/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2896117
Poop suck

>>2896117
Aeeeeeeouuughhh im pantied and sissified i feel like a cute little girl my egg is crackinngggggg

Epstein client Leon Black threatened with contempt by House panel chair
The Republican chairman of the House oversight committee has threatened to hold the private equity investor Leon Black in contempt if he does not fully cooperate with the panel’s ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, amid accusations that the billionaire is purposely delaying and disrupting the panel’s inquiry.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/leon-black-epstein-house-contempt

Pentagon quizzes NATO allies on political loyalty, documents reveal
The Pentagon has handed NATO allies of the United States a long list of questions about whether they are adhering to President Donald Trump’s vision for the transatlantic alliance, according to documents obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/19/pentagon-quizzes-nato-allies-on-political-loyalty-documents-reveal
https://archive.ph/fjSFH

US treasury doubles debt buyback to steady bond market amid inflation fears
The US treasury is doubling its buyback of government debt in an effort to balance out the bond market as officials at the US Federal Reserve remain divided over how to deal with high inflation. The yield rate on 10-year, 20-year and 30-year treasury notes all hit 20-year highs this week, with the 30-year treasury yield rising to its highest rate since 2007. The rapid rise was concerning news for borrowers as major loans, including mortgages, are backed by treasuries.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/19/us-treasury-doubles-debt-buyback-bond-market

The stakes of Josh Shapiro's data center pivot
The shift in political tone is unmistakable. While his May rollout talked up strict standards, it also said the state is looking to compete on "innovation," and he's previously been more welcoming. The vibes were different yesterdaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Clownish Start For Trump Puppet in Colombia
If Abelardo de la Espriella’s first four days are any indication of what his entire term will be like, we are in for some very dark comedy over the next four years. Here are eight highlights from his inauspicious beginning. (1) On Inauguration Day a clip of him looking like a fool marching in place and saluting during military honors went viral after it was seen to have his own military officers looking at him with a look of bewilderment as to what on earth he thought he was doing. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department revealed that Colombia will receive a $1 billion support package for its participation in Trump’s Shield of the Americas project, which uses the drug war as a pretext to attack political enemies. A car bomb exploding the same day seemed to highlight the renewed chaos such policies are sinking the country into.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/18/clownish-start-for-trump-puppet-in-colombia/

Air ‘con’: Climate culture war heats up as temperatures rise
While countless families, schools, hospitals, and workplaces struggle to cope in this summer’s scorching temperatures, the capitalists are taking the opportunity to pit climate activists against ordinary people. There have been three heatwaves in Britain since 1 May. In May and June alone, 2,877 people are estimated to have died due to extreme heat. Several regions have seen their hottest and driest July days ever recorded. These sustained and elevated temperatures have led to a surge in demand for air conditioning, in homes and businesses. The UK has seen a 249 percent rise in demand for aircon units since 1 May. Going further back, the number of air-conditioned homes in Britain has doubled in the last four years. But the burning question is: who will pay the bill for keeping workers cool; for making our living and working conditions safe? Of course, the bosses, bankers, and landlords don’t want to foot the cost for this. That is why some bourgeois commentators are cynically casting doubts about the need for air conditioning – whipping up a climate culture war over this question. “Is [air conditioning] a central protection against extreme heat,” certain media outlets ask, “or a luxury the planet cannot afford?” But ordinary people suffering iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thank you blessed news anon

>>2883592
>There were some Jehovah's Witnesses and other banned sects in Russia in my refugee camp in Croatia but you gotta know the lore for this to work because they'll ask on the interview
Talking to the Jehova's Witnesses in the refugee camp when they ask "so why are you here, we believe in Jesus"

You guys are little kids. You think it's an epic geopolitical conflict about colonialism, Israel, NATO, third-worldism and nationalism?

The reality is much more simple and boring than this.

