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Roulette is /babel/ now. The theme is No English allowed. Use it to talk about language, dialects and creoles.Reading 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.Welcome Thread and Feedback (New Constitution Edition)
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🗽United States Politics🦅/ukraine/ thread #115 - Eternal Edition
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine/prc/ - People's Republic of China general
A general thread for all China related discussion.Black Van Driving Outside House Every night Be Worried or Schizo?
For the past few months every night there has been a big black Fed looking Van driving around my house/street multiple times and doing so very fucking loudly at first I thought it was a motor cycle. It unironically looks exactly like the van in picture attached.US-China war
Is it inevitable? A lot of "experts" are predicting that it will happen before 2030. Probably over Taiwan. China just has to build its military to be able to take a tiny island off it's coast, while the US would have to project power thousands of miles from it's shores, without the use of aircraft carriers which would get easily destroyed by midrange ground to ship missiles./Happening/ Turkey-quake
>A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday, toppling buildings and killing at least 568 people. With hundreds injured, the toll was expected to rise as rescue workers searched the rubble in cities and towns across the area.State and Local Tax Policy in the United States
The United States, due to everyone running it being a fucking idiot, has an extremely decentralized tax policy. States have pretty substantial latitude to set their own income, corporate income, capital gains, inheritance, ect. taxes, and all property and sales taxes are determined on a state (or lower) level. Depending on the state, counties can also have a fairly independent tax policy. I think that there are a lot of possible changes to taxation that could be done on these levels besides increasing income/capital gains/ect tax that would be useful both in gaining support and in improving the lives of the people if we succeed in gaining power, even just on the state, county, or city level that I'm going to list out here.Socialism! Not Multipolarism.
Multipolarity is not something one should be for or against, because it really isn't something you can attach yourself to like some camp or some ideology./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.Why are you all atheists?
I can understand why you would be critical of religion as institutions, considering you're marxists or anarchists. But why are you so determined to get rid of the idea of God itself? Attempts at making secular religions have all failed in my opinion, and I see the good in religion, I get most of you would rather have people be constantly devoted to ideology, but I don't think it's good for human sanity. We have to strive for something greater while also working for the improvment of material conditions, and I think that's where hegelians and their obsession with dialectics are wrong.News 2/8/23
Danish working class opposes government’s bid to abolish public holiday to raise money for armslefty diffusion OC
Let's use technology to make propaganda that helps people imagine a world without capitalism. I'll take requests and prompt advice, I might be slow though.Why is bullying so common in capitalist schools
I was bullied in nearly every stage of my life. And what surprised is that western educators often ignore the problem if not actively encourage it. There's this underlying idea that it builds character and it's a normal stage of childhood development. I know this is wrong because my self esteem is permanently fucked because of it.Thomas Jefferson
What is lefty/pol/'s opinion on this guy. I think his principles of governance are deeply flawed. His vision for a decentralized agrarian society was short sited, niave and idiotic. It opened the doors for kind of exploitative industrial capitalism and wage slavery that even he appeared to be opposed to./auspol / - Australia General VlI
Bowls is life editionPRODUCTIVE FORCES PRODUCTIVE FORCES
Degrowth is anti-marxist. Productive forces need to be developed. Deng was right.What differenciates Maoism from Mao Zedong Thought?
