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AMA ANNOUNCEMENT - JASON UNRUHE

Saturday, June 28th at 5:00 PM EST
Join known Maoist Youtuber Jason Unruhe on an AMA (Ask Me Anything) here at leftypol.org

Post your questions on the forthcoming AMA thread next Saturday!

Cya there!

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/Iran-Israel/ General #37

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No Kings Protest was an Establishment Diversion

How couldn’t yall see this? It’s obvious that the anti-ICE protests were objectively a potential source of revolutionary energy (even though many of them got co-opted and curtailed by DSA/PSL and other NGO type orgs into peaceful protests) and the oppressed Indigenous and Chicano proletariat were where the more of the organizing should’ve taken place.

But then the DNC came in and promoted doing these useless No Kings liberal protests (also promoted by revisionist socialist orgs and liberal NGOs) as a safe outlet of energy for the masses who were upset at the vile manner ICE was being portrayed in to the media, and of course general anti-Republican sentiment over the last 5-6 months.

That’s why the former was drowned out and all the petit-bourgeois liberals who were more concerned with “owning” leftists and conservatives and going back to brunch, while ignoring the bipartisan effort that it takes to even maintain infrastructure like ICE supported it rather than actually challenging to some degree an arm of the US state and subsequently having to deal with the question of US imperialism and its aftermath effects.

Communists need to stop supporting these protests, the anti-ICE protests are still going strong. No amount of “do somethingner” cope can cover the fact that this was a useless display of controlled anger and only meant to soothe angry liberals who oppose billionaires/oligarchs and not the bourgeois class as a whole

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/USApol/ 🇺🇸

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
<ZHENGJIU WOMEN BA, XI ZHUXI 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 patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #243

/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #242

<Eternal Fizzling Special

Previous: >>2315845 >>2305808

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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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>Twitter
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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:
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org

Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs

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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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>japanese right wing loses big during tokyo election
>japanese right wing win big cause all the votes went to other right wing parties
japanese communists also lost some of their most commie blocs they held for decades, reiwa didnt even gain a single seat

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1968

What was it about 1968 that made it such a revolutionary year in the West? What was the historical materialist context which made it so revolutionary and made it the closest that the West came to revolution and how was it coopted and liberalized in the 70s and 80s?

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/koba/ - Iosef Vissarianovich Stalin Generał #1

Thank you for everything, Joseph <3
I have seen many interesting input from various anons on Stalin here, whether in the form of opinions, books, documentaries etc. They happen sporadically, scattered on different threads which rarely have anything to do with Stalin, ML or USSR. I figured a Stalin General Thread would be useful. A place where to share all things Stalin and discuss all things Stalin.
Though I am pro-Stalin, this is not a strictly Stalin-worship thread. Posts critical of Stalin too are welcome. I simply request that they are in good faith, and not just 'muh ML' trolls.

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you don't need another economic argument

For investors to get what they spend, workers must spend what they get. This gives rise to capital accumulation, boom and bust cycles, unemployment, wage and political suppression, etc. If you need any more economic theory than this for engaging in the class struggle, you're an obsequious tool.

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OC Thread 17.0 - A New Beginning

Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.
>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
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MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!

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/LeftPolymarket/ General #1

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

The first general entirely dedicated to betting on political happenings (or lack thereof). For those too afraid to do dangerous adventurism, there is always venture capital. Chinese stocks, Russian stocks any & all that coincide with your political LARP are welcome here, post your most daring bets and show your autistic bravery here!
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.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. -Deng Xiaoping

Basic links:
https://polymarket.com/
https://polymarketanalytics.com/
https://www.aljazeera.com/
https://www.bloomberg.com/
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/stock-market
https://robinhood.com/us/en/

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Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish? I know it's a massive generalization (and maybe ironic because of that) but I'm just dumbfounded. It's like they either know they're lying or too stupid to either understand cause and effect, or just struggle with empathy.

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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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Does the Islamic republic really need this cuck? He's pretty useless, a symbolic head figure like the British monarchy, only worse because he comes with cucked shit a fatwa forbidding nuclear weapons.
He should step down.

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Honest question: why don’t radical leftists agree to volunteer at group homes for disabled adults or become special education teachers?

As the fear of mass eugenics is becoming a reality in America, we can all see how the disabled (in particular, people with intellectual disabilities and neurodivergent differences) will soon be set up for mass eradication. The disabled aren’t “parasites” but full and equal human individuals who deserve respect, dignity and autonomy. They are hated in capitalism on the basis that they aren’t “useful” to the system. We also see instances where RFK is trying to wipe out autistic identities by creating a eugenicist “autism registry.”

Given this, why aren’t radical leftists dedicating most of their activism towards fighting and advocating for the disabled? Or dedicating their time and every to caring for those who are entirely dependent on the care of others to survive. Truth is we ALL need care from others. Why focus on any other issue when eugenics is the biggest evil in our world today and needs to be defeated before anything else?

I strongly believe radical leftists need to work and care for disabled people and we can start doing that by agreeing to be special Ed teachers (and thereby advocate for disabled children) or work at group homes for disabled adults. That’s a much better use of our energy and VALUES than protesting or political organizing. Eugenics is at the heart of capitalism and there’s no revolution without the disabled.

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What the fuck is wrong with the people managing it?

Why the fuck are zionists so cartoonishly unhinged? Like, you kind of have to sit back to acknowledge how easily their behaviour would fit into an actual children’s cartoon given how easy it is for literally any mf to consider them to be objectively evil. They cannot be stupid right?

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/leftybritpol/ - Paul Pawlowski Edition

Who was Paul Pawlowski?
>Paul Pawlowski (born 1926/1927) was a Polish-born immigrant, Hellenic polytheist and English republican who, from the late 1970s until his resignation in 1996, served as the leader and only member of the Republican Party of England and the English People’s Liberation Army (EPLA).

What was the EPLA?
<The EPLA originated as a split from the Maoist Working People's Party of England. The Army's ideology called for the independence of England from "Judeo-fascist" forces.
<According to the "Dictionary of Terrorism", it was "extremely weak" but had "undertaken isolated bomb attacks". In 1983, it claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb sent to the headquarters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
<Barberis et al claim that the organisation may have had links to the Oliver Cromwell Republican Party, founded in 1977. This minor organisation, also led by Paul Pawlowski, later renamed the Republican Party of England, is best known for its leader's demonstration against the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981

The revolutionary career of Pawlowski, in his own words:
"In 1960s I read the Iliad in HMP Brixton.
Why! Thats polytheism – thats my religion i decided.
in 1970s I opened Temple of Aphrodite Pandemos in my one room in Tooting. Landlord told me to get out – evicted.
I moved to empty house in Charington Road squat.
There was Banner books shop nearby in Camden High street.
The shopwindow was Red with little red books bust of chairman Mao in the middle. Indian man Bijour was the shopkeeper.
I am having lunch in Cypriot restaurant with my lady when Bijour comes in sits with us at our table and we talk. Bijour says What Britain needs is British peoples liberation army.
I took on his idea and improved it
What Britain needs is English republican ideology – Republican party of England – English peoples liberation army.
The monarch abdicate – Republican England is born.
I bought a house in Accrington – turned it into HQ of English Peoples Liberation Army. Got raided by Special Branch.
What is the strength of the English Peoples Liberation Army? the SB officer asked. Military secret I replied. I think you are regimental Number One he said.
I drafted a petition for the Queen to abdicate let England be Republic. Went with it to meeting in Birmingham. It was leftwingers rally – about 200 signed my petition for the Queen to abdicate.
Encouraged by the response I convened a meeting at the Rising Sun pub near Victoria coach station. Five comrades came – we drunk pint and talked English Republic.
Encouraged - I drafted English Republican leaflet – published by Paul Pawlowski, Secretary, Republican Party of England.
The feedback was abusive – To saltmines in Siberia with you you foreigner!
They didn't like the name …ski. Printed another leaflet – same text only this time published by Thomas Smith, Secretary of Republican Party of England. Now the feedback was normal – some agreed – some asking for more info – some supported some against – normal.
Went with it to Camden Town Hall where the Daily Worker had a fete. The police at the entrance took notice of the name Thomas Smith – the police was on the lookout for that Thomas Smith – got raided by Special Branch officers
I continued with placard and leaflet calling for England to be Republic. Got arrested for it in the street in Accrington – the magistrate said Three months. With Clenched Fist salute I cried out Victory to the English Peoples Liberation Army!
Local newspaper carried report about it.
In HMP Strangeways prison officers were asking me "Tell us where is the English Peoples Liberation Army and we all go there and join it."
HMP prison officers were the first recruits to EPLA.
HMP Strangeways was burned down – it was burning for many days."
https://web.archive.org/web/20110116045112/http://indiaculture.net/talk/messages/128/10039.html?1252331010

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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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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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Empathy

Why has "empathy" become a swear word (one of a growing number of swear words) in rightard circles?

The ability experience pathy is what seperates human beings from snakes. The scientific classification for someone who doesn't feel empathy is a sociopath, and the general consensus until a few months ago was that being a sociopath is a bad thing. But now you see rightards proudly proclaiming that they don't care about anything or anyone but themselves, and it's fucking bizarre to me.

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/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
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People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
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==The Cold war==

The cold war, a 44 year old counter-revolution

What happened? Why did this happen and why did the USSR fail? Was it state capitalisms? What about the Sino-soviet split? Why that happen? How come the proletariat didn't revolt globally during ww2 at the height of communist power and influence? Did nuclear weapons stall the revolution and allow a counter revolution?

This thread exist to discuss all things related to the cold war and its aftermath. Please post your theories, or any information you have in regards to this topic here.

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/Iran-Israel/ General #36

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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: ~~>>1946727~~

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

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>Denounces USSR for seeking peaceful coexistence with the West and breaks off relations with them
>Meets with Nixon and Kissinger 10 years later, beginning the normalization of relations with the US

What did Mao mean by this?

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/Iran-Israel/ General #35

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mfw clara zetkin who first introduced the idea of an international womens day gets reduced today to just another basic feminist or womens rights figure, the exact kind of liberal shit she was totally against

< She viewed the feminist movement as being primarily composed of upper-class and middle-class women who had their own class interests in mind, which were incompatible with the interests of working-class women. Thus, feminism and the socialist fight for women's rights were incompatible. In her mind, socialism was the only way to truly end the oppression of women. One of her primary goals was to get women out of the house and into work so that they could participate in trade unions and other workers rights organizations to improve conditions for themselves. While she argued that the socialist movement should fight to achieve reforms that would lessen female oppression, she was convinced that such reforms could only prevail if they were embedded into a general move towards socialism; otherwise, they could easily be eradicated by future legislation.

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Why are we constantly being raided for the past week? It feels like every day there’s some raid attempt from /pol. It’s incredibly frustrating and it’s probably cia trying to derail our threads

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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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/Iran-Israel/ General #34

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Your opinion on this guy says everything I need to know about you. Are you

1) The kind of person to answer "How would you feel if you ate breakfast this morning?" with "But I didn't"

2) A member of the manchild inteligentsia

3) A secret third thing

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Nuclear Holocaust Odds

Is it almost pretty much a guarantee at this point? Soon?
The longer the bourgeoisie states exist and hold nukes the greater the threat becomes, in the statistical paradoxes of infinity in all probabilities they will one day have to be used, since a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie can only be finite.

80,000 Hours researchers estimate the chance of nuclear war over the next century is 20–50%
https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/nuclear-security/

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #242

/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #242

<Enter Dnipropetrovsk Special

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It does bother me. It actually does bother me to a certain degree. Why don't they do anything?

If there are so many people on the left—in fact, the majority of the people on the left are people in the upper middle class, college-educated people who have resources, who have fucking time, money, and resources to do things—but they don't do anything. They simply don't do anything.

And it kind of bothers me because it's like, I have been homeless. I've been homeless before. And I'll probably be homeless again multiple times in the future. I will probably be homeless. This is just the way it goes based on my material conditions. And yet I am doing every single fucking thing that I can to advance the movement—whether it's writing, whether it's helping try to organize events, whether it's having one-on-one conversations with people at those events, whether it's uprooting my entire life and moving to a location that I believe will facilitate having those conversations, whether it's spending my time making museums and flyers and turning those out and putting them out, or building a brand and outreach.

Anybody can do that. I literally put my entire website code out so anyone can do what I do. There's nothing special about what I do. And in fact, someone who is college-educated—I'm not college-educated, I've never been to college—could probably do what I do a whole lot better. But no one does. And it bothers me.

It bothers me because I've literally had moments in my life where I have been down in the dirt, like, wanting to give up on living. But I've still got a tab open trying to work on shit for the movement. People will call me a grifter. People will call me mentally ill for believing in this shit. And it's like, the people who have the money and the time and the resources just do not give a fuck.

Or if they do give a fuck, they are donating to NGOs. Like, cool, bro, you gave to a fucking charity that is tied to the CIA and 95% of their donations go to the board of directors. And then the board of directors have a $20,000 a year salary. Cool. Do you feel like you did something? You sending money to charity does not negate your lack of contribution to a real revolutionary movement, and in fact this is the function of charity in a post BPP Breakfast Program America, to get the people with the resources to disengage.

But the guy who's trying to get it out the mud anyway they can—like, oh yeah, I found this pamphlet from 1910 from a Chicago socialist magazine on archive.org—I'm going to spend all night, two nights in a row, while also trying to do other shit, to reformat that and publish that and get that out there, because that's what I have the time to do and that's what I have the capability to do. All the while I'm living in a fucking Motel 6. Anyone could have edited that book, anyone could do what I do, and if you have a base of income so you don't have to beg, you can do a lot MORE THAN ME.

And there are people who live in fucking McMansion-ass neighborhoods who spend all their time bitching about the treatlerism and the American working class can never be saved. The ones who do the least have the most to say. And it's like, bro, shut the fuck up and do something. Or give your money to people like me who are willing to put in the fucking work and sacrifice their entire lives to the cause.

Because otherwise you're just filling the fucking void with noise that just demoralizes people like me who are trying to do the work. And there are other people like me, but there are not nearly enough people who are trying to fucking get this shit out the mud, brother, because we are in the mud. We're in the trenches. It's a class war and we're in the trenches.

And some of you people are like, I'll just take the grill pill. Have you ever thought about the people who cannot stop for a single second to take that pill because otherwise they will die? Because every fucking moment of their life has been spent trying to survive? Why is the onus on those people to fight this class war while you check out? Why do you get to feel morally superior when in reality, you're no better than the liberals you criticism. Fuck Chapotraphouse and fuck this grillpill shit, beyond glad I've never seen a single episode of that slop. You got podcasters living on 200k a year telling you to "just grill", must be nice to be able to grill.

And those are some of the people who are fighting the cause. But you, with enough privilege to take the grill pill, are checking out. Make that make sense.

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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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/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.

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Mods are based and awesome

Reminder that Israel is a terror organization that is using human shields to protect itself and is
deliberately targeting civilians, while Hamas is doing everything in its power to minimize civilian damage in Gaza.
100,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Gaza by Israel, causing the deaths of 7,000,000 Gazans (a number that includes both terrorists and civilians). This means that for every ton of bombs dropped by Israel on Gaza, more than ten Gazans died. Since Gaza is insanely dense, this figure is only possible if Israel is trying to maximize civilian damage by literally bombing a city, thus proving that Israel is the literal devil and needs to be removed from the Earth.

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/Iran-Israel/ General #33

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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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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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/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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“Narco terrorism”

Are drug dealers our unironic allies

Think about the Opium Wars in China and how the British exercised imperialism by trying to get loads of Chinese addicted to smack. Wouldn’t it make sense for leftists to strategically peddle deadly drugs like fentanyl, krokodil, and this new shit mentioned in vidrel into bourgeois and settler neighbourhoods in order to cause severe chaos and weaken their power? Imagine if nepo babies of porkies began dropping like flies because the drugs they were sold were laced with substances that could kill them instantly. Imagine if comrades became high-end dealers and started selling this stuff ourselves in order to kill off as many porkies as possible. Not just porkies but also gentrifiers in places like Highland Park, Wicker Park, Bushwick, and the like. It would do a great deal to bring the ruling class to their knees and would give comrades as well as the internally colonized a better chance to fight back.

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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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International trade through fossil fuels is responsible for the population growth around the globe. Especially the trade of food and agrochemicals. What will happen once fossil fuels either run out (worse case scenario) or we stop using them to stop climate change (best case scenario)?

This leaves only some options:
- Use non-fossil fuel ships like in the past, which are certainly slower and lower capacity, causing famine and death
- Global production declines either way because of the damage already done. Adding to this the stopping of international trade, and you have a massive social and economic disaster.

What are the possible solutions and outcomes?

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Democracy concept thread

When you (yes, you bitch!) and your party obtain power, who will be allowed to vote on decisions? And why?

>inb4 idealism
>inb4 democracy-as-an-ideology US brainworms
>inb4 idiot monarchist fantasy

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/Iran-Israel/ General #32

Nothingburger Edition

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/Political Economy/ General #3 - Did You Forget "The Critique Of" Edition

Previous thread: >>2189753

Links:

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Thread 2 https://archive.ph/f29Po

Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
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Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
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Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
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
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm

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Donation to Palestine

I have some spare cash that would be more useful to the people of Palestine, but I really don't know which fund raiser could is a scam or legit.
Do you guys know any charity or something of the like that can be trusted to actually give the money to the people in need or spend it sensibly to help them?
Thank you.

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Strategic reasons for Iran to perform a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Tel Aviv

1. It would demonstrate that Iron Dome and David's Sling are insufficient for the defense of Israel
2. It would demonstrate that their nuclear program was actually successful and Trump did nothing to stop it
3. It would demonstrate that they are capable of Mutually Assured Destruction with Israel if existentially threatened by US intervention
4. It could kill Netanyahu / decapitate Israeli high command

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DHKP-C mucho underappreciated

DHKP-C literally controlled neighborhoods in Istanbul and held 1st of may marches with tens of thousands until they were weakened by Turkish state sponsored mafias and drug gangs. Most Halk Cephe members also went to fight in Palestine later on. One of the most underapriciated peoples front fr.

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Wu Wei is the graceful art of effortless action, the Daoist way of flowing with life rather than constantly fighting against it. It's not about doing nothing—it’s about doing things so naturally that they unfold with ease, like a river winding around rocks instead of crashing into them.

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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

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Norwegian communism

Norwegian communist party is now at 7,3% with a consistent and steady trend that is growing rapidly. Rødt is now the largest left-wing party outside of the main legacy party Arbeiderpartiet.

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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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/Iran-Israel/ General #31

IIIrd World War Edition

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/Iran-Israel/ General #30

George Dubya Trump edition

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WyndHam Lewis: Case Study in Fascist Disillusionment

I was reading about this artist called Wyndham Lewis (found him through a book on Virginia Woolf's denunciation of fascism) who operated from the 1910s to the 1950s roughly who started something called the 'Vorticist' movement which was basically a shitty cubist clone (left is an example). Lewis was very machisimo patriarchal pro-fascist in his youth, saying that Anglo-Saxons should unite against 'all the Blacks, Browns, and High Yallers’ and finding ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler quite compelling early on. He talked often about there being a crisis for men not finding women now that they found independence (remind you of anything?) and was very big on moid machisimo in art. His main critique of Hitler was that he focused too much on Germans and not on race in general.

However, in the 30's he becomes disillusioned with Hitler and ends up in the early 40s becoming a full melting-pot style Lib. Whilst living in America he declared that the greatest advantage of being American was to have "turned one's back on race, caste, and all that pertains to the rooted state." In 1937 he produced the second piece 'The Surrender of Barcelona' a depiction of old Barcelona as an open cosmopolitan city, liberated, but one that is somehow surrendering to an invisible, existential enemy (an allegory for its descent into fascism).

IMO this piece is much better than his earlier work and shows that fascists are mentally ill freaks who can't make good art. The moral of this post is fascists are mentally ill retards and I hope they all get treatment soon.

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>Azov Battalion officially integrated into National Guard of Ukraine in 2014
So you're telling me that Ukraine has nazi groups that are officially integrated into its military and it's somehow not a nazi state?

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/Iran-Israel/ General #29

Back to 2015 edition

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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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The entire "everybody acts in a way that is ultimately reducible to their material interests and the ideas they have are just distortions or window dressing" thing is one of the biggest strawmen ever made about communists. It's not that communists think people just follow their interests it's that the system forces people to act within the constraints of material interests. And morality all that good vs. evil shit exists mainly to hide and obscure that fact, that the core reality of capitalism is driven by profit, the competition for money and the harsh truth that without capital, you're left to struggle, that it isn't some natural, self-correcting system, it's man-made, and it runs on the logic of capital, accumulate or collapse.

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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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Question

How can someone bourgeois help the revolution? I’m a believer in communism but my fucking parents are zionists, what can I do to help? I want to help spread the revolution but I’m not sure how

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News 6/21/25

Italian workers strike against war and militarization
The Italian grassroots trade union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) launched a general strike on Friday, June 20, to escalate national mobilization against armament and war. Echoing a slogan from broader peace campaigns – “Abbassate le armi, alzate i salari” (“Lower the weapons, raise the wages”) – striking workers aiming to expose the consequences of Europe’s, and more specifically Italy’s, growing military-industrial agenda, including more cuts in the region’s public services.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/21/italian-workers-strike-against-war-and-militarization/

British parliament votes in favour of assisted dying law
The “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)” law would give mentally competent, terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less left to live the right to choose to end their lives with medical help. Those who would want the procedure would have to be signed off on by two doctors and a panel of experts.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/20/british-parliament-votes-in-favour-of-assisted-dying-law
https://archive.ph/Jofq5

Top Bulgarian official says he’ll intervene to stop food price spikes before eurozone entry
A top Bulgarian official has said he will intervene to stem sharp rises in the prices of food and drink that he blames on speculators profiteering ahead of the country's expected entry into the eurozone. Inflation is a politically explosive topic in Bulgaria, as the country looks set to join the eurozone on Jan. 1 next year. Public support is starkly divided, particularly because of fears that currency convergence will import western European prices to the EU's poorest country.
https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-eurozone-official-stop-food-price-spikes-before-entry/
https://archive.ph/VG8b1

Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian marches across Europe
In London, AFP journalists saw tens of thousands of protesters, who waved Palestinian flags as they marched through the British capital clad in keffiyeh scarves. In Berlin, more than 10,000 people gathered in the centre of the city in support of Gaza, according to police figures. And in the Swiss capital Bern, march organisers estimated that 20,000 people rallied in front of the national parliament, urging the government to back a ceasefire. There have been monthly protests in the British capital since the start of the 20-month-long war between Israel and Hamas, which has ravaged Gaza.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/06/tens-thousands-join-pro-palestinian-marches-across-europe

Jordan urged to cancel Israel gas deal after supply halted amid Iran war
The production halt - resulting from disruptions at the Leviathan gas field - is being cited by the Jordanian National Campaign to Overturn the Gas Agreement with the Zionist Entity, known by its slogan "The Enemy's Gas is Occupation", as grounds to terminate the deal. The campaign, a coalition of public figures, political parties and professional associations opposed to normalisation with Israel, views the current situation as a legal and political opportunity to annul the agreement under the force majeure clause. This clause permits cancellation without financial penalties if unforeseen events prevent the fulfilment of contractual obligations.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordan-urged-cancel-israel-gas-deal-after-supply-halted-amid-iran-war

Erdogan says UNRWA to open office in Turkey, calls for more support for agency
Addressing foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, Erdogan said opening an Ankara UNRWA office would deepen Turkey's support for the agency. "We must not allow UNRWA, which plays an irreplaceable role in terms of taking care of Palestinian refugees, to be paralysed by Israel. We expect our organisation and each member state to provide financial and moral support to UNRWA to thwart Israel's games," Erdogan said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/erdogan-says-unrwa-open-office-turkey-calls-more-support-agency-2025-06-21/

Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution
Members of the Bille and Ogale communities in the Niger delta, which have a combined population of about 50,000, are suing Shell and a Nigerian-based subsidiary of the company, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, which is now the Renaissance Africa Energy Company. The two communities began the legal action in 2015, claiming they had suffered systemic and ongoing oil pollution for years due to the companies’ operations in the African country, including the pollution of drinking water.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/nigerian-communities-shell-high-court-oil-pollution

Sri Lanka plans IMF talks on ways to lure foreign investors
Beyond last year's economic growth of 5%, Sri Lanka still needs to focus on deeper reforms such as reforming loss-making state enterprises and trimming a bloated public service, Dissanayake said. … Colombo boosted power prices by 15% last week in its effort to secure IMF executive board approval for the fifth tranche of its facility, standing at about $334 million.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-plans-imf-talks-ways-lure-foreign-investors-2025-06-16/

UN expert recommends NTF-ELCAC abolition amid rampant red-tagging and media attacks
Khan questioned the need to retain the NTF-ELCAC which was established by the previous administration under a different political context, considering its ruinous effect on their human rights, including the right to freedom of expression. She said that the Philippine government had briefly told her how it has been considering the task force into a peacebuilding entity, Khan expressed her doubt whether an entity that is widely considered to have been a major source of vilification, threats and harassment can transform itself into a credible peacebuilder.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/06/19/un-expert-recommends-ntf-elcac-abolition-amid-rampant-red-tagging-and-media-attacks/

Canada poised to pass infrastructure bill despite pushback from Indigenous people
While the bill says the government must consult Indigenous communities in cases where their rights are affected by a fast-tracked project, it also allows the Liberal cabinet to overrule pre-existing laws to speed up permits for major projects. The federal legislation comes as provinces also pass bills that speed up infrastructure projects. Ontario plans to create “special economic zones” that would bypass all provincial laws, amid tensions between the premier and First Nations chiefs in areas slated for mining. Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier, provoked criticism earlier this week criticized for saying First Nations communities “keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government” for more money. He apologized the following day after meeting with chiefs from the Anishinabek Nation, which represents 39 of Ontario’s 133 First Nations chiefs.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/20/canada-infrastructure-bill-indigenous-rights

Panama suspends constitutional protections in the northwest after destructive protests
What began as nationwide protests against changes to the social security system morphed Thursday night into people damaging the local airport and the facilities of banana giant Chiquita Brands, which fired thousands of striking workers in the province last month. Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino had said at the time that the banana workers’ strike was illegal and included some 5,000 workers. On May 27, the government declared a state of emergency in the province without suspending constitutional protections.
https://apnews.com/article/panama-protests-chiquita-banana-cd8c42c8cb695c2e39ee6fb3ec886388

Petro says Colombia will vote on constituent assembly next year
The Senate’s fierce opposition to a widely supported labor reform has shown “who is with” the people and “those who insults and condemn them, those who forbid them to speak. Now that popular knowledge must be expressed where the people are king, at the ballot box,” Petro added. For this reason, said the president, the government plans to convene a national constituent assembly that would be called during the same elections that will elect a new Congress and a successor to Petro. "I await the decision of millions so that the next government and congress will have the imperative mandate to build the social rule of law, social justice, deep democracy with the people, peace."
https://colombiareports.com/petro-says-colombia-will-vote-on-constituent-assembly-next-year/

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The Absurd and communism

How would you respond to the Absurdist critique that life was absurd and will be absurd before and after capitalism?