>In December 2022, Ministers and high-level representatives of the partner countries and organisations of the Rabat Process met in Cádiz for the 6th Ministerial Conference of the Euro-African Dialogue on Migration and Development (the so called ‘Rabat Process’) to adopt the Dialogue’s new multi-annual cooperation programme for the next five years (2023-2027). During the event, the Cadiz Action Plan was adopted: it addresses five action areas, including on regular migration and mobility, on asylum and protection of persons in need of international protection, and on prevention and effective reduction of irregular migration, fight against migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings.[2]

>In August 2022, the EU announced the intention to allocate more than EUR 500 million to Morocco for the period 2021-2027, a budget that is 50% higher than the previous one, including for border management and police cooperation.[89]
(Source: https://asylumineurope.org/reports/country/spain/asylum-procedure/access-procedure-and-registration/access-territory-and-push-backs/)

The €500 million agreement is coming to an end in 2027 and Morocco is putting pressure on Spain to renegotiate more sweet sweetvEuro bucks, it's that simple.

They already did this in 2021: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Morocco%E2%80%93Spain_border_incident
Members of the Guardia Civil also reported spotting Moroccan intelligence agents among the migrants.

That said, Mossad might still be involved. There is absolutely no way something like happened organically, they had to psyop or pay these 60000 "migrants" to do this.

>>2893208
>The €500 million agreement is coming to an end in 2027 and Morocco is putting pressure on Spain to renegotiate more sweet sweetvEuro bucks, it's that simple.
i already said in this thread that morocco is simply exploiting the fact that they're effectively spain's border police to yield concessions taking advantage of the current juncture, that's what a comprador state does. the migration crisis is not moroccan, and certainly not manufactured by israel, like they can even do that, it's european-made with israel just opportunistically poking holes in PSOE's empty garbage rhetoric, so they can have a more slavish pro-israel guy, like that changes anything. they can do this because retarded liberals like sabocat, much like PSOE and Pedro Sanchez, already conceive migration as de-facto a net-negative, so they have no answer for this, except to keep propping up a comprador government so they can keep playing militarized police at the border and occupying western sahara because they're cowards afraid of getting their own hands dirty.

could be one of the biggest landback movements in history
sorry angloid but spain is rightful moroccan territory

Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis Is Also a Debt Crisis
As many Puerto Ricans were scrambling to find water for drinking, cleaning, and bathing, the archipelago marked a perverse milestone: the tenth anniversary of PROMESA. In response to Puerto Rico’s deepening debt crisis, President Barack Obama signed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) bill into law on June 30, 2016. PROMESA created a federally appointed fiscal control board to oversee the archipelago’s finances. La junta, as the fiscal control board is colloquially known, is empowered through PROMESA to override the commonwealth government and implement austerity measures in order to service the debt. The unelected members of la junta are either imbricated within the networks of Puerto Rico’s criollo elites or are part of the international finance sector with zero ties to the archipelago whatsoever. While PROMESA promised to bring relief to Puerto Ricans suffering under conditions of financial precarity, there is no doubt that things have only gotten worse for the average Puerto Rican since its passage.
https://jacobin.com/2026/08/puerto-rico-water-crisis-debt-privatization

Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan, Freedom for Aziz Khakimov and all political prisoners in the countries of the Organization of Turkic States
In Uzbekistan, the well known blogger and left wing activist Aziz Khakimov was given a harsh sentence of 4 years and 2 months in prison for speaking out against the rehabilitation of the leaders of the Basmachi movement of 1918-1944. His only “crime” was that he called them murderers and executioners of the people! Officially, Aziz was charged with “inciting hatred,” as he allegedly insulted the “heroes of the nation” in his speeches — those who were repressed by the “Russian communists.” The fact that hundreds of leaders of Basmachi bands, who were acquitted, killed, tortured, burned, stole livestock, robbed trains, carried out terrorist attacks, and at various times worked for Turkish, British, and later Nazi intelligence, are no longer seen as crimes in Tashkent, but as a “struggle for national liberation.” The only thing that was dropped from Khakimov was the absurd charge of “war propaganda” when he used Soviet posters from the period of the Great Patriotic Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thank you based news anon

>>2895414
yeah because it's a pro-nazi meme.

