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This thread is for feedback related to administration and management. For technical issues use >>>/tech/6724Reading General
Hello leftypol, we noticed an under-appreciation for the theory that upholds our political ideologies: As such, we have decided to revive the reading sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks./Ukraine Thread/: Infinity Wars
THE PUNCH HEARD AROUND THE WORLD EDITION/USApol/
🗽United States Politics🦅Singapore
What is the reason for Singapore's post-colonial success with their capitalist model combined with a lot of government intervention? What differentiates Singapore from other capitalist countries and if Singapore's model is superior, why isn't it adopted by other countries, such as the capitalist ones that praise it?/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 hyper-normalization of petty internet drama.Monkeypox spreads: WHO convenes emergency meeting
The latest spread of the monkeypox virus has prompted The World Health Organization (WHO) to convene an emergency meeting, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported on Friday. The disease, which is typically confined to forested areas of western and central Africa, has been spreading rapidly in a number of European countries, as well as the US and Australia since early May.If you haven't read it yet, now is the time.
Socialism or Extinction: Climate, Automation and War in the Final Capitalist Breakdown is a systematic theoretical/Marxist analysis of the unprecedented crises engulfing humanity, arguing:/brg/ -=Brasil-Brazil General=- /brg/
Sonic for President of Brazil EditionHenry Kissinger: Ukraine must give Russia territory
We're completely fucked
The FED just popped the biggest bubble in the history of man kind and we are about to experience one of the most dramatic down turns in history.News 5/24/22
CPI (Maoist) Squad Carries Out Armed Action In Balaghat DistrictPost the most ridiculous anticommunist propaganda you see in popular media
We have all seen absurd caricatures, outright lies, uncited rumors, and subtle slanders in popular media depicting communists and communist figures. Post the most ridiculous shit you've seen. Even in "comedies" or other such genres that reinforce their propaganda through the pretense of "merely" being a joke or satire./prc/ - People's Republic of China general
A general thread for all China related discussion.Rojava
mod reminder: assuming board consensus is a wrecker tactic and technically against the rulesAlejando Cao De Benos and crackdown on leftists
Alejandro Cao de Buenos is going to Guantanamo for breaking USA law that doesn’t exist in Spain, however, Spain (and pretty much al EU member states) are USA bitches and they will probably hand him over to USA.Redpill me on Christian Identity Terrorism
>Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity) is an interpretation of Christianity which advocates the belief that only Celtic and Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic nations, and/or Aryan people and people of kindred blood are the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and are therefore the descendants of the ancient Israelitesdo you have thought about soy?
The soy…that mystical substance seen by libertarians and rightoids as cause of the "pussyfication" of modern men at hands of globohomo and international socialism./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./leftybritpol/ - Ed Balls Day Celebration Edition
Ed Balls day's today!/subcontinent/ general
India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, BhutanSelf defense
What are /leftypol/ belief systems you abide by regarding self defense from home robberies to personal attacks to on people on street to being jumped?wang ming > mao
people say deng xiaoping was terrible. That he was somehow this evil capitalist force that ruined communism. I say no to that the worst motherfucker that ruined socialism in the east was mao himself. He and his literal peasent nationalism singlehandley corrupted eastern socialism into that godawful mess that either lead to dengism or fucking gonzalo shit/auspol / - Australia General Vl
'LNP Bros…It's over' edition/cybersoc/
The other thread was fullEsoteric Hitlerism General: All Fascists Are Still Pedos
This is the thread dedicated to researching, discussing, exploring, and laughing at, that element of the far right which we have come to term "esoteric hitlerist" but more broadly a thread for documenting the extreme right.Why do rightoids get all their views from Jordan Peterson?
>Always been as a minimum a labor aristocrat but claims he was poor in his young adult years and larps as having a working class background that was supposedly worse than almost all people's background.escaping western epistemology
even in using the term "epistemology", how the fuck do you live within an exclusive culture, as in, your culture? the west turned every country into a collage of western culture and maybe im too manichaean about this, but i really want to escape this, like, having your OWN epistemology like japan or something, or at least the tools for it, meanwhile in china they make anime of marx worshipping white western german culture, how cucked, worshipping some self hating jewish german.Is it time to go prepper?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-28/water-wars-are-coming-to-the-american-westWhy did porkies allow the housing crisis to happen
Housing is the easiest problem to solve. Literally just build more houses and commie blocks. Instead porkies would rather just kneecap their own economy and force people to live in shoeboxes and coffin homes. All of our rent is syphoned into the hands of a few individuals and land porkies making people unable to spend their money on anything. This will ultimately harm porky in the end when people cant spend money on anything other than basic necessities… But why is it allowed to happen.. Are they just retarded?Stinky dirty Nazis
Nazis sure had shit tier hygiene!Bachelor tax. Is this a good idea?
Please do some short reading on this I'll drop 2 Wikipedia links below. Search elsewhere about it too if you'd like'Guerilla Urbanism'
Post examples of 'Guerilla Urbanism', unofficial construction and renovation in public spaces for the benefit of the people. Manuals and discussion are also welcome.News 5/21/22
Sudanese forces fatally shoot anti-coup protester in renewed crackdownOpinion on altwoke?