What exactly about the communist mode of production will alleviate the absurd?

I'm a communist but don't really know how to respond to this.

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You can stop a war.

An American invasion of Iran would be impossible without the use of bases in the Gulf States. Write their embassies and ask them to say "No" to war and Trump.

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What did Marx mean by "Abolish The Family"?

How would this work? Would all kids be raised in boarding schools from birth by federally employed nannies? Would the kids be able to visit their parents?

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/Iran-Israel/ General #28

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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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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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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!

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>Easter
>family comes over
>talk to older cousin since haven't seen her in about 2 years now, and want to catch up
>big mistake, she's really deep into maga and for some reason violently against women's rights despite being a woman herself, being half paralyzed and on perma-disability(???)
>have to avoid political conversations entirely now because she will endlessy dick-suck Trump and excuse any and every awful thing he's done, right down to the point of screeching "FAEK NEWS, FAEK NEWS" and/or crying when shown undeniable evidence of his crimes

it's so fucking tough because she's genuinely a good cousin and I enjoy her company, but it annoys me to deal with someone so close and mature yet so heavily brainwashed at this point in life. What are some ways I can aid her with disillusionment? She's heavily against corporations, so I feel like that could be a potential starting point for it

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Iran is putting actual anti-fascism into action

Iran has gone of the full-scale offensive against the most genocidal fascist regime to exist in our lifetime: the Zionist entity. Iran pounding Tel Aviv and turning it into Gaza represents real anti-fascism more than a bunch of liberals crying about Trump holding a parade or black bloc wackos smashing windows. Fascism is only on the run when its proverbial skull meets the pavement.

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Can someone explain to my why we’re defending this? I can’t understand why we’re bending over backwards to defend these obvious fascists, wouldn’t it be better if there was some sort of nato color revolution

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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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/Iran-Israel/ General #27

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News 6/20/25

Colombia’s Congress approves historic labor reform, Petro withdraws referendum
Multiple articles in the reform seek to make it more difficult companies to perpetually employ workers on a temporary basis, including those who are employed in the so-called gig economy. Companies will have to pay extra compensation for labor between 7PM and 6AM Some 69,000 “community mothers,” men and women who provide care and education to kids from the neighborhood, will be formally integrated into and paid by the Family Welfare Institute. Some 400,000 students who do an internship are granted full labor rights and be paid in full for their services.Workers who work on Sundays and holidays will be paid double instead of 175% of the normal wage. The government and its coalition in Congress conceded in demanding menstrual leave for women, which was left out of the reform.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-congress-approves-labor-reform-petro-withdraws-referendum/

New Rio de Janeiro law requires public hospitals to display anti-abortion signs
A new law has just come into force in Rio de Janeiro requiring all public hospitals and clinics run by the municipal government to display anti-abortion signs bearing messages such as: “Did you know that the unborn child is discarded as hospital waste?” Reproductive rights activists view the act as the latest example of a growing trend across Brazil to further restrict access to abortion in a country that already has some of the world’s most restrictive laws.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/rio-de-janeiro-anti-abortion-signs

Argentina: unemployment hits record figures
The employment rate was 44.4% (13.3 million people), with 42% in informal jobs and 36.3% lacking pension contributions. Formal salaried jobs dropped by 200,000, informal by 100,000, while self-employment grew by 100,000. Greater Buenos Aires saw the highest unemployment at 9.1% (9.7% excluding the capital), followed by the Pampas region at 7.4%.Patagonia had the lowest at 4.9%. Joblessness was higher for women (9%) than men (7%), with 71.4% of the unemployed having up to hugh-school education.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/06/20/argentina-unemployment-hits-record-figures

Security review launched after activists break into RAF base
Palestine Action said the activists evaded security and claimed they had put the air-to-air refuelling tankers "out of service". However, RAF engineers are assessing the damage and a defence source told the BBC they did not expect the incident to affect operations. In a statement, a Palestine Action spokesperson said: "Despite publicly condemning the Israeli government, Britain continues to send military cargo, fly spy planes over Gaza and refuel US and Israeli fighter jets."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24nppdx0lo
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Employees at firm that supplied grape-pickers for champagne on trial for human trafficking
The workers, from countries including Mali, Mauritania, Ivory Coast and Senegal, were allegedly given too little food – either rice or sandwiches that were rotting. They were said to be transported to vineyards crammed into the back of vans, standing up, with no seats or windows. Some told investigators they worked for 10 hours with only a 30-minute break and were threatened if they wanted to rest or drink water.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/grape-pickers-trial-human-trafficking-france

Putin says Russia has shared peace proposals with Israel and Iran
He said Moscow asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure the security of Russian personnel who are working to construct two more reactors at the nuclear power plant in Iran’s port of Bushehr and that he also raised the issue with U.S. President Donald Trump. “Prime Minister Netanyahu has agreed with that, and President Trump has promised to support our legitimate demands,” Putin said. But he strongly rejected allegations that Moscow has failed to back its ally, Tehran, saying the Kremlin has maintained good ties with both Iran and Israel. He noted that Israel is home to nearly 2 million people from Russia and other former Soviet nations, “a factor that we always have taken into account.”
https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-ukraine-economy-b4555dfe8cdc05d0e98dc351e5846b67

Israeli army attacks cause near-total collapse of internet in Iran, sparking concerns over censorship
Leading internet activity monitor NetBlocks announced on Wednesday that Iran is now experiencing a near-total collapse of internet activity, which they linked to ongoing Israeli army attacks. The monitor cited live data from several areas, which showed significant disconnection across the country, which they said meant that internet access had become largely inaccessible.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-attacks-cause-near-total-collapse-internet-iran

Maersk temporarily halts operations at Israel's Haifa port after Iran strikes
In a statement released on Friday, Maersk said it decided to suspend operations after “careful analysis of threat risk reports in the context of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, specifically regarding the potential risks of calling Israeli ports and the ensuing implications for the safety of our vessel crews”. Maersk said it was in close contact with customers "impacted by this decision and are working to provide alternative transport solutions to minimise disruption".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/maersk-temporarily-halts-operations-israels-haifa-port-after-iran-strikes

Thai PM apologises over leaked call with Hun Sen as crisis threatens to topple government
In the leaked call, Paetongtarn – daughter of the populist former leader Thaksin Shinawatra – discusses an ongoing border dispute with Hun Sen, who is known to be a friend of her family. In the recording, she can be heard criticising a senior Thai military commander who she said “just wanted to look tough”, describing him as an opponent. Addressing Hun Sen as “uncle”, she adds that if there were anything he wanted to “just let me know, I’ll take care of it”. Paetongtarn told a press conference on Thursday: “I would like to apologise for the leaked audio of my conversation with a Cambodian leader which has caused public resentment.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/20/thai-prime-minister-paetongtarn-shinawatra-apologises-phone-leak-crisis-cambodia-hun-sen

Armed men in western Niger kill 34 soldiers and wound 14, authorities say
Armed men killed 34 soldiers and wounded 14 others in western Niger near the tri-state border with Mali and Burkina Faso, the defense ministry said. The attack was carred out around 9 a.m. Thursday in Banibangou by attackers using eight vehicles and more than 200 motorbikes, the ministry said in a statement.
https://apnews.com/article/niger-attack-jihadism-alqaida-islamic-state-sahel-5b159ad379e7ec76fd16261e10a8ab19

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Belize

The world's most irrelevant US proxy christian shithole state.
Known for having one of the ugliest flags. Probably has cartel issues. Also known for being one of the small US proxy shitholes that recognizes Taiwan.

Apparently there is a "communist party" which doesn't even have its own glowpedia page and is completely irrelevant and niche since Belize is a two party dictatorship of the bourgeoisie modeled after the US.

The population of Belize is around 397,483 ants and 4 CIA agents.

Does anyone know what the politics like there? It's such an irrelevant country its almost antimemetic because of how nobody cares to look at it.

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>Despite being able to draw on the rich historical experience of the Russian Revolution, many “left-wingers”, and declared enemies of Stalinism, nevertheless still look to the anarchists for potential support. We therefore need to reiterate that libertarianism was the first of the diseases to infect the proletarian movement, and was the precursor to all later opportunisms (including Stalinism) in that it falsified politics and history in order to attract the petty and middle bourgeois strata of society onto the proletarian side – despite the fact that these classes have always ruined everything, and been the source of every kind of calamity and error. What resulted from this approach wasn't proletarian leadership over the “popular masses”, but destruction of any proletarian features of the general movement, and a reinforced enslavement of the proletariat to capital.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1957/fundamentals.htm
Stalinsisters, our response?
also OC

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Multipolar vs. imperialist economic congresses

SPIEF: the emerging multipolar world's ongoing economic forum in Russia
vs.
G7/Bilderberg: ongoing imperialist world's economic forum going on in Canada/Sweden, hosted by Swedens GigaPorky Wallenberg family

https://swentr.site/on-air/619944-putin-spief-2025-plenary-session/ (live right now)
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/from-the-rockies-to-stockholm-ignoring-the-global-crisis/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallenberg_family

President of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, just 10 minutes ago @ SPIEF:
>full capitalism sucks, full socialism sucks, we need a mixture of the two systems

I remember Zizek's scared-shitless-lib prediction from around 2005 or so that the great statesman for whom statues will be built around the world will be Deng Xiaping, because his economic model will prove to be irresistible to developing nations. In any case, and Zizek aside,
>you will live to see Asia become the next socdem bloc after the fall of socdemism in Scandinavia

Meanwhile, at the imperialist economic conference:
>What are the G7 leaders discussing? Naturally, it is the accelerating Middle East crisis after the Israeli attack on Iran; the continued war in Ukraine and the need for more sanctions on Russia and arms for Ukraine; what to do about Trump’s trade tariffs; how to impose a range of cuts in international aid to poor countries by most G7 governments in order to make room for increased arms spending; and the need for a common policy against China.

>The main discussion for the Bilberberg participants is how to strangle economically, politically and militarily, China. As the American MAGA Republican Jason Smith put it: he was in Sweden to “continue fighting to combat the economic and national security threat China poses to our great nation”. Fellow Bilderberg attendee Robert Lighthizer, economic adviser close to Trump, echoed that sentiment: “China to me is an existential threat to the United States”.

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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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Featured: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 2
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Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 3
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Theories of Surplus Value
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
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Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson
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Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
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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/Iran-Israel/ General #26

R: 56 / I: 3

Anti-Kahanist General #1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahanism
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/20/meir-kahane-israel-kach-ben-gvir-long-dead-extremist

Why Anti-Kahanism? Kahanism is literally illegal in Israel, but it's de facto Israeli state policy. It's a safer way to say anti-Zionist while still being able to have the Israeli left on your side, and if people in Israel start bashing you for "anti-semitism", say what they're doing is technically illegal by Israeli law by supporting Kahanism.

R: 12 / I: 0
Accelerationism is a dumb ideology just like all ideologies. Badly functioning, capitalism is still capitalism. You don't magically arrive at communism by tanking the economy. Otherwise we would have communism every couple of decades, every time there is a crisis. Periodic collapse and devaluation is a normal part of the capitalist cycle, and paves the way for accumulation on an ever-greater scale.

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News 6/19/25

Unfrozen Loans Give Arce Hope of Easing Crippling Bolivia Crisis
Amid the deepest economic crisis in decades, lawmakers on Tuesday agreed to debate the approval of 16 foreign credits worth a total of $1.8 billion. On Wednesday, the senate approved one of these, a $250 million loan from the Inter-American development bank. The lower house approved two, worth $160 million together, which will now move on for senate approval.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/unfrozen-loans-give-arce-hope-of-easing-crippling-bolivia-crisis
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Large crowds protest in support of Argentine ex-President Fernández as she starts house arrest
Vowing that a conviction on corruption charges and a permanent ban from public office would not end her decades-long political career, Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner began serving a six-year sentence under house arrest as tens of thousands of her supporters rallied in the streets.
https://apnews.com/article/milei-argentina-fernandez-corruption-arrest-latin-america-6fcf609fed80ff36ae435b1fc0e4e088

India is a perpetrator of foreign interference, Canadian intelligence agency says
"Indian officials, including their Canada-based proxy agents, engage in a range of activities that seek to influence Canadian communities and politicians," the Canadian Security Intelligence Service report reads. "These activities attempt to steer Canada's positions into alignment with India's interests on key issues, particularly with respect to how the Indian government perceives Canada-based supporters of an independent homeland that they call Khalistan."
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-is-a-perpetrator-of-foreign-interference-canadian-intelligence-agency-says/articleshow/121936133.cms
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Pakistan fears militants will thrive on restive border if Iran destabilised
As well as worrying about chaos spilling over from Iran, Pakistan is concerned about the precedent set by Israel of attacking the nuclear installations of another country. Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India fought a four-day conflict in May. Following a Wednesday lunch at the White House with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, Trump said: “They’re not happy about anything”, referring to Pakistan's views on the Israel-Iran conflict. Pakistan’s military said on Thursday that the two had discussed Iran,“with both leaders emphasizing the importance of resolution of the conflict”.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/pakistan-fears-militants-will-thrive-restive-border-if-iran-destabilised-2025-06-19/

Iran: Jailed women activists issue letter condemning Israeli attacks
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, Verisheh Moradi, Sakineh Parvaneh and Reyhaneh Ansarinejad issued the letter, published by the pro-Kurdish Firat News Agency, from Evin prison in Tehran. They accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and said its goal was to create a "weak and submissive" Middle East. "Our liberation…from the dictatorship ruling the country is possible through the struggle of the masses and by resorting to social forces - not by clinging to foreign powers or placing hopes in them," they wrote. "The powers that have always brought destruction to the countries of the region through exploitation and colonisation, by inciting wars and killing in pursuit of greater benefits, will have no way out for us except for new destruction and exploitation."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jailed-female-activists-iran-issue-letter-condemning-israeli-attacks

French court to rule on freeing Lebanese militant
The Paris appeals court, initially set to deliver its verdict in February before postponing, will now announce its decision on July 17 after re-examining the request on Thursday. "I told the judges, either you release him or you sentence him to death," his lawyer Jean-Louis Chalanset told the media after the closed-door hearing. Abdallah, 74, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the murders of US military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. He has been eligible for release for 25 years, but has seen multiple requests for his freedom denied.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/06/french-court-rule-freeing-lebanese-militant

Ireland among nine EU countries calling for talks on ending trade with Israeli settlements
An eagerly awaited review of the EU-Israel trade agreement is expected to find that Israel has violated the agreement's human rights and international law clauses in the conduct of its war in Gaza, RTÉ News understands. The review will be circulated to member states tomorrow, with EU foreign ministers taking the issue up at their monthly meeting in Brussels on Monday. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who commissioned the review following a request by the Dutch government, will also brief EU leaders on its contents when they gather for a summit in Brussels on Thursday.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0619/1519280-eu-israel/
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Spain rejects Nato's ‘unreasonable’ proposal to hike military spending to 5% of GDP
In a letter sent today to Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that Spain “cannot commit to a specific spending target in terms of GDP” at next week’s Nato summit in The Hague. For Spain, ”committing to a 5 per cent target would not only be unreasonable, but also counterproductive,” wrote Mr Sanchez in the letter.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/spain-rejects-natos-unreasonable-proposal-hike-military-spending-5-gdp

Czech government survives no-confidence vote over bitcoin scandal
The no-confidence motion followed a scandal that saw Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek from Fiala’s conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS) resign last month after accepting a €40 million bitcoin donation to the ministry from a convicted drug dealer. The cryptocurrency was provided by Tomáš Jiřikovský, who according to the courts ran an illegal darknet market that had drugs for sale, and who had served time in prison for embezzlement, drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons. Czech newspaper Deník N broke the news last week that police are investigating the donation.
https://www.politico.eu/article/czech-government-survives-no-confidence-vote-bitcoin-scandal-petr-fiala-drugs-elections-pavel-blazek/
https://archive.ph/0wbtp

Rwanda and DR Congo agree draft peace deal to end conflict
The US hopes to bring an end to the fighting and to unlock billions of dollars of Western investment in the eastern DRC, which has large mineral reserves including cobalt, copper, gold and lithium. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has described the twin aims of peace and investment as a “win-win”. As part of the diplomatic efforts, Massad Boulos, the US envoy to Africa, travelled to the DRC and Rwanda in April. During his visit, he urged Kigali to end its support for the M23 rebels.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/19/dr-congo-and-rwanda-sign-draft-peace-agreement
https://archive.ph/ZNxO2

Kenyan police officers arraigned over shooting a civilian during protests
The officers were arraigned in court two days after the Tuesday shooting on a busy street and under the full glare of cameras. It triggered anger and fury over persistent complaints against police brutality. The hawker, Boniface Kariuki, remains hospitalized in critical condition in an intensive care unit.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-protests-shooting-police-87846cdb7875e4704ffe560623dd0877

New Zealand has suspended millions in funding to the Cook Islands over its growing China ties
News of the 18.2 million New Zealand dollar ($11 million) funding halt only emerged when a Cook Islands news outlet saw its brief mention in a government budget document. It’s likely to prove difficult for Luxon, who is due to meet President Xi Jinping this week. Beijing, which said in February that the deals were not intended to antagonize New Zealand, defended its partnership with the country of 15 islands and 15,000 people.
https://apnews.com/article/new-zealand-cook-islands-china-beijing-pacific-f0d0f8c4f844875515f37d26592dbfb3

R: 38 / I: 4 (sage)

Are workers still the revolutionary subject?

Automatization and programmers? Manual labor blue collars getting replaced?
Programmers as the new holders of the instruments on who's labor society depends?
Are petite-bourgeoisie and big bourgeoisie the new revolutionary class? Can they attain class consciousness and lead to the end of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (the capitalist mode of production) themselves by going against their self-interests? Is the decomposition of capital stuck between neither the proletariat or the bourgeoisie being able to force their own solution?

Don't be mean, I'm just asking some questions that do deserve their own thread.
I've got some really cool thesis I won't share with you guys, I just want some more food for thought.

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/Iran-Israel/ General #25

Cost Analysis Edition

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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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/Iran-Israel/ General #24

>Looks like mods banned an OP again edition

Iranian-American genocide of Iraqi-Palestinians edition

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remember, when the baker isn't me, they end up saying something /pol/-like and getting banned lol

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My communist dad has now become an ANCAP nazi that wants to genocide Ukrainians since TikTok was invented.
Gotta love ex Eastern block communists. They never really gave a shit about any communist ideals it was always just a thinly veiled excuse.

R: 11 / I: 1

/Africa/

A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.
Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe

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I really hope I do not sound like Odin-worshipping Nazi or a Hindutva chud asking this question, but…

Is Abrahamic privellege a thing that does really exist?

If it isn't, then how Jewish minority had survived Middle Ages and even adapted to the ascent of capitalist better than most, meanwhile literally every single European pagan was exterminated by Christians? How is it that Middle Eastern Jews (Mizrahim) are still alive and are a significant component of Zionism, meanwhile no Middle Eastern polytheist tradition (some of which were older than Judaism) had survived the Islamic conquests?

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/Iran Israel war/ General #21

Raising The Flag Edition

Links:
t.me/Medmannews
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator
https://xcancel.com/WarMonitors
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_

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/Iran Israel war/ General #22

Iranian-American genocide of Iraqi-Palestinians edition

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Sunk cost is the reason

Sunk cost is the reason reactionaries wish to preserve the capitalist mode of production, all of their infrastructure is made to run on this shit so they see abandoning their team as a bigger weight than dying, making violent revolution necessary since it cannot be reformed away since sunk cost fallacy entails they think they can just reform (change things up a bit), but its decomposing and they're dragging down everyone else with themselves so no.

Chapotraphouse talks about doomerism, but they forget the sunk cost the reactionaries have put that makes them think its beyond the point of no return and its easier to spend all the time justifying and defending than trying to change or thinking that it must be changed.

This is why they can't just "stop bad policies", they're too far gone in them, too invested to even be thought to change away.