What criticisms do Maoists have of Mao Zedong? I've read on many occasions Maoist claim that MZT had shortcomings and that the purpose of Maoism was to, with the relevant data and translated information afterwards, be able to sum up the Chinese revolution leading up to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) and move forward with what worked and discard with what didn't.bruh wtf is this
The Anpo protests were a turning point in the JCP's ongoing attempts to revive its political fortunes after the disastrous turn toward violent revolution in the early 1950s.[17] Although the Maoists had been purged from the party following the earlier disaster, the JCP was still riven by the age-old rivalry between the Rōnō Ha (Worker-Farmer Faction) and the Kōza Ha (Lecture Faction), which dated back to the prewar era.[17] Among other disagreements, the two factions disagreed over which stage of Marxist development Japan was currently in; the Rōnō Ha believed that Japan had already achieved full capitalism, which meant that an immediate socialist revolution was possible, whereas the Kōza Ha argued that Japan's transition to capitalism was not yet complete and that therefore what was needed was a "two-stage" revolution—first a "democratic revolution" that would overthrow American imperialism and establish true democracy, and then a "socialist revolution" that would establish communism.[20] Although the "mainstream" of the JCP, led by Kenji Miyamoto, favored the Kōza Ha interpretation, as late as the 7th Party Congress in 1958 the "anti-mainstream" Rōnō Ha faction, led by Shōjirō Kasuga, still controlled around 40 percent of the delegates.[17]DENNIS PRAGER: FUCK CITIES
Dennis Prager, American Conservative on cities:/Climate/ #2 Uyghur polysilicon edition
This thread is dedicated to our uyghur comrades assuring us the path to energy transition, as stated by the IEATrumpistan
Once upon a time, in a dimension far, far away, there existed a utopia known as Trumpistan. The people of Trumpistan were a proud and affluent group, known for their love of McMansions, Hummers, and gilded evangelical megachurches.Division of the proletariat through a mindset of prioritization
The bourgeoisie divides the proletariat in many ways, but one is by inducing a mindset of artificial scarcity. It even leaks into socialist discourse, believing that the limits of our capability are much lower than they are, and resulting in a mindset of prioritization of needs for liberation.Hilo latinoamericano 5.0
Anything related to Latinamerica, let's unite in discussion while the CIA-funded military hasn't decide to torture us to death for the time being. Feel free to speak engl*sh. Stop voting, gringos.CPUSA myth
Why has CPUSA been so mythologized in the past two years when they were a massive failure and sucked even in their “good days?”The high approval rating of the US among the Vietnamese populace
So is this post-Soviet phenomenon a consequence of the ideological bourgeois state apparatuses allowed to operate on Vietnamese soil or is this a legislative, econo-political consequence as fallout to the ongoing tensions imposed by Chinese social-imperialism on the peripheral nation on Vietnam, notably the ongoing maritime territorial disputes, in 2014 for example culminating in the China-Vietnam oil rig crisis, but still continuing today, that spontaneously lead to the Vietnamese populace conceive China as a threatening force? Or a bit of both?Antinatalism position in the left.
Serious discussion.Eurocentric history and Greco-Roman wankery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillya_TepeYamasuke's World
His world was a mess. So-called "civilized" people there had become so consumed by money and power that they had lost sight of what truly mattered. The streets were littered with trash, the air was thick with pollution, and everyone was overweight, sluggish, and rude. The only thing that seemed to matter was how much money someone had and how much they could flaunt it.Happy Black History Month/MLK Day bullshit
Hello anons. Your local black comrade today has decided to open a thread for your best capitalist appropriation of Black History Month and Martin Luther King Jr./brg/ - Brazil-Brasil General
>Michel Foucault photographed moments after teleporting all May 68 protestors to their homes simultaneously. "Tu me comprends mal. Survillier et punir n'étaient pas des demandes", he was quoted as saying immediately beforehand. Paris, 1968, colorized./SEA/ - Southeast Asia and Oceania General
7th Edition: Bolehland GE15!SEA edition./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.Maoists close to winning in the Philippines not bait
The axis of resistance is the target
This declared war has greater dimensions than Ukraine, and its goal is to qualify Russia to lead the world and to lead the axis of resistance and to rehabilitate Putin, who has a black history of seizing power, liquidating his opponents, violating the rights of the Russians, and trading power with Medvedev for decades, qualifying him to lead the axis of resistance. Which includes Iran, the Islamic resistance, the Palestinian and the Yemeni as well.. This is how the West hopes that Putin will become qualified to lead the peoples with the right judges. And to reproduce the old polarization with the Soviet Union, which was somewhat comfortable and did not threaten Israel in terms of existence as the resistance threatens Israel. If this situation indicates anything, it indicates that the real conflict exists, even if it is not visible, between Russia and the axis of resistance over the leadership of the peoples, and not between the United States and Russia. Putin is a creation of the West, not a representative of the Russian people. And now his view of Dugin has entered the line, and the goal of assassinating his daughter may be to float his Eurasian project, which is the new incubator of Israel.The Isdal woman
Was she a Soviet spy (aka /ourgirl/)?Mutualism
I personally believe that a socialist market economy based on voluntarily association , communal banking and competition among workers own cooperatives would be a good alternative to corny capitalism of today ./GLSG/ - Good Looking Socialists General
Good Looking Socialists General 2 - Coffee has both risks and benefits EditionTaliban Fighters Experience Alienation
>A large number of Taleban fighters have moved to Afghanistan’s cities since the movement’s capture of power, many of them seeing life in the city for the first time in their lifetime.News 2/7/23
French workers stage second mass walkout over Macron’s scheme to raise the retirement ageHow come the Taliban won but Maoists can't?
