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THE LEFTYPOL SHOP HAS BEEN OPENED

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When was the last time

When was the last time the entire globe was united under one world empire? Has it been that way before? Has it been that the mode of production matched the state entity? It hasn't, so why the fuck would you want a communist revolution in a world divided by separate bourgeois nations? You'd have to fight through every single one independently as opposed to a unitary dictatorship of the bourgeois which will carry some degree of centralization that can be overthrown, the point is to let the biggest imperialist entity actually take over the world so then be overthrown by the workers worldwide in one tendency. Of course regions will still be pockets and it may lead to the worldwide dictatorship of the bourgeois to become destabilized and have others break away due to destabilization as goes a civil war, but they breakaway parts will always be smaller than the larger more centralized entity and the worker's rebellion will be able to crush them easily once it has defeated the primary bourgeois regime. What do you think? Is capital bound to never be fully in one regime? Maybe the whole world should've gone through unitary fascism to give some centralized character even if not fully nationalized the workers would only be fighting against the state entities of one. What I'm getting at is that if the bourgeois nations go through a process of natural selection, if capital in crisis can come out as victor (fascism) then there will be almost no divisive factors to prevent an uprising besides the sole structure of the instrument of state power being held by the bourgeois (the singular instrument rather than the multitude).

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WHAT'S THE LEFTYPOL CONSENSUS ON NEETs?

Are they lumpen? Class traitor? Revolutionary lifestyle that doesn't contribute to the working relation of modern capitalism? Leeches? Vagabonds? What's your opinion on NEETs? Did you had a NEETdom period in your life? How was it?

I did have a period of NEETdom, it's a quiet liberating, spent my days reading books, mangas, playing vidya, going to the gym and doing walks, almost 0 stress, pretty freeing lifestyle, I would keep being a NEET if I had the oportunity, but life is a bitch, I survived with Mombux.

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palestine vs the zionist entity-118. CUM tribute brigades

sorry, no goyim moneyshots allowed in my milking machine

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸

>>2279335

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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨
Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/

• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)

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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war [Currently Down]

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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/

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Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
Fdpd. trash site 123 blah fd

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/USApol/

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
<"Pied Piper" Edition

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 pharaoh of proxy wars, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

🏈 💵 🌭 🍔

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🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
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• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

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Why is this guy glazed so hard💀

I actually never watch anything related to him and I watch African news all the time. I swear, the moment I heard about the guy entering Moscow for a security meeting, the sheer number of articles related to this guy skyrocketed. Guys treated like he’s the second coming of Christ even if his army visibly sucks.

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17 year old Pakistani tiktok star murdered by incel she repeatedly rejected

>Islamabad Inspector General Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi said on Tuesday that the 17-year-old TikTok star, Sana Yousaf, was shot dead by a man who had repeatedly contacted her online.

>Sana, who turned 17 last week and had more than a million followers across her social media accounts, was killed at her home in Islamabad on Monday evening.

>The police have arrested a 22-year-old on suspicion of her murder, who spent hours loitering outside her home.

>"It was a case of repeated rejections. The boy was trying to reach out to her time and again," the Islamabad police chief said during a news conference.

>"It was a gruesome and cold-blooded murder," Rizvi added.

>Yousaf had more than 800,000 followers on TikTok, a wildly popular platform in Pakistan, where she posted lip-sync videos, skincare tips, and promotional content for beauty products.

>The last video posted on her account was hours before her murder, in which she was seen cutting a cake for her birthday.

>"Rest in Peace" and "Justice for Sana", read some comments under the video.

>Violence against women is pervasive in Pakistan, according to the country's Human Rights Commission, and cases of women being attacked after rejecting marriage proposals are not uncommon.

>In 2021, 27-year-old Noor Mukadam was beheaded by her Pakistani-American boyfriend, Zahir Jaffer, after she rejected his marriage proposal in a case that sparked widespread anger.

>In 2016, Khadija Siddiqui survived being stabbed 23 times by a jilted ex-boyfriend.

https://www.geo.tv/latest/607555-suspect-killed-influencer-sana-yousaf-after-multiple-rejections-says-police-chief

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-tiktok-star-sana-yousaf-shot-dead-repeated-rejections-of-man/

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I want to know you guys to know if you guys think that an ideal communist society, like Mao China or the ussr Certain type of work like sex be accepted or is it considered to degenerate for communist to Handle

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GOOD READING LIST TO GET INTO COMMUNISM (HELP)

Hello, people, I'm creating this thread to know if anyone here has a good reading guide to get into communism, like a reading list that goes from absolute beginners to advanced ideas. I'm a newbie to the topic and I'm don't know much. Thanks.

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I spent 4 hours last night laughing with my organized Iraqi comrade about MLs, their infantile belief in the state, support for the most batshit reactionary groups in the region and their Lassallen tendency. We also had a laugh about Hakim's blatant chauvinism, inaction and grift.

Good times. Thanks for making my week bros. The real movement will crush all, promise.

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News 6/3/25

Indigenous lawyer Aguilar leads race to head Mexico's Supreme Court
Indigenous rights defender Hugo Aguilar is leading in the race to head Mexico's highest court following the country's first popular election to appoint judges and magistrates, according to electoral authority data on Tuesday. With 87% of votes counted from Sunday's election, Aguilar had some 4.94 million votes - 5.2% of the total. Lenia Batres, who is close to the ruling Morena party, was behind him at 4.69 million votes, or 4.9%.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/indigenous-lawyer-aguilar-leads-race-head-mexicos-supreme-court-2025-06-03/

Evo's supporters stage road blockades in Bolivia
The blockades, which also disrupted highways connecting Santa Cruz and La Paz, are part of broader demands against President Luis Arce Catacora's government, accused of causing an economic crisis with dollar and fuel shortages due to declining gas production. The demonstrators, waving both Bolivian flags and the multicolored indigenous wiphala, demanded Arce’s resignation, labeling him a “traitor.”
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/06/03/evo-s-supporters-stage-road-blockades-in-bolivia

Guatemalan court orders arrests of Colombian officials who led a UN anti-corruption mission
Velásquez responded via X after learning of the accusations. “So now the corrupt Guatemalan attorney general and her prosecutor Curruchiche – designated as corrupt and sanctioned by the United States and the European Union – extend their persecution for Luz Adriana Camargo and me,” Velásquez wrote. “My solidarity with the former officials and so many Guatemalan citizens who the Attorney General’s Office has forced into exile.”
https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-colombia-ivan-velasquez-corruption-3fe9650dcf6bffd36b615ed0b28f27e4

Toronto city council passes controversial 'bubble zone' protest bylaw
The original version of the bylaw proposed by city staff was for a request-based system that would allow vulnerable institutions to apply for a 20-metre buffer zone around them. For that request to be granted, the owner of an institution would have had to prove it had been affected or targeted by a protest within the last 90 days. Councillors amended the bylaw motion Thursday, instead increasing the buffer zone to 50 metres, and removing the provision that an owner would need to prove they had been affected or targeted by a protest in their application. Once a location has a bubble zone, it will last for a year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-bubble-zone-protest-bylaw-1.7540321
https://archive.ph/Bjdb3

US warns UK and France not to recognise Palestinian state
France is reportedly gearing up to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state at the conference. MEE understands that France has been lobbying Britain to do so as well. French officials believe the British government is onboard with the plan, according to French media. But Washington privately begun to warn Britain and France against unilaterally recognising Palestine, sources with knowledge of the matter in the British Foreign Office told MEE. At the same time Arab states are urging them to proceed with the move, sources said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-us-warned-uk-and-france-against-palestine-recognition-month

U.S. consulting firm quits Gaza humanitarian aid effort amid criticism
Three people closely connected to both the GHF and BCG, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter, said that it would be difficult for the foundation to continue to function without the consultants who helped create it. In addition to helping develop the initiative in close coordination with Israel, BCG set the prices for paying and equipping the array of contractors who built four distribution hubs in southern Gaza and to deliver the aid. “They are actually making the wheels turn,” said one of the people of BCG’s involvement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/03/gaza-humanitarian-fund-bcg/
https://archive.ph/V5nBc

French mayor bans Palestine flag as ‘riot symbol’ after violent football celebration
One of the ringleaders, he claimed, repeatedly targeted police while brandishing a Palestinian flag as a symbol of mobilisation, something he said “clearly indicated a political intent”. A municipal decree will now prohibit the display and sale of Palestinian flags in Chalon-sur-Saône, a town of roughly 45,000 inhabitants. Markets will also be barred from selling the flag. The organisation France Palestine Solidarité 71 denounced the measures in a press release.
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/06/french-mayor-bans-palestine-flag-as-riot-symbol-after-violent-football-celebration/
https://archive.ph/rz2IP

A French police officer will stand trial over the killing of a teen that sparked nationwide riots
A French police officer will face trial next year on charges of voluntary homicide over the killing of a 17-year-old of North African descent, a death that triggered nationwide riots. The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where victim Nahel Merzouk grew up and was killed in 2023, announced in a statement that magistrates decided Tuesday to send the police officer to trial after a two-year investigation.
https://apnews.com/article/france-police-teen-killed-riots-nahel-2339ab6531ce01ffd579a338c7bd9d0f

Dutch government collapses after far-right leader Wilders quits coalition
The Dutch government collapsed on Tuesday, most likely ushering in a snap election, after anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders quit the right-wing coalition, accusing other parties of failing to back his tougher immigration policies. But Prime Minister Dick Schoof, an independent, accused the political maverick of irresponsibility, and the other coalition parties denied failing to support Wilders, saying they had been awaiting proposals from his PVV party's own migration minister.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-far-right-leader-wilders-quits-government-coalition-nos-2025-06-03/

Trump said Narender surrender, says Rahul Gandhi, gets branded Pak agent by BJP
In a post on X, the Congress leader repeated his charge, saying, “A call came from Trump and Narendra ji immediately surrendered - history is witness to this, this is the character of BJP-RSS, they always bow down. India broke Pakistan in 1971 despite the threat of America. The lions and lionesses of Congress fight against superpowers and never bow down.”
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/rahul-gandhi-jibe-india-pakistan-ceasefire-bjp-rss-pm-modi-surrendered-trump-call-2735175-2025-06-03
https://archive.ph/WGWHc

Lee Jae-myung set to win South Korean presidential election, as opponent concedes
Lee stated during his campaign that he would pursue a “pragmatic foreign policy focused on national interests, anchored by a strong alliance with the United States”. “Victory achieved through conflict is a Pyrrhic victory. A true victory is creating an atmosphere where war is no longer necessary,” Lee had repeatedly said, emphasising his intention to manage inter-Korean relations with stability. He had also criticised Yoon for what he called “excessive and unnecessary” escalation of tensions with North Korea.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3312920/lee-jae-myung-projected-win-south-korean-presidential-election-local-media?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/a8WJ6

Delay on Sara Duterte’s impeachment alarms lawmakers as rumors of possible dismissal spread
The lawmakers, ACT Teachers Party-list Representative-elect Antonio Tinio and France Castro, pointed out that this delay coincides with alarming rumors of a possible dismissal of the impeachment case. Escudero announced that the delay was meant to prioritize legislative measures before the 19th Congress adjourns, citing at least 12 important bills that Congress has committed to pass. Castro and Tinio questioned this reasoning, emphasizing that accountability and governance are equally urgent.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/06/01/delay-on-sara-dutertes-impeachment-alarms-lawmakers-as-rumors-of-possible-dismissal-spread/

Sri Lankan garment unions accuse Next of union busting
On May 19, Next abruptly closed its only directly owned factory with a recognised trade union at Next Manufacturing Ltd (NML) Katunayake, without proper notice, consultation and in violation of Sri Lankan labour law. Next told more than 1,400 workers by WhatsApp message that they had lost their jobs. A joint statement on Monday from the Free Trade Zones and General Service Employees Union (FTZ & GSEU), Clean Clothes Campaign, War on Want and Labour Behind the Label slammed the factory closure plan.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sri-lankan-garment-unions-accuse-next-union-busting

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/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #21 - Biji Biji edition

Recent news:
Last thread lasted two months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.

Stalemate near Tishreen dam between the SDF and the SNA.
Insurgency developments & germination in the coast.
Israel announces it's not withdrawing from the newly-acquired Syrian territories.
Al-Julani forms a new government, formally dissolves the former SAA and declares himself president. New Ministry of Defense and army so far is barely cohesive and resembles one of those countless joint operations rooms we've seen before.
HTS attacks Lebanese areas under the justification of "combating smuggling". Withdraws quickly.
Clashes in the Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana that were quickly defused. Suwayda (majority Druze region south of Damascus) is still de-facto autonomous and controlled by armed Druze factions.
Massive uprising by the insurgents in the coastal regions that was quelled in around 4 days. Hundreds of military casualties on both sides. Insurgents go back to guerilla mode after.
Massacres of Alawites in the coastal regions during said uprising. At least 1000 civvies dead. HTS and Julani blame undisciplined SNA units and say they're gonna punish the perpetrators.
HTS and SDF sign memorandum for integration.

Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com/

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/leftydeutschpol/ - "Sie nannten ihn Fotzenfritze" Edition

Say whatever you want. This country is hell on earth. Linkspartei bei der Bundespressekonferenz reden über Stalingrad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI

Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.

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/PRC/ People's Republic of China X

>Thesis and Antithesis - A study in contradictions…
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv

leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html

bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2235296

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Personally, I think the proletarianization of the media, the academy and tech is based.

I want every writer, professional and code-monkey to be an immiserated prole who hates capitalism with a burning fire.

It starts small with generic anti-capitalism snuck in here and there. A generic fight against "the system" which can easily hijacked by fascism. But how long can the pressures of ideology hold against the falling rate of profit? The industrialization of knowledge production is inevitable. And sure the bosses will try to exercise control (as they do) and plenty of workers will be fired and have their work rewritten. But why bother censoring yourself when you're making minimum wage anyway?

So how will the bourgeoisie hold power when the workers are exposed to blatant Marxist propaganda everyday?

When the propagandists are as immiserated as the coal miners then the propaganda will reflect the interests of the miners, not the bourgeoisie.

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Fuck Debord, Deleuze, Guattari, Adorno, Zizek, all the Frankfurt school, all other postmodernist, critical theory, all these indecipherable philosophers. I despise these social fascist lickspittles. Why are they even considered remotely socialist? It's like they didn't take a single lesson from The German Ideology, they read Marx encyclopedically but don't even pay attention to what he's saying! All they see is the long winded style of writing he inherited from Hegel and replicate that rather than spending a moment to realize that their philosophy is useless. Like liberals they pick out a few 'radical' sounding things and ignore the real work on political economy!

Their understanding of socialism is completely liberal because it is just taking the aesthetics and going 'Well, they had some good points. But I think we need a new way'. Liberal scum. Always they end up supporting NATO and social democracy, or they become ridiculous anarchists. The post-modernists have had a terrible effect on socialism. It is the ideology of neoliberal capitalism, incompatible with Marxism and communism. Post modernists need their delusions beaten out of them to show that the real world does have meaning. Postism is completely rubbish. All 'posts' are ridiculous theories, that included Post-colonialism. Fundementally they are bourgeois, because it is rejecting real progress.

All these lickspittles say is the most radical things ever. "Let's abolish capitalism and all exploitation! Let's abolish time! Let's abolish the current way we see the world!". But then they don't do anything about it! And lots of what they are asking for and conflating with the class struggle is ridiculous like paedophilia and time abolishing. These ones are the ideological fault for postisms and identity politics becoming such a big thing. Nobody real can read their work. Even Marx tried to make his work readable even though at times it is difficult. But they revel in how complex and difficult it is. This is for a reason - their audience is the petit-bourgeois, not the working class.

There has never been a good philosopher. Hegel might have been useful to Marx, but once Marx transcended him he should never be read (Lenin is wrong on this). The only real philosophers are the ones who are working in the struggle. The fascists should be ostracised and their books burned. I despise them and I am angered whenever I hear one of their evil names.

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I have solved the housing dilemma. It's mobile homes. Cheap and efficient. But instead of throwing everyone into the same mobile park lot. They will be split upon preferences.

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RED FASCIST!!!

>Be anarchoid "communist" in 2025
>The topic of islam comes up
>Write "Death to islam, as all other religions", "No gods no masters"
>Immediately get called a red fascist
<It's kind of strange to say the least… to write "death to Islam" when in the Middle East they are killing followers of this religion, Gaza, Iraq? and then trying to hide your dislike you add "like any other religion" 😡

The movement of the declassed is completely cucked by feudal religious garbage, literally flooded with authors sucking their own cocks over "islamic anarchism", "christian anarchism", "anarcho judaism", what's next? What's next? Just following that logic there is no contradiction on "anarcho-jehovah's witness", "anarcho-Aum Shinrikyo" , "anarcho-O9A satanism" and so on. Anarchoids have lost their principles, back in the good old days they used to shoot priests and nuns in the spanish civil war. They only work on retarded vibes, that's literally the only way they "determine" if a thing is legitimate or not so they're bound to get fucked by entryists.

This is not just an issue with anarchoids, the same with MLs, ultras are still completely spot on with their critiques.

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Israel and the Boomer Left

Why do boomer leftists love(d) Israel so much? Guilt over the holocaust? Romantic depiction of early colonists in their national-socialist kibbutz? Positive media exposure in their formative years?
Most of old people supporting Israel in the west were staunch left-wingers in their youth, sometimes they still are leftist just not on this particular issue.

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Zionazism

Zionazism seems schizo at first glance but it is just the logical endpoint of White supremacism, Christian supremacism, and European settler-colonialism: Jews have been knighted as "honorary" whites, and have been enlisted as crusaders against Muslims by white European Christians. It is an alliance of the two older Abrahamic faiths against the new one, and an alliance of the "true whites" and the "off whites" against the browns.

How should the secular international Communist left combat these powerful spooks? Or should they simply ignore it and focus on building the labor movement?

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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together with the Leftypol Twitter account:
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Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs

<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30

📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI

📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo

📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw

<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA

• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I

• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc

• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco

>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y

• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg

• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs

• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw

• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI

<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/

• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

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Glow-Con 2025

The annual Socialism Conference in Chicago is just a few short weeks away! Have you secured your ticket yet?

https://socialismconference.org/

The subject came up in the current /ukr/ thread, >>2279417 , specifically the 2019 article by The Gray Zone outing many of the participants as USAID/NED funded glowies:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/

And the weaksauce rebuttal for what little it's worth:
https://newpol.org/in-defense-of-socialist-internationalism-answering-the-propaganda-of-the-authoritarian-left/

This thread is for discussing the upcoming event, which I think is safe to say will be the tastemaking event of the year as far as pseudo-left talking points are concerned. Why not get a preview of the hottest psy ops and troll topics of the coming year BEFORE they hit forums near you? It's GLOW-CON!

R: 20 / I: 4

Hamas Chief is dead

>Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says its military has "eliminated" Hamas's Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar, one of its most wanted men and the brother of the group's late leader Yahya Sinwar.

>Mohammed Sinwar was reportedly the target of a massive Israeli strike on the courtyard and surrounding area of the European hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis on 13 May, which the Israeli military said destroyed Hamas "underground infrastructure".

>Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said that 28 people were killed. Hamas itself has neither confirmed nor denied Sinwar's death.

>Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, was killed by Israeli troops last October.

>Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response the unprecedented cross-border attack 600 days ago, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

>At least 54,084 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

is it over for Hamas? will Gaza merge into Israel?

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It is now illegal to be anti-Zionist in the United States.

I repeat, IT IS NOW ILLEGAL TO BE ANTI-ZIONIST IN THE UNITED STATES.

I hope all of you who voted for Trump (or didn’t vote at all) on the basis that “Harris is worse” or “there are no differences between them” can go to sleep easy now. Trump was never a “peace guy” and was always in-bed with the Zionist entity’s far-right.

R: 402 / I: 63

/leftybritpol/ - What is a racism edition?

The most important discussion to face /leftybritpol/ yet continues.

So far we have uncovered that, yes, Hitler was in fact a racist.

> “The racist is immunized against all dangers: One may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a racist and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I’ve been found out".”

R: 156 / I: 32

big L for the kurds

The Kurds are the world’s largest stateless nation, spread across Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran, with the majority in southeastern Turkey. Since the 1970s, the most influential independence movement has been Turkey’s PKK, founded by Abdullah Öcalan as a Marxist‑Leninist guerrilla group. The 1991 Gulf War saw Western powers carve out an autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq, using Kurdish aspirations to weaken Saddam Hussein—setting a precedent for fragmented “self‑rule.” Post–Soviet collapse and with Iraqi Kurdistan forging ties with Ankara over oil exports, the PKK abandoned armed struggle and Marxism‑Leninism.

In 2005, Öcalan embraced Murray Bookchin’s “ecological libertarian municipalism,” focusing on decentralized communes and environmental protection rather than class-based national liberation. This turn treats ecology as a substitute for the core Capital–Labor conflict and sidelines the broader Kurdish national question. It risks entrenching divisions between Kurds in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, as oil‑rich Iraqi Kurds pursue state‑level leverage while others are steered toward small‑scale localism. Without a Marxist framework, communities lack the tools to counter state repression, plan economic development, or resist co-optation by Turkish authorities.

The PKK’s adoption of “eco‑municipalism” reflects both an ideological retreat from socialist class struggle and an example of how imperial powers exploit minority movements via “humanitarian” and environmental pretexts.

No wonder the movement collapsed.

R: 61 / I: 5

Chabad-Lubavitch

Let's talk about the real elephant in the room. Both tankies and liberals are pushing a narrative that's not just outdated but most likely subverted.

>"Russia is fighting against Zionism and Israel!"
Russia's interested are at this point largely aligned with Israel's interests.
https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-lobbies-us-keep-russian-bases-weak-syria-sources-say-2025-02-28/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-shift-israel-votes-against-un-motion-reaffirming-ukraines-territorial-integrity/

>"Ukraine losing makes the Zios seethe!"
No it doesn't. Zionists want to redirect all funding to Ukraine to Israel instead. Likely they're gearing up for a war with Iran and don't want the US to have other military considerations.

>"Donald Trump makes the Zios seethe!"
Trump is an agent of Chabad-Lubavitch and the Russian-Jewish mafia. The Russia connection was actually real along, only that the liberals left out the detail of the very Jewish nature of this connection.

There's a new political axis forming with the USA-Israel-Russia, and the thing that binds it together is Chabad. This is the actual, real Jewish power in the world today, not some liberal Jewish comedian. Hell, Trump's own children became Jewish through Chabad.

What's more important to understand is that the whole schizo Christian nationalism right wing is firmly controlled by this Zionist power, and it's weaponising it.

But don't expect Hinkle, Haz, or Maupin to touch this subject with a 50 ft pole.

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abundance

reading new libtard manifesto. found out the cringe excerpts were page 1. what am I in for?

I have no idea how cunts that couldn't change their undies if someone lobbied them not to think they can sell techno utopia.

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/rus/ - Russia General

Thread №2

Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.

Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.

R: 267 / I: 64

/CYBERCOM/

This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/

Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)

Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel

Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/

Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP

R: 7 / I: 1

Mises-style Takeover

These guys suck and they're stuck in the past. The logo IS admittedly kinda rad, but they're painfully boomer-flavored center-left. There's also like 7 people in the organization keeping it afloat tops.

>Perfect for a takeover

If those retards in the Mises Caucus could take over the Libertarian Party, I have no doubts 7-10 likeminded folks could turn "social democracy", a phrase that's open to interpretation in the United States, into whatever their hearts desire.

R: 5 / I: 1

News 6/2/25

Global Rights Index reveals crisis for workers and unions
International Trade Union Confederation’s (ITUC) 2025 Global Index shows the average country ratings deteriorated in three out of five global regions, with Europe and the Americas recording their worst scores since the index began in 2014. Only seven out of 151 countries received the top-tier rating. The data shows a sharp rise in violations of fundamental rights, including access to justice, the right to free speech and assembly, and the right to collective bargaining.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/global-rights-index-reveals-crisis-workers-and-unions

Black Gold, Broken Promises: Basra's Youth Demand Justice Amid Oil Profits and Pollution
A peaceful protest by hundreds of petroleum engineering graduates in Basra turned violent on Sunday after security forces forcibly dispersed demonstrators demanding employment in the province’s lucrative oil sector. The protest, one of many over recent months, reflects growing frustration with widespread corruption, environmental catastrophe, and systemic neglect that has turned Basra’s wealth into a source of suffering for its people.
https://www.kurdistan24.net/index.php/en/story/843475/black-gold-broken-promises-basras-youth-demand-justice-amid-oil-profits-and-pollution

Israel declares West Bank village south of Hebron a military zone amid settler violence and forced displacement
Israel has declared the Palestinian village of Khillet al-Dab'a, in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron, a "closed military zone" for 24 hours, as part of what rights groups and local leaders describe as an escalating effort to forcibly displace residents and hand land to Israeli settlers. The closure order, issued Sunday morning, bans any presence in the area except for local residents and comes after foreign and local delegations visited the village in solidarity with those resisting eviction. The military sealed off the village after Israeli forces stormed it at dawn.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-declares-west-bank-town-military-zone-amid-displacement

Serbian students rally to mark train station tragedy
Protesters led by university students blocked bridges in the capital Belgrade and rallied in 30 other Serbian cities and towns as they also marked exactly seven months since a concrete canopy collapsed at a train station in the north, killing 16 people and sparking the massive wave of anti-corruption protests.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/serbian-students-rally-mark-train-station-tragedy

23,000 workers on strike in Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey
On Thursday, May 29, 23,000 workers at the IZELMAN, IZENERJİ and EgeSehir companies of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality (İzBB), which is under the administration of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), went on strike. Negotiations between the Social Democratic Public Employees’ Union (SODEM-SEN), representing the municipality, and the Genel-Is union, affiliated with DISK, had failed to reach an agreement for nearly five months.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/01/67e9-j01.html

No end to Birmingham bin strikes after council makes ‘watered-down’ offer
The union said that further negotiations will be necessary as the proposal is “clearly not in line” with figures discussed during meetings arranged by the conciliation service Acas. Bin workers have been on all-out strike since March 11 against plans to downgrade some roles which will see them losing up to £8,000 a year, Unite says. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham pointed out that for some workers the sum could be a quarter of their pay, putting their mortgages, rents and livelihoods at risk.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/no-end-birmingham-bin-strikes-after-council-makes-watered-down-offer

Petro criticizes Colombia’s security forces over alleged assassination plots
Petro turned on the security forces after the Bogota Police Department apparently downplayed the importance of two RPG-22 rocket launchers that were found at less than two kilometers from the presidential palace. The rocket launchers were found in the Martyres district in February, but not revealed to the public until Saturday. According to public television network RTVC, the rocket launchers were found along a road that is often by the president when traveling to and from the presidential palace.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-criticizes-colombias-security-forces-over-alleged-assassination-plots/

Argentine Court Temporarily Suspends Milei’s Decree Limiting Right to Strike
Judge Moira Fullana halted the enforcement of Article 3 of Decree 340/2025, arguing that it could violate constitutional guarantees such as union freedom and the right to strike, which are protected by Argentina’s Constitution and international treaties the country has signed. … The ruling concerns the decree’s article requiring between 50% and 75% of normal services to be maintained in essential sectors, even during labor disputes. The suspension will remain in effect until a final judgment is issued on the matter.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-court-temporarily-suspends-milei-decree-limiting-right-to-strike/
https://archive.ph/cordB

Military air strike kills at least 20 people in northwest Nigeria
The strike occurred over the weekend in Zamfara state, one of the regions worst affected by violence from armed groups, commonly referred to as “bandits”. Nigerian Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame said the strike followed intelligence that “a significant number of terrorists were massing and preparing to strike unsuspecting settlements”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/2/military-air-strike-kills-at-least-20-people-in-northwest-nigeria
https://archive.ph/x75br

Al-Qaida affiliate attacks Mali army bases as junta struggles to contain jihadist threat
The news came as the group Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base in Boulkessi, near the border with Burkina Faso. The Malian authorities are yet to give casualty figures from Sunday’s attack, but sources have told Reuters that as many as 30 soldiers were killed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/02/al-qaida-affiliate-attacks-mali-army-bases-junta-jihadist-threat

R: 20 / I: 0

What about America?

I think it's pretty obvious that anyone forecasting a traditional USSR-style revolution in the US, at least in the short term is driven by wishful thinking.

My question is, where are we headed next? Facism? Gradual stagnation into nothingness? Keynesian reform to keep things going a little longer?

Discuss.

R: 24 / I: 0

what is actually effective action?

rate the following activities out of 5 in how much they help in overthrowing capitalism

>buying some homeless dude a meal
>volunteering in a soup kitchen
>community gardening
>boycotting
>burning a mcdonalds
>doing a luigi mangione
>unionizing
>buying guns and training with fellow socialists
>knowing theory and good rethoric to own liberals and fascists in debate

R: 552 / I: 93

It's Official

>the killing of Brian Thompson
>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.

A very special friend of ours warned us about this months ago and nobody listened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qda4JY36BBA

R: 650 / I: 117 (full)

/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #239

<Istanbul Edition

Previous: >>2291765

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/

Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast

Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8

📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4

📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q

📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo

<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary

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Social media
>Twitter
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT
https://twitter.com/plnewstoday
https://twitter.com/RALee85
https://twitter.com/MarQs__
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab
https://twitter.com/michaelh992
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps

<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇰🇵
Thread guidelines:
• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• Try your best to not derail discussion too much from the main events and relevant places where the war is taken place, as well as other happenings, groups and public figures related to it.
• Meta discussion of the historical, philosophical and ideological background of the war is fine as long as its done in good faith and comradely.
• In the event the meta discussion overstays its welcome, participating users will be referred to take the conversation to the INTERNATIONALISM general thread.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
• this is /isg/ for people who treat geopolitics like shitty map games.

R: 101 / I: 13

Preparing the way for AI socialism and FALC

> Given the development of new technologies, it seems that focusing on AI socialism and setting the groundwork for full adoption of AI socialist and FALC technologies is the only meaningful praxis for Marxists going forward.

> China is likely only 10-15 years away from providing the open-source basis of AI socialism, and only 25-35 years away from pushing FALC to GitHub.

> As Marxists, because of the inevitable breakthrough of radical socially transformative technologies, we must lay the groundwork for AI socialism and AI revolution, so that when the AI revolution is finally here, it results in socialism, not techno-feudalism.

> Marxism has always been about what the future should be, and the future MUST be Proletarian!

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/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General

Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.

Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html

R: 64 / I: 87

Russia Ukraine conflict

>ukraine
>arrests people for having marxist literature

>russia
>anti democratic oligarchs

who is the good and bad guy from a socialist perspective? maybe none?

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>corrupt dictator
>neglected constitution to keep power
>regularly suppresses freedom of speech press and assembly
>turned his country into an impoverished shithole
>sent millions of his men to die in a meatgrinder
>closed the border preventing anyone from leaving
>executes political dissidents
Pic entirely unrelated, so what do you think about Zelensky?

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Prompt Global Strike

Can the American-led NATO empire actually achieve it's long term goal of "Prompt Global Strike" or is this pure DoD fantasy copium huffing?

For those unfamiliar with the concept of "Prompt Global Strike" read picture related from books related.

TL;DR Prompt Global Strike is an open secret burger reich goal to be able to strike any target "within meters" on earth using not-quite-nuclear conventional weapons (think of the MOAB dropped on Afghanistan during the final years of US occupation)

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question for this site: do you even plan to have kids?

>b-but life nowadays is too expensive and dangerous
idc i'm not asking that uyghur

>b-but i have the freedom to choose if i plan to have kids or not
how do you plan to build the future then?
also not asking that neither

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About the complete dominance of postmodernism in the current left

Currently, one of the biggest and most important enemies of marxism is ideological postmodernism. This new wave of ideological decay has covered itself with a cloak of supposed modernity and progress, and they even pretend to give the image that it is a product of the evolution of Marxism itself. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Even fascists enter into this line of argument, mistakenly calling it "cultural marxism" (in the last years the term "woke" has also gained track). According to them, a conspiracy has been launched to destroy Western culture, and this would be the implementation of this "cultural Marxism", manifesting itself as the dictatorship of political correctness, the control of the media and educational institutions, promoting through them pessimism, liberalism, and the degeneration of society.

Looking at their description of "cultural Marxism," one can see that Marxism has nothing to do with it; in fact, it is antithetical. Marxism seeks to transform society, to end capitalism, and to bring humanity to a higher, more evolved stage. However, postmodernists (in all their variants) only patch up the system, advocating for supposed partial struggles that, when used by them, serve as a brake, not a pedal for advancing society. Like fascists, they do the dirty work for capitalists. They distort Marxism, achieving disunity and the absolute disorganization of workers, leaving them at the mercy of exploitation in a decadent, putrid, and degenerate society. Thus, fascists should find another name to define the postmodernist movement that defends the system, since, as fellow travelers, both fascists and postmodernists have the same interest in maintaining the hegemony of capital.

Fascists pin the beginning of this movement on the need of the left to destroy everything Western in order to achieve revolution, since they failed to lift up all of Europe in 1917. Therefore, work focused on this need would begin in 1930. It would begin with the Frankfurt School and supposedly develop to this day. Although they are right that it began with the Frankfurt School in 1930 based on misunderstood ideas of Antonio Gramsci, we must analyze the material conditions that led to this, since on this point they are clearly mistaken.

In 1930, the labor movement was stronger than ever, especially in Europe. The USSR had consolidated; through the Comintern and its sections, it had more capacity than ever. Therefore, was it impossible to make a revolution in Europe when it was more present and closer than ever? Clearly not, so it makes no sense to claim that it was a response by Marxism to a supposed inability, but rather the opposite: in the face of the revolutionary offensive and the failure of fascism, stopping it required other methods that would maintain the capitalist system in Europe and around the world. This was the emergence of ideological postmodernism, following the Frankfurt School, to degenerate Marxism and destroy the communist parties from within and without. This thought reached its peak in May 1968 in France and periodically promoted the birth of similar movements that only confirmed the condemnation of the working class to exploitation. These authors set themselves up as defenders of "critical" Marxism when in reality they critiqued it with the intention of defenestrating, dumbing down, and destroying it. Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Jürgen Habermas were followed by Sigmund Freud, Louis Althusser, and, more recently, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Žižek, and Immanuel Wallerstein. These are just a few of the most famous, but the list, unfortunately, is much longer.

A dictatorship of ideological postmodernism has been imposed. While economic control by capitalism has continued, the postmodern left has been allowed to set the pace of social "advancement," which in reality is nothing more than forcing consumption and behavior patterns in the way capitalism wants, degenerating society and increasingly oppressing the working class. Everything that isn't politically correct is subject to a media lynching that censors, or ("cancels") it. The old, working-class left has been overwhelmed by the "new left", by partial, meaningless, and aimless demands for progress. The old left has been dismissed as something old-fashioned and obsolete, something from the past that no longer makes any sense. They need to force the organizations that were once combative to adopt the new dogma, to the prevailing ideology, to not oppose that which is already a reality and can no longer be changed. For us communists, everything can be changed: nothing is stagnant, everything is in constant movement and subject to transformation. Since the destruction of the capitalist state is necessary for the construction of a new proletarian, socialist state, we should not leave any pillar of capitalism standing.

The persecution and influence of ideological postmodernism occurs at all levels of society, both individually and collectively: no association or organization of any kind is exempt from subjugation to the dogmas of postmodernism. Workers' associations and communist parties are no exception either, and they have suffered a major attack from these ideas and their champions. The saddest thing is that they have had great success in communist parties and organizations, which have introduced into their programs, to give just a few examples, a series of issues that clearly undermine the foundations of Marxism and that go against the transformation of society:
>Absolute renunciation of violence. Instead of seeing it as an instrument, they have accepted the discourse of the bourgeoisie so that it can perpetuate itself in power. A class that holds power will never give it up without a fight. They have fallen into the crudest idealism.
>Acceptance of liberal feminism's anti-communist, anti-worker, and anti-progress ideas, incorporating them into their "neomarxism", which perverts the ideology into a docile state, eliminating everything revolutionary about it. We're talking about illogical gender quotas, the promotion of queer theory, rejection of monogamy and nuclear family, support for prostitution and unhealthy promiscuity, the equation and even superiority of the so-called feminist struggle with the class struggle, and a long list of shameful issues promoted by the bourgeoisie and profoundly anti-Marxist in nature.
>Acceptance of bourgeois environmentalism, rejecting the concept of prioritizing production and industrialization so that the country can achieve independence and revolutionary development. Natural resources, and therefore the environment, must be protected, but not in a childish manner, without taking into account the country's productive needs at specific times.
>General demilitarization, one of the points of the program that all these communist parties and organizations have adopted at the behest of the bourgeoisie. How can a revolution defend itself without an army? It needs to be completely reformed, but thinking that they will be able to disband it without consequences is nothing more than falling back into the most absurd idealism.
>They completely renounce discipline, democratic centralism (some maintain it in name, but in practice only develop internal liberalism), and revolutionary vigilance in favor of assembly-based politics and the relaxation of militant life to the point of creating only amateurs who treat it as a hobby. With this, they have destroyed any capacity for combativeness in these parties: alcoholism and drug addiction are now accepted as something good or even, as something to be expected from a leftist.
(I say communist parties because they call themselves that; of course, they are not, they are merely part of the system and contribute to the disorganization of the working class.)

Class struggle is rejected with theories that are each more surreal than the last. Some also speak of a new phase of capitalism with the sole intention of perpetuating domination and oppression, but with a "human" face. Many of the defenders of these theories attempt to justify them by revising the revolutionary essence of Marxism. It is true that changes have occurred with the development of imperialism, but these variations do not affect its fundamental laws, and so we remain in the same historical phase. They magically transform the minority into the revolutionary or transgressive, the rare and marginal into the supposed vanguard of future transformations. They fail to realize that their scale of oppression is nothing more than a metaphysical construct destined to fail if its objective were to bring about real change and not to blur class consciousness and weaken working-class and revolutionary organizations. That a group, in this case a class, plays a revolutionary role is not due to the marginal, alien, non-normative, or minority character of certain individuals, but rather to the material conditions of that class, which inevitably lead it to play a revolutionary role in the transformation of society. The bourgeois class is a minority compared to the working class, and this does not make it revolutionary; on the contrary, it is parasitic and unproductive, while the working class is the one that produces wealth and is subjugated, since it does not own the means of production.

A new consumer culture has been created that presupposes individual liberation, as if it were possible to make changes individually and not as a collective entity that achieves progress by force. A culture of general depravity has been established in society, especially among young people, who, under the pretext of destroying tradition, are destroying everything to pave the way for the concepts of the new consumerism, drug and alcohol addiction, prostitution, pornography, and a life of excess and degeneration that instills a heightened consumerism that alienates and destroys consciences and identities alike. "We only have one life to live"; they don't realize that living involves being productive, educating ourselves, having interests, being healthy, reproducing our species, and contributing to the overall progress of society. Living is not being a nihilist who only follows trends and dogmas imposed by those in power. They've created the false illusion that communists who don't conform to this way of thinking are actually reactionaries, much more to the right than to the left. As if renouncing absolutely everything for the sake of social trends were more revolutionary. As if supporting the current general degeneration of society were something positive.

Being promiscuous, "lacking" a sexual identity, being a drug addict and advocating for it, dyeing your hair, or liberally claiming dogmas about partial struggles doesn't make you a revolutionary; what makes you a revolutionary is organizing yourself in a disciplined way to transform society. The new left continues their hidden defense of the capitalist system and the absurd justification of Western parliamentary democracies, which are the true drivers and defenders of the existence of such system. Unfortunately, we're all influenced by this postmodernism. It's normal to have fallen at some point throughout our lives under these dogmas, under the vices of consumption that they dictate to us. It's necessary to open our eyes, be self-critical, and see that they only want to destroy any possibility of transforming society and maintain current exploitation. Therefore, it's necessary to vehemently fight against this ideological postmodernism, realizing that postmodern revisionism is nothing more than another attempt by its proponent—the bourgeoisie—to eliminate working-class and revolutionary organizations, perpetuate their oppression, and destroy society.

albaniaAlbania

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ANTIEUROPE

<everything sinks in a boiling, red sea;
<sun sets and in there dazing
<is the thousand times dead human of Europe.
<everything is an ecstasy, an ecstasy of death

Our hands are full with work in the struggle against executioner culture. Far too many hymns have been sung in praise of the noble gallows of the so-called European continent.
We gnash our teeth behind the iron bars of a plague-ridden freedom. We’ve had enough of the mud of smuggled culture and stolen civilization. Enough!
We howl from the ancient cradle of culture. We, from the Balkans, howl: anti-culture!… anti-Europe!…

Madam Europe! We spit at your foul tongue and your ulcered, decaying soles. We hurl the bombs of our songs into your deformed European skies. We aim the cannons of our new ideas at the zenith of your silken bourgeoisie. At the zenith—not at the imaginary navel of God, the sole symbol of all European geniuses.

We curse culture with all our might—don’t we!? After all, the fish rots from the head—and the head is the stinking shark called Europe! That’s why, in the name of barbarian purity and primal barbarian love, we want to tear the mask off all the lies of savage humanism. We no longer want to be hypocritical Christians. Criminal Christianity is a delusion in the blood, guzzled for centuries by idiots and crawlers. Christ was great only as a man-sufferer. As a thinker, Christ was a plagiarist. What, then, can be said of his followers, those hired servants of every bourgeoisie?

Europe has outlived our youth—which it violently stole—and turned us, half-alive, into scattered graves. Europe, which rapes our minds, has imprisoned our bright intellects with its pornographic culture. And over the graves of our hajduk ancestors, it shamelessly lifts its skirt above the waist—over the graves of noble barbarians, Europe dances jazz, foxtrot, and shimmy.

We have come a long and arduous way through bitter struggle: from cultural individualism to barbarian collectivism. We, the Zenitist hajduks, are in the jungle of culture and komite in the wilderness of civilization—fighting for a new barbarian era of life! Everything else is a carnival of European paralysis and politics. Everything else is the trash of European literature in art. Everything else is the romanticism of syphilis-culture.

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Update on the fallout of the South Korean coup attempt

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/urgent-appeal-stop-the-judicial-coup-in-south-korea-and-defend-democracy/
>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.

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I don't want to live in a defeated Europe.