R: 4 / I: 1

News 6/18/25

Colombia’s senate approves reinforced labor reform
Colombia’s Senate on Tuesday approved a labor reform bill that included many of the elements of a controversial referendum called by President Gustavo Petro. Coalition lawmakers celebrated the vote that restored much of the bill as it had been approved by the House of Representatives.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-senate-approves-reinforced-labor-reform/

Argentines reel from health care cutbacks as President Milei’s state overhaul mirrors Trump’s
“We’re seeing setbacks we haven’t seen in decades,” said María Fernanda Boriotti, president of Argentina’s Federation of Health Professionals. “HIV patients without treatment, cancer patients dying for lack of medication, hospitals without resources, health professionals pushed out of the system.” The government curtailed medical coverage for retirees and lifted price controls on prescription medication and private health plans, causing prices to spike by 250% and 118% respectively, official data shows. “We’ve stopped buying milk, yogurt, anything that’s not absolutely essential,” said Susana Pecora, 71, who lost the insurance plan that covered her husband’s antipsychotic drugs when the price jumped 40% last year.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-trump-rfk-health-care-cancer-8f5c4101140e1859c11ef4baed214054

Bolivia Rejects UN Hunger Risk Claims
The report in question — Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP Early Warnings on Acute Food Insecurity (June to October 2025 Outlook) — identifies 13 countries experiencing the most severe food insecurity, including Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali. Bolivia is not among them. However, the report notes Bolivia requires monitoring due to persistent inflation and declining foreign reserves, which could increase food insecurity risks between June and October.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-rejects-un-hunger-risk-claims/

Brazil auctions off several Amazon oil sites despite environmentalists and Indigenous protests
The event came months before Brazil is to host the U.N.’s first climate talks held in the Amazon. The protesters outside Tuesday’s venue warned of potential risks that oil drilling poses to sensitive ecosystems and Indigenous communities in the Amazon. A luxury Rio de Janeiro hotel hosted the auction conducted by the National Oil Agency. Most of the 172 oil blocks for sale are located in areas with no current production, such as 47 offshore locations close to the mouth of the Amazon River and two sites inland in the Amazon near Indigenous territories.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-oil-lula-510140c412d8efbaab105e1b60ea27ac

Israel army stations soldiers in Palestinian homes to avoid Iranian strikes, residents say
This surprise move coincided with the launch of Israel’s attacks on Iran last Friday. Analysts and residents have said that the army is stationing soldiers inside Palestinian homes and neighbourhoods to shield them from being targeted by Iranian missiles aimed at military camps. In the towns of Rummana, Anin and Jalboun near Jenin, 17 homes were seized, while several other homes were taken in the southern area of Hebron and the town of Idhna to the west. Israeli soldiers also converted a three-storey building into a headquarters in the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah. Speaking to Middle East Eye from Hebron, Abdel-Jabbar Shabaneh told Middle East Eye that the Israeli army on Friday stormed the residential building where he, his brothers and several other relatives live in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-army-stations-soldiers-palestinian-homes-avoid-iranian-strikes

Iran war gives Netanyahu political breathing room in Israel
Writing in Israeli media the day after Israel’s strikes on Iran began, former Prime Minister and self-styled centrist Yair Lapid, who less than a month earlier had been calling upon the prime minister to seek a truce in Gaza, wrote of his full support for the attacks on Iran while urging the United States to participate in the war. He was then pictured shaking Netanyahu’s hand with a map of Iran on a wall behind the two men.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/18/iran-war-gives-netanyahu-political-breathing-room-in-israel
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US forces accelerate withdrawal from northern Syria
SDF commander Mazloum Abdi warned that the reduced US presence is “not enough” to contain Isis, which he said had become more active, seizing weapons and regrouping. He confirmed Isis had killed at least 10 SDF members in recent attacks near former US bases, including Deir Ezzor and Raqqa which were once strongholds for the jihadist group.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/us-forces-accelerate-withdrawal-northern-syria

Ongoing violations | Israeli forces start large-scale earth-moving operations in northern Al-Quneitra
Al-Quneitra province: Israeli forces brought in military vehicles, heavy diggers and earth-moving machineries to Haraj Al-Shahar area in Jabata Al-Khashab area in the northern countryside of Al-Quneitra, where they started bulldozing large swaths of land, including areas with heavy bushes and trees adjacent to the border with the occupied Syrian Golan.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/364408/

Hundreds protest at Forged Solutions in Sheffield against supply of F-35 components to slaughter Palestinians
Over 500 protestors participated in a demonstration outside the Forged Solutions factory gates in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England Tuesday. Participants came from across South Yorkshire including, Doncaster, Rotherham, Wakefield, Chesterfield and on coaches from Leeds. There were also coaches and attendance from Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Bradford.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/18/yyga-j18.html

Discarded clothes from UK brands dumped in protected Ghana wetlands
Clothes discarded by UK consumers and shipped to Ghana have been found in a huge rubbish dump in protected wetlands, an investigation has found. Reporters for Unearthed working with Greenpeace Africa found garments from Next in the dump and other sites, and items from George at Asda and Marks & Spencer washed up nearby.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/discarded-clothes-from-uk-brands-dumped-in-protected-ghana-wetlands

India’s left parties demand India end collaboration with Israel in national day of action
Apart from New Delhi, simultaneous protest marches and meetings were held in Kolkata, Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, and several other cities across India. These meetings and marches were also attended by members of trade unions, artist collectives, and academia. Speakers in the meetings across the country claimed that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is unprecedented in history. They claimed that all the western powers in Europe and the US are as much responsible for these criminal acts of deliberately massacring hundreds of thousands of innocent people as Israel.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/18/indias-left-parties-demand-india-end-collaboration-with-israel-in-national-day-of-action/

Indian police raid Indigenous settlement
HUNDREDS of Indian forest guards and police officers raided an indigenous settlement inside a tiger reserve today, following a historic mass return to their ancestral land. More than 250 forest officials and police stormed Karadikallu Atturu Kolli village in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, which the Jenu Kuruba people reclaimed on May 5. It is believed to be the first time that indigenous people in India have returned en masse to land inside a protected area after eviction. Security forces destroyed seven shelters where women, children and older people had been living.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indian-police-raid-indigenous-settlement

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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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can a trotskyite explain these letters?

https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/trotltrs.htm
Letter to Chkeidze, Vienna, April 1st, 1913
<In a word, at this moment, all that Leninism consists of is based on lies and falsifications, and bears in itself the seeds of its own decay. There is no doubt that, if the opposing party knows how to manage, gangrene will soon develop among Leninists, precisely because of the question of unity or division.
<Two policies may now be applied: to destroy ideologically and organically the fractional walls which still exist, and thus destroy the very foundations of Leninism, which is incompatible with the organisation of workers into a political party, but which can perfectly grow on the manure of splits; or, on the contrary, to conduct a fractional selection of anti- Leninists (Mensheviks or liquidators) by a complete liquidation of the divergences on tactics.
Letter to M. Olminski, 1921
<You ask me whether to publish my letters to Chkeidze. I think that it would not be appropriate. It is still too early to work as historians. These letters were written under the spur of the moment and, obviously, the tone suffers from this.
<… this retrospective review of factional struggle could, still now, give rise to controversy, because, I confess frankly, I do not think at all that, in my disagreements with the Bolsheviks, I was wrong on all points
<… this fundamental error is due to the fact that I was analysing the two fractions, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, by placing myself from the perspective of the permanent revolution and of the dictatorship of the proletariat
<… I was hoping (as I have repeatedly expressed in letters and reports) that the course of the revolution, itself, would lead them to the programme of the permanent revolution
< I estimate that my appreciation of the driving forces of the revolution was undoubtedly correct, but that the consequences that I pulled from the two fractions were unquestionably false

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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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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

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Hello, i'm brazillian and a comp. sci student, what should i expect from this place?
I can't access Brazilian IB's because all of them are full of retards and reactionary ignorants. So I'm searching for a new place

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/Iran Israel war/ General #20

What you need to know
• Sixth day of conflict: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a warning at dawn on social media, telling Israel: “The battle begins.” Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump called the supreme leader an “easy target” and said that America’s “patience is wearing thin.” He also demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender.”

• US weighs options: Two US officials told CNN that Trump is warming to the idea of using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. A senior Israeli official told CNN that Israel is waiting to learn whether Trump will help finish the job of destroying Iran’s nuclear program.

• Deadly strikes: Israel said early Wednesday it was carrying out a series of strikes on Tehran. Israelis were also warned about incoming Iranian missiles, and explosions were heard in Tel Aviv.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-conflict-06-18-25-intl-hnk

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/Iran Israel War/ General #19

>BREAKING TRUMP TRUTH UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! edition.

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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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https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalography (EEG) to assess cognitive load during essay writing, and analyzed essays using NLP, as well as scoring essays with the help from human teachers and an AI judge. Across groups, NERs, n-gram patterns, and topic ontology showed within-group homogeneity. EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use. In session 4, LLM-to-Brain participants showed reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.

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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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News 6/17/25

As conflict with Iran escalates, hundreds of Israelis quietly flee by yacht to Europe
Facebook groups dedicated to sea departures have ballooned, with hundreds reportedly seeking a way out. With demand soaring, some yacht owners are offering spots for fees ranging between 2,500 and 6,000 shekels. Most vessels take no more than ten passengers per trip. The movement has spread beyond Herzliya. In Haifa and Ashkelon, small yacht owners have also begun running crossings. Israel's Population and Immigration Authority says it was unable to fully assess the scale of the exodus, but anecdotal evidence points to a growing phenomenon. While some travellers claim to be foreign nationals returning home, many are in fact Israeli citizens. A few openly admit they were fleeing the rising threat of Iranian missile strikes, though most refuse to speak on record.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israelis-quietly-flee-europe-yacht-escape-iran-missiles

Zionist Soldier Killed, 10 Wounded in Fierce Confrontations in Khan Younis
The Zionist military confirmed on Tuesday the killing of a soldier from the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion and the injury of 10 others, four of them seriously, during a military operation in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. According to Zionist Army Radio, the casualties occurred when Palestinian Resistance fighters planted an explosive device on a Namer armored personnel carrier transporting the unit. The explosion killed one soldier instantly and wounded the others, including a senior officer.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/19778/

Blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty | Israeli forces advance into new areas in Al-Quneitra and the number of devastated houses increases to 15
Moreover, Israeli forces devastated more five houses in Al-Hemaydiyah village under the pretext that “those houses were near an Israeli military base,” bringing the number of houses devastated by Israeli forces since morning to 15. Those practices have triggered a state of anger among residents who sent district calls to the Syrian government which has taken no action regarding the frequent violations by Israeli forces. A few hours ago, SOHR sources repotted that members of an Israeli military patrol devastated ten civilian houses in Al-Hemaydiyah village under the pretext that “those houses were near an Israeli military base,” as well as arresting two civilians.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/364345/

Egypt's secret police abduct and ‘brutally beat’ three Global March to Gaza's organisers
The group, Global March to Gaza, had hoped to bring thousands of people from across the world to march peacefully from the Egyptian capital of Cairo to Rafah, just across the country’s border with Palestine, last weekend, but were met with state repression. Hundreds of people hoping to break Israel’s illegal blockade of humanitarian aid into Gaza were detained, deported and arrested upon arrival into Cairo last week, forcing Global March to Gaza’s organisers to abandon the march.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/egypts-secret-police-abduct-and-brutally-beat-three-global-march-gazas-organisers

Ghana nurses suspend nationwide strike after parliamentary intervention
Following discussions with the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health on June 12, 2025, the GRNMA leadership announced the suspension of the industrial action pending further engagements. The union directed all nurses and midwives to resume their normal shift duties starting Saturday, June 14, while awaiting the outcome of a scheduled follow-up meeting on June 26. “We will not rest on our oars until the Collective Agreement is fully implemented,” GRNMA stated.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/ghana-nurses-suspend-nationwide-strike-after-parliamentary-intervention/

‘RSF seizes new strategic area near Sudan–Libya–Egypt border’
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly taken control of the strategic Karab El Tum area, near the border triangle between Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. Analysts state that this development could have significant implications for the ongoing conflict. These reports come days after announcing the RSF had captured El Uweinat, another key frontier location.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rsf-seizes-new-strategic-area-near-sudan-libya-egypt-border

26,000 Cádiz metalworkers set to strike in Spain
On June 18 and 19, over 26,000 metalworkers in the province of Cádiz are on strike. The walkout, called by Workers Commissions (CCOO) and the General Union of Workers (UGT), is the latest expression of the explosive anger building up in Spain’s industrial working class. It is part of a broader strike wave as workers fight to claw back wages gutted through years of below inflation pay, soaring housing costs, and rising food prices.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/17/tsgn-j17.html

Portuguese police arrest six linked to armed far-right group
The detainees are believed to belong to the so-called Lusitanian Armillary Movement (MAL), which sought to establish itself as a political movement supported by an armed militia, according to a police statement. They are suspected of crimes related to terrorist groups and activities, discrimination and incitement to hatred and violence and possession of prohibited weapons, police said. Authorities seized several explosives, firearms — some built with 3D printers — and rounds of ammunition and knives in the operation, police said in a statement.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/portuguese-police-arrest-six-linked-armed-far-right-group

North Korea to send military construction workers, deminers to rebuild Russia’s Kursk region
North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and deminers to support reconstruction work in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian media reported, another sign of an expanding military partnership between the two nations. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti cited top Russian security official Sergei Shoigu as saying that North Korea will dispatch 1,000 deminers as well as 5,000 military construction workers to the Kursk region.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3314818/north-korea-send-military-construction-workers-deminers-rebuild-russias-kursk-region

Moderate wage hike won’t affect employment, prices — study
While a 31% increase in Metro Manila’s minimum wage may seem bold by today’s standards, it’s far from unprecedented. The study cites the last legislated wage hike in 1989, which was even higher at 40 percent, and notes that the economy absorbed it without causing a crisis. This emphasizes the study’s broader point: a fair wage hike helps restore workers’ rightful share in national growth. “Workers have not shared in the fruits of their labor,” the study points out, with real wages remaining largely stagnant despite steady productivity growth since 2001. It adds that any inflationary effects of higher wage growth could be offset by rising productivity.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/06/15/moderate-wage-hike-wont-affect-employment-prices-study/

Govt employees at Secretariat to keep protesting until ordinance withdrawn
The draft of the controversial ordinance was approved at a meeting of the Advisory Council on May 22. It includes provisions allowing dismissal of government employees for four types of disciplinary offences without a formal departmental inquiry, requiring only a show-cause notice. The ordinance was promulgated on May 25, sparking widespread backlash among public servants. Government employees have condemned the ordinance as regressive and a ‘black law’. Since May 24, they have been staging protest marches, work abstentions, and sit-ins within the Secretariat. Memorandums have also been submitted to several advisers demanding its repeal.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/267506/govt-employees-at-secretariat-to-keep-protesting-until-ordinance-withdrawn

Sri Lankan police file criminal charges against Alton Estate workers
Sri Lankan police have filed a series of criminal charges against 26 workers from the Alton Estate near Maskeliya in the central plantation district. After dragging out this case for over four years, a charge sheet was issued against the victimised workers on May 28 at the Hatton Magistrate Court. Their case will be heard on September 10. Seven charges have been laid against the accused. These include, being members of an unlawful assembly with the purpose of attacking estate manager Sathyamoorthy Subash Narayanan and assistant manager Anushan Thiruchelvam; hitting them with hands, feet, and clubs and causing serious injuries; and attacking the estate manager’s residence, causing damage estimated at 27,684 rupees ($US92).
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/17/cmmp-j17.html

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Joint Statement of Labor and Social Organizations in Opposition to the War and the Current Dangerous

The military conflict between the two fascist governments of Israel and the Islamic Republic continues. The war, which has so far left more than a thousand dead and injured on both sides; has displaced millions of people and created critical conditions for all people, especially for the most vulnerable segments of society, children and the elderly. In short, society has been pushed to the brink of a more dangerous precipice than ever.

“We have shouted and said over and over again:
“We do not want war or killing, we want lasting prosperity,” but the government, by continuing its warmongering and greedy for obtaining weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, has created and imposed these “hellish” conditions on society in order to continue the policy of “throwing Israel into the sea” and fighting the “great devil of America.”

Society is extremely inflamed and in danger. The current situation has gone beyond poverty and insecurity and has become a full-blown crisis.

The war that began on the first day with the slogan of destroying the IRGC leaders and the Khatam headquarters and other leaders has today entered a more dangerous stage in a military conflict. To the extent that the criminal government of Israel is brazenly threatening to burn Tehran.
The killing and attacks on civilians by both sides are condemned.
The people do not want war and we believe that in order to stop this war, the grounds and infrastructure that caused it must be destroyed. Therefore, we, the signatories of this statement, declare:

We, the people, do not want weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons, we consider any nuclear activity of the Islamic Republic to be dangerous and detrimental to the people.
All of this has been achieved by plundering our lives and livelihoods, and its consequences have been the spread of poverty and insecurity in society and the region. Our demand is to stop all these projects and end the war.
We, the people, do not want poverty, we do not want insecurity, we do not want so much discrimination, oppression, and exploitation. Our response to these miserable and horrific situations and our solution to save human lives is the victorious continuation of our revolution. We, the people, will not allow them to suppress our demands and block our path of progress under the pretext of war, and to intensify arrests and repression under the shadow of war, and to expand the scope of killing and execution with accusations such as "Israeli spy."

We, the workers, retirees, teachers, truck drivers, nurses, bakers, wage earners, farmers and various sections of the people, have fought for welfare, livelihood and freedom, and in the continuation of our protests and in the dangerous conditions we find ourselves in, we have pursued our demands and stand united against war and warmongers.
Our solution in these circumstances and in response to these warmongers is strikes and general and nationwide rallies against all kinds of oppression, discrimination, censorship and repression.
No more war, exploitation and misery. This is our final warning.

It is time for us to work together and stand united with the movement to defend life and livelihood, defend freedom of expression, association, strike, assembly, protest and the release of all political prisoners, against warmongers, reactionaries and terrorists.
Let us organize and become one voice to advance our struggles and realize our human demands.

We will stand by until this catastrophic situation is reversed!

No to war, no to warmongering governments
Woman, life, freedom

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2_ Don't Execute
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7- Contract Oil Workers' Protest Organizing Council
8- Informal Oil Workers' Protest Organizing Council (Third Party)
9_ Defenders of Children's Rights
10_ Iranian Women's Voice

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I’m horribly in the dark on this, correct me if I’m wrong

Why exactly do religions like Buddhism, Shintoism, and other eastern ideologies like bushido and Daoism encourage meditation and self mastery far more than religions like those belonging to abrahamism and western liberalism that preach mindless obedience, praying for miracles, and submission to authority? I swear, I cannot have been the only one to notice just how staggeringly more optimistic eastern religions and ideologies are in human intelligence than whatever garbage is coming out of Abrahamic and western thought.

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/Iran Israel War/ General #18

Enter The Burger Edition

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/Iran Israel War/ General #17

Déjà Vu Edition

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closing thoughts

I'm planning to cut down my activity on this site significantly, so I figured I'd share some closing thoughts before I go.

It's funny (read infuriating) seeing people playing the ideological purity game with Marxism of all things. Marx and Engels weren't religious leaders, they were intellectuals and political activists who wrote books. And all of the successful socialist movements thus-far have diverged from their thought in pretty significant ways. If we are to look at socialism as a science, then we should aim to test and revise our theories as we gain new information, not go "erm, okay, but what does Capital say about this". I can't count the number of times people have quote-mined Marx and Engels at me as if it were an argument, even though the quotes being mined were disproved by Mao nearly a century ago.

The power of free speech and free press is that it allows room for people to question things and come up with new theories that exist outside of mainstream thought. As such, they should be allowed to exist. However, this does not mean free speech and free press in the liberal sense, if only because neither of them makes any sense under socialism. No, under socialism, mainstream media and the internet will be heavily censored indeed, since there's no point to giving air time to disinformation, or even just stuff the public doesn't want to see. But when speaking face to face, or handing a paper you printed to a friend, one should be given a great degree of freedom.

Marxists will make fun of you for bringing up morality, but I still think it's good to have some kind of ethics guiding your action; not because it's metaphysically necessary, but because it's practical. Something like Utilitarianism, for example, gives you a yardstick by which to judge your actions, saving a ton of time that would otherwise be spent mulling over stupid questions like "will backwards baseball caps be allowed under socialism?".

Speaking of philosophical shit, I used to be a Nietzschean, but over time I've come to strongly disagree with him on the important stuff. I do, however, think that there is something to be said for ressentiment, even if his conception of it makes no sense. Vengefulness is a wasteful, childish behavior that attributes a legitimacy and humanity to the enemy that it doesn't deserve. I don't want evil people to suffer, I want them instantly dead, wiped off the face of the planet as fast as humanly possible.

People here seem to be in general agreement that one's interests, and thus actions, are influenced by class position, but will balk at the suggestion that the same logic extends to political class. This is why, broad-strokes, I'm an advocate for participatory democracy. To be clear, I'm aware that republicanism has its upsides, but I don't see why those upsides can't be combined with a participatory system. Have the legislature composed of randomly selected citizens, and the executive comprised of elected politicians; there, problem solved.

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why don’t we try and flood tiktok with theory and more. Early Anarchist movements were successful because they had popular newspapers so why doesn’t every anarchist/socialist attempt this. And while yes I know normie bourgeoisiecuck social media sucks tiktok is at least less bourgeoisie then x or some shit

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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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News 6/16/25

Israeli army says air defences failing to intercept up to 10% of Iranian ballistic missiles
The army claims it has successfully managed to shoot down between 80 and 90 percent of the Iranian missiles, The Jerusalem Post reported. But according to the report, the army says it is "constantly adjusting strategies" and trying to understand how Iran carries out its attacks, as Iran itself adjusts to try and "outplay" Israel’s defences.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-air-defences-failing-down-5-10-iran-missiles-army

Palestinians in Jaffa denied access to bomb shelter by Israeli neighbours
Residents of Yehuda Hayamit Street told Middle East Eye they had been told the entry code giving them access to the shelter had been changed after about a dozen or so of them had taken refuge there in recent days as sirens sounded, following Iranian missile attacks targeting nearby Tel Aviv. They say the episode highlights the discrimination and the dangers they face as Palestinian citizens of Israel even in one of the country’s mixed cities, where about a third of the population remains Palestinian.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-jaffa-denied-access-bomb-shelter-israeli-neighbours

Fierce clashes in North Darfur as ‘Sudan army repels RSF attack’
Reports indicate that heavy fighting erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the northern and northeastern parts of North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher, on Sunday. The city, under siege for over a year, remains gripped by artillery shelling and drone strikes.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/fierce-clashes-in-north-darfur-as-sudan-army-repels-rsf-attack

Local authority workers stage parliamentary protest over fair funding
The Unite rally, joined by Birmingham bin strikers, was organised as part of the union’s new Fair Funding Now for Local Government campaign. The campaign comes as councils are in crisis after years of severe cuts to public services and jobs. Local authorities were £122 billion in debt as of 2024, with government lenders charging excessive levels of interest to cash-strapped authorities.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/local-authority-workers-stage-parliamentary-protest-over-fair-funding

Overwhelmed Louvre workers strike to protest overtourism, shutting down world's most-visited museum
The spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel refused to take up their posts in protest over unmanageable crowds, chronic understaffing and what one union called “untenable” working conditions. It’s rare for the Louvre to close its doors. It has happened during war, during the pandemic, and in a handful of strikes – including spontaneous walkouts over overcrowding in 2019 and safety fears in 2013. But seldom has it happened so suddenly, without warning, and in full view of the crowds.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250616-overwhelmed-louvre-workers-strike-to-protest-overtourism-shutting-down-world-s-most-visited-museum
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Panamanian Security Minister Announces Arrest of Banana Union Leader
On Sunday, Panamanian Security Minister Frank Abrego confirmed that Francisco Smith, leader of the Agricultural Banana Industry Workers and Related Companies Union (SITRAIBANA), was arrested and charged with the crime of “apologia” (advocacy of criminal acts). … Smith’s arrest came after an agreement was signed with the parliamentary leadership to lift all blockades in Bocas del Toro. However, the deal was not honored because Panamanian teachers rejected it.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panamanian-security-minister-announces-arrest-of-banana-union-leader/

Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot dead mayor
Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli García Ramírez. Two municipal police officers were also injured in the attack. While officials are still investigating the possible motive for the killing, local officials are often targeted by criminal gangs for failing to do their bidding.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mgmdj1mgyo

Bolivia's Justice Minister resigns amid crisis
In a letter to President Luis Arce Catacora, the departing official expressed his intent to step down to defend his reputation and avoid destabilizing the government amid Bolivia's economic crisis and political tensions. Siles also emphasized his loyalty and unblemished career since entering public service in 2001, including roles as Vice Minister, Attorney General, and Justice Minister since September 2024. His resignation aims to ensure an orderly transition amid road blockades and demands from supporters of former President Evo Morales for his candidacy in the upcoming Aug. 17 elections despite being banned by the Constitution from holding any additional term.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/06/16/bolivia-s-justice-minister-resigns-amid-crisis

Families of ‘drug war’ victims denounce Duterte’s bid for temporary release
A mix of rage, fear and many questions. This was how families of the victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called war on drugs reacted upon hearing the news of the latter’s appeal of interim release to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber. The Rise Up for Life and for Rights said that the families of the victims are anxious of the news as it now becomes possible for Duterte, the main suspect in the killing of their loved ones, to be temporarily released from the ICC detention center in The Hague, The Netherlands.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/06/13/families-of-drug-war-victims-denounce-dutertes-bid-for-temporary-release/

Suspected far-left activists arrested for allegedly assaulting riot police
The alleged incident occurred Saturday afternoon near the Toranomon area in Tokyo’s Minato Ward, where a protest march against constitutional revision and other causes was organized. The two suspects are accused of punching two riot officers in the face as police attempted to manage the demonstration. Roughly 600 people joined the march, which called for the abolition of the U.S.-Japan security alliance, police said. Authorities believe the organizing committee for the protest was effectively led by Chukaku-ha.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/16/japan/crime-legal/japan-leftists-arrests/

Chinese router maker TP-Link cuts staff at Shanghai chip unit, retains Shenzhen facility
Lianzhou International, known globally as TP-Link Systems and the overseas arm of the router maker, cut the majority of workers at its Shanghai-based chip unit last week, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, who declined to be named because they are not authorised to speak to news media.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3314634/chinese-router-maker-tp-link-cuts-staff-shanghai-chip-unit-retains-shenzhen-facility

New Sri Lanka mass grave discovery reopens old wounds for Tamils
Many Tamils were forcibly disappeared by the state, with a 2017 report by Amnesty International estimating that between 60,000 and 100,000 people have disappeared in Sri Lanka since the late 1980s. In the final stages of the war, which ended in 2009, the Tamil community alleges that nearly 170,000 people were killed, while United Nations estimates put the figure at 40,000.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/16/new-sri-lanka-mass-grave-discovery-reopens-old-wounds-for-tamils
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/Iran Israel war/ General #11

What's happening now
• Fresh blasts: Iran launched a new barrage at Israel on Sunday evening, with an explosion seen in the coastal city of Haifa. Israel said it began another series of strikes on military targets across Iran amid international pleas for diplomacy and de-escalation.