Let me get this straight Marxism is supposedly the greatest ideology with the greatest military doctrine's.STARMER
<In his teenage years, Starmer was active in Labour politics; he was a member of the Labour Party Young Socialists in East Surrey… From 1986 to 1987, Starmer edited the radical magazine Socialist Alternatives.Why do some leftists like NEETcha?
Everything I've seen of his pop up isn't very inspiring or even that enlightening. It's nearly poetry in waxing romantically about how everyone is dumb and we need a new aristocracy. That's my impression but I haven't read anything of his directly (why would I want to?). I know the Nazis found a lot of inspiration in his writings.The State and Revolution
The state exists whenever and wherever there exists and exploited and exploiter class. The state is a median, the linking between class antagonisms, the resolving of them (under bourgeois understanding). The Marxists however see that whenever a state structure is being built, those with economic power can take political power and wield state power over the exploiting class. Hence the state does not resolve class antagonisms but rather subjugates one class in favour of the other.OC Thread 14.0
>Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.News 2/6/23
France to be hit by fresh strikes and demonstrations over government's attack on pensionsUK becoming POOR
>By the end of next year, the average British family will be less well off than the average Slovenian one, according to a recent analysis by John Burn-Murdoch at The Financial Times; by the end of this decade, the average British family will have a lower standard of living than the average Polish one.Convince me that Capital isn’t a cosmic horror story
Seriously, prove to me that Capital isn’t actually a cosmic horror story disguised as a critique of political economy and that capitalism isn’t an eldritch entity that appears as a socioeconomic system but is actually an abstract parasitic/predatory superorganism unlike anything that has ever existed on Earth, a living/cancerous system growing on the Earth system, feeding on human life energy and suffering, and constantly growing itself, splitting apart, and assimilating competing instances of itself"Productive Forces" is an excuse. The REAL reason why China hasn't pressed the socialism button is
"Productive Forces" is an excuse. The REAL reason why China hasn't pressed the socialism button is…Vatican II
Honest question: if the Vatican II council was truly a product of communist infiltration (as tradcaths love to claim) how the FUCK did it fly under the radar of the CIA?/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
Edizione del tempo dei mostri/webm/ Thread 5
First thread: >>>/leftypol_archive/9920Mieville is a Shachtmanite
>Seethes and cries that another fellow Shachtmanite got done for "sexual impropriety" (whatever that means)Osama Bin Laden
>A series of video games downloaded and saved onto compound computers suggest Osama bin Laden or someone else who lived on the compound was an avid video game enthusiast. The CIA files released after the 2011 raid showed the al Qaeda leader had downloads of popular games like Half-Life, Super Mario Bros., Yoshi’s Island DS, Final Fantasy VII, Dragon Ball Z, and Counter-Strike, a game where multiple players team up to fend off counterterrorism efforts.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.@leftypol_org Twitter Page
Decided to make a thread for a place to post shit that the twitter page for /leftypol/ can pull from. They haven't posted anything since June, quite a while. Memes, videos (Has to be under 2 minutes and 20 seconds), informative shit, high effort green posts, funny greenposts. Overall anything that can be used to promote this place that hasn't already been posted. Am debating about making it a requirement for a watermark back to this place, but ehhh, seems kinda unfun. What do you guys think? Also if you have access to the twitter page, use a pfp that isn't saturated as fuck, the current ones blinds my eyes. Thanks.Ukraine’s Postwar Reconstruction Has Big Business Licking Its Lips
>Ukraine is being sized up by neocolonial vultures from BlackRock to the EU for a carve-up after the war is over. On the menu is deregulation, privatization, and “tax efficiency” — measures that may have already begun.The “say his/her/their name” phenomenon & raising awareness
