/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2663586
>the community bulletin boards that once adorned the entrance of public places like libraries, schools and supermarkets.

this is what ACTUALLY needs to come back.

It would be like a jetpack.

>>2657951
Morality, as a set of taught principles that one must live by, is conservative. Every system of rules has loopholes that let us out of a bind when the rules get in the way of the powerful.

Empathy is when you care about other people. This is a motivating factor for people, but it's hard to be empathetic all the time, and it's especially hard to put empathy over self interest when they conflict.

Solidarity is the understanding that our fates are tied up together, so what hurts you hurts me and what uplifts you uplifts me. It is a motivation derived from self interest that supports combined efforts and pro-social behavior.

I think we should focus most on solidarity, some on empathy, and least on morals.

>>2660563
This is a good post, I've never thought of solidarity like this - as rational self-interest. It sort of pains me to place significance on rational self-interest at all, even in the form of solidarity, perhaps for fear of chauvanism, and opposition to broad coalition building (some of which you in fact see). The trick, I guess obviously, is to identify with the right things.

It's critical to note that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is in addition to being responsible for moral emotions, is also responsible for formation of identity. That these areas are processed in the same region has lead some to speculate that our identity is inseparable from our value system. So perhaps the political project, and what justifies revolution (to those not directly in dire need) is change in this identity moral emotion conglomeration.

How much of the enlightenment and subsequently modern culture could just be an attempt to identify with (non-slave) humanity or more precisely as a (free) human.

>>2660563
>>2661893
ugh. no. no. no. I doubt you meant self-interest is just a matter of identity here. There's a rational calculation at play. I need to think again.

>>2660563
>I think we should focus most on solidarity, some on empathy, and least on morals.
I'm really struggling with how different this mode of thinking is. My basic understanding of the position is that solidarity is effectively rational self-interest with coalition building as a means. I don't see how this mechanism serves to justify for example working men to have supported women's liberation or Israeli Jews to oppose genocide - chauvinism.

Even if it's just feelings one gets the impression that there's some difficulty in convincing others or oneself without there being reasons even if these aren't entirely rational but thought experiments designed to elicit emotional responses. Another example is prison liberation where prisoners are often seen as having "deserved" their situation, and so as to justify their imprisonment without even any moral feeling but rightful.

is there any actual organized revolutionary movements in the west anymore?

Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video recorded by another witness, who was standing behind Pretti, obtained by Drop Site News, showed that Pretti continued recording the immigration enforcement operation on his phone, as other observers blew their whistles and honked their horns, and appeared to direct traffic so that cars could pass the scene. The same clip showed that Pretti then stepped in to defend another observer who was shoved to the ground by a federal officer. That officer sprayed Pretti with a chemical agent, repeatedly, before tackling him to the street along with two other agents.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/minneapolis-shooting-ice

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota. Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press showed children and parents at the South Texas Family Residential Center clad in jackets and sweaters, some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”
https://apnews.com/article/texas-immigration-detention-7fa98244c1b0245deb4462e9dc25292f

Charity director stole $23M in homeless funds to support luxurious lifestyle, DOJ alleges
A Westwood man was charged on Friday for fraudulently obtaining $23 million in homeless funds and spending the money meant for his charity to support his lavish lifestyle, which included the purchase of a vacation property in Greece and shopping sprees at Chanel and Hermes, federal and Los Angeles authorities jointly announced Friday. Alexander Soofer, 42, was expected to appear in federal court Friday as he faced the charges of wire fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/locaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti Excerpted from Against Empire
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitized, so that empires become “commonwealths,” and colonies become “territories” or “dominions” (or, as in the case of Puerto Rico, “commonwealths” too). Imperialist military interventions become matters of “national defense,” “national security,” and maintaining “stability” in one or another region. In this book I want to look at imperialism for what it really is.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/article-class-warfare-indeed