Have not seen much discussion about this shit. I think its interesting atleast.“But plants are living things too”🙄
One different plants actually want to be eaten and shittted out as seeds can feed off the spare nutrients and dead cells found in feces that’s rich in detritus decomposers can also feed off of providing even more to plantsVeteran hate thread. Fuck the troops.
Can we get a soldier hate thread going? Also reminder that babykillers aren’t working class or revolutionary.Docs
Let's talk about dox.Times you read and Oof'd
Just learned about Sablin ;_;who the fuck was this guy
https://en.wikNicola Bombacci (24 October 1879 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian Marxist and later, Fascist revolutionary. He began in the Italian Socialist Party as an opponent of the reformist wing and became a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy in 1921, sitting on the fifteen-man Central Committee. During the latter part of his life, particularly during the Second World War, Bombacci allied with Benito Mussolini and the Italian Social Republic against the Allied invasion of Italy. He met his death after being shot by communist partisans and his body was subsequently strung up in Piazzale Loreto.ipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_BombacciNews 5/23/22
Joe Biden launches IPEF initiative, making explicit the goal of blunting China’s cloutHot take: nukes are good
Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion on here but it certainly seems to be so in the general consensus but nukes are a boon to humanity.Swedish young military-aged males most reluctant to join NATO
>Swedish males between the ages of 18 and 29 are the demographic most reluctant to join NATO, according to a new poll.So fucking irresponsible
Nitrogen carbon and phosphorus cycles eroding more each day.Don't enter the dreaded Vampire's Castle
I wonder where that weird period of 2014-2016 neo-reaction went or where it fits into the overall fash resurgence in the West. I remember seeing, like, "anarcho-monarchist" blogs and such back then alongside texts like Land's.REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The revolutionary situation in the United States off American and the world is bad. It's bad and you are going to have to make it better. The following conditions will need to happen for revolution to happen in the United States of America:OC Thread 12.0
Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.MOLOTOV RIBBENTROP PACT EFFORT POST
The liberal democracies of Europe made similar agreements with Hitler *before* the USSR, and shot down Stalin's suggestions of an anti-fascist alliance.Should the DPRK be defended by Marxists?
I've been watching videos lately on a YouTube channel called Proletarian TV, which is attached I think to the Communist Party of Great Britain. They and the Stalinist Society have some videos of rather rambling lectures defending the DPRK. Mainly the argument boils down to that the DPRK has at least some form of socialism (does it? do workers own anything?), therefore it's at least better than imperialist nations, and should be defended by Marxists.Anti-natalism might be the dumbest ideology there is
Schopenhauer's mother was a great novelist and heroine of Weimar's academic scene. She introduced him to everyone, she's the reason he's famous./auspol / - Australia General V
Death to the SDA edition/SEA/ - Southeast Asia and Oceania General
6th Edition: 新年快乐! SEA edition.Thread against Zionism
It's May 15, 74 years since the Palestinian catastrophe. I think this merits a good old general thread against Zionism. Discuss and post all your content and news related to Israel, zionism, anti-zionism and the zionist lobby here.Why are we still pretending China is Socialist?
The Cultural Revolution was literally a civil war between the left-wing and the right-wing. The right-wing won. Today we see the effects.Facts vs feelings
For a long time that I've been on imageboards people have been saying that leftists only care about feelings and don't take into account the real situation and want to live in a utopia where everyone lives in peace, but isn't it the other way around?Zoomers about to get fucked
I'm 10000% against conscription, but there's a really good chance the US brings back a draft considering most people under 50 don't see the US government as being much more trustworthy than Putin or Xi. Burgers, would you pick civil conflict or international conflict if forced to make the choice?What do white supremacists even like about the west?
They hate the Enlightenment, they hate “modernity” (whatever that is), they don’t even seem to like the majority of white people, what about “the west” let alone “white people” DO they think is worth spilling blood over? Yeah, as a lefty I’m not exactly thrilled about “da west” either but at least I have a few gems in my life in the west. I like my neighbors, I actually get along pretty well for my co-workers, and I spent the past few days just hiking (not that I am planning on hurting someone over my love for these things).Cuba thread!
Tell me about Cuba. I want to learn. I imagine it's just a spanish-speaking North Korea, which i like, but i want to learn the specific details about Cuban life and the economy. I already know that they have free penis enlargement surgery and gender transition surgery. Anybody got infographs or files?Covid-19
Welp editionO9A thread 3: mods, do your fucking job edition
Previous threadsMarxism is not a Science and that's a Good Thing
Recently there has been a lot of debate on whether Marxism, historical materialism, dialectics ect are "sciences" or not. I honestly just feel like a lot of people want to call it a science for the prestige and to give a veil of "facts and logic" to empiricism brained liberals rather than an analysis of the facts.Isn't this counterproductive?