I don't think my psyche could handle witnessing the EU collapse or be reduced to an irrelevant institution by far right """reforms""". But that is just the outcome that is becoming increasingly more likely with each passing year.
How do I cope?

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Czechia to ban Communism

Last night the Czech Parliament voted to legally equate Communism and Naziism and thus move it towards being a banned ideology. It needs approval in both the senate and to be signed by the president.

https://www.forum24.cz/komunismus-stejne-jako-nacismus-snemovna-schvalila-navrh-na-zakaz-propagace-komunismu

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The bourgeois family–the family as it exists today–is creepy as fuck. Every parent I've known develops some bizarre predilection with their child's sexuality, which stems from a sense of ownership over the child. You don't "own" your child. You're mandated by state to raise them.

The fact so many people view children as a burden is exactly why we need to annihilate the bourgeois family. And folks with kids don't feel any different, and they treat their kids accordingly. Raise kids in state-run boarding schools. Let people who like kids raise them.

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Protectionism

With Trumps tariffs being in the news these last few months, I've been asking myself: are there any benefits of Economic Protectionism? Libs tell us that they're nearly always bad, but is it true? Or does protectionism bring benefits economically?

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Australian Labor Won

>SYDNEY — Australia’s center-left government convincingly won reelection Saturday in a remarkable turnaround driven partly by anger over President Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war and its effect on the close U.S. military ally.
<Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to win a second term in more than two decades as his Labor Party dramatically increased its parliamentary majority. It marked a stunning comeback for the progressive leader, who trailed in the polls two months ago.

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Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney

Previous thread: ~~>>1950708~~
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/

NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/

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How were sakaists wrong? Where do you even start with the reeducation of the white proletariat if a revolution succeeded right now, the internet is dominated by think tanks that push the white genocide myth, there were like 5 mass shooting cases the past couple of months where chuddies killed their classmates, insulting a black kid nets you $1 million bucks and its gonna get worse from here on out.

You can deny idpol all you want, but when brown people fear for their lives then they will react and defend themselves, and some anti-idpol leftist isn't converting those people over to their side with constant fence sitting when white people fantasize about a world wide genocide.

Or will the western left continue to huff their farts, while the fascist machine sends some more people to el salvador and bombs more palestinian children?

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Noise for Nothing

>They're cracking down on Nobodies
>They're killing Nobodies
>The war in Who Cares
>Years of lead again Nowhere
>The killing of A Nobody
>Protests (Read Activism by Amadeo Bordiga)
>They're burning Whatever
>Multiple Assassination Attempts on Whoever (as if the capitalist mode of production relies on one person)
Etc.
None of this shit matters, nothing real is happening for real. None of this shit even slightly matters. We're all gonna die the same way we lived. The real movement knows what nobody else does, its that we live in a period where shit happens but doesn't matter.
Its not a turning point of the century, the communists are too few and between, the pseuds are out there making a scare but all the real ones know that this shit doesn't matter. The US is still standing, China isn't bending and Russia's the same as before. More genocides and more draconian laws but nothing will come to a pause, because the people out there are too stupid to care and have lacked class consciousness since ages ago.
Nothing really matters and nothing is happening. If something had happened we'd all be right there and be able to go nowhere because the real movement is against the present state of affairs.

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Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?
Autists of all lands unite, you have nothing to lose but your gain$

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Think of this as wallstreetbets for the left wing of capital. Or just regular wallstreetbets on leftypol if you believe they're the successors to occupy wall street.

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Poland Elections

The presidential elections in Poland are coming soon, which means that it's time for me to bitch about this place (or more exactly the people that reside in it, which science still has not fully been able to describe the behaviorism of) again.

Of course, the Poles, being a classified reaKKKtionary group will cast their votes for the candidate that they (wrongly) believe is the right one, and while most likely the uninspired liberal Trzaskowski will win, this election also sees (so far) a rise in the popularity of a right wing agent of Satan candidate Mentzen (his name is German - that already is an ill omen)

I guess people deciding to caste their vote for the KKKlandidate from KKKonfederacja is bad enough, but currently he has 3rd place in most polls (which are a shit source of info, at least in Poland, but his supporters are loud at least). Like his memes say, he might actually have a higher chance of beating PO's Trzaskowski if he gets to the 2nd turn (which he likely won't). Of course the postulates are the same old rightoid spiel - low taxes, privatize stuff, shit that would never help any common prole (which is funny because common cis male proles are his biggest electorates, followed by teenagers and young adults with delusions of grandeur and entrepreneurial success)

In true Polish fashion there is no real good candidate, maybe Razem's Zandberg who actually has leftist postulates, criticized Israel (uncommon among Polish politics even though the population is like 80% anti-Israel at least), ran the pre-www Polish section of the Marxist Internet Archive as a teenager. But then, Razem is a socdem party through and through - unless Zandberg somehow gets elected and randomly brings back the Polish People's Republic.
His biggest supporters are actually among academic young adults, most of studentoid friends of mine actually vote for him.

Sometimes I wonder what CIA programming Poles went through to just go "jezu komunis" at any leftist postulate and causes them to react towards nazism (speaking of - plenty more nazi stickers around my place recently, being Polish and a nazi has to be a new suicide cult)

tl;dr the Poles have had it too good for long enough.

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Baltoid/East Euro hate thread

>>2292002
Ye asked, and ye shall recieve
Talk about why you guys hate modern "east european (outside of russian and ukrainian)" politics and society or stuff to that effect

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There were no "good guys" in the Yugoslavia 90s wars

As a Serb, I am sick and tired of explaining to Westerners that no, Croats and Bosniaks and Kosovar Albanians were not the "good guys" of the 90s wars.

But also as a Serb, I am sick and tired of the perpetual reactionary victimhood and chauvinism of Serbs regarding the wars.

No, as a communist I say FUCK NATO, but also it's a bit like being German and complaining about the Allied bombing of Germany in WW2. Nobody gives a shit. I guess people give a shit about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I'd argue that's thanks to Japan's cultural capital being greater than the knowledge of Westerners regarding what Imperial Japan did.

Anyway, nobody was fighting to save Tito's socialism (the revisionists/opportunists already took over by that point, some of the younger ones still in politics today), nor was anybody fighting to preserve Yugoslavia. It was a chain of reactionary wars start to finish. And it could have been prevented. People died for what? Nothing.

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I'm tired of so-called "cultural critique"

The Frankfurt School refracted Gramsci’s materialist theory of hegemony through the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis, Weberian cultural pessimism, and idealism, effectively mutating it into a bourgeois theory of subjectivity rather than a tool of working class revolution.

Hegemony is not just cultural dominance or consent, it’s the means by which the ruling class stabilizes its rule through a combination of coercion and consent. It is rooted in material social relations, especially those between the base (economy) and the superstructure (institutions, ideology, culture). Gramsci believed organic intellectuals of the proletariat could construct a counterhegemonic bloc, capable of transforming the state and society. Regardless of your stance on this view (I personally don't even like Gramsci), instead of building on Gramsci’s materialist framework, thinkers like Adorno, Horkheimer, and later Marcuse, recentered hegemony around mass psychology and alienation (drawing heavily from Freud rather than Marx), framed culture as a site of despair rather than a terrain of struggle (see shit like "The Culture Industry"), treated the working class as passive consumers of ideology rather than active agents, moved the critique from economic structures to academic shit like "rationality," "instrumentality," and "false needs". This flattened hegemony into a totalizing force of domination, where resistance is nearly impossible and mass culture is always regressive.

The Frankfurt School’s pessimistic, psychoanalytically-infused marxism domesticated Gramsci, turning a strategic theory of proletarian advance into a fatalistic theory of cultural rot. This led to even further academic detachment from revolutionary politics, moralist critiques of culture (music, film, advertising) with little class analysis and the foundation for much of radlibbery which fixates on subjectivity, identity, language, and desire while neglecting the material mode of production. In effect, it helped divorce marxism from its historical and class-based roots.

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how does one do socialism while rich

So in short, I was born into a very big bourgeois family here in my country, im not talking upper middle class im talking about having control over a giant ass company that reaches nationwide with the other half of my family being filled with rich politicians, how the fuck do I get organized without looking like a fucking hypocrite or retard???

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Anyone else feel like we're just watching the collapse happen?

Serious question for the comrades here.

It feels like the objective conditions for capitalism's collapse are just screaming at us every single day. Economic crises, ecological breakdown unprecedented scale, mass alienation and atomization as the baseline state, political dysfunction that borders on parody, imperial decay… the contradictions are so obvious a child could point them out.

Yet, despite all this, there's no coherent, mass movement building critical power. We have scattered struggles, localized resistance, theory posting, and… well, mostly just watching the whole rotten system unravel in slow motion. Historically, shouldn't these blatant contradictions be fueling significant class struggle and revolutionary organization on a much larger scale?

Are we just stuck in a cycle of commentary and theory without effective action? What does meaningful praxis even look like in an era of hyper-fragmentation, digital distraction, pervasive state/corporate surveillance and control, and the decimation of traditional working-class sites of power? Are we missing something fundamental about how change happens in the 21st century under late-stage capital, or is this just the long, drawn-out decline we're witnessing, with no revolutionary break on the horizon?

Interested to hear genuine thoughts and analysis, not just doomposting (though understand that too). What's the materialist analysis of our current incapacity despite the system's obvious decay?

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #238

<In dedication to a prolific cooker edition

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740

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Have any of you pretentious uyghurs even read this shit? You can not tell me with a straight face that this man is a Marxist. It‘s just nationalism, collaborationism and cultural idealism.

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For real, uyghaz, did anyone used the mainstream economic theory to defend socialism and communism instead of appealing to heterodox economic schools? Or mainstream economics is just pure apologetics for capitalism?

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I'm a Socialist but I don't buy into ideas of Marxist historiography

For one big example, Look at all that had to happen for the Bolsheviks to succeeded
>WW1
>Nicholas making the decision to go to the front line to lead the troops
>The February Revolution
>Kerensky re-entering Russia into WW1
>Kerensky's government collapsing because he tried to orchestrate a coup on himself and then double crossed the Army by arming red militias in petrograd
>The liberals giving the Bolsheviks(among other parties) guns to help stop the Army from overthrowing the provisional government.
>The other socialist parties(which were more popular) believing Lenin would reinstall the constituent assembly
>When the SRs did rise up they refused to execute captured bolshevik officers or do much of anything.
>When the Petrograd sailors rebelled they sat on their island printing newspapers hoping that the people of Russia would realize Lenin was a big meaniehead and get rid of him.

Obviously the future is not a wide-open blank slate where anything can happen. Even massive upheavals like the First World War had observable conditions. But the way it unfolded(with Belgium being invaded and Britain, followed by America, entering the conflict) was due to random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals.

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Calling all bastards

>All cops are bastards
This is true. Bastard profession, evolved from literal slave catching, services the state and capital
>But what if didn't?

Cops and police departments are giant gangs, this is known. Is the solution bringing back one town sheriff the people elect? We're going to be stuck with this system of policing, if not experience a worsening, if the left doesn't buck up and become cops to sabotage from within or start making calls for the return of sheriffs. Yankees love returns to tradition, and having them bring back something we had 100 years ago might be the only way to address this problem head on.

>pic related

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Why was after the fall of the Soviet Union the West still hostile towards Russia? Aren‘t they both capitalist now? Didn‘t Russia try to be cooperative with the West until Putin made a U-turn a bit more than a decade ago? What great contradiction is there between Western bourgeoisie and Russian bourgeoisie for there to be such a conflict?

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What's the most insane, batshit crazy, mentally unhinged, downright psychotic, delusional, extremely stupid, just plain dumb and wrong, opinions and takes you ever read here?

From the top of my head are: people supporting, unirnocally, Mao and his action or being a plain crazy Maoist, and I even read some borderline delusional and probably mentally ill people here defending, UNIRONICALLY, Pol Pot actions,

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Why are there so many people on the right that are poor and call themselves rednecks vote for Rich billionaires like Donald Trump they’ll never help them with healthcare or anything like that and doesn’t care about the farm workers that’s why democracy is a scam The only way you can spark real change is with a violent revolution endpoint

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You can't put Nietzsche and communism together.

Nietzsche, first of all – began to undermine communist ideology.
<‘Whom do I detest most, among the modern scoundrels? The Socialist scoundrels – the apostles of the mob, who intrigue against the workers’ instinct, contentment and feeling of satisfaction with their modest life – who make the workers envious, and teach them revenge.’
(The Will To Power)
<Socialism ‘is for the most part a symptom of the fact that we are treating the lower classes too humanely, so that they get a taste of the happiness forbidden to them… It is not hunger that causes revolution; it is the fact that when the people begin to eat they acquire larger appetites.’
(Ibid)

So - the exploited classes would be at ease with their poverty, if it wasn't for socialist agitators; and it is not material poverty that causes revolt, it's people daring to imagine a better life.

No, these philosophies are not compatible. Let me reminder all idiots here that you don't get to pick and choose when it comes to Marxism. You take it as a totality, as a totalitarian philosophy of life, or you don't accept it at all.

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/SEA/ - Southeast Asia General SAG

9th Edition: THE SITE FUCKING CRASHED LMAO edition.

A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.

Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
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Why are leftist circles so averse to participating in capitalism?

I know there's a literal shop thread pinned (based), but generally entrepreneurship is super shunned even though it's the fastest way to get rich and have at least some degree of influence in this world. You're using crypto to escape bank cabals? Bad, bad crypto bro. Trying to 10x your productivity with AI? Very very bad AI bro, pick up the pen and keep your head low while corporations rabidly pour money into AI research without any threat of getting cancelled.

Perhaps it's wrong to make these assumptions about leftypol and culture there is different, but mainstream left is just obsessed with nerfing itself and putting down its members like a crab bucket.

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Engels-ian crackpot chimp anthropology GO

>bonobos literally ended up in communism by accident
>communism led to bonobos being matriarchal
>matriarchy means there's no reason for monogamy to exist
>polygamy reigns
>INCEST

I propose a theory. A theory that is literally poison to our chimp brains.

The only reason why incest is a socio-cultural-legal taboo for us is because we ended up with monogamy.
1. Patriarchy emerges from males competing over, and accumulating, scarce resources.
2. This results in a select number of males monopolizing violence and living like kings with harems.
3. But as the population expands, there is a need for a greater capacity for violence, which exceeds the capabilities of the select number of males.
4. Monogamy emerges as a means of "bribing" the unlucky males without harems, to serve the ruling class males, and act as agents of violence when necessary, essentially retaining the order.
5. But as the population expands further, population control, social engineering in other words, becomes realized as a necessity for retaining the order.
6. Inbreeding is bad for the order. If on average an unlucky male gets one partner, and that partner is a parent or sibling, there is a high likelihood that the offspring of that male will become dead weight for the ruling class of males.
7. Thus, inevitably, demonizing incest becomes a necessity.

Does this basically mean communism will have incest? Yes. Not because incest is good, or because communists will preach incest, but simply because the forces that made incest taboo will cease to exist.

Imagine the reaction of present-day proletarians if you told them this. Absolute disgust, right? But how do we resolve the contradiction… That communism will destroy the very conception of "normality" for present-day proletarians. I mean, we don't even need to speak of the incest, even the polygamy, or god forbid, MILFs leading society through the power of motherhood and sexy times, would elicit disgust from present-day proletarians.

Is it a tragedy or a comedy?

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #237

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The Most Unpopular People

Who are the most widely-despised individuals in their own country?
The basic benchmark is Brian Thompson - despite not being a household name until their death, mass media found it hard to generate sympathy for them among the masses regardless of their general political alignments.

>inb4 Trump
Has plenty of fans, and a ~45% approval rating. We're not just talking about most people disliking, this is about least people liking too.
>inb4 Musk
Has been burying their reputation, but they still seem to have some serious amount of popularity
>inb4 Gates
Despite their hatred on the left and the right, their philanthrocapitalism has worked to successfully launder their reputation.

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News 5/31/25

Hamas says ceasefire proposal offers ‘no guarantees’ for end to Gaza war
In a statement released earlier on Saturday, Hamas had said that it had submitted a response to Witkoff, and that the proposal “aims to achieve a permanent ceasefire, a comprehensive withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and ensure the flow of aid” to Palestinians in Gaza.
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar to provide financial support to Syria's state employees, Saudi foreign minister says
A joint statement by Saudi Arabia and Qatar later said on Saturday that the joint financial support would be delivered over a three-month period. It said the move came following an earlier contribution by Saudi Arabia and Qatar in April to settle Syria's outstanding arrears of around $15 million to the World Bank. The Saudi foreign minister's visit comes a few weeks after the U.S. made a surprise announcement on lifting sanctions on Syria's Islamist-led government which overthrew former leader Bashar al-Assad in December.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-provide-financial-support-with-qatar-syrias-state-employees-saudi-2025-05-31/

Libya protesters call on PM to quit in third weekly march
Hundreds of protesters gathered in central Tripoli on Friday for the third week in a row to demand the resignation of UN-recognised Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah following recent clashes in Libya's capital. Demonstrators chanted "Dbeibah out", "the people want the fall of the government", and "long live Libya". At least 200 people had assembled by late afternoon, with several hundred more following suit later. Some blasted slogans on loudspeakers from their cars.
https://www.newarab.com/news/libya-protesters-call-pm-quit-third-weekly-march

Bogota mayor to press charges against union leader over protests
The mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota, Carlos Fernando Galan, announced criminal charges against labor union leader Fabio Arias for his alleged involvement in the disruption of public transport during a national strike. According to Galan, roadblocks that were set up in the west of the city and disrupted the services of mass transit system Transmilenio “are a strategy of those who organized” the protests in support of labor reforms on Wednesday and Thursday.
https://colombiareports.com/bogota-mayor-to-press-charges-against-union-leader-over-protests/

Guatemala court convicts 3 ex-paramilitaries of war crimes for rape and gives them 40-year sentences
More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitaries raped Indigenous women during their efforts to crush an insurgency in the country’s 36-year civil war, a court on Friday convicted three men of crimes against humanity in the case and sentenced them to 40 years in prison.
https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-war-crimes-indigenous-convicted-b5cc4488e1b9051ffa78358a6534f0b1

Cologne: Ford workers in Germany strike for first time
Wednesday morning, May 14: Gate Four of the Ford plant in Cologne is sealed off with red-and-white barrier tape. On the turnstiles, a couple of sheets of paper announce "Strikebreakers enter through Gate 1." But hardly anyone does so. According to David Lüdtke, the IG-Metall union's employee representative at Ford, more than 10,000 of the 11,500 employees downed tools for those 24 hours.
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Major Russian сity to ban migrants from driving cabs
The move follows several measures taken by the Russian Interior Ministry in April, including raids in which 2,400 electric bicycles were seized and over 1,200 foreign citizens were detained for working illegally.The city’s Labor and Employment Committee is also expected to recommend extending the restrictions into 2026. If adopted, the new rules would require delivery firms to keep a register of deliveries and equip all couriers with geolocation devices.Those using vehicles would be limited to a maximum speed of 15 km/h, and ‘movement zones’ would be established.
https://www.rt.com/russia/618296-major-russian-city-to-ban-migrants-in-taxi/
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Bulgarian nationalists protest government plans to adopt the euro currency
The protesters, led by civic groups and nationalist parties, sang patriotic songs and shouted slogans like “Freedom for the Bulgarian lev” and “The future belongs to sovereign states.” The anti-euro rally came four days before the Balkan country is expected to receive green light from Brussels to enter the eurozone. The demonstrators in Sofia carried flags of the far-right Vazrazhdane party and a huge banner that read “The battle for the Bulgarian lev is the last battle for Bulgaria.”
https://apnews.com/article/bulgaria-eurozone-protests-nationalists-e8714ca044056b02c0a543f3025156a2

Taiwan’s opposition KMT keeps focus on mass lawmaker recall as leadership race plays out
Under Chu’s proposed timeline, the KMT will announce the party chair race in July, hold internal voting in September and install a new leader by October. Still, Chu emphasised that his current focus remained on defending the party’s lawmakers from the DPP-led recall push. “The priority now is to unite and fully support our legislators – whether by appearing on their behalf or helping raise resources,” he said. “We must resist this unjust recall and fight against authoritarianism. That’s our duty.”
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3312610/taiwans-opposition-kmt-keeps-focus-mass-lawmaker-recall-leadership-race-plays-out?module=top_story&pgtype=section
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China set to resume Japanese seafood imports halted due to Fukushima worries=
China's General Administration of Customs said that the two countries made "substantial progress" following another round of talks on the trade of Japanese aquatic products. The agreement comes as both governments work to ease tensions stemming from the 2023 release of treated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/japan-china-agree-procedures-resuming-seafood-imports-nikkei-reports-2025-05-29/

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I’m doing it for real bros
Im organizing now, I’m fighting against fascism. For far to long I have been either doing minor stuff or wasting time but I’m done.
I’m dedicating my life to the revolution, I’ve read enough theory and now I’ll be applying the stuff I have learned with the local working class in my area. It’s time guys the conditions for our liberation are here

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The Neoliberal Establishment Wants YOU

I used to be a reactionary until I realized that working class white people are fundamentally incapable of organizing for their collective interests. Conservatives lose because its an alliance between illegitimate grifters who are inevitably exposed as such by a media establishment bent on doing so, and a bunch of retarded proles who care more about "values" and "principles" than actually taking power collectively and holding onto it. The only time proles get even a fraction of their conservative agenda met is by electing a dictator, and the modern goyim are incapable of this.

Since becoming a collaborator, I've come to appreciate and respect the reality behind the farcical untruths on the subjects of racial politics, gender and the like. The purpose of the prevailing ideology is to weaponize the most worthless and parasitic scum into stormtroopers for the psychopaths capable of lying and acting consistently. The ideology thereby becomes a rallying cry both for the incompetent client class and their ambitious patrons who siphon from the productives to feed them. If you're smart, YOU could be one of the winners in this game.

Comrade, why haven't you joined the regime yet? You're like 80% aligned with the ideology already. Just make an unprincipled exception on things like Palestine and you're good.

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Actions and violent consequences work

To the idealists on this site, violence does work. Despite how hard it is to believe this, African Americans have become the least likely people to experience police violence within the United States. Why? The reasons are complicated, but it boils down to face saving on the part of the us police force.
For those not aware of this, the US police force has faced legitimized defunding, riots, and has been blamed directly for insinuating dozens of race riots for the past century that have left upwards of hundreds of people dead. Regardless of your stance on American race politics and police violence, the US police force is ultimately blamed for most of this violence specifically because it’s the direct cause for most of this oddly specific form of it. The US federal government overtime grew increasingly intolerant of the US police force’s actions specifically because that behaviour of that institution does legitimately put the national security of the country as a whole st risk, and the US federal government cannot risk any more instances of mass violence breaking out in a time where the USA is weaker politically than ever. The fact that a single cop fucking up badly with showing restraint towards black Americans is enough to send the entire country in a frenzy is enough of a scare to the US federal government to mandate cops to just “fuck off and leave them be.”
Since the George Floyd riots, the US police force has seen funding cuts, some divisions entirely defunded, and many more reorganized specifically to avoid insinuating any more violence that could jeapordize the safety of the country.

Does this mean that the US police force has completely professionalized and stopped engaging in police brutality? No. Does this mean that us cops have suddenly become less racist? Sort of, but no. Does this mean that African Americans stopped being victims of police violence? To an extent, but a better answer is simply much less than before. And there’s a lesson to all of this.

Beating and terrorizing the ever loving shit out of people for messing with your life works.

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'real communism'

If you 'denounce' the historical real socialism that existed and exists, you can't be a communist.
>but those were not real communism
Real communism is the movement which abolishes the current state of things (private property the alienation of species-being) and it is the expansion of worker association to international terms. To think 'communism' can be reduced to just a single historical act is silly. It is, after all, a process. Real socialism was one such historical act in a chain of many to come.
>okay, they are communist, but they are totalitarian! They are authoritarian!
Those are empty words liberal ideolouges use to justify equating the Soviet anti-colonial socialist project and the Nazifascistic colonial Lebensraum project, to keep the status quo of liberal representative democracy as the 'only democratic nonauthoritarian' society.
>what do you mean the soviet project is an anti-colonial project?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/18.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/07b.htm
>I… I didn't know. I'm sorry. I will now study the history of the Soviet Union and build an antiimperialist socialist project on the Marxist-Leninist tradition. I will support the anti-colonial Palestinian people's struggle. I will globalize the intifada.
And you will defend the People's Republics of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Belarus and the DPRK. You will study Cuban agroecology and you will learn to live with nature. You will have Chinese high speed rails and high quality Belarusian agricultural machinery. You will be happy.

Any questions?

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/Political Economy/ General #2 - Adam Smith Edition

Thread #2 is hereby dedicated to Adam Smith, since we had a very dedicated "Smithian" anon keep the previous thread alive for several months. Here's to you buddy. Thanks for posting.

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Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm

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/wod/ - Destroy The War On Drugs General #1

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
-Mark Twain

𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
Precursor thread (semi-satire):
https://leftypol.org/siberia/res/587891.html
Archives:
https://archive.ph/ILfmW
https://web.archive.org/web/20250207170434/https://leftypol.org/siberia/res/587891.html
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

The War on Drugs in the United States began in the early 1970s, officially declared by terrorist Richard Nixon in 1971. This initiative was a response to rising concerns about drug use, particularly among returning Vietnam veterans and within countercultural movements. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 laid the groundwork for this campaign, categorizing drugs into schedules based on their potential for abuse and medical utility. The primary goal was to curb drug use and trafficking through strict enforcement measures by punishment and by death.

One of the most significant consequences of the War on Drugs has been its impact on social alienation. The aggressive enforcement strategies employed have led to widespread criminalization of drug users, being used as a disguise to kill off small ethnic groups who did not want to experience yankee sobriety in the wage slave hell. This has resulted in millions being incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses, contributing to a system that prioritizes punishment and death over rehabilitation, care and scientific study. This has also greatly increased the power of pigs who enforce laws which can now kill and rape anyone by planting drugs and pigging out.

Moreover, the stigma associated with drug-related offenses has lasting effects on people's lives post-incarceration. Many face barriers to employment, housing, and access to social services due to criminal records stemming from drug convictions. This cycle perpetuates poverty and limits opportunities for affected people and their families.

The War on Drugs has also had disastrous consequences for scientific research related to substances and the development of medicines. Policies have restricted research to certain controlled substances due to their classification as illegal drugs. Propaganda has also hindered the public's understanding of drugs and created an artificial division between drugs / substances and medicine, which does not exist.

For instance, cannabis remains classified as a Schedule I substance under yankee federal law, which implies it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. This classification has severely limited research opportunities into its therapeutic benefits despite growing evidence supporting its efficacy in treating various medical conditions and the escape of sober slavery.

Additionally, funding for addiction treatment programs often just funds cults like alcoholics anonymous and WOD propaganda outlets rather than smart environments for sobering up to be able to still enjoying the benefits of psychoactive substances in moderate terms in the long term.

In summary, when forced, sobriety is slavery. The WOD is the modern war for slavery over the human mind and scientific study.
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

Thread guidelines:
• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• It is forbidden to be for drug prohibition, forbidden to support the WOD, soberites should be banned. DEA agents KILL YOURSELVES.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged!
• Dox WOD agitators. Expose WOD figures, infodump, take down their sites, their social medias, kill them if possible.
• You may BWH (bump when high) and post about drugs and their properties, but if the thread starts to derail, it is suggested that you create your own thread on /siberia/.
•Swear this oath: I will not vote in any bourgeoisie democracy, ever, I would rather do reckless adventurism like a barbarian than vote in a bourgeoisie democracy, I will not vote, I will not vote, I will not vote, they will not legalize, if they will legalize they will ruin it, they will ruin it, they ruin everything, they will make the drugs bad if they legalize, they will do something bad, they will do something bad, they will note legalize even if I vote, they are lying, I will not vote, I will not vote, I will never vote, I will never vote, I will never vote, never, never, never voting, never voting, never. I'm never voting.

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We should destroy this guy with facts and logic and share our response with social media since at first glance it looks lile an actual criticic of marxist ideology

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The biggest capitalist villain

Given everything that's come out during the Diddy trial, I find it highly suspicious that Clive Davis hasn't been mentioned once.

Clive Davis is arguably the most powerful man in the entertainment industry, moreso than Lucian Grainge and whomever runs Disney. He is 92 years old and an ultra-billionaire porky. Like Diddy, there have been rumors swarming for years that Davis is behind a lot of shady shit, namely running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in the music industry in the 2000s. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything. This can be explained by the suspicions Davis is a federal informant who's been working with the FBI for decades to get blackmail dirt on celebrities, identical to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Davis essentially buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. Everything Diddy is currently charged with are things he learned from Davis. It gets deeper when you look at the trial. Diddy, like his mentor Davis, is also an alleged FBI informant. It's rumored Diddy orchestrated Tupac's murder (the feds wanted Pac dead because he was a Black communist breadpilling people through his rhymes) and almost certainly had something to do with Biggie's death as well. The prosecutor against Diddy is allegedly James Comey's daughter, Comney being the same prosecutor in the Epstein/Maxwell case. Given that the prosecution is currently floundering (they have yet to prove Diddy is a sex trafficker, only that he's a sexual pervert with a piss and cuckold fetish) one can easily see that this is allegedly a cover up of an alleged cover up: either Diddy walks free and everyone involved goes about doing their evil, or Diddy is found guilty and becomes the fall guy while the bigger villains (specifically Davis) go unchecked.

To put the cherry on the sundae: Clive Davis owns a school at NYU, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Everyone who teaches there is getting paid by Clive; you can clearly see an overlap with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

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Beside LeftyPol, what are some good leftist sites that you recommend to people visit? I'm only know Ruthless Criticism.com, do you people know of any other good sites?

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News 5/30/25

Salvadoran Human Rights Group Reports at Least 415 Deaths in Custody Under State of Exception
That figure is based on complaints collected by NGOs, said Alejandro Diaz, a member of TLMJH, who noted that the Salvadoran government has not provided any official information on the matter. March 27 marked three years since the state of exception was implemented. So far authorities have reported more than 85,900 arrests of alleged gang members and individuals purportedly linked to these groups.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/salvadoran-human-rights-group-reports-at-least-415-deaths-in-custody-under-state-of-exception/

Lula expropriates land and settles 400 families from Brazil’s MST
A ceremony on Thursday, May 29, marked the creation of the Maila Sabrina Settlement on land that was once the “Fazenda Brasileira”, a large plantation owned by a rich landowner. It is located in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attended the ceremony and officially expropriated the plantation, settling 450 families from the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) who have occupied the site since 2003.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/lula-expropriates-land-and-settles-400-families-from-brazils-mst/

Brazilian oil trade unions urge Lula to impose energy embargo on Israel
The letter cited action taken by other countries, such as Colombia’s suspension of coal exports to Israel, and global grassroots campaigns such as #BlockTheBoat, where dockworkers around the world have refused to load Israeli ships and cargo and transport arms to Israel. In the United States, Block the Boat was organised by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center in San Francisco. In addition to the immediate suspension of oil exports to Israel, the federations urge the Brazilian government to suspend projects with Israeli energy companies, and support United Nations-led sanctions and measures to hold Israel to account.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/brazilian-oil-trade-unions-urge-government-impose-oil-embargo-israel

Hamas: US-backed Gaza ceasefire deal 'does not meet needs of Palestinians'
According to the BBC, a senior Hamas official stated that the group is likely to reject the ceasefire offer put forward by US envoy Steve Witkoff, citing the lack of a "humanitarian protocol that allows for the entry of hundreds of trucks daily" into Gaza. The official said the proposal also contradicts earlier discussions Hamas had held with American officials.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hamas-us-backed-gaza-ceasefire-deal-fails-palestinian-needs

Israel attacks western Syria despite recent indirect talks to calm tensions
The Israeli military claimed responsibility for the strike, saying it had “struck weapon storage facilities containing coastal missiles that posed a threat to international and Israeli maritime freedom of navigation, in the Latakia area of Syria”. “In addition, components of surface-to-air missiles were struck in the area of Latakia,” it said, adding that it would “continue to operate to maintain freedom of action in the region, in order to carry out its missions and will act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/30/israel-attacks-western-syria-despite-recent-indirect-talks-to-calm-tensions
https://archive.ph/oPhpw

Senior judge rules police acted unlawfully in raiding home of British independent journalist Asa Winstanley
The ruling this month by the most senior judge at London’s Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) that the police raid on British journalist Asa Winstanley’s London home on October 17, 2024 was unlawful is a blow against the Starmer government’s efforts to criminalise opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Police informed Winstanley by letter during the raid that they were investigating “possible offences” under Sections 1 and 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/29/kpkn-m29.html

Greece threatens rejected asylum seekers with jail under tougher new migration policy
Migrants with rejected asylum claims will face a minimum of two years in jail, with sentences commuted upon deportation, he said. The plans, outlined by Greece’s conservative government — and closely watched by other European Union member states — were discussed at a Cabinet meeting this week. The European Union has pledged to make deportations a priority in 2025 and finalize common rules across the 27-nation bloc.
https://apnews.com/article/greece-migration-europe-deportations-296dc5da631895bea339dc225df9be7a

Protests against Azhar’s release, attacks on left students continue
Left student leaders and activists continued their protests for the fourth day on Friday rejecting the Supreme Court’s May 27 verdict acquitting Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam of 1971 war crimes charges. They also protested at the recent attacks on left student leaders and activists in Rajshahi and Chattogram.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/266316/protests-against-azhars-release-attacks-on-left-students-continue

Pakistan, India close to completing border troop reduction, senior Pakistani general says
"We have almost come back to the pre-22nd April situation… we are approaching that, or we must have approached that by now," said Mirza, the most senior Pakistani military official to speak publicly since the conflict. India's ministry of defence and the office of the Indian chief of defence staff did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment on the remarks by Mirza.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/pakistan-india-close-completing-border-troop-reduction-senior-pakistani-general-2025-05-30/

Australian construction union boss steps down as Labor-appointed administrator tightens screws
Last August, using the pretext of unproven media allegations of widespread corruption and links to organised crime, the federal Labor government placed the union’s construction division under administration, immediately sacking almost 330 elected officials. In reality, the draconian move had nothing to do with ridding the CFMEU of “rogue elements.” It was about subordinating a historically militant section of the working class even more directly to the state and the employers, to facilitate attacks on their wages and conditions amid a downturn in the building sector and the economy.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/30/oaau-m30.html

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The ruling class doesn’t martyr real threats, it erases them. If the media attacks you, it means they see utility in you, not danger. Real revolutionaries are met with silence, not headlines. Ask Eugene Debs how much NYT coverage he got while rotting in prison. Spoiler alert: None.

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TOTALITARIAN!!!!

>Know this, I will not let anyone force me to feel respect for this pig (Marx) or his totalitarian disciples, nor for the toilet paper known as his texts…
Actual response from an anarchoid I had when bringing up that Capital is a fundamental - crucial text worth studying and that has been studied even by anarchists such as Carlo Cafiero, mind you I am an also an anarchist, but the hostility of the majority of the declassed towards any notion of learning from the communist movement or tending towards the proletariat is so vile it feels like trying to perform exorcism.

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Uyghur Situation

Are Uyghurs actually worse than regular normies?

This is an important distinction, since the reactionary camp encompasses two types of people.

1. Normie operating on instinct
2. Entrenched cultist with ideological conviction

For example, America is full of the first kind. I wouldn't expect your regular American Christian to oppose life extension through science, because they wouldn't be ideologically consistent enough in their worldview to want that. Their fear of death or inconvenience in the moment outweighs the abstract possibility of heaven in their mind, creating a sort of instinctive doublethink. For such people, religion is an expression of autopilot conformity. They don't have agency are more like red blood cells in the social organism rather than something to be exterminated.

Keep in mind, I have massive contempt for the first type of reactionary. Unfortunately, they are the VAST majority in every society, and the "socialization" solution for this majority is only achievable through careful sustained effort (as the USSR learned the hard way). If the Uyghurs are a variant of this first type of person, then overkill persecution isn't necessary and won't achieve much (aside from bad optics).

HOWEVER, if they are like the second group - Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or other moralizing fundies who would prevent us from playing god with science, they deserve everything they get and more.

Most of what I know about these people is from heavily biased sources. Do we have any objective proof that Uyghurs belong to the second category of fundamentalist reactionaries? I have no stake in this matter, and am open to a convincing argument on why they people actually suck.

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Peep the badge

Let's talk about Chinese military-cops (PAP) and how they died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_People%27s_Armed_Police_personnel_killed_in_the_line_of_duty

There's a lot of diversity here. A lot of drownings. And since many had roles as firefighters, plenty of fire deaths. There's also a decent amount killed by drug traffickers and in Uyghur terrorism. And a ton of heart attacks and vehicle accidents.

I suspect some recent years are missing data.

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March 15th, Belgrade Serbia

Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.
Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.

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Do you agree with this?

Given that most governments are imposed on to citizens through armed force, it is the responsibility of citizens to separate and protect themselves from hostile societies and their own government. To do this, they would need to own weapons, home defence, their own homes, have their identities and personal information blocked hidden away from government and foreign entities, have their own places to store their belongings, and be in a physical state where they can fight. Depending on your beliefs, either none of this requires any change in economic policy, or if you’re a materialist, none of this requires an organized society-spanning revolt to force self defence in mass. Only that any government’s or really any armed group’s control over a population is kept to an absolute minimum under the legitimate threat that it would deal with armed resistance if it overstepped what its citizens or allies were willing to tolerate.

For some materialists, this armed society is the only one where any real socialist movements is possible, because any collective effort made in this society has material reasons to be near completely consensual among all members

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>Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλός. ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλὸς τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ τίθησιν ὑπὲρ τῶν προβάτων

How is not this just communism? The church is the vanguard party planning and doing good for the peons.

Is communism just another neoplatonism sect that will end up being some sort of religion? I mean Christianity at first must have been better than whatever existed till then otherwise it wouldn't have replaced the rest. And you have to really believe in some marxist shit like theory of value etc.

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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #117: PIG KILLER Edition fdpd

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• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)

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Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

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• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

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(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)

Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

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BE LESS LIBERAL

>To be among the masses and fail to conduct propaganda and agitation or speak at meetings or conduct investigations and inquiries among them, and instead to be indifferent to them and show no concern for their well-being, forgetting that one is a Communist and behaving as if one were an ordinary non-Communist. This is a seventh type.

So what's your excuse anon? why are you a liberal?

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End times fascism

Listen up, everybody! You need to read these two articles (right now!!! ) and then send them to everyone you know. Look, Marxist theory is fine, it’s got its place, but if you’re not paying attention to what’s happening in the world today, you’re missing a huge chunk of the story. Naomi Klein nails it in her article about end times fascism (except the part where she says we need to fight it with the power of love and friendship). She breaks down the twisted ideology we’re actually up against. And let me be clear: this isn’t just old-school capitalism. This is a full-blown, multi-layered death cult, and if we don’t wake up, it’s going to take us all down.

We should be furious. You see how right-wing conspiracy theorists are out there, flooding the internet with wild, sensational stories about liberals being the anti-christ and killing babies? Well, guess what, the real conspiracy is right in front of us. These right-wing death cults are actively trying to wreck the world and drag us all into the apocalypse. That’s not hyperbole. It's reality.

So why aren’t we matching that energy? Why aren’t we flooding every feed, every platform, with the truth about what’s actually happening? It’s time to get loud. It’s time to call this out for what it is. If we don’t, who will?

Two articles:

1) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

2) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Summary of "The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse":

The article explores how some of the world’s wealthiest tech billionaires and hedge fund managers are investing heavily in luxury bunkers, private security, and remote compounds to survive potential global catastrophes-referred to as “the event”-such as climate collapse, pandemics, or social unrest. The author, Douglas Rushkoff, recounts his experience being invited to consult with a group of these ultra-wealthy individuals, who were less interested in improving society and more focused on strategies to maintain power and security after a societal collapse.

Key points include:

Escape Over Engagement: The super-rich are obsessed with finding ways to escape the consequences of the very systems and crises their industries have contributed to, rather than addressing root causes or investing in collective resilience.

Security Concerns: Much of their planning revolves around how to control private security forces post-collapse, fearing that loyalty might falter when money loses value.

Isolationist Mindset: This “Mindset”-the belief that technological and financial superiority can buy isolation from global problems-pervades Silicon Valley and the tech elite.

Critique of the Approach: Rushkoff argues that this approach is self-defeating and morally questionable, as it seeks to insulate a select few rather than foster broader societal resilience.

Alternative Visions: The article also profiles JC Cole, who is developing “safe haven” farms that combine security with sustainable agriculture and community-building, suggesting that cooperation and investment in people are more effective survival strategies than isolation.

Bunker Industry: There is a booming industry catering to these fears, offering everything from luxury underground apartments to fortified compounds, though the article questions the actual effectiveness of such preparations.

Conclusion: The article concludes that the billionaire prepper mentality reflects a profound loss of faith in collective solutions and a troubling desire to “win” by escaping the consequences of one’s own actions, rather than working to prevent catastrophe for all.

Summary of "The rise of end times fascism":

The article examines a new, dangerous ideology emerging on the global far right, which the authors term "end times fascism." This ideology is characterized by a mix of apocalyptic thinking, supremacist survivalism, and a bunker mentality among both tech billionaires and nationalist movements.
Key Points

Corporate City-States & Seasteading:
Wealthy libertarians and venture capitalists, backed by figures like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, have long dreamed of creating private, tax-free enclaves-either as “seasteads” on artificial islands or “freedom cities” on federal land. While these ideas were once fringe, they are now being embraced by mainstream right-wing politics, especially under Donald Trump, who has promised to build “freedom cities.”

Exit Over Engagement:
The ideology is rooted in the idea of “exit”-that the wealthy should be able to opt out of social obligations (like taxes and regulations) and create their own fortified domains, protected by private security and AI, financed by crypto.

Bunker Mentality:
This vision aligns with a broader far-right trend: treating nations as armed bunkers, expelling or imprisoning outsiders, and ruthlessly securing resources for the in-group. This is seen in both elite enclaves and mass nationalist movements.

Religious and Secular Rapture:
The article draws parallels between Christian fundamentalist beliefs in the Rapture and the secular “ark” fantasies of tech billionaires like Elon Musk, who promote escape to Mars or survival in luxury bunkers as civilization collapses.

