What the fuck was Hamas supposed to do for Iran?

>don't you know that better-than-nothing isn't perfect you stupid fucking morons
yes. and?

>all da west thinks thing cuz i say so
another compassbrained national chauvinism thread

So what’s your positive alternative?
>inb4 communism
>inb4 LE REAL MOVEMENT

>>2873350
Better than lib paries who larp as Stalin

>>2873473
I was talking about Western leftists in general and more often then not you types tend to be a certaian way.
>>2873479
I'm not against labor unions in the West, but I think the idea that they're a vaccine against far-right politics is beyond foolish. Your likely to end up with some kind of mafia-like figure in charge during peacetime and a Strasserist-type during a crisis.

>>2873484 does it count if he's a prof of a non public school or would he have to own his means of production past personal knowledge, diploma, and such

>>2873492
Charter and private school teachers are employees, honestly it makes more sense to do the anarchist thing and call teachers cops for children than it does to call them Petit bourgeois

>>2873497 thats based doe

The teacher didnt embarass you, everyone else either laughed to get on their good side or ignored them. Nevertheless, deep down they feel the same contempt towards them and won't speak up simply because it isn't worth it

>>2837660
Wow he is even more retarded than I thought.

>>2837765
> I don’t see how taking a harder stance on idpol is gonna make socialism sound more appealing except for maybe convincing a right winger or two, but I think it’s unlikely.
I realized western leftism has to be socially liberal and conservative leftism is usually a phenomenon of the eastern hemisphere. I am still trying to figure out why that is, but my preliminary theory has something to do with individualism in culture or actual ethnic cultural unity in other words.

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>>2871896
>The fire and air push the body up. The water and the earth – down. Galileo and Newton have denied the levitation. And the Universe became material. It started to fall.
You see all of you think this is stupid but actually this is brilliant. By pushing unusable aristotellian avatar paradigm, you keep the masses mystified by nature, while you who now the TRVTH about atoms and the material world, can control the sheeple.

Dugin at al. are angry at everyone having a chance at changing reality in their image. Dugin et al, like most neo-reactionaries want to restrict access to the TRVTH for the masses because the masses cannot handle the TRVTH (i.e. they can shape their own reality separate from the totem they are trying to enshrine).

Unfortunately, I have to agree with Dugin on this one conceptually because every political movement worth a damn succeeded because they controlled access to the TRVTH in the public. I never wanted this to be the case but look at all the countries that survive (usa,eu,china, dprk), they all control TRVTH. And all the countries that failed (ussr,sfrj), stopped controlling TRVTH and let the "free market of ideas" take over which usually means a more organized force will become the cultural hegemon.

>tldr I don't want to live under Duginism. I want my enemies to live under Duginism.

>>2872983
I think it's probably some kind of objective process. What this means is that socially conservative immigrants in the West end up being forced into the same alliances as the woke libtards for reasons that are bigger than the individuals involved. The left has various objectives to abolish social privileges, inequalities, and discrimination.

Also secularism is a goal of the left, like secularizing social life, which means emancipating the state from religion. Karl Marx would have thought that progressive but falling short because it doesn't address what creates the demand for religion in the first place. But at any rate, Muslims in America have an objective interest in secularism because they are a minority. Most of them might not agree with Pride parades per se but the same framework protects a Shia mosque as well as a Pride parade.

>>2873022
In the cause of mamdani id argue he genuinely believes what he preaches. Nothing about him struck me as conservative.

>>2872836
forgot the commie muppets

>>2872836
>power must ultimately be maintained through the application of violence
Not necessarily. Direct violence is always the last resort.
>Am i more powerful than a dictator if i shoot them with a gun until they're dead?
Well, this concerns general arguments about "legitimacy". What is the mechanism which transfers power? In an assassination, a leader is killed, but power is not transferred to the assassin, while in a revolution, the murderers become the new leaders by right - the same pretext as a "right to the throne" which initiated wars, like the Battle of Hastings. So, as per the saying, you can "kill the man", but not "the idea". Power is in "the idea", therefore, not the man, the same way God as an idea is powerful because God is not present.
>can power be wielded as a tool for good
All power must be justified, and so power always serves good - but only an exclusive good. So this is a larger debate about morality, but in politics, goodness is often seen as class interest.
>produce a constant cycle of abuse of it in order to maintain power?
Well, that is the ancient opinion in people like Plato, Aristotle and Polybius, that politics is a cycle of violence (e.g. Monarchy, Oligarchy, Democracy, etc.) which has no resolution. These opinions certainly seem valid given the history of politics, where no permanent state has ever been maintained, due to contradictions within and without. Realists of political violence are people like Hobbes and Locke who see that the social contract is a temporary peace treaty between self-interested parties. Peace can exist, but not forever, and so the social contract is broken by a means of war. Heraclitus believed that all things in nature were at war, and if this is so, then power is simply a cycle of abuse - projected onto life as a whole, this becomes Darwinism. I personally have a mutualist view of nature - not because I think all things can exist in peace, but that there is clearly an ecological equilibrium at play, otherwise life would have already destroyed itself.

>>2872877
>In an assassination, a leader is killed, but power is not transferred to the assassin
if by "assassin" we mean the one who organized the murder,this DID happen during medieval times,and even as recent as Lincoln assassination,it can always happen as long as there is some form of direct succession (necessary to have transition of power)

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Azov Glowzek

>>2872990 (me)
btw this is why the best way to not be assassinated,other than towing the line of the ruling class (renouncing power in all but name) is having someone that is more radical and extreme than you as successor/direct opposition

Imagine Marx on speed instead of arsenic,opium,and booze lol.

>>2872513
didnt they have essy access to coke back? a few bumps a day could have helped him finish 'pital

>>2872781
He smoked cigars, so that's kinda a stimulant.