Since when did the Left get associated with stances in favor of pornography, prostitution, and hard drugs? Those are not even very progressive for usual causes taken up by socialists, as misogyny and harm to families are frequently effects of proliferation of such activities like prostitution and the illegal drug trade in society and also as most socialist countries, historical and current, harshly regulated such. The bourgeoise even can outright admit that distractions like porn and drugs are useful opiates to diminish enthusiasm for revolution. So how is it that so many leftists in the imperial core take an uncritically positive position voluntarily on this sort of shit, that almost literally glowies have encouraged to sabotage communist revolutionaries' effectiveness as occurred with the Black Panthers?SQ: Suburbs Question
Will socialism have SUBURBS at all? will there be any form of single family homes? and if not what form will outer rim/fringe development take? Is there any place for neighborhoods of single family large lot detached homes which require cars to access in an evolved form of political economy?I find it kind of amusing not how fast but how I became disinterested within the MSM
My disinterest with whatever new dogshit garbage Hollywood or dumbass streaming service pushed out or the new world ending threat of the month the ainstream news spreads simply because I just got sick of it and left. It wasn’t a bang or some major shock or some industry wide failure that finally got me to quit watching them, just a gradual fucking conclusion made in a weekend that I just didn’t want to see any of their shit and left and didn’t watch anything they made for years now at this point.They're turning the freaking frogs fat
We're fucked, aren't we.Class struggles in Maoist China
The Communist Party of China, unlike the Bolshevik Party in Russia, didn't emerge from proletarian class struggle against the bourgeoisie of China, but from patriotic intelligentsia which sought inspiration on Soviet Russia after the failure of the 1911 revolution, in fact it's program was essentially one of national liberation and land reform. This is understandable given the semifeudal and semicolonial conditions of 1920s China. That is not to say that the proletarians had no part on the foundation of the CPC, but in actuality the party consisted of several classes and fractions (proletarians, peasants, national bourgeoisie, petite bourgeoisie and intellectuals) united on the goal of liberating China from feudalism and colonialism. This worked fine during the War of Liberation since the proletariat, the national bourgeoisie (those sectors of the petite bourgeoisie and the capitalists who didn't depend on imperialism) and the peasantry had a common goal. With the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Communist Party headed a democratic-bourgeois government of alliance between the classes that participated in the national liberation, under a policy of state capitalism and people's democracy. This is what Mao called New Democracy, or People's Democratic Dictatorship.National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD)
Thoughts anon bros? This org of KPD exiles, Wehrmacht prisoners/deserters, artists, and intellectuals seem to be the nucleus from which the GDR was born. From a communist perspective, this looks like a Popular Front-type organization. Here's a thread to post some lore, pictures, and anything about the NKFD. Some questions I have.Distributism
Explain why you think Distributism is wrong? (Preferably with a greater understanding of the theory than the following Wikipedia introduction)Putin's favourite fascist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_IlyinThe Left's "Dark Triad" wrecker problem
So I think a lot on the left missed this study, it's a study into the Psychology of Wreckers and Woke victim grifters generally on the left of politics.Socialism and Islam
How is islam in anyway compatible with Marxism? despite the fact that Marxism is a materialist analysis of the world and Marx himself believed that religions are a tool used by the people in power to to control the masses (can be true in some cases). How is it compatible with Islam whenbill gates did a reddit AMA
https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ut7yj0/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_and_melinda/Communism never succeeded and everytime it did it was Nationalism
What do you guys think about this (mostly) right wing argument? Especially regarding Mao and Lenin, when people from the right give credit to the USSR, China or even countries like Cuba, they tend to claim that everything they achieved was due to the fact that their leaders were not real communists but nationalists. De Gaulle said this about the USSR and Lee Kuan Yew said this about Mao's China.The Fermi “Paradox” isn’t a FUCKING paradox, Kardashev was an idiot, tech isn’t magic
Time to put this fucking sci-fi horse shit to bed, sci-fi writers should be penalized for pulvarizing normies’ intelligence, at least fantasy writers don’t make you retarded while making you think you are smartPKK. Based or cringe?
What's the run down on PKK are they /our/ guys and doing the right things or are they a terrorist group and we shouldn't like the things they doWarcraft 3 reforged and capitalist incompetence
There’s one thing I see many on this board and in real life assume to often about capitalists and it’s the belief that they always know what they’re doingNews 5/20/22
Iran vows harsh crackdown on economic protestsAnarchy General: Sewage and Web1.0 Edition
Anarchy General, you know the drillLet's Define: Developing Nations
Which states deserve the title of developed nation, and which deserve to be named a developing nation? Can a superpower be developing? In this week's edition of Let's Define, we reconsider how realistic Wikipedia's sources really are.Are nazis and polfags actually like genuinely that retarded or just really predictable
Watching those actually closeted faggots behave the way they do is like watching a nature documentary after knowing what the species your watching does all day/webm/ Thread 4.0
Post yer vids 'ere, webms, mp4s are welcome.New Multitude Thread
https://newmultitude.org/Printing a lot of new money. Does it have a negative impact?
So my conventional beliefs is that it DOES but I've seen some leftist argue that it doesn't have any negative impact to print a ton of money and that the causes for inflation and price increases isn't this at all but other thingsHow Socialist is The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka?
Just found out that Siri Lankan is officially called The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and that socialist played a major roll in there independence movement. I never see Siri Lanka discussed here (or anywhere really) and I was wondering what kind of socialist policies they've had in the past and have today.Should I become a PMC
Hey comrades. I need someone to talk some sense into me.Actual orginising thread
This is a thread only for people who actually do IRL organizing to exchange tactics and ideas. Its time to stop whining about bullshit like Wiccans or shizo pedo rape cult conspiracies, and actually get some actual lessons out of each other, for fucks sake.Global capitalist food shortage is starting.