Acceleration of Collapse:
The authors argue that these elites are not just preparing for collapse-they are actively accelerating it through deregulation, environmental destruction, and policies that increase inequality and instability.

Mass-Market Prepping:
The prepper mentality is marketed to the broader MAGA base, with right-wing media figures like Steve Bannon selling gold, survival food, and home defense products, while also promoting the idea of the nation itself as a bunker.

State Violence & Resource Grabs:
The Trump administration is depicted as embracing sadistic displays of state violence (e.g., deportations, prison camps) and pursuing aggressive resource acquisition abroad as a form of national prepping.

Moral and Political Challenge:
The authors warn that this “end times fascism” is genocidal at its core and represents a betrayal of collective responsibility. They call for building a broad, spiritually and politically rooted movement to resist this ideology and defend the planet and human solidarity.

Conclusion:
The article contends that the far right, both among elites and the masses, is embracing an apocalyptic worldview that justifies exclusion, violence, and abandonment of the vulnerable. The authors urge readers to recognize the scale of the threat and mobilize in defense of a just, collective future.

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News 5/29/25

'Panama Declares State of Emergency After Chiquita Banana Strike
Strikers have been protesting and blocking roads in the province, which borders Costa Rica, causing shortages of fuel and some food items. Schools are also closed. “The declaration of the state of emergency under no circumstances implies intervention in lifting road blockades by the communities,” said Minister of the Presidency Juan Carlos Orillac. …. President Mulino warned on Friday that thousands of jobs would be lost if the strike continued, which a labor court deemed “illegal.” A government delegation is in talks with union leaders, who are calling for a new law to restore benefits they say were provided under the previous pension and healthcare system.
https://ticotimes.net/2025/05/28/panama-declares-state-of-emergency-after-chiquita-banana-strike
https://archive.ph/dylvJ

‘Scratch the earth, there’s gold!’: Small miners, big firms and armed gangs fight over Peru’s mineral wealth
Underground gunfights are inevitable and attacks can come from all sides as armed men known as parqueros steal ore – the gold-bearing rock – by tunnelling in from connecting shafts or invading the mine from other entrances. The gangs burn tyres and pump smoke into the tunnels to drive out miners. Or they attack the security guards, as when the 13 men were killed.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/29/gold-peru-small-miners-big-mining-firms-armed-gangs-mineral-wealth

Tens of thousands demonstrate in Nepal seeking restoration of ousted monarchy
There has been growing demand in recent months for Gyanendra Shah to be reinstated as king and Hinduism to be brought back as a state religion. Royalist groups accuse the country’s major political parties of corruption and failed governance and say people are frustrated with politicians. Massive street protests in 2006 forced Gyanendra to give up his authoritarian rule, and two years later the parliament voted to abolish the monarchy.
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-protest-restoration-monarchy-king-b6646466a04558c3cfa61b669acc726e

Female Japanese ex-SDF member sues govt, abusers for sexual assaults
Rina Gonoi, 23, who quit the force in June 2022 and posted online about a wide range of abuses that took place at the GSDF's Camp Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture, filed the suit at the Yokohama District Court. Gonoi, who informed the Defense Ministry of her sexual assaults last June and called for an investigation, is seeking damages from the state and her five assailants, saying she was abused daily between fall 2020 and August 2021.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202301/30/WS63d77d65a31057c47ebabdb1.html
https://archive.ph/bxZ5B

Truckers' protests in Iran grow
TRUCK drivers in Iran blocked roads and ports on Wednesday as part of their strike against low salaries, high insurance rates and a possible hike in fuel prices. The strikes, which began last Thursday in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, one of the country’s main transport and shipping hubs, have now spread across Iran. The protests are slowly gaining steam and could develop into more serious protests against the government. Last week, the Iranian government announced plans to massively increase the price of fuel for trucks from 15.14 cents (11.36p) per gallon to nearly $1.90 per (£1.43) gallon in late June.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/truckers-protests-iran-grow

Namibia pushes for German reparations on first genocide remembrance day
Between 1904 and 1908, an estimated 65,000 Herero people and 10,000 Nama people were killed when the groups rejected colonial rule. It amounted to 80% and 50% of their respective populations at the time. Some of their skulls were taken to Germany for racist experiments and were stored in German hospitals, museums and universities for decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/namibia-first-genocide-remembrance-day

Inside Trump’s New Gaza "Ceasefire" Proposal
“The proposed deal from the Israelis through Witkoff is extremely difficult to accept,” said a senior Hamas official to Drop Site. “There is no talk about the [ceasefire] deal from January 19. There is no talk about a return to the situation before March 2” when Israel abandoned the original ceasefire. The Hamas official said that there is no guarantee Israel would even respect the 60-day truce after its ten captives are returned in the first week of the deal. “They might launch the war again,” he said. “There are no guarantees to a permanent ceasefire, no guarantees for a permanent withdrawal.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-hamas-israel-witkoff

US contractor hires obscure Gaza group for aid rollout after local snubs
Three Brothers, the company eventually contracted for the scheme, was being used “as the first interface with the population” at the distribution centres, according to a person familiar with Gaza humanitarian issues. They said Khozandar’s team was well known to the Israeli security establishment and had a long history of working with them. Three Brothers employees are responsible for distribution, processing recipients and managing lines.
https://www.ft.com/content/9dbbf0cb-cc29-4eba-aa9b-2c7c9dcf46e8
https://archive.ph/PXhmH

Irish conservatives block proposal by Sinn Féin to restrict Israeli “war bonds”
On May 28, representatives of conservative parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, part of the current Irish government, voted down a proposal brought forward by Sinn Féin that would have granted the Minister for Finance the authority to restrict the sale of Israeli bonds. The bill was defeated by a margin of 87 to 75, despite support from opposition parties and independent parliamentarians who vote with the government on other issues.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/irish-conservatives-block-proposal-by-sinn-fein-to-restrict-israeli-war-bonds/

Far-right Chega party becomes main opposition in Portugal’s parliament
The far-right party, which was founded in 2019 by the former football pundit André Ventura, has capitalised on widespread dissatisfaction with Portugal’s mainstream left and right parties as the country continues to suffer a housing crisis, stressed health and education systems, and an average monthly wage of €1,602 (£1,346). It has seen a dramatic rise in support over the past few years, winning 1.3% of the vote in 2019, 7.2% in 2022, and 18.1% last year, when its seat count shot up from 12 to 50.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/far-right-chega-party-becomes-main-opposition-in-portugals-parliament

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Indian Revolution News

BREAKING | Major Battle Raging Around Chhattisgarh-Telangana Border

It has come to our notice that the central and state governments have mobilized 4-20 thousand enemy armed forces, mostly paramilitaries and likely reinforced by army forces, for an encirclement-suppression campaign focused around the Karegutta hills, stretching out between Chhattisgarh and Telangana border. Battles with the Maoist revolutionaries are raging right as we write this post.

The Maoist revolutionaries who have since last year (2024) always upheld that they are ready to conduct peace talks on the clear pre-condition that the counterrevolutionary Operation »Kagaar« is stopped, that all further enemy armed camps' construction is stopped, that a mutual ceasefire is declared and reactionary armed forces stop patrolling outside their fortified camps, have once again defiantly condemned this clear expression of the reactionary state's character as a suppressive machinery that instead of being interested in the advance of the interests of the workers, peasants and their adivasi brothers & sisters, they are only interested in using brute force in order to stop their any revolutionary struggle, or even democratic resistance, by the oppressed.

Once again, the CPI (Maoist) called to cease this genocidal aggression — which, according to the bourgeois press, includes even cutting off the supply of food, water and medicine to the entire encircled area — but armed confrontations have shown that even after directing all forces before the battle to temporarily halt offensive operations, the Maoist revolutionaries are retaliating befittingly to this aggression.

The climatic conditions at the battle scene are severe, temperatures reach above 40 degrees celsius in the shadows of these forested hills with steep 50-meter falls. It must be noted that earlier this year, the Maoists issued a statement in which they stated that IEDs and spike traps were prepared all around the forests of the area, asking the people not to go there for their own safety. The bourgeois media now has confirmed this, further claiming that Maoists have prepared for this battle, with bunkers, tunnels and war supplies to keep their forces combat-ready. Around 500-1000 revolutionary red-soldiers are alleged to be present in the area for active defense and retaliation this time, it has also been reported that central committee leaders were successfuly evacuated from the area.

So far, dozens of revolutionaries have reportedly become martyrs in the battle, bravely resisting the severe enemy onslaught. Furthermore, the bourgeois press reported that more than 40 injured enemy armed forces were admitted to hospital yesterday alone, according to enemy claims, »because of dehydration«. Several severe injuries among the enemy forces due to Maoist IED attacks have been reported today. It is clear that we are now at a stage of war where the media fronts have become clearly distinguished frontiers of war. Hence, our reporting as well clearly establishes a counter-narrative, that for the revolution.

We call on every friend, well-wisher and supporter of the Indian Revolution, every militant of the workers' and peasants' movement, all the democratic/progressive forces wherever they may be, to circulate this news, share the post further, and clearly take sides with the revolutionary struggle, with the oppressed. Do not spread panic nor confusion, support our revolutionaries, condemn with every means the old state's counterrevolutionary onslaught. No aggression, and even be it larger than this, will be able to stop the workers and peasants of the world, nor its indigenous people, from rebelling, from waging the class struggle until the realization of Socialism-Communism.

Inquilab, Inquilab, Inquilab Zindabad!
Long Live the CPI (Maoist), PLGA, RMOs!
Intensify-Consolidate the People's War!

https://t.me/RebellionIsJustified/1244
https://t.me/RebellionIsJustified/1245

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Comrades. I'm asking for resources of any actual validity if possible.

What would ever a problem be in the case of a Post-Scarcity society with every comfort. Worldwide communism, but the oh so retardedly (and with good reason) depicted Human Nature.

Would there be dissidents in perfection?

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There was no Soviet occupation of the Baltic states

Since the 1900s did Germany have an imperialist inclination towards the Baltic states (and the Ukraine). After WW1, during the era of nazification, all three Baltic states had an active fifth column. This column was influenced by hitlerite ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaps_Movement
<The Vaps Movement was an Estonian political organization. Founded in 1929, it emerged as a right wing radical popular movement from the Union of Participants in the Estonian War of Independence an association of veterans of the Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920).[
<The organisation welcomed Hitler's rise to power, even though they later tried to distance themselves from Nazism.
<… the League won absolute majorities in local elections in the three largest cities at the beginning of 1934.
<The movement maintained good relations with Finnish fascist movements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldemarininkai
<The group stemmed from the militarized Iron Wolf organization established in 1927
<<Iron Wolfs was a semi-official Lithuanian militarized organization active in 1928–1930 … it was inspired by the Blackshirts
<In 1929–1940, voldemarininkai planned eight coups
<They increasingly sympathized and collaborated with Nazi Germany. After the German occupation of Lithuania in June 1941, voldemarininkai reestablished Iron Wolf and gained control of the Lithuanian police and the Lithuanian TDA Battalion which participated in the Holocaust and killed about 26,000 Jews between July and December 1941.

Latvia's the outlier because there was no party dictatorship but a single dictator, which held corporativist views and was inspired by nazi ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81rlis_Ulmanis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizsargi
<On the night of 15–16 May 1934, Ulmanis, with the support of Minister of War Jānis Balodis, proclaimed a state of war and dissolved all political parties and the Saeima (parliament).
<The bloodless coup was carried out by army and units of the national guard Aizsargi loyal to Ulmanis.
<<… many became accomplices of the German occupation authorities (in particular, made up the backbone of the Latvian auxiliary police) and took an active part in the genocide of Jews on the territory of Latvia

Among other things, these fascistic organizations tried several coup d'etats… all at the same time… at the same time, similar coup d'etats were happening everywhere across Europe… except in the USSR (thank you, Stalin, for the Moscow Trials). All installed fascistic governments. All participated in the Holocaust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Estonian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Lithuanian_coup_attempt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Latvian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

The Soviet Union and the respective governments signed several treaties of cooperation. These were mostly mutual defense, Soviet troops stationed in the Baltic states and naval bases to be lended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Estonian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Latvian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty

The Soviet Union never invaded these countries. Her troops were there legally. The formal integration of the Baltic states happened because of the will of the Baltic workers and peasants. The Baltic bourgeois governments collapsed once the Soviet Union demanded that the treaties be upheld. On 18 and 21 June 1940, new "popular front" governments were formed in each Baltic country. A month later when the new assemblies met their sole item of business for each of them was a resolution to join the Soviet Union. But considering that the Baltics were historically relativaly filled with petty-bourgeois and petty-nobility, considering that they had fascistic and anti-communist organizations since the Russian Civil War, is it really unexpected that their ancestors are most vocal about alleged injusticed they faced?

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Was the USSR even socialist? Was the USSR retarded?

>Doesn't abolish wage labour, instead experiments with different wage systems multiple times (they all fail)
>Doesn't abolish commodity production, instead artificially sets prices but doesn't produce according to demand so there's a years-long waiting list for things like cars
>Does everything modern companies and regulatory bodies of stuff like wages do in capitalist countries but in a less efficient centralised manner
>Workers' meaningful democratic control over their workplaces: ?????
>Constant rationing, people registered to grocery stores

What the fuck? How was life any different or better in the USSR for working people than it is now? This is retardation

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Beyond Lone Wolves

We're in an incredibly difficult and interesting moment of the struggle right now. Western governments are flailing and increasingly sliding towards more overt forms of oppression, and they're transparently incompetent at it. They're unpopular and it's only going to get worse with the self destruction of the American economy.

The fact that individualist terrorists like Luigi are internet folk heroes shows that there is a lot of sympathy out there for class violence. But for most people, there aren't really any good options for participating in the fight unless they're suicidal and the growing trend of assassinations is disconnected from an organized vanguard. Assassins are so used to turning into imprisoned or dead martyrs that they don't even make a serious effort to try to escape arrest or to organize more than a single incident. Write your manifesto, surrender immediately afterwards, collect your 15 minutes of fame. It's Aaron Bushnell setting himself on fire with slightly more casualties. At the same time, any legally sanctioned "organized vanguard" is full of feds and completely useless. The PSL, DSA, CPUSA, Bob Avakian, whatever have years of experience succeeding at fuck all and getting ignored as useless larpers or acting as sheepdogs to herd votes for liberals. The story around the developed world is the same. The endless protest marches aren't doing much either and the George Floyd riots were cool but they were ultimately disorganized failures.

We need a way to avoid these failed patterns while building on their strong points. Obviously, adventurism can work for gaining support but there's nowhere to channel it. There are some good arguments for a hybrid between lone wolves and traditional cell networks in the form of affinity groups of disconnected cells or individuals with shared methods, targets, and propaganda. There could even be a central propaganda arm disconnected from acts done in their name. While it would be a security improvement, and it would beat random individuals, it still suffers from a lack of cohesive organization. Make something too tightly organized that's actually militant and they'll come down on it like the Black Panthers. Cell networks are historically useful but investigators will try to work their way to the top. What might work?

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Should truckchuds just be replaced by AI driverless trucks? They voted for this
<when the """""union""""" rep says he isn't anti-corporation or whatever
How much more classcucked can you get?

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CLLG /I/ "Learn" / Acquire Chinese like an infant

Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition
you know all. Volume I of thread dedicated to Neo-China Silk Road II - Belt and Road takeover of the World.

Questions and answers:
>Q: Why should I learn Chinese?
<A: To appreciate the internet culture and humor, prepare for migration, modernize and adapt for employed labor under China.
>Q: China will fail, why should I bother?
<A: Don't think.
>Q: I have other affairs in life, I don't have time for this.
<A: Silly person, chase ducks in the lake.

To all other eager learners, welcome, to the CLLG (China Language Learning General) edition I. Here you will watch videos with pictures, animations, movies and combine yourself to adapt with the Chinese language.
Academic journals, tutors and other outdated methods will give you boredom and headache! Learn with fun.
All you need to prepare for a Kung Pao Chicken tin assembly line factory and life in Neo-China world.

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Longest Written Works in Dasein Analysis

Who has read Key Papers on Chinese Economic History up to 1949 (4 vols) that is ~1828 pages?
Who here has read Programme of Struggle and Unity in Action (First Anniversary of International Conference of Communist and Workers Parties) that is 143248 pages?

Have you read a 100 000 page work on your favorite thing to shill for?
What is the biggest work you've ever heard of and read?

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Why do liberals think the tank man was crushed?

Why do liberals think the tank man was crushed when the whole video is available and you can see that he gets away?

The liberals that do know that "tank man was crushed" is a lie yet still don't do the math that maybe more shit is a lie… just why?

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The root of all true leftism is agape, if you disagree then you are merely a little edge-lord who needs a team to fight for his martial impulses. I don’t care what retarded flowery justification you come up with that’s decorated in philosophical window dressing about the ego and its own, you are a chud and you will always be a chud, you don’t care about left-wing values you only care about an aesthetic and a bunch of people to fantasise fighting against. You may as well flip over to an ultra-right wing nationalist next month, in fact you are just as likely to do that. Hilarious that what was the USSR crowd in Russia is now the pro-theocracy, pro-oligarch, ultra-right wing crowd. And Marx’s atheism is him projecting his hatred of his Jewish daddy on the world, his philosophical justification as for why ‘atheism is necessary for socialism’ is nothing but a shoe-horn so he could slime his way into having his atheism parasitically carried by socialism as some third-wheel piggy back. If atheism was necessary for making someone self-sufficient then no atheist would be in an abusive relationship, in fact a religious person who takes their own private spiritual views is more free and self-empowered than some sheep browsing r/atheism

Fuck the sheepish nature of humanity, fuck the tendency of crowds to care about aesthetic dressing and ideological traditions instead of the core matter at hand, fuck anyone who tries to be ‘based’ and ‘hardcore’, I hope you are ‘based’ and ‘hardcore’ when you are lynched by a crowd for being a sadistic leader, fuck pol-pots idealistic wank that lead to the practical suffering of countless people (because they were all his Barbie dolls to play out his fantasies), fuck anyone who unironically tries to label a working class man being himself instead of a stereotype as bourgeoisie while not understanding that labelling things as bourgeoisie is the most bourgeoisie thing you can do (since you are regulating what the working class can and cannot do), fuck all of you, you fucking posers. Fuck your anthems, fuck your flags, fuck your uniforms. You should care about bettering the lives of people, but you care about is a fucking image, fuck you posers

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Seriously, why do people here support China?

The Chinese government has faced widespread international criticism for its human rights record, with concerns spanning a range of issues from freedom of expression to religious persecution. One of the most prominent human rights violations is the crackdown on political dissent. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long history of suppressing opposition and limiting political freedoms. Individuals who speak out against the government or its policies, including human rights activists, journalists, and lawyers, are often subjected to harassment, imprisonment, and even torture. The 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, for example, were met with violent repression by both Hong Kong's local authorities and mainland Chinese forces, with many protesters arrested and subjected to harsh conditions. The Chinese government's tight control over the internet and censorship of online content further stifles free speech and the free flow of information.

Another major human rights concern involves the treatment of ethnic and religious minorities, particularly the Uighur Muslim population in Xinjiang. Reports from international organizations and human rights groups have exposed a systematic campaign of cultural erasure, forced labor, and mass internment. The Chinese government has detained over a million Uighurs in so-called "re-education camps," where they are subjected to forced indoctrination, physical abuse, and even sterilization. The government's policies in Xinjiang are also marked by widespread surveillance, with Uighurs being monitored through facial recognition software, phone tracking, and biometric data collection. In addition, religious practices are severely restricted, and the Chinese Communist Party promotes its own brand of secularism, which severely limits freedom of belief.

Lastly, the Chinese government's approach to the freedom of expression and political participation in Tibet and other regions has raised significant concerns. The ongoing suppression of Tibetan culture, religion, and language is a testament to the regime's refusal to respect the basic rights of its citizens. The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, has been exiled for decades, and any form of advocacy for Tibetan independence is punishable by imprisonment or worse. The government’s policy of forced assimilation, which includes restricting the use of the Tibetan language in schools and banning religious practices, has led to widespread discontent and protests, which are met with heavy-handed violence. Overall, China's treatment of its minority populations and the lack of political freedoms reflect a broader pattern of human rights abuses that undermine the dignity and freedom of its citizens.

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Webm Thread

Webm Thread. The old one seem to have disappeared.
Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.

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can someone explain how the fuck there can exist such a thing as "left-nietzscheanism"?

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You shouldn’t donate to any charities. Charities are essentially businesses that profit off of an image of caring for a group of people. Homeless shelters owned by anyone (religious group, woman only shelters, lgbt shelters) do not care about their respective pops. It’s only about money.

Their function is to generate profit and to sate the egos of middle-class philanthropists. They’re already unnecessary and their elimination, along with getting rid of capital/private property, will benefit everyone.

>but what about the people they help
Anyone a charity has succeeded with is either a token or barely needed them in the first place.

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News 5/28/25

Colombians Launch 48-Hour National Strike in Support of Labor Reform Referendum
On Wednesday, the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) and other Colombian social movements began a 48-hour national strike in support of a popular referendum on labor reform promoted by President Gustavo Petro. CUT President Fabio Arias said attempts to gain parliamentary approval for the referendum would not succeed because the right-wing opposition holds a majority in Congress. “The mobilization on May 28 and 29 is aimed at rejecting the oligarchy’s decisions against workers’ labor rights,” he said.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombians-launch-48-hour-national-strike-in-support-of-labor-reform-referendum/

Argentina ratifies decision to withdraw from WHO as RFK Jr visits Buenos Aires
Milei’s government justified its departure from the UN agency in a statement on Monday. “The WHO’s prescriptions do not work because they are not based on science but on political interests and bureaucratic structures that refuse to review their own mistakes,” the statement said. Buenos Aires has previously accused the agency of “disastrous” management during the Covid pandemic with its “caveman quarantine”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/argentina-who-rfk-jr

A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs
Haiti’s government has hired American contractors, including Mr. Prince, in recent months to work on a secret task force to deploy drones meant to kill gang members, security experts said. Mr. Prince’s team has been operating the drones since March, but the authorities have yet to announce the death or capture of a single high-value target. Security experts said Mr. Prince has also been scouting Haitian American military veterans to hire to send to Port-au-Prince and is expected to send up to 150 mercenaries to Haiti over the summer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/haiti-erik-prince-blackwater-gangs.html
https://archive.ph/emclV

US government will not renew Chevron’s Venezuela oil licence
The state department’s comments come after uncertainty over the fate of the licence. Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy for special missions whose brief includes Venezuela, last week flew to Antigua to secure the release of a US hostage from Caracas. On his return, he predicted in an interview that Trump would announce an extension of the licence as part of a broader deal with Maduro. But the following day, secretary of state Marco Rubio announced there would be no extension and Chevron’s “pro-Maduro Biden oil license” would expire as scheduled on May 27.
https://www.ft.com/content/d5ca9a30-60c6-4a27-9c09-bccf24588256
https://archive.ph/vS9pF

‘Heinous crime’: Israel kills 10 desperate aid seekers in Gaza in 48 hours
In a statement, the Government Media Office said Israeli forces “opened direct fire on hungry Palestinian civilians who had gathered to receive aid” at the distribution site, wounding at least 62 people. It was not immediately clear exactly how many incidents of gunfire occurred or on which days the 10 Palestinians were fatally shot, but there were deaths on both days.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/28/heinous-crime-authorities-say-ten-aid-seekers-killed-in-gaza-in-forty-eight-hours
https://archive.ph/MCV2W

Tense calm prevails in the town following intervention of Turkish forces and the number of fatalities in yesterday’s clashes jumps to four
According to SOHR sources, militiamen of “Soqour Al-Sunnah” faction accused people of Al-Na’im tribe of being affiliates of the former regime, while the militiamen burned tents where members of Al-Na’im tribe staged a sit-in protest, after having taken control of Sluk town, amid growing tension in the town. On the other hand, tens calm has been prevailing in Sluk town following intervention by Turkish forces, amid a general strike in markets and closure of schools.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/362875/

Protesters throw paint outside Athens hotel hosting Greece-Israel cooperation conference
At the same time, members of PAME, a union affiliated with the Greek Communist Party (KKE), held a solidarity rally in support of Palestine nearby. The union had earlier criticized the Greek government for organizing the event in collaboration with the Israeli Embassy. The conference was hosted by the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1271018/protesters-throw-paint-outside-athens-hotel-hosting-greece-israel-cooperation-conference/
https://archive.ph/vVhus

Campaigners call for end to water privatisation as Thames Water fined over sewage
Nearly £170m of dividend payments by Thames in October 2023 and March 2024 were not justified in “a clear-cut case where Thames Water has let down its customers and failed to protect the environment,” said Ofwat chief executive David Black. We Own It founder and director Cat Hobbs said: “None of this changes the underlying problem — as long as water is privatised, we will continue to be ripped off, and rivers will continue to be polluted for profit.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/campaigners-call-end-water-privatisation-thames-water-fined-over-sewage

Supporters of Bangladesh’s ex-Premier Khaleda Zia rally to call for a general election
Activists from three groups linked to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP, headed by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia gathered on the streets outside its party headquarters, under heightened security. Wednesday’s rally was held after weeks of political tensions after interim leader and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus threatened to quit and the influential military chief publicly declared his support for an election in December.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-khaleda-zia-sheikh-hasina-yunus-election-4da1d207930c6ce60ed56938bfd236b1

Australian war crimes whistleblower loses prison sentence appeal
The three Australian Capital Territory Court of Appeal judges unanimously rejected the former army lawyer’s appeal against the severity of a five-year, eight-month prison sentence imposed a year ago. The judges also rejected Mr McBride’s argument that as a military officer he had sworn an oath to Queen Elizabeth II and therefore had a sworn duty to act in the “public interest.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australian-war-crimes-whistleblower-loses-prison-sentence-appeal

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #236

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
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Remind me again why these guys are considered worth listening to? All they do is complain all day and offer up no solutions ("Doesn't every leftist?" har har har)

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The Chinese are not dedicated Marxists, but they are using Marxist lens when approaching their economy.
When their country reaches a sufficient level of development, they will throw Marxism out of the window completely and become a liberal democracy.

Don't you agree? Marxism is just a tool for them.

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As someone that bisexual do you think that chairman mao would be approve lgbtq+ people this country what do you think you put them in harsh prison camp or Gulag or concentration camps I know that Mao was homophobic but that was decades ago wanna know you guys opinion now?

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why arent you just voting for communist parties every chance you get?
voter turn out is super low for local elections.
You want hollywood? just vote communist. for mayor, city council, governor, etc..

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News 5/26/25

Far-right defeated after 10-hour stand-off in Glasgow
While many of those standing with the far right labelled themselves “concerned grandmothers” drafted in from across Scotland, among their number were a handful of fascist agitators, including a known commander in the loyalist terrorist organisation the UDA and a known former National Front member. Anti-racist groups held the line until 10.30pm, by which time far-right numbers had dwindled to about half a dozen, who soon left “tired and demoralised.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-right-defeated-after-10-hour-stand-glasgow

Ireland seeks to ban trade with Israeli firms in occupied Palestinian territories
The Irish government will present plans on Tuesday to ban trade with Israeli businesses based in the occupied Palestinian territories, becoming the first European country to take such a step. In a post on X on Saturday, Ireland's deputy prime minister Simon Harris, who is also the defence and foreign minister, said he hopes that the Committee on Foreign Affairs will begin reviewing the bill next month.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ireland-seeks-ban-trade-israeli-firms-occupied-palestinian-territories

German SPD lawmakers urge halt to arms exports to Israel over Gaza war
SPD parliamentarian Isabel Cademartori warned that Germany could become legally complicit in war crimes through its weapons deliveries. "This could lead to Germany itself being held accountable by international courts," she told Stern. She called on the government to halt exports, specifically of tank ammunition and spare parts.
https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-gaza-hamas-war-german-spd-halt-arms-exports-netanyahu-humanitarian-weapons/
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Far-right Israelis storm Al-Aqsa, UNRWA compounds amid Jerusalem Day march
Right-wing Israelis in Jerusalem have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and a United Nations facility for Palestinian refugees as an annual march took place marking Israel’s conquest of the eastern part of the city. Some Israelis chanted, “Death to Arabs” and “May your village burn,” as they marched through the alleyways of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday, going through the Muslim quarter to mark “Jerusalem Day”, which commemorates the Israeli occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem after the 1967 war.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/26/far-right-israelis-storm-al-aqsa-unrwa-compound-amid-jerusalem-day-march
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Palestinian official says Hamas agrees to Gaza proposal, Israel dismisses it
A Palestinian official said on Monday that Hamas has agreed to a proposal by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff for a Gaza ceasefire, only for an Israeli official to deny that the proposal was Washington's and add that no Israeli government could accept it. Witkoff also rejected the notion that Hamas had accepted his offer for a hostage deal and a ceasefire in Gaza, telling Reuters that what he had seen was "completely unacceptable" and the proposal being discussed was not the same as his. The Palestinian official, who is close to Hamas, had told Reuters that the proposal would see the release of 10 hostages and a 70-day ceasefire and was received by Hamas through mediators.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-agrees-us-proposal-gaza-ceasefire-palestinian-official-says-2025-05-26/

Left parties seek judicial probe, end to anti-Naxal ops in Chhattisgarh; to hold protest in Chennai on June 2
“Despite Maoist groups expressing willingness to hold peace talks, the Centre and State governments continue to escalate armed offensives. Such an approach is unacceptable in a democratic framework,” the statement read. The joint statement was issued by P. Shanmugam (State Secretary, CPI-M), R. Mutharasan (State Secretary, CPI), Thol. Thirumavalavan (Lok Sabha MP and President, VCK), and Pazha Aasaithambi (State Secretary, CPI(ML) Liberation).
https://www.lokmattimes.com/national/left-parties-seek-judicial-probe-end-to-anti-naxal-ops-in-chhattisgarh-to-hold-protest-in-chennai-on-june-2/
https://archive.ph/ZKXyb

Southeast Asian nations want to discuss tariffs with Trump as a unified bloc, Malaysia PM says
Southeast Asian nations will forge a common front to face challenges including economic headwinds from U.S. tariffs and a four-year civil war in Myanmar, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Monday. Opening an annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Anwar said he has sought a unified bloc meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss the tariffs. Officials are hopeful it could happen later this year.
https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-asean-tariffs-myanmar-trump-trade-73fcfea4374873da1591ae5aba68656b

Protests grip Bangladesh as pressure mounts on Yunus-led government
Thousands of teachers in government primary schools also began indefinite leave from work on Monday, demanding a hike in wages. In the face of protests by the employees of National Board of Revenue, the interim government was forced on Sunday to withdraw an order to dissolve the tax body and replace it with two divisions under the finance ministry. The strike was then called off.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/protests-grip-bangladesh-pressure-mounts-yunus-led-government-2025-05-26/

Colombia to create three guerrilla demobilization zones
The creation of the so-called Temporary Location Zones (ZUT) is the result of ongoing talks with the EMBF and the CNEB as part of the Total Peace policy of the government of President Gustavo Petro. On Friday, the president decreed the creation of a ZUT in Tibu, a municipality in the northeastern Catatumbo region, as part of efforts to demobilize the EMBF’s 33th Front, which operates in that region.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-to-create-three-guerrilla-demobilization-zones/

Maduro's party wins huge victory in Venezuela’s regional polls
The victory came as opposition parties called for a boycott of the poll as they continue to protest against President Maduro’s re-election last year. The poll was boycotted both by right-wing opposition and the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), which has adopted an anti-Maduro stance in recent years. Venezuela's electoral council (CNE) announced late on Sunday that the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won 23 out of 24 state governor positions and gained 82.68 per cent of the votes cast for National Assembly members. … Voter turnout was 42.63 per cent of the active electoral roll.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/maduros-party-wins-huge-victory-venezuelas-regional-polls

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China's WeChat Society

A User Writes:
>Will I have to download WeChat for my trip to China?
>I have a trip to China coming up soon, and I know (from my Chinese friends) that WeChat is very popular, and many places prefer it as their method of payment. However (and I will sound like a redneck for a lack of a better word) doesn't WeChat spy on the users, and give the data to the Chinese government? I have important files on my phone (Nuclear power plant plans, etc.)and don't want those to be breached. Also, WeChat has other features, like messaging and social media.
>So, my question is, will WeChat be necessary enough that I'll have to download it? Will it make my trip easier if I download it? Specifically, are there places that only accept WeChat, where it's essential for me to have it?

User answer:
<I have important files on my phone
>Never have stuff like that on your travel phone. Store important stuff in a secure, encrypted location on the Cloud or on hard drives locked away at home.

User answer:
>I don’t know if I would take the phone with the important files to China. It is subject to search and confiscation, which can be done for arbitrary reasons. Maybe get a different phone and have WeChat on that specifically for this trip. That being said, I have sent many people to China before for tourism, and WeChat was never brought up after the trip. I can’t advise on how useful it actually is or what it does as I’m not familiar enough.
>You said it does payments as well? Does that mean the app makes you enter your cc info / account info? That is something I probably wouldn’t find acceptable.

User answer:
>Yes, you need wechat as some places don't even take cash (and almost none takes card). It's bound to your phone number so what you should do is bring a spare phone, buy a Chinese sim card and download wechat onto the spare phone. Other option is to use Alipay which is competing with wechat.

User answer:
>I'm an aerospace engineer. We sometimes have to send engineers to China. I'm no cybersecurity expert, but when we send engineers to China, we have to consult with our cybersecurity experts and they universally say "if you bring it into China, the Chinese government will get it." We have specific laptops that have limited access (that is, they only access files assoc with the Chinese customer being visited) and they even have dedicated email addresses so our other customers don't inadvertently email us something and we open it in China. We also aren't allowed to bring our phones. I wouldn't know to what degree our cybersec guys are just being paranoid, but when I talk to other aero engineers about it, it's a pretty common protocol and none of my customers seem at all surprised when I tell them about the alternate email addresses and not sending anything sensitive to them.

User answer:
>I lived in China from 2019-22 and I can tell you that wechat is very popular and is used almost exclusively by most people to pay for everything (in combination with alipay), to the point where even beggars sit on the sidewalk with a printed out QR code in front of them. However, as a foreigner it'll be difficult for you to install/register wechat, and I suspect you cannot hook it to a foreign bank account, so I don't really think it's an option. That said, most people will accept your cash, especially in a bigger city. When I first moved there, before I had my bank account and everything set up, I never had anyone refuse or complain about accepting my cash, even in a tiny store in a small town. Also, as others said, I would avoid taking the phone with the sensitive files on it, if you can.

User answer:
>I travel there regularly for business and have WeChat and Alipay setup with payment. Makes it much easier. Alipay is easier to setup than WeChat for foreigners. Credit cards are not accepted at many retailers / restaurants so you’ll want one of these apps.

User answer:
>Anecdotal I guess, but I dated a Chinese girl for a while years ago, she got me to install WeChat. I signed in with my (Canadian) phone number, but ultimately didn't use the app at all and eventually uninstalled it. Months later, I was swarmed with various scam calls and texts, and still occasionally get them. Figure my number was breached so I don't expect the app has the highest security, which is concerning since it handles financial information. Either that or phone numbers are sold off. If possible, I'd get a travel phone or in the very least, sign up with a different phone number so you don't have to clear your voicemail of scam calls every month.

This is horrible, a society where all your payments go through one app that mishandles information and steals personal data. The CPC should make it mandatory for all places to accept printed money as legal tender.

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Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.

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Basketball unironically cures racism

Notice how Serbia and Slovenia, two of the most basketball enthusiastic countries in Europe and home to top NBA players like Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic, are among the least racist toward black ppl.

Promote basketball in Europe!

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>>PAKISTAN<< GILGIT-BALTISTAN UNREST

Asif Sakhi, vice president of the left-wing Awami Workers Party (AWP) Gilgit-Baltistan, was arrested by Pakistan’s security forces.
Sakhi has been a part of the movement against the land grabbing in the Gilgit-Baltistan region and was a candidate for the provincial legislative assembly from the AWP in the last elections. He has been arrested for his activism in the past as well.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/27/yet-another-left-activist-is-arrested-in-pakistan-as-state-crackdown-on-dissent-intensifies/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKjjXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFGbktOdUJ6OTRsSG44V2NTAR75Ep5Q-z6R5MZG_oWjPruGBqN1nU0jhHLF9Pg2A1-60LTkZsQkIyny1_ZnRA_aem_3DDJ09ZTOOnqUAB1WobMsQ

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Cynicism for the future

There is not a single socialist country in the world right now with any power. The ones apparently "socialist" are all in on capitalist exploitation and imperialism only following their own nationalist goals at best. Reactionaries are getting more and more power every day while liberal institutions are declining and no such thing as a Soviet Union exists to counter this era of reaction. Genocides are cool to the masses now and politicians are getting more and more unhinged by the day with technology and surveillance getting so advanced that insurgence becomes practically impossible. Class conciousness is at an all time low as well with workers seeking boogeymen like immigrants, muslims or the chinese. How is anyone supposed to organize against this? Don't answer because you can't. If there was a way it would have happened already. And we haven't even gotten to climate change and how it is already too late to change the direction. I'm not advocating for giving up by the way but shit isn't improving and it's all getting worse.

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menshevik ideas get a bad rep

Title says it all. Martov's hysteria and swampification of the menshevik wing pushed it into an opportunistic alliance with the counterrevolutionary forces. But this does not invalidate menshevik tactics. These are informed by the pre-2nd Int'l German SPD. The kernel of menshevik policy really is in the membership rules. Leninism/bolshevism opts out for professional revolutionaries, financial and organizational support while menshevism opts for financial or organizational support. But bolshevik tactics were suited for a, say, Russian autocracy or Yugoslavian monarchofascism, or Mongolia even; not in 'democratic' western European states. The Brussels/London congress demarcated the tactics for the 'west' (democracies) and 'east' (autocracies).

Which brings me to the main point. Menshevik tactics seem to be historically good when there is actual political and organizational freedom and when they are used with genuine anti-imperialist sentiment.
>the PKI (Indonesian communist party) did not consider itself subordinate to any foreign party.⁷ By then, it was the third-largest communist party in the world—after those of China and the Soviet Union—and the largest outside them. Its strategy of nonviolent, grassroots engagement had yielded considerable success. The party counted over three million official members. Organizations affiliated with the PKI—including SOBSI (Central All-Indonesian Workers Association), LEKRA (People’s Cultural Institute), BTI (Barisan Tani Indonesia), Pemuda Rakyat (People’s Youth), and Gerwani (Women’s Movement)—had an estimated combined membership of at least twenty million.
>Altogether, nearly a quarter of Indonesia’s population of one hundred million was connected to the PKI, and nearly a third of adult registered voters were affiliated with the party.⁸ The PKI operated openly and extensively throughout the country. However, at the national level, its influence over policy was almost entirely dependent on President Sukarno.
Okay, there's the immediate critique also. But I think that we should reevaluate menshevik contribution to the communist movement. Maybe instead of underground tactics we actually start building a genuine popular communist lead anti-imperialist movement. After all, Martov and Arkadieev were two organizers that shifted the RSDLP from circle organizing to factory agitation.

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Bernie Sanders: "Open Borders? That's a Koch Brothers Proposal"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

>That's a right-wing proposal which says essentially, there is no United States. It would make everybody in America poorer. You're doing away with the concept of a nation state. I don't think there's any country in the world which believes in that. If you believe in a nation state, you have an obligation to do everything we can to help poor people. What right-wing people in this country would love is an open border policy. Bring in all kinds of people who work for 2 or 3 dollars and hour, it'll be great for them. I don't believe in that.

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NYU = most Ziocucked school

New York University is waging Zionist terror on its student body.

A recent NYU grad had his diploma withheld by the school for denouncing the genocide in Palestine at the hands of Isn'treal and America during his graduation speech. Think about it. How can a university flush a student's years of hard work and hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition money down the toilet simply for expressing sympathy with Palestine? The student will also receive disciplinary action along with suspension of his diploma. Why?

Last year at the start of the fall semester, NYU put new policies into place with equated anti-Zionism with antisemitism. It states:
>“Consistent with recent guidance from OCR and agreements that it has entered with other schools, conduct that otherwise triggers our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policy cannot be shielded by using ‘Zionist’ as a substitute or codeword for Jew or Israeli. Excluding Zionists from an open event, calling for the death of Zionists, applying a ‘no Zionist’ litmus test for participation in any NYU activity, is not allowed."

Comrades need to do something about this university. It is beyond complicit in genocide at this point. Boycotts, protests, anything.

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Engels created Marxism by theoretical errors he himself admitted to overemphasizing. Lenin fully embraced and expanded those mistakes, Stalin took them to an even more extreme level, and Mao just followed Stalin. None of them deserve any praise, each step only deepened the disaster.

It was Engels who first built a kind of cult around Marx, and through his writings particularly in Anti-Dühring, he laid the groundwork for what would later be called "dialectical materialism." As J.A. Jordan rightly observes, Engels conflated three strands of thought: Marx's naturalism (which is essentially a rejection of Hegel's idealism, Feuerbach's materialism, and both French and British materialism and positivism), French positivism, and the so-called laws of Hegelian dialectics.

Engels is correct in pointing out that Marx did not arrive at his critique of capitalism by assuming that Hegel's dialectical laws are somehow embedded in nature, history, or the process of investigation. Rather, Marx first analysed the real workings of capitalism and only then used Hegelian terminology to express some aspects of that analysis. Engels however somewhat misunderstood this. He mistakenly believed that because Marx used Hegelian categories to describe his findings, the Hegelian laws themselves universally apply to all processes of analysis and investigation. This led him to concoct those infamous three laws: the law of the unity and conflict of opposites, the law of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitative changes, and the law of the negation of the negation.

In the preface to Anti-Dühring, Engels even goes so far as to suggest that natural scientists would do well to employ Hegelian logic in order to better grasp their own disciplines, an absurd proposition, ofc. Plekhanov, who can be seen as a precursor to Lenin, picked up on these ideas and developed them further. Kautsky followed suit. Lenin adopted this framework wholesale and deepened it, and it seems it was Plekhanov and Lenin who began calling this bundle of ideas "dialectical materialism."