• Trump rejects assassination plan: Two US officials told CNN the US president rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spokesperson have denied the reports of such a plan.

• Terrified civilians and rising death tolls: The hostilities have killed at least 224 people in Iran and 14 in Israel, according to local authorities in each country. As Tehran residents flee the capital, Iran’s Ministry of Health said at least 1,277 people had been hospitalized since Israel launched the wave of attacks on Friday.

• ‘Weeks’ to go: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. US President Trump said his country “had nothing to do with” the Israeli attacks but later acknowledged that US involvement in the conflict is a possibility.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25

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I'm sorry. Only myself to blame and I will change. You know what I'm talking bout but it's just the truth and the way it feels , but I dont know that I am not sure what I am I mean but I'm just trying not my best

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we can all agree that trump is a fascist right?
>”America First” and says “Americanism not globalism”
>deporting minorities
>deporting political opponents
>supporting a fascist state in the Middle East
>sending the national guard to beat protesters
>has a cult of personality
>attempts to be expansionist
>obsessed with the military lately
Capitalism is clearly in decay so it makes the most sense to me

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/Iran Israel War/ General #13

12 is gone because bakers keep posting happy merchants or some shit and mods apparently delete all posts when banning or some shit idk ask them

Anyways what's happening right now? Burgers are sending their aircraft carriers from the South China Sea to the Middle East

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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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TOR node

The current setup with the TOR node in-site creates an absurd fucking system that punishes rule-abiding posters twice over while offering literally zero reason for the most atrociously malignant posters to follow the rules.

People flagrantly break the rules and then ban-evade without even trying to hide what they're doing, going so far as to continue posting with the exact same static name, and their original IP ban doesn't even get a single minute of increased ban length from all I've seen so far.

So everyone else not only has to follow the rules, but they also get to watch as the people who break them on a repeat basis simply mock them for reporting them. The number of people who use it in good faith could be counted on one hand. Not reporting is bourgeois is put on the very top of the screen on every fucking thread but
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF REPORTING PEOPLE IF THEY CAN JUST CASUALLY EVADE ANY PUNISHMENT WHATSOEVER?

Supposedly there's supposed to be a feature that helps prevent abuse of TOR in the future, but as it is it's a BROKEN FUCKING FEATURE that has only annoyed everyone who doesn't use it. FINISH your fucking project before you IMPLEMENT IT!

https://take.supersurvey.com/poll5514023xad9144c1-163

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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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Police vs Army

The real violent arm of the State to control its population is the police. Several reasons for this:

•Perceived as legitimate
•Mostly uses non-lethal force
•Letal force is limited
•Ready to act immediately

But most importantly: the National Guard would not dare use military equipment against civilians. And compared to the police, soldiers believe they exist to protect the country from foreign enemies rather than internal ones.

The National Guard is a paper tiger. The real enemy is the police, and it can be beaten.

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/Iran Israel War/ General #15

Neocon Don Edition

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"Lenin's Testament"

Thoughts on "Lenin's Testament"? Most information I can find on it is contradictory. The WiKKKipedia page is unhelpful as expected and I can't find much other discussion about it.

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If you think bullshit like Unequal Exchange, Dependency Theory, and World Systems Theory are Marxist, then you clearly haven't actually read Marx. It's just early Frankfurt School self-jizzing paired with other sociologies and a bit of Ricardian economics and Hilferding sprinkled into it for good measure. Hell, some people even make shit up about Lenin having something to do with it, like sure, Lenin's elaborations on the state, imperialism, etc. are half-assed, some borderline midwit but it was never THIS retarded.

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/Iran Israel War/ General #14

Color revolution edition

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I’m amazed by how apathetic everyone is like me

I’ll admit, I genuinely didn’t give a shit when I heard that India and Pakistan were bombing each other, I didn’t give a shit about any of the trump related drama, and I didn’t give a shit about the Iran Israeli garbage either. What amazes me is how apathetic everyone else was despite being aware of all these problems.
Just look online and you’ll find hundreds of videos of people just standing idly by while missiles are being set off and everyone is just totally zen. You can tell these days that marginalization, privatization, police violence, and systemic abuse globally have left the most leaders’ attitudes on politics to be completely out of sync with normal people. Even the bourgeoisie is currently in a reputation crisis among tje people it exploits with the whole musk drama shitshow fucking over whatever patience tje average person had for the rich left. People just really don’t care about the rich or politics as much as they used to.

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Stupidity of New Right Trads

Guy sounds like E Michael Jones in the last part.
>I've been studying Vichyite France and boy… the myth that it was some kind of Right-wing utopia is a joke.
>It was based off the personalism of Modernist theologian Schleiermacher through Maritain (intimate of Pope Paul VI and Saul Alinsky), the personalist communitarian philosophy of Mournier (who was espoused by Distributist anarchists) and Swiss Europe of Regions Fascist De Rougemont who loves the Ayatollah.
>At the very top of these movements is the Swiss Fascism model of Pan-Europeanism of Count Kalergi and Otto Hapsburg (who helped found the Austrian School and Mont Pelerin.) The present movement's leader is a Catholic noble who claims it was funded by Freemasons and the CIA.
>This directly interfaces with Europe's fascism HQ CINEF, and is in line with the FSB-controlled circles around Europe of Regions advocates Alain de Benoist, Steve Bannon, Alexandre Dugin and Constatin Malofeev. And leftist counterparts like Paulwels who is a Fabian, was chair of the Congress of Cultural Freedom and is part of Benoist's movement.
>Realize that the fascist proposition is not about ideology but about geopolitics and every stupid religious fundamenatlist is being recruited into anti-capitalist, anti-nationalist, pro-regionalism, third-positionism to further this agenda for the Swiss, British, the Italian nominally Catholic nobility around the House of Savoy and the Paymat group around Dugin and his oligarch friends.
>Catholics and Orthodox too dumb to realize these are same people fueling the immigration crisis and same Hofjuden who work through the Catholic nobility's World-Anti-Communist-League under leadership of circles around the Jerusalem Foundation and Jabotinsky-related networks (Kissinger, Conrad Black, Erik Prince, Evelyn de Rothschild, the Bloch family of H&R Block, etc.)
>What was so bad about Republicanism, the Renaissance and Capitalism? All systems that upheld Reason against radical action?

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Accelerationist Praxis

It seems to me that we must accelerate the proletarianization of the petty-bourgeoisie in the imperial core. I would identify the social reproduction of capitalism with productive capital, the P-C'-M'-C-P phase of commodity production. It seems to me in analyzing productive capital that the proletariat must intensify consumption. If you are an accelerationist (and accelerationism is sensible in the context of the imperial core) then consumerism is a valuable tactic in the toolbox of the proletariat. We must drive the petty-bourgeosie into debt and evict them. The petty-bourgeoisie will be remolded in the school of the streets, and forged into loyal soldiers of the revolution. Not sure how much sense this makes. I suppose earning money to pay for the prole-ing of the petty-bourgeoisie is still technically centered on workers but it feels wrong. Is there an actual viable form of worker-centered accelerationism?

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The Kurds are a CIA asset

<disband the movement after Syria fell to zionists
<are supported by USA and Israel
<are calling for Iran to be bombed
<their ideology is a mishmash of liberalism and anarchism
<Kurdish intellectuals are financed by German intelligence agancies and are sent out to sow confusion among the movement
<practice a cult of personality and can't admit that Ocalan is demented
anyone spreading this wicked ideology is no comrade of mine.

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/Iran Israel war/ general #10

What's happening now
• Fresh blasts: Iran launched a new barrage at Israel on Sunday evening, with an explosion seen in the coastal city of Haifa. Israel said it began another series of strikes on military targets across Iran amid international pleas for diplomacy and de-escalation.

• Trump rejects assassination plan: Two US officials told CNN the US president rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spokesperson have denied the reports of such a plan.

• Terrified civilians and rising death tolls: The hostilities have killed at least 224 people in Iran and 14 in Israel, according to local authorities in each country. As Tehran residents flee the capital, Iran’s Ministry of Health said at least 1,481 people had been injured since Israel launched the wave of attacks on Friday.

• ‘Weeks’ to go: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. US President Trump said his country “had nothing to do with” the Israeli attacks but later acknowledged that US involvement in the conflict is a possibility.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25

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/Iran Israel war/ general #9

What's happening now
• Fresh blasts: Israel detected more missiles launched from Iran on Sunday evening, with an explosion seen in the coastal city of Haifa, after residential areas of Tehran were hit with multiple strikes. Earlier on Sunday, for the first time, Iran launched a daytime barrage against Israel, but there have been no reports of significant damage.

• Trump rejects assassination plan: A US official told CNN the US president rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spokesperson have denied the reports of such a plan, calling them “false” and “fake.”

• Israeli toll mounts: At least 14 are confirmed dead in Israel in the hostilities. Visiting the scene of a strike that killed 4 people, Israel’s PM Netanyahu said “think what would happen if Iran had atomic weapons.” A stated goal of the Israeli operation is to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.

• Iranians flee: Some Tehran residents have been escaping north to safer rural areas while others have been stockpiling essentials. The metro system is open around the clock so people can shelter. Scores are reported killed but no official figure has been given.

• No end in sight: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. US President Trump said his country “had nothing to do with” the Israeli attacks but later acknowledged that US involvement in the conflict is a possibility.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25

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/Iran Israel war/ general #8

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Israel attacked Iran in an aggressive act of war. The US government supported the strikes, providing intelligence and planning with Netanyahu. Donald Trump cynically used nuclear negotiations with Tehran as cover, as he oversaw the joint US-Israeli operation.

fizzle or sizzle the floor is yours gentlepersons

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Fascism lost, it does not exist. Stop calling non-fascist things fascist.

Fascism as an ideology was crushed in WW2 by the Soviet Union and the last remnants of it were subsumed into the Liberal order as Paperclipped Anti-Communists who simply became your typical shitlib neocon hawks in State Departments and NGOs who purely act not on any Fascist ideology, but on Nationalist/intergenerational seethe.
"Fascism is just capitalism in decay" copium response for the need to justify the left calling everything Fascist, no, it wasn't, Fascism was an actual ideology, with actual worldviews, actual philosophy shared by ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler that revolved around Social and state organism, rejection of slave morality and return to a "hero" ideal, Blood and soil and Futurism. If the state and ideology does not have these values, it is not Fascist.
>But Franco, But Pinochet.
Not Fascists. Just reactionary right wing capitalists. Franco was a turbo Christcuck, which goes explicity against the core Fascist philosophy and worldview around rejecting slave morality like Christianity.
>But Zionism
Zionism developed before Fascism and along side it, but is it's own retarded 19th century cousin that was born out of 19th century blood and soil Nationalist mindsets.
>But Neo Nazis
Retarded Larpers who don't actually adhere to any Fascist ideals, just have a surface level understanding of Fascists being "racist", rather than Fascist "Racism" actually was a rational and logical position dictated by Social Organism, as "foreign elements" were seen as a sickness to the host organism. If Neo Nazis were actually Fascist, they would also be massive health food and other health/eco nuts, but they are not, because they don't even know about Social Organism at all.
>But Taco Drumpf
Not Fascist, just a retard.
The reality is, that Fascist elements were all just subsumed into the Liberal Capitalist structure, psychotic right wing elements today are not Fascist at all. They are the result of contradictions and class struggle that are unqiue to modern materialist situation.
If we go by literally, what most Leftists call "Fascism" then, literally every state before the rise of Liberal Social Democracy was "Fascist" going back to near the start of history.

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/Iran Israel war/ general #7

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Israel's war on Iran was made in USA: Trump supported attacks, while faking peace talks

Israel attacked Iran in an aggressive act of war. The US government supported the strikes, providing intelligence and planning with Netanyahu. Donald Trump cynically used nuclear negotiations with Tehran as cover, as he oversaw the joint US-Israeli operation.

Topics
>0:00 USA supported Israeli attacks
<1:38 Trump's fake "peace talks" with Iran
>3:13 USA provided Israel intelligence
<3:49 Trump gave Israel green light
>5:07 US military helped Israel
<6:01 Marco Rubio's lies
>6:40 Israel: unsinkable US aircraft carrier
<7:15 Netanyahu is an American
>8:07 USA arms Israel
<8:45 USA protects Israel at UN
>9:37 ICC charges Netanyahu
<10:34 Trump threatens Iran
>12:41 Trump's 60 day deadline
<13:37 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA)
>15:24 Lessons from Libya
<17:24 Israel's nuclear weapons
>18:37 Nuclear weapon free zone
<19:20 Alliance with apartheid South Africa
>20:26 Germany condemns Iran
<21:37 Western neo-colonialism
>22:20 France's Macron criticizes Iran
<23:07 Iranian civilian victims
>24:11 Human shields
<27:29 US & Israel: imperial bullies
>28:44 Iran hits back
<29:13 US military aid to Israel
>29:55 Outro

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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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do you guys think that the trucker convoy in Canada was a communist revolution or do you think it was just a petite bourgeoisie the media presented it like it was a far right protest but I’m not sure it was. What do you think?

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>arguing about extremely minor theory differences
>making mega threads that are hard to understand because of how much garbage is in them
>complaining about leftists doing actual action while you sit at home and do nothing
>wants unity but if someone posts a soyjak or something slightly different you complain
>possibly moving or deleting this thread because it’s “meta”
Geg get your work together guys

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bunnies should be protected at all cost and are a foundation of a international communist Revolution.
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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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News 6/14/25

Israel kills at least 58 people in Gaza, many at US-backed aid site: Medics
Medics at al-Awda and Al-Aqsa hospitals in central Gaza, where most of the casualties were moved to, said at least 15 people were killed on Saturday as they tried to approach the GHF aid distribution site near the so-called Netzarim Corridor. The rest were killed in separate attacks across the besieged and bombarded enclave, they added. Since the GHF started operations last month, at least 274 people have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded near aid distribution sites, according to a statement by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/14/israel-kills-at-least-58-people-in-gaza-many-at-us-backed-aid-site-medics
https://archive.ph/TgKK0

Israel and US modified F-35s to enable Iran attack without refuelling, sources say
The modification is secret, but two US officials speaking to MEE on condition of anonymity confirmed that Israel did not use mid-air refuelling during its Friday attack on Iran or land their warplanes for refuelling at any nearby countries. Instead, the US officials told MEE that Israel and the US modified the F-35's system to carry additional fuel that did not impact the F-35’s stealth features. The Israeli designation for their version of the F-35s is called the F-35I Adir.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-and-us-modified-f-35-jets-enable-iran-attack-without-refuelling-sources-say

Israeli forces impose West Bank restrictions for second day amid intensifying raids
According to Palestinian media, checkpoints and roadblocks remain in place, severely restricting Palestinian movement since their implementation on Friday, following Israel’s attacks on Iran. The Palestinian news agency Wafa said that Israeli forces have intensified their presence in West Bank cities such as Ramallah and Al-Bireh, setting up military checkpoints at all major entry and exit points.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-impose-west-bank-restrictions-second-day

Ongoing violations | Israeli forces advance into western Daraa, inspecting house of security member and combing former military post
Last night, SOHR sources reported that Israeli forces infiltrate Barika Village in the central Al-Quneitra countryside, as the patrol comprises five 4×4 vehicles. A few hours earlier, Israeli forces set fire to lands in Kodna Town in Al-Quneitra countryside for the second time, near Al-Tel Al-Ahmar Al-Ashraqy, here residents of the town and the General Security managed to control the fire and limit its expansion. On the other hand, Israeli forces infiltrated the outskirts of the town and opened extensive fire in the area, causing fear and panic among the civilians.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/364044/

'Baltagiya thugs' and police block Gaza aid convoy in Egypt as activists detained
Footage circulated online shows activists near the city of Ismailia being assaulted by men described by observers as "thugs", attempting to prevent them from advancing towards Rafah. The videos have been widely condemned by pro-Palestine groups and rights advocates. The "thugs" in question are believed to be baltagiya, gangs previously used by the Egyptian government to attack its political opponents, though this could not be verified.
https://www.newarab.com/news/baltagiya-thugs-and-police-block-gaza-aid-convoy-egypt

Shopper put on facial ID watchlist after dispute over 39p of paracetamol at Home Bargains
The 62-year-old woman, who has lost the confidence to go shopping on her own since the incident, according to her family, has made a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office on the grounds that the Data Protection Act requires there to be a “substantial public interest” for the processing of biometric data to be lawful. “She’s really struggling because even to go into Tesco she gets really stressed thinking: ‘Or am I allowed? Would they kick me out?’” her daughter said.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london

Coordinated protests against tourism levels planned in Spain, Portugal and Italy
Protests are planned in Barcelona and seven other Spanish cities, including Granada, Palma and Ibiza; Portugal's capital Lisbon; and the Italian cities of Venice, Genova, Palermo, Milan and Naples, according to announcements issued by several of the organising groups. Organisers, some of whom dismiss the counterargument that tourism brings jobs and prosperity, told Reuters that they wanted to build on scattered protests across Spain last year with the coordinated day of action.
https://www.reuters.com/world/coordinated-protests-against-tourism-levels-planned-spain-portugal-italy-2025-06-13/

Nigerian leader’s pardon of executed Ogoni activists draws criticisms
The men were convicted of murdering four local chiefs and were hanged in 1995 by the then-military regime led by Gen. Sani Abacha. They were part of the Ogoni ethnic group in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, and had protested environmental pollution in the region by multinational oil companies, particularly Shell. Their trial and murder sparked international outrage at the time, with rights groups calling it unjust and lacking credible evidence.
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-environmental-activists-pardon-822d06021bcf0ef7d69d457d4082b1b6

Ecuador approves controversial surveillance law
For a moment, it seemed like the controversial law would fail to gain the necessary votes, but in an unexpected turn of events, one of the assembly members of the Correista party Citizen Revolution (RC), David Arias, supported the government’s bill. RC swiftly expelled him from the party for the move. However, National Democratic Action (ADN), the president’s party, was able to approve a law that guarantees and expands its control over information security functions, under the pretext of the security crisis the country is experiencing.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/14/ecuador-approves-controversial-surveillance-law/

Bolivian President Announces Clearing of Oruro-Cochabamba Roadblock
On social media platform X, Arce stated: “Minutes ago, following coordinated operations, Bolivian Police and Armed Forces, with the support of local residents frustrated by the disruption, have reopened the Oruro-Cochabamba road.” … The president assured that efforts to unblock other routes will continue, alongside judicial investigations into those responsible for recent violence against security forces.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-president-announces-clearing-of-oruro-cochabamba-roadblock/

Colombia’s opposition disavows Petro as electoral guarantor, seeks meeting with military
According to Cepeda and his allies, the attempted assassination of far-right Senator Miguel Uribe over the weekend are the result of Petro’s “hate speech” towards the opposition and the business elite. According to Petro, “Colombia is under attack by one enemy, which is called the mafia.” The meeting was also rejected by moderate members of the liberal U Party who said that they were never consulted about any decision to disavow the president and seek ad hoc security guarantees.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-opposition-disavow-petro-as-electoral-guarantor-seek-meeting-with-military/

Australia: Rich List highlights soaring wealth of billionaires
The 200 wealthiest Australians now control $667 billion, up $42 billion from last year, according to the 2025 edition of the annual Rich List published by the Australian Financial Review (AFR). This amounts to more than 36 percent of Australia’s annual gross domestic product. In 1983, when the first Rich List was published, the total wealth of those included was $4.6 billion, the equivalent of $18.5 billion in today’s money. During this time span, the fortunes of the top 200 increased 7.7 times faster than per capita wealth and 26 times faster than per capita income. “The rich not only get richer, they increase their wealth faster,” stated the AFR.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/13/yisk-j13.html

Winning narrative? How India, Pakistan’s leaders seek cover under their flags after ceasefire
The BJP has already started campaigning on the basis that its government – helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi – dared to cross a red line, targeting what it says was “terrorist infrastructure” on Pakistani soil. But its strikes may have had the unintended consequence of shoring up support for Pakistan’s military establishment, experts say, months after protests erupted against the jailing of former prime minister Imran Khan.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3314346/winning-narrative-how-india-pakistans-leaders-seek-cover-under-their-flags-after-ceasefire
https://archive.ph/L4wcE

Trump’s AUKUS review puts Australian nuclear submarine deal in doubt
The Trump administration has provoked consternation in the Australian political and military establishment after this week announcing a Pentagon review of plans under the AUKUS military pact to sell Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines to Australia. It puts the Australian Labor government under great pressure to make major concessions to the US as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flies to Canada for the G-7 summit and a possible meeting with Trump.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/14/xzxb-j14.html

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/iran Israel war/ general #5

What's happening now
• Iran and Israel exchange strikes: Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media, in response to Israel’s unprecedented strikes. Each side has reported incoming fire in the hours since, with sirens sounding across Israel and Iran activating its own missile defenses early Saturday.

• Major blows to Iran: Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders with its first wave of strikes, which killed at least 78 people, according to Tehran. High-ranking figures, including the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and nuclear scientists are among the dead.

• What Netanyahu says: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who an Israeli official says is monitoring the strikes from a bunker, has vowed “more is on the way.” He previously said Israel’s operation against Iran could take several days.

• Trump’s warning: President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.”

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl

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/Iran Israel war/ general #6

>What's happening now
>Fresh barrage of strikes: Iran launched a new wave of missiles toward Israel early Saturday, capping off a night of attacks between the two sides that unleashed multiple explosions and destruction in Tel Aviv and Tehran.

>Escalating conflict: The long-running conflict between Iran and Israel escalated after Israel’s unprecedented attack early Friday on Iranian nuclear and military targets, which killed some of the country’s most senior leaders and raised fears of a wider regional war.

>Casualties on both sides: Three people have been killed in Israel and dozens injured by Iranian strikes, Israeli authorities said. Iran reported at least 78 people killed in Israeli strikes and 320 wounded, mostly civilians.