Our Liberal rulers are declaring a global food shortage is about to happen.News 5/19/22
Italian workers strike over military spending on war in UkraineSenate Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing On China Challenges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lycBpmlD1Lw&t=2502sNews 5/18/22
UK union threatens strike disruption to queen's Jubilee partyWhat are /leftypol/'s Thoughts on the Rimland/Heartland/Seapower Theories?:
Are they as influential on US/NATO, Russia/China's geopolitical strategies as some say? Like the Belt and Road initiative?Marriage
Seems like a bourgeois creation that is now used just to profit off of people, lock them into contracts and make lawyers truckloads of cash.Greece
Tell me about Greece, within the context of their current socialism and anarchism movements.Architectural Styles
What architectural style should socialism/communism have? Should it be classical Stalinist Brutalism? Or should it be avant-garde? What type of density and urban planning, and public transit, if any, should be favored? busses? Light rail? Bullet trains? Should there be "Urban gardens"?Information and Postmodernity
I just had a thoughtWas the movie Grand Torino a racist larp for white boomers and /pol/ types?
I randomly saw a clip of Gran Torino and it got me thinking about the movie which I saw years ago.News 5/17/22
Biden Approves Plan to Redeploy Several Hundred Ground Forces Into SomaliaNATOwave
HOLY FUCKING KEKWhataboutism
What do you say when liberals pull the "whataboutism" hand-wave dismissal? Empirical comparisons are the basis of fairness and justice and point out unfair hypocrisy, yet they dismiss any comparisons using this emotional word as a strawman.Communist Party funded housing
Realistically, would it be feasible for a communist party or any worker's organization for that matter to invest in real estate for the sake of freely housing those in need? I was thinking that maybe the party could start out small by buying out a few apartments at first and renting them out for as small a fee as possible so that they could amass some capital at first before expanding outwards and buying more real estate while freeing up some of those apartments to be rented completely for free, that way a party could probably gradually take over entire blocks whose inhabitants would have undying loyalty to the party whose housing them.William Paul Cockshott 1952 - 2022
Paul Cockshott was a Scottish computer scientist and Marxist political economist.the kyiv independent is spooky as hell
I'm sure you've all seen the Kyiv Independent online during all this. They've been one of the most prolific propaganda arms of the Ukrainian state, with over a million followers and a seemingly endless stream of (almost always unconfirmed and unconfirmable) posts.Hunter Biden E-Mail Leak
It seems to be real. Nobody talks about it but the darkest internet corners, but it seems to be realRate Of Profit
How do we explain to working class Westerners that their lives suck because of the falling rate of profit and not because of some racial boogeyman?What is the strongest communist/socialist party and force as of the moment?
Do not include AES, whatever that term includes. I'm talking about communist parties in capitalist, bourgeois or right wing countries.Labor Theory of Property
Redpill me on the labor theory of property. Is ot the same thing as the labor theory of value?Crypto and Fictitious Capital
With the recent, highly predictable crypto-crash making headlines I would like to open a discussion about Marx's highly prescient notion of fictitious capital and its relevance as described in Capital Vol. III Part V Chapter 25./armchair/ Ultra General
ULTRA GENERALWhy do woke idpol leftists seem obsessed with policing each other?
Basically, why are woke idpol types seemingly obsessed with policing their spaces and eating their own? They constantly seem to be hunting for any sort of slip up or any thought that can be construed as non-woke if you intentionally give it the most uncharitable interpretation and effectively expect you to beg for forgiveness if you trip one of their censors. Why do they do this? Why do they seek to make their circles as insular and irrelevant as they can?Hold me tight leftypol...
"Fascism is the dominant form of politics on a dying planet. It has to be, if you think about it, because on a dying planet, the only form of political action left anymore is desperate competition for increasingly scarce resources. Conflict is therefore its handmaiden."News 5/16/22
Turkey demands extradition of PKK members from Sweden, Finland for Nato bidCapitalism has at least 3 historical stages that should not be confused with each other
Agrarian Capitalism, described by Meiksins-Wood. Predates Industrial Capitalism. Not to be confused with mercantilism, which isn't capitalism. Enclosure dissolves feudal relations in England. Changes the social relations and turns everyone in the agricultural sector into wage working tenant farmers, or big land owners. The Kantian logic of enclosure/improvement copies over to the artisans giving rise to…RUSSIAN THREAD
The previous thread died (is full) for our sins. >>326202On the ideological level of /leftypol/
Most users on /leftypol/ are honest in their communist convictions, and yet the average theoretical and political level of posts is very low.Why does everyone hates this guy ?
Yeah yeah I get it, renegade, WW1 etc.Marxism is Not Scientific
In order for an ideology to beNews 5/14/22
Israeli settlers forcibly seize Palestinian-owned building in HebronWhat is it about this work that makes liberal academics cope and seethe?
So, I've heard, again and again, from many people that they learned a little bit about Lenin in college, but that it was mostly just about this relatively obscure work and why it was bad and wrong and Lenin should have been ashamed for writing it. Not that he was an evil dictator who killed eleventy bajillion people like you might expect, but this work specifically and why its bad and dumb and wrong. At least in Burgerland, anyway. So, what gives? Why, of all the shit Lenin wrote, does this get on liberal professors' nerves enough that they'll include it in their curriculums just to trash it?Situation in Ukraine with Soviet/non-nazi people.