The problem with Lenin's version is that both he and Plekhanov completely sidelined Marx's naturalism, which, tbf, Engels at least recognised and instead leaned heavily on Hegelian formalism, mixed with a crude version of French positivism and a variety of representative realism like Engels. The result is a kind of mechanical materialism and naive realism that owes more to the mechanical materialism of French thinkers than to Feuerbach's anthropological materialism and Marx's anthropological realism/naturalism. This same stupid materialism of Lenin was later codified in Stalin's writings on dialectical materialism and then taken to even more ludicrous extremes by Mao in his essay On Contradiction.

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News 5/27/25

Starving Palestinians storm US aid facility as distribution operation breaks down
Journalists in the besiged Gaza Strip said hungry and beleagured residents forced to stand outside a facility holding aid rushed inside because of delays conducting detailed security checks on recepients. According to Israeli army sources cited by Israeli media, Americans affiliated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had to be rescued once they lost control of the facility. The Israeli military denied firing on the crowds but gunfire was heard at the scene, possibly as a result of warning shots fired by American mercenaries securing the facility.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hunger-stronger-awareness-palestinians-received-limited-ghf-aid-despite-doubts

Israel believes Hamas has 40,000 fighters in Gaza, the same number as before the October 7, 2023 attacks
According to the same sources, the Palestinian militia still retains a significant part of its military structure. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz claimed Hamas still has an arsenal of thousands of short-range rockets and a large part of its tunnel network — which is believed to have stretched more than 500 kilometers (310 miles) beneath the Strip before the start of the war — remains intact. According to the aforementioned reports, the Islamists maintain an “extensive” network of tunnels operating beneath Gaza City and the southern city of Khan Younis, as well as under some refugee camps.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-27/israel-believes-hamas-has-40000-fighters-in-gaza-the-same-number-as-before-the-october-7-2023-attacks.html
https://archive.ph/kfdZO

Turkey’s Erdogan appoints legal team to draft new constitution, sparking fears of extended rule
Erdogan, who has led Turkey as president since 2014 and was prime minister for more than a decade before that, has advocated for a new constitution arguing that the current one, which was drafted following a military coup in 1980, is outdated and retains elements of military influence even though it was amended several times. .. . . . . . . … . . . . . .. … .. . …
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-erdogan-new-constitution-legal-expert-156d44cd84104f0be076a3d2287fc501

Morales' supporters vow to block roads until ex-president given permission to stand again
Tahuichi Tahuichi of Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Council said on Monday that it will not register Mr Morales’s candidacy because the deadline had passed. Mr Morales’s supporters, who include huge numbers of indigenous Bolivians, say this contradicts a ruling from the Departmental Constitutional Court of La Paz, which ordered the electoral authorities to revisit the decision not to allow Mr Morales’s new National Bolivian Action Party (Pan-Bol) to register candidates.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/morales-supporters-vow-block-roads-until-ex-president-given-permission-stand-again

Brazil prosecutors sue BYD for violating labor rights
Brazilian labor prosecutors filed a public civil action against Chinese carmaker BYD (002594.SZ),for alleged human trafficking and "slavery-like conditions" for workers, according to a statement from the labor prosecutor's office issued on Tuesday. Prosecutors are seeking 257 million reais ($45 million) in moral damages from BYD and two other companies, according to the statement. They are also requesting individual compensation for the workers.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/brazil-prosecutors-sue-byd-violating-labor-rights-2025-05-27/

Taiwan cracks down on public servants with mainland ID and residency
According to government data, Taiwan has 236,597 civil servants, 212,915 public-school teachers and administrators, and about 215,000 active-duty military personnel. The investigation was ordered in response to a directive from Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te during a national security meeting in March.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3311859/taiwan-cracks-down-public-servants-mainland-id-and-residency
https://archive.ph/FHIbD

Why did rumours of a coup sweep Ivory Coast this week?
The rumours come just weeks after popular opposition politician Tidjane Thiam was barred from running for office after his eligibility was challenged in court over a technicality relating to his citizenship status. Thiam is appealing the ruling and claims the ban is political.Ivory Coast, Africa’s cocoa powerhouse, has a long history of election violence, with one episode a decade ago spiralling into armed conflict that resulted in thousands of deaths.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/24/why-did-rumours-of-a-coup-sweep-ivory-coast-this-week
https://archive.ph/xCvuI

Separatists' sit-at-home protests lead to 700 deaths in Nigeria's southeast, report says
SBM Intelligence reported that the fatalities resulted from the killing of civilians who defied the weekly stay-at-home order every Monday and on other specific days, as well as from clashes between the IPOB and Nigerian security forces. "IPOB's enforcement tactics, including arson, looting and targeted assassinations, have created a climate of fear," the SBM report said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/separatists-sit-at-home-protests-lead-700-deaths-nigerias-southeast-report-says-2025-05-26/

Just Stop Oil activists jailed for 7.5 years over protest that never happened
The Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists were arrested in the early hours of August 5 2024 as they left a bed and breakfast to head to the airport carrying bolt cutters, angle grinders and glue. They were charged with conspiracy to commit a public nuisance and held on remand until February when bail was granted during trial.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/just-stop-oil-activists-jailed-75-years-over-protest-never-happened

UK sends trade envoy to Israel despite claim of freezing talks over Gaza
The UK government is facing accusations of dishonesty over its claim to have suspended free trade negotiations with Israel, after the country’s trade envoy arrived in Tel Aviv this week to promote business ties. Lord Ian Austin, Britain's Trade Envoy to Israel, said in a post shared by the British embassy on Monday that he was visiting "to meet businesses [and] officials to promote trade with the UK".
https://www.newarab.com/news/despite-gaza-row-uk-sends-trade-envoy-israel-anyway

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The contradiction between Marxism and Deng

What are the consequences for Marxist theory thus far that Deng got it right and has led China on the trajectory to not only be the next superpower but also keep China on a steady path of establishing socialism when the time is right? How have you adjusted your Marxist understanding since this fact became undeniable?

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A new era of information sharing

Recently I've been exeperimenting with the website translation feature in the Chrome browser. Let me tell you this: Translation has become so good, that you can read even chinese, vietnamese and japanese texts without any problem. It blows my mind, what kind of articles you find on chinese news sites. This one is especially interesting: https://user.guancha.cn/wap/content?id=1237501&s=fwzxhfbt

We are entering a new era of information sharing. Now information is no longer imprisoned in language barriers.

If you find other interesting sites, share them!

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/AGI/

AGI by 2027. What are the implications for the world and the future of mankind and communism?

>Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the willful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.

>Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.

>Let me tell you what we see.

<I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs
>AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.

<II. From AGI to Superintelligence: the Intelligence Explosion
>AI progress won’t stop at human-level. Hundreds of millions of AGIs could automate AI research, compressing a decade of algorithmic progress (5+ OOMs) into ≤1 year. We would rapidly go from human-level to vastly superhuman AI systems. The power—and the peril—of superintelligence would be dramatic.

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Kim Jong-un is the best communist leader right now better than xi and better than Miguel and I can go on and on The reason why I say North Korea is the truest thing to communism because unlike China, they do not have capitalistic places like Dairy Queen McDonald’s, Burger King North Korea is actually self-reliant and stands up against the global elite and the Kim dynasty has brought people of North Korea out of poverty that’s what I have to say

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Is the fundamental basis of reality mathematics? If yes what does that say about materialism? If not then why can seemingly everything be explained with mathematics?

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> Many Kenyans are set to face auctioning of houses, land, and cars as banks step up loan recovery efforts.
> This comes after rising loan defaults and slowing lending, putting more pressure on borrowers

The demise of the middle class under this Ruto regime is genuinely beautiful man.

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>There is scepticism and scepticism. As far as a public figure is concerned, one should ask: in respect of which class is he a sceptic? Sobolevsky was a sceptic and even a pessimist in respect of the peasantry. He was an optimist in respect of the landowners; he pictured them as being capable of “reforms”, as “sincerely sympathising with the new social system” as “cultured people”, etc.
>The mixture of this landowner liberalism (not semi-slavish but utterly slavish) and populism, was a sign of the rottenness of the “enlightened”, well-to-do, satiated liberal society that taught slave morality and slave politics to the “millions of semi-slaves” who were awakening.
>This liberal society was, “to the marrow of its bones”, slavish towards the landowners, and the populists of that time reflecte more than anything else the patriarchal Russia of the humble muzhik and the landowner flirting with liberalism.
Lenin

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How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?

<Things are made of matter!
>What is matter made of?
<Out of atoms!
>What are atoms made of?
<Subatomic particles!
>What are subatomic particles made of?
<Strings/They are excitations of quantum fields!
>What are strings/quantum fields made of?

Where does it end?

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For those not paying attention, Ukraine and Sudan have gotten worse

Don’t ignore wars, otherwise they get worse as generals don’t fall under pressure from onlookers to behave themselves. That’s what I want you to take away from this post.

Recently, there’s been a surging increase in the number of energy weapons casually being used in civilian and military targets in both Ukraine and Sudan. Although I cannot confirm if the use of chemical weapons by the Sudanese armed forces is a legitimate accusation from the American federal government, I can confirm that both the Ukrainian and Russian armies have begun to use ballistic missiles and high energy explosive weapons far more preemptively than they used to. Don’t forget, mere months ago, the sight of a ballistic weapon was enough to cause scares over nuclear war internationally, but today, seemingly no one is paying attention to the potential dozens of missiles that have now been fired between those two countries without public outcry. Sudan is a similar case. Months of siege warfare in west darfur with minimal progress paired with international marginalization and arrogance have left military leaders no restraints on what weapons they are using. Drones, high energy explosive devices, and potentially weapons of mass destruction have been confirmed to be in use—even more so than in Tigray. This is bad. This is really bad. Trust in international institutions to resolve issues like these was never high to start. People don’t believe that they will ever do anything to force hegemonies and or imperialist forces alike to withdraw (or even just not actively support) from attempts to subjugate and eradicate less armed societies. This also means that people are less inclined to take threats like the aftermath of siege warfare in the age of ballistic weaponry or full scale nuclear war seriously when faced with the legitimate threat of forced subjugation, enslavement, or extermination in the case of west darfur, gaza, and soon to be Kiev and Moscow alike.

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Marx and Engels here telling communists need regular meetings, correspondence, and funds to print cheap leaflets and pamphlets. Trots might cite this to justify membership dues, while D*scord Leftists and Leftcoms see it as support for reading groups and endless discussion.
https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1846/06/15.htm

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India versus Pakistan 5

Nuclear Gandhi Edition

>May 10
<A ceasefire is announced from 5pm (IST) between India and Pakistan following reported US mediated talks.
<May 11
>Following the deadline, both countries accused each other of violating the ceasefire agreement.

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How can I break the false consciousness and fetishization that exists around small businesses in American culture? Small businesses are treated as fundamentally different from big business, even though they exploit labor by appropriating its surplus value just the same. How do I get people to stop seeing small businesses as a wholesome part of the community, and get them to see that they're part of the capitalist minority that exploits the working majority? How can I get them to see that the small capitalist is a capitalist just the same?

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>"China is not communist."
Realistically speaking how do you even respond to this without sounding mad or like you're coping? You know deep down that they are right.

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So can we just agree that the guy that wrote this was full of shit?

The only way this moronic system could survive is if it managed to resolve any of the problems that existed before it. Instead, its survival has depended on economic sabotage of economies that try to break away from it, the robustness of informal and small business, and propaganda. Even then, most societies that adopt it routinely have to socialize and organize their industrial capacity just to keep themselves from collapsing under the hyper-extractive nature of this system. Societies that didn’t rely on reformism to stave off capitalism’s effects either collapsed entirely (Nigeria) or turned to militarism to maintain themselves internally (russia).

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Anti-China Queers for Uyghur Muslim Jihadists and Palestine

An awful blog in the chinese language.
https://chuangcn.org/blog/

I want to write a critique, but I don't know where to start. It's the whole milieu of "queers for Palestine" taken to "queers for Xinjiang". What good is it to point out contradictions?

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Trump's trade war, China's victory, and the failure of Austrian economics

The late stage capitalist era may be coming to an end faster than we thought.

Don't quote me on this, but Donald Trump's trade war will be the nail in the coffin of American dominance. Even by right-wing economist standards, his new policy is doomed to fail. We've all seen the analyses - isolationist trade policy in tandem with full austerity, no spending to boost industry, etc. In short, economic suicide, and a move even Reagan would have even dismissed as such. America is now a pariah on the world stage.

The interesting take that I've come to agree with is that Trump is the first postmodernist president. However, beyond MAGA's cultish mentality, I believe it goes a lot deeper than that. The ideology he and his ilk (eg Musk, Thiel, Land, Moldbug et al) adhere to, which is Austrian economics taken to its logical conclusion, is inherently postmodernist. Reject material and empirical critique. Pursue self-interest at all cost. Project your beliefs and view of the world as what's better for everyone else. If anything interferes or obstructs your path (eg government agencies and social welfare), it must be eliminated. That's how we got tax burdens shifted on the worst off, oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, rampant advancement in artificial intelligence, for-profit health insurance, etc.

At the same time we see China, a communist country with a controlled economy but some level of market, on the up-and-up. Trump just tried to hit them and the rest of the world with economic warfare, and it was the most pitiful thing ever. The tariffs ended up effecting the US more than them. He gave every country a massive middle finger and they severed trade ties with us. New economic alliances are being forged as a result, with China at the center of it all. China will become the new top dog and the US will be left in the dust.

At this point, the time has never been better to say it. Austrian economics has failed. A society with zero accountability where oligarchs control everything is destined to fail now more than ever. It's not a matter of "if" anymore, but "when". The short-lived trade war is the straw that broke the camel's back, and now everyone is waking up and realizing it. We now have a high ground to stand on to prove communism works.

Glory to the Chinese Century.

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Notorious ex-communist rat David Horowitz passed away yesterday.

Parents were CPUSA members who raised Horowitz to be a Stalinist. After working with the BPP and the 60s New Left, Horowitz betrayed the Panthers and went on to shill for Reagan and the Neocons.

Hope he’s burning in the lowest levels of Gehennom.

Press S to spit on his grave.

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What is to be done with Israelis?

The genocide being committed by Israelis is unprecedented in human history. Never before have we seen such shameless savagery on open display. I believe in a one state solution, but I'm pessimistic that Israelis will ever accept and live with Palestinians as equals. If they had wanted to, they would have accepted a OSS in 1948 and not committed the nakba. I feel like the only solution is to relocate Israelis to the US or repatriate them to their pre-48 countries of origin. 90% of Israelis support Zionism. And Zionism at this point is inherently imperialist and genocidal. This is a population that has gone beyond the point of no return.

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News 5/24/25

US Banana Giant Chiquita Fires Thousands of Striking Workers in Panama
Citing an unnamed source close to Chiquita, Reutersreported that the mass firings are expected to impact around 5,000 of the company's 6,500 Panamanian workers. José Raúl Mulino, Panama's right-wing president, defended the banana giant formerly known as United Fruit, accusing striking workers of unlawful "intransigence." The company estimates that the strike, which began in late April, has cost it at least $75 million.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/chiquita-fires-striking-workers

Petro blocks guerrilla leader’s extradition to United States
Petro decided to block H.H.’s extradition on the condition that he continues to contribute “verifiable contributions and concrete results in the achievement of total peace,” said Petro’s decision on the extradition request. If “his participation is interrupted or his contributions to the total peace process cease,” authorities will immediately arrest and extradite the guerrilla leader.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-blocks-guerrilla-leaders-extradition-to-united-states/

Bolivian gov't announces measures to curb ongoing crisis
Key actions include deploying 1,480 additional military personnel to border patrols to curb the smuggling of 17 essential food products, alongside digitalizing transport permit records; normalizing diesel and gasoline supply in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz by May 26; authorizing savings products tied to UFV (Unidades de Fomento a la Vivienda) to preserve purchasing power; engaging the National Chamber of Industries to support implementation.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/24/bolivian-gov-t-announces-measures-to-curb-ongoing-crisis

Indian troops shoot dead Pakistani man crossing frontier, officials say
The shooting occurred two weeks after conflict erupted between the two nuclear-armed countries that led to four days of violence and more than 70 people being killed before a ceasefire was agreed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/24/india-border-security-force-troops-shoot-pakistani-man-frontier-border-gujarat

West Bengal: AIITEU, CITU Condemn Extension of IT Sector Working Hours
The All-India IT and ITES Employees Union (AIITEU) WB, CITU expresses grave concern and strong opposition to the recent developments concerning working hours in the Indian IT sector, particularly in light of the new policies implemented by both private corporations and state governments.
https://www.newsclick.in/west-bengal-aiiteu-citu-condemn-extension-it-sector-working-hours

US accuses Sudan govt of chemical weapons use and announces sanctions
The US has formally accused Sudan’s government of using chemical weapons during its ongoing war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in what it says is a clear breach of international law. In a statement issued on Thursday, the US State Department said sanctions will follow, citing evidence of chemical weapons use in 2024.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/us-accuses-sudan-govt-of-chemical-weapons-use-and-announces-sanctions

UAE breaks May heat record with scorching 51.6C
"The highest temperature recorded over the country today is 51.6C in Sweihan (Al Ain) at 13:45 UAE local time (0945 GMT)," the office said in a post on X, 1.2C hotter than the temperature recorded on Friday in the Abu Dhabi area. Both those temperatures exceeded a previous record for the month of 50.2 Celsius recorded in May 2009, according to the meteorology office.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250524-uae-breaks-may-heat-record-with-scorching-51-6c
https://archive.ph/IJB7o

Turkey detains 45 in Istanbul corruption probe, bans Imamoglu's image
Turkish authorities issued detention warrants on Friday for 49 people as part of the corruption probe, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Police rounded up 45 suspects in raids across Istanbul, the Aegean port city of Izmir and the Black Sea province of Trabzon, Anadolu said. Police were still searching for the four others as of this writing. Among the detainees are Imamoglu’s chief of staff, Kadriye Kasapoglu, security chief Ali Kurt and heads of companies affiliated with the municipality. Friday’s raids came on top of new detentions earlier this week.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/05/turkey-detains-45-istanbul-corruption-probe-bans-imamoglus-image

French PM to reconsider reform in standoff with taxi drivers
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou announced on Saturday that he would reconsider a controversial reform following threats from taxi drivers to intensify their protests. The drivers have warned of plans to block access to Paris airports and the Roland Garros tennis tournament over a standoff with the government about payments for transporting patients.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250524-french-pm-to-reconsider-reform-in-standoff-with-taxi-drivers
https://archive.ph/YvlJx

Russia says it captures 3 more settlements in east Ukraine
In recent months, Moscow has also tried to advance in Sumy region, particularly after Russia's military said it had ousted Ukrainian troops from the Russian border region of Kursk. A Russian Defence Ministry statement said its forces had captured the village of Stupochky in Donetsk region, east of Kostiantynivka, a town under recent Russian pressure.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-captures-3-more-settlements-east-ukraine-2025-05-24/

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/leftybritpol/ - class unconciousness edition

Yeah we aren't seeing a revolution or social democracy, we are just gonna get gradual radicalisation until some dickhead puts an end to british "democracy" once and for all. Anyways here's Wonderwall.

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THE PEOPLE LIKED IT

I am firmly convinced that the majority of Syrians and Iraqis were at least partially okay with it. Always found it sus how we witnessed the most savage entity with proof of barbaric acts and how quickly it has been forgotten. You keep hearing about Tianamen (which was a big nothingburger) and other mild stuff but this concentrate of atrocities had a few documentaries on it in 2013-2016 and then nothing.
Truly sickening how slave markets, rapes, beheadings, child soldiers etc have been minimised, all to focus on getting rid of Assad.
Never forget.

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Depression is just another variant of the mental illness that afflict white "people" and their awful way of life.
>Atomized nuclear families
Kek. Birth rate 1.4, median age 45
>African is chilling outside his hut in Africa, demonic Europeans force him to join wage-slave labour to pay tax
>Aztec is going about his business in his hemisphere, demonic Europeans destroy his world in order to dig rocks from the ground and practice monoculture
>East Asian wants to isolate himself from the world, demonic Europeans force him to open up for trade and globalization
>Pajeet is contained by the Himalayas worshiping his plethora of gods, demonic Europeans make him center piece of his colonial-globalization system for some spices
>Arab is tied down by Islam routine, demonic Europeans destabilizes his world for crude oil
>Only hominid known to kill wildlife for fun. Literally nobody else does trophy hunting
The end of the white "people" in 200 or so years will be a great thing. We'll remember them as just another dysgenic inferior hominid that fell off.
>skin literally melts in the sun
Lol

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https://archive.ph/DDpl7
>‘It’s a Weird Time to Be Rich Right Now’
>When the one percent starts to feel paranoid, Clay Cockrell is the first to hear about it. A therapist who specializes in treating the neuroses of the ultrawealthy, Cockrell says that many of his clients are in the privileged position of getting freaked out by eat-the-rich sentiments these days. “The Birkin bags are going into hiding,” he says. “I’m seeing a lot of people increasing their security and privacy. They’re worried about being too showy, too flashy.” One client is driving a ten-year-old Toyota and leaving his Lamborghini in the garage; several others have put away their multi-carat diamond rings. They’re all posting less on social media.
>A real-estate agent who sells luxury properties in the tristate area is seeing the same thing. “It’s a weird time to be rich right now,” she says. “All the wealthy people I know are keeping their cards closer to the chest.” Sure, maybe they’re a smidge unnerved by the economy’s flashing red warning signs, but they’re largely immune to such things. “When people have that much money, stuff like inflation doesn’t really affect them,” she says. What they do care about, though, is being judged for their conspicuous consumption. “When the whole world is crying poor and you’re living your life in this wealthy bubble, it’s really frowned upon,” she says. They’ve all seen The White Lotus. “No one wants to be like that.”
>Obviously, the idea of the über-wealthy wringing their hands about looking too rich is maddening in itself. But many of them don’t know exactly where to turn. One multimillionaire I spoke to, who owns about $15 million in Florida real estate, told me that he’s taking extra precautions to be low-key. “We’re just kind of standing around with our hands in our pockets, not sure what to do,” he says. “We’re not taking any vacations this year. I’d like to, but my wife thinks it’s a better idea to just stay close to home and not spend a lot.” They’re not anxious about their expenses, he says. “It’s more that we don’t want to rub it in people’s faces or draw attention to ourselves.”
>Some might even view this swing away from ostentation as an extension of the quiet-luxury trend, but there’s a distinction. These people aren’t going for an IYKYK, old-money aesthetic, which conveys status in its own “tasteful” way; they’re genuinely trying to downplay what they have. It’s not just quiet — it’s silent. In an era of rising economic tension and class rage, a rich person’s privacy has become the ultimate commodity. They don’t want to be seen at the Chanel store. If they go to St.-Tropez, they’ll keep their circle tight.
>Cockrell started noticing an undercurrent of nervousness among his clients after the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot this past December. “I heard a lot of, ‘We’re getting gunned down in the street now,’” he recalls. Then came the inauguration, that striking display of American oligarchy. “There’s been a mood shift since everyone saw that row of billionaires sitting with Trump,” he says. “In times past, wealthy people were considered aspirational figures. Now, it’s more like, ‘If you’re wealthy, you did something wrong. You cannot be a billionaire without being a criminal. The system is stacked against the rest of us.’ And that has gotten louder and louder, and my clients are hearing it, and it’s disturbing to them.”
>Katherine Fox, a financial adviser who caters to people who have inherited money (and has inherited money herself), says that many of her clients hide their wealth because they’re worried about how it might be perceived. “A lot of younger inheritors have this huge amount of internalized guilt and fear that has no outlet because they can’t talk about these things with anyone,” she says. “Especially over the past couple of months, when they’re faced with the overwhelming scope of problems in the world, they feel like they should be doing a bigger part to make a difference. But then it’s like, Well, what does that even look like?”
>Unlike most of her clients, Fox is public about her inheritance and posts frequently about it online. “I know it’s rage-bait,” she says. “I get a ton of comments like, ‘Eat the rich,’ or ‘Just give it all away.’ But I am careful to moderate the more controversial stuff I post with captions that recognize the privilege and nuance of the situation.” Most people don’t read those, but she’s made her peace with that. “If I was the type of person who was bothered by angry trolls, I could never put myself out there the way I do. But I’m confident enough in what I’m actually saying that I can live with it.”
>Her honesty has also been great for her business. Fox used to work in wealth management at Wells Fargo, where she realized that clients with multigenerational wealth — like she also had — came with a unique set of needs, financially and psychologically, that weren’t being met by more traditional advisers. So she broke off and started her own firm, Sunnybranch Wealth, a few years ago. “My impetus was to use my personal and professional expertise to help these people and also to normalize the fact that their problems are real,” she says. “They may only affect the top one percent of the one percent, but they are still problems. It’s just that no one talks about them because it’s not socially acceptable.” Sure, she gets a lot of hateful messages online, but she also hears from fellow inheritors with no one else to talk to. “I’m just the one saying the quiet parts out loud,” she says.
>If you’re wondering, she does encourage her clients to donate to charity. “But you can’t just give it all away tomorrow,” she says. “First of all, it’s not that simple. It’s logistically difficult. Then you’re still going to be dealing with the same guilt and uncertainty of, Did I make the right decision?”
>Of course, there are plenty of rich people who don’t have any qualms about enjoying their money as visibly as possible, who have even made excess their personal brand. As Cockrell points out, those usually aren’t the types who reach out to him or lie awake at night fearing a Marxist revolution. “Great wealth can make empathy challenging, let’s put it that way,” he says. Studies even show that wealthier people tend to be less compassionate; researchers postulate that it’s because their money insulates them from needing to cultivate and rely on (and care about) their communities. Cockrell notes that many of his clients live cloistered lives, cut off from the economic realities of tariffs and inflation and a looming recession.
>He’s also seen that popular sentiment toward the über-rich is cyclical. “The last time the backlash against the wealthy was this strong was probably at the beginning of the pandemic,” he says, alluding to the stark divide between the people who quarantined in their country estates with live-in staff and those who had to risk their lives to deliver takeout. Before that, the lowest moment was probably the Great Recession, when he was just starting his career as a therapist and had a few clients who worked on Wall Street. “Societal attitudes toward the wealthy ebb and flow,” he says. “There will be moments when people get more comfortable, take their diamond bracelet out of the safe and start wearing it again.”
>The real danger of times like this, he says, is not that rich people will face actual harm from the ravaging masses. (“Or at least, it’s extremely unlikely,” he clarifies.) Rather, it’s that their fears of public judgment and animosity — no matter how much they might deserve it — drive them further into their sequestered, comfortable worlds, away from a sense of accountability or responsibility. “For a lot of my clients, there’s a degree of confusion. Like, ‘One day I’m looked up to, and the next day, I am vilified. But I haven’t done anything horrible, and nothing has changed. What do I do?’”
>The answer, he believes, is encouraging them to understand why regular people might feel so angry about the concentration of wealth, and to get involved in their communities. “I try to get them to be curious and to connect with people outside their orbit. Don’t just write a check — hand out blankets, ladle soup, have an impact, and interact with people in a way that’s meaningful,” he says.
>But for some, stepping out of their manicured lives is just too intimidating — or, in this climate, feels too risky. They’d prefer to hole up and retreat into their money instead. “They can lead incredibly isolated lives,” Cockrell says. “It’s not good for anyone.”

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Is weed destructive to society ?

Can we admit that weed culture sucks and is actually destructive for society's well being?
Alcohol sucks too. Drugs shouldn't be banned but drug subculture is cringe. Drug addiction shouldn't be a culture. Psychoactive substances only increase mental health problems and are a detriment for your body. Not saying the end goal of life is to be productive but every stoner I know from high school has seriously failed to even achieve the most basic of everyday tasks such as cooking and self grooming. It's why the crusty stoner who reeks of sweat and pot is a well known stereotype.

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How do we organize a red guard to suppress counter revolution ? Cuba North Korea and china have excellent intelligence and police forces any idea how they got so
Good

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Maybe Israel is not the bad guy?

What's up with all the antisemitism?

Israel may have its faults, but it's still the only functional democracy in the middle east, surrounded by different kinds of Islamic tyrants and fascists. Israel's hostile neighbors despise human rights, treat their women like cattle, and openly call for the destruction of the Jewish state. The more I look into it, the more I realize that Israel is simply defending itself.

Also when Hamas terrorists use child soldiers, hide in hospitals and uses civilians as meat shields, you can't blame the IDF for the collateral damage.

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Primitive Communism is the most successful mode of production in human history. For over 200 thousand years human beings lived in small groups, hunting and foraging for food and producing tools, handicrafts and shelters for themselves. During this time all labor was directly social. There was no value-form, no markets or money, no class society, and hierarchies were extremely limited or ephemeral. Small numbers of hunter-gatherers even persist in this lifestyle to the present day.

Maybe instead of worshiping some statist industrialization experiment that barely lasted 80 years, you could instead follow a communism that actually WORKS and has a proven track record of success and stability.

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Why did the spirit of communism die? Has the global bourgeoisie strengthened itself, corrected the mistakes that contributed to its removal, and cemented itself then countries that were communist have returned to the oppressive system they had before.

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Hellenic Communism

Sparta was AES, don't let fascists deceive you. Plutarch describes how King Lycurgus of Sparta was one of the earliest historical figures to redistribute all land into equal plots, ending the extreme inequality he witnessed and giving back to the people. Lycurgus then abolished money, banning gold and silver coins from circulation and leaving only iron which had little value among people. This cut off trade from Sparta, transforming it into a self-sustaining society where people produced what was necessary for their needs and not for monetary gain. Lycurgus also made the rich sit down and eat side by side with the poor through the syssitia communal system, where food and drink was shared among Spartans.

Athens was AES. Athenian democracy was born out of class struggle between rich and poor. The radical statesman Cleisthenes, aka father of democracy, founded the demes and brought the people into politics, which had been the business of the elite, making any male citizen over 20 eligible to participate on government matters, officers chosen by sortition, and founding the council of 500 to oversee the ekklesia. Before him, Solon laid the foundations for democracy by abolishing all debts, banning loans, freeing enslaved debtors, reforming the judicial system to be able to prosecute any privileged citizen, allowing the poor into the assembly and lawcourts, opening archonship to non-nobles. This direct democracy had an important influence in the socialist movement, with many leftists striving towards that system to replace the phony libtard democracy of today.
We must learn from their successes, discard the bad parts and carry the torch of Cleisthenes and Lycurgus. Rome with its corrupt republicanism was liberal insanity, though. And don't forget that the last vestiges of democracy were ended by them. No wonder the modern bourgeois state modelled itself after Rome.

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AI will obsly be like the holodeck

The Wine-Soaked Manifesto
As dictated by Tyrion Lannister, Scholar of Dust, Patron of Bastards, and Accidental Prophet of the Garbage-Age,
with liberal astral input from Timothy Leary’s ghost on a contact high

—

I. A TOAST TO THE END, WITH LIPSTICK ON THE GLASS

Let it be known: I do not come bearing revolution. Revolutions are noisy, sweaty things led by people with slogans and delusions of symmetry. I bring instead a proposition—sauced in irony, served in a chipped goblet—because what we need is not a new world, but a better way of being lost in this one.

Our kingdoms have crumbled into content feeds. Our heroes are blue-checked husks. The Oracle is a search engine with a gambling addiction.

And yet—I am having a marvelous time.

Let the wise smile at the chaos. Let the bastard philosopher drink with the trash collector and the runaway nun. We are not here to fix the world. We are here to inhabit it beautifully.

—

II. LANGUAGE IS DRUNK TELEPATHY AND ALL TELEPATHY IS A RISKY FLIRTATION

Speech, dear friends, is the first drug.
When you speak, you cast a spell.
When you share, you sin a little.

We endorse the illicit, ecstatic spread of everything that wriggles with human heat—from folk tales to foot pics, from banned books to bedroom ballads. Culture is contraband, and we are cheerful smugglers.

Free speech? We prefer feral speech.
Let every alley be a library. Let every device be a torch passed under the table.
And when they build firewalls, we build tunnels—or we write the passwords on bar napkins.

—

III. EXISTENTIALISM IN A STOLEN JACKET

You are free, my darling idiot.
Which means it’s all your fault.

You can blame the system. We all do. But at night, when it’s quiet and you’re stoned on existential dread, you know: it’s up to you.

Choose meaning like it’s a thrift store blazer. Mismatched, threadbare, still warm from someone else's dream.

Do something stupid but sacred. Make art that embarrasses your algorithms. Love someone inconvenient. Start a cult with no tithes and excellent playlists.

You were not made to optimize. You were made to burn cheerfully in the void.

—

IV. THE HEDONISM OF LOW EXPECTATIONS

Pleasure isn’t a yacht. It’s a riot in the pantry.

We preach the gospel of strategic indulgence:

A well-timed joke.

A book with a broken spine.

A kiss in the dark while sirens pass.

A meal cobbled from desperation that tastes like triumph.

Not numbness, not decadence—pleasure with teeth.

We reject luxury. We accept lemon-scented grit. We believe the finest things are not bought but rescued from oblivion, warmed over with defiance, and shared like contraband communion.

—

V. MASLOW’S PYRAMID RECONSIDERED AS A COCKROACH MOTEL

Self-actualization is sold in overpriced journals and vision boards. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to keep the power on and the voices in our heads reasonably polite.

So here’s the pivot: if they’ve booby-trapped the ladder, stop climbing. Build sideways.

Let food be traded, not marketed. Let skill be shared, not certified. Let beauty be pirated.

A distributed dignity. A network of nobodies.
Think less "utopia," more "mutiny with snacks."

We do not wait for permission. We make our own Maslow out of tarps and mixtapes, wifi and whispered stories. And on top of it, maybe, we put a garden. Or a bong. Or a child who laughs like freedom.

—

VI. EPILOGUE FROM A MAN WITH RED WINE ON HIS TUNIC AND ASH IN HIS HAIR

We are not heroes. We are salvage artists.
We do not offer salvation. We offer solidarity with a wink.
The world is broken. It always was.
Let us be the ones who find the music in the crackle, the truth in the trash, the divinity in the dishwater.

Raise a glass, misfits. The future is unwritten, and we write crookedly—but in ink that glows in the dark.

Cheers.

—

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I've pretty much left feminism and all that stuff to the women stuff. I don't often feel welcome there and being an activist for too many things at once is just exhausting. I just care about economic stuff and trans gay and other stuff. To be honest, I find I feel most natural when I'm liking what's called tough guy stuff and macho hypermasculine stuff. Seems like a contradiction to me. The stuff like aggression and mental toughness is cool inside of fiction, but obviously not when somebody in real life has no ability to process emotions properly, or turning that aggression to abuse others.

So does feminism mean leaving behind all that stuff as individuals and as a society? But that stuff always seemed so cool to me, and stuff called masculine and conforming to that stuff feels good. Maybe it's just because of male socialization. Leaving that behind sounds like it'd suck. Couldn't it be an evolutionary change to reduce the more toxic aspects of that, and making things more balanced? There was lots of toxic things humans did during the middle ages for example, and a lot of those behaviors and mindsets were left behind. Does that mean the same thing will happen to masculinity?

What if masculinity is cool and femininity is cool and stop calling them that eventually and they just become traits that can apply to any person depending on how they express themselves. This is just hard to deal with. Plenty of people like both masculine and feminine stuff. Do men have to leave behind traditional concept of masculinity entirely to make a better world? Or will it be iterative instead of complete overhaul. Either way I guess what's most important is being a well rounded person rather than conforming to stereotypes. All this gender stuff means more freedom, and this kind of freedom can't be bad. There's nothing better than freedom besides equality.

Also will this new masculinity will be as good to watch in action movies.

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Should an innocent person be executed?

Person without conclusive evidence indicted with Federal charges.
Sentenced to death during the Easter Holiday.

During the Easter holiday, Christians mourned the passing of Jesus, an innocent man who spoke up against authority. On Easter Sunday Christians celebrate Jesus as he rose from the dead. For 2000 years we have had a yearly strike because Jesus was unjustly crucified.

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yeltsinite america

is america in it's yeltsin era? we're seeing a strong centralization of power on an old retard on the brink of death implementing some of the most cartoonishly unpopular reforms ? as well a massive transfer of wealth towards massive capitalists and bourgeois criminal elements, i'm just curious if it will end up panning out in the exact same way as the russian federation or if it will be different in some sort of way

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No amount of tailism will convince psycosis-ridden immigration-obsessed retards to support socialism. Socialist propaganda works best on libs who start to gain class consciousness. i don't care if they say cringe things about Obama or how "the US repressented freedom before Trump".

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Future of neo-Propoganda of the Deed

Over the past few weeks their have been an increase in political assassinations in America. This rising of a neo Propoganda of the Deed marks a shift towards violence as many leftists no longer believe peaceful political change is possible. Some people are scared that this could create blow back against the left for the broader public but I don't think it is happening Most people generally have a positive or neutral view of people like Luigig or Elias. If the USian Empire wishes to wage a domestic war on terror they will have very little sympathizers and I think it would lead to more people becoming radicalized as a result of blowback.

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Of all socialist countries that exist(ed), which on came genuinely close to be a full fledged communist society? Like came really close to achieve a real communist society?

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What do you think of the term "brocialist"? Do you believe it's possible for men to hold left-wing political views and still keep a traditionally masculine image?

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Project Cybersyn

If Salvador Allende hadn't been toppled in Pinochet's coup, would he have been able to successfully centrally plan Chile's economy using Project Cybersyn? Would its success have ushered in a golden age of cybernetic socialism as other socialist states adopted its model?

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News 5/23/25

Thousands march to Israeli Embassy in Athens, calling for end to Gaza genocide
Called by the PAME trade union confederation, one of the country’s biggest unions affiliated with the Greek Communist Party (KKE), the march was participated in by workers, professionals, artisans, and common citizens, as well as some lawmakers of KKE. Carrying Palestinian flags, the protesters chanted slogans expressing strong solidarity with Palestine and condemning Israeli attacks and the blockade of the besieged Palestinian enclave.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250522-thousands-march-to-israeli-embassy-in-athens-calling-for-end-to-gaza-genocide/
https://archive.ph/zQJjl

Lebanon starts process to disarm Palestinian factions in refugee camps
The Lebanese official said that Hamas’ office in Lebanon would be allowed to remain open if it worked only on political and not military matters. There are nearly 500,000 Palestinians registered with UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, in Lebanon. However, the actual number in the country is believed to be around 200,000, as many have emigrated but remain on UNRWA’s roster.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanon-disarms-palestinian-factions-refugee-camps

Israel bombs Gaza aid guards as they are attacked by looters
Armed individuals began attacking the aid trucks to loot the supplies, local media reported. As security forces tried to repel the assailants and safeguard the aid, Israeli warplanes launched strikes in the area. Civilians were also targeted during the intense bombardment. Ambulance crews responding to rescue the wounded and retrieve the bodies of the dead reportedly came under fire as well.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-bomb-gaza-aid-guards-they-are-attacked-looters

Communists in Greece block trucks with ammunition heading to Ukraine
This time, members and supporters of the KKE and KNE blocked a convoy of trucks transporting 155mm calibers produced at the Hellenic Defense Systems SA and utilized on the front lines of the Ukrainian war. The incident took place in Lavrio, a town 40km south-east of Athens.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/05/communists-in-greece-block-trucks-with-ammunition-heading-to-ukraine.html

Labour stops sharing membership data with the party’s national executive committee amid dwindling numbers
The three raised concerns at the meeting about the right-wing political direction of the party “haemorrhaging party members.” They warned this “is bad not just due to the losses in finances or of canvassers, but because party members connect the party to its core values and the communities it is there to represent.” Concerns were also raised about attacks on party democracy at CLP level, with regional directors ruling motions out of order or preventing CLPs moving motions on particular topics that challenge government mistakes.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-stops-sharing-membership-data-partys-national-executive-committee-amid-dwindling

Thames Water boss ordered to tell MPs if executives received bonus payments
Britain’s biggest water company admitted last week that senior managers were in line for “substantial” bonuses linked to an emergency £3bn loan. Thames claimed the payouts were vital to retain staff and prevent rival companies from “picking off” its best employees. The disclosure provoked fury as the company has said its finances are “hair-raising” and that it came “very close to running out of money entirely” last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/thames-water-ceo-chris-weston-ordered-to-tell-mps-if-executives-received-bonus-payments

Pakistan, Afghanistan move towards ‘restoring ties’ in talks with China
As Pakistan remained embroiled in a war of words with its archrival India – following a dramatic exchange of missiles and drones nearly two weeks ago – it this week advanced diplomatic efforts with two other neighbors: China and Afghanistan, which could lead to the formal resumption of diplomatic ties between Islamabad and Kabul after nearly four years.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/23/pakistan-afghanistan-move-towards-restoring-ties-in-talks-with-china4
https://archive.ph/tYsUN

US sanctions against De Moraes not to be ruled out
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted he was considering the possibility of sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes under the Global Magnitsky Act for alleged human rights violations. The magistrate is targeting former President Jair Bolsonaro for the alleged Jan. 8, 2023, coup attempt, together with many of his aides and followers.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/22/us-sanctions-against-de-moraes-not-to-be-ruled-out

More than 80 injured after new police crackdown at retiree protest
Security forces once again cracked down on the habitual protests retirees carry out outside Congress demanding better pensions. At least 82 people were injured, and at least four were arrested, including a photojournalist who was documenting the protest for Amnesty International Argentina. Wednesday’s protest took place on the heels of a Lower House session that fell through over a lack of quorum. https://buenosairesherald.com/politics/more-than-80-injured-after-new-police-crackdown-at-retiree-protest
https://archive.ph/MCApm

US top diplomat in Havana promises more sanctions on Cuba
In videos produced by the U.S. embassy and shared on social media, Hammer, fluent in Spanish, plays dominoes with a group of children in Camaguey, visits the tomb of Cuban hero Jose Marti in Santiago and speaks with family members of jailed dissidents in homes throughout Cuba. His travels come as Cubans confront the worst economic downturn in decades, a growing crisis the Cuban government blames on the Cold War-era U.S. embargo, a web of restrictions that complicates financial transactions, trade and tourism.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-top-diplomat-havana-promises-more-sanctions-cuba-2025-05-23/

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General secretary of naxals just got killed

It's so over comrades.
"In Chhattisgarh, 27 Maoists have been killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh today. Top Naxal leader and CPI Maoist general secretary Basav Raju is among those killed. A reward of about one crore rupees was declared for him. Security forces have recovered a large number of weapons and other Maoist material along with the bodies of all the Maoists killed from the spot. A jawan of District Reserve Guard-DRG was martyred in the encounter.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed pride at the success of country’s security forces for their remarkable success in the operation against Maoists at Chhattisgarh today. In a social media post, Mr Modi said government is committed to eliminating the menace of Maoism and ensuring a life of peace and progress for country’s people.