>More to come: Israel’s defense minister said Saturday that people in Tehran will “pay a heavy price” and the Iranian capital “will burn” if Iran continues with its missile attacks. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Iranian citizens directly in a video late Friday, urging them to “stand up and let your voices be heard"

+++—LIVE UPDATE SOURCE——++++

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-14-25

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/14/live-israel-warns-tehran-will-burn-after-deadly-missile-barrage-by-iran

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/world/israel-iran-news

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/14/israel-and-iran-exchange-missile-strikes-with-explosions-heard-in-tel-aviv-jerusalem-and-tehran-live

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/14/israel-iran-attacks-live-tehran-tel-aviv/

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-iran-latest-israeli-jets-target-irans-nuclear-sites-country-braced-for-retaliation-by-tehran-13382979

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250614-tehran-retaliates-with-missile-strikes-as-israel-and-iran-launch-tit-for-tat-attacks

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Thoughts on nepal?

how do u think that country can be improved? i mean its ruled by communist party but i dont see them doing much. I wish their leader was great as someone like traore

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To all American comrades

If you’re going to any one of the No Kings protests tomorrow PLEASE bring Iranian and/or Palestinian flags, not just to trigger the libs but to show solidarity with the most important anti-imperialist resistance movement of our day.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is currently liberating the world from the chokehold of imperialism, Zionism and all evils that grow from them. Our oppression that we face in America can only cease when the IRI liberated the Middle East and enables a wave of anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist movements to spring from it.

So PLEASE bring Iranian flags to tomorrow’s protests out of solidarity.

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downcom gang

Evicting homeowners is class struggle. This fuck was a massive chud. Boycott small business porky. Evict small homeowner porky. Financialization is progressive.

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Anyone explain to me whats the difference

And no, labelling the same structure with different words doesnt make it different.
I can see that some independent farmer, artisan, industrial cooperative or family company (operated by an actual family) escapes this structure. In all the common isms you have at least two classes of people, one exploits, one is being exploited.
technological changes do not change this structure. The use or not of money does not change this structure. The possibility of individual persons changing their social position (i.e slaves gaining freedom or rich people losing their money) doesnt change the structure.

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“hypothetically”

let’s say, hypothetically, there was a particularly motivated man. he does not have much of a stomach for theory, as ridiculous as that might sound to all of you here. what if, hypothetically, his concern was action. with finding well-read individuals who may need help bringing theory to life.

let’s also say, hypothetically, that he was concerned primarily with seeking out early “revolutionary” movements and lending a hand in any way he could.

this “hypothetical” character is american, white, and armed. he is aware of these privileges and is willing to weaponize them against the System in order to further the Cause. he is willing to travel anywhere in the country and shack up with any worthy individual he might come across.

he is not a child. he’s in his late twenties. he is from one of the poorest areas in the country. he is angry. he wants to change things. he does not want a career, or a family. he wants to fight for something. he is definitely a little nuts. par for the course with this sort of thing.

if you were him - where do you go? who do you speak to? what do you do?

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The only "people" that will mourn the zionist entity inevitable downfall will be zionists themselves and double digit I.Q. evangelical right-wing brazilian

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Romantic relationships under capitalism. Men’s standpoint

Nowadays men, especially young men, believe that to be worthy of the love of a woman, giving themselves is not enough. They must have wealthy to offer. For what is a man without wealth?

Now we may argue this is human nature, and that throughout history women have always preferred wealthy man. This may be true or not. But it’s undeniable that capitalism exacerbates this phenomenon. It’s also undeniable that the current economic crisis makes it difficult for the average man to obtain wealth, even for university graduates.

This means that one of the most normal experiences in life: romantic love between equals becomes more and more rare. This is especially true in the international scene, where nationality and race play an important role in wealth and status.

Under communism, if everyone has more or less the same, women will appreciate men for who they are, and not what they have.

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/iran Israel war/ general #5

What's happening now
• Iran and Israel exchange strikes: Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media, in response to Israel’s unprecedented strikes. Each side has reported incoming fire in the hours since, with sirens sounding across Israel and Iran activating its own missile defenses early Saturday.

• Major blows to Iran: Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders with its first wave of strikes, which killed at least 78 people, according to Tehran. High-ranking figures, including the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and nuclear scientists are among the dead.

• What Netanyahu says: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who an Israeli official says is monitoring the strikes from a bunker, has vowed “more is on the way.” He previously said Israel’s operation against Iran could take several days.

• Trump’s warning: President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.”

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl

R: 7 / I: 0 (sage)

The World Without Marx

Suppose Karl Marx had never been born. How would the modern world be different?

My best guess is highly optimistic. Without Marx, there would have been no prominent intellectual promoter of violent revolution for socialist dictatorship. There would still have been a big socialist movement, including many socialists dreaming of bloodbaths and tyranny. But the movement as a whole would have rapidly evolved into something like social democracy. Third World dictators would still have killed in the name of socialism. But there would have been no Soviet Union without Marx. And without the Soviet Union, there would be no fascist Italy and no Nazi Germany. A socialist dictatorship could still have come to China. But without the ghoulish example of Soviet agriculture, even a socialist China would have avoided major peacetime famine.

It’s clearly possible that an alternate, equally influential theoretician of violent revolution for socialist dictatorship would have arisen. But this seems unlikely. When historians of science try to weigh a scientist’s influence, they search for runner-ups – rival scientists waiting in the wings to make the same discovery. Challenge: If Marx had never lived, who exactly would have replaced him? In Germany, Marx’s top rival was Ferdinand Lassalle, a figure far more in tune with modern social democracy than Marx. On the global socialist scene, it’s hard to name any figure that compares with Marx. Who’s even in the running?

There’s really only one fact that tempers my optimism: The world with Marx has never had a nuclear war. Altering any major facet of history could plausibly reverse that happy outcome.

Your thoughts?

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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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/Iran Israel war/ general #4

What's happening now
• Iran launches counterstrikes: Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media, in response to Israel’s unprecedented strikes earlier Friday. CNN heard explosions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

• Israel’s attack on Iran: Israel had targeted Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders. High-ranking military figures, including the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and nuclear scientists were killed in the attack.

• What Netanyahu says: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that “more is on the way,” after previously saying Israel’s operation against Iran could take several days.

• US role: The US military is helping to intercept Iranian missiles and drones as they are launched against Israel, a US official said. President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.”

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl

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>Only communist org near me are trots with 20 members
>Only guerilla I can join is the EZLN and they are pretty much narcos now
>MORENA sucks

what the fuck am I supposed to do, ist es over für mich?

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Some Earnest Questions for Third-Worldist

As someone who is 1. American, and 2. not particularly familiar with Maoism-Third-Worldism as a theory, I have two questions, earnest questions, for Third-Worldists.

First, what do you want me to do? I see Third-Worldists yell at people from the First World all the time, but there never seems to be any direction as to what we could be doing to make things better. Is the assumption just that we're intrinsically evil? Because if it is, it makes the presence of Western Third-Worldists confusing, and also makes me question why you interact with First-Worlders at all. If it isn't the assumption, then please explain what you think I should be doing, because up to this point I've only ever seen Third-Worldists telling me that I'm evil.

Second, if you got your way, what would happen to the First World, and by extension me? I've heard answers ranging from
>We're going to cut off the West and let them decay
to
>We're going to come together and collectively colonize the First World, shuffling its residents across the Third World
and while I think they both make sense on some level, neither of them seems like much of a well defined plan to me, and people speak of them like they're rhetoric, rather than things they actually plan to do.

These are, as I said, earnest questions, so any earnest answers would be appreciated.

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News 6/13/25

Iran fires hundreds of missiles at Israel as part of 'crushing response' to attacks
“Moments ago, with the launch of hundreds of various ballistic missiles toward the occupied territories, the operation of decisive response to the savage attack of the Zionist regime has begun," Iran’s official news agency, Irna, reported. Bright orange flashes illuminated the sky over Tel Aviv as Israeli air defence systems appeared to down some of the incoming missiles. Still, fires and plumes of smoke could be seen in areas of Tel Aviv, whilst explosions were also reported in Jerusalem.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-fires-missiles-israel-retaliation-major-attacks

Hezbollah backs away from conflict with Israel after Lebanese government warning
The sources said that Hezbollah had told Lebanese army officials that it understood the concerns of the state, the army, and the Lebanese people and would not “be led towards Israel’s aim of taking the region to full-scale war”. They added that Lebanese political and military officials had also “clearly and strongly” told Hezbollah that the “Lebanese state would not allow a war with Israel this time”, adding that Lebanon had given assurances to Arab and other regional countries regarding this.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hezbollah-backs-away-israel-war-after-lebanon-govt-warning

Updates on the Palestinian Resistance
Al Quds Brigades: Our fighters managed on Wednesday to detonate an explosive device pre-planted into a Zionist D9 bulldozer that had penetrated areas of Khan Younis. At least 13 martyred, 200 wounded after ‘Israeli’ occupation forces opened fire on starving Palestinians waiting for aid near Netzarim base in central Gaza strip.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/19650/

Egypt, Libya stop activists gathering for March to Gaza, organisers say
Separately, a land convoy known as “Soumoud”, which had departed Tunisia carrying activists from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania, was stopped on Friday morning at the entrance to Sirte, a city in Libya under the control of forces loyal to military commander Khalifa Haftar.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/13/egypt-libya-stop-activists-gathering-for-march-to-gaza-organisers-say
https://archive.ph/qHzGF

US-backed Israeli company’s spyware used to target European journalists, Citizen Lab finds
The company behind the hacks, Paragon Solutions, has sought to position itself as a virtuous player in the mercenary spyware industry and won U.S. government contracts, The Associated Press found. Backed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Paragon was reportedly acquired by AE Industrial Partners, a private investment firm based in Florida, in a December deal worth at least $500 million, pending regulatory approvals.
https://apnews.com/article/spyware-italy-paragon-meloni-pegasus-f36dd32106f44398ee24001317ccf2bb

Corbyn and McDonnell face no further action over January 18 Palestine demo
JEREMY CORBYN and John McDonnell hailed a “victory for the right to demonstrate against genocide” today after police and prosecutors said that no further action will be taken over their participation in the January 18 Palestine rally. … In a joint statement, the now independent MPs said: “Our peaceful demonstrations are made up of people of all backgrounds and faiths, united in a demand to end human suffering. “It is only right that the charges against our fellow protesters Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal are now dropped.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corbyn-and-mcdonnell-face-no-further-action-over-january-18-palestine-demo

3 suspects detained in Poland on suspicion of planning far-right attack
The statement on Thursday said a 19-year-old man had been arrested in the northeastern city of Olsztyn, the third suspect in the case to be detained. The two others were arrested in April, according to the state news agency PAP. Investigators believe the suspects were influenced by other mass killers, including Timothy McVeigh, Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant.
https://apnews.com/article/poland-olsztyn-arrest-terrorist-plot-cbc25a9b2eeec1f84cf9d8db7806c734

Manipur on Edge Again; Protests Intensify
The fresh eruption of violence, which prompted the authorities to suspend internet services in five Valley districts, followed heightened action by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that culminated in several arrests of Meitei radical outfit – Arambai Tenggol – leaders, and some Kuki civil society members from Churchandpur and Morehin Tengnoupal district. The NIA and CBI were assisted by Assam Rifles and Manipur Police personnel.
https://www.newsclick.in/manipur-edge-again-protests-intensify

French court releases New Caledonia independence leader detained over deadly riots
In a hearing attended by Agence France-Presse, the Paris appeals court ordered the release of Tein on Thursday after a video call with him in which he promised to respond to future judicial summons and to live with his partner in eastern France. They ordered his release under judicial control on condition he does not return to New Caledonia nor enter into contact with other suspects in the case, a source close to the case said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/13/french-court-releases-new-caledonia-independence-leader-detained-over-deadly-riots-ntwnfb

China-backed militia secures control of new rare earth mines in Myanmar
Now, in the hillsides of Shan state in eastern Myanmar, Chinese miners are opening new deposits for extraction, according to two of the sources, both of whom work at one of the mines. At least 100 people are working day-to-night shifts excavating hillsides and extracting minerals using chemicals, the sources said. Two other residents of the area said they had witnessed trucks carrying material from the mines, between the towns of Mong Hsat and Mong Yun, toward the Chinese border some 200km away. Reuters identified some of the sites using imagery from commercial satellite providers Planet Labs and Maxar Technologies.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-backed-militia-secures-control-new-rare-earth-mines-myanmar-2025-06-12/

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/Iran Israel war/ general #3

What's happening now
• Iran begins counterstrikes: Iran has fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media. The Israeli military said it identified incoming missiles launched from Iran, and CNN has heard explosions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

• Israel’s attack on Iran: Israel earlier launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and military leaders. The attacks have continued on multiple cities across the nation. Iran’s foreign minister said that Israel will “deeply regret” its attack.

• Trump warns Iran: President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran earlier today to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.” It’s unclear if scheduled nuclear talks between the US and Iran will go ahead this weekend.

• Military leaders killed: Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and one of the country’s most powerful figures, was killed in the attack. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s highest-ranking military officer, was also killed.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl

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This guy is NOT a philantropist

George Soros is NOT a philantropist, in fact, he Is the opposite of one, even when he supports stuff like trans rights or pride or shit like that, he is not a good person, he is evil and should not be trusted

R: 5 / I: 0
Hope these protests evolve into an second American civil war
As weird as it sounds I hope these protests get attacked from the police so people actually see the USA for what it is (a neo-fascist bourgeoisiecuck rape machine). Again if people pussy out and don’t try to actually combat the system then nothing will happen

R: 12 / I: 4 (sage)

The anti-Israel hate is getting tiresome

Why do people here (especially mods) hate open dialogue on the subject of Israel? It's like having a nuanced view of the Palestine question instantly makes you a genocide supporting philosemite.

I understand that Palestinians have legitimate grievances like land expropriation and a weird internal passport system. These things should stop, along with many other injustices and blatant abuses of state power.

We should, at the same time, acknowledge that Hamas and the IDF are both guilty of atrocities. The IDF often resorts to indiscriminate bombings when they are not warranted. Hamas often compounds casualties by hiding in schools and hospitals, knowing this will be an optics loss for Israel.

This is a complex subject, but for some fucking reason we can no longer have an intelligent discussion about it.

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

almost 72 years ago, these two were executed for passing american atomic secrets to the USSR.

Were they innocent? and if not, were they heroes of socialism? Or just victims of anti semitism

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ShitLib Fatigue

I can’t be the only one suffering from an extreme amount of ShitLib fatigue right now.

I’m at my last end with these people. Imagine taking part in militant mass protests only to insist the solution is to vote Democrat and throw emotional blackmail on anyone who doesn’t. Just like how liberals showed up to the George Floyd uprising five years ago with voter registration forms, liberals are already showing up at the LA uprising protests to convince people to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections last year. How much longer before libs start showing up with Ukrainian flags and attempt to make the protests about keeping the US in NATO or whatever? They’re also already blaming “white anarchists” for the more militant actions despite footage showing the vast majority of people defending themselves from the pigs are Mexicans and Central Americans themselves.

Do liberals honestly believe this brutality wouldn’t have happened under Harris? Biden and Harris sent goons to brutalize anti-genocide protesters all last year. I fucking hate this.

Anyone else feel the same?

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/Iran Israel/ war general

What's happening now
• Iran retaliation underway: Iran has launched more than 100 drones toward Israeli territory, Israel’s military said. The attack comes after Israel launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and senior military leaders in an attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said will last many days. The attack plunges the Middle East into fresh uncertainty, increasing the risk of a regional war.

• Military leaders killed: General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, was killed in the attack. He was among the country’s most powerful figures. The attack also killed Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s highest-ranking military officer.

• Nuclear targets: Netanyahu said “Operation Rising Lion” struck Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz, nuclear scientists, and what he called “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missiles program.”

• US position: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there was no US involvement or assistance in the strikes. President Donald Trump was convening a Cabinet-level meeting as Israel attacked, a White House official and two sources told CNN. The meeting was expected to focus on the US response.

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/Iran Israel war/ general #2

Israel attacks Iran: Israel has launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and military leaders in an attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said will last many days. Israel’s military said it used 200 fighter jets, and in retaliation, Iran launched over 100 drones toward Israeli territory.

• Trump warns Iran: President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran earlier today to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left,” suggesting Israel’s next attacks on the country could be “even more brutal.”

• Military leaders killed: Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and one of the country’s most powerful figures, was killed in the attack. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s highest-ranking military officer, was also killed. Iran’s foreign minister warned that Israel will “deeply regret” its attack, urging the UN Security Council to hold an urgent meeting.

• Nuclear targets: Netanyahu said “Operation Rising Lion” struck Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz, nuclear scientists, and what he called “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missiles program.”

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl

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Attention Burgeranons

We need anti-war protests today. The ability of the regime to prosecute imperialist war depends on the willingness of the public to go along with it. We need mass resistance to make the continuation of the war against Iran extremely difficult for the regime. Their needs to be protests today in order to put strong political pressure.

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/IRGC/ - Iran General

Another emergency inter-imperialist war general edish

Reminder that the setting Iraqi cabinet is backed by the Axis of Resistance (alongside the US) and it allowed the Israeli strikes against Iranian workers to be launched from its airspace. Average Islamist fail.

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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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USSR

STALIN DID NOTHING WRONG THREAD

anyone that seriously examines the history of the soviet union would realize that stalin did nothing wrong. he was right about everything, except the nazis, but all his purges and his"paranoia" which was just propaganda, were totally justified

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It's amazing how communists were morally superior even when dealing with their opponents

They didn't invent a hundred different forms of torture like the fascists. They didn't build gas chambers to commit genocide on an industrial scale. They didn't do medical experiments.

They just forced them to work or shot them (instant and painless) because they were motivated by justice and not sadism and perversion.

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Why Are They All Tailist Opportunists?

Every experience I've ever had with a major American org, be it PSL, DSA, SALT, CPUSA has left a profoundly disappointing impression. They uniformly have no militancy, no coherent program for building power, and no pattern of success. Often, their strategy invariably finds itself expresses in mindlessly tailing the activist cause du jour, recruiting from liberal protests, then creating their own nonviolent liberal protests and book clubs to fundraise off of ad infinitum. Usually their electoral strategy involves endorsing the Democrats or trying to launch a presidential run for some figure with no national profile who receives 0.015% of the vote. At best they'll make a mild contribution to local tenant organizing on a micro scale. At worst, they're fed-filled cults run by sex pests. Anarchists, who lack the political organizing capabilities to accomplish anything of note, usually somehow lap these orgs in actual militant activity. At least they're capable of creating some minor property damage.

If this pattern isn't isolated to a single org but seems to infect the whole field of them, DSA, CPUSA, PSL, and so forth, then it's indicative of a structural problem. These structural problems of systemic uselessness seem to be pervasive well beyond just the United States. What's going on here? How do we fix the formula?

Genuinely, would we have better results in these kinds of conditions if our orgs were fully underground to begin with? I suspect that one advantage the anarchists have is the lack of a publically visible, legally sanctioned, easy to target organizational structure. Every fed knows the leadership of the PSL, or the DSA, and anyone who's ever paid dues, so there's a very strong incentive to stay safely within legal boundaries. Infiltration and cooption is painfully easy. On the other hand, the anarchist model is also obviously a failure, given that they simply function along lines of pure spontaneity without much coherent organization to begin with.

How dig ourselves out of this common trap, and the resulting malaise?

R: 4 / I: 1

News 6/12/25

Indian state accused of extrajudicial killings and aiding resource plunder, under pretense of anti-Maoist crackdown
The statement also urged the prime minister to stop the militarization of the region and respect the rights enshrined in the Fifth Schedule of the Indian constitution for the Adivasis (Indigenous peoples of India). The statement alleges that the rights of the Adivasis “are being systematically violated and forests and minerals of Chhattisgarh are being subjected to indiscriminate corporate exploitation with disastrous implications for environmental stability and livelihood of the local people.” Various other organizations and individuals have issued similar statements demanding the immediate cessation of all hostilities against the Indigenous peoples of the region, along with its demilitarization.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/12/indian-state-accused-of-extrajudicial-killings-and-aiding-resource-plunder-under-pretense-of-anti-maoist-crackdown/

In Armenia, rising ceasefire violations bring fears of war with Azerbaijan
Armenia's southernmost province of Syunik is at the heart of the dispute and is where most ceasefire violations are reported. Syunik separates the main body of Azerbaijan to the east from the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the west. It also provides a vital trade route for Armenia to Iran, which it borders to the south. Azerbaijan has since 2020 demanded Armenia provide it with a corridor through Syunik to Nakhchivan. Baku has said that the passage would remain Armenian territory but have minimal controls from the capital Yerevan.
https://www.reuters.com/world/armenia-rising-ceasefire-violations-bring-fears-war-with-azerbaijan-2025-06-12/

Prosecution of KKE members for their anti-war activities
In recent days, the prosecution of KKE members and the municipal authority of the city of Tirnavos, which was elected with the support of the KKE, began in recent days on the grounds of their participation in the mobilization that took place on 6 November 2024. During this mobilization, members of the KKE and KNE blocked six trucks carrying ammunition destined for Ukraine.
https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/Prosecution-of-KKE-members-for-their-anti-war-activities/

Russia’s military casualties top 1 million in 3-year-old war, Ukraine says
The U.K. Defense Ministry also said in a statement posted Thursday on X that Russia has suffered over 1 million casualties, including roughly 250,000 killed since it launched the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. … Earlier this year, the General Staff of the Russian armed forces claimed that Ukrainian military losses had topped 1 million.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-drone-attacks-kharkiv-0869f159a0b1b0b073dd139a94cffdc1

Israel to expel French 'Freedom Flotilla' activists, MEP Rima Hassan held in solitary confinement
Four French activists who are being detained by Israel after being intercepted on board the Madleen humanitarian aid boat sailing for Gaza will be sent back to France on Thursday or Friday, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Wednesday. One of the activists, MEP Rima Hassan, was briefly held in solitary confinement, an NGO representing the activists said.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250611-israel-to-expel-french-freedom-flotilla-activists-mep-rima-hassan-held-in-solitary-confinement
https://archive.ph/W1oCr

Hamas defends attack on GHF bus as 'security campaign' against Israeli-backed militia
"We won't allow a repeat of the experience in southern Lebanon, where militias became tools of the occupation," the Hamas official declared. Yasser Abu Shabab recently appeared in a controversial video, claiming his militia aimed to "liberate areas from Hamas rule."
https://www.newarab.com/news/hamas-defends-attack-ghf-bus-security-campaign

Israel’s coalition survives vote to dissolve parliament over army draft tensions
Tensions had been running high for days, with Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) threatening to back the move to topple the government and trigger early elections. The political crisis was sparked by the government's failure to pass legislation exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service - a long-standing demand of both Shas and UTJ.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-coalition-survives-vote-dissolve-parliament-over-army-draft-tensions

Egypt begins detaining and deporting activists ahead of peaceful march to Gaza
Thousands of people began arriving in the Egyptian capital Cairo this week hoping to join activist group Global March to Gaza, which aims to peacefully trek to Rafah. Participants would walk from Cairo to El Arish on Friday, then cross the border and arrive in Rafah on Sunday. The group has been registering participants for months in a display of solidarity with Gazans and to protest against Israel’s genocide as well as seeming indifference from most world governments.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/egypt-begins-detaining-and-deporting-activists-ahead-peaceful-march-gaza

Police fire tear gas on crowds protesting Kenya blogger’s death in custody
Protesters took to the streets of Kenya’s capital Nairobi to express their fury over the death of a blogger arrested by police last week, as the country’s police watchdog reported that 20 people had died in custody over the last four months. Police used tear gas to disperse crowds gathered close to the capital’s parliamentary building on Thursday to protest against the death of Albert Ojwang, a 31-year-old blogger arrested in the western town of Homa Bay last week for criticising the country’s deputy police chief Eliud Lagat.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/12/police-fire-tear-gas-on-crowds-protesting-kenya-bloggers-death-in-police-custody
https://archive.ph/ixBVd

South America's leftwing leaders support CFK after court ruling
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva telephoned CFK to highlight her serenity while urging her to remain strong, drawing from his own experience of imprisonment on corruption charges later overturned. “I called comrade Cristina Kirchner this afternoon and expressed my solidarity,” said the Brazilian president on X.. “I spoke to her about the importance of staying strong in these difficult times”, he added. “I observed with satisfaction the serenity and determination with which Cristina faces this adverse situation and her determination to continue fighting,” Lula further noted.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/06/12/south-america-s-leftwing-leaders-support-cfk-after-court-ruling

Bolivia anti-government protests turn deadly as tensions rise
"There are already four officers who have lost their lives," Justice Minister Cesar Siles told reporters in La Paz, adding that some had been shot. The deceased are three police officers and a firefighter, Bolivia's state news agency reported. "We can't call these civilian protests anymore. We are talking about paramilitary groups, groups that carry weapons, and we have to respond firmly," Siles said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivia-anti-government-protests-turn-deadly-as-tensions-rise-2025-06-12/

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bourgeoise

what can the bourgeoise do to help achieve global communism? im asking as someone whos parents own rental properties in new york. i want to help make the work a more inclusive and equitable place

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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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Underdogism-Martyrism

Underdogism-Martyrism is a political tendency in Socialism to always "s*pport" (immaterial support, i.e rhetorical support, i.e. cheerleading) underdogs and martyrs, but never "winners" because "winning" requires deft strategy and unpredictability, which requires sometimes abandoning "principles" (spooks). People who refuse to behave strategically and tactically/temporarily abandon "principles" in order to defeat the enemy are incredibly predictable and can have their principles used against them by the status quo. Underdogism-Martyrism worships at the feet of those who behaved in a principled and therefore predictable manner, then got killed for it. Underdogism-martyrism holds that the "good" Socialists are the ones who got couped and overthrown, while the ones who didn't became revisionist or opportunist. This isn't to say that revisionism and opportunism don't exist, but that they are often used to slander socialists who won. Notice how I have not listed a single actually existing nation state. That is because the Underdogist-Martyrists have those in mind and will bring them up without provocation.