One of the Angloid’s best-known & best-loved writers and linguistic contributors, William Shakespeare, once wrote in his play Romeo and Juliet, “what’s in a name?”66% of new wealth goes into the pockets of 1%
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/jan/16/oxfam-calls-for-new-taxes-on-super-rich-pocket-dollar-26tn-start-of-pandemic-davosFrench Anarchism
Why does it seem like French anarchism has historically been way more extreme than anarchism elsewhere in the world?/subcontinent/ general
India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan/cybersoc/ - Cybernetic socialism
This thread is for the discussion of cybersocialism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/APOLOGIZE
APOLOGIZE TO THE SERBS RIGHT NOWConservitive whips out dick in front of women to fight wokeness
A Conservative black man whipped out his dick in front of women and began pissing in a toilet stall with the stall door opened. He did this whist talking to the women and accidentally pissing on the floor. He did this to own "woke" people that support trans women in women's bathrooms.syngmun rhee schizo
syngmun rhee was a communistSouthernism, Evangelicalism, and Conservatism
Southernism, Evangelicalism, and Conservatism in the USNews 2/4/23
Sri Lanka marks independence anniversary amid economic woesPic unrl
Thoughts on this group? Should can has into IWW?Fuck Analytical Philosophy
Analytical philosophy is fucking stupid. There are people out there who have built careers on not believing in things. There's people who think there's no such thing as an electron. Sitting in fucking universities telling each other "Nobody has taken a picture of it." Now that physicists actually took pictures of it, some of them shut up. But there's some that still don't accept it. "It's a video, not a photo. It's moving." Fuck you, no shit it's moving.Chinese Spy Balloon -- sizzle or fizzle?
>U.S. officials say a massive surveillance balloon believed to be from China and first seen above Montana is being tracked as it flies over the continental United States.The Black Book of capitalism Beta edition
After three months of labor, I present you the current state of the translation project of the french Black Book of Capitalism from 1998.Can someone explain what he meant by this?
>Get down to business, all of you! You will have capitalists beside you, including foreign capitalists, concessionaires and leaseholders. They will squeeze profits out of you amounting to hundreds per cent; they will enrich themselves, operating alongside of you. Let them. Meanwhile you will learn from them the business of running the economy, and only when you do that will you be able to build up a communist republic. Since we must necessarily learn quickly, any slackness in this respect is a serious crime. And we must undergo this training, this severe, stern and sometimes even cruel training, because we have no other way out.Create an ideal alternate history for Marxism
It has to be very realisticEuropean Colonialism
>Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies[4] and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their religion, language, economics, and other cultural practices. The foreign administrators rule the territory in pursuit of their interests, seeking to benefit from the colonised region's people and resources.[6] It is associated with but distinct from imperialism. Though colonialism has existed since ancient times, the concept is most strongly associated with the European colonial period starting with the 15th century when some European states established colonising empires.News 2/3/23
Rail strikes could last until 2026, union chief warnsI hate men
I am a man not a woman and it has reached the point where I hate men.Let's discuss the set relations of political ideologies
Communism ⊆ AnarchismCovid-19
Welp editionBooks on cuban socialism?
What are some good books on Cuban socialism, the history of cuba, and its politics. From what I heard it's one of the last few actually socialist countries, and that it has better healthcare and education than the US.What doesn leftypol think of Stalin's post-war rapprochement with the Orthodox Church?