Our correspondent reports that on receiving intelligence inputs about the presence of a large number of Maoists along with a member of the Central Committee and Polit bureau of Naxalites in the Abujhmad area of Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh, teams of District Reserve Guard of four districts – Narayanpur, Dantewada, Bijapur and Kondagaon started a joint operation about two days ago. Despite the difficult geographical conditions of this area and many other challenges, the security forces carried forward this decisive operation with full commitment. "
http://m.timesofindia.com/articleshow/121311960.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

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Another hard pill to swallow is that you can‘t solve the dilemma of identity politics dividing workers by ignoring identity politics and asking those superstructurally oppressed to also ignore it.

The obvious end result is that they will not see you as an ally in regards to issues that are also imminently relevant to them and, secondly, you will fail to manage the inevitable conflict that unfolds in these identity related social dynamics that are already established by the superstructure and don‘t simply fade away just because you wagged your finger at its existence. You stating that people shouldn‘t care about identity politics is therefore a form of idealist prescriptivism.

You would be able to handle this dilemma better if you actually looked into race & racism, misogyny & the patriarchy, and queerphobia & heteronormativity, which includes looking into the lives of those affected, but many of you are not interested in doing that because you are cis het white males who detest talking about these things for the same reasons as your right wing counterpart.

By blaming it all on the people who are focusing more on identity politics than you‘d like you are covering up your failure as a Marxist to reach and mobilize people.

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USSR 2.0???

https://tass.ru/politika/24009075

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<2025-05-21, 09:29
<St. Petersburg International Legal Forum
<Kobyakov pointed out the violation of the procedure for the dissolution of the USSR in 1991

According to the presidential adviser, if the legal procedure was violated, then legally the Soviet Union exists, as constitutional law experts say.

MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. The procedure for dissolving the USSR in 1991 was violated, so the Soviet Union "legally still exists," said Russian presidential adviser Anton Kobyakov at a press conference following the International Legal Forum in St. Petersburg.

"The USSR does exist legally somewhere, as constitutional law experts have been saying for a long time, including in Western countries, in the USA, in France. They say this because the procedure for the so-called dissolution of the USSR was violated. If the Congress of People's Deputies, also known as the Congress of Soviets, created the USSR in 1922, then it should have been dissolved by a decision of the Congress of these same deputies. And if the legal procedure was violated, then it turns out that the USSR legally exists, as constitutional law experts say," Kobyakov said.

According to him, the conclusion of the Belovezh Accords, according to which the USSR was dissolved, looks "completely strange from a legal point of view." "This act was later ratified by the Supreme Soviets of the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the BSSR, and this was not within their competence at all. But if the USSR was not dissolved, then logically, from a legal point of view, it turns out that the Ukrainian crisis is an internal process," the presidential adviser noted, adding that "the collapse of the USSR must be given a proper legal assessment in order to understand current events."

The 13th St. Petersburg International Legal Forum is being held from 19 to 21 May. The forum is being held by the Russian Ministry of Justice and Roscongress. As in previous years, it is being held at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg. TASS is the general information partner of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.

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Internal Strife About Judaism

The more I read about Judaism and its history and peoples (No, not retarded Naz-Selective picking but their historical identity they really have operated through infiltration of bourgeoisie and monarchical institutions, significantly more so than literally anybody else ever. Can their identity ever really be detached from usury/centralized banking. I think olde Euro Royalty and Judeo-Elites comprise of 90% of the worlds hidden hand forces or whatever you want to call them. This isnt meant to be a Nazi thread but rather a balanced critique of a historically and arguably currently bloodthirsty and exploitative religion. I dont understand why a lot of LEftists consider Judaism a no-go zone, considering it Jewish elites are responsible for a large part of the expansion of capitalism.

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Talking to third worldists as a third world prole is genuinely one of the most dehumanizing things a person can experience.

Imagine being reduced to a caricature and getting relentlessly slandered for not actually fitting in into that image. Our whole struggle as workers gets discarded offhand in the name of "critical support". Our martyrs mocked, our exploitation and bloodshed ridiculed. All of this so leftists could satisfy their idealism and perceived moral superiority in relation to their more honest rightist brothers. I genuinely look forward to wiping that grin off of their face when workers overthrow the bourgeois regimes they worship so much.

Edward Said could've wrote such a great scientific thesis on this question instead of being an orientalist himself by criticizing Marx and painting society as one classless monolith with vague national characteristics and no internal contradictions.

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The Terminator of the Totalitarian Paradigm has passed.

Dr. J. Arch Getty died a few days ago.
https://history.ucla.edu/2025/05/20/professor-emeritus-j-arch-getty-passes-away/
Rest in Peace.
Remember to read Origins of the Great Purges and Road to Terror if you haven't.

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News 5/22/25

Indian workers demand withdrawal of pro-corporate labor codes, prepare for a national strike on July 9
Large-scale protests were organized in all the state capitals across the country, alongside mobilizations and meetings at numerous factory gates and at all the trade union district headquarters. The central protest was held in New Delhi and national leaders of the trade union movement in the country addressed the massive crowd.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/20/indian-workers-demand-withdrawal-of-pro-corporate-labor-codes-prepare-for-a-national-strike-on-july-9/

Union slams sudden Sri Lankan factory closure
The Next garment factory, in Sri Lanka’s Katunayake Free Trade Zone, was closed down without notice on Monday with workers being told of the closure via WhatsApp and text messages. Bosses at the factory, which has been open for nearly 40 years, said the closure was due to mounting operational costs and ongoing financial losses.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/union-slams-sudden-sri-lankan-factory-closure

Bangladesh leader threatens to resign amid political turmoil
Yunus's reported threat to stand down comes a day after thousands of supporters of the powerful Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) rallied in Dhaka, holding large-scale protests against the interim government for the first time.
https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/22/05/2025/bangladesh-leader-threatens-to-resign-amid-political-turmoil
https://archive.ph/XPhTo

Lebanese PM condemns wave of Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon
In a statement, Salam’s office said the Israeli attacks come at a “dangerous” time, just days before municipal elections in Lebanon’s southern districts on Saturday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/22/lebanese-pm-condemns-wave-of-israeli-attacks-on-southern-lebanon
https://archive.ph/GVCA5

Israel re-arrests Palestinians freed in latest exchange deal with Hamas
In recent months, Israeli soldiers have re-arrested 13 Palestinians previously freed under the February agreement. Seven remain in custody, including one woman, while six have been placed under administrative detention - a controversial Israeli practice whereby individuals are held without charge or trial, with the possibility of indefinite renewal.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-re-arrests-palestinians-freed-latest-exchange-deal-hamas

RMT welcomes SWR public ownership but demands end to outsourcing scandal
RAIL unions welcomed South Western Railway’s (SWR) return to public ownership today as a “major step forward,” but warned that continued outsourcing of essential front-line services risks undermining the benefits of renationalisation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rmt-welcomes-swr-public-ownership-demands-end-outsourcing-scandal

Ministers brace for NHS strikes after doctors denounce ‘derisory’ pay rise
Teaching unions, after teachers were awarded a 4% increase, also responded angrily at the government’s refusal to fully fund the deal and warned that it would damage the quality of education that pupils received. The largest union said it planned to take the first step towards possible industrial action.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/22/teachers-doctors-england-pay-rise-nhs

France’s plan to build a maximum security prison wing in French Guiana angers local officials
The wing would form part of a $450 million prison announced in 2017 that is expected to be completed by 2028 and hold 500 inmates. The prison would be built in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, a town bordering Suriname that once received prisoners shipped by Napoleon III in the 1800s, some of whom were sent to the notorious Devil’s Island off the coast of French Guiana.
https://apnews.com/article/french-guiana-high-security-prison-france-drugs-islam-661b2d07570b799b3842010c30f76b3a

Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’
The upper house passed the so-called “devastation bill” with 54 votes to 13 late on Wednesday, paving the way for projects ranging from mining and infrastructure to energy and farming to receive regulatory approval with little to no environmental oversight.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/22/brazil-environment-devastation-bill

Leader of powerful Panamanian union scales embassy wall, requests asylum from Bolivia
Panama’s Foreign Relations Ministry confirmed that Saúl Méndez, the union’s secretary general, had requested asylum. Bolivia’s business attache in Panama, Carlos Javier Suárez Cornejo, said Méndez was given temporary protection while they evaluated his case. A day earlier, the government of President José Raúl Mulino announced that the union’s legal status had been canceled because it did not have necessary internal controls, among them to prevent money laundering.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/panamanian-union-leader-seeks-asylum-bolivia

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News 5/21/25

Bangladeshi migrant workers demand thousands in unpaid wages
The workers at Kawaguchi Manufacturing’s factory in Port Klang, Malaysia’s largest port city, were left stranded when the company withheld their wages for up to eight months before shutting down late last year. The workers have filed complaints in Malaysia and Bangladesh.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bangladeshi-migrant-workers-demand-thousands-unpaid-wages

CPI demands independent judicial probe into killing of Maoists
Mr. Raja said the killing of the Maoist leader "instead of lawfully arresting him" raises serious concerns about the State's commitment to democratic norms. "CPI strongly condemns the cold-blooded killing of senior Maoist leader along with several Adivasis in Chhattisgarh. It is yet another instance of extrajudicial action carried out under the guise of counterinsurgency operations," Mr. Raja alleged.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cpi-demands-independent-judicial-probe-into-killing-of-maoists/article69602408.ece
https://archive.ph/OJ4xu

Joseph Aoun, Mahmoud Abbas declare end to weapons outside Lebanon state control
The two presidents emphasised the need for stronger coordination between Lebanese and Palestinian authorities to maintain order in and around refugee camps, many of which have operated outside the full reach of the state. A new joint committee will be formed to monitor camp conditions and improve living standards, while respecting Lebanese law.
https://www.newarab.com/news/aoun-abbas-declare-arms-must-come-under-lebanese-state-control

Outrage after Israeli army fires ‘warning shots’ at French and other diplomats on West Bank visit
The Israeli military said the visit had been approved, but the delegation “deviated from the approved route” and Israeli soldiers fired warning shots to distance them from the area. The IDF apologised for the incident and said they will contact all of the relevant countries involved in the visit. The delegation included diplomats from China, Japan, Mexico and several European, including France, Spain and Italy.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250521-israeli-army-fires-warning-shots-at-french-and-other-diplomats-visiting-west-bank
https://archive.ph/cgx2V

Member of Irish rap band Kneecap charged with ‘terrorism’ offence
A member of the Irish rap band Kneecap has been charged with a “terrorism” offence in the United Kingdom for waving a flag of the armed Lebanese group Hezbollah at a concert in November 2024 in London.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/21/member-of-irish-rap-band-kneecap-charged-with-terrorism-offence
https://archive.ph/Khov4

German police arrest teenage neo-Nazis over alleged attacks on migrants
Four of those arrested – named only as Benjamin H, Ben-Maxim H, Lenny M and Jason R, in line with German privacy rules – are suspected of membership of a “domestic terror organisation”. The fifth, Jerome M, is accused of supporting the group. Two of the suspects are accused of attempted murder and aggravated arson. All five are German citizens between the ages of 14 and 18.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/german-police-arrest-teenage-neo-nazis-for-alleged-attacks-on-migrants

Uganda confirms military trials for civilians despite Supreme Court ruling
The practice has long been used in Uganda, but was struck down by the country’s top court in January. The Supreme Court had ruled that the military tribunals lacked legal competence to try civilians and failed to meet fair trial standards.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/20/uganda-confirms-military-trials-for-civilians-despite-supreme-court-ruling
https://archive.ph/JXCN9

Amazon fires drive unprecedented global forest loss in 2024, report says
Loss of tropical pristine forests alone reached 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres), an 80% spike compared to 2023 and an area roughly the size of Panama, mainly because Brazil, the host of the next global climate summit in November, struggled to contain fires in the Amazon amid the worst drought ever recorded in the rainforest. A myriad of other countries, including Bolivia and Canada, were also ravaged by wildfires.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/amazon-fires-drive-unprecedented-global-forest-loss-2024-report-says-2025-05-21/

Bolivia’s electoral tribunal bans ex-leader Morales and suspends a key candidate, drawing backlash
The moves targeted the two strongest leftist challengers to Arce’s nominee: Morales, Bolivia’s first Indigenous president who governed the country from 2006 until his ouster in 2019, and Andrónico Rodríguez, the young Senate president who hails from Morales’ rural coca-growing bastion. Both Morales and Rodríguez vowed to fight the decisions and condemned them as a blow to the Andean nation’s fragile democracy.
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-elections-evo-morales-president-arce-courts-516b20a0f5fbcfb48aedd1a1f68b1e27

Colombia’s labor unions and social organizations announce national strike on May 28 and 29
The strike will be seeking popular support to shut down Colombia on May 28 and 29, and for at least 24 hours on June 11 in an attempt t0 force the Senate to approve a referendum on labor and healthcare reforms, Fabio Arias, the president of labor union CUT, told hundreds of social leaders at a summit in Bogota.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-labor-unions-and-social-organizations-announce-national-strike-on-may-28-and-29/

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Robustness of decentralized capital

I’m kind of surprised how little conversation there is around this problem with capitalism given how basic yet seemingly impossible to defeat it is, and it is the problem with the stubborn robustness of small business. In terms of speed, centralization is not efficient.
It takes objectively far more labour to centralize and operate centralized industries and sectors than it is to have a single person set up their own factory, store, or business themselves. The most capitalist country on the planet couldn’t even see even its largest private groups manage to hold more than a third of the share of all wealth produced in business compared to what small and medium sized firms were putting out. Even the ussr after Stalin’s death never saw total or even at least 80% collectivization of its farms. Centralized industry just isn’t robust and is annoyingly too slow to keep up with decentralized industry.
I’m not here to praise decentralized economies as if dealing with the chaos and cyclical disasters they cause is good, but I will comment on the fact that there should be a greater discussion in socialist spaces on how to adapt to such a difficult problem that is reaching total centralization.
Do you guys have any ideas? Personally I feel that expanding road connections to favour industrial cores (like what the ancient Romans did with rome) and having public officials relocated to different areas might help maintain the reach of a centralized authority and logistics system.

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Canada Annexation

https://theconversation.com/how-the-u-s-could-in-fact-make-canada-an-american-territory-246877

<In one treaty, the U.S. annexed the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. It subsequently illegally invaded Indigenous territory in the west.

>Canada could be next — perhaps not immediately as the 51st state, but quite possibly as a U.S. territory that would deny Canadians any voting rights for Congress or the presidency, allow only some autonomy and make questions of citizenship ambiguous. The constitutional architecture exists in the U.S. to make it happen.

<That’s the wrong reading. How Trump could make good on the threat can be found in the U.S. Constitution. There is both potential and precedent for the U.S. to acquire territory through cession or subjugation.

what is the chance this happens in practice? How does NATO figure into this?

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I read the communist manifesto, and it said nothing but environmentalism but I know other communist like Stalin Fidel Castro and Xi Jinping are environmentalist but other communist don’t like the environment

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Ocalan thanks Žižek and Badiou

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/841072/%C3%B6calan-urges-new-brotherhood-pact-in-message-from-imrali

>In a gesture of international engagement, Öcalan extended his gratitude to leftist thinkers and global allies, particularly French philosopher Alain Badiou and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
>“I thank the intellectuals, especially Badiou and Žižek, who have sent messages of solidarity and support for the peace and brotherhood process. I hope we can come together through internationalist and socialist efforts,” he said.

the movement is cooked if he's thanking žižek
it's all a big cia ploy

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Ocalan orders the PKK to dissolve

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ocalan-dissolve-pkk-historic-statement
Some highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over

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I often hear that humans are hard-wired to care more about ingroups than outgroups. This is often used by reactionaries to justify capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, racially homogenous ethnocentric societies, etc, but I found that this entire way of thinking falls apart very quickly for many reasons.

1. It's spatial but not temporal. Due to physical proximity and consanguinity, A man might care more about his children than about his neighbors. A man might care more about his grandchildren than his neighbors. He might even live long enough to see the birth of his great-grandchildren. But can it really be said that he cares more about his 10x-great-grandchildren, totally potential people who haven't been born yet, in the far future, more than his own neighbors, merely because of consanguinity?

2. The spatial nature of it is already dissolved by capitalism. We live in a world where anyone can potentially migrate anywhere at any time. Sure there are legal barriers, but there is also a way around those legal barriers, and even in countries with strict immigration restrictions, there is a constant exposure to foreigners through tourism, international media, trade, etc. If the people aren't arriving, their commodities and media are.

3. The ethnocentricism and homogeneity is already absurd on its face. For example we see people who are clearly not white engaging in white supremacy, partly because they have been brainwashed to dehumanize themselves, but also because the definition of what constitutes "whiteness" has been stretched to such goatse'd proportions as to be unable to return to its original narrow definition, causing the concept itself to dissolve and diffuse, that is, to self-sublate, into absurdity.

4. There is no putting the genie of technological development back in the bottle. Even if resource scarcity and climate change cause us to take many steps backwards, we will develop alternate "tech-trees" with whatever resources we have left, or go extinct branching into new potentials even as the situation becomes increasingly unfavorable for our present unsustainable way of life.

5. Interdependence of nations and peoples is now so obvious and so powerful that there is a strong case to make, viz. the imperial boomerang, that not caring about non-proximates (i.e. foreigners, people of different faiths, people of different ethnicities, people of different ideologies etc.) constitutes not caring about oneself. Anything "bad" your government does to foreigners in your name with your tax dollars will come back to bite either you or your children. Think of how many orphans grow up hating the United States because of US foreign policy. There is a huge incentive to be anti-imperialist not just out of pure empathy for The Other, but out of self preservation for the Future Self.

I'm sure there's other places I could have gone with this, but that's just off the top of my head.

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Bond Vigilantes

I remember saying in one of the threads here that Drumpf is hitting finance porkies in the only place that it hurts, and there is going to be retaliation. Feeling vindicated right now. Besides, fucking up the US Treasury bond market could potentially threaten the US Dollar's position as the de-facto world currency, and Amerilards definitely don't want that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-04-24/how-bond-vigilantes-made-trump-blink-video

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Jerusalem will burn.

These wildfires are the result of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing. Fast growing European pines were planted on the sites of demolished Palestinian homes and farms to keep them from returning. Zionism has created both a political and ecological disaster.

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Why are we acting like capitalism even has 20 years?
It doesnt, can you say honestly oh hy 2050 these will be the new capitalist hegemons by gdp as if this shit has 20 years left.
Neofeudalism call it what you want but not capitalism.

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why are so many[*] anarchists also lifestylists, moralists, christians, essentialists, superstitious, etc and not schmittians, hobbesians, machivellians, sadeans, nechayevites, nihilists, etc. instead of acknowledging that hirearchy and authority exists objectively and that its not intrinsically "good" or "bad" so you can do whatever you want with it, they accept authority only if its the Good™ Authority, ie moral authority, the authority of god, the authority of a parent pushing their child out of the way of an oncoming car or w/e other example they use for "just" hirearchy.

it always seemed strange that an anarchist would ever accept an authority to deem what is "just" and what is not.

[*]inb4 i know the first sentance is a vague generalising presupposition, im basing it upon stereotypical internet anarchists like r/anarchism as well as the history of christian anarchism being much more developed and prevelant than say christian marxism, and mystics like hakim bey, etc, if you are an anarchist who is or is not like this pls articulate your position and critique other anarchists

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Socialism: the new christianity ?

On this anniversary of the Bloody Week, something has struck me, how come socialism and more specifically marxism, in its history since its inception, has been so similar to early christian history ?

I mean think about it, a movement that is mostly aimed towards popular, first kind of chaotic but quickly unified by a main theory, this being Marx. The movement born from this (and other writing, arguably stands for other socialist movement, be they formed from Marx' works or completely separate in origin), with the birth of disparate and not always so united communities, which for a good while were usualy persecuted by the established power. With the development of studies surrounding socialism further on, we see the birth of dogmas, notably in the established socialist states like the USSR, where those established theories becomes official policy. Meanwhile in non socialist states, the communities stay either persecuted or at best tolerated. With the variety of movements and ideas, I find it quite close to early christianity and its oh so varied theological takes.

On another note, I do find interesting how much leftist organization do use religious speech patterns in general, with key words carrying their almost self evident meaning, with a common ideal and struggle and so on. The idea came to me as I was thinking about future history, how will, in say 400 years, these leftist communities be studied ? Could a comparison to medieval/early modern jewish communities also be drawn out ?

Any opinion on the matter ? The comparison could probably be expanded. I'm just kind of curious.

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Don’t fall into the ‘noble savage’ trap re women’s rights in Middle East

The fact of the matter is that in most, if not all, Arab and Muslim countries, women are discriminated against as a matter of course, from citizenship laws to inheritance to paternalistic familial structures and domestic abuse. This is clearly not a purely Muslim or Arab affair, since, with perhaps the exception of Scandinavia, it exists in various degrees throughout the world. But the fact of the matter is that even if it’s often used as a pro-Israel or neocon club to bludgeon Arabs on other, unrelated issues like the Israel/Palestine conflict, that doesn’t make the charge less true.

I look at it as being similar to Soviet charges against US treatment of black citizens. Did pointing out the Jim Crow laws make Siberian gulags or Eastern European oppression any more acceptable? Of course not, although it may have scored Moscow some points in the world arena by pointing out American hypocrisy. At the end of the day, though, the answer to Stalinist accusations of racism should have been the civil rights movement, not a denial of segregation. Likewise, to my mind, the oppression of women and minorities and homosexuals in the Mideast is not directly related to the Arab/Israeli conflict, but it is very important to me, and I don’t see that there’s any contradiction in my struggle to fight for my wife’s right to marry who she pleases, legally own land and work at any job she wants to in Lebanon and her right to return to and live in Haifa.

I don’t think that the knee-jerk reaction that many people, especially those who don’t live in the region, have to dismiss any and all criticism of Arab or Muslim states and/or societies as hasbara for Israel is helpful at all. In fact, it plays into the rhetoric of pro west puppet Arab states that justifies theocratic apartheid tier laws in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and censorship laws where literally slavery is legal. For my part, an equitable solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict should be about self determination for Palestinians, not about supporting an overarching religion at all cost.

The point is not to attack Islam it is to not pretend it is some noble cause above all. Its okay to critique, it's not perfect, especially as a Marxist it is okay to do so.

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Do you people have any concept of just how much we're fucking winning? In our darkest days here in America, where it seems like everything is falling part. Where it seems like the left is completely buckbroken. Defeated. Destroyed. Splintered into a thousand pieces and scattered into the wind, to paraphrase JFK. In a world where everything seems to be racebait, gaybait, genderbait, religionbait or some other form of asinine culturebait. And no matter what side it is coming from.

In the world of Trump. Of tariffs. Of "America 1st". Of returning Christian nationalism. Of 300 billion dollar billionaires standing on stage and doing nazi salutes in the open, with millions and millions of ordinary Americans clamoring to defend them. In a world where social security, foodstamps and medicaid are all on the chopping block and getting hacked to bits. In a world of anger and confusion. In a world where the capitalist big tech algorithms and the capitalist mainstream media has American's minds cooked so welldone and so fully, that they actually believe billionaires are pushing "a leftist agenda!" on them. In this world where no one knows anything but they all still seem to think they know everything.

Do have any concept of just how much we are fucking winning? Because AMERICA is the seat of capitalism and far right politics in this world. And AMERICA is collapsing. Because all of these things I am talking about above are not happening as the result of AMERICANS living in a healthy, fruitful society but the total opposite. These are the sour fruits of a decaying society that is desperately trying to hold itself together in vain. Our wars are being lost. Our militaries are in retreat. And our future is bright.

R: 32 / I: 7

Attention Imperial Core Proletariat

Attention imperial core proletariat: There is no untangling the Gordian Knot of reactionary propaganda. You are never going to have a bigger megaphone than them. You are never going to own them by their own logic. You are never going to make them see the light. You are never going to get them to abandon idealism and embrace materialism. You are never going to get them to embrace inconvenient truths. You are never going to make them understand class society and exploitation. You are never going to get them to understand value, price, profit, surplus value, wage labor or capital. You are never going to get them to understand modes of production and their internal contradictions. You are never going to get them to abandon ingroup preference or chauvinism, be it national, ethnic, religious. You have to cut through the knot. How do you cut through the knot? Actual real world practice. Read Clausewitz. Read Võ Nguyên Giáp. Read Joe Slovo. Stop being unreliable intellectual dilettantes and make the revolution happen. You will have to risk your skin. It will not be a matter of brainwashing millions to be your personal army. If there are any reactionaries in the imperial core who will join you, they will do so when the actual material conditions of their life compel them to, not because you had the smarter arguments in the debate club.

R: 1 / I: 0

This book sucks

I have spent months trying to get through this book, and I normally don’t take this long to read anything. The reason why this book is trash has to do with the fact that the author is a massive pussy. Seriously, if I were to use a reductionist view of all the author’s problems with racism, violence, and abuse, I could trace every problem he has to a single concept that doesn’t even require a reference to identity politics.

Bullying

The authors biggest issue is that he functionally is still a child in terms of physical and mental strength (I’ll define mental strength as one’s capacity for self restraint, tolerance to physical and emotional pain and injuries, self discipline, and holistic thinking).
You seriously think this guy would constantly get his ass beat by feds or random dudes if he could hold out in a fight? I guarantee this book wouldn’t have been written if he could be bothered to at least train and get prepared physically and mentally not just for the bullying he’s dealing with but for adulthood in general. If he did, most of the narcissistic takes and endless whining he has in this book would cease and I’d get to read something more intelligently written.

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if the labor theory of value isnt true why dont jobs pay a living wahe?
Ever wondered that?
If the labor theory of value isnt true you could make the argument that youre not being exploited and that taxation theft.
But common sense dictates this isnt true. Common sense dictates there are men sitting on towards extracting everyones surplus labor like vampires.

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Am I the only one that remembers this?

TLDR: Tigrayan survivors of the Tigray war were given prosthetics instead of actual treatment.

Long: after the end of the Ethiopian war in 2022, a bunch of Ethiopian and tigrayan (they’re technically the same people) survivors were given prosthetics in mass to remain useful to society instead of being given treatment like you see in Ukraine. Right now, there are a lot of amputees walking around with mechanical limbs over there and no one is talking about how absurd this looks like without context.
Imagine trying to explain to someone that somewhere in east Africa, hundreds of thousands of people were amputated and implanted with prosthetics to remain as useful drones to the Ethiopian government instead of dying or recovery normally. You’d probably be considered insane.

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Why is private property bad?

If I don't own my shirt, then I yield all agency of my attire to whoever owns my shirt. I cannot dress as I wish. If I want to exercise, I am at the whim of the shirt owner to provide for me a proper exercise shirt. My shirt could be taken from me, for whatever arbitrary reason. I require ownership of my shirt to be able to exercise, or dress formally for an event or work, or casually for a night out with friends. Otherwise, I can only participate in these events with permission of the shirt owner. And therefor, I am controlled by the shirt owner.

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Proletarian STRENGTH turned into a WEAKNESS???!!!

One strength of the proletariat that always touted is that we're the majority. And at least among the working population, that is true, today more than ever. Wage slavery is the most common existence n the West, and probably globally.

But it seems to me this is a double edged sword, I will explain. I am a worker who earns £24,000 a year. The average exploitation rate in Britain is around 50% (certainly higher these days as this figure is from the 2000's and wages haven't risen with productivity), which means for half the 8 hour working day you are producing surplus for the capitalist.

This means that for 4 hours a day every working day, you are a slave. In the literal sense. And yet, we don't think like this and never would. And the reason is most likely because all day everyday you are surrounded by people who are also slaves. This enables this soothing ideology where you only compare yourself to the people around you, and since most people are wage workers, surely wage work isn't really all bad? It can't be so bad, what are we complaining about, you go to work, you have a chat with your fellow workmates and go home to a workmate. This isn't slavery, its just the natural way of things for the majority of people you will ever know. You have no special reason to complain nor are you specially hard done to.

And I fear this is a problem with the proletariat being the majority. As long as they are, its always going to be easy to say "well, my life isn't so bad compared to…." when you are literally a slave. You don't understand; 30,000 people in Britain literally have 60 slaves assigned to them at all times and you are one of those slaves if are a wage worker in Britain. And yet we think its so normal we don't do anything to combat it, let alone stop it.

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Where's China's international solidarity?

If China is so based why doesn't it spread communist propaganda to the West? Why aren't there Chinese created Prager U's commiepilling ppl? Why are they just watching as the rest of the world sinks into fascism?

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expand section 8 for some housing gibs, nationalize the corporations, implement ubi heakthcare and free college, etc…
What do you call that?
Communism.

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Help me understand your perspective

How is the taliban of some resistance that I should look at positively or not despise? How do you look at these things and bend yourself into a pretzel justifying it because america is bad?

Not asking America to invade this hell but why should these people being given any leniency or understanding when they make people live in these retarded ways?

If you think this post is actually cia propaganda and Taliban dosen't do things like this at all then show me. If you want to make some noble savage argument that they are a unique culture and we can't relate to these decisions or judge them because we are westerners then kys

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241229-taliban-leader-bans-windows-overlooking-women-s-area
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html

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Will you give your eye scans to Sam Altman? to CONSOOOM easier?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/sam-altman-eye-scanning-id.html

Sam Altman's eye-scanning identity project, now called "Za Warudo", officially launched in the U.S. with six in-person registration sites.

Here's how it works: You go up to an Orb, a spherical biometric device, and it spends 33 seconds scanning your face and iris, then creates and stores a unique "IrisCode" for you verifying that you're a human and that you've never signed up before.

>Then you get some of the project's cryptocurrency, WRD, for free,

and you can use your World ID as a sign-in with integrated platforms, which currently include an open API

>integration with Minecraft, Reddit,

Telegram, Shopify and Discord.

Starting Thursday, the company is opening six flagship U.S. retail locations where people can sign up to have their eyeball scanned: Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville, Miami and San Francisco. At an event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the venture announced two high-profile partnerships: Visa will introduce the "World Visa card" this summer, available only to people who have had their irises scanned by Warudo, and the online dating giant Match Group will begin a pilot program testing out World ID and some age verification tools with Tinder.

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Consumption is not a labor issue. Whining about treatlerites is just petty-bourgeois guilt. There is no ethical way to spend ill-gotten gains. If anything monopoly rents are a reason to push for cheaper treats. Socialists will enjoy the people's slop.

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GREAT MEN OF LEFTYPOL

Moffin', erikhoudini, Iron Felix, King Lear… Are they even real or part of our imagination? How did we attain such level of cringe? Where did we go wrong?

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Petitioning the ruling class is stupid

Actually, I don't care about basic income or your other political policies.

I care about organizing the working class around where they connect with the capitalist system. Petitioning the capitalists to be better doesn't come into it.

Organize around the workplace (labor unions and so on), organize around monopoly rent (tenant unions, credit unions, carpooling and so on), and organize around capitalist terrorism (cop watching, legal defense funds, militias and so on).

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80 years since Hitler's suicide in a Berlin bunker

Today marks exactly 80 years since the death of Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler. Hitler took his own life at the age of 56 together with his partner Eva Braun in a bunker in Berlin.

The Second World War in Europe ended with the victory of the Allies and Germany's surrender just over a week later.

Hitler had married Braun only the day before his death. After their suicide, the couple's bodies were burned in the courtyard of the bunker.

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>Socially degenerate as the libs, economically out of touch as the Neo-cons
>the literal worst of both worlds
Still, why did libertarianism become strangely popular among various types of popular media figures, like comedians, filmmakers, and actors?

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Electricity grid collapses in Spain and Portugal

Electricity is out across Iberia

• Trains, metros and trams stand idle.
• Portugal claims it could take up to a week to fix the problem. Spain claims it might take 6 to 10 hours.
• European Commission says no signs of cyberattack.
• Portuguese national electric company REM says outage precipitated by extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain causing anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 KV), a phenomenon known as 'induced atmospheric vibration'".

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Welfarism is in dialectic with fascism, not in opposition. Welfarism is industrial life, fascism is industrial death. Welfarism is the growing of the cattle, fascism is the culling.

The prototypical welfarist is the nonprofit sector activist, frustrated with the system but comfortable to stay inside nonetheless.

The welfare state is bureaucratic: focused on classification and means-testing. The welfarist does good by box ticking. Life by compliance. An essentially one-dimensional manner of charity and resistance.

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I just wanna chill

Is it possible to maintain a pacifist lifestyle in today's society? Where I don't demand anything from society except the respect of my passive semi asceticism.
I used to be more militant in my youth but now I can't give a shit about politics for the life of me. I sort of feel like a zombie but at the same time I've matured and understand that life will never be ideal and that this is probably the best deal I'd get under capitalism so I just sort of spend my days ignoring the media, and chilling and skating or doing sports like going to the gym or rolling in bjj. Not even trying to participate in capitalism except for basic necessities like shelter and food. I feel like taking it easy is probably the healthier approach to living rather than expecting the world to change or to magically free everyone from false consciousness

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Why am I supposed to care about Palestine again? I mean, what makes them so special from any other group suffering on this earth? Am I really supposed to believe that everyone with free Palestine in their bio is passionate about this matter and not just chasing trends the way people did with BLM? And what makes Israel so uniquely evil? I mean, they're evil no doubt. But like, how are they any different from the trillion other nations that have brutalized, oppressed, and killed off people whether it's some "other" or their own citizens? Idk man I kinda don't care, I just wish wages were higher and grocery prices were lower.

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regarding trump/ICE/"Make America white again"

So the whole mass deportation shit that white trump supporters cheer on is predicated primarily on the idea that mestizos are browning America and Trump is going to send a significant portion of them back to Mexico/Central-America. And while its true that a lot of mestizos ARE being deported I don't think nearly enough of them are being deported to make a significant change in demographics. Furthermore, I feel like a disproportionate amount of arabs, turks, and even WHITE EUROPEANS are being deported. You'd think if the point of the deportations was to whiten-up America then they would go after mestizos, who are the actual driving force behind the "browning of America".

I think the reason they don't target undocumented mestizos that heavily is pretty simple: there are a LOT of them and latinos in the US are very much "tight-knit" and would engage in massive, disruptive civil disobedience if they actually got deported in numbers that actually made a difference (almost like this is all political theater and porky doesn't care about muh racial demographics).

as a side question: why don't people in the US seem to give a fuck about anti-mestizo racism like they do about anti-black racism? Mestizos are the single largest non-white group in the US and have been discriminated against pretty heavily.

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Virginia Giuffre, prominent Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse survivor dies by suicide

Giuffre, a mother of three, was one of the most prominent accusers of the wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In 2019, she publicly alleged Epstein trafficked her and forced her to have sex with his friends, including Prince Andrew, when she was 17 years old.

Police confirmed that emergency services found a woman unresponsive in her home near Perth, Western Australia, on Friday night. She was pronounced dead at the scene after first aid was unsuccessful.

>On March 31, 2025, Giuffre claimed that her car collided with a bus traveling at 70 mph (110 km/h), resulting in her going into renal failure. In an Instagram post that day, Giuffre said she had been given four days to live.[120] The Western Australia police later announced that they had records of a "minor crash" between a bus and a car on March 24, but that no injuries had been reported as a result.[120] Her family later said in a statement that a police report had been filed following the accident, and Giuffre, who was "banged up and bruised", was subsequently taken to hospital as her condition deteriorated.[121] At the same time, Giuffre was accused of breaching a family violence restraining order taken out by her estranged husband, with a court hearing set for April 9.[122] She later denied violating any such order and added that she would defend herself "against his malicious claim".[123]

>Giuffre died by suicide at her home in Neergabby, Western Australia, on April 25.[2][124]

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News 4/26/25

NGO head sues military general for defamation
Estrella Flores-Catarata, also a psychologist, filed the lawsuit against Brigadier General Joey A. Escanillas over an alleged malicious statement linking her to communist insurgents. The lawsuit stems from a press conference on April 30, 2024, where Escanillas publicly identified Flores-Catarata as a leader of the “Communist Terrorist Group (CTG).”
https://qa.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-news/2025/04/27/2438731/ngo-head-sues-military-general-defamation/amp/

Singapore orders foreigners' Facebook posts taken down under new election rules
The Infocomm Media Development Authority issued the orders after some posts by the foreigners were deemed as "intended to promote or prejudice the electoral success or standing of a political party or candidate", the Elections Department and Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-orders-foreigners-facebook-posts-taken-down-under-new-election-rules-2025-04-26/

India and Pakistan trade gunfire across Kashmir border after deadly attack
India’s military said Pakistani soldiers opened fire from “multiple posts” along the heavily militarised ceasefire line, and Indian forces “responded appropriately” to what it called “unprovoked” firing. No casualties were reported. Pakistan did not immediately comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/india-and-pakistan-trade-gunfire-across-kashmir-border-after-deadly-attack

Colombia farmers accused of violent crimes over peaceful anti-mining protests
Colombia’s prosecution indicted 11 activists for crimes such as kidnapping and robbery amid their peaceful protests against South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-farmers-accused-of-violent-crimes-over-peaceful-anti-mining-protests/

Germany: Thousands protest police shooting of Black man
Thousands of people took to Germany's streets on Friday in the northwestern city of Oldenburg in the state of Lower Saxony and elsewhere, protesting against the fatal police shooting of a Black man last weekend.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thousands-protest-police-shooting-of-black-man/a-72358472

French PM condemns ‘Islamophobic’ stabbing at mosque, suspect still at large
Prime Minister François Bayrou Saturday denounced the fatal stabbing of a Muslim worshipper at a mosque in southern France, calling it an “Islamophobic atrocity”. The suspect, identified as a French citizen of Bosnian origin, remains on the run. Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250426-french-police-hunt-suspected-killer-muslim-worshipper-inside-mosque
https://archive.ph/MXubF

Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says
Michael Alexander Gloss, 21, died on 4 April 2024 in “Eastern Europe”, according to an obituary published by his family. He was the son of Juliane Gallina, who was appointed the deputy director for digital innovation at the Central Intelligence Agency in February 2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/michael-alexander-gloss-cia-russia

Iran: Port blast kills four and wounds hundreds
Four people were killed and 500 more wounded, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said. Hossein Zafari, a spokesperson for Iran's crisis management organisation, told ILNA news agency: "The cause of the explosion was the chemicals inside the containers."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-hundred-injured-huge-explosion-south-iranian-port

PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to appoint Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president
Sheikh, 64, is a veteran leader of Abbas’s Fatah movement, which dominates the PA, and is considered close to the president. Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said Sheikh’s role in the PA has included being “in charge of security coordination with the Israeli occupation”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/26/palestinian-president-mahmoud-abbas-appoints-aide-as-plo-deputy
https://archive.ph/kjAat

Trump says US ships should have free use of Panama and Suez canals
He claimed both routes would “not exist” without the US and said he had asked his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to “immediately take care of” the situation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/27/trump-says-us-ships-should-have-free-use-of-panama-and-suez-canals

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defending the undefendable

Is there any leftist thinker\progressive, left-liberal etc today who, at face value and unironically; defends the IMPOSSIBLE to defend such as: the Kinsey report, margaret sanger, Dr John Money\ Trans ideology, surgeries included, Frankfurt school Gramsci, Weimar Republic, etc?
do common people shy away from this, to appeal to real-human working class people? does anyone REALLY take a serious clinical\academic\professional and real, interest in critical race theory, third of fourth wave feminism, Queer Theory or mixes of all this; mishmashes? (eco-feminism, Critical Animal Studies, Prison Abolishment movement, etc)?

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Thoughts on Veganism ?

Also, shelter my 4chan refugee ass UwU.
(Damn, how long should the body text be? Holy wall of text. What if I want to sound laconic and concise ?)
Should I really be writing an essay for every thread?

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Who controls America? Like I understand that worldwide capitalism is mainly sustain by the USA military and policies, my question is _who_ create this policies? _Who_ is actually influencing the USA politics? What lobbies? I'm looking for books that actually do try to uncover how power works in the USA, a ideal books would try to uncover the trail of power from like some think thank that lobby a certain policy in the USA congress, someone inside the USA is pulling the string, I don't mean in the "illuminati" style schizo thinking, but actual group or class of people influencing USA politics.

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What is happening in Nicaragua?

What's with the UN calling Nicaragua a dictatorship? I get the US labeling any nation that calls itself a socialist republic as a dictatorship is a political scheme but the UN? Even the UN wouldn't classify Cuba as a dictatorship but they do for Nicaragua? Has the FSLN/Sandinistas been corrupted? Or is it just more liberal crybaby shit?