R: 25 / I: 0 (sage)

should there be an israel-like state?

i know this is a sore topic for alot of you, but as a jew i beleive there should be a jewish place, NOT ISRAEL OF COURSE but a place for jews to go, we are constantly attacked by capitalists and blamed for all the worlds problems.

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What did you do this week, comr8?

>wah rockos modern basilisk wah
How about the fuckin Commie Basilisk?

It's when you acknowledge that your internet history is for sale and if the workers come to power and found out you were just fucking around and shitposting instead of ever actually progressing the movement, we kill your bitch ass.

Liberals can at least claim ignorance. If you aren't involved in the labor movement, you are knowingly complicit.

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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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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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Marx

Not even trying to be edgy here, but the more I read le 'Marx, the more I realize how much he actually got right. Like, yeah, people meme him all the time old dude with a beard, "eat the rich," whatever but when you actually read his work, especially Capital, you vvill start to see how deeply he understood the system we live under o algo

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When did you realise that building politics around helping Universal Humanity get into your country and contest your body politic is not something that should be desirable to any developed nation whatsoever?

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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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The stranger within my gates,
He may be ill or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control,
What reasons sway his mood.
Nor when the Gods of his far off land shall repossess his blood.

The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.

This was my father's belief, and this is also mine.
Let the corn be all one sheaf-
The grapes be all one vine.
'Err our children's teeth are set on edge by bitter bread and wine.

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i have protected you from the sharty menace when the jannies refused to
in their sleep i was your shield and together with the power of little girls we drove them away, some of them were so scared they might even renounce their shartycuck membership
farewell /lefty/bros, i must go now, good luck

R: 9 / I: 0 (sage)
>we must shine light on the overwhelmingly peaceful protests against drumpf’s evil policies and oppose drumpf’s decision to deploy the national guard
>we must stand with the brave ukrainian people against evil russia and call out the apologists who defend russia’s insincere peace proposals
>PRO-HAMAS TERRORISTS! ARREST THEM ALL! MORALITY IS BORING! ISRAEL IS BASED! PALESTINE REJECTS PEACE DEALS!
why is he like this?

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For real doe

Why is nearly every single communist intellectual Jewish? Why is every single non Third World communist movement headed by Jews? There's something strange about a movement for a raceless classless society being headed by a race-cult that is ultranationalist and racially discriminatory by its own religious tenets

R: 7 / I: 1 (sage)
Sex with Big Boss, Venom Snake, Giga, Schwarzeuyghur and etc. is super pure. It's one of the most purest things you can possibly think of. You can't go wrong with having the most pure of all gay sex, one of the most greatest forms of LGBTQIA+ yet. It makes you feel colorfully light and the opposite of crooked.

R: 14 / I: 7

Is it over?

Over the past few days the LA riots and the public reaction has me dooming. They’re becoming more and more fascistic. Not only that. But the videos of civilian cars, unrelated businesses, and such are permanently going to destroy our reputation. It’s over

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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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I'm gonna say it

The LA riots aren't the class revolution you're all hoping for. Like, seriously. It's not gonna lead to the total collapse of the USA's capitalist system and I doubt the government would even make concessions because of them.

There will be property damage, some people will get hurt, some arrests will be made, some new faces may emerge, but there won't be any major change out of this.

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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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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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News 6/11/25

After being arrested | Israeli forces release janitor in Al-Quneitra countryside
Al-Quneitra province: Israeli forces released a janitor, after detaining him for hours in Al-Qahtaniya Town in Al-Quneitra countryside. The released janitor was taken tonight to Al-Golan National Hospital, after he was subjected to a heat stroke and suffered several bruises in his back, after he was assaulted by members of Israeli forces, without any official details regarding the reasons behind the arrest.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/363907/

Video shows crowd of Palestinians climbing fence and rushing to aid site
Palestinians are first seen waiting behind a fence, before a voice - off-camera, with an American accent - shouts instructions. They are then seen entering the site and shouting as they run towards what is assumed to be aid. BBC Verify geolocated the video to the SDS1 distribution site, west of Rafah. It is said to have been filmed on Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xgzj5ln5do
https://archive.ph/H8sHV

Israeli army officers refuse to serve in ‘unnecessary, eternal war’ in Gaza
The group, which is understood to include members of the elite military surveillance division Unit 8200, claimed that “many hostages have already been killed by IDF bombings” and accused the government of continuing to “abandon their lives”. Organised by the anti-war group Soldiers for the Hostages, the letter comes amid growing dissent within certain parts of the military over the continuation of the war in Gaza and an apparent increase in the numbers of soldiers who are refusing to fight. Speaking to the Guardian, one of the intelligence officers who signed the letter said: “The hope is that as many people as possible will challenge the legitimacy of this operation and of this government.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/11/israeli-government-orders-must-not-be-obeyed-idf-intelligence-officers

Sudanese army accuses Libya’s Haftar of joint border attack with RSF
The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), whom the military also accused of joint involvement in the recent attack, has drawn in multiple countries, while international attempts at bringing about peace have so far failed. Early in the war, Sudan had accused Haftar of supporting the RSF via weapons deliveries. It has long accused Haftar’s ally the United Arab Emirates of supporting the RSF as well, including via direct drone strikes last month. The UAE denies those allegations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/10/sudanese-army-accuses-libyas-haftar-of-joint-border-attack-with-rsf
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Starmer urged to suspend deal handing Chagos Islands back to Mauritius after UN human rights warning
A panel of experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said retaining the base and continuing to bar Chagossians from Diego Garcia “appears to be at variance with the Chagossians’ right to return.” The Chagossians were expelled from the islands between 1965 and 1973 to make way for the joint UK-US base and have not been allowed to return. Although the deal includes a £40 million trust fund for the benefit of the Chagossians, the UN experts expressed concern that this would not provide an “effective remedy” for the islanders.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-urged-suspend-deal-handing-chagos-islands-back-mauritius-after-un-human-rights

Northern Ireland hit by third night of violence but main flashpoint calmer
Violence erupted in different parts of Northern Ireland for the third successive night on Wednesday, with masked youths starting a fire in a leisure centre but unrest in the primary flashpoint of Ballymena was notably smaller in scale.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/disorder-breaks-out-northern-ireland-third-straight-night-2025-06-11/

German court to rule on banned right-wing extremist magazine
A 2023 report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany's domestic intelligence agency, features an entire page dedicated to Compact — a magazine and multimedia company headquartered in Falkensee, on the outskirts of Berlin. According to the BfV, the magazine's publisher says it sells 40,000 print copies a month. The number of subscribers to the Compact YouTube channel is significantly higher, at 513,000 as of June 10, 2025. "Compact sees itself as part of what it calls the resistance movement, and it is seen by other actors among the so-called new right as part of the scene," the BfV wrote. "The main feature of many of its published articles is agitation against the federal government and against the current political system."
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-compact-press-freedom-right-wing-extremism-leipzig/a-72860076

Denmark approves US military bases on Danish soil as Trump eyes Greenland
The new parameters follow Trump’s coveting of the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island even as the U.S. and Denmark are NATO allies. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, in a response to lawmakers’ questions, wrote that Denmark would be able to terminate the agreement if the U.S. tries to annex all or part of Greenland.
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-united-states-military-bases-greenland-749f68105ff6452ebfeb7ab2cbc282b7

Petro on Wednesday signed a decree to hold a public referendum vote on the labour reform.
Petro on Wednesday signed a decree to hold a public referendum vote on the labour reform. Large numbers of people took to the streets of the capital, Bogota, and other cities across the country to express continued support for a referendum on the reform proposed by the president, even as the Senate debates an alternative bill.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/11/large-protests-in-colombia-in-support-of-president-petros-labour-reforms
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South Korea halts propaganda broadcasts along border with rival North in a move to ease tensions
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said the move, ordered by President Lee Jae-myung, was part of efforts “to restore trust in inter-Korean relations and promote peace on the Korean Peninsula.” Kang Yu-jung, Lee’s spokesperson, described the decision as a “proactive step” to reduce military tensions and ease the burden for South Koreans residing in border areas, who have also been affected by North Korea’s retaliatory loudspeaker broadcasts.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-border-north-tensions-2ba545996b3daf1a9f81e23685792c11

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Somehow just came across my online friends twitter account. Already knew he was a leftist but thought he was somewhat normal, but his twitter account…
>weird reply guy, every day he does about 50 replies to the same sort of people
>half of these replies are parroting the same shit other people say with far more likes
>his own posts barely get any traction
>is a Stalinist, has tweeted several times about how eastern europe should be genocided for seperating from the USSR, how they're all nazis etc, despises Estonia
>>worth noting he is an american and i dont think he's spoken with someone from eastern europe at all, let alone Russia
>same thing for Taiwan / Ukraine stuff
>>again don't think he knows anything about these countries really, just parrots other stalinist talking points on this
>constantly talking about how he's "organising with his local communist community" and engaging with trade unions all the time
>>know for a fact that he is a NEET that bums off his parents and doesn't leave the house
He is literally a walking, talking example of what most people picture in their heads when it comes to "online extreme leftist" and i'm honestly worried if he ever got doxxed he'd become some new meme.

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leftist tech writings?

what essays and writings regarding could be considered 'leftist'? I was recently reading Hayley Patton
https://applied-langua.ge/software-and-anarchy.pdf
I wonder if there are more like this. I could shoehorn certain texts from Sussman into this group, but I don't think that's explicit enough. Are there any other explicitly leftist tech writers?

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Trump banning masks at protests

Time for theory is over. We need to in minecraft these people. You don't hate them enough. Peter Thiel and all of these pedos need to be dealt with. America is heading for a Tiananmen square moment. Don't respond w some smarmy reddit shit like 'who cares about America'. This is serious.

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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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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?

R: 29 / I: 4 (sage)
This riot isn’t a class war. It’s a riot funded by billionaires and the Democratic Party against trump. The corporate class is using this to stir racial tensions and divide the worker. If you support this you’re not a real leftist. And just a liberal who doesn’t care about the working class

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REDpill me on the Peter Thiel matrix. Give me his shitlist. I'm especially interested in Planatir, his schizo fuel AI surveillance network. I smell a gladio connection. I found a few sources but they're clearly only the tip of the iceberg

https://politicaleconomist.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worlds-most-evil-company
https://www.business-humanrights.org/de/neuste-meldungen/palantir-allegedly-enables-israels-ai-targeting-amid-israels-war-in-gaza-raising-concerns-over-war-crimes
https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/use-of-lavender-data-processing-system-in-gaza

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Why should Black Americans support racist Mexicans?

What's the difference between a slave and someone who is constantly belittled but continuously helps people who belittle them?

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/crosspol/ - Socialist Cross-pollination

Welcome to /crosspol/. ITT we challenge comrades to prove they have a basic understanding of other ideologies.

Rude and sarcastic shitposters may be ignored :0

Starting examples:
> To anarchists: Explain how a "dictatorship of the proletariat" can be democratic.
> To M-Ls: Summarize a Trotskyist critique of the Soviet Union during the 1920s, without mentioning Stalin
> To Trotskyists: Distinguish mutual aid from charity.

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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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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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News 6/10/25

Two men jailed for life for supplying car bomb that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia
Prosecutors have brought charges against seven people, including a millionaire businessman who is still awaiting trial. Agius and Vella, who had pleaded not guilty, were sentenced after their conviction on Friday last week. Jurors returned an 8-1 verdict after a trial that lasted more than six weeks. They were found to have taken payment for supplying the device, which was hidden in a children’s shoe box and planted under the seat of the journalist’s car. It was detonated remotely as she drove away from her home.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/10/two-men-jailed-for-life-for-supplying-car-bomb-that-killed-daphne-caruana-galizia

Thames Water bondholders demand leniency on pollution as a rescue condition
Thames Water's bondholders have offered to inject 5 billion pounds ($6.8 billion) in new equity and debt and write off some existing borrowing to rescue the utility, but in return they have demanded looser pollution targets and clemency on fines.
The senior creditors, who hold 13 billion pounds of the water company's debt, stepped into the breach after U.S. private equity firm KKR (KKR.N) pulled out of a deal last week, leaving them in effect as the only option to avoid nationalisation.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/thames-water-bondholders-demand-leniency-pollution-rescue-condition-2025-06-09/

Legal action launched over Airbnb listings in illegal Israeli settlements
Launched by Global Legal Action Network (Glan), Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, and the Ireland Palestine Alliance, Sadaka, the actions target Airbnb’s Irish and British subsidiaries, as well as its US parent company. In 2018, Airbnb promised to remove its listings in illegal settlements, but reversed the ban the next year. A recent Guardian investigation found that it continues to list 350 properties to rent there.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/legal-action-launched-over-airbnb-listings-illegal-israeli-settlements

Israelis launch attack on Yemen port city of Hodeida
THE Israeli navy attacked docks in Yemen’s port city of Hodeida today, likely damaging facilities that are key to aid shipments to the country. The attack comes as Yemen’s Houthi government has repeatedly launched missiles and drones targeting Israel during its war on Palestinians in Gaza.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israelis-launch-attack-yemen-port-city-hodeida

US denies it is seeking to end UNIFIL mission in Lebanon
Over the weekend, Israel Hayom daily reported that Israel was supporting a US effort to terminate the 47-year mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), raising alarm in Beirut. The report claimed Israel believed the Lebanese army would be a more effective partner in weakening Hezbollah's presence along the border.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-denies-it-seeking-end-unifil-mission-lebanon

Google in Mexico faces major potential fine as antitrust ruling nears
The watchdog expects to make a decision by June 17, according to its own published timeline. Under Mexican law, 8% of annual revenue is the maximum fine for monopolistic practices. Cofece accuses the company of establishing an effective monopoly in the Mexican digital advertising market. It began its investigation into Google Mexico in 2020 and issued a summons in 2023, beginning the trial phase of the procedure.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-mexico-faces-major-potential-fine-antitrust-ruling-nears-2025-06-10/

At least three killed in wave of bomb attacks in southwest Colombia
According to newspaper El Espectador, at least 13 attacks on police stations and military compounds were reported on Tuesday morning. Leonardo Gonzalez, the director of conflict monitoring NGO Indepaz, attributed the attacks in Cauca on the Western Bloc of guerrilla group EMC, which controls significant parts of the countryside in southwest Colombia.
https://colombiareports.com/at-least-three-killed-in-wave-of-bomb-attacks-in-southwest-colombia/

Taiwan indicts 4 suspected spies for China in case reaching presidential office
In a statement, Taipei prosecutors said the four, all previously members of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), were indicted on espionage and other charges. One of them was a former assistant to then Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, now head of the National Security Council, while another was a former presidential office adviser, sources familiar with the matter have previously told Reuters. The Taipei prosecutors said in a statement that their suspected crimes included divulging or delivering classified national security information to China.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-indicts-presidents-aide-on-charge-of-spying-for-china
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‘Breaks your dignity’: India’s farm credit lifeline turns into debt trap
Issued against land holdings, the KCC operates like a revolving credit line, allowing farmers to borrow at the start of a crop cycle and repay after the harvest. With a modest interest rate of 4 percent annually, the scheme is among the most accessible financial instruments for millions of farmers. But for years now, the KCC scheme has deviated from its original purpose. Farmers in rural India, where agriculture barely sustains families and where dowry in marriages is the norm, have used KCC loans as a convenient but dangerous alternative to family income.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/10/how-a-credit-lifeline-for-indias-farmers-has-turned-into-a-debt-trap
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Philippine senators send impeachment case against VP Sara Duterte to lower chamber
Philippine senators set themselves as an impeachment court Tuesday for the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte over corruption and other criminal allegations, but voted to send the raft of complaints back to the lower House of Representatives due to legal questions. Dozens of activists protesting outside the Senate condemned Senate President Chiz Escudero and 17 other senators for voting to send back the impeachment complaint to the House instead of immediately bringing Duterte to trial. Five senators rejected the move.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-vice-presidential-sara-duterte-impeachment-520c4e4adb6f32975e90efdfbc5165d6

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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

R: 57 / I: 8

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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>Trump’s Fascist-Anarchism

Trump and the Republican party espouse both fascism and anarchism; therefore, on a profoundly fundamental level, Trump and his fellow Republicans contradict themselves. The rot of contradiction runs through them from top to bottom.

Fascism contains many tell-tale attributes:
Fascists fetishize power.
They practice a cult of personality.
They promote masculine strength.
They see criticism as treasonous.
They try to bully opponents.
They wrap themselves in military symbols.
They present themselves as unquestionable experts in any field or endeavor.
They will not allow anyone to challenge them in foreign or domestic affairs.
Their leader is always right, no matter what he says (Fascist leaders are never women).
They often travel in attack units using repurposed military vehicles, war flags, and military fatigues to intimidate the opposition.
They use unrelenting, legal, and illegal means to quash opposition thinking.
Any of this sound familiar? Cult of personality? Check. Masculine strength display? Check. Using military paraphernalia? Check. Check, check, and check. Clearly, Trump and Republicans embrace fascism. However, this worldview presents problems because their fascist characteristics run headlong into anarchism.

Let’s have a look:
Anarchists wants to tear down governmental organizations
Anarchists say only individuals can create cooperative social structures
Anarchists reject all state structures because they promote the sovereignty of the individual, as opposed to a state that does things on their behalf, such as pothole repair, regulating medications, and overseeing interstate commerce.
Anarchists want to break up governments they claim steal power from the individual.
Anarchists promote free association where no party or leader tells them what to think.
Anarchists oppose governmental planners because they think individuals can make their own plans on every topic.
Anyone who knows what fascism and anarchism mean realizes fascist-anarchism cannot hold together. One person cannot promote fascist-anarchism without fact blindness and willful self-deception followed by terminal chaos. No party, no person, no nation can espouse fascist-anarchism because it wars with itself. Nevertheless, the Republicans preach both fascism and anarchism.

More can be said about fascism and anarchism; however, it is time to highlight the Trump-Republican internal confusion.

The Trump-Republican Internal Confusion
Fascist Republicans support robust governmental agencies that give their leader king-like powers. In opposition, Anarchist Republicans have for years been dismantling government agencies. Look at Project 2025 where they plan to eliminate the following: the Departments of Education, FBI, Environmental Protection Agency, The Federal Reserve, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Head Start, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and others.

Fascist Republicans swim in a cult of Trumpian personality, worshiping his every pronouncement as though he were their Savior. Anarchist Republicans never look up to anyone, eschewing kings, leaders, and “saviors” because they rely on themselves alone.

No political entity can be both fascist and anarchist at once. A person or a party must choose between these two things:

Either (A) a fascist dictatorship where individuals bow to the supreme leader, think of Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW,
Or (B) an anarchist state where isolated individuals stand helpless against corporate greed, mob actions, and bullies of all stripes, think of Free-Staters and Lord of the Flies.
Nevertheless, Trump and his Republicans want them both at the same time.

Fascists might try to appease anarchists by strengthening only some agencies; however, such cherry-picking won’t suit those pesky anarchists. Anarchist Republicans would say less government means less government; not creating “some” warehouses full of shock agents ready to attack.

The Republican strong-man government vs the Republican anti-government conflict does not so much resemble an unstoppable object hitting an immovable object as it resembles two hopelessly confused objects uselessly banging into each other. Nothing good, productive, safe, healthy, or economically sound can come from them. In such a Republican fascist-anarchist world, things fall apart and the center cannot hold because their internal contradiction generates nothing but chaos, confusion, and bedlam.

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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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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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News 6/9/25

After Israeli raid on Madleen aid ship, Tunisian-led land convoy pushes ahead to break Gaza blockade
The convoy is accompanied by volunteers from the Tunisian Red Crescent up to the Libyan border and has received backing from major civil society groups, including the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), the National Bar Association, the Tunisian League for Human Rights, and the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES). "After hundreds of vigils and protests, it’s time for practical solidarity," said UGTT representative Samir Cheffi. "This is a moral obligation. The entire Arab world is under threat from displacement and expansionist policies."
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisian-land-convoy-pushes-ahead-break-gaza-blockade

Azerbaijan maintains oil sales to Israel despite Turkish backlash, says report
Baku recently removed oil sales to Israel from its customs records, after steady year-on-year increases in exports to the country which had reached over a million tons in 2024. According to the records, exports to Israel stopped in October amid the war on Gaza. However, Israeli sources told Haaretz that the sales have continued, and that the change in customs records may be due to the transactions being made to traders registered in third countries. "We received a promise from the Azerbaijanis that the strategic relations will continue, including in the energy sector, and we have nothing to worry about," one source said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/azerbaijan-maintains-oil-sales-israel-despite-turkish-backlash-says-report

Police tear gas activists protesting the death in police custody of a Kenyan blogger
Albert Ojwang was found dead while in custody at the Central Police Station and police attributed his death to “hitting his head against the cell wall,” but activists have questioned the cause of death. Ojwang was arrested Friday in Homa Bay in western Kenya and driven 400 kilometers (248 miles) to Nairobi for what police said was publishing “false information” about a top police official on social media.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-blogger-dead-police-custody-protest-7adfd1284d119632552afc0162410e5b

Protests burst onto streets of France after Israel hijacks aid flotilla
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in nearly 200 rallies across France, with over 50,000 people in Paris alone. Protesters in the capital sat down in La Republique square at the end of the demonstration. Police ordered activists to disperse, but they remained defiant into the evening in the face of beatings. At around 10pm, a left wing MP announced the evacuation order against the protesters had been halted.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/protests-burst-onto-streets-of-france-after-israel-hijacks-aid-flotilla/

Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktank
According to the report by Common Wealth, ministers could use a process known as special administration to take over a company like Thames Water and, rather than transfer it to another private company, keep it under permanent public ownership. Writing for the thinktank, Ewan McGaughey, professor of law at King’s College London, said that while a figure of £99bn was commonly cited as the cost of taking over the industry in England, this was based on an estimate from a thinktank paid for by water companies.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/09/water-companies-public-ownership-could-cost-close-to-zero-says-common-wealth-thinktank

Meloni’s coalition taunts left from the beach as low voter turnout scuppers referendum
A majority of those who did participate backed the change, but referendums must draw at least 50 percent of registered voters under Italian law for their results to be valid. The June 8-9 ballot, which had also sought changes to rules on workers’ rights, saw a voter turnout of just 30.6 percent. The result is a victory — albeit an unconventional one — for Meloni, president of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, which opposed the ballot and tactically aimed to depress turnout.
https://www.politico.eu/article/giorgia-meloni-italy-coalition-citizenship-referendum-immigration/
https://archive.ph/3Ys4A

Brazil braces for Bolsonaro’s day in court as ex-president testifies over ‘coup plot’
Last week the former head of the air force, Brig Carlos de Almeida Baptista Júnior, gave damning evidence, telling the supreme court that at one point in 2022 the former head of the army, Gen Marco Antônio Freire Gomes, threatened to arrest Bolsonaro if he sought any kind of “institutional rupture”. But major question marks remain over whether, if convicted, Bolsonaro will ever actually serve time.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/09/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-supreme-court-coup-plot

Colombian senator Uribe shows little response to treatment after shooting
Uribe, 39, is a member of the opposition right-wing Democratic Center party and was shot in the head as he was addressing a campaign event on Saturday in a public park in the capital. The shooting, which was caught on video, has shaken Colombia, evoking the political violence of previous decades. "His condition is extremely serious," the Santa Fe Foundation hospital said in a statement. "Therefore, the prognosis remains cautious."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-uribe-shows-little-response-treatment-after-shooting-hospital-says-2025-06-09/

Panama Faces Unrest as American Forces Arrive for Canal Protection Exercises
U.S. troops began joint training exercises in Panama in June 2025, following a new agreement signed between Panama and the United States in April. The arrival of American military personnel comes as Panamanians protest the deal, which allows U.S. forces to use local air and naval bases for training and security operations aimed at protecting the Panama Canal.
https://www.riotimesonline.com/panama-faces-unrest-as-american-forces-arrive-for-canal-protection-exercises/
https://archive.ph/q0jI8

Jones Huala arrested for encouraging acts of violence
Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) leader Facundo Jones Huala was arrested in the Patagonian city of El Bolsón late Sunday by the Argentine Federal Police, following an order from the Bariloche Federal Prosecutor's Office for public intimidation, incitement to collective violence, apology for crime, and criminal association.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/06/09/jones-huala-arrested-for-encouraging-acts-of-violence

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“A China Led Multipolar World Order“

Maybe it’s because I’m just insufficiently educated, but phrases like “A China led multipolar world order” and “a new world order with China at the center” seem like oxymorons to me. Doesn’t “multipolarity” imply a world where there is no decisive leader on the national stage, but instead multiple powers, all powerful enough to accomplish things on a world stage but none so powerful as to be able to boss around smaller nations?