Dem-Backed ICE Body Cams Are a Giveaway to Weapons Makers
Amid President Donald Trump’s violent immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, industry-backed Democrats just helped congressional Republicans turn proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reforms into a $20 million windfall for the body camera industry. Federal disclosures reviewed by the Lever show that Axon Enterprise, Inc., a weapons company and the country’s largest manufacturer of body-worn cameras, has lobbied aggressively since July on the $64 billion Department of Homeland Security spending bill that lawmakers passed on Thursday. The company’s CEO, a regular campaign contributor to Republicans, also donated directly to key Democratic lawmakers who pushed for the body camera measures. Now, the company is well-positioned to reap the benefits of the $20 million allocated by the legislation for body cameras as part of ICE’s extended $10 billion budget, on top of the $75 billion in additional funding the agency received from the One Big Beautiful bill last year. Axon has faced lawsuits for monopolizing the police body camera market and raising prices on local government contracts. Its profits have soared despite recent studies casting doubt on body cameras’ ability to curb law enforcement misconduct. The homeland security spending bill has faced public opposition as unrest grows nationwide over ICE’s tactics. But instead of organizing against thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>2663250
>>2663348
When Syria's Mukhabarat offices were being raided by HTS they found evidence Syria knew about 9/11 but didn't warn anyone, so presumably others knew too.

If you stood for Gaza, stand for Rojava.


Kill all subhuman sunnitard zionist cuckolds and uyghur leeches.

Hail Communist Party of China
Hail PKK
Hail MLKP
Kill all faggots who all they do is bitch around
humiliate

>>2663459
I hope the Nusra Front uploaded videos of them "roughing up" those female fighters 😋

>>2663463
>>2663459

what you uyghas even talking about?

>>2663463
Zio-Salafist subhumans will be exterminated and mass raped slaughtered globally and noone will pity you.

Uyghur solution and final solution is coming for all of your kind.

I raped then beheaded your whore mother, be thankful, my slave. My cum guzzles and drips down from your prolapsed slave anus.
Come crawl to me before I rape you again.

>>2661240
>>2661351
>He worked as newspaper writer
and an author and an organizer in the 1st international and a speechwriter and a father to 7 children… all while being a political exile getting spied on by prussian cops

>original
who the fuck cares. steal it. i wrote everything marx said.

>>2661047
>(Rule 14f - low-quality sectarian bait)
do mods have low functioning autism lol

>marxism isn't philosophy
you are right bc philosophy is garbage and doesnt describe the world like marxism does :D

>>2661408
>Marx extracted Idealism from Hegel
But not every idealism. One still remains- Marx's assumption that Humans are the dialectical subject, and Human Will excercise agentic power over the world. This anthropocentrism is not a scientific principle but an idealistic one. Nick Land's focus on Capitalism itself manifesting with Humans being nothing more than an evolutionary middle link makes more sense once you remove the idealist assumption that humans are the centre of the world

>>2661415
>niches are fake
euphoric nazi NPCs 100 years ago: "you fools, we are beyond the problems of history, we are so modern that contradictions cannot affect us!"
euphoric Zionist NPCs today: "you fools, we are beyond the problems of history, we are so modern that contradictions cannot affect us!"
how's it going, PMC Contrapoints fans?
>>2661509
>You are tearing down their walls
overly enthusiastic AI psychosis agent trained by countless young adult fictions: "you are the SPARK BEARER"

>>2657090
Oooohhhhhh I'm partnooooooooring
I'm strooooooootegically partnooooooring

>>2657098
Geopolitics is bourgeois politics

>>2646748
Regardless of how depraved and reactionary Americans are, their place in the world as top G is entirely situational. They got lucky during the industrial overhaul. There is no great leap to happen again for that to happen.

So regardless of how bad they are, a complete collapse of the west would be for the best. Even if it were fully capable of happening again, there's no reason we shouldn't wanna see crackers suffer and die right now.