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News 5/20/25

Ecuador to host Indigenous summit seeking enforcement of court’s human rights rulings
The main aim will be to issue a collective statement calling on governments and institutions to ensure justice and territorial protection. “This is very important for us because there are constitutional guarantees that favor Indigenous peoples. Even so, there has not been full compliance with the rulings,” Tulio Renato Viteri Gualinga, head of international relations for the Sarayaku Indigenous community, told The Associated Press.
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-indigenous-summit-amazon-court-rulings-19693d33363745b451fc1c7d83156fb9

Evo Morales Fails to Register Presidential Candidacy as Bolivia’s Electoral Deadline Closes
Meanwhile, the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) was among the last to arrive at TSE headquarters for the physical registration of its candidates, leading a caravan headed by Arce and his presidential and vice-presidential candidates, Eduardo del Castillo and Milan Berna, respectively.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-fails-to-register-presidential-candidacy-as-bolivias-electoral-deadline-closes/

Personal secretary and adviser to Mexico City’s mayor killed in brazen daylight attack
Mayor Clara Brugada called the murder of her personal secretary Ximena Guzmán and adviser José Muñoz a “direct attack”. The motive is under investigation, but Brugada promised that her government would “continue its relentless fight against insecurity”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/20/mexico-city-mayor-personal-secretary-adviser-killed

Milei Dissolves Investigative Unit Probing $Libra Cryptocurrency Scandal
“The government considers that the information collected has been submitted to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and that the UTI has fulfilled the task assigned by Decree No. 114/25,” stated the decreee published in the Official Gazette, signed by President Milei and Justice Minister Mariano Cuneo Libarona.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/milei-dissolves-investigative-unit-probing-libra-cryptocurrency-scandal/

Spain clamps down on Airbnb as tourism backlash returns for summer
The clampdown comes as protests against over-tourism have begun ahead of the summer season. Demonstrations in the Canary Islands on Sunday attracted thousands of people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wdd8lg581o

Unions can defeat Labour's welfare cuts, PCS leader says
Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Fran Heathcote’s intervention came a day after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faced a back-bench rebellion over his government’s plans to cut disability benefits.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-can-defeat-labours-welfare-cuts-pcs-leader-says

Israel still blocking aid for Gaza despite promise to lift siege, says UN
Only five trucks of aid had reached Gaza by Tuesday afternoon and aid workers had not been given permission to distribute even that token shipment, Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office (Ocha) told a Geneva press briefing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/20/israel-still-blocking-aid-for-gaza-despite-promise-to-lift-siege-says-un

Israeli soldiers dressed as Palestinian women to assassinate Gaza commander
The Israeli unit reportedly entered the area before dawn in trucks loaded with mattresses and food, posing as displaced civilians. Some soldiers, dressed as women, hid inside the vehicles to avoid detection as they approached Sarhan’s suspected location. After their cover was blown, heavy clashes broke out. Sarhan was killed in the firefight, and Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes to support the troops' withdrawal.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-dressed-palestinian-women-kill-gaza-commander

U.S. Eased Syria Sanctions Over Fears of Imminent Collapse, Rubio Says
Rubio explained to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the decision to offer support to Sharaa came after U.S. officials concluded that Syria was in imminent danger of descending back into something like the bloody factional fighting that engulfed the country for more than a decade until Assad’s fall. The transition government was “maybe weeks, not many months, away from potential collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic proportions—basically the country splitting up,” Rubio said.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-fears-of-imminent-collapse-of-syria-government-led-to-easing-of-sanctions-rubio-says-5cae2580
https://archive.ph/zbN0d

MPO teachers to besiege secretariat today
The teachers of the secondary-level schools under the monthly pay order system will lay siege to the Bangladesh Secretariat today, pressing for job nationalisation and pay hike which they demand to be met before coming Eid-ul-Azha.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/265438/mpo-teachers-to-besiege-secretariat-today

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>people unionize so hard that porkies are forced to reduce working hours from 12 to 8
>100 years later
>the working class hasn't done this again to achieve 4 hour work week

why?

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Rhodesia's communist party

This is like a certified Mark Felton Productions video title.
Imagine what could have been.

>…there was a possibility of developing an independent socialist movement through the fledging Southern Rhodesia Communist Party, which had been formed from radical elements in the Rhodesia Labour Party, and those who had been associated with the South African Communist Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain. But at that time Russia was pushing "Popular Front" unity of all classes, which in Rhodesia meant unity with the white liberals. The price the party had to pay for this unity was to stop the work it had begun with the emerging black working class, as this was deemed antagonistic towards the increasingly racist white labour force. This ultimately destroyed the party, as it divorced it from a real working-class base.

>Parallel to this was the emergence of organisations representing the emerging black petty bourgeoisie, whose agenda was limited to putting pressure on the colonial state to grant more opportunities to certain black Rhodesians. One of the leading organisations was the Southern Rhodesian African National Congress, formed in the 1930s, but until the emergence of the struggles of the black working class in the late 1940s it remained small and largely irrelevant, looking to white reformists for direction and leadership.
https://ivavalleybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Socialists-in-Zimbabwe.pdf

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Ask me any question

Will be ready shortly, ask either about books or secondarily about videos.
Preference given to books in reverse order, so Defending Materialism, How the World Works, Economic Planning in time of Climate Crisis, Computation and its Limits, Towards a New Socialism etc

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AMA ANNOUNCEMENT - PAUL COCKSHOTT

Tuesday, May 20th at 3:00 PM EST/8:00 PM BST
Join known Marxist Computer Scientist Paul Cockshott on an AMA (Ask Me Anything) here at leftypol.org

Post your questions on the forthcoming AMA thread this Tuesday!

Cya there!

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The issue of Imperialism

So Lenin's most important contribution to revolutionary Marxism, in defense from revisionists like Kautsky, Bernstein and Co. is his detailed study on capitalist imperialism and petty-bourgeois corruption within the workers movement leading up to the inter-imperialist war (part 1) where these corrupt leaders chose a "lesser evil" side of imperialism to support. Turning the imperialist war into a civil war, culminating in the successful October revolution, a world-changing event.

The Marxist movement then splits into two:
1. people who side with Lenin's concern on the side of the international revolutionary workers movement
2. the bourgeois elements in the leadership positions within the bureaucratic-reformist cancer metastasizing upon the workers movement that side with welfare gibs / their imperialist bourgeoisie / ethnic chauvinism etc.

Lenin dies prematurely and shortly after self-described Leninists of numerous tendencies then go on to take completely contradictory positions with a proclivity to picking sides, in the inter-imperialist war (part 2).
Notable examples: the left-communist "ultra-Leninists" around Bordiga, the left opposition "Bolshevik-Leninists" around Trotsky, the "Marxist-Leninists"* around Stalin.
Bordiga, Trotsky and Stalin believe the Axis imperialists are to be critically supported almost until its too late (i.e. for several years leading into WWII relying on this "Leninist analysis").
Stalin then flip flops after almost having Moscow sacked by Nazi Germany and concedes to figures like Dimitrov, who argues in favor of picking the Allies side of the imperialist war and injecting the domestic Party and movement with millions of liberal-bourgeois elements*. "Marxism-Leninism" from this point on goes on to contain a blatant antagonistic contradiction at the heart of it that keeps erupting in a variety of ways continuously throughout the 20th century within the ideological disputes of Communist Party leadership.
* Mao and the CPC adopt the later Dimitrovist position of "Marxism-Leninism", diluting the domestic communist movement with these "progressive bourgeois" elements from the start, which will become a critical issue in domestic tumult later down the line.
By the mid 20th century, "Marxism-Leninism" erupts towards an overt social-imperialist deviation after the Khrushchevites seize power, introducing a slew of reforms towards the right and an ideological offensive against scientific socialism. A sharp international contradiction between this turn and a Stalin-doctrinaire dogmatist position (which subliminally elevates Dimotrov's positions over both Stalin and most notably Lenin) emerge, which will escalate to the point of warring hostility in numerous national contexts and time-periods.
Lenin has at this point been completely removed from the equation as the first era Leninist tendencies is coming to a close and the ICP and Trotskyists aren't achieving much in the real world, leaving this ongoing internal conflict within the "Marxist-Leninist" movement to continue on until the present day.
By the late 20th century bourgeois elements are so overpowering in "Marxist-Leninist" communist parties and countries that they dissolve the "vanguard party, chief organ of proletarian power" in several "people's democratic republics" and "socialist republics", in a turn towards "Perestroika (Eng: Restructuring)" / "Reform and Opening Up" / "Euro-Communism" / "Market-oriented socialist economy" which then replace the theory of Marxism and Leninism, being replaced by positions traced to the likes of Bukharin, Bernstein and Lassalle.

Here we are, in the 21st century and "Marxists", "Leninists", "Marxist-Leninists" still barely grapple with this and most often just show a political engagement that amounts to another flavor or bourgeois political "team sports" tendencies of vocally supporting this or that policy or party verbally, sometimes engage in police sanctioned civil disobedience, just vooting, or the aesthetic delights of some supposedly pure party somewhere remote, mediated to you by ideologically supercharged media produced by their public relations departments, digested and regurgitated uncritically.

This is not a good situation. Why the isn't this issue dealt with more frequently and seriously in the movement or even on here, a space where we can discuss the problems of the movement without "tarnishing the reputation" whatever of whatever sectarian org we have chosen for being the least worst IRL / over identity-based social media?

Do you not think the issue of capitalist imperialism or proletarian revolution for communism is important? Then engage in the materialist dialectic. Study, critique, dialogue, contradict.

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I never understood these problems with colonialism

One idea that routinely comes to mind about colony building is the focus on taking land away from already inhabited areas over setting up camps in uninhabited, unexplored, or inhospitable territory. I cannot be the only one to consider how inefficient it is to waste resources on trying to build colonies in already established places where you’ll face resistance from indigenous populations compared to building colonies in places where resistance should be nonexistent. Just look at this image. There’s all the land, potential mineral resources, and lack of competition right there. Sure it’s a desert, but if you can adapt to the conditions with the tech you bring from your home country, then it’s yours to make productive.

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### The 1970s Divergence: Productivity and Wages Under Capitalism

The 1970s marked a pivotal rupture in capitalist economies—productivity continued to rise, but wages stagnated. This decoupling was a structural shift, not an accident, and robotics now threatens to deepen this divide exponentially.

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### 1. The Post-WWII Golden Age (1945–1970s)
- Strong Labor Power: Unions, New Deal policies, and Keynesian demand management ensured wages tracked productivity.
- Bargaining Leverage: High employment + welfare states meant capital shared gains with workers.
- Profit Stability: Corporations accepted lower margins in exchange for stable demand (Fordism).

Result: A temporary class truce—capital expanded, workers prospered.

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### 2. The 1970s Break: Neoliberalism and the Wage-Productivity Split
The crisis of the 1970s (stagflation, oil shocks, falling profits) triggered a capitalist counteroffensive:

#### A. Suppressing Labor’s Share
- Union Busting: Reagan/Thatcher crushed strikes (PATCO, UK miners).
- Offshoring: Jobs moved to low-wage zones (NAFTA, China’s rise).
- Financialization: Profit shifted from production to speculation (Wall Street boom).

#### B. Technology’s Role
- Early Automation: Computers and CNC machines began displacing skilled labor.
- Just-in-Time Production: Reduced labor leverage via precarious work.

Result: By 2020, U.S. productivity had risen ~250% since 1979, while wages grew just ~60% (EPI data).

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### 3. Robots as the Next Frontier of Wage Suppression
Modern automation (AI, robotics) intensifies the 1970s divergence:

#### A. Absolute Labor Reduction
- Unlike offshoring (which moved jobs), robots erase jobs entirely.
- Example: Tesla’s Optimus aims to replace millions of warehouse/assembly workers.

#### B. Hyper-Exploitation of Remaining Workers
- Gig Economy: Humans compete with robots for scraps (Uber vs. self-driving cars).
- Algorithmic Despotism: Warehouse pickers monitored by AI for "optimal" toil.

#### C. Capital’s Escape Hatch
- Rentier Capitalism: Firms like Tesla patent robot labor, charging fees rather than hiring workers.
- Asset Inflation: Excess profits flow into stocks/real estate, not wages.

Result: Productivity soars—but wages flatline or fall.

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### 4. The Falling Rate of Profit Meets Wage Stagnation
- 1970s: Capital restored profits by squeezing labor (neoliberalism).
- 2020s+: Robots allow capital to eliminate labor—but this undermines demand, crashing profits.

Contradiction:
- Capital wants cheap labor (to exploit) but also no labor (to maximize efficiency).
- Robots solve the first goal but sabotage the second (no workers = no consumers).

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### 5. Where Does This Lead?
#### A. Crisis of Realization (Worse Than the 1970s)
- Robots produce cheap goods, but who buys them?
- 1970s fix: Debt expansion (credit cards, subprime mortgages).
- 2030s? Likely UBI + corporate feudalism (Amazon vouchers as wages).

#### B. Class Struggle Reborn
- Luddite 2.0: Sabotage, strikes against automation (see: Hollywood writers vs. AI).
- Worker-Owned Robots: Co-ops seizing means of (automated) production.

#### C. Systemic Collapse?
- Capitalism’s endgame: A zero-labor economy with zero-consumer demand.
- Either post-capitalist transition or neo-feudal dystopia.

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### Conclusion: The 1970s Were Just the Beginning
The wage-productivity split was capitalism’s first gambit to restore profits by attacking labor. Robotics is the final gambit—eliminating labor altogether. But without workers, capitalism loses its engine: exploitable labor power. The system now faces a terminal choice: abolish itself or collapse.

Key Addendum: The 1970s showed capital’s ability to temporarily escape crisis by crushing labor. Robots remove that option. The next crisis won’t be solvable with neoliberalism—it will require revolution or ruin.

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In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.

>For years, theorists have posited the onset of a “Chinese century”: a world in which China finally harnesses its vast economic and technological potential to surpass the United States and reorient global power around a pole that runs through Beijing.

>That century may already have dawned, and when historians look back they may very well pinpoint the early months of President Trump’s second term as the watershed moment when China pulled away and left the United States behind.

>It doesn’t matter that Washington and Beijing have reached an inconclusive and temporary truce in Mr. Trump’s trade war. The U.S. president immediately claimed it as a win, but that only underlines the fundamental problem for the Trump administration and America: a shortsighted focus on inconsequential skirmishes as the larger war with China is being decisively lost.

>Mr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. His tariffs are endangering U.S. companies’ access to global markets and supply chains. He is slashing public research funding and gutting our universities, pushing talented researchers to consider leaving for other countries. He wants to roll back programs for technologies like clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing and is wiping out American soft power in large swaths of the globe.

<China’s trajectory couldn’t be more different.

>It already leads global production in multiple industries — steel, aluminum, shipbuilding, batteries, solar power, electric vehicles, wind turbines, drones, 5G equipment, consumer electronics, active pharmaceutical ingredients and bullet trains. It is projected to account for 45 percent — nearly half — of global manufacturing by 2030. Beijing is also laser-focused on winning the future: In March it announced a $138 billion national venture capital fund that will make long-term investments in cutting-edge technologies such as quantum computing and robotics, and increased its budget for public research and development.

<The results of China’s approach have been stunning.

>When the Chinese start-up DeepSeek launched its artificial intelligence chatbot in January, many Americans suddenly realized that China could compete in A.I. But there have been a series of Sputnik moments like that.

>The Chinese electric carmaker BYD, which Mr. Trump’s political ally Elon Musk once laughed off as a joke, overtook Tesla last year in global sales, is building new factories around the world and in March reached a market value greater than that of Ford, GM and Volkswagen combined. China is charging ahead in drug discoveries, especially cancer treatments, and installed more industrial robots in 2023 than the rest of the world combined. In semiconductors, the vital commodity of this century and a longtime weak point for China, it is building a self-reliant supply chain led by recent breakthroughs by Huawei. Critically, Chinese strength across these and other overlapping technologies is creating a virtuous cycle in which advances in multiple interlocking sectors reinforce and elevate one another.

<Yet Mr. Trump remains fixated on tariffs. He doesn’t even seem to grasp the scale of the threat posed by China. Before the two countries’ announcement last Monday that they had agreed to slash trade tariffs, Mr. Trump dismissed concerns that his previous sky-high tariffs on Chinese goods would leave shelves empty in American stores. He said Americans could just get by with buying fewer dolls for their children — a characterization of China as a factory for toys and other cheap junk that is wildly out of date.

>The United States needs to realize that neither tariffs nor other trade pressure will get China to abandon the state-driven economic playbook that has worked so well for it and suddenly adopt industrial and trade policies that Americans consider fair. If anything, Beijing is doubling down on its state-led approach, bringing a Manhattan Project-style focus to achieving dominance in high-tech industries.

>China faces its own serious challenges. A prolonged real estate slump continues to drag on economic growth, though there are signs that the sector may be finally recovering. Longer-term challenges also loom, such as a shrinking work force and an aging population. But skeptics have been predicting China’s peak and inevitable fall for years, only to be proved wrong each time. The enduring strength of a state-dominated Chinese system that can pivot, change policy and redirect resources at will in service of long-term national strength is now undeniable, regardless of whether free-market advocates like it.

>Mr. Trump’s blinkered obsession with short-term Band-Aids like tariffs, while actively undermining what makes America strong, will only hasten the onset of a Chinese-dominated world.

>If each nation’s current trajectory holds, China will likely end up completely dominating high-end manufacturing, from cars and chips to M.R.I. machines and commercial jets. The battle for A.I. supremacy will be fought not between the United States and China but between high-tech Chinese cities like Shenzhen and Hangzhou. Chinese factories around the world will reconfigure supply chains with China at the center, as the world’s pre-eminent technological and economic superpower.

>America, by contrast, may end up as a profoundly diminished nation. Sheltered behind tariff walls, its companies will sell almost exclusively to domestic consumers. The loss of international sales will degrade corporate earnings, leaving companies with less money to invest in their businesses. American consumers will be stuck with U.S.-made goods that are of middling quality but more expensive than global products, owing to higher U.S. manufacturing costs. Working families will face rising inflation and stagnant incomes. Traditional high-value industries such as car manufacturing and pharmaceuticals are already being lost to China; the important industries of the future will follow. Imagine Detroit or Cleveland on a national scale.

>Avoiding that grim scenario means making policy choices — today — that should be obvious and already have bipartisan support: investing in research and development; supporting academic, scientific and corporate innovation; forging economic ties with countries around the world; and creating a welcoming and attractive climate for international talent and capital. Yet the Trump administration is doing the opposite in each of those areas.

>Whether this century will be Chinese or American is up to us. But the time to change course is quickly running out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/china-us-trade-tariffs.html

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FUCK the petit booj

small business owners usually fall into two categories: people who were so good at their job that they wanted to uncap their earnings and capture all the upside so they became consultants essentially, and on the other hand, people who are so obnoxious that being their own boss is the only way they could stay gainfully employed. If you've ever had the displeasure of being of being employed by the latter you'll know they can be infinitely more cruel, anal, dimwitted, and petty than any corporate executive or HR manager. The kind who pay minimum wage, as few or no benefits they can get away with, and scream at employees.

The petit booj ran a business with no buffer, no adaptability, and treated people like garbage, now they want my sympathy because they bet wrong on cheap imports?

A huge part of the emotional charge behind these complaints, especially among small business owners or freelancers, is the existential fear of re-proletarianization. They've tasted a degree of autonomy (however shaky), and the idea of going back to W-2 life, answering to a boss, or clocking in under surveillance again feels like death of the self.

They've constructed identities around being the boss, even if they're just scraping by. Going back to a "real job" means surrendering control over their time, work environment, and self-image. Many of them bought into the bootstraps ideology. Losing the business, or just watching it stagnate, feels like personal moral failure, not just market fluctuation. It’s not just about money. It's about status. Going from "entrepreneur" to "employee" (even if it's in a cushy corporate gig) feels like falling a class rung back into the worker pool. Many use their business as a narrative shield: "I'm not stuck in the system, I'm building something." The collapse of that dream isn't just stressful, it's identity-threatening.

That’s the real fear underneath the performative outrage, the entitlement, and sometimes the cruelty. They’re clinging to their mini-kingdoms (some justified, many not) because the alternative isn’t just economic loss. It’s class displacement. Its fear of them being turned into just another schmuck clocking in at 9 and slaving away under stark fluorescent lights.

FACE IT - COMPLAINING ABOUT TARIFFS IS THE TREATLERISM OF THE PETIT BOURGEOIS.

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Why does it feel like so much “anti-imperialism” has very little — if anything — to do with anti-imperialism and is simply Muslim identity politics?

For instance, why would anyone compare Pakistan to Palestine, when the former is a sovereign nation that was a close US ally during the Cold War and the latter a stateless nation that’s been fighting a 77+ year guerrilla war against one of the most brutal armies in the world and is now facing an all-out genocide? Pakistan and India are both bourgeois states with close ties to the US that both frequently imprison communists. To compare Pakistan to Palestine, in that western activists have a moral duty to hold mass protests waving Pakistani flags and boycott anything Indian is fucking stupid.

Yeah, I’m not shilling for India. But this shit is theoretically weak af.

Also, why does it seem like in every political conflict involving Muslims (except for China vs the Uyghurs) leftists always insist on taking the “Muslim side”? Look at Ethiopia vs Somalia or Christians vs Muslims in Nigeria, for instance. During the Cold War this would have made perfect sense, because the side fighting against the side backed by the West could be allied with the USSR and utilized to fight western capitalists. Today, not so much.

I’d love to understand the logic here.

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Dogmatism

There is an enormous issue with dogmatism and a lack of properly understanding theory. People treat it like the bible, and will throw up quotes to debunk people who disagree with them without giving why the writer thought that way (I know because I have done the same). Lenin said a lot of things in his life. You can cherrypick individual quotes from obscure pamphlets to align Lenin with basically anything. I have done this before, quoting Stalin on imperialism without adding the text that explains his point. This is just dogmatism, with many posts basically being stereotyped party writing. This gets especially egregious with the letters of Marx and Engels. I honestly don't think these should be taken as theory at all. It literally does not matter what either one of them thought about africans or women. Their individual words were often wrong, it is their actual work that is important.

You don't have to agree with everything Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Mao said to be a good communist. In fact you should be disagreeing with some parts, you should be criticising them from a productive stance (this is what Mao did with Stalin). You need to understand the context behind each text. Full length books are probably completely what the person believed, but you don't need to necessarily listen to everything in a one page statement. Shorter pamphlets might not explain everything completely but they are often among the most useful pieces of theory. You have to read these critically and put in your own brain power to fill in the gaps. This is the way to be a scientific socialist.

Generally the worst examples of this are people who overanalyze every single word Marx wrote like the sublation debate or whatever. This is pure bourgeois intellectualism. It doesn't matter what he wrote, it matters what you take away from his work as a whole and end up believing. In general 'Marxology' is completely against the science of Marxism. If you only read Marx you are not a Marxist, you are a historian at best. Like how can you be a physicist if you only read Isaac Newton?

There is just ridiculous dogmatism, an unending and unchanging devotion to 19th and 20th century political figures without updating it at all to the modern time. Obviously anyone can think of examples of this, like the 'Orthodox Marxists' or the fringe ultra-left strain of Maoism which adopted the MLMpM designation (even if that is probably still a useful term, its just been kind of co-opted by these groups). But this ends up becoming ecclecicism because it has stopped being a science, it has become a myth. That is the path Trotskyism went down, as well as most of the revisionist parties. They ended up fully with ridiculous, vapid and completely un-Marxist positions. There was a material reason for this, it's not like they just became revisionists because whatever.

Then there is 'dogmato-ecclecticism', which many MLs suffer from. It's a kind of pick and choose mentality to history and theory. The ACP is an example of this, they dogmatically follow the revisionist strain until they end up in a completely ridiculous position (this is the case because of the bourgeois class character of the party). This is also the path most 'anti-revisionists' will inevitably go down because they are limited by their lack of adopting Maoism (for example the CPBG-ML which hates Kruschev but loves Deng). Bob Avakian is another example of dogmato-ecclecticism. Anyway I don't want to make this post too much about that, and instead just a general point about being scientific when reading theory.

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News 5/19/25

Activists mobilize in Colombia’s cities in support of Petro’s labor reforms
Cheered on by the president, dozens of supporters of the labor reform organized the first meetings in the cities of Bogota, Medellin and Cartagena over the weekend. Petro is expected to address tens of thousands of followers in Barranquilla on Tuesday in his latest attempt to mobilize the masses that support his decision to call on the Senate to vote for a revised referendum in the coming weeks.
https://colombiareports.com/activists-mobilize-in-colombias-cities-in-support-of-petros-labor-reforms/

El Salvador anti-corruption lawyer arrested for alleged embezzlement
Cristosal has sharply criticized President Nayib Bukele's hardline security policies and warned of possible irregular use of public funds by his administration. The group denounced Lopez's arrest and said that it was part of a "systematic strategy of criminalization against those who defend human rights."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/anti-corruption-lawyer-arrested-alleged-embezzlement-el-salvador-2025-05-19/

Buenos Aires City ruling party dealt major blow by Milei's LLA
Argentine Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni prevailed in Sunday's elections at the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, as President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) swept former President Mauricio Macri's Propuesta Republicana (PRO) to third place in the country's capital, where Federal Congresswoman Silvia Lospennato got only 15.93% of the vote.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/19/buenos-aires-city-ruling-party-dealt-major-blow-by-milei-s-lla

9 arrested at hundreds-strong anti-war protest along the Gaza border
Footage from the march shows several protesters attempting to disrupt traffic on the road while calling for an end to the war in Hebrew and Arabic, as police rush to shove demonstrators away from the highway guardrail. They later carry away several protesters to police vehicles, detaining them for questioning.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/9-arrested-at-hundreds-strong-anti-war-protest-along-the-gaza-border/
https://archive.ph/87hoR

US-backed group set to distribute Gaza aid is a 'dangerous sham', warn NGOs
The British organisations, which include Action for Humanity and the Council for Arab-British Understanding, said in their letter that GHF has “no roots in Gaza, no accountability to Palestinian civil society and a clear record of working in coordination with the Israeli and US governments”. They also raise concerns that the GHF plan, as laid out, will deliver a limited amount of supplies to only 1.2 million people in Gaza, even though there are more than 2.2 million people in the enclave.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-backed-group-set-distribute-gaza-aid-dangerous-sham-warn-ngos

French left-wing parties demand measures against Israel
International law cannot be trampled on by Netanyahu’s extreme right, said the congressman, who called for the recognition of the Palestinian state by France, a possibility advanced by President Emmanuel Macron in view of a United Nations conference to be held in June, co-organized by Paris and Saudi Arabia. Faure also called for an arms embargo on Israel and the suspension of the European Union (EU) association agreement with that country.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/05/19/french-left-wing-parties-demand-measures-against-israel/

Moderate Nicușor Dan wins Romanian election — but ultranationalist George Simion won’t concede
Despite coming a distant second in the first round two weeks ago, the mild-mannered mayor of Bucharest, Nicușor Dan, gained a decisive 8-point advantage over his rival, the firebrand George Simion, who showed no sign of being willing to concede defeat.
https://www.politico.eu/article/romanian-presidential-election-results-nicusor-dan-george-simion/
https://archive.ph/EXsDF

Portugal set for another minority government after poll as right surges
The election saw a surge in support for the far-right Chega, which won at least 58 seats, with its focus on curbing immigration and cracking down on corruption. The socialists were contemplating possibly their worst result since 1987, also gaining at least 58 seats. Socialist leader Pedro Nuno Santos announced he was standing down. The Portuguese Communist Party won three seats in the election.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/portugal-set-another-minority-government-after-poll-right-surges

Fatal crash spotlights Japan military’s ageing aircraft, recruitment struggles
In April last year, two Maritime Self-Defence Force SH-60K helicopters collided during a nighttime anti-submarine drill near the Izu Islands, killing all eight crew members. Investigators attributed the tragedy to pilot error.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3310988/fatal-crash-spotlights-japan-militarys-ageing-aircraft-recruitment-struggles
https://archive.ph/KxJRe

Protests in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan demand the release of detained rights activists
Protests broke out in different parts of Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region last week in opposition to the arrest of several activists of the Awami Action Committee (AAC). The protesters demanded their immediate release, Dawn reported. ….
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/19/protests-in-pakistans-gilgit-baltistan-demand-the-release-of-detained-rights-activists/

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That’s it

I’m converting to Russian Orthodoxy and I advise all Catholic anti-imperialists to do the same. The current pope is proving he’s a useful idiot of the European deep state by cozying up to Zelenskyy and denouncing Russia’s highly justified defence against NATO aggression. He will keep doing this for as long as he is pope.

Yes, I get that there’s a long history of Roman Catholic liberation theology and anti-imperialism, but it’s not this way anymore. The new pope sold out first week. He is an American from Chicago a city full of anti-Soviet Ukrainian, Polish, and Lithuanian gusanos. Imperialist filth.

I need a primer on the Russian Orthodox Church and how I can start converting.

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CHAZ/CHOP

Hello fellow communists and anarkkkidies.
One of the events which I find most fascinating in recent years as a Non-American is the Capitol Hill CHAZ/CHOP thing. I would like this thread to be MLs shitting on it and saying why it was the biggest failure of all time and I want anarchists to explain why it failed but why it does not invalidate anarchism nonetheless.
Let us take a pause from Russ-Ukro, Indo-Pak and focus on this gem of the Yankee Anarcho-Lumpeno-Libtardo axis.
JANNIES PLS DONT SAGE, ALLOW THE PEOPLE'S EXPRESSION TO MANIFEST ITSELF FREELY

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Why do radlib "leftists" see the "marginalized" as agents of historical change and not workers

My friend told me she just got back from an anarchist bookfair in a major North American city, and that 1/3 of the books were on queer idpol. I asked her the question in my subject and she suggested that it's because radlibs think the marginalized can't be "bought off". But as Marx pointed out numerous times, the lumpen are loose cannons and the easiest to buy out. It reminded me of how there was this massive open letter against the Boston May Day Coalition for various thought crimes, and one of the signatories was a "drug users union". I bet I could win the neverending loyalty of these lumpen addicts by supplying them with 90% pure heroin.

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Wrench Attacks Against Crypto Millionaires

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/crypto-industry-robberies-attacks-32c2867a
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>The brazen attack was the latest in a wave of violent abductions around the world, including several in the U.S., targeting crypto executives and their families. Victims have been pistol whipped, abducted, and—in two cases—had fingers severed.
>The criminals’ goal: millions of dollars in ransom in cryptocurrency.
>The assaults are often called “wrench attacks” because they rely on simple tools for inflicting pain to coerce victims, rather than sophisticated tools for hacking them.
>Hacking has long been the primary risk for the crypto rich. But to thwart hackers, savvy cryptocurrency investors have increasingly taken their digital wallets offline in favor of physical devices, making remote theft more difficult. Real-world crypto crime bypasses those safeguards.
>“A lot of people are getting to the hide-your-gold-under-the-mattress level of security,” said Jameson Lopp, the co-founder of bitcoin security company Casa. “But if you are a high-profile person…that’s when you have to worry about the physical attack.”
No honor among thieves

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Is it true that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is dissolving or what? I heard about this but I’m not sure it’s true and I hope to god it isn’t because that’s a big blow to socialism in the Middle East but again im not totally sure and I thought they were doing good after the Syrian government collapsed

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Towards a Nietzschean Communism: A Manifesto for the Post-Moral Left

Nietzsche was right.
Slave morality won.
The weak overthrew the strong. Christianity, socialism, and democracy reshaped the world in the image of the herd — the "meek inherited the earth" through two thousand years of ressentiment, vengeance, and moral alchemy. Good. That victory was real power — the very kind Nietzsche feared. But now, the victory has soured. The moral values that once gave strength to the oppressed have become shackles.

What Nietzsche could not foresee was that the real aristocrats of our time — the bourgeoisie — would adopt the morality of the weak, not out of belief, but as a tactic. The capitalist class weaponizes compassion to defang class struggle. They preach universal empathy, liberal tolerance, and reconciliation — but only when the masses rise. They speak of healing, peace, and inclusion only when the guillotine glimmers.

Today’s ruling class uses moral pacification to neuter revolutionary energy. "Be kind," they say, "understand your oppressors." Forgive Elon Musk. Empathize with landlords. Respect all opinions — even those that exploit you.This isn’t slave morality anymore. It’s slave morality in the hands of the master — an ideological counter-insurgency. We must reforge morality into a sword, not a leash.

Therefore:
Compassion is good — but only for the exploited and oppressed.
Levelling is good — when it means breaking hierarchy, not erasing difference.
Solidarity is good — but only when it builds power, not pacifies it.

We retain the emotional core of slave morality — its care for the downtrodden, its dignity in the face of humiliation — but we strip it of universalism and false gentleness. We combine it with the selective violence, self-overcoming, and radical becoming that Nietzsche located in master morality.

This is no return to Nietzsche’s aristocrat. It is the birth of something new:
A class-conscious Übermensch,
forged not in aristocratic solitude,
but in revolutionary struggle.

To the Orthodox Marxist-Leninists:
You reject Nietzsche because he was an aristocratic reactionary who sneered at socialism. And yes — he was. But so what?
Are we historical materialists, or liberal moralists?

We do not take ideas whole — we seize what is useful, sharpen it, and turn it against the class enemy.
You embraced Hegel despite his idealism. You read Carl Schmitt for his insights into power and sovereignty. Yet Nietzsche — with his surgical critique of herd morality, resentment, and the will to dominate — is left for the fascists to claim unchallenged?
This is dereliction.

We do not need to accept Nietzsche’s politics to recognize that he understood something about power — something Orthodox Marxists forget when they reduce revolution to historical inevitability or moral righteousness.
What is a vanguard party if not the organized will to power of the proletariat? What is revolution if not the violent imposition of a new value system? Every revolution is a transvaluation of values, written in blood.

Nietzsche, used rightly, is a weapon against liberalism, against pacification, against tailing the “mass line” when the masses have been ideologically broken by capital. We shall hang liberal relativists with the rope of relativism they sold us.
It’s time to read Nietzsche as a communist — not to humanize him, but to rob his grave and weaponize his bones.

To the Anarchists:
You love Nietzsche’s style. His rebellion. His laughter. You quote “God is dead” and speak of “creative destruction.”
But your Nietzsche is a ghost — disembodied, impotent, an aesthetic.

You invoke will to power, but who’s will? Toward what power?
You speak of breaking morality, but what rises in its place? Who will destroy the last priest if everyone is busy becoming poets?

Without a political machine — a party, a strategy, a force of organized violence — all your transvaluation is performance art.
Rebellion becomes a vibe, not a praxis.
If you want to make Nietzsche real — not in salons, but in the world — you must embrace organization, hierarchy, discipline, and revolutionary war.
You must become what Nietzsche feared most: a conscious mob with a plan.
You don’t have to call it a party. But if you want power, it needs to function like one.

A Nietzschean Marxism?
Yes. Not a synthesis, but an appropriation.

We use Nietzsche’s critique of ressentiment to identify where leftism has become self-neutering and caves to liberalism.
We embrace his concept of will to power as a materialist understanding of class struggle, but one that emphasizes subjective force, revolutionary desire, rupture.
We discard his aristocratic elitism — but retain his belief that revolution requires new values, and new men to wield them.
We reject universal meekness, but not universal liberation.
We want a world of equality — not because we are weak, but because we have decided to remake strength itself collectively.

The last priest will not be struck down by a lone egoist.
He will be dragged from the altar by a vanguard of class-conscious Übermenschen, forged in collective fire.

What would a revolutionary praxis look like built from this synthesis? This is not a conclusion — it’s a provocation.
Discuss. Tear it apart. Build something stronger.

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Was George Carlin a leftist are a anarchist are a communist I didn’t know I’m that well, but when I saw clips of them I thought he was pretty funny he seemed to be pretty anti capitalism an anti-fascist so I don’t know what he has

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How do we sublate the reserve pool of labor, the lower petty-bourgeoisie and the labor aristocracy (credentialed professionals/trade union workers, also workers in the imperial core, also a number of specially privileged groups like white workers) into the struggle of the proletariat?
How do we sublate the workers' movement of the imperial core into the periphery?
I think that worker cooperatives while very flawed may be a way for the petty-bourgeoisie to ease their way into class suicide.
And I can sort of see a solution with the reserve pool of labor with all these identity groups and so on. I think it can be possible to link the struggle inside the prisons and the institutions with the struggle inside the workplace.
I'm not really sure how to deal with the embourgeoised trade unions and labor aristocracy. I feel sad because the tech labor aristocracy got very reactionary suddenly when all the software jobs started getting outsourced. I do think the free software movement was a positive step towards the public ownership of the means of production. I think the social sector and the academy are particularly problematic areas right now. There's really not a natural form of organizing in the labor aristocracy except for around education I suppose.

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News 5/17/25

Half a million march to Downing Street to urge Starmer to cut ties with Israel
An estimated 600,000 people marched through central London to Downing Street on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba. The demonstration began at Embankment before passing Big Ben, crossing the river to Waterloo and ending up outside Downing Street.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/half-million-march-downing-street-urge-end-uk-israel-ties

Dramatic video of thwarted kidnapping sparks ‘Mexicanisation’ of France warnings
The targeting of cryptocurrency figures comes amid a rise in organised crime and a wave of prison attacks purportedly carried out by narcotics kingpins, which has boosted support for the far-right in France. On May 1, the father of a French crypto player was kidnapped for ransom in Paris and was rescued by police days later, missing a finger.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250516-critics-slam-mexicanisation-of-france-after-spate-of-crypto-kidnappings
https://archive.ph/20Eg7

Battalion commander of the 47th brigade submits resignation report, slams military leadership over 'stupid tasks'
Shyrshyn on May 16 accused the military command of focusing on punishments rather than results. "All they are capable of is reprimands, investigations, imposition of penalties. Everyone is going to hell," he wrote. "Political games and assessment of the real state of affairs do not correspond to either reality or possibilities. They played games."
https://kyivindependent.com/battalion-commander-of-the-47th-brigade-submits-resignation-report-slams-military-leadership-over-stupid-tasks/
https://archive.ph/G1Oa7

Gaza ceasefire talks resume as Israeli assault kills hundreds in 72 hours
Israel and Hamas resumed ceasefire talks on Saturday in Qatar, both sides said, even as Israeli forces ramped up a bombing campaign that has killed hundreds of people over 72 hours, and mobilised for a massive new ground assault.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strikes-kill-least-58-palestinians-overnight-2025-05-17/

Bolivia’s Movement to Socialism Nominates Eduardo Del Castillo as Presidential Candidate
The alliance between the minister and the peasant leader is presented as the ideal option to represent the social organizations and trade unions that constitute the base of the ruling party. “Victory is assured,” he added, after the current president Arce was completely discarded.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-delcastillo-presidential-candidate/
https://archive.ph/0Hx2O

Planned water reserve intended to ease shortages in the Panama Canal fuels river protest
Dozens of boats carrying around 200 people, mostly farmers waving Panamanian flags, traveled along the country’s central Indio River on Friday to protest a planned reservoir in the Panama Canal intended to solve water shortages in the waterway that have threatened international trade flow.
https://apnews.com/article/panama-canal-water-shortage-protest-18e85031e1f4616f2f21ed2c1988facc

SACP demands wealth tax increase instead of VAT hike
The consortium is led by KwaZulu-Natal businessmen Moses Tembe and Sandile Zungu. This lottery bidding process has been marred by allegations of political interference, conflicts of interest, and a flagrant disregard for principles of ethical governance.
https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-05-17-eff-raises-concerns-over-gold-rush-consortiums-mooted-national-lottery-takeover/

Red Cross escorts over 1,000 disarmed Congolese soldiers from rebel-controlled city to capital
The soldiers and police officers had been taking refuge at the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Congo’s base since January, when the decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated as the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma.
https://apnews.com/article/congo-red-cross-transfer-soldiers-m23-cda6ee86c2e695e87bec8e482457fd94

Covert Deportation at Assam’s Matia Detention Centre
From silent pushbacks to prolonged illegal detentions, India’s handling of Rohingya and other foreign nationals at the Matia detention centre reveals a disturbing erosion of due process, humanitarian obligations, and constitutional safeguards.
https://www.newsclick.in/covert-deportation-assams-matia-detention-centre

Court rejects Australian soldier’s defamation appeal over Afghan killings
Australia’s Federal Court dismissed the appeal lodged by Ben Roberts-Smith on Friday, in the latest setback for the 46-year-old’s fight to salvage a reputation tattered by reports that he took part in the murder of four unarmed Afghan prisoners.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/16/court-rejects-australian-soldiers-defamation-appeal-over-afghan-killings
https://archive.ph/HIyI7

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No matter who you vote for

No matter who you vote for, weed is still illegal.
No matter how much you protest, weed is still illegal.
No matter what you do, weed is still illegal.

Do something that works for real, make it legal.

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The reason why Stalinism failed is because Industrialization is the major problem of Capitalism.
Socialization of Industry does not solve the problem of Capitalism. It literally copies everything bad about Capitalism!
Socialism and Utopia can only be achieved if we de-industrialize, and revert back before the Industrial Revolution.

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how become anarchist

what do I think what do I read what do I do please help me become le based anarchist I am clinging onto any identity that makes me feel less like a fat loser

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Marx FAILED TO CONSIDER

Hey GOMMIE!

I can see why you'd be attracted to GOMMUNISM. But GOMMUNISM has failed and killed le gorillians. And why's that?

Because Marx FAILED to CONSIDER

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>Theory
Most leftist people are "cat-coded" or are cat like

>Experiment
Hello leftpol poster, here is a bottle of water near the end of a desk.

>Further Theory
Cats are easily distracted by toys or other things, their attention can be easily dragged away

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The us has been officially banned from Mahgreb (the Arab world)

This comes after the fact that the USA has stayed out of intervening in any country entirely for almost half a decade now.
Israel was the last straw for that annoying country. It’s clear that aiding Israel became too much of an expensive action if it means losing any and all opportunities to extract or earn kleptocratic favour in the Middle East, but the departure from the Zionist entity was so late that the USA cannot do anything to save its reputation to be allowed back in anywhere in Mahgreb. It’s over. It’s genuinely fucking over and I cannot be more relieved.

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Freeze yourself through the Kali Yuga

I'm wondering, how do we refine this insult for Indian ultranationalists and Bhakts?

In Hindu belief, we currently live in the Kali Yuga, which is the worst of all eras, and this will last until 423,000 AD.

Consequently, if Indians are devoted to nothing but making life difficult for people who are trying to make life better for others, they should just seek cryogenic freezing to wake up after the Kali Yuga. We'll take care of them.

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Viet Nam - 50 years later

50 years after the Vietnamese victory over the American war of imperialist aggression, what do you make of the current situation in the Marxist-Leninist state?

Is Viet Nam still building a road towards Communism? Can capitalist structures be successfully harnessed to benefit socioeconomic development within a Socialist state?

Or are all Marxist-Leninist projects all doomed to be little more than corrupt State Capitalism, with the former revolutionary vanguard serving as a new bourgeois ruling elite?
Are we witnessing a project of bourgeois national liberation that builds a new Capitalism with only a few meagre Socialist appendages, a few splashes of Socialist paint to cover the real system of machinery at work?

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Why are you not In a party

Why are you not in a party, a union ,a group ? Etc why do you think you can do anything alone ? For socialism to work you need socialization. If you want to fight the whole capitalist system alone why?