Hi !Can you please leave me alone?
I'm unsure where most of this stuff is coming from and so forth but this is an open notice to everyone basically and because I was most famous here let me say: I am Dark Gnosis and I am no longer O9A, no longer Nazi, renounced crime, violence, terror, extremism, etc. I just want to study Sufi Islam and philosophy on my own go back to university okay.Anatomy of the microsect
Just read this and I am having trouble understanding what Drapper means by a "political center"If you controlled the US Supreme Court
I'd immediately strike down all right to work laws, rewrite the federal minimum wage law declaring that it's now $26/hour tied to the cost of living in a city/county, overturn Citizens United, declare Billionaires and Corporations have violated worker's inalienable right to unionize and fine them trillions. Also declare the Fed's QE unconstitutional. Essentially pass a huge amount of rulings that would create many legal nightmares for Porky and trap him in them, giving as much support to grassroots worker movements. Also declare that Cops cannot violate worker's unionizing, otherwise all police unions are declared constitutional. All soldiers get to unionize.The "People"
Why is it when communists come into power their way of referring to the revolutionary group changes from the proletariat to the "people"? People is not a class. People don't lead revolutions, classes do. It's always been something that has bugged me. It's not uncommon today to see in Sakaist and idpol circles this "people" terminology too. As if by some magic "people" are the revolutionary group. At the same time these circles do not mind the usage of terms which imply class such as labor aristocracy and settlers! So what gives? Class for thee, but not for me? Sounds like a dangerous combination of opportunism and revisionism to my ears.Communist Party of Kenya
August 9 this year, Kenya is having a general election. Looks like they're campaigning hard, and in turn being repressed by the state apparatus of Kenya.Is African Union an imperialist alliance?
When Kwame Nkrumah has been talking about the unification of Africa, what he had in mind was: "To combat … neo-colonialism on the African continent, Nkrumah delves into several solutions. First and foremost, Nkrumah asserts that the concept of unity must be applied to the economic realm of both individual nations and the continent as a whole. Nkrumah declares, “Quite obviously, therefore, unity is the first requisite for destroying neo-colonialism.”[6] Economic unity specifically requires re-organizing African countries to specialize in the production of crops and goods that they are most suited for.[7] It also lays the groundwork for unified agricultural, transportation, and communications policies.[8] From economic unity stems the principle of non-alignment, or not cooperating solely with capitalist, socialist, or mixed economies.[9] Instead, Nkrumah argues that careful national planning and investing with the country’s interest in mind makes African countries the masters of their own destinies.[10] Secondly, Nkrumah speaks of political unity as a concept that must go hand in hand with economic unity: “When Africa becomes economically free and politically united…a new struggle will arise within which the liquidation and collapse of imperialism will be complete.”[11] Nkrumah also declares, “Economic unity to be effective must be accompanied by political unity. The two are inseparable, each necessary for the future greatness of our continent, and the full development of our resources.”[12]" (source: https://www.e-ir.info/2016/01/13/navigating-nkrumahs-theory-of-neo-colonialism-in-the-21st-century/ )Densify or dispersal?
In America we are facing an intersection, of the future of our infrastructure. In the next few decades we will have to repair and replace trillions of dollars of infrastructure. We can continue with are current car based infrastructure, or do a variety of modes of public transportation. As we all know suburban sprawl is resource intensive. Problem is millions of people are on and attached, to the current infrastructure for their survival.News 5/13/22
Photos: Israeli forces attack Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeralSports and Nationalism
Are sports a nationalist propaganda? Talking about national sports, not niche sports like MMA, say. I've noticed that in bourgeois nationalist states basic things like education and healthcare may get a shitty financing but the sports and the military always get as much money as they need. Heck, even Nazi Germany invested in sports and had its own sports teams. And the audience doesn't watch national sports because they genuinely enjny watching sports. They watch it because they root for their "team," which fuels the nationalist sentiments even further. What do you think?/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
Edizione del tempo dei mostriSino Soviet split is fake Russia is still communist.
Reminder that the sino-soviet split fake, proving KGB's defector Anatoly Golistyn right and that Russia ARE still communist, only hiding behind a mask.How to contribue to the struggle without party membership
How can one contribute to the struggle as a non party member?Cults
What does leftypol think about cults from a sociological/political/psychological perspective? Personally I'm fascinated by the phenomenon and its implications.Can you prove class is the basis for everything?
And that there is such thing as class conscious? Race, culture and nationality is clearly what unites people, as a nationalist I think MENA folk (Arab and Iranian alike) should have kinship based on our ethnic and cultural similarities not because of religion or class, I support a MENA super state akin to North Korea, armed to the teeth with WMD pointed at America and Euroachistan (our ancient, eternal accursed enemies).5/11/22
American journalist killed by IDF, network says; Israel calls for investigationNews 5/12/22
Syrian Kurdish unity talks crumble as Turkey escalates anti-PKK campaignGlowie-Redditfag Witty Smugness
Haven’t you noticed how feds will all have this smug “witty” attitude when they’re online? They sound exactly like redditfags. Pics related: This glowuygha was caught being an agent for the NED. You can find more evidence of this on twatter: https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1374157179121397760Politics of spite.