>>2662513
You hace autism

>>2646748
I think the most generous interpretation is that the US empire collapsing not the USA literally. IE its not that the US will literally be irrelevant, the same way the UK is still a high income but geopolitically largely irrelevant actor after the fall of the British empire. So "socialist" revolutions have a chance to sprout elsewhere, because the CIA isnt crushing them or whatever, because americans military-intelligence might is gone due to China undercutting and deindustrializing the US economy at every turn and eclipsing it in income, thus undermining the dollar system and making it so the US can no longer support and fund a military with 11 aircraft carriers based on debt.

>>2663037
its 2026 and you still haven't moved past the muh different opinion meme
when we win, all dissenting ""opinions"" will be banned and the MSS will break down your door for anti communist wrong think

>>2663061
Yep, that is my point. But I am also pessimistic about setting up militias as if the US were going to fall into some decades long low intensity conflict. Better than nothing I guess.
>>2663089
I know you are trolling, but having a different opinion about what happened also determines how we approach it. Will you encourage people in the future to open carry in front of cops so they can get themselves shot? Or would you rather advocate for militias or actual units instead of lone wolves carrying guns for "self defense" when they won't actually need it 110% percent of the time in an actually well organized society where crime is a non-issue. Also, do all of you expect our diabolical US police force to reform itself because that is a dead end as decades upon decades of efforts have shown the US police to be rotten to the core. Do you want a society where police won't overreact to people to carrying a gun, or would you rather have a society where people do not need to carry them at all, and we had a police force in line with less barbaric ones across the developed world? Because in other countries, the police is not nearly as malicious or stupid as in the US, where it is the laughingstock of the world. Even by the standards of capitalist countries, which has plenty of incompetent or bad police, our police is pathetic and unprofessional by a large margin.

all americans are henceforth iraquis in the eyes of the police and WILL put 8 bullets in you if they see you with a gun, so you need to ask these questions now. this is why arming yourself against the police was fucking idiotic hobbyist bullshit.

>>2663148
you can also allow open carry as long as you did militia training first,kinda like switzerland,so you're "legitimate" in having a gun on you.

>>2662967
vore the rich

>>2579295
The zbors are very dead compared to their peak in early july during the dumpster barricade stuff.

>>2579297
There were 2 calls to general strike but there was no labor organizing behind them so they failed.

Two days ago there were some local elections for some rural areas (only a few tens of thousands of voters total) and SNS won but with much less votes compared to both the last local elections and the last parliamentary elections. Like usual, there were various kinds of election fraud spotted and there was even some fighting in Mionica in a tavern close to one of the poll stations (https://x.com/agrifblokira/status/1995150996067307853).

>>2581761
Forgot to mention the most important thing about those local elections. If SNS's loss of votes is proportional to the rest of Serbia then they'd lose parliamentary elections if they were held now.

On Saturday the students organized a campaign where they asked for signatures of people supporting them. They set up a few hundred stations all around Serbia and asked for name, where they lived and email. This is supposed to help gather volunteers for the election campaign when the parliamentary elections come. They said that they're not doing a legal citizen's initiative because the parliament can just ignore it and they're not doing a petition because it wouldn't really do anything. Almost 400 thousand signatures were gathered.

I guess it's a good idea for the election stuff, but it might be too early to do something like this since the next normal parliamentary election is late 2027 and SNS isn't going to do a snap election when they're guaranteed to lose seats and might lose the majority. Generally the student movement is very focused on election stuff now even though it's so far away. But this might be because of the decreased manpower since the blockades were broken.

On Saturday there was a protest in Novi Sad that was more like a political rally, where Novi Sad students presented a part of the political program for the student list: anti-corruption and lustration. The latter means banning people associated with the ruling party (SNS in this case) from holding public offices, which is confusing because apparently that's not what it means in English. There was some sort of disagreement between Novi Sad students and Belgrade students around this where Novi Sad students really wanted the lustration thing as part of the program while Belgrade students were lukewarm. There was even some sort of conflict around that protest/rally where Belgrade students didn't forward calls to it.