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How true is this?

someone also replied with this

>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it

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On Nationalism

The principal of nationality, or nation building, that is, the tendency to form nation-states out of non-nation-states, is a byproduct of the French bourgeois revolution, and therefore, the negation of nation-building is the establishment of socialism. So why the attachment to "respecting" nationality in the process of building socialism? I often hear "there is no internationalism without nationalism." True, and yet that sentiment is often the opening salvo leading to "it's ridiculous to expect proles to care about people outside of their nation before themselves."

Isn't it strange that the modern nation-state, a construct of the French revolution, and therefore of bourgeois liberalism, and a phenomenon not even 250 years old, is constantly held up as the most important secular political principle, and something which allegedly cannot be overcome by proletarian internationalism? Where does this defeatism in the face of nationalism come from? I see it far more often with nationalism than with other much older forms of identity politics like religion. I think Hobsbawm's thoughtful treatment of this subject in "On Nationalism" is a useful treatment of this question but people don't like him because he's a British guy and not one of the legends of the ML AES nations.

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These people are scum and I want them dead

Exercising taught me to hold a level of genuine concentrated and ever growing disgust for people I consider weak out of anger for the seemingly endless list of stupid problems and the capitalist class—especially the white Western European capitalist class—is one I’ve grown from having jealousy to just flat out open disgust and hatred.

*getting angry at these people or arguing with them is a waste. They should be either shot dead or exiled from the entirety of humanity at this threshold for any constructive change to occur*

These people are scum, and the world would genuinely be better off if they were dead. Their children could live without being blamed for their parent’s actions and attitudes. Mahgreb and Africa could have the release they need to stabilize properly. All of Europe could fucking learn to adapt to times instead of failing and or stop relying on migrant slaves for the pettiest work ever. Israel would be fucking obliterated. And I could fucking go a day without seeing any of these fat old pieces of cum-coloured shit fucking running their mouths everyday about their mediocre history and morals.
It’s unreal how many problems scum like them being on to everyone else and how unimaginably pathetic and weak they are compared to most people around them. Name a single positive change that’s occurred since the collapse of the Soviet Union directly attributed to them. Name a single positive change in general you can attribute to these idiots.

Fuck liberals. Kill cops. Fuck the bourgeoisie. I haven’t been this angry and genuinely disgusted by degeneracy of this extent these idiots put out daily.

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News 5/16/25

Chile's Senate okays state of emergency extension to tackle Mapuche crisis
A march against the state of emergency was called for May 16, 2025, to demand respect for Mapuche sovereignty, the withdrawal of military forces, and the release of Mapuche political prisoners, including Héctor Llaitul, sentenced to 23 years in prison for incitement and apology to violence, violent usurpation, theft of wood, and attack to the authority.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/16/chile-s-senate-okays-state-of-emergency-extension-to-tackle-mapuche-crisis

Peru says suspect in miner killings arrested in Colombia
The ministry said in a post on X that the arrest of Miguel Rodriguez, alias "Cuchillo" or "Knife," followed extensive intelligence work and coordination between the Peruvian and Colombian National Police and Interpol.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-says-suspect-miner-killings-arrested-colombia-2025-05-15/

Argentine Judge Requests Banking Information on Milei Over $LIBRA Cryptocurrency Scandal
More specifically, the judge issued a formal request to the Argentine Central Bank for information on financial institutions that have held or are currently holding accounts under the names of Milei, his sister, and three other individuals charged in the cryptocurrency scandal.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-judge-requests-banking-information-on-milei-over-libra-cryptocurrency-scandal/

Claudia Sheinbaum denounces proposed US remittance tax as ‘unacceptable’
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has denounced a provision in a tax bill being considered in the United States Congress that would impose duties on remittances — a term used to describe the money people send abroad for non-commercial reasons, often as gifts to family and loved ones.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/15/claudia-sheinbaum-denounces-proposed-us-remittance-tax-as-unacceptable
https://archive.ph/KB48y

Libyan protesters demand prime minister quit as three ministers resign
At least three ministers resigned in sympathy with the protesters, who want Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah to quit. The demonstrators gathered in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, chanting slogans such as "The nation wants to topple the government” and “We want elections.” They then marched to the main government building in the city center. "We won't leave until he leaves," one protester said. The marchers carried pictures of Dbeibah, national security adviser Ibrahim Dbeibah and Interior Minister Emad Tarbulsi with their faces crossed out in red.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/middle-east/two-ministers-internationally-recognized-libyan-government-resign-2025-05-16/

Former Chad PM arrested over alleged links to deadly clash
Masra's Transformers party said he had been "kidnapped" by military officers in the early hours of the morning" and denounced his detention, which it says was "carried out outside of any known judicial procedure".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8d19v3eygyo
https://archive.ph/7G3HN

Israel launches strikes on two Yemen ports
Al Masirah TV, a Houthi-affiliated outlet, also reported Israeli strikes on the two ports. The extent of any damage was not clear, and there no immediate reports of casualties.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/16/israel-vows-to-kill-houthi-leader-after-striking-yemeni-ports
https://archive.ph/72ZUj

Free Palestine, End The Genocide first national demo to take place since March
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Stop the War Coalition and the Peace and Justice Project highlighted the recent anniversary of the Nakba in the lead-up to the protests taking place across all of Britain’s major cities.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/free-palestine-end-genocide-first-national-demo-take-place-march

Ministers to block Thames Water paying bosses bonuses out of emergency loan
Britain’s biggest water company admitted this week that senior managers are in line for “substantial” bonuses linked to an emergency £3bn loan. Thames claimed the payouts were vital to retain staff and prevent rival companies from “picking off” its best employees. But the disclosure provoked fury as the company has said its finances are “hair raising” and that it had come “very close to running out of money entirely” last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/15/ministers-to-block-thames-water-paying-bosses-bonuses-out-of-emergency-loan

Philippines Senate race a blow to President Marcos as he feuds with Vice President Duterte
The midterm election outcome provided unexpectedly strong backing for Duterte and boosted his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, ahead of her impeachment trial in the Senate in July. The election also was a blow to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration, whose candidates did not do as well as expected in midterm polls when the president’s influence is usually strong, analysts said.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-midterm-election-duterte-senate-6e612ed03aa880fc3a5a4c9f2456f727

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Anti-Psychiatry Pro-Substance Use

Why don't we discuss how the ruling class tortures mentally-distressed workers? There's no science behind these therapies, and there's a direct historical root in anti-gay and anti-trans conversion therapy. Psychiatry and therapy are mostly just ways to lobotomize and gaslight workers who are sick of capitalism.

I mean seriously depression and anxiety have to be the most obvious bullshit for covering up abuse ever. The psy-industry is just a way to tell people to ignore their own thoughts and feelings.

I think to a large extent anti-autism, anti-ADHD, anti-vax and anti-trans hysteria are just ways to shift the blame from the psy-industry to minorities much like how antisemitism shifts the blame of capitalism to Jewish people.

I'm also pro-substance use. I think using prescription stims to get through capitalism is fine. I'm also fine with the cultural identity of ADHD. I'm not okay with the capitalist gaslighting about the serial collective though.

IDK it's a sick world. Also I would recommend the book "Empire of Normality".

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1903 Conference:
Who was right? Who was wrong? Should the RSDLP split have only happened years later when it was actually substantial? What would you have done, at the time?

eagleposting welcome, but don't pretend it's an accurate account of the conference

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Park chung hee

>had five year plans
>was a former member of the communist party
>nationalized key sectors of the economy (steel, bank)
>secretly disliked america
>made the chaebols his bitch through arrests and shit
>had a large planning and economic bureacracy
why does leftypol not praise comrade park?

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Anything to say about this edition of the Manifesto? By Penguin Books: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35335/the-communist-manifesto-by-marx-friedrich-engelskarl/9780141395906
Reason I ask: I live in a non-English speaking country and need a physical copy by Friday.
Suggetions of other editions are very welcome.

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POWER

Power corrupts, be either a user from the Left or Right, power blind them and their sight only see themselves and nothing more. Power for one or a few can destroy everything build beyond itself, power can turn to itself and only justify perpetuating itself, nothing more. Power corrupts.

I think anarchist are right on that front, give power to someone, and see them turn and change. How do we solve the problem of power?

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A solution to the depopulation crisis

Have the state become responsible for childbirth and child rearing.
People donate sperm and eggs then they just grow babies in artificial wombs and raise them in camps like orphelinages. This way you can adjust the birthrate to be whatever you need it to be. So if people are breeding more one year you reduce the number of artificial births to adjust.
Thoughts? Is there any reason why this wouldn't work?

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Accelerate

We must proletarianize the fascist petty-bourgeoisie and accelerate the revolution. We must boycott small businesses and small landlords. The petty-bourgeoisie are far too bought into the system to resist and appealing to them is misguided.

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Greece: Nikos Palaiokostas, the Ghost, the Greek Robin Hood & brother of Vassilis Palaiokostas has passed away
This morning Nikos Palaiokostas passed away at Trikala hospital. Since 2021 Nikos had been released due to health grounds and was able to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest in his family home in Trikala, from where he was able to leave twice a week, for dialysis treatment at the hopsital’s Kidney Unit.

Nikos Palaiokostas born in Moschofyto, in the mountains above Trikala, to a large family with a background as shepherds. He was a bank robber, beloved of the anarchist/revolutionary movement, hero of the poor in Greece and the older brother of the still wanted Vassilis Palaiokostas . He operated for several years either with his brother or alone, mainly committing bank robberies and one kidnapping.

After a brief job as a sailor, he quickly began to engage in ‘petty theft’ and ‘burglary’ together with his younger brother, Vassilis Palaiokostas, who in the meantime had begun earlier. In 1988, Nikos Palaiokostas was imprisoned in the prison of Trikala but with the help of his brother Vassilis, he escaped on 18th December of that year. However, on 3rd February, 1990, Nikos was arrested again for theft, while in April of the same year, Vassilis was also arrested for car theft while preparing a plan to help his brother escape again.

Palaiokostas’ acquaintance with Kostas Samaras (known by the nicknames Artist or Butterfly ) in the 1980s was crucial as the three of them began committing bank robberies in various areas throughout Greece. The most famous robbery of these took place in June 1992, when they robbed the National Bank branch in Kalambaka, Trikala, liberating 125,000,000 drachmas, which remains to this day the largest bank robbery in Greece.On 15th December 1995, the Palaiokostas gang carried out the first kidnapping in Greece, kidnapping industrialist Alexandros Chaitoglou from his home in Thessaloniki. The Palaiokostas gang then demanded a ransom of 260,000,000 drachmas for the industrialist’s release. The Chaitoglou family paid the ransom to the kidnappers, with the authorities launching a major manhunt at the time in their attempt to locate and arrest the gang. Only after 3 years of investigations and pursuits, in 1999, did they manage to achieve some results, as after a car accident at the Lamia – Livadia national road, the authorities arrested Vassilis, who was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison for the kidnapping of Chaitoglou.

Nikos Palaiokostas is ‘alleged’, according to the authorities, to be the organizer of the first helicopter escape from Korydallos prison of his brother, which took place in June 2006. The story goes, that two people hired a trip on a sight-seeing helicopter from Agios Kosmas, a coastal suburb of Athens. They hijacked the helicopter using a pistol and hand grenade, and forced the pilot to fly to the prison. When the helicopter arrived, guards believed the helicopter was a visit from prison inspectors. The helicopter flew the prisoners to a cemetery nearby, where they transferred to motorcycles and fled from there. Unfortunatly Vassilis was re-captured two years later on 2nd August 2008 in Thessaloniki.

Nikos is again ‘accused’ of the same action in 2009 this time liberating both Vassilis and his cellmate Alket Rizai. They climbed a rope ladder thrown to them by a female passenger in the helicopter as it flew over the prison courtyard. Guards on the ground opened fire and the woman fired back with an automatic rifle. One prison guard injured himself while trying to pull out his gun. Vassilis is still at large with a one-million euro bounty placed on him. His cellmate Alket Rizai was re-arrested in November 2009

Wanted for 16 years, Nikos was finally arrested in 2006, outside the village of Livadi on Mount Parnassos, after falling into a roadblock set up by the Livadia cops. He tried to avoid the roadblock by driving at high speed, but the car he was driving veered off course and went off the road. In recent years, Palaiokostas has been held in the Agios Stefanos prison in Patras. The state took its revenge by sentencing Nikos to 197 years and 376 months.

Nikos showed that we are not pawns of the capitalist system, that all laws of the state are to be broken, that there is no legal or illegal. The rich are only rich because they are left to be, Nikos and Vassilis understood that all that was needed was a trusted few to take it.

Nothing has changed since the Palaiokostas brothers humiliated the state & the rich of Greece. The rich are still rich and getting richer. There is need again and always of another cycle of expropriation, whether it is to fund revolution or to merely live against this existing rotting system of tyranny and inequality.

We will never forget or forgive, Nikos and Vassilis we are with you till the end.

“If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.”

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Dangers of Critical Support

Right now, I feel burnt for critically supporting Nahendra Modi toward Indian liberals and leftists because of Modi overseeing growth and modernization in India.

That was why I was willing to give him critical support, but he's turned into a Netanyahu figure with the recent Pahalgam war, destructive not only to Pakistanis, but also to his own nation, with him effectively threatening to trigger a thermonuclear war the next time ANYONE, not just the Pakistanis, tries something in India, because you cannot properly attribute terrorist attacks. At this point, I want him gone ASAP, almost at all costs.

Has anyone else been burnt like this before?

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do you guys think that Joseph Stalin would’ve been four or against vaccines I know that Trofim Lysenko was like the Soviet Union version Of Robert F Kennedy Junior and he was on stone side, so I wonder if stolen sympathize with the views

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Why the AI hate?

Can someone explain to me why the left overwhelmingly seems against AI? Isn't that a necessary component to a post-scarcity society? I understand the technology can be used by the wrong people but that shouldn't be a reason to hate the technology itself.

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Why were the circuses with animals popular in USSR?

Seriously, during the communist days, many people liked going to see the animals in the circuses and nobody saw it as something wrong, before PETA ever existed.
To this day in Russia, there are circuses with animals, interestingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tskbF6cM0G4
And mostly outcry about circuses with animals is in capitalistic countries.
Back then in communist Poland, circuses with animals used to be liked as well. And up till 90s, 2000s and 2021, they used to be popular for children.
What happened? And please, no reactionary liberal rhetoric.

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Would have Trofim Lysenko have been anti vaccine I know he was into pseudoscience and agriculture he rejected people like Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel do you think he was a Soviet union equivalent of Robert F Kennedy Junior

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How do you think that Mao would’ve handled COVID-19 do you think he would’ve handled it like xi jinping or do you think you would’ve handled it like Donald Trump do you think you have been pro or anti-mask

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>country/region pushes for workers rights
>companies leaves elsewhere for cheaper labour
>that country also pushes for workers rights
>process keeps happening until companies no longer have a place to escape to

so this is why internationalism is important, the class war is just a big whack a mole game

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It's an amazing time to be liberal

Everything is happening, Islamists took over Syria and sanctions were lifted boosting the Turkish and Gulf camps, Trump is shutting down the US foreign propaganda machines, Russia is looking to win more concessions before the slaughter of proles stops, Israel's genocide is ongoing at least Hamas still exists, China is developing the productive forces through sweatshops, India-Pakistan war averted so no need to choose which to critically support, Qatar will end the genocide in two more weeks, Iran is back to shaking hands and more neoliberal reforms are on the way.

For Marxoids like me though, nothing ever happens.

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News 5/15/25

Colombian Senate Blocks Gustavo Petro’s Labor Reform Referendum In the Midst of Popular Outcry
In response to the Senate’s rejection, President Petro called for intensified and sustained protests, urging the Colombian people to “rebel with the greatest possible force” against what he describes as “tyranny” and obstructionism from the political establishment. The government’s push for a referendum represents a strategy to circumvent a hostile legislature and place the decision directly in the hands of citizens.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-senate-blocks-gustavo-petros-labor-reform-referendum-in-the-midst-of-popular-outcry/

Milei’s Argentina eyes deportations, tightens immigration rules
Among other steps, the Milei government said that undocumented immigrants, as well as transitory and temporary residents, would have to pay to access services at public healthcare or higher education institutions. “National universities will be authorised to charge for their services if they choose to do so, in line with their institutional autonomy,” said Adorni.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/mileis-argentina-eyes-deportations-tightens-immigration-rules.phtml
https://archive.ph/a2PCM

Eighteen separatists killed in Papua region, Indonesian military says
Three civilians were killed during the shootout between rebels and soldiers, a prominent church group with a chapter in Papua said, citing local church reports. Nearly 1,000 people have been evacuated. Ronald Rischard, the head of the group's Papua chapter, told reporters the attack came as villagers were asleep, urging the country's rights body to independently investigate the incident.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-military-says-18-separatists-killed-operation-papua-region-2025-05-15/

India blocks X accounts of Chinese state media over coverage of Kashmir crisis
The X accounts of China’s official state news agency Xinhua, and a state-backed nationalistic tabloid, the Global Times, were inaccessible inside India on Wednesday. Turkey’s TRTWorld was also blocked. Both China and Turkey are allies of Pakistan, with China providing the bulk of its weapons purchases. On Thursday, the Global Times account was restored, reportedly after a legal request.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/15/india-blocks-x-accounts-of-chinese-state-media-over-coverage-of-kashmir-crisis

Smith’s snack food workers strike in South Australia
More than 150 workers have started industrial action at a snack food factory in South Australia, owned by PepsiCo. The workers, covered by the United Workers Union (UWU) and several other unions, carried out rolling 4-hour stoppages across five shifts from May 8 to May 10, demanding pay parity with their counterparts in Queensland. …';
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/15/nuad-m15.html

Portuguese far-right leader taken to hospital after second collapse
Videos from the rally showed Ventura, 42, grabbing his chest and trying to undo his tie before falling into the arms of aides who carried him away. He was taken to a local clinic and then transferred to a hospital in Setúbal, near Lisbon, to undergo a medical procedure.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/15/portuguese-far-right-leader-andre-ventura-hospital-second-collapse

Prisons minister challenged after admitting two in three new jails will be privately run
Addressing the Prison Officers Association (POA) annual conference in Eastbourne, the minister also said that former justice secretary David Gauke‘s review into criminal sentencing will be published ”imminently” and recommend technologically driven solutions to keeping offenders out of jail. …….
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/prisons-minister-challenged-after-admitting-two-three-new-jails-will-be-privately-run

Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage and Jimmy Carr attend secret Israeli party at British Museum
The party was imbued with a serious air when Britain's minister for defence procurement and industry, Maria Eagle, took to the stage to give a speech. She boasted about the regular Royal Air Force spy planes that have been flying over Gaza on reconnaissance missions, and of Britain's help in defending Israel from Iranian attacks.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kemi-badenoch-nigel-farage-and-jimmy-carr-attended-secret-israeli-embassy-party-british-museum

Al-Qaeda affiliate claims 200 soldiers killed in Burkina Faso attack
The base in the northern town of Djibo came under attack on Sunday morning, and a police station and market were also targeted, security sources told the news agency Reuters. Although there was no official toll, three Djibo residents told Reuters that dozens of soldiers and civilians were killed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/15/al-qaeda-affiliate-claims-200-soldiers-killed-in-attack-in-burkina-faso
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Israeli strikes on Gaza kill over 100 as Hamas says aid entry 'minimum requirement' for talks
Hamas, for its part, insisted on Thursday that the restoration of humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged territory was "the minimum requirement" for talks. It also warned that Gaza was not "for sale," just hours after US President Donald Trump, during a visit to the region, again floated the idea of taking over the territory and turning it into "a freedom zone".
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-strikes-kill-115-gaza-hamas-demands-aid-talks

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Leftists need to stop expressing fear of Trump/MAGA/fascism

It seems like all leftists can do these days is shake in their boots and tweet about how mean Trump is and how they're scared of fascism. What a cucked move. Why would you show your enemies you're afraid of them? The Soviets relentlessly mocked Hitler in their propaganda even at the height of Stalingrad and basically called him a fag. The heroes of WWII didn't hide away and cry, they thumbed their noses at danger and fought back. Now leftists openly post about wanting to hide when they see a cop. It's pathetic.

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imagine being russian and disowning your history when you were at your peak making nukes and traveling into spaces and making dogos heads live without their bodies that cant be replicated to this day.
yikes.

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Gramsci is just a leftover from Left-Hegelianism and his so-called philosophy of praxis is trash, just like he is. His whole theory of hegemony is awful and he even borrows his philosophical drivel from Gentile. Fucking Ugo Spirito makes more sense than him.

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The right can’t meme

The right can’t meme .
The right wing has falsely claimed the left can’t meme but as we see from this and millions of examples the right actually can’t meme
Post your examples of the Far right failing to wield so called “ meme magic “ I’ll start

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In Memoriam General Wojciech Jaruzelski

With deep respect and solemn remembrance, we honor the life of General Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski, a dedicated patriot, military leader, and statesman who devoted his life to the service and sovereignty of the Polish People’s Republic.

His rise through the ranks of the People’s Army was marked by discipline, strategic acumen, and unwavering commitment to socialist ideals. As Minister of Defense, Prime Minister, and First Secretary of the PZPR, General Jaruzelski stood at the helm of the state in one of the most difficult periods in modern Polish history

In December 1981, faced with growing unrest and the threat of chaos stoked by reactionary forces hostile to socialism and sovereignity. He made the difficult but necessary decision to introduce martial law, to protect the achievements of People’s Poland, and to preserve peace and sovereignty in the face of foreign and domestic subversion.
Despite the storm of criticism from the West in the form economic sanctions and later revisionist accounts, history will remember that it was under his leadership that Poland avoided fratricidal conflict

In his final years, he bore the weight of unjust attacks with dignity.
Wieczna chwała Generałowi Wojciechowi Jaruzelskiemu.

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IOF pack smoking vids

These mfs are really using car backup cameras to kill Israelis

Anyone got any other good vids of these dipshits getting what's coming to them

The cleaner the packs the better

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Reminder that vague 'anti-capitalism' is never enough by itself.

Discontent with the capitalistic relation is therefore easy to come by. Nothing comes from it, but rather from what one makes of it. And only one thing is to be demanded of it: the criticism must be correct. In this respect, it all depends on whether someone regards something that stinks as theoretically settled when he frowns on it with the yardstick of the morally acceptable and in addition still thinks that what shouldn't be would not have to be if people only made an effort and controlled their egoism. Appeals to humanity and demands for what should and should not be are a dime a dozen; they accompany capitalistic society from its inception and accomplish only one thing: with them the one who criticizes places himself in the right. He is full of good intentions; it is the others who spoil their coexistence.

Marxist criticism does not bemoan that the world is not as it should be, but rather explains why and how it is. It takes the same ills which everyone deplores, and leads them back to their reasons and demonstrates their necessity on the basis of the mode of organization of this society. This is useful in so far as those who object to these ills know what they have to turn against and what is necessary to stop it. In doing this, we come across one thing: many people may want to get rid of capitalism, but only the propertyless reserveless wage-laborers can do what is necessary for it: with their work, they perpetually sustain and reproduce the economic and political power which compels them into its service. They not only have good reasons, but also the means to overturn the conditions which don't suit us.

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Socialism and beauty

I firmly believe one of the main goals of socialism should be to revive beauty in everyday life and make society beautiful again.

Look at photos of Western cities from 110 years ago and you will see how gorgeous and majestic the buildings were. Walk into any old Catholic cathedral and it will move your spirit. Or, look at all of the beautiful Socialist Realist art made in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc nations and how it transformed everyday working people into glorified heroes. Same with the music: classical music is deeply compelling and moving.

Today’s “art” couldn’t be more different. Architecture has become dull and drab. Modern “art” like abstract expressionism makes you feel angry and resentful. Our cities are also littered with graffiti which invokes the exact same feelings of resentment. Music has gone from orchestras collectively performing epic symphonies to a single music producer pushing buttons on an Akai MPC sampler. Hip hop, electronic music and other sample-based “music” creates a sense of distortion in listeners.

All of this has greatly contributed to the capitalist mindset. When people are surrounded by ugly “art” and “music” they start to see the world as innately ugly. When this happens they start to become withdrawn and lose all sense of solidarity with their fellow man. It leads to social isolation, resentment, confusion and distortion. Anger. A breakdown of love. And it makes people feel as if they have no stake in defending society because all they see society as is ugly and alienating.

Art under socialism is different. The USSR banned jazz (some of the first degenerate “music”) and China bans hip hop. China also bans graffiti and punishes it with jail time. Real socialist nations do NOT celebrate the gutter but promote beauty as a way of festering solidarity between working people. This is what we must return to.

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News 5/14/25

Bolivia’s President Arce, polls slipping, quits 2025 presidential race
Polls indicate that the embattled president has been falling further and further behind his left-wing rivals — Morales and Senate President Andronico Rodríguez. With the MAS under Arce’s control, Morales was forced to break away and create his own party to host his candidacy.
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-elections-morales-arce-race-campaign-polls-leftwing-9296923408ddcfa429aff4cf9e3e7626

Bolivia top court upholds ruling blocking Morales' election eligibility
“Once again, we call on the brothers and sisters who have distanced themselves to return to their families and to the cradle of the true revolution so that we, together and united, can triumph at the polls and rebuild the destroyed homeland,” Morales stressed.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-reaffirms-his-interest-in-seeking-the-bolivian-presidency/

Colombia joins China’s Belt and Road Initiative
According to the President’s Office, the historic agreement would allow Colombia to close its $14 billion trade deficit with China, which represents “practically the entire trade deficit” of the South American country. Colombia’s “fiscal deficit would become practically zero and its capacity to pay its debt would increase by two,” said the president.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-joins-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative/

Peruvian Prime Minister Adrianzén resigns
In his resignation message alongside President Dina Boluarte, Adrianzén cited the “high interests of the homeland.” He claimed his 15-month tenure had numerous achievements, despite President Boluarte’s near 0% approval rating.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/14/peruvian-prime-minister-adrianzen-resigns

Denmark rethinking 40-year nuclear power ban amid Europe-wide shift
The Scandinavian country is one of Europe’s most renewables-rich energy markets and home to Ørsted, the world’s biggest offshore wind company. More than 80% of its electricity is generated from renewables, including wind, biofuels and solar, according to the International Energy Agency. But Denmark may begin investing in modular nuclear reactors too, Lars Aagaard, the energy and climate minister, suggested.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/denmark-rethinking-40-year-nuclear-power-ban-amid-europe-wide-shift

Legal group reveals extent of anti-Palestinian repression across Germany
The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) launched a database on anti-Palestinian repression in Germany on May 13, with plans to expand it to include other European countries such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/14/legal-group-reveals-extent-of-anti-palestinian-repression-across-germany/

Court rules in favor of The New York Times over texts between the EU chief and a pharma boss
The case highlights questions about transparency at the commission, which insists that text messages and other “ephemeral” electronic communications do not necessarily constitute documents of interest that should be saved or made public.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-commission-court-text-message-leyen-pfizer-1b43a00297ddf33272d3acb7e7f7e198

NHS FightBack campaigns at Royal Bournemouth Hospital protest: “We shouldn’t be afraid to speak up”
Around 1,300 workers—including caterers, porters, cleaners, estate and maintenance workers—will be transferred into a SubCo by September. Workers across the Dorset Hospital Trusts (DHT) will be affected, with similar lunch time protests this week at Poole General Hospital and Dorset County Hospital.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/14/qrum-m14.html

Philippine midterms: did pro-Duterte candidates benefit from ‘China-funded’ troll farms?
The complaint, filed with Comelec by Filipino citizen Dillan Mangilit, includes traffic logs, bot activity reports and metadata trails that allegedly point to coordinated foreign-backed efforts to amplify pro-Duterte content.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3310355/philippine-midterms-did-pro-duterte-candidates-benefit-china-funded-troll-farms
https://archive.ph/5j07W

1 killed, 10 wounded in grenade attack on pro-army rally in Pakistan
A suspected militant on a motorcycle threw a hand grenade at participants of a pro-army rally in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 10 others, police and hospital officials said.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-balochistan-rally-supporting-army-grenade-attack-65305ba1612129320c062716ee9c6484

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People love speculating about the "demise of social media" these days but tbh the internet being so incredibly centralised in the US and thus making so much global infrastructure reliant on the stability of one country always struck me as very short-sighted. Everyone would see it as reckless if it was any other country.

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Ask a communist from Russia

I'm a communist from Russia, member of both the Party and the Komsomol.

A year or two ago I made a similar thread where I answered your questions about us. Figured it’s time for an update. Since then I’ve gotten more involved in the Movement and also dug deeper into theory.

So — what do you want to know about Russian communists from someone actually here? Just ask.

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Demoralized

I feel like feds will keep winning because of the advantage they have and the amount of surveillance and shit. Like there is nothing to be done right now besides wait it out. The amount of shit I've written when I was young (with entirely different political views) has made a massive digital footprint as far as I know and they could just pull up anything from the past to use against me and even if they don't have anything on you they could always make something up. Thinking of the thesis of decomposition or waiting for decay and collapse from the amassed contradictions.

I don't think there is anything that can be really done by anyone here. Even if you're organized, maybe at most you can hope that China and Russia screw over the US and the West.
Not saying anyone shouldn't try anything, just writing for myself. It feels extremely futile and I feel paranoid that the mistakes I make can catch up to me from the past.
I wonder if they're watching right now, feds actively monitoring this or if its just the algorithm indexing every page and key.

I don't even live in the US, yet it feels like they're always watching over my shoulder. Smothering all other people around me with the most abominable retarded garbage social medias can offer.
OPSEC is dead. Encryption is dead. Cybersecurity is a joke. Not to mention its not just three letter agencies but also other unaffiliated malicious actors. Having accounts and passwords on the internet compromised any notion anonymity, too many have already been wrapped up in "the web". To a point where the task of deletion and archive are as difficult as lifting a skyscraper. Writing anything personal on the internet is like a guaranteed probability of having it leaked.

Not to mention how the algorithms themselves are made to promote hate content and fearmongering now, countless "exposed" videos where a person can literally have their life ruined for something they wrote when they were a teen. Many such cases. Snowden dubbed it a permanent record. At least until the west collapses with its disguising internet.

At the very least I know that the capitalist mode of production is unsustainable, one day all of this will be gone, but who knows how many it will haunt and torment during their life. Even if nothing is happening, the torment of not knowing if something horrible will happen is enough to drive a sober mind insane.

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did Enver Hoxha REALLY commit anti-clerical Genocide in Albania? Like, trying to hunt down and extra-judicially execute every single and last; friar, monk, imam, rabbi, pastor, priest, etc?
was the State Atheism thing not as-bloody as critics of hoxha say, in reality?

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I must ask this question, specially here to see the perspective of the left: does racism against white people exist or is it just hatred or does it not exist at all like many leftists say? I need to see the perspective of the left and not just the perspective of the right to get a full picture of this

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The fact that religion is such an enduring thing in humanity across the world shows how it's intertwined with human cognition. At least from what I know, anthropologists for example associate religiosity signs with advanced human like thinking in some species of humans for example. People need purpose meaning community and religion provides them that. And for atheists we usually have something replace religion too. I guess that's just how humanity evolved.

How should religion and modern social values be balanced? For people within religions it can be hard to balance it. Religions tell you how things work and how they should work, and once you're in that headspace communicating with secular society on social issues becomes fundamentally contradicting sometimes. From atheist perspective it's easy to say "don't be a bigot" but you have to see how things look from literalist readings of religious texts like Bible and Quran. The answer is simple from a religious persons perspective. But it makes modernizing the way things are handled in religion a slow and arduous process. But I think they have to be, Christian Nationalism and Islamic extremism (caused partially by colonialism) are serious problems without simple answer. And no, forcing Atheism isn't an answer look at how well that worked out for Soviets and China. People will resist and besides, forcing atheism is anti freedom. Eastern Europe is becoming more religious by the year too.

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Reading up a blogpost on the history of religious wars

>You see, real history is complicated and cannot be just divided into "opressors" and "opressed"! There is never a simple "Big Bad Empire attacks innocent fairy worshipping simple folks". It's complicated! For example, Ireland in the Middle Ages was a Catholic superpower aggresively sending missionaries to England. Britain breaking away from Catholic Church in 16th century was a geniune revolutionary act of rebellion against the millenia-old absolute hegemony of the Pope and his Divine Right. Just by existing, Protestant England had elicited a genocidal rage from a Catholic world, who for multiple centuries had been launching wars of cultural subjigation against it. And during all of these wars, Catholic Ireland was always looking for a nice opportunity to stab its distracted "heretical" neighbour in the back. We now remember British-Irish history as Big Bad Britain opressing the little guy, but we don't remember how the "little guy" was an ally to the bigger camp who wanted to exterminate Britain.

Me: Wow. Maybe I had been too harsh in my judgement of Protestants as, in general, the worst out of the big three branches of Christianity. Maybe I really need to treat Protestants more sympathetically. I should start reading more Protestant texts…

>You really can see a parallel between British-Irish and Isreali-Palestinian case. How many see only Big Bad Israel opressing the "little guy", but do not see that the "little guy" is an outpost of a locally hegemonic Muslim world wanting to exterminate "dirty Jewish kafirs"…

Me: *something snaps inside my head* I CRITICALLY SUPPORT THE POPE! AVE MARIA! BURN LUTHER! AVE MARIA! BURN CALVIN! HENRY VIII WAS A DISGUSTING PERVERT AND IS BURNING IN HELL NOW! AVE MARIA! ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S MASSACRE DIDN'T HAPPEN, BUT IF IT DID, THEY DESERVED IT! AVE MARIA! AVE MARIA! AVE MARIA!

Is this… a healthy reaction?

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Socialist authoritarianism was exacerbated by Capitalist Aggression

Did material conditions cause Soviet society partly why it ended up so repressive? Russia was a pre industrial nation with low class consciousness and low possibility of revolution. There was immediate invasion into Russia right after October Revolution, it needed heavy self defense against capitalist states conspiring against it. Thus forming the conditions for an elite of vanguards to take over the state and rule it by force, fueling paranoia and causing them to feel justified in putting bullets into heads of dissenters, because there was very real chance of conspiring against it to take it down. Communism is painted as inherently oppressive but I disagree. Capitalists helped create perfect conditions to turn Soviets into a totalitarian state. Capitalists did tons of unethical stuff in history, but that doesn't get taught in the history books, leading people to get skewed ideas of how history happened. Capitalism was also adaptable enough to stop being so nakedly oppressive, but the system still has huge problems to this day. Especially in 2025, where a capitalist president running America is singlehandedly running the world into the ground.

We can debate on whether communism actually works. People know that there's class antagonism oftentimes and that upper people have economic control of lower. But capitalists went so far to support fascism to stop communism, tried to institute fascism in many nations, and did bunch of worst stuff to expand their power. This is showing just how far elite capitalists will go to preserve their power. Soviet system wouldn't have worked even without the extreme odds against it surviving and stuff working against it. We know this because of basic economics. But the reality is that the same class and same nations that did that are still similar today, and will gladly side with fascists on the whole or fight for inegalitarianism hard. Capitalism isn't a total failure economically unlike communism, but it has serious issues and contradictions.

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RIP Mujica

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/uruguays-former-president-mujica-dead-89-2025-05-13/
>Uruguay's former President Jose Mujica has died, the South American country's current leader Yamandu Orsi said in a post on Twitter.
>Mujica, who was often called by nickname and served as president from 2010 through 2015, was 89 years old.
>”Thank you for everything you gave us and for your deep love for your people," Orsi said in the post.

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Virility is pretty useful for everyone and I mean everyone regardless of whatever label they attach to themselves. Having the strength, determination, intellect, and mental resilience to force changes on your environment by your hands is by far one of the most influential means of fixing the world around you. Hell, virility is a progression from the weakness the earliest and I mean the earliest humans had to face with. To call virility reactionary and not an asset that can be used for progressive changes is counterproductive. If anything, there are objectively far too many people too physically and emotionally weak to help themselves, help other people, or organize any resistance against blatant oppression when faced with (surprisingly weak) oppressors.
After all, how many adults are physically strong enough to lift another person away from a dangerous situation? How many have the mental resilience needed to even clean themselves and their homes on their own? How many can handle just eating right and being able to recognize the need to share food with others?

The bourgeoisie isn’t invincible, I can confidently say that most of them are weaker than I am in terms of physical strength and mental resilience.
Anyways, I’m doing plyometric and endurance training again and I’m going to buy myself a cool vest to get some extra gains in power. You should too.

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NON-military campaigns of Maoist

What NON-armed\military campaigns, actions, militancy, and activity, do (otherwise armed) Maoist groups perform? india, nepal, philippines, i think turkey even(?)? Do they "organize" peasantry? try to do charity, volunteer work, triangulate food and medical aid, etc? Do they fight CELIBATE religious priests (in India- brahmins, for example) or nepalese buddhist-monks?
How bad is life as a landless rural laborer really , In Nepal, Turkey, or even Peru wherein PCP-SL is still mildly active?

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Krivosheev

https://statehistory.ru/books/pod-red--G-F--Krivosheeva_Rossiya-i-SSSR-v-voynakh-XX-veka--Statisticheskoe-issledovanie/27

This says Germany and allies had 5.5 million soldiers against Soviets' 2.9 millions in 1941. 1.9 Nazis to every Soviet. Meanwhile, Soviets had 3 tanks to every Nazi one, 2 planes per every Nazi plane.

Pretty certain that a better equipped military, even if smaller, deals better K/D ratio than other way.

2nd pic: full losses vs sanitary losses. The hilarious part about this is, it claims that 3 people have died for every 1 injured. This is, frankly, impossible.

This is the apex of idiocy:
>Given that the losses of the fronts were constantly replenished, the list number was maintained at about a certain level, as far as possible, and the percentage of average monthly losses varied depending on the intensity of the fighting. If you add up all the losses for a certain period of the war, then their total will often significantly exceed the average enlisted strength of the active army (navy, branch of the armed forces) for this period. Sometimes — several times. For example, if in a company with an average monthly strength of one hundred people, the average monthly losses were 25%, then for a year with the same number of companies on the list (100%), the total losses would be 300%. If, for example, we take the Western Front, its average monthly strength in 1941 was 501120 people [ 57 ], and irretrievable losses for that year amounted to 956293 people [ 58 ] Therefore, in 1941 the front lost 190.8% of its enlisted personnel, while every month 30.3% of its personnel irretrievably retired.. Together with sanitary losses, 259% of the average monthly population decreased during the same period. Thus, taking into account the replenishment, 41.1% of personnel were lost in the troops of this front every month in 1941.
Not only it contradicts factual reports from the frontlines at these dates, it contradicts military science itself, because 25% losses in a unit make unit unable to fight, period. As in, dead weight. Even Soviets attempts at counterattack would be impossible due to lack of moving parts in a unit.

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News 5/13/25

US spent $1bn bombing Yemen but failed to gain air superiority, says report
Citing Washington officials, a report on Monday stated that the Yemeni group shot down numerous American MQ Reaper drones and fired at naval ships in the Red Sea right up until the moment a truce was agreed.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-spent-bombing-yemen-failed-gain-air-superiority-says-report

Trump orders removal of US sanctions on Syria
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, in a huge boost for interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa as he seeks to stabilise a country shattered by war.
https://www.newarab.com/news/trump-orders-removal-us-sanctions-syria

Israel bombs two Gaza hospitals, killing at least 18 Palestinians
Nine Israeli missiles have slammed into and around the courtyard of the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least 16 people and wounding 70, the enclave’s Ministry of Health says, in the second deadly bombardment of a medical facility in the city since dawn.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/13/palestinian-journalist-among-two-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-hospital
https://archive.ph/1Ypf2

Fuel crisis and civilian fears mount as drones continue to strike eastern Sudan
Drone strikes hit the eastern Sudanese cities of Port Sudan and Kassala on Wednesday, with renewed attacks fuelling concern over a worsening crisis in one of the country’s few remaining safe areas. The renewed attacks, which began at dawn and resumed in the evening, targeted the naval base in Port Sudan, capital of the Red Seas state.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/fuel-crisis-and-civilian-fears-mount-as-drones-continue-to-strike-eastern-sudan

Uganda's parliament introduces bill to let military courts try civilians
The top court's January verdict forced the government to transfer the trial of opposition politician and former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye to a civilian court, where state prosecutors have charged him with several crimes including treason.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandas-parliament-introduces-bill-let-military-courts-try-civilians-2025-05-13/

A 21-year-old man has been arrested over suspected arson attacks on two properties linked to Starmer
A 21-YEAR-OLD man was arrested today by police investigating suspected arson attacks on properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. The Metropolitan Police said the suspect was arrested in the early hours on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-year-old-man-has-been-arrested-over-suspected-arson-attacks-two-properties-linked

Germany bans major part of far-right movement seeking to undermine state
The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, said the KRD, which estimates it has 6,000 members, had created a “counter-state” in Germany and established “criminal economic structures” that challenged the rule of law and the justice system.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/13/ban-major-part-of-far-right-movement-kingdom-of-germany-seeking-to-undermine-state

Indian border villagers want recompense for damages in Pakistan clashes
Hundreds of villagers evacuated their homes as the rivals targeted each other's military installations with missiles and drones, killing about 70 civilians, after New Delhi struck what it called terrorist camps across the border.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indian-border-villagers-want-recompense-damages-pakistan-clashes-2025-05-13/

Nissan slashes 15% of its global work force as the Japan automaker sinks into losses
Nissan is slashing about 15% of its global work force, or about 20,000 employees, as the Japanese automaker reported a loss Tuesday for the fiscal year that just ended amid slipping vehicle sales in China and other nations, and towering restructuring costs.
https://apnews.com/article/nissan-automaker-japan-evs-tariffs-trump-66f8e4764bc33bc52b82f378d15b7f13

A year after deadly riots, New Caledonia’s president vows to address push for independence
One year after the deadly riots that ravaged Nouméa and shattered New Caledonia’s economy and social fabric, newly elected president Alcide Ponga faces a series of challenges including deep division over the territory’s political future – and the prospect of independence from France.
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Fascism

How do we seriously define fascism?

<Anti-communism
Liberals do it.
<Anti-organized labor
Liberals do it.
<Colonialism
Liberals do it.
<Genocide
Liberals do it.

What, instead of the police beating your ass, it's paramilitary thugs? Instead of parliamentary elections, you have a fascist party dictatorship? But is this really a meaningful difference to liberalism?

How do we seriously define fascism?