I am getting kind of sick of this era where politics is about being a dick instead of being a dick being a byproduct of your politics. Like I get being selfish and wanting your own positions to be advanced but adopting a position that will ultimately fuck you over because it spites people who are mostly only ever on the internet is fucking retarded and unironic cuck-tier.Seize the means of killing
the means of killing are far more important than the means of production. the means of production can simply be taken back from you by whoever has the means of killing. Who has the means of killing? The cops, the troops, every right wing paramilitary, every nationalist militia. The arms manufacturers arm these guys on purpose. If you seized an arms factory from porky, you wouldn't even know what to do with it. In minutes you would have it taken back from you.Just how strong is the US military?
The heart of the golem - this one must be addressed. In terms of its ability to fare wars, it is still the best, right? Does anyone have a shot at combating them? Or are they severely overrated? Their performance during the World Wars was better than other countries but it seems kind of lacking in the recent years. Does the PRC have a chance to catch up?You know what’s amazing about the metric system
It’s actually useful and maintains consistencyCountry values
>The Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world is a scatter plot created by political scientists Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel based on the World Values Survey and European Values Survey. It depicts closely linked cultural values that vary between societies in two predominant dimensions: traditional versus secular-rational values on the vertical y-axis and survival versus self-expression values on the horizontal x-axis. Moving upward on this map reflects the shift from traditional values to secular-rational ones and moving rightward reflects the shift from survival values to self-expression values.According to the authors: "These two dimensions explain more than 70 percent of the cross-national variance in a factor analysis of ten indicators—and each of these dimensions is strongly correlated with scores of other important orientations." The authors stress that socio-economic status is not the sole factor determining a country's location, as their religious and cultural historical heritage is also an important factor.News 5/9/22
Sri Lankan PM resigns as supporters attack peaceful protesterscapitalism, socialism, and camerialism?
so being born in this neoliberal world ive been thought that there were 3 tendecies, fascism, capitalism, and socialism(this is a oversimplification but eh). But then i started looking up the history of third positonism and ive realized third position wasnt something new. Rather it was a historical contitutation of the intellectual trend of cameraialissm or german state capitalismThe uprising against anti-abortion laws has begun.
A mysterious group calling themselves Jane's Revenge firebombed an anti-abortion office in Wisconsin and wow to continue militant actions until the religious estabilishment falls. They say this is only a warning and a beggining and that they intend to fight all over the US. The following is their first communique.Paypig Wife
>Her paternal grandmother, Jeanie Wishart (1742–1811), was a Scottish noble: her father, the Very Rev Dr George Wishart, (son of William Wishart Principal of Edinburgh University) a descendant of the 9th Earl of Angus, and the 3rd Earl of Marischal, the latter in turn a direct descendant of King James I, of the House of Stuart,[7] while her mother Anne Campbell was the daughter of John Campbell (both a grandson of Sir James Campbell and of Sir Robert Campbell, grandson of Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill and John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl), heir of the Ardkinglas branch of the Clan Campbell, and part of the family of the Dukes of Argyll,[8] who were for centuries Scotland's most powerful family. This would lead to a famous incident in 1854, when Karl Marx was arrested trying to pawn some of Jenny's Argyll silverware bearing the ducal insignia; the police suspected that a German refugee could not have acquired Argyll's property legally.News 5/10/22
Dubai couriers strike for better pay and conditionsJapanese management: real existing fascism or pure ideology?
Recently I've been getting into management theory and one topic that seems to be very hyped up is the "Japanese work ethic" and "Japanese management" (I'll shorten to JM) as some sort of city on a hill that should be replicated globally, but can't be achieved due to Japanese culture not being replicable.RationalWiki? More like ... IrrationalWiki!
Is RationalWiki run by glowies or are they just ideological?Are Black people wrong about slavery being based on race?
I'm a liberal, which is why I can't agree with the blacks about slavery. Black people were enslaved because they were vulnerable, not because how they looked. The people of the Balkans were enslaved by fellow Europeans, as well by the Turks, before any African was brought to western hemisphere. Before modern era, Europeans enslaved other Europeans, Asians enslaved other Asians, and Africans enslaved other Africans, and the indigenous people of the western hemisphere enslaved other indigenous people of the western hemisphere.a neo historical school?
has there been the rise of a new economic historical school of thought that the mainstream didnt noticeChampagne Socialism
So, I want to work in international affairs. I'm an American."Freedom from Democracy"
Has the American right has given up on democracy?christianity is the ur-paganism
Is modern christianity just the most evolved form of EMEA paganism?News 5/7/22
Palestinians facing eviction by Israel vow to stay on landNews 5/6/22
Massive explosion destroys hotel in Cuba/antiwar/: Anti-War Class Struggle General
Here Marxists, class-struggle anarchists and egoist anarchists can bitch and whine about how Ukraine is an oligarchical shithole that supports neo-Nazis, how Putin is a quasi-fascist Mussolini wannabe and how NATO is an imperialist trash, as well as share information on class resistance and insurrectionary activity in both countries.go ahead
rank the nations of the earth from biggest satan to littlest satanIncels vs Feminists
Well culture wars have been incessantly discussed in the public sphere for the last few years, and there's certainly a contradiction here between the two opposing sides.Is doomerism a psyop?