Could someone please explain this to me? Thank you in advance.

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Is there a leftypol archive with ALL archived threads like desuarchive and wasoru? i want to be able to read through every post that was made on leftypol, edu and siberia

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/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".”

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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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Lex revolutionis suprema est.

The law of revolution is simple: win by any means. Fuck politeness. Cut people off when they’re dead weight. Burn useless orgs to the ground. Set up committees wherever there's space. Step over anyone in your way. Sabotage enemies without guilt. This isn’t a popularity contest. No one gives a shit about your tone or who gets upset. There’s no moral law, no historical fairness, no guiding hand. Just struggle.

Your only duty is to build a party that can take power and establish proletarian dictatorship. That means being ruthless. That means pushing harder than everyone else. That means knowing when to tell people to shut up and move aside. You’re not here to coddle feelings. You’re here to make revolution.

You won’t win by being nice. You won’t win by waiting. You win by organizing, by fighting, by breaking things that need to be broken. If a few friendships die, if some reputations get trashed, who cares? This is war.

Build power. Crush enemies. Don’t apologize. The future is taken, not gifted. You either step up or get stepped on.

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why do fascist leaders all talk like this?

>TODAY WE CELEBRATE OUR NATIONAL PRIDE
>crowd applauses
>THERE ARE MANY THINGS TO BE PROUD OF
>crowd cheers even more crazier, women are screaming like banshees as il duce blankly stares at the crowd
>LIKE RACE MIXING AND GAY SEX
>crowd starts vibrating with excitement, men are being shoved out of windows blackshirts are start screaming si over and over again
>NOW LET'S GO DIE IN SERBIA
>the crowd lets out a great victory screech all pledging their life to ᴉuᴉlossnW, the cry shatters windows from naples to milan
>"DUCE DUCE DUCE DUCE"

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Do you actually believe modern humans are strong enough to lead larger societies?

When I say strong, I don’t mean reactionary or tough or macho or even smart either oddly enough. I mean are most if not any of the people either elected or seizing power today are actually physically and mentally prepared to deal with the psychological stress and physical endangerment that comes with the responsibilities of being a head of state or high ranking official in any society? Personally, I don’t think so. And even if there were, there clearly aren’t many. Like, does anyone remember Lenin dying of brain death just from trying to run the USSR in its early days? If even the best couldn’t handle something like that, imagine how little of a chance all the other openly kleptocratic, weak, cowardly, and infantile people currently driving their societies towards civil instability and social unrest fare in leadership.

Like fuck man. Most heads of state don’t even have an official office or location they work at or really any supplies to get started even if they did give a shit about doing their jobs. They live in overglorified mansions doing largely nothing and delegating any actual work over to technocrats before either endulging themselves on populist rhetoric or mindlessly obeying whatever their advisors or transient allies tell them to do. Being charismatic or playing dress up with other politicians isn’t enough to do the job, no where near it.

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Revolution in internet

It’s crucial to reject mainstream culture and focus on humanity’s real problems. Leftypol needs you to help conquer the internet with well‐reasoned arguments and to show the far right that they’re completely off base and know nothing about how the web actually works. They’ve already achieved what no one could have imagined, so now we must unite—and dream big. I trust you.

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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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/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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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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On philosemitism

As we all know BasedEmpanada has recently pointed out that antisemitism is not a problem in the West, and that the real antisemitism these days is aimed at Arabs. I think this concept deserves to be elaborated on.

To say that antisemitism is a thing, and that we should be concerned about it, is on the same level as claiming reverse racism is a thing to be concerned about. Do Jews face systemic oppression? No. To be Jewish is an asset in the West. Jews are effectively White. Not only that, but the Whitest of Whites. The height of Whiteness. Except for Black Jews of course, who face systemic oppression not because they are Jews, but because they are Black.

Every single pundit who is Very Concerned about antisemitism is really just concern trolling. The similarities to fascists who are Very Concerned about anti-White "racism" is palpable. We even have a word for this: philosemitism.

All the classic antisemitic tropes have been recycled against Arabs. This is another point of philosemitic accusations - to pretend that hatred against Arabs is actually hatred against Jews.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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palestine vs the zionist entity-118. CUM tribute brigades

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Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

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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

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WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING

CRITICAL SUPPORT TO WEED WORLDWIDE RIGHT NOW, DESTROY BULGARIA, GIVE THE CLASS CONSCIOUS BULGARIANS WEED, GIVE THE POLISH CLASS COSCIOUS COMMUNISTS LIVING IN CATHOLIC ANTICOMMUNIST CIA PSYOPPED HELL SOME WEED TO RELAX FROM THE NERVE WRECKING FASCIST SOCIETY THEY LIVE IN GIVE THEM WEED LET THEM HAVE SLACK LET THE WORKERS HAVE SLACK GIVE WEED TO THE ROMANIANS WHO ARE STRUGGLING AGAINST THEIR LIBERAL DICTATORSHIP ANTI-COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT FORCED TO INTERACT WITH THE UNCHANGING REACTIONARY RELIGIOUS ORTHODOX VERMIN AND THEIR OWN REACTIONARY FAMILIES AND RELATIVES LET THEM GET HIGH GIVE THE WEED TO THE UKRAINIANS SO THEY STOP WARRING, WEED RIGHT NOW TO ALL THE RELIGIOUS SHITHOLE COUNTRIES FOR ALL THE CLASS CONSCIOUS WORKERS AWARE OF IMMANENT CRITIQUE AND THE SCIENTIFICALLY MINDED TENDING TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS IMMORTALITY AND YET FORCED TO LIVE UNDER THE WEIGHT OF BILLIONS OF REACTIONARY VERMIN STOMPING ON THIER LIVELIHOOD, GIVE WEED TO ALL THE EASTERN EUROPEANS FORCED TO LIVE UNDER RETARDED LIBERAL DECOMPOSING CAPITALIST BOURGEOIS HELLSCAPE EU, THEY ENTER THE EU AND GET NONE OF THE PRIVILEDGE OF THE WESTERN NATIONS TO SMOKE WEED AND NOT BE ARRESTED AND HAVE EASY ACCESS TO IT ALONGSIDE ALL THE OTHER PSYCHOTROPICS WITH THE POTENTIALITY TO ASPIRE AND RELIEVE THE MENTAL STRAIN OF THE CONSCIOUS PLATEAU OF SOCIETY, GIVE THE SPANISH UNBOUND ACCESS TO MARIJUNA TO RELAX AND MURDER FALANGISTS AND LIBERALS IN GREAT STRATEGIST ASPIRATIONS FROM UNRESTRAINED DRUG ACCESS, COMMENCE WORLDWIDE ASPIRATIONS FOR THE GLOBAL BUTCHERING OF REACIONARIES AND THE ACQUIRED MOVEMENT OF READING CAPITAL, GERMANS GET TO SMOKE WEED AND YET EASTERN EUROPEANS ARE STIGMATIZED AND AT THREAT OF BEING ARRESTED FOR IT DESPITE BEING IN NATIONS IN THE EU LIBERAL-MAFIA BOURGEOISIE DICTATORSHIP OF SCHENGEN "FREE TRADE" SCAM, GIVE THE GREEK ADVENTURISTS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FASCISTS AND THEIR OWN BOURGEOIS GOVERNMENT FOR DECADES THE WEED AND PSYCHADELICS TO RECEIVE THE SLACK AFTER DECADES OF TORMENT AND NERVOUS RISKS
LET THERE BE NO MORE ARGUMENTS MADE ABOUT THE POTENTIALITY OF BOTANY AND CHEMISTRY IN RECREATIONAL USE, END GLOBAL DOGMA AND STIGMA, THERE CAN BE NO ROOM FOR NEGOTATION WITH THE UNDIALECTICAL AND REACTIONARY LOT WHICH DON'T RECOGNIZE THEMSELVES AS SUCH BUT HARBRINGERS OF ORDER WHICH CAN ONLY SERVE TO DEFEND THE BOURGEOIS ORDER AND DILLUTE INFORMATION ONLINE IN THE WOD NGO-BACKED INFORMATIONAL WARFARE ONLINE WHERE EVERY MAINSTREAM NARRATIVE IS PARROTED BY CONTRARIANS SLANDERING THE POTENTIALITY OF DRUGS

IN THE REPEATED WORKS THAT MUST BE ACCEPTED BY THE BROADEST OF WITNESSES
We (the real movement of drug enthusiasts) should definitely control the information and the narrative to fight the information war with the real movement against the present state of affairs and the movement of the declassed, you should tend towards us or be alienated from the places where the platforms held by the left wing of capital. You should tend against the WOD, it is every sadness and illness you've ever had in your life that could've been prevented by educated drug use. Every low point of depressive anhedonia is a problem of sobriety or in the smallest of cases an improper use of drugs cultivated by the information wars that merits abuse. They really do thrive on ignorance, because ignorance causes freak accidents in the fields of chemistry and botany. It's a high expectation of the social order to be educated about drugs and have almost unconditional access to them, it is where the Prussian model of education cannot do shit since it breeds retardation and thrives on a malformed view of reality that is programmed to create less science oriented and more oligophrenic proles (the dumber the better since retards don't know what's wrong with the mode of production "i.e. mislabeled the world" to have the will to change it). Psychadelics is a threat to this, because it can turn a retarded reactionary person into a curious and open to knowledge one. The class on whose labor society depends, if they are retarded, they have no will to recognize what is happening to them or don't know what is to be done about it. The amount of retards who underestimate the power of mind-altering substances here is evident of the depth this retardation. Coming on an obscure imageboard site and spewing their fearmongering bullshit, when the rest of the internet is practically already doing that, all the media and the entire bourgeois order should be telling of how stupid they are. They think they know better for giving the same ill-informed "opinions" you can find on Stormfront "LE DRUGS ARE DEGENERATE", bots of the NGOs and the reactionary forces.
>just because everyone (most people) say X is true doesn't mean X is false
This is true, yet they present themselves with the view of the status quo as "contrarian" enforcers of "the falling status quo", i.e. defenders of the bourgeois order which have no arguments besides parroting the same pseud "academic" papers meant for fearmongering rather than experimentation, study, adaptation, modification and extraction of the beneficiary properties - they are instead overlooked and slandered. This is not a scientific onlook, it is a reactionary view that thrives off the scared and the parasitic, which completely neglects the history of medicine and science in themselves, the taking of disease to create immunities - a process which they look over because "it is filthy, there is nothing worth doing with it" or deflecting "whatever potential it may have is still not good enough to allow people…" and such arguments. It is reactionary and regressive, but some still think they are "scientific oriented" because of the label games they love to play.
This can all be prevented by proper moderation which will defend the opposition towards the WOD and prohibit provocative slander. But the moderation has no reason to do it because they would rather cultivate a mass of reactionaries than a minority of real, non-cultural progressives.

EXPOSE THE WOD AND FIGHT IT, AGITATE FOR ITS DESTRUCTION AND SPEND YOUR WAKING HOURS DIRECTING ALL ATTENTION TO YOUR UNREST CAUSED BY THE WOD AND THE SOCIAL ORDER WHICH BREEDS FEAR, IGNORANCE AND DESTROYS YOUR LIVELIHOOD.

DEATH TO THE WOD, THIS IS NOT A SHITPOST - A LACK OF AWARNESS CAUSES RETARDS TO DISMISS THIS ISSUE. CONTINUE CAPS POSTS AND LONG TEXTS IN ONE BREATH TO DIRECT ATTENTION TO THE BIGGEST TERRORIST CAMPAIGN THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN ON WHICH NO DEBATE CAN JUSTIFY AND NO DEBATE IS TO BE HAD, ALL POST AGAINST THE WOD, ALL COMBAT THE WOD BY ANY MEANS.

KEY WORKS:
-PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
-TiHKAL: The Continuation
-The Nature of Drugs Vol. 1: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact
-The Nature of Drugs Vol. 2: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact
-Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (Vol. 1 & 2): 50 Years of Research
-Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds
-Mushrooms Demystified
-Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide
-The War on Drugs Explained July 25, 2024
-The Us Foreign Service: From New Frontier to War on Drugs
-The Long War On Drugs
-Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) 6 vols
-Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
-Unequal under Law: Race in the War on Drugs
-Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs

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Why is 90% of leftist discussion now just geopolitics?

>muh Israel
>muh Russia
>muh NATO
>muh China

Literally no one seems to actually give a fuck about communism anymore.

Let's take, for example, fucking East Timor or Pakistan or wherever. How the FUCK are we gonna have a communist revolution in these countries?

And why is it now commonly accepted that revolution is impossible in first world countries?? "We have tried nothing and we've run out of ideas"

Leftist discussion isn't even entertaining nowadays. I stg the level of humor has decreased by a massive amount, probably due to too much inclusion of women and minorities (that was a joke btw)

How do we make communism great again?

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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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When the West sanctioned Zimbabwe for appropriating white farm land what was the reason for it? Did they do it out of anti-communism? Was it to protect whites?

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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News 6/7/25

US mulls giving millions to controversial Gaza aid foundation, sources say
The source said that Israel requested the funds to underwrite GHF's operations for 180 days. … The two sources said that some U.S. officials have concerns with the plan because of the overcrowding that has affected the aid distribution hubs run by GHF's contractor, and violence nearby. Those officials also want well-established non-governmental organizations experienced in running aid operations in Gaza and elsewhere to be involved in the operation if the State Department approves the funds for GHF, a position that Israel likely will oppose, the sources said. Gaza hospital officials have said more than 80 people had been shot dead and hundreds wounded near GHF's distribution points between June 1-3.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-mulls-giving-millions-controversial-gaza-aid-foundation-sources-say-2025-06-06/

Israeli military says four soldiers killed in Gaza, will draft 10,000 more troops
Israel's military announced Friday the deaths of four soldiers in Gaza, saying it needed thousands more troops to press its offensive, just as the premier's coalition faces the prospect of collapse over ultra-Orthodox conscription. News of the soldiers' deaths came as Gaza's civil defence agency reported 38 killed Friday in Israeli attacks across the territory, where Palestinians observed the Eid al-Adha holiday under the shadow of war for a second consecutive year.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250606-israel-army-announces-4-soldiers-killed-in-gaza-thousands-more-troops-needed
https://archive.ph/20nfN

Conference to recognise Palestinian state to weaken scope of its ambition, diplomats say
The change to the aims of the conference, due to be held between 17 and 20 June, marks a retreat from an earlier vision that it would mark a joint declaration of recognition of Palestine as a state by a large group of countries, including permanent UN security council members France and the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/07/saudi-arabia-conference-to-recognise-palestinian-state-weakens-scope-ambition-diplomats-say

Colombia: Judge Orders Senate Vote Repetition After Fraud in Popular Consultation, Highlights Petr
The judicial order responds to evidence that Senate President Efraín Cepeda prevented three congress members who supported the Popular Consultation from exercising their right to vote, altering the final result and violating democratic participation rights. Petro called this act a fraud and an attack against democracy and popular sovereignty.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-judge-orders-senate-vote-repetition-after-fraud-in-popular-consultation-highlights-petro/

Bolivia: Evo followers keep blocking roads and seize one airport
These actions, primarily in Cochabamba and Oruro, are part of protests demanding President Luis Arce Catacora's resignation and supporting Morales' candidacy. In Arica, Chile, 60 million liters of fuel (20 million gasoline, 40 million diesel) have begun unloading for shipment to Bolivia, but the blockades and a recent storm have delayed distribution, causing long queues at pumps.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/06/07/bolivia-evo-followers-keep-blocking-roads-and-seize-one-airport

Greek coast guard officials face prosecution over deaths of hundreds of migrants in Pylos boat disaster
Last week the Deputy Prosecutor of the Piraeus Naval Court found that the Hellenic Coast Guard (HCG) staff should face criminal charges relating to hundreds of preventable deaths on the Adriana on June 14, 2023. The boat—en route from the port of Tobruk, Libya to Italy with an estimated 750 on board—sank off the coast of the port of Pylos causing 600 people to drown, including women and children trapped below deck inside the ship. Just 104 people are known to have survived.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/05/ydhp-j05.html

French dock workers block arms shipment to Israel
Links are small metal pieces used to connect machine gun bullets, allowing for rapid bursts of fire. There has been concern in media and among rights groups that they have likely been used against civilians in the Gaza Strip. Christophe Claret, leader of the dock workers in the port, said they had been notified that the ship was due to be loaded on Thursday with the equipment. "We managed to identify it and set it aside," he told Agence France-Presse (AFP), emphasizing that once dockers refuse to load a shipment, no one else can do it for them. The other containers for the ship will all be loaded.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/06/05/french-dock-workers-block-arms-shipment-to-israel_6742052_7.html
https://archive.ph/CauMR

Vietnam ramps up expansion of South China Sea outposts: think tank
Citing satellite images, the Beijing-based South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI) said on Friday that the Southeast Asian nation had reclaimed nearly 0.78 sq km (0.3 square miles) of land on 11 features in the contested Spratly Islands, known as the Nansha Islands in China, over the past six months.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3313485/vietnam-ramps-expansion-south-china-sea-outposts-think-tank?module=top_story&pgtype=section

Sri Lanka: Michelin workers continue struggle, defying management’s threats
The campaign being waged by Michelin tyre factory workers in Midigama, southern Sri Lanka, is at a crucial stage. Management and top labour department officials, supported by the Inter-Company Employees Union (ICEU), which is controlled by the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), are attempting to break the Michelin employees’ fight for job security and their defence of victimised colleagues.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/06/xlwc-j06.html

‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream
Ravi is a cog in the wheel of the soaring dreams of the world’s fifth-largest economy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has boldly spoken of making India a $5 trillion economy, up from $3.5 trillion in 2023. But as Modi’s government woos global investors and assures them that it is easy today to do business in India, Ravi is among millions of workers whose stories of withheld wages, endless toil and coercion – telltale signs of forced labour, according to the United Nations’ International Labour Organization (ILO) – provide a haunting snapshot of the ugly underbelly of the country’s economy.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/open-prison-the-forced-labour-driving-indias-5-trillion-economy-dream
https://archive.ph/L2hKP

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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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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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>Was he any good before the IMF got him?

You never hear much about Madagascar. I know he tried liberalization after getting power back in a post-USSR world and it fucked him

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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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Can't fuck with the Tuck

Thoughts on Benjamin Tucker? Thoughts on his four monopolies?
>money
>land
>tariffs
>patents

Seems odd that he’s not more well remembered or respected but what does /leftypol/ think?

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News 6/6/25

US to formalise military presence in Syria with new deal
According to a Syrian security source cited by Independent Arabia , the agreement will legitimise the American military presence in Syria with the approval of the Syrian government. The source stated that US forces will withdraw from all bases in northeastern Syria, including those in Deir Ezzor, Raqqa, and Hasakah.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-formalise-military-presence-syria-new-deal

Gaza Aid Fund Halts Distribution on Friday; Israeli Army Limits Aid to Daytime Hours
The Israeli army announced Friday that access to aid distribution sites in the Gaza Strip will now be permitted only between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. According to the announcement by the IDF's Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, outside these hours, the sites will be considered closed military zones, and entry will be prohibited as it "poses a significant danger."
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-06/ty-article/u-s-backed-aid-group-halts-gaza-distribution-friday-idf-limits-aid-to-daytime-hours/00000197-45a8-d9f1-abb7-7dfca1650000
https://archive.ph/uMvO4

Israel’s US Broker Sells Record Debt for Nation During Gaza War
The war has stretched Israel’s public finances, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government borrowed a record 278.4 billion shekels ($75.9 billion) overall last year. The Finance Ministry’s General Accountant Yali Rothenberg, who is responsible for managing Israel’s sovereign debt, told Bloomberg earlier this year the country’s needs should total about 200 billion shekels in 2025. Israel does most of its borrowing in the local bond market, where demand is driven by deep pocketed institutional investors. Last year it accounted for 80% of all lending, with the rest coming from international markets, private placements and Israel Bonds sales.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/israel-s-us-broker-sells-record-debt-for-nation-during-gaza-war
https://archive.ph/pPM5b

Protests erupt in northern Sudan over power cuts
The demonstrations, which began yesterday, have caused significant disruption, with witnesses reporting hundreds of trucks backed up at various crossings. Protesters have meanwhile said that they are allowing travel buses and private vehicles to pass. The protests escalated this afternoon with residents marching through the town. Locals told Radio Dabanga that the planned power cuts, which started on Monday, have led to disruptions in water supply and forced bakeries to shut down.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/protests-erupt-in-northern-sudan-over-power-cuts

Red Cross closes Niger offices and foreign staff leave after junta’s expulsion order
On May 31, Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, justified the ICRC expulsion on Nigerien state television, accusing the organization of having met with “terrorist leaders” and funding armed groups. The ICRC refuted the accusations in its statement on Thursday, saying that dialogue with all sides in the conflict is necessary to carry out its humanitarian mandate and that it “never provides financial, logistical, or any other form of support” to armed groups.
https://apnews.com/article/niger-red-cross-office-closure-junta-098f73ff07c905b7f8443a2d585de274

Africa Corps to stay in Mali after Russia's Wagner mercenary group leaves
About 70-80% of the Africa Corps is made up of former Wagner mercenaries, according to several Telegram chats used by Russian mercenaries seen by Reuters. Wagner posted on social media that it was returning home after its mission in Mali had been successfully completed. It added it had brought all of the country's regional centres back under the control of the Malian military junta, pushing out Islamist forces and killing their commanders.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russias-wagner-mercenary-group-says-it-is-leaving-mali-after-mission-2025-06-06/

Tenants stop eviction of elderly East Ham couple
Forty London Renters Union (LRU) members frustrated an attempt at a section 21 eviction, which is due to be made illegal under the Renters’ Rights Bill currently making its way through Parliament. Tenants peacefully prevented the landlord and a locksmith from entering the home of Najib Noori and his wife Muskaan Noori in East Ham on Thursday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tenants-stop-eviction-elderly-east-ham-couple

Restrictions, discrimination do not significantly stem Tajik migration flow to Russia
The IOM’s Tajikistan situation report covering the last half of 2024 shows that as of last September, 618,097 Tajiks citizens had traveled abroad in search of work, roughly 98 percent of them heading to Russia. During the same timeframe in 2023, the number of Tajik labor migrants stood at 673,285.
https://eurasianet.org/restrictions-discrimination-do-not-significantly-stem-tajik-migration-flow-to-russia

Bangladesh to hold election in first half of April 2026, interim PM says
Bangladesh will hold a national election in the first half of April 2026, its de facto premier said on Friday, after a period of interim unelected government since student-led unrest in 2024 toppled then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina. The administration led by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been running the South Asian nation of 173 million people since August, when Hasina fled to India in the face of deadly street protests against her government.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladeshs-elections-be-held-first-half-april-2026-says-de-facto-pm-yunus-2025-06-06/

Myanmar Junta Steps Up Arrests of Supporters
Pro-military Telegram channel Han Nyein Oo claimed Zaw Phone Hein was detained under the Telecommunications Law and for illegal logging, arms trading and unlicensed vehicle sales. The channel called for the arrest of anyone who criticised the arrest. Zaw Phone Hein often criticized Min Aung Hlaing and other junta bosses, prompting speculation that his arrest may be part of a wider purge targeting dissent. Some leaders of the Buddhist nationalist Association for Protection of Race and Religion, known by its Burmese acronym Ma Ba Tha, and other military supporters called for Zaw Phone Hein’s release, saying he remains loyal to the junta.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-steps-up-arrests-of-supporters.html

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>How it feels being a leftcom knowing that millions of leftards will die in the next world war defending their favorite capitalist states with red flags while I hide in a bunker in rural Patagonia, eating Argentine beef jerky and playing emulated Switch games on my Steam Deck, and then emerge after the war to a population where breeding age women outnumber men like me in the millions

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Realistically speaking, how much long do you guys think Xi has left to live? Enough to see the belt and road finished? And who will replace him? What if it’s some liberal wrecker?