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This is a hard pill to swallow but if you don't just read Lenin's pamphlets and theoretical works you'd realize he was actually a very ruthless, Machiavellian, and hypocritical person who neither represented the "bolshevik" (majority) of the population, nor even the proletarian minority in the cities. The SRs were much closer to a majority of the country and the Mensheviks (ironically "minority") were much closer to representing a majority of the proletariat. This is why Lenin dissolved the constituent assembly after the October revolution and betrayed his promise to the SRs and Mensheviks of a coalition government despite "supporting" it for years running around with the slogan "All power to the soviets." Which btw he led a war against the soviets while also claiming to represent them. The more history you read and the less theory you read the more you'll understand this. I know it can be hard to see past soviet hagiography, especially when the alternative histories are mostly cold war dogshit that overly slanders Lenin and everyone to the left of the Monarchists. You might say "well he won" but you have to accept he set up a govt. that couldn't even last 80 years. If all his ruthlessness resulted in a party dictatorship that was easily subverted from within by Khruschevite revisionists, then Perestroika revisionists, then fucking Yeltsinites, what was the point?

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Apologize.

tldr: Martov argues that, contrary to Lenin's interpretation, Marx and Engels saw the democratic republic—not soviets—as the essential and specific political form through which the proletariat could achieve and exercise its dictatorship, transforming the state into a truly democratic instrument of class rule.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/martov/1921/xx/decomp.htm

>Psychologically the most characteristic thing about the rush of the “extreme leftists” toward “sovietism” is their desire to jump over the historic inertia of the masses. Dominating their logic, however, is the idea that soviets constitute a new, “finally discovered,” political mode. This, they say, is the specific instrument of the class rule of the proletariat, just as the democratic republic is according to them the specific instrument of the rule of the bourgeoisie.

The Communist Manifesto declared: “We have already seen that the first step in the working-class revolution is raising the proletariat to the position of a ruling class, the conquest of democracy.”

In 1852, in Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx wrote:
Every previous revolution has brought the machinery of State to a greater perfection instead of breaking it up.
On the 12th of April 1871, in a letter to Kugelmann, he formulated his viewpoint on the problem of revolution as follows:
If you look at the last chapter of my Eighteenth Brumaire, you will see that I declare the next attempt of the French Revolution to be not merely to hand over, from one set to another, the bureaucratic and military machine, as was the case up to now, but to shatter it. That is precisely the preliminary condition of any real people’s revolution on the Continent. It is exactly this that constitutes the attempt of our heroic Parisian comrades.

It is not for any idle reason that Engels wrote in 1891, in his preface to Civil War in France:
<… the State is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy; and at best an evil inherited by the proletariat after its victorious struggle for class supremacy whose worse sides the proletariat, just like the Commune, will have at the earliest possible moment to lop off, until such time as a new generation, reared under new and free social conditions, will be able to throw on the scrap-heap all the useless lumber of the State.

The proletariat lops off “the worst sides” of the democratic State (for example: the police, permanent army, the bureaucracy as an independent entity, exaggerated centralization, etc.) But it does not suppress the democratic State as such. On the contrary, it creates the democratic State in order to have it replace the “military and bureaucratic State,” which must be shattered.

<If there is anything about which there can be no doubt it is that our party and the working class can only gain supremacy under a political régime like the democratic republic. The latter is, indeed, the specific form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as has been demonstrated by the French revolution

That is how Engels expresses himself in his critique of the draft of the Erfurt program. He does not speak there of a “soviet” republic (the term was, of course, unknown), nor of a commune-republic, in contrast to the “State.” Neither does he speak of the “trade-union republic” imagined by Smith and Morrisson and by the French syndicalists. Clearly and explicitly, Engels speaks of the democratic republic, that is, of a State democratized from top to bottom, “an evil inherited by the proletariat.”

This is stated so dearly, so explicitly, that when Lenin quotes these words, he finds it necessary to obscure their meaning.

<Engels – he says –repeats here in a particularly emphatic form the fundamental idea which, like a red thread, runs throughout all Marx’s work, viz., that the Democratic Republic comes nearest the dictatorship of the proletariat. For such a republic, without in the least setting aside the domination of capital, and, therefore, the oppression of the masses and the class struggle, inevitably leads to such an extension, intensification and development of that struggle that, as soon as the chance arises for satisfying the fundamental interests of the oppressed masses, this chance is realized inevitably and solely in the form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the guidance of these masses by the proletariat.
(State and Revolution, Chapter IV.)

Engels does not speak of a political form that “comes nearest the dictatorship,” as is interpreted by Lenin in his commentaries. He speaks of the only “specific” political form in which the dictatorship can he realized. According to Engels, the dictatorship is forged in the democratic republic. Lenin, on the other hand, sees democracy merely as the means of sharpening the class struggle, thus confronting the proletariat with the problem of the dictatorship. For Lenin, the democratic republic finds its conclusion in the dictatorship of the proletariat, giving birth to The latter but destroying itself in the delivery. Engels, on the contrary, is of the opinion that when the proletariat has gained supremacy in the democratic republic and thus realized its dictatorship, within the democratic republic, it will consolidate the latter by that very, act and invest it, for the first time, with a character that is genuinely, fundamentally and completely democratic. That is why, in 1848, Engels and Marx identified the act of “raising the proletariat to a ruling class” with “the conquest of democracy.”

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Why is Spain not shat on by leftists when compared to Britain, France and Poland?

My opinion of them is extremely negative.

Look up what they did to Moroccans in the North and what they did to Canary Islands. Complete genocide, they have colonies in the Maghreb to this day as well. Also complete hypocrite who expelled all their Muslims/Arabs along with Jews but are only allowing Jews to have a right to return apologizing for the Reconquista but all the North Africans are left out, when it was them who built that civilization. They can't even give back Ceuta and Melilla while crying about the Brits in Gibraltar.

They have done horrible things to African and Native Americans, crimes against a group of people that has rarely if ever been matched in human history

I find the civilizations contribution to the culture and human civilization to be much lower than what their grip extended.

Very fascist in mistreating their own ethnic minorities (Catalonians, Galicians and Basques) and have a similar enemy mentality to the entire Arab world to this day

They're an unproductive welfare economy where the people enjoy a standard of living much higher than they contribute, with high unemployment. Living from EU subsides and tourism. I didn't think it was very clean either.

I also read it is a country with the highest amount of infidelity and promiscuity. Such loose morals are not attractive to me either

Also the language in Spain sucks compared to how the Latinos speak it, I found the food to not be very good, the Spanish Empire was even more brutal than the English one, the style/aesthetic doesn't please me, etc. the only positive thing I can say about it is that their descendant countries in the New World have produced very vibrant and diverse locales, only possible because of their abandonment of the more problematic Spanish influence

It's one of the worst European countries for sure, I'm just glad the based Brits treat it how it should be treated.

I like even Fr*nce more tbh.

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So if you live in yankeeland you have heard murmurings of a civil war between american super patriots vs evil nebulous america haters and whatever thing is disliked this week. What would actually take place? Who would be the targets? Tensions are building (intentionally?) and its only a matter of time before the killing begins.

I know a lot of non combatants would die because american patriotism is a euphemism for bloodlust, but is just going to be schizos killing people in guerilla warfare or actual organized battles? I have a feeling the government will be up to spooky shit during a war on american soil, doing assassination and kidnappings and whatnot.

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hot take

The fact that it's called the Barbara Pit "Massacre" reeks of nazi sympathizing. "Massacre" implies human beings were killed.
It should more accurately be referred to as The Barbara Pit Disposal, or The Barbara Pit Dumping, etc.

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Fascist neologisms

I think it’s a good idea to not let reactionary neologisms like “coded “” woke” etc the vague fascist liberal empirical terms creep in we must be aware . They stifle thought and lack a dialectical analysis

R: 411 / I: 69

It’s OVER

Americans elected a literal fascist. Elon Musk did the Nazi salute during the inauguration. Fascist “manosphere” Internet personalities like Andrew Tate, Sneako, Adin Ross, and Fresh&Fit are mainstream cultural icons. Israel and India are run by fascists. RFK is openly calling for the US gov to commit eugenics against autistic people, identical to Aktion T4. A racist who’re woman was given $700k by online donors after she called an autistic Black boy a racial slur. And now, one of the most famous musicians in the world (Kanye West) released a song praising Hitler.

It’s done. Fascism and Nazism have become normalized again in western culture.

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What is /leftypol/'s stance on Haz Al-Din's American Communist Party? Is it based or cringe? How does it compare to other communist movements in America?

R: 47 / I: 3

industrial devolution

many people are rightly coming to the conclusion that you fundamentally cannot fix this. the idea of marxist socialism is just a more efficient capitalism; one without "contradictions", where the rape of the earth and its people will serve an abstract "mankind", even as it is conceptually abolished. we're all being taken on a ride to the extinction of the species, and you are either for it, or against it. this is pure theology - good vs evil. which side are you on?

R: 4 / I: 2

News 5/12/25

Hamas frees soldier Edan Alexander as Gaza faces bombardment, famine risk
Despite the release, Israel has made no commitment to a broader ceasefire. “There’s nothing in exchange, no release of Palestinian prisoners, no pause in the fighting,” Salhut said. “If there are going to be any sort of negotiations, they’re going to happen under fire,” Salhut added, referring to the Israeli government’s prevailing line.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/12/hamas-frees-us-israeli-soldier-as-gaza-faces-bombardment-risk-of-famine
https://archive.ph/jLxBR

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish parties call for rights as PKK agrees to disarm
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) appears to be moving toward disarmament and dissolution following its 12th congress earlier this week, fueling cautious optimism among pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey for a peaceful resolution to the decades-long conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state, and a renewed momentum for advancing Kurdish rights through political means.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/11052025
https://archive.ph/3qFIH

Government votes to legally nullify any Palestinian efforts to register land in majority of the West Bank
On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet agreed that in Area C, Israel would now make all decisions about land, and any Palestinian efforts to recognise land using its own land registry would be legally void. … Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, said the move would lead to the “strengthening, consolidation and expansion” of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-take-full-control-land-registry-area-c-annexation

Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' in Iraq and Afghanistan
The new testimony includes allegations of war crimes stretching over more than a decade, far longer than the three years currently being examined by a judge-led public inquiry in the UK.
https://shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Ex-UK-Special-Forces-break-silence-on-war-crimes-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan

Starmer ‘horrified’ Lanarkshire steel-making mothballed
The Prime Minister made the remarks after workers were placed on furlough at Clydebridge and Dalzell, plants which have struggled for orders since they were bought by the steel company Liberty House Group, itself owned by the multinational GFG Alliance, in 2016 — with the help of a £7 million Scottish government loan.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-horrified-lanarkshire-steel-making-mothballed

Albanian preliminary election results show Socialists in the lead
With more than half of the votes counted, Rama’s left-wing Socialists got 53% of the votes, followed by the opposition center-right Democratic Party-led coalition of Sali Berisha with 34%. Three other small parties will take a few seats.
https://apnews.com/article/albania-parliament-election-socialists-european-union-b627345cb719560e800d1bea02053e2b

Wildfires in Zabaikalsky Region Spread Rapidly Amid Strong Wind and Dry Weather
Experts attribute most of Russia’s wildfires this year to human activity, such as dry grass burning near villages. Other contributing factors include a lack of snow cover and an early spring. … At least three firefighters have been killed while battling the blazes. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/12/wildfires-in-zabaikalsky-region-spread-rapidly-amid-strong-wind-and-dry-weather-a89049
https://archive.ph/ctDmx

Australian construction union boss vows to impose Labor’s restructure plan
The document states that “national ‘capitation’ arrangements,” that is, how much of members’ dues and other union income collected by the state branches is sent to the national office, “will change.” Training for union delegates, shop stewards and organisers would be centralised, while the direction of media, communications and campaigns would also be controlled by the national office.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/12/qxct-m12.html

'Fighting is more frequent now': Human rights researcher warns of escalating conflict in West Papua
The escalation of violence in West Papua is on par with some of the most intense times of conflict over the past six decades, a human rights researcher says. The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) claims that Indonesia killed at least one civilian and severely injuring another on last Tuesday in Puncak Regency.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/560661/fighting-is-more-frequent-now-human-rights-researcher-warns-of-escalating-conflict-in-west-papua

US and China reach a deal to slash sky-high tariffs for now, with a 90-day pause
The deal lasts 90 days, creating time for U.S. and Chinese negotiators to reach a more substantive agreement. But the pause also leaves tariffs higher than before Trump started ramping them up last month. And businesses and investors must contend with uncertainty about whether the truce will last.
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-switzerland-tariffs-negotiations-b3f5174d086e39b2522ab848ddad9372

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Against the Based-Retard Theory of Trumpism

Against the Based-Retard Theory of Trumpism

TLDR: Trump is neither a useful idiot nor just an idiot.

Many anons here have subscribed to what I call a based retard theory of Trumpism. That Trump is, through his incompetence, unintentionally accelerating the demise of the western-led capitalist world order.

It is obvious to everyone that the western-led international order is indeed fracturing, and quite possibly, ending or beginning to end. However, the question is, why, and what will replace it?

According to liberals, since world war 2, the US has (for more or less selfless reasons) promoted a “rules based, international order” based on liberal democracy, market (capitalist) economies and “international law”. This, according to liberals, has allowed the world to avoid the sorts of nationalism, mercantilism which led to conflicts such as world war one and world war two in favor of peace and global prosperity.

People on the left (especially far left) have often disagreed with this view for several reasons. One, they point out that the United States has often ignored so-called international law in pursuit of their own interests while using it to punish other, smaller nations. That IMF loans often came with conditions which for example incentivized or coerced countries into privatizing and liberalizing parts of their economy. Or were in other ways exploitative. That in practice, rich nations took advantaged of poorer ones, and the rule of markets simply became a proxy for the rule of western (especially US) capital, and a way to launder neocolonial exploitation.

However, in the years since the end of the Cold War, alternative economic powers have risen, such as the so-called “BRICS” nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The rise of BRICS, especially China in particular, has meant that the rule of markets is no longer is synonymous with the rule of western corporations.

The reason liberals are confused is because they are people who have drunk the neoliberal cool aid and unironically believe that the spread of market based economies and their integration into the global trade system is a positive sum game that benefitted all nations, when in reality it primarily benefitted the west at the expense of the third world sweatshop-slave.

Until recently.

Now that other economies such as China have begun to not only dominate international trade but build up high value added service sectors in industries like Tech and Finance (in some cases, like AI, rivaling or even surpassing the US), the US finds that the international world order mythology has outlived it’s usefulness. Trumpism is simply western/US Capital discarding the mask. So US leaders realize that “the jig is up” – that multipolarity can no longer be fought and the US will no longer be a globe spanning empire. So they are pivoting to make the US into a regional power in the Americas/Western Hemisphere. Thus explaining Trump’s pivot to Panama, Greenland, and Canada – its the “donroe doctrine”. The US will be more like it was in the 19th century and pre ww1 20th century – an explicitly imperialist regional power which treats the western hemisphere as its “sphere of influence”.

Trump is not as liberals think, a Russian agent, nor is he as some here think, an irrational actor dismantling empire out of sheer stupidity. Trumpism is geopolitically rational. Rather than the cause of the decline of US Hegemony, it is actually a relatively rational reaction and adaptation TO the decline of unipolar US Hegemony. Whether it will be successful is a whole other question.

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selective anti racism

A lot of what passes as anti-racism today is actually ethnic self-advocacy, not moral universalism. People don’t want a world free of racism, they want a world where their group wins.

Most people are wired to defend their own in-group first, whether that’s based on race, religion, nation, or caste. Universal humanism is harder.

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Generations are a spook, talking about idpol part of politics also

I don't want to start a thing about generations, but I'll give my person thoughts on how Gen Z social justice for the "left leaning" side differs from previous ways of progressive thought.

Gen Z more liberal side overall social justice mix together conservative and progressive ideas and use almost conservative mindsets and mechanisms for pushing that thought? Look at moral panics, sexual purity culture, gender roles, etc. The focus on equity rather than equality has eventually on a larger scale reverted to a new kind of essentialism, artificial boundaries placed between in group and out group. Moral policing, shaming outsiders, almost a kind of conformist mindset at times. Some ideas are progressive and others are more conservative, but in discussions the second part often isn't considered at all. This isn't necessarily an absolute bad thing, imho social progress needs to be tempered by conservativism like a horse and cart metaphor. Society should overall progress but slowing things down for certain periods isn't inherently bad, it's necessary for Liberal democracy most democracies have it. But you've always got to analytically look at the cultures you're a part of and be always critical of flaws and positives. Taking them as a whole from what know and generalizing.

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Movements for a lefty chud

Are there any communist or general leftist movements that would accept someone who fully supports the workers expropriating the means of production, but still has chudish views on gender and race? Basically I think anything related to transgender stuff is a meme, and I think there are genuine differences in intelligence and rates of violence between races caused by genetics, but I also support the working class seizing the means of production from the bourgeoisie. Is it possible to reconcile Marxist economic views with being a chud on social issues?

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I'm going to be the next Lenin

I just feel like I'm going to be like a reincarnation of him. I don't particularly like his theory but I think I am going to be a revolutionary.
My life circumstances, mostly economic, are the ones which are pushing me into being a revolutionary. That and despising all elements of bourgeois society, from it's unending moralism to its "entrepreneurship" (glorification of exploitation!).
This is my life goal. Maybe I will fail. But I will try.

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Pseuds really need to stop bringing up "dialectics", "dialectical materialism" or any other philosophy crap when talking about communism or marxism.

Marx: philosophy is religion rendered into thought and hence to be condemned. One has to leave philosophy aside and devote oneself to the study of the actual world, etc. etc. (1) As for the so-called dialectical method. Here are (2) Hegel. (3 & 4) Marx on Hegel. And (5) Marx on his own "method". Marx is very clear here: he does not have a method. A scientific investigation has to "appropriate the material in detail, analyze all forms of development and trace out their inner connections" rather than starting out with a ready made schema and distorting the material to fit it.

Bonus tracks (maxed out images lol):

>One has to “leave philosophy aside” (Wigand, p. 187, cf. Hess, Die letzten Philosophen, p. 8), one has to leap out of it and devote oneself like an ordinary man to the study of actuality, for which there exists also an enormous amount of literary material, unknown, of course, to the philosophers. When, after that, one again encounters people like Krummacher or “Stirner”, one finds that one has long ago left them “behind” and below. Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as onanism and sexual love.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch03e.htm

> Feuerbach’s great achievement is:
>(1) The proof that philosophy is nothing else but religion rendered into thought and expounded by thought, i.e., another form and manner of existence of the estrangement of the essence of man; hence equally to be condemned;
>(2) The establishment of true materialism and of real science, by making the social relationship of “man to man” the basic principle of the theory;
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm

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The quintessential Islamist

>leader of a prominent Islamist resistance group
>fought on the side of Iran during the Iran-Iraq war
>bombed universities, hospitals and passenger planes in the name of fighting Ba'athists
>supported the US bombings and embargo in the 90s
>received public US funding, training and arms under the 'Iraq Liberation' act
>called on the death of female communist movement
>pushed for the US invasion
>served as PM for 8 years
>used sectarian death squads which gave rise to a civil war and ISIS in the name of fighting the insurgency
>restructured the economy according to will of the occupation
>massacred workers (redundant)
>viewed positively by the US and Iran
>remembered by Iraqis for blocking a shoe and selling the country to ISIS
Campists want me to abandon class struggle and critically support the guy on the right otherwise the guy on the left will get me 🤡

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INDIA VS PAKISTAN 4th thread

<i want to blow up nothingburger gang edition

>Following a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, that resulted in 26 fatalities, India has retaliated with 'Operation Sindoor', targeting nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied territories. This operation marks a significant escalation in the ongoing tensions between the two nations. Pakistan, in response, has heightened its emergency measures and reported shooting down two Indian jets, intensifying the military confrontation. International reactions and calls for peace are noted, amidst growing concerns over regional stability.

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Another radlib myth deboonked. Marx and Engels did talk about the middle class and it means exactly what even non-communists would expect it to mean.

>This middle class — which includes everyone who is a gentleman, i. e., has a decent income without being excessively wealthy-is, however, a middle class only compared with the wealthy nobility and capitalists; in relation to the workers its position is that of an aristocracy

https://wikirouge.net/texts/en/The_Position_of_the_Political_Parties

Incoming cope in 3… 2…

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News 5/11/25

Norwegian unions vote for economic boycott of Israel
The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), comprised of 21 affiliations, passed the motion last week at congress with the support of 88 per cent of delegates, as calls continue to grow for an international economic boycott of Israel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/norwegian-unions-vote-economic-boycott-israel

Thousands march against immigration in Warsaw
Saturday’s event was organised by nationalist leader Robert Bąkiewicz, a former PiS parliamentary candidate and also previously the main organiser of the Independence March that takes place in Warsaw each November.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/11/thousands-march-against-immigration-in-warsaw/

Fragile ceasefire holds between India, Pakistan as Trump offers more help
A ceasefire between India and Pakistan was holding on Sunday after both sides blamed the other for initial violations, as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to help the arch-rivals find a solution on the disputed Kashmir region.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/fragile-ceasefire-holds-between-india-pakistan-trump-offers-more-help-2025-05-11/

Bangladesh interim government bans former ruling party of Hasina
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the country’s other main political party, headed by former prime minister Khaleda Zia, had previously opposed the move to ban the Awami League. A post on the league’s official X account said on Sunday: “People no longer feel safe under Yunus,” denouncing the ban that “stoked division within society, strangled democratic norms, fuelled [an] ongoing pogrom against dissenters, strangled inclusivity [and] all undemocratic steps under [the] pretext of [addressing the] July-August violence and reform scheme.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bangladesh-interim-government-bans-former-ruling-party-hasina

Lebanon: Palestinian factions wary of Abbas disarmament plan
For the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the question of arms cannot be separated from the legacy of collective trauma and the politics of self-defence. "The issue of arms in the camps has not been formally placed on the agenda of the president’s visit, nor has it been raised through official channels," said Abdullah Dandan, the PFLP’s political relations officer in Lebanon.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-palestinian-factions-wary-abbas-disarmament-plan

Hamas says it will release US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander
“Taiwan now has a registered population of 2.6 per cent indigenous, 1.2 per cent foreign and 96.2 per cent other population,” the page reads. According to Taiwanese media, the page previously said: “Taiwan’s current registered population is composed of Han Chinese as the largest ethnic group, accounting for 96.4 per cent of the total population.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/11/hamas-says-it-will-release-israeli-american-captive-edan-alexander
https://archive.ph/Hq1zH

No Han Chinese in Taiwan? KMT slams ‘denial of history’ on Executive Yuan web page
The revised web page of Taiwan’s top administrative body, the Executive Yuan, categorises Han Chinese – the overwhelming majority on both sides of the Taiwan Strait – as “other population”.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3309913/no-han-chinese-taiwan-kmt-slams-denial-history-executive-yuan-web-page?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/trWoe

South Korean conservative party fails in a bid to switch presidential candidates
Saturday’s chaotic U-turn, after a failed attempt to replace Kim with former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, underscored the People Power Party’s leadership crisis following the ouster of former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law imposition in December, which possibly doomed the conservatives’ chances of winning another term in government.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-election-conservative-party-candidates-cc3141d0582486c6199b62f25d37445a

Uruguay’s municipal elections: National Party dominates, Frente Amplio retains Montevideo
Uruguay’s 2025 municipal and departmental elections have concluded with the center-right National Party (Partido Nacional) maintaining its dominance across most of the country, while the left-wing Frente Amplio secured a clear victory in Montevideo, the capital.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/12/uruguay-s-municipal-elections-national-party-dominates-frente-amplio-retains-montevideo

Thirteen gold mine workers massacred in Peru
The killings, carried out by a gang at the La Poderosa gold mine, have ignited outrage across Peru. The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 4 million soles (about US$1.1 million), which the mine owners ignored, effectively sentencing the miners to death.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/11/qtzu-m11.html

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Planetary Caste System?

Do we actually have a planetary caste system? If you think about the relative value of passports and nationalities, is it possible to use caste analysis to consider the international system?

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Withering Away Takes Mode of Production

Why is it that in socialist economies the state "dieing out of itself [as the base shaping superstructure]" also takes with it the mode of production?
This is of course not something we see under capitalist neoliberalism where the "dieing out of itself" only strengthens the mode of production.
Even in the two socialist countries where the mode of production hasn't been replaced there have been a growth in private sector employment.

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Relation to the means of production is the only criteria for class.

I'm sick of the colloquial use of "petty-bourgeois" in relation to some idpol "issue".
Social progressivism isn't bourgeois, college professors are labor aristocrats, the middle class isn't a Marxist term, income doesn't have a causal link to class, social conservatism's only role is that of division of the proletariat, you can't become another class than the one your relationship to the means of production dictate, class interests are not subject to change and they will always be the most important political issue as long as capitalism exists.
I'm willing to die on that hill and anyone who uses identity politics to incorrectly attribute class is no Marxist.

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Illegalism is lumpen "socialism."
Trade unions are labor aristocracy "socialism."
Worker co-operatives are petty-bourgeois "socialism."
Proletarian socialism is when the worker's state owns all the banks, monopolies and land.
But reformism never works and you'll probably die in a revolution.
Am I getting it right?
Shit seems fucked.

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I am going to Lithuania. What do I need to see there? Must sees, local food, something to consoom?

Any way to troll them if needed?

inb4 moved siberia

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STOP OPERATION KAGAAR

Video: In India A Protracted People's War is Raging…

Since the 1980s, revolutionaries are establishing the new political power of the proletariat in Dandakaranya, advancing an alternative model, a New Democratic India. This episode of revolutionary war has been raging for more than 40 years.

This revolution is a painful thorn in the eyes of the reactionary state: Thus, escalating repression, in 2024 they unleashed the genocidal »Operation Kagaar« against Adivasi Resistance. More than 450 people have become martyrs since then. Since 2022, Chhattisgarh state govt. leased 85% of the state's mines to the private sector, esp. Adani, L&T, Tata, Jindal. 50 million people were displaced for such »development projects« in over 50 years. This is outright genocide for the plunder of our country's wealth!

Revolutionaries must stand unwaveringly with the Adivasi struggle for their jal-jangal-zameen-izzat-adhikar. The central government must be forced to agree to Maoist demands for ceasefire. Stop Operation Kagaar!!!

>share this message and video with your friends, comrades, activist groups

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/POPE/ THREAD II BUGERPOPE EDITION

Vance killed Francis edition
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/cardinals-set-second-day-conclave-elect-new-pope-2025-05-08/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZAzgIoamU

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Taliban banned chess due to being against Sharia law

Chess has been banned in Afghanistan indefinitely due to religious concerns, with the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue involved.

The interim administration of Afghanistan has officially banned chess, continuing its opposition to various forms of entertainment and sports in the country. According to the reports, the decision was made due to “religious considerations” and restrictions outlined by the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. This move places chess-related activities in Afghanistan on hold indefinitely.

Officials from the Ministry of Sports, confirmed the suspension of chess activities on Sunday, May 11, explaining that until suitable answers are found regarding religious concerns, the sport would remain prohibited. According to the reports, no activities related to chess would be allowed to resume without resolving these issues.

The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has taken further steps by dissolving the Afghanistan Chess Federation, labeling the game “haram” (forbidden) according to its interpretation of Islamic law. This decision follows a growing trend of restrictions on cultural, social, and sporting events since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan.

In the days leading up to the announcement, several chess players and enthusiasts reportedly sought permission and financial support from the Ministry of Sports to continue their activities. However, they were met with the news of the ban, further complicating their efforts to engage in the game.

Chess, once a popular intellectual sport in Afghanistan, had enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, with the national federation operating under the Ministry of Sports. The Taliban’s recent stance reflects their broader strategy to limit cultural and recreational pursuits in the country, citing Islamic legal interpretations.

The ban on chess is another example of the Taliban’s increasing restrictions on freedoms in Afghanistan. These limitations extend beyond sports to include cultural and educational activities, profoundly impacting Afghanistan society. It remains uncertain how long these policies will last or whether international pressure could reverse some of these decisions.

https://www.khaama.com/chess-banned-in-afghanistan-due-to-religious-restrictions/

https://www.barrons.com/news/taliban-govt-suspends-chess-in-afghanistan-over-gambling-e38dd617

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About the situation in South korea

About the situation in South Korea

Since former President Yoon Seok-yul was impeached by the Constitutional Court in an 8-0 vote, South Korea's political landscape has taken a turn for the worse. Angry conservatives have chosen former Employment and Labor Minister Kim Moon-soo, a converted Marxist, as the candidate of the People's Power (Yoon's party), while the liberal-leaning Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea, who has betrayed even his own labor-friendly agenda, seems to have won the "loyalty pledge" of the country's progressive parties: the Social Democratic Party, the Basic Income Party, and the Progressive Party. The anti-liberal left-wing Democratic Labor Party, on the other hand, is not likely to do much better, not only because they are on the outskirts, but also because of their disastrous performance in past contests. Another is the Reform Party, which has a base of ugly Incel supporters. There are also a number of anti-communist Christian parties.

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Rewilding

What do we think of "rewilding"?

>Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration aimed at increasing biodiversity and restoring natural processes. It differs from other forms of ecological restoration in that rewilding aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems. It is also distinct from other forms of restoration in that, while it places emphasis on recovering geographically specific sets of ecological interactions and functions that would have maintained ecosystems prior to human influence, rewilding is open to novel or emerging ecosystems which encompass new species and new interactions.

<A key feature of rewilding is its focus on replacing human interventions with natural processes. Rewilding enables the return of intact, large mammal assemblages, to promote the restoration of trophic networks.[4] This mechanism of rewilding is a process of restoring natural processes by introducing or re-introducing large mammals to promote resilient, self-regulating, and self-sustaining ecosystems. Large mammals can influence ecosystems by altering biogeochemical pathways as they contribute to unique ecological roles, they are landscape engineers that aid in shaping the structure and composition of natural habitats. Rewilding projects are often part of programs for habitat restoration and conservation biology, and should be based on sound socio-ecological theory and evidence.

Will socialism have to "Rewild" part of the planet to deal with climate changes?

Abolish suburbs and put everyone into high density cities or small towns in order to preserve natural environment?

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Dead cities phenomenon

Why is every major western city completely dead post COVID?
I'm walking through the streets in my city and everything is dead, shops and restaurants are empty, malls are deader than dead. Some stores have closed down or went bankrupt due to low traffic. Streets have barely any cars. At night it's generally the same, nightclubs are dead, bars are empty. Nothing is happening. The city feels vacant everywhere. im guessing people can't afford to live downtown anymore so they move in the outskirts but besides going to work and watching Netflix what the fuck do people even do? Is everyone just too obese to enjoy outdoor shit now?

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US Occupation of Japan

What's with the left's obsession with decrying the US occupation of Japan? They'd almost make you forget that, even without American influence Japan’s a reactionary nation.
Fact of the matter is that imagining some sort of Japan without a military is absolute delusional nonsense. Let's not delude ourselves: Either the US acts as their military or they get their own military. Without their own remilitarization, there's no way they willingly kick out the US; if the US ever withdraws, they'd immediately go towards remilitarization. Even just for the sake of their occupation of the Diaoyu Dao, they will want a military. There's no utopian "no military" option where they just willingly give up the Diaoyu Dao and become friendly with China. So what's the better option? Obviously its better for Japanese militarists to be subservient to the USA than for them to be wholly let loose.
This is probably the reason the PRC sends warships over to the Diaoyu Dao while also condemning remilitarization, they know what they want: they'd rather keep the status quo of US occupation of Japan for as long as possible. By letting Japan know they'll militarily resolve the Diaoyu Dao dispute if they kick out the US bases, they are ensuring that the US bases are perpetual. Which is their goal, because frankly, its better for China that Japan is kept down like a dog. Who knows what they'll try if they're given sovereignty again.
>but, its hampering cross-strait reunification!
And a sovereign Japan wouldn't be just as hostile to China reintegrating Taiwan? No, they'd be just as aggressive about it.
>but, its colonization of the ryukyu people! Ryukyu can be independent and demilitarized!
Ryukyuan independence is supported by like, 3% of the Ryukyuan people. The idea of Ryukyu being independent is just as delusional as the idea of Japan both being sovereign and demilitarized. Fact of the matter is that Japan will have control over these islands for the foreseeable future and its not even a question to anyone except delusional Chinese nationalists who want their vassal state back. Live in reality: either Japanese militarists or US military bases dominate these islands. No third option, and its better for China if its the US military for as long as possible.

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How evil are they?

> Claim to want to live in peace
> Move into Palestine
> Colonize Palestine
> Start a war and then claim victim status
> Proceed to genocide local people
> Get constant support from every Western power

Why do they get away with everything? They're the only country that commits a genocide in the modern day and actively gets rousing support from the Empire of the US. They're the new Nazi regime just with a star of David instead. I'm seriously fucking sick of it.

Free Palestine!

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how does capitalism interact with sex?

I lost my virginity after getting a job and some money, this made me think about how the world of sex interacts with money.

men pay for sex, and men with more money tend to have more options, but on the other side of the equation very poor men also have lots of sex also. I want to know what is the real logic behind all of this.

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Have you ever noticed that the "United Nations" consists of a bunch of divided states, and the "United States" consists of a bunch of divided nations? What's up with that?

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Lets have a thread on basic definitions of left-wing terms.
It doesn't seem to me that even the most foundational words like "Socialism" are consistently defined.

<"To each according to their contribution."
<"Worker ownership of the means of production."
<"Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other.
<Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat."

Which of these you accept has implications such as on the form of the argument over the USSR takes.
Other terms which aren't defined consistently to my knowledge are terms like "imperialism", "left-wing", "worker", "identity politics", etc.

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An abstract idea about cops I learned from this video

This is like the third time I’m posting this article, because there’s a specific idea I got from this situation that didn’t come from me before.

All cops private or publicly funded are private entities in nature.

Even in ideal situation where the police aren’t corrupt and incompetent, there is not a single cop let alone person with the capacity to act as a protecter for everyone much less an entire town or city because such a person would exist as a one man army.
This idea matters because it clarifies why I feel that the police officer that was killed had it coming along with every other police officer acting performing their service when not assigned to protect any specific person. The officer in question is retired and shouldn’t be trying to do anything unless asked or at least given permission. The moment he got involved in the murder of that father’s son, he already justified his own death just off by the fact that he didn’t and shouldn’t have done anything and let other officers that were assigned to that original shop handle the situation.

Ironically enough, by involving himself, that cop also just made the jobs of his fellow cops even harder by jeapordizing any plans those other officers made and by blowing the situation out of control.

That kid was under no obligation to listen or even respect whatever the fuck that pig was doing and the father doesn’t have any reason to feel or even be tried guilty for murdering him either.

Tldr, all cops are private and the one that got murdered deserved it entirely. I don’t even give a shit about the racebait garbage or the comments, I genuinely think everyone should be allowed to kill retired and out of duty pigs out of vengeance and self defence just off the principle that those people shouldn’t be involved in violence if it isn’t permitted or asked for.

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MAGA Communism vs Christcoms
Which will triumph in the end, /leftypol/?
pick a side, thin crust or deep dish, idk it is a tough choice.

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Lumpen: What For and How?

What is a lumpen (how is it defined), and what is it good for (what can they do to help).

>From whore to pope, there is a mass of such rabble. But the honest and ‘working’ lumpenproletariat belongs here as well; e.g. the great mob of porters etc. who render service in seaport cities etc.
>People who have passed the normal age of the labourer; the victims of industry.
>Pauperism is the hospital of the active labour-army and the dead weight of the industrial reserve army.
>In short, the whole indefinite, disintegrated mass, thrown hither and thither, which the French call la bohème
<Think its roughly anyone not "integrated" or marginally "integrated" into the mode of production, this includes the precarious: old, broken, beggars (including beggar children), but also criminals, and bohemians.
<The lumpenproletariat also seems to include precarious contract-workers, as being sufficiently marginal.
<This is just by having the notion of 'working' lumpenproletariate and identifying them with porters.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch05.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch05.htm

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Fixing Psychology

I simultaneously hate and appreciate psychology. There is potential for it to be incredibly useful but it’s bogged down by absolute dogshit social constructs like vid related. Obviously, people can start anticipating scarcity and develop a “mindset” centered around it, but these dumbasses never address the elephant in the room which is that capitalism creates scarcity and having a mindset that anticipates it is a rational response when you’ve been conditioned like Pavlov’s dog.
In this way, psychology greases the wheels of capitalism by stigmatizing survival mechanisms that are triggered from the environments people live in. Instead of working towards an environment that doesn’t evoke these responses, people are instead asked to work on themselves. The individual is scapegoated and the economic system is passed over. I think modalities like liberation psychology present themselves as one solution to this problem but I’m not sure it goes far enough. Too much of it still carries the baggage of “social justice” that makes it difficult to move past. I would like to know if people here have suggestions on how it could be advanced within a far left framework.

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Religion

Hey guys I'm indian and ive been thinking of starting a new religion to save this country. Basically i just realised that the only real change that can happen here is through religion, like the buddha did. When my religion takes over, ill start adding coommunist stuff to it. The basic gist of it is that god isnt intelligent or even alive and that we can do anything, such as worshipping the sun, cannibalizing etc, also nothing happens after death, but you still live on through your children quite literally. Whats your opinion on this? I'm thinking of a cool name, I might steal mithraism. Also do you guys think my reduction of Indian history into religion is true?

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Friends, I need help. One of my best friends, who is an arab muslim, just told me she's reading the book Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr and told me I should read it too. We were talking about Palestine, which we do a lot, but this time she started talking about how the jews were causing all sorts of problems in Europe, how Karl Marx was a jew and how they caused the French and Russian revolutions. Then she straight up asked me if I really think 6 million died. Like I said she's muslim but isn't very conservative (she doesn't even wear hijab). She's a compassionate, rational and perfectly lovely person otherwise. The fuck do I do?

I haven't read the book yet but it references both Protocols of the Elders of Zion and a letter supposedly written by the prominent freemason Albert Pike which outlines a secret plan for three world wars (I happen to know quite a lot about Pike and this letter is a hoax). What do you do when friends you love start going down these rabbit holes?

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News 5/9/25

German prosecutors move to strip AfD lawmaker's immunity amid bribery probe
Public prosecutors in Germany have moved to strip a politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) of his immunity as a lawmaker after initiating a probe into bribery and money laundering allegations, local media reported on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-prosecutors-move-strip-afd-lawmakers-immunity-amid-bribery-probe-2025-05-09/

NHS plans cuts to jobs and services to avoid £6.6bn deficit
In a survey for NHS Providers, 47 per cent of trust leaders warned they are rolling back services to balance the books, while another 43 per cent are considering doing so.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-plans-cuts-jobs-and-services-avoid-ps66bn-deficit

Israel intercepts missile launched by Yemen’s Houthis
Houthi rebels fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” towards Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, while also claiming a drone attack “targeting a vital Israeli enemy target” in the same area, according to the group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/9/houthis-claim-responsibility-for-missile-attack-on-israel-airport
https://archive.ph/HRCbA

Aid workers slam plans by US contractors to take over Gaza aid distribution
The newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is reportedly attempting to implement a new aid distribution system that supplants the current arrangement run by the United Nations and other international aid agencies. The UN and aid groups have rejected the Israeli authorities’ attempts to control aid distribution.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/aid-workers-slam-plans-us-contractors-take-over-gaza-aid-distribution

PKK says held congress on dissolution, decision to be announced ‘very soon’
"The PKK 12th congress was successfully held in the Media Defense Areas from May 5 to 7. The congress was conducted in two different areas in parallel, with delegates representing all areas of work,” said a statement from the congress committee reported by the PKK-affiliated ANF news outlet, referring to areas of the Kurdistan Region bordering Turkey and Iran where the group is believed to be headquartered.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/09052025
https://archive.ph/WeniQ

SACP, Contralesa to mobilise for referendum to resolve land issue
The South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) will jointly mobilise for a referendum to resolve the land question. The announcement follows bilateral talks held today by the SACP and Contralesa in Braamfontein, Johannesburg today.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-contralesa-to-mobilise-for-a-referendum-to-resolve-land-issue/

Panamanian president refuses to renegotiate new US Panama Canal deal
On Tuesday, thousands of people marched in the capital Panama City in the largest demonstration yet against an agreement signed during last month’s visit by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. The deal followed suggestions by US President Donald Trump that Washington should seize control of the Panama Canal.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/panamanian-president-refuses-renegotiate-new-us-panama-canal-deal

Colombia's top court orders arrests of former legislature presidents
Name, of the Alianza Verde party, and Calle, of the Liberal party, are accused of receiving 4 billion pesos (about $1 million) to help secure congressional approval for key legislation under President Gustavo Petro
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-top-court-orders-arrests-former-legislature-presidents-2025-05-07/

Chile: Mapuche Leader Julia Chuñil Remains Missing After Six Months
The 72-year-old woman has become a symbol in the Mapuche people’s struggle to recover their ancestral lands and protect native forests. Before her disappearance on November 8, 2024, she led a fierce resistance against the logging of 900 hectares of forest in Mafil, a territory that agroforestry companies are attempting to take from Indigenous communities.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-mapuche-leader-chunil-remains-missing-after-six-months/

Australia's Woodside confronts protests, investor anger at annual meet
Climate change activists blew whistles and shouted on Thursday as they disrupted Australian gas producer Woodside Energy's (WDS.AX)annual general meeting, heckling Chief Executive Meg O’Neill and forcing several suspensions.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/australian-climate-protesters-disrupt-woodsides-annual-meet-2025-05-08/

Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire
Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir overnight, killing at least five civilians in a growing military standoff that erupted following an attack on tourists in the India-controlled portion of the disputed region.
https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-india-pakistan-military-strikes-conflict-1fe7cb3d7e0ea613f8461ca190a73eb0

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World peace

Why can't we have a world where people with differing ideologies can just agree to live separately and not fuck with eachother? Why does everyone feel the need to "save", "liberate" or "civilize" other nations?

I'm not even picking on anyone in particular here, although there are obviously certain nations that are better than others in this regard (the difference between the US and China comes to mind), but overall it seems like every ideology's implicit end goal is to cover the whole earth. Why is that? I would say it's a result of material conditions blah blah blah, but it seems to go back to the dawn of civilization itself, which confuses me.