It is somewhat well-known that the whole drug subculture and Hippie movement were basically psyops to control the Left and turn it from a struggle for material progress to a neutered movement for personal freedom - which dovetailed very nicely with the then-upcoming Neoliberal ideology. Now, with the ruling Neoliberalism in an intractable crisis both domestically and abroad and the decline of the petit-bourgeois "anti-authoritarians", there needs to be a way to head off the opposition before it becomes uncontrollable. Doomerism seems to have these goals - to instill a sense of pessimism and foreclose any collective action to fight Capital and the evils it produces, such as racism, ignorance and climate change. But what am I talking about? After all, its the End of History and Earth is going to look like Venus in 10 years, so why not just lie down, stop fighting the capitalists, return to Monke and smoke a blunt?Freedom
What does freedom mean and how is the meaning manipulated, and what genuine differences are there in the way we can approach the idea?News 5/5/22
Pentagon: Iran-backed militias, PKK coordinated vs. Turkish troops in IraqElon Musk's Twitter Takeover
OLIGARCH MONOPOLY CAPITAL IN THE DIGITAL ERANews 5/4/22
French Socialists, Communists and Greens to ally with Melenchon for a left majority and 'radical programme'Evil Tech Overlords
General thread to bitch about the modern internet, how we're all playing in the bougie garden and having our actions and thought constricted by these structures.Well, fuck
I am a nonwhite person who was introduced to /pol/ as a child. I agreed with /pol/ because I was bullied and harassed for being mixed race most of my life and for the most part, I blamed integration for the issues I faced and felt that if segregation remained, I'd be better off. I can't be for /pol/ talking points anymore because I also face racism myself and am tired of the /pol/ talking points. I want to change. What can I do? I still have full on natsoc/third position values and I don't know how to stop having such views. I feel like the mindset has become part of who I am now.Leftypol TV - Local Cytube Isntance
This is a main thread for the local cytube instance, Leftypol TV. It is user-driven and not directly affiliated with the main site's staff. Anybody can create an account and control multiple channels with the full feature set. You do not need an account to view the content or join a chat. Guest users can type in a screen name and start chatting immediately.monospacebracket with the grave accent `
How do I convince people I have a job?
I am from Mississippi (US) and work full time. When someone finds out I am a communist they almost always say get a job or you don't have a job. If I show them stuff from my work that proves I have a full time job they still say I fabricated documents or I am using communist tricks and get aggressive.What's the proper response for "problem" children"?
Especially if they come from other families who are clearly the cause for the kid to behave that way? Ostracizing a little kid feels wrong, but when they're bullying and actively ruining the lives of children around them what else can you do under this shitty system?News 5/3/22
Municipal workers in Germany begin rolling pay strikes as unions condemn rising arms spendingNews 5/2/22
May Day 2022 in Greece: "The working class does not bow its head" (VIDEO)I just want to be free. Thats all.
I just want to be free man. I dont know what else to say.Bordiga's Reputation is a Productive of Ignorance and Exaggeration
I've been reading some Bordiga, especially this interview and in context his quotes are far more reasonable than they at first seem to be."classical fascism myths
so in my travels in the internet ive encountered some interesting claims about classical fascismAnswer honestly
let's say you live in a world that has abolished the commodity form, that has abolished the bourgeois class, that has abolished wage labor, where the working class collectively owns the means of production… but ethnic minorities get lynched, women aren't allowed reproductive rights, and LGBT rights aren't recognized.Pençe Kilit Operation -- Turkish invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan
Looks like Turkey has embarked on its own "special military operation" but in Iraqi Kurdistan.How dogshit is “Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber?
Been listening to the Kushvlogs (OG Matt Christman fucking Thad) about Graeber’s book Dawn of Everything, and, idk, the underlying notion seems to be “overturning” the current anthropological consensus of a material origin for classes, hierarchies, and states in favor of the idealist notion that these things arose due to culture and people just sort of chose it on a whim or somethingToo Many Books
Is it harmful to read too many books?Car Hate Thread
I just wanted to make a thread to discuss how the fuck we get over cars, what the barriers are, what you can do in your city etc.Prisoner exchange done by the U.S what is the real reasoning for this. Help me here?
So to start it's widely accepted here the usa does not give a shit about random American civilians livelihood so why as this example are they releasing a Russian drug smuggler serving 20 years in prison in exchange for wait it..🐖🇪🇺🐷/EUROpol/ - Europe Politics general💶
Can we get a europe general?Is helping people bourgeois?
Being a 'good person' as the mainstream media defines it seems like a pretty big psyop to me. Stuff like volunteering, donating to charities, holding doors open for people, doesn't actually do anything to fight capitalism or strengthen the working class. If anything it just makes people more comfortable and less willing to rebel, while reinforcing bourgeois notions of 'caring' and 'tolerance' that are weaponized by the security state against socialist and anti-imperialist countries abroad.Why is ecology such an ignored topic in climate change discussions?
All that light along with carbon dioxide and water vapour in the atmosphere that accounts for most greenhouse gases don’t go nowhere they get absorbed by earths many ecosystems and then recycled for important shit like ATP or glucose production. And it’s not like humans even compare to the amount of organic molecules pumped by volcanoes regularly that even allow new biomes and fuel for life to even form in the first place.Is NATO expansion democratic?