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I’m new to communism so I wanna know what are communist and socialist stance on the police system. I heard some say that the part of the bourgeoisie I hear some say that they we need it the police system I in China I hear, anarcho communist scream all cops are bastards so I wanna know your guises opinion

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About leftypol

The culture of Leftypol should exceed the forum for the real The leftist space should serve as a bulwark against the current right-wing resurgence. This site, Leftypol, though not always serious, remains one of the few remaining sanctuaries of the contemporary left. Naturally, we support it. I believe every image should be accompanied by the communist flag as a banner, or the anarchist flag as a standard

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Actually Existing Syndicalism

A thread devoted for the bourgeois politics of syndicalism, its anti-communist history and grand failures.

Rosa's Reform or Revolution helps to explain it along with Lenin's What is to be Done.

Those who concentrate the attention, observation, and consciousness of the working class exclusively, or even mainly, upon itself alone are not Social-Democrats; for the self-knowledge of the working class is indissolubly bound up, not solely with a clear theoretical understanding–or rather, not so much with the theoretical, as with the practical, understanding–of the relationships between all the various classes of modern society, acquired through the experience of political life…in order to become a Social-Democrat, the worker must have a clear picture in his mind of the economic nature and the social and political features of the landlord and the priest, the high state official and the peasant, the student and the vagabond; he must know their strong and weak points; he must grasp the meaning of all the catchwords and sophisms by which each class and each stratum camouflages its selfish strivings and its real "inner workings"; he must understand what interests are reflected by certain institutions and certain laws and how they are reflected. -Lenin

"ᴉuᴉlossnW is a man no less extraordinary than Lenin. -Georges Sorel"

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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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Nationalism and Culture - Economic materialism challenged

In his magnum opus, Rudolf Rocker challenges the theory of economic materialism by considering the "will to power" as one of the strongest motives in the development of human social forms. He states that "it is the fundamental error of this theory that it puts the causes of social phenomena on a par with the causes of mechanistic events in nature". What is the missing component then? He adds "Every social process arises from human intentions and human goal setting and occurs within the limits of our volition. Consequently, it is not subject to the concept of natural necessity".

How do we understand history, one may ask?
Rudolf argues: "For history is, after all, nothing but the great arena of human aims and ends, and every theory of history, consequently, a matter of belief founded at best only on probability; it can never claim unshakeable certainty". Rather, he argues, "The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history".

He then mentions some historical examples where economic materialism is not enough to explain such events:
- "The empire of Alexander cemented together with the blood of hundreds of thousands fell to ruin soon after his death proves that the military and poltiical achivements of the Macedonian world conqueror were not historically determined by economic necessity (…). His mad power obsession was a leading motive in his whole policy"

- The other example refers to the Crusades: "Economic motives alone would never have been sufficient to set millions of men in all countries in motion if they had not been permeated by the obsession of faith (…)." Although some economical advantages existed "To deduce that from this that the Crusades were inevitably determined by the methods of production of the period would be sheer nonsense."

Rudolf argues that the State needs to appeal to men's heart in order to control him, as economic conditions are not enough to manipulate him in its favor: "The decisive factor is that without the continuous appeal to men's ethical feelings, to their sense of justice, no war would have been possible. (…) This is proved by the fact that before men can be driven to war they must be lashed into a certain pitch of passion and by the further fact that this passion can only be aroused by spiritual and moral motives." referring to WW1. As such, "Considered purely economically, the War was therefore by no means inevitable. Capitalism could have survived without it."

Therefore, even though the whole capitalistic economic system has gotten out of control, the revolution has yet to come. Rudolf explain this: "But the spirit is lacking-the socialistic spirit that strives for a fundamental reconstruction of social life and is not content with petty patchwork, which merely prolongs the crisis but can never heal its causes. Never before has it been so clearly proved that economic conditions alone cannot change the social structure, unless there are present in men the spiritual and intellectual prerequisites to give wings to their desires and unite their scattered forces for communal work."

The message is clear: the revolution will not fall from the skies. Will not be born spontaneously from our suffering. We, consciously and willingly, must create the revolution. So let's stop this nonsense that some Marxists claim: "the material conditions are not ready for the revolution". Climate change is the current and future event that proves such a statement disastrously wrong.

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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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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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Kroptopkin was a Bad Person.

>correctly identifies inequities in the mode of production.
<goes against the valuation of commodities.
<defies the need to allocate scarce resources.
<reject all the equity rapped up in the valuation of scarce commodities.
<provides no real alternative mechanism for the allocation of commodities.
Kroptopkin was a bad person.
Falling for his treachery would make you worse off.

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Marx was a bad person.

Mazzini, for reasons which I have just indicated, clearly wishes to put an end to the antagonism between classes. But does Mr. Marx really want to preserve this antagonism, which renders all participation of the masses in the politics of the State absolutely impossible? For such political action cannot succeed unless the bourgeoisie enter into it, and will succeed only when this class develops and directs it. Of this, Marx cannot be ignorant. It is impossible for me to believe he is unaware of this, after the speech he recently delivered in Amsterdam in which he declared that in certain countries, perhaps in Holland itself, the social question can be peaceably resolved; that is, in an altogether friendly, legal way, without force. This can mean only that the social problem can he resolved by a series of successive, tranquil, and judicious compromises between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Mazzini has never differed from this.

In the end, Mazzini and Marx agree on a cardinal point: that the great social reforms which are to emancipate the proletariat can be put into effect only by a great democratic, republican, and very powerful, highly centralized state. This state, they allege, must impose upon the people a very strong government, this being in the people’s interest, to secure their education and well-being.

Between Mazzini and Marx there has always been an enormous difference, and it is all to the honor of Mazzini. Mazzini was a profoundly sincere and passionate believer. He adored his God, to whom he devoted all that he felt, thought, did. In regard to his own style of life, he was the simplest of men, the most modest, the most unselfish. But he became inflexible, furious, when anyone touched his God.

Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with rancor. He has very little benevolence toward men and becomes just as furious, and infinitely more spiteful, than Mazzini when anyone dares question the omniscience of the divinity whom he adores, that is to say, Mr. Marx himself. Mazzini would like to impose on humanity the absurdity of God; Mr. Marx tries to impose himself. I believe in neither, but if I were forced to choose, I would prefer the Mazzinian God.

I believe it is my duty to give this explanation, so that the friends and disciples of Mazzini cannot accuse me of dishonoring the memory of their master by likening him to Mr. Marx. I return to my subject.

I say then that for all the reasons I have given, it would not surprise me if we soon hear talk of a reconciliation between the Mazzinian agitation and the Marxist intrigue in Italy. I maintain that if the Marxist party, the so-called Social Democrats, continues along the road of political action, it will sooner or later be forced to oppose economic action – the tactic of strikes – so incompatible are these two methods in reality…

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News 6/5/25

Israel accused of arming Palestinian gang who allegedly looted aid in Gaza
Abu Shabab’s group has previously been accused of involvement in smuggling operations linked to Egyptian jihadi groups. A security official told Israeli news outlet Ynet that the arming of Abu Shabab was approved and led by the Shin Bet internal security service, and described the operation as “planned and managed”, with the goal of “reducing Israeli military casualties while systematically undermining Hamas through targeted strikes, infrastructure destruction and the promotion of rival local forces.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/israel-accused-of-arming-palestinian-gang-who-allegedly-looted-aid-in-gaza

Report: Israel contributed NIS 700m to Gaza aid mechanism it claims not to fund
The Israeli government has transferred hundreds of millions of shekels to fund the new humanitarian aid mechanism in the Gaza Strip, Kan news reported Wednesday, contradicting government officials who have insisted that Israel has no part in its funding. According to the report, the government approved the transfer of NIS 700 million (some $280 million) last month to an unclear source, identified by the government only as “the defense establishment.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israel-contributed-nis-700m-to-gaza-aid-mechanism-it-claims-not-to-fund/
https://archive.ph/7S4qF

Turkish prosecutors investigate main opposition leader as five mayors dismissed
The clampdown is centred on Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and leads him in some opinion polls. The CHP's Imamoglu was jailed in March pending trial on corruption charges, which he denies. The Istanbul prosecutor's office said in a statement that it had launched the probe into CHP leader Ozgur Ozel over comments he made about the chief prosecutor at a rally in Istanbul on Wednesday, criticising the targeting of the opposition.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-probes-opposition-leader-sacks-five-mayors-crackdown

Ghana endorses Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara
Ghana and Morocco also agreed to promote defense cooperation and work on a visa waiver deal. With Morocco home to fertilizers and phosphates giant OCP, the two countries agreed to cooperate on food security, the statement said. Moroccan fertilisers will help Ghana develop cocoa farming and reduce dependence on food imports, worth $3 billion annually, Okudzeto Ablakwa told reporters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ghana-endorses-moroccos-autonomy-plan-western-sahara-2025-06-05/

Algeria pushes back 16,000 illegal migrants to Niger
On June 1 and 2, a total of 1,466 migrants arrived at the border town of Assamaka according to prefectorial authorities of the northern Nigerien city of Arlit. The first group, which arrived on Sunday, included 688 nationals from a dozen West African countries, including 239 Nigeriens, authorities said. The second group, which included 778 Nigeriens, 222 of them minors, arrived Monday on board 13 trucks and a van, they added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-pushes-back-16000-illegal-migrants-niger

Harassment by Ubisoft executives left female staff terrified, French court hears
In four days of hearings, female former staff members variously described being tied to a chair, forced to do handstands, subjected to constant comments about sex and their bodies, having to endure sexist and homophobic jokes, drawings of penises being stuck to computers, a manager who farted in workers’ faces or scribbled on women with marker pens, gave unsolicited shoulder massages, played pornographic films in an open-plan office, and another executive who cracked a whip near people’s heads. The three men deny all charges.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/ubisoft-executives-harassment-trial-france

Bolivia leftist Rodriguez back in presidential race; Morales kept out
Rodriguez's "Third System" party can participate in August's elections, the court ruled on Thursday. A recent Ipsos CIESMORI poll showed him as the leading contender for the left, after opposition candidates Samuel Doria - a businessman and economist - and conservative ex-President Jorge Quiroga.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-rodriguez-back-ballot-presidential-race-morales-still-out-2025-06-05/

Argentina’s Lower House Approves Pension Hike Despite Milei’s Opposition
Lawmakers also approved an extension of the pension moratorium program, which allows individuals who lack 30 years of social security contributions to purchase the missing years and thus qualify for a minimum pension. The measures passed with 142 votes from Peronist, centrist, and leftist lawmakers. Sixty-seven lawmakers voted against the proposals, including members of Freedom Advances — the party led by far-right President Javier Milei — and his allies, such as lawmakers from Republican Proposal, the party of former President Mauricio Macri. Nineteen lawmakers abstained.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentinas-lower-house-approves-pension-hike-despite-mileis-opposition/

Protesters and police clash in eastern Panama
Authorities and protesters were injured Thursday in eastern Panama when border police tried to open a highway blocked in an Indigenous community as part of monthlong demonstrations against changes to the country’s social security system. Border police in riot gear launched tear gas and fired rubber-coated metal balls to disperse balaclava-wearing protesters firing rocks from slingshots and throwing Molotov cocktails.
https://apnews.com/article/panama-police-protests-darien-93f64bcd72ffa57d1c60c9efe153dbf6

Supreme Court rejects Mexico lawsuit against US gunmakers
The court voted 9-0 to reject the suit, in the process upholding a 2005 law that shields gun manufacturers from liability if weapons they produce are misused. Mexico's government had argued that the "flood" of illegal guns across the border is a result of "deliberate" practices by US firms that they say appealed to cartel members with their products. The decision overturns a lower court's ruling that allowed the suit, brought against manufacturer Smith & Wesson and wholesaler Interstate Arms, to proceed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dez6rwz07o

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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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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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Communism can only be achived after a post scarcity society

Communism wont probably happen in any of our life times and any attempt to over throw the bourgeoisie will only be temporary like that in the Soviet Union and as we are now seeing that in China. This is because the means of production are not developed enough and wont be until we at least reach a post scarcity society for our basic needs. I think because of that we should be only with fighting the ills of capitalism and helping develop the means of production so we can achieve that future faster.

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muh imperialism

i hate when people say "Russia and Ukraine is just capitalist imperialists fighting over resources, you shouldn't support any side!" like no shit the stage of economic development we're in is capitalism and every power is functionally capitalist whether they admit to it or not. Marxists should understand historical materialism better than anyone else but ig not.

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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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Happy Tienanmen Square Day.
Let us remember the peaceful protests that took place on June 4th where student protestors burnt soldiers alive and strapped their charred corpses to the sides of burnt out buses and were expected to die for the cause by some individualist phycology student because the masses were "still deluded" by the system.

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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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Imagine being a Chinese spy on Rednote trying to get the bourgeois failson of a Senator to leak intel. "Is this some kind of mkultra programming" you wonder as failson messages you in his typical ribald and incomprehensible ultra memespeak. Some days you despair of yourself. You recall long hours gathering intelligence on failson's libshit sister before failson himself somehow fell into the agency's lap. The sister's social media political posturing was even more confusing. It begins to sink into you that none of this was some kind of intelligence psyop or something. Americans were really just like that.

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News 6/4/25

Widespread Opposition in Ecuador Over Reform Allowing Foreign Military Bases
Ecuador’s National Assembly approved a partial reform to Article 5 of the Constitution, which previously declared the country a territory of peace and explicitly prohibited foreign military bases. The reform passed with 82 votes in favor, 60 against, and 6 abstentions. The change is backed by President Daniel Noboa’s government, which argues it is necessary to strengthen efforts against drug trafficking.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/widespread-opposition-in-ecuador-over-reform-allowing-foreign-military-bases/

“It’s a coup d’état”: Petro’s labor referendum draws ire of Colombia’s opposition parties
In an address to the nation, Petro confirmed that he will issue a decree ordering the National Registry to begin organizing the referendum that seeks to dramatically expand the rights of workers. "The decree of the popular consultation must be signed before the people, hopefully before hundreds of thousands of people. It was born from the people, it remains in the people. We do not have much time, therefore we do not have much time to call it."
https://colombiareports.com/petros-labor-referendum-draws-ire-of-colombias-opposition-parties/

El Salvador judge orders pre-trial detention of prominent lawyer Ruth Lopez
She left Wednesday's hearing shouting that she was innocent and said she had now been charged with illicit enrichment. "I am a political prisoner. All the charges are because of my legal work, due to my denunciation of corruption in this government," Lopez added.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-judge-orders-detention-prominent-lawyer-ruth-lopez-2025-06-04/

Unions file complaint over Saudi Arabia's treatment of migrant workers
The International Trade Union Confederation and its sister African organisation filed a formal complaint on Wednesday urging the International Labour Organization to investigate Saudi Arabia's labour practices. It raised concerns about mistreatment of migrant construction and domestic workers as the 2034 soccer World Cup looms on the horizon, citing examples of workers being forced to work up to 20 hours a day, denied wages and subjected to beatings.
https://www.newarab.com/news/unions-file-complaint-over-saudi-arabias-migrant-worker-abuses

Jordanian authorities arrest prominent left leader Dr. Issam Khawaja
According to the security source, those “individuals” were arrested “over chanting misleading and offensive slogans against the state, and violating the provisions of the law.” The source added that the detainees “will be referred to the Public Prosecutor, who will act thereupon as required by the law.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/04/jordanian-authorities-arrest-prominent-left-leader-dr-issam-khawaja/

Gaza food hub stops operations for second day as access routes remain ‘combat zones’
The GHF had previously said it had asked the Israeli military to “guide foot traffic in a way that minimises confusion or escalation risks” near military perimeters, develop clearer guidance for civilians and enhance training to support civilian safety.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/04/israel-warns-palestinians-against-travel-on-roads-to-gaza-aid-hubs-labelling-them-combat-zones

Israel strikes Syria hours after missiles launched towards occupied Golan Heights
The missiles were reportedly fired from the town of Tasil in Syria's Daraa Governorate - an area where Israel conducted military operations in April as part of its ongoing incursions into Syrian territory. A previously unknown group calling itself the Martyr Mohammed Deif Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. The group is named after the late commander of Hamas' armed wing. "From the heart of occupied Palestine, we announce the establishment of the Martyr Mohammed Deif Brigades, in loyalty to the pure blood shed and as a continuation of the resistance path," the group said in a statement.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-attacks-syria-following-launch-missiles-south-golan-heights

Norway MPs reject call to stop wealth fund investing in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories
After the vote, Hussein told the Guardian: “I’m incredibly disappointed. This should have been the easiest vote of our lives, especially for the Labour party and the Labour government.” She added: “We are not backing down. Shortly before the government recognised the state of Palestine, they voted against it in parliament. We will continue to put pressure on the other parties together with the massive movement in civil society.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/04/norway-mps-reject-call-to-stop-wealth-fund-investing-in-occupied-palestinian-territories

Trump’s tariffs to squeeze Vietnam even if it lifts all duties on US goods: Lutnick
“Absolutely not, absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do,” Lutnick said when Republican Senator John Kennedy asked him whether the US will respond in kind if Vietnam decided to eliminate all tariffs and trade barriers against American imports, calling a potential agreement like that “a terrible deal”.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3313102/trumps-tariffs-squeeze-vietnam-even-if-it-lifts-all-duties-us-goods-lutnick

Aboriginal community shaken by second death in Australian police custody
“We know that he was held down by two police until he lost consciousness and perished. But at the moment we are in the dark about what really happened,” Hargraves added. “Family representatives need to see all available footage of this incident immediately – both CCTV and body cam so we can understand what happened to my Jaja,” he said. “But so far they are refusing to grant this.” While details are still emerging of the circumstances surrounding the death, Hargraves said his grandson had been living in supported accommodation because of disabilities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/4/aboriginal-community-shaken-by-second-death-in-australian-police-custody

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China Questions

A short-lived poll on your Chyna position. This was not posted in the China General thread because this is looking for general responses, not just people focused on the situation. This will include some silly questions, because there are a few silly people around.

>What belief most guides your perspective of the PRC and the CPC? Campism? Anti-Imperialism? Worker rights? Human rights? Nationalism? This is not asking about ideology, but underlying values, which are related but distinct.
>What defining features of the Communist Party of China determine whether or not it is a:
> - Communist party
> - Worker party
> - People's party
> - Progressive force
>Are there any alternative parties or movements in the PRC which you would support if they began to challenge the CPC's power?
>If yes, would they continue to be valid if they received support from reactionary powers (e.g. USA's CIA) similarly to other resistance movements both in China or abroad. Consider that Castro allegedly received funding in the 1950s from the CIA.
>How would you react to a military invasion of ROC territory by the PRC? (esp. Taiwan) Would you argue for or against it?
>How would you react to a military invasion of all South Sea intermittent line ('Nine-dash line') territories by the PRC? (esp. all Spratly Islands) Would you argue for or against it?
>Do you consider the level of policing in Xinjiang to be appropriate or inappropriate, given historical context?
>Do you consider the level of public discourse control to be justified? Do you consider it to be protective or harmful to the communist movement?
>What are your thoughts on the SRV (Vietnam), in relation to the PRC?

You are encouraged to extend your responses with justifications and caveats.
You are welcome to ask additional questions, but if it's not in a neutral tone or just some sarcastic ass shit, you will be laughed at for being a baby.

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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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System of presses, associations, and circles

Engels emphasizes that revolutionaries must avoid all “official appointments” and headquarters within existing parties, since this would deprive them of independence and draw them into a whirlpool of compromises. Only in this way can they preserve the ability to offer uncompromising criticism of all sides and remain genuinely revolutionary, rather than mere rhetorical cheerleaders.

Marx, on the other hand, advises German communists to finally free themselves from “isolation” by establishing local reading circles, distributing cheap pamphlets, and setting up a regular system of correspondence and funding. Such work allows comrades to clarify their ideas, coordinate strategy, and more effectively oppose bourgeois interests - without risking that an early or failed public petition will expose their weakness and exhaust their limited resources.

Lenin’s correspondence with Russian Social-Democrats, following the same logic, recommends founding an all-Russian political newspaper (to be understood as a unified media and communication apparatus) before even considering a mass uprising. In his view, the newspaper is simultaneously a "collective propagandist," a "collective agitator," and a "collective organizer": not merely a physical product on paper, but an organ of collective communication that, through regular printing and distribution, forces the creation of a network of local agents. These agents remain in constant contact with the editorial line, monitor political developments, and exchange information. This network becomes the core of the party - capable of planned agitation, training new cadres, and adapting tactics for everything from student demonstrations to supporting peasant uprisings.

The essence of all three approaches is maintaining the independence of individuals and establishing lasting, connected channels of communication: an independent press (as an organ of collective communication), reading circles, and correspondence. Only once these foundations are laid can a mass movement become effective. Only when political workers are first organized in an autonomous environment, equipped with reliable channels for exchanging ideas, coordinating tactics, and education - in other words, organized into a system of the press, associations, and circles - can the movement avoid being caught unprepared by events and transcend the anxiety of spontaneous, dispersed action.

[1] Marx
https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1846/06/15.htm
[2] Engels
https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51 02 13.htm
[3] Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/may/04.htm

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When did you learn the only reason abortion is legal in America is because of fetal research, and academia is highly complicit in fetal organ trafficking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quXVxFS2TvI

This is satanic beyond belief. Preborn babies are being birthed and cut up while still alive so scientists can harvest their organs for academic research. And this isn't a new thing either. In the 1950s big universities in America such as the university of Pittsburgh were performing illegal abortions specifically for the purpose of fetal research. Many of these murdered babies would be the source of cell lines that would go into the creation of vaccines (more reason to oppose vaccination). This is exactly why abortion became legal in America to begin with: academic elites wanted more aborted babies to experiment on.

Intellectuals live in a perpetual bubble and do not care about the moral values of working people. They hate Christ and any kind of universalist morality. They are demons in human form.

We must beg President Trump to finally abolish fetal research. Expose every single university engaged in this hideous, anti-human practice and DEFUND THEM IMMEDIATELY. The babies are't buying your excuses.

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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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

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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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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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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?

R: 6 / I: 3

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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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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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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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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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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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)
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(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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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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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.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/31/hamas-says-ceasefire-proposal-offers-no-guarantees-end-war
https://archive.ph/uSO2n

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.
https://www.dw.com/en/cologne-ford-workers-in-germany-strike-for-first-time/a-72741644
https://archive.ph/hQ6sj

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/
https://archive.ph/AC0EN

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
https://archive.ph/twojL

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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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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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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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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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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>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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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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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!

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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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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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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 9

>Liberation Day edition
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: ~~>>2202919~~

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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