There was another incident in Novi Sad where a professor on the Philosophy faculty basically got fired for supporting the student protests, which caused some professors and students of that faculty to restart the blockade of that faculty. That ended yesterday when the dean of that faculty called the police (constitutionally police can only enter a faculty if called by the dean) and a lot of police came in and kicked out the students and professors. Today there was no classes either because the police remained there not letting students enter. The Novi Sad students will be doing a boycott of the classes in response.

>>2660219
Another thing, a Russia-approved solution to the NIS situation was announced where Hungarian and Saudi petrol companies buy Gazprom's share of NIS.

Thousands rally against immigration enforcement in subzero Minnesota temperatures
The protests are part of a broader movement against President Donald Trump’s increased immigration enforcement across the state, with labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and even shops. The faith leaders gathered at the airport to protest deportation flights and urge airlines to call for an end to to what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest-ever immigration enforcement operation.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-ice-immigration-protest-unions-faith-leaders-edc6c4884f8cc26be9ad34a28d82a7a5

Federal judges reject DOJ motion to detain arrested Minnesota protesters
U.S. District Judge Laura M. Provinzino wrote in her order for two of the protesters, Nekima Valdez Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen, that Justice Department lawyers failed to “demonstrate that a detention hearing is warranted, or that detention is otherwise appropriate.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-rejects-doj-motion-detain-arrested-minnesota-protesters-rcna255666

US measles cases surpass 400 with infections in 14 states: CDC
The CDC said on Friday that a total of 416 cases have been reported in 14 states, including Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Only three measles cases this year were from international visitors, CDC data shows.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-measles-cases-surpass-400-infections-14-states/story?id=129415270

California suing Trump administration over Sable oil pipeline restart
The lawsuit is the latest turn in a dispute between Houston-based Sable and California officials over a drilling project off the coast of Santa Barbara that was shut Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Year of the Billionaire Tax
In 2025 alone, the six richest men in the country (and world) became $476 billion richer. During that year, the Trump regime cut back Medicaid — the federal medical assistance program relied on by over seventy million Americans, including four out of ten children — in order to bankroll lowering taxes for the rich. The bulk of the cuts are expected to hit Medicaid programs following the 2026 midterm elections, and they will hit ordinary Americans hard. Donald Trump’s 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise out-of-pocket costs dramatically and kick millions of people off insurance, many of them children, as well as nearly a third of young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four. For California’s state medical assistance program, Medi-Cal, federal cuts are expected to drain $100 million over the next five years, potentially collapsing the state’s health care system. That means millions of people losing coverage and families needing to make hideous choices between food, housing, and medicine, as so many are already forced to. It means hospitals and clinics closing and tens of thousands of health care jobs evaporating. For a state already struggling with vast inequality and a homelessness crisis, it would have a catastrophic impact. Fun fact: there are 214 billionaires residing in California worth a collective $2 trillion. If you carved out just 5 percent of that hoarded wealth for public use, you could fill the Medi-Cal gap and fund the state’s health care system. That’s precisely what a proposed ballot initiative aims to do.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/california-billionaire-tax-thiel-newsom

Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
The Israeli military is turning the yellow line that demarcates the more than half of the Gaza Strip it occupies and controls into a physical border. Analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture shows that the Israeli military has begun constructing earth berms—large, raised mounds of earth—in areas along the yellow line to create a physical separation between the Palestinian population forced to live in the western half of the enclave, and Israeli forces who occupy the eastern half. Israeli troops withdrew to the yellow line after the so-called ceasefirePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

tybna

Trump administration weighs naval blockade to halt Cuban oil imports
“Energy is the chokehold to kill the regime,” said one person familiar with the plan who was granted anonymity to describe the private discussions. Deposing the country’s communist government – in power since the Cuban revolution in 1959 – is “100 percent a 2026 event” in the administration’s eyes, this person added. The effort would be justified under the 1994 LIBERTAD Act, better known as the Helms-Burton Act, this person added. That law codifies the U.S. embargo on Cuban trade and financial transactions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/trump-administration-weighs-naval-blockade-to-halt-cuban-oil-imports-00744708