>>2895918
>A. Wyatt Mann is not a nazi
ok

>>2895918
Do you have brain damage

>>2871492
This is great. Has anyone read Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said?

>>2871492
yeah yeah we've all see the Time Knife. you just gotta die or take some DMT.

I need to finish Malazan

>>2895834
>I'm kind of with Nabokov, when he says he abhors the 'novel of ideas' and prefer to read things generally removed from politics…
a naive quest. it is impossible to truly write something divorced from politics. you can only sweep politics under the rug, and then everyone who steps on the rug wonders why there's a lump under it shaped like a dead body.
>>2895807
Thanks I'll check it out

i like reading heinlein because he's crazy

>>2895590
The big difference is that capitalism displaces peasant property for capitalist property and so creates a class of wage workers who make up the majority of the population.

liberalism

>>2894794

If you smoke some crack you will basically just be nick land

>>2895674
I thought nick land was a meth guy, coke and crack don’t last long enough

to truly dissolve capitalism you must completely destroy the capitalist in your heart. you must not exploit or even try to look for discounts for your selfish.

you must go to mcdonalds and bow prostrated and kiss the feet of the worker. oh my god. oh my oppressed cow of work, you have been exploited. you only give and never take. your my god. only then is the capitalist ego annihilated completely. but the people are liars. they abuse the worker even though the ice cream machine is broken and its not their fault. why dont the owner fix the damn machine so the worker can happily serve happy meals to the consumer. so the value is take and never give and blame the weak because you you can get away with it.

the consumer must love, that is all wisdom you must accept.

>>2881505
But was it really worth all the poor proles (US/IDF soldiers, Blackwater mercs) dying?

>>2890348
finally we have vijay prasah. did delcy sell out venezuela?

Lol fell for it

>>2890348
ropefuel but probably true

Venezuela abandons Nicolás Maduro to fate in US jail - financial times

Venezuela’s government made no mention of freeing jailed ex-president Nicolás Maduro during nearly two weeks of talks with the opposition this month, in the clearest sign yet that the regime has abandoned him to the US justice system.

Interim president Delcy Rodríguez in January called the US capture and exfiltration of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores a case of “vile aggression”. Her brother, leader of Venezuela’s parliament, said they “will not rest” until he is released from a Brooklyn jail cell, where he faces drug-trafficking charges.

But Rodríguez’s US-backed government surprised the opposition by not even raising those demands during the five negotiating sessions, which concluded last week, several people present told the FT.

“Maduro and Flores simply do not exist at the negotiating table,” said one opposition figure. “They have erased them from history.”

The US government has backed Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice-president, since its commandos snatched the autocratic leader in a brazen night-time raid on January 3. In return, she has opened up the country’s vast natural resources to overseas investors, giving US companies access to its oil reserves.

The first round of negotiations with the opposition was intended to agree on steps for a new presidential election but yielded few concrete results.

The two sides focused on how to fund the recovery from June’s devastating earthquakes, demanding the repatriation of some $4bn of gold bullion stored in Bank of England vaults. They also agreed to start working to reform the justice system.
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>>2891337
Debs is like the precursor to DSA though, I do agree with >>2892964 that the closet to SYS in DSA has yet to arrive. But i doubt they would be inspired by Chinese socialist system. Chinese centralization is too much for Americans to swallow.

and what pray tell is the "loud but small left wing" of the DSA that is at all comparable to the left KMT/CPC?