In general, bringing back the Othodox church after everything that was done do it during and after the revolution might seem like a strange choice. What was the reason for Stalin and his successors u-turning on the issue of religion? Was it simply practicality/realpolitik, or was there a greater, more ideological reasoning for it?From Democracy to Socialism
Has any democratic state ever preceded a socialist state?US cops are fucking shit and as their healthcare
>be some random civilianClass reductionists win again
In that "anti-trans bills passed" thread yesterday i saw some very interesting comments, the thread's been deleted now but some that stood out to me were along the lines ofon christian "hypocrisy"
People often say "Jesus fed the hungry, so why don't Christians support welfare?" On a surface level this seems like a good point, but it's really too simplistic of a reading. Jesus is not meant to be taken as an example to follow. He is a messianic figure, and people are meant to put their hopes and trust in him (usually through a church as a proxy) rather than doing the things he did. This is not so much stated outright as something you can get from context clues.The Current Condition of the Western Prolateriat
We need somewhat of a understand of what exactly has stayed the same and changed within the western proletariat within the time that marx and engels were writing to now.Fixed territorial administration for the Soviet Union
This would've prevented the disintegration of the country. Federations (particularly, federations trying to split the country apart based on ethnic and/or cultural grounds) are dumb as shit, they only exacerbate the problem they are trying to fix. When I look at the map of federations around the world, I see at least half of them collapsing in the future, or being at risk of collapsing.Are Marxist-Leninists the new left-communists?
Hear me out. The Soviet Union classified two different kinds of socialist republics: the soviet socialist republic, and the people's republics of East Asia and Eastern Europe. The difference was, from what I understand, that the leading party in the PR's were People's or Unified Fronts, while the SSR had the Communist Party.Soo are we not going to talk about how Germany just fucking anschlussed the Netherlands?
News 2/2/23
Brazil senator says he attended election conspiracy meeting with BolsonaroCommunists are running out of time to deal with how AI is handled
There is something communists are not talking about that will be a serious event who knows for better or for worse.Alternatives to labor vouchers
What exactly is the alternative to labor vouchers for communism? Assuming we are doing "real communism" not partial socialism with commodity production. I mean a fully communist society - there are some leftcoms and others who criticize the labor voucher model, but the only alternative I can see is a quasi form of "barracks communism" or monastic communism where all consumption is planned in advance.HACKTIVISM
From 2008-2012ish, there were a number of hacking groups such as anonymous, lulzsec/antisec, etc. that overlapped with arguably left wing/anarchist and other social movements of the time, such as the movement of the squares, the arab spring, and occupy wall street.leftist imageboard
its kind of sucky to be a leftist who prefers social media withIsrael-Palestine escalation
Very real chance of things going off tomorrow as the IDF raided Jenin this morning and killed 10 people and injured double that after firing an anti-tank missile into a building. PA has rescinded security cooperation (https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1618649365534621696), which has been in place since Oslo in the 1990s. Tomorrow is also a friday which means rallies after mosque prayers, probably including a strike (they had one today but it appears there was little catch-on due to the fact the raid was this morning).News 2/1/23
Union Budget 2023: Trend of Centre’s Low Spending on Education Worsens Under Modiindividualism and collectivism
its normal for people to be empathetic and collectivistic and be greedy and individualistic too. society cannot achieve with both collectivism sticks and creates societies and individualism can breed any sort of opportunities and chaos and with chaos forces us to adapt and progress in order to escape chaosEsoteric 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.Orientalism Rant
I hate the "oriental decadence" trope so much. Whether its whignats online saying shit like "temple prostitution is asiatic degeneracy and not indo-EVROPEAN traditions" or liberals saying shit like West freedumb enlightenment good East schytian hydraulic despotism.Recent France News
French strikes: fizzle or sizzle?Give me one reason to support china
China has markets, isn't socialist, let alone communist, they're just LARPing as gommie because thats how they stay in power. We've had east asian posters here who admit viet/china aint gommie and its actually just nationalism. So if you're going to be a nationalist for a capitalist country, why not be nationalist for your own? Is there any fucking reason besides reflexive self loathing, contrarianism and aesthetics that I should become a weirdo dengist and support China over my own nation?IRAN HAPPENING THREAD
Iranian drone factories are being hit with missiles. Probably fired by Israel. Could be the expansion of the NATO-Russia war.Why evangelicals are so schizo
Bible reading and conspiracies: Why evangelicals are so schizoFrench Protests
Thought it'd be good to have a thread on the current French protests..where are the proletarian leaders????