Some friend of mine keep arguing that Ukraine joining NATO is democratic because it's done by referendum, which I countered by explaining that this referendum wouldn't expand into the breakaway regions of Lugansk and Donestk, making it undemocratic since these regions wouldn't be able to voice their choice.Soviet losses in WW2
https://p-balaev.livejournal.com/1507827.htmlTell me the truth about the periphery of the EU
Is this comic wrong? Because to me it looks like EU apologia. At the same time I don't know why it's wrong. I would appreciate it if you anons shared your wisdom or posted some links. I'm also interested in learning about how the EU caused the crisis in PIIGS countries.News 4/30/22
Azerbaijan desecrates Hadrut church: cross removed, Armenian inscription erasedGENERAL STRIKE
GENERAL STRIKE THREADindo european symbolism in western european politics
i feel like nations are doomed to eternally relive motives found in their mythology, that this especially applies to western europe specifically and that liberalism is the culmination of it, in the original creation myth of the progenitors of modern europeans, there is this motive where god, before creating man, seperates infinite good from infinite evil, and this seperation gives birth to twins (?), and somewhere along the lie they are given a cow to nourish them with milk, then, either the twins decide to sacrifice the first cow so god can make the world from it, or (and this seems to be the root of a lot of european neuroticism) the first man sacrifices his twin, cuts him into pieces and turns each part of his body into a part of the world, now aint that somethin'?How do people not kill themselves or not become communist?
This may seem dumb but it is a serious post.News 4/29/22
Peru's ruling party turns on Castillo; calls for president to step down in 2023Concrete things.
What are some real life, concrete things that your average western leftist could be doing to help comrades in different countries who are actually living the struggle. Maybe how to even open direct C2C (comrade-to-comrade) communication?Career ideas for leftypol users?
What careers would a leftypol user find interesting, I don't care about the morals of said job just if it would be something a leftypol user would like.Serious question
What's the best way to go about approaching people like this?The permissionless route
> There are two ways to make [UBI] happen.Slovenian post-election thread
Yesterday Slovenia went to the polls to select a new parliament. The Orbanist line with the SDS party and Janša, it's leader, has suffered a major defeat and a new centre-liberal party won massively. The election are also a disastrous defeat for the Left party (which are to the left of socialdemocrats), which fell from 9 MPs to 5. The social democrats and christian democrats also got their seats (7 and 8).News 4/21/22
‘Brazil needs fixing’: Lula confirms comeback run against BolsonaroProletariat has no reason to be a communist in the first world
>first world proletariatBiden's Ministry of Truth
Biden sets up a Ministry of Truth to tackle "misinformation" on social media.Space Colonization
Humans will never live on Mars. The only possible kind of space colonization will be in O'Neill cylinders.Why the fuck do we have political leaders?
Society grows in spite of them not because of them and that’s proven by the amount of full scale government collapses globally for literal centuries not to mention the fact that every time a society has fallen it can be attributed to a leader actively trying to prevent civilians from making their home better to live in rather than what you’d think like simple errorsNews 4/28/22
Fuel prices: Stalin hits out at PM over tax cuts, says people know the factsLet's talk about fucked up shit NATO did before 2014
Let's talk about fucked up shit NATO did before 2014News 4/27/22
India's worst heat wave for a century sets landfill on fire engulfing New Delhi in smokeVideo Discussion
I wanted to discuss this short clip.Productive forces and class struggle
The theory of productive forces is a kautskyian economistic deviation of marxist thought. It puts the focus on means and tools, instead of people and politics. The motor of history is not the productive forces but class struggle, politics are always in command.News 4/26/22
N. Korea’s Kim vows to bolster nuke capability during paradeTrotskyism with American Characteristics
>USA fights Russia to the last UkrainianYou really can't trust anyone
>Wake up one morning to the sounds of planes and bombs and people screamingIndustrial and post-industrial tech
When did you realize that Ted Kaczynski is right? Technology only serves to strip us of basic liberties and humanity. The system isn't designed to bring us happiness, it's designed to increase it's own efficiency, constantly, without a real end goal, and at our cost. Regardless of who "runs" it, be it communists, capitalists, or whoever else.GOOD NEWS THREAD,
if you guys are like me then you see a lot of bad news, its easy to let all this bad news make you feel depressed and negative, bad things are happening in the world, and they cant be ignored but lets have a thread for some of the good that is going on, big or small political or non political recent or a little old. .Fuck America
>went to state uni as a conservativeHorseshoe
Horseshoe theory I believe is an essential tool of the bourgeoisie. It seeks to blur the lines of the class dynamics of these 2 very separate* ideologies.( That being fascism and communism ofc) There is a disasterous double think at the heart of this, that first needs some context. Many sections of the "left" believe AES, had nothing resembling a actual socialism. They believe their status in the lower stage disqualifies them from legitimacy. These "illegitimate" socialist states, are then seen as state capitalist.(a real example is early South Korea) Here's where the blurring of ideology begins.News 4/25/22
Anti-Iran fever heats up as Iraq's political deadlock continuesHundi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundi/Larouche/ Thread
Post videos of LaRouche saying funny things, memes, or anything related to Lyndon B LaRouche.