>>2893843
nothing comparable to the cpc but you can find plenty of left kmt people comparable to dsa types "the left KMT" was basically anyone who thought the shoot on sight rule for communists was too harsh

>>2893843
Closest persona would be someone similar to Huey Long being SYS

>>2891649
How is it like anarchism

>>2891037
ok but how is this non-immediate immediacy supposed to look like when you are in lenin's shoes? if it doesnt mean stopping using money immediately, then lenin would still have had to have established state capitalism, but i guess now the idea to spend time creating some communes here and there?

>>2891661
I *think* (not that anon, but familiar with Neel's work) the idea is that you just have to never stop trying to take it as far as it can go and let it die. I am quite possibly missinterpreting, but the takeaway I get is that it would have been more productive if Russian revolution died a bloody death trying to push it forward than for it to re-constitute itself as a self-protecting project. Idea being that in its death, it would have contributed to building the movement by creating more hardened remnants. He talks about it in his Theory of the Party that the worst thing an ephemeral communist party could do is to become obsessed by its own survival or to glorify itself as the be-all end-all of the communist project. Basically, I think he envisions it as a recurrent tide that grows stronger or weaker that at some point will be strong enough.

>>2891570
Worth noting that the exponential aspect can be reset, as it was over our last century. We are now among the wreckages of the movement, about in the same place as in pre-Marxian times.

>>2891640
Interview he did here
https://terrabayt.com/dusunce/english/crisis-capital-and-hell-on-earth-an-interview-with-phil-neel/
>>2891661
Phil acutally gives a bit of Leninist critique in the next paragraph:
>That said, I’m not a communization theorist. I do not like the framework or the term. I do not think there is anything special about our era that makes us any more (or less) prone to building communism today than we were in the past, though perhaps the possibility becomes more clearly visible or more necessary. I certainly draw a lot of influence from theorists associated with the current, but that’s simply because they are good, interesting, and rigorous Marxist thinkers. As for myself, I consider myself an entirely orthodox communist. That includes both the Marxian aspect, as well as the sequence of practical lessons learned in the long history of struggle and elaborated in theories of revolutionary organization. In this respect, I think many within the communization current do not focus enough on the frictions that arise in the pragmatic process of building power in a hostile world, even if they do a great job of symptomatizing the limits faced by existing uprisings and relating them to large-scale, structural trends. In other words, while they’re very good Marxists, they’re often not very good Leninists.

>It is necessary to think quite hard about the likely sequence of social transformation, the forms of revolutionary organization that would be needed to channel that process, and the geopolitical, administrative, and economic demands placed on any revolutionary force that emerges and holds any territory. In this regard, we still do not have any better living examples than the saga of the Soviet Union, the protracted people’s war in China, and the struggle for survival by isolated revolutionary states like Cuba. These are also case studies in the extreme ways that revolutionary societies can degenerate, either into bizarre chimeras like North Korea or, more conventionally, by melting back into the liberal order, as in Russia anPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2890768
When has a centralized form of organisation led to the propagation of communist measures? When has it led to communist measures at all? Your second point contradicts itself, also

>>2891752
>>2891743
>>2891740
As someone who recently visited the pleroma, you offend me with how little you know about gnosticism, hermeticism or even Marxism-Leninism. I am truly shooketh.
>>2891837
You read someone attempting to greenpill, but falling short.
>>2891861
You see you are logical, but in the minds of the purist bordigafags, if your communism is not 100% idealist orthodoxy, then you are not a real communist and you better give up because that Hayekian voice in their heads is constantly nagging them with "nut reel gommunizm". Like this bordigafag over here:
>>2891917
Can you please show me what an economy without commodity production will look like?

>>2894579
The Stalin thread was full of bad faith arguments whereas here, everyone is respectful at least. You will never be a GOD bordigafag.

>>2894768
nah, you are just bitchmade, thats why you hide behind jannies, just like shitalin did behind beria

>>2895389
Never hid behind jannies.
Bordigafag, tell me your ideology. I want to learn about your ideology. tell it to me.

>>2892115
the position this quote refers to was deprecated by the advent of the internet