>>2872781
i think he was born too early coke was popular towards the end of the 19th century. it would have been a novelty when he was an old man.

This reactionary thread is mind boggling stupid
>>2872164
>Engels is now roaming free, distorting Marx’s work
>distorting Marx’s work
No proof of this
>Lenin reads an incomplete Marx bibliography
Marx’s bibliography was complete enough. Lenin decided to do shit like making vanguard parties when the manifesto itself (the booklet) explicitly states not to. That’s his fault.
>The USSR now believes Book II is a manual of socialist development
The USSR was revisionist and prone to misinterpretation and even outright ignorance. That’s their fault, not the fault of book II or Marx.
>Marx’s ADHD, among many other things, lead to the USSR’s collapse.
The USSR led to the USSR’s collapse. Marx only gave the tools and knowledge to progress to the next mode of production.

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History becomes legend. Legend becomes Myth. How can Marxists top this two-step decay from real historical understanding into oversimplified quasi-religious mythology? RRR example is good because it literally feels like a vedic myth mapped onto the British colonial period. And it's meant to. Right deviationists claim this kind of Sorelian mythmaking is necessary to rally the normiecattle… but I think it's a lazy excuse for just not putting in the work of educating the masses.

>>2872578
If only there was some kind of process at work that could be examined and analyzed.

But alas, history just becomes legend!

>>2872584
Alas

>>2872126
Scotland is the funniest (if perhaps most boring) case of this because it basically lacks a "national bourgeoisie" (Scottish-not-British bourgeoisie are like 3 guys, the rest all became British bourgeoisie and moved to England because of course you'd choose the market of 70 million over the market of 5 million) while retaining other local elites. (Scotland has a separate systems for law, education, healthcare, transport, and most other day-to-day government functions, so Scotland's upper-strata are mostly administrative rather than commercial, which is reflected in the structure of Scotland's devolved parliament.)
This has evolved into the fun idea that Scotland is not so much oppressed by the English (contra anti-Scottish-nationalist cliche which holds that they blame the Scot-on-Scot, or really British-Scot-on-Scottish-Scot highland clearances on the English.) as by Westminster or London via the abstractions of the Scottish National Party. Scotland oppressed not so much by England as by the union of Scotland and England that Scottish elites signed up for (against the will of the working class) centuries ago.

Which is groping at the underlying idea that basically, the biggest enemies of Scotland as a nation have always been other Scots, which is quite obvious yet rarely articulated explicitly. e.g. this is not the standard Scottish Nationalist understanding, even though Scotland's national poet doing one of his most famous works about the parcel of rogues who were bribed into joining a union with England, because Scottish nationalists obviously like Scottishness and are quite willing to conceptualise it quite broadly and accept anyone who wants to consider themselves Scottish whether they're muh-heritage Americans, new immigrants, or Anglo-Scots who've moved down to England. (The new immigrants are the least odd of these three, because another oddity of modern Scottish nationalism is that rather than being ethnic or cultural, it is primarily geographic, based basically on the idea that Scotland is this set of defined borders and that they should be governed as a normal country, rather than as part of Britain's weird multinational union and failed nationbuilding project.)

>>2872695
Again, it mostly comes down to not taking feudal dynamics into account. The Scottish Jacobite rebellions were largely supported by feudal Highland landowners, most of whom were Protestant Episcopalians. They opposed the dominance of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and preferred the restoration of an episcopal church governed by bishops, as it had been during the Stuart era. There was also the appeal of the Stuart claimant himself, because he had never ruled, he carried none of the negative baggage associated with previous monarchs, while also still benefiting from the prestige and positive legacy of his ancestors.
But the majority of Lowland Scots opposed the Jacobites though.

>>2872560
I wouldn't go that far, but they've never faced political repression and they've been incredibly dominant in academia for nearly 50 years. Despite that, they've accomplished absolutely nothing.

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>>2872563
Who let fox news in here lmao

>>2872590
saying western leftists aren't facing oppression or repression isn't fox news.

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.

>>2872535
chapo literally coined the treatler shit to describe guys like podhoretz only for it to grow wildly out of control and turn into a twitter maoist shibboleth for the golden billionoids

>>2872534
>To be honest, I'm going to court controversy here,
I don't see how anything you said would be courting controversy.
I mean, TND, total uyghur death, is a popular slogan of there's but I think you have a point is more potential for pogroms with Muslims, Blacks are more considered more of as a problem to be dealt with as it already has been, discrimination and imprisonment. Blacks are like a "problem" for them that's more or less in stasis. But yeah the Christians will really lose there shit if Muslims get more visibility in the US about the Sharia Law and whatever. Greg Abbot just pulled the plug on some Muslims renting out a water park for a private Eid celebration because of the "controversy," when this water park already rents out for private events.

>amy goodman
it's so funny. she tried to cozy so hard with the neolib establishment, and still, she gets thrown under the bus.
she never invited again Norman Finkelstein again because Fink told her that between them two, after she accused Fink of being privileged, she's the privileged kid.
and she never again invited Boots Riley after he corrected amy for not including 'communist' in the list of things he is.
link to rubio's 'Cuba report' 446MB.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/api/v1/file/7c2ba313-ca30-47b2-a67b-8f8d1f519eed.pdf
it's a fucking PDF link, don't 'Im not clicking that shit' on me.

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>>2872489
I was saying this a couple threads ago, I can point to hundreds of laws that right now exist that cut away at freedoms and rights; some of my freedoms and rights. There are ZERO; zero laws that specifically target jews, and there surely never will be unless like fuentes becomes president. And thats not to downplay that a bunch of that stuff did exist in the recent past, but lets be objective here.