Marx: Bourgeois failson of a lawyer who owned vineyardsNuremberg indicts Germans for Katyn
Suck it up, revisionistsgetting organized
how are you supposed to get organized irl? do you just look online for meetings/protests or whatever? i live in a deep red (in the bad way) county so im not expecting to be able to meet with other socialists without driving a decent way.News 1/31/23
France brought to a standstill over attack on pensionsOn culture wars: what and why
Is there a reason as to why is America always trapped in "culture wars?" What are the purposes of instigating culture wars? Do corporations benefit much from this? It seems like America is a big fan of these kinds of retardation. Take the spokescandies controversy for example.Katyń massacre was done by soviets
Grover Furr is not a historian, is a cherrypicking lying retard, is mocked by quite literally all historians.Uphold Marxism-Hard Scienceism!
I am making this thread as a hard line in the sand for self-described Marxists, anarchists, and anti-capitalists of all kinds to uphold the hard science, anti—science fiction line! Remember, you fuckers, colonizing Mars is probably pointless, the only time we ever did terraforming was to make our own planet uninhabitable, “FTL” is magical nonsense and unrealistic, interstellar governments will never exist due to travel time, communication speed, and time dilation; time travel is likely impossible, if AI superintelligence is somehow possible it’s centuries away, superhuman soldiers would require artificially producing living nonhumans that can somehow tank artillery rounds, and James Cameron’s Avatar is unironically more realistic and scientific than most sci-fi. FUCK SCI-Fi, UPHOLD REAL SCIENCE!Non-ironic nazbol from Moscow
Darov, lefties. The nazbol from Moscow is in touch. I noticed that anons from this imageboard have some very strange opinion about the ideology of National-Bolshevism and most perceive it more like a meme. How do the West treat the nazbol if you reject the irony? Are the books of Limonov and other NB authors translated into English? If you are interested, I can tell you about the political situation in Russia, about what opinions are popular among the people. I am not yet a full-fledged member of "E. V. Limonov's Other Russia"Why didn't Stalin leave a successor?
I am no expert on the situation to me it looks like Stalin did not pick a successor or group of successors that would adhere to the Marxist Leninist line. Imagine if someone like Molotov or Lazar Kaganovich was publicly groomed to be the next leader.primitivism
it should be possible to live in a primitivist way. the means of production should be arranged to enable it. the people must be free to take care of themselves and therefore can't be coerced by people withholding the methods of survival. furthermore, it's good exercise promoting health, it requires a strong local community which improves social life satisfaction, and results in people being stewards of the land itself. no, it does not require going without modern medicine. there are many time periods of the day, and many different people. marx said we must be able to be a hunter one day, a fisherman the next, and a factory worker soon after.COMMUNISM KILLED MILLIONS
COMMUNISM KILLED MILLIONS !!!!!1!!!Left Wing Fitness
First and foremost, this thread is about historical accounts of left wing fitness programs, movements and etc. You could debate about the merits of fitness and what the left can do about it and things like fatphobia if you want to but mainly I want to get historical accounts.Children make you conservative
>When the team surveyed 2,610 adults across 10 countries, from Lebanon to Japan, they found that people who were more motivated to care for children tended to be more socially conservative. In addition, parents were more socially conservative than those who were childfree. And while social conservatism increased with age, this relationship disappeared once parenthood was taken into account.HEDONISM
>Hedonism refers to a family of theories, all of which have in common that pleasure plays a central role in them. Psychological or motivational hedonism claims that human behavior is determined by desires to increase pleasure and to decrease pain. Normative or ethical hedonism, on the other hand, is not about how we actually act but how we ought to act: we should pursue pleasure and avoid pain. Axiological hedonism, which is sometimes treated as a part of ethical hedonism, is the thesis that only pleasure has intrinsic value. Applied to well-being or what is good for someone, it is the thesis that pleasure and suffering are the only components of well-being.News 1/30/23
Sri Lanka's president suspends parliament until policy addressThere will be no revolution in America
Think about it, the conditions a communist revolution in America would be for creating a third world war rather than a revolution contained in the United States1923 - 2023
So in retrospective, do you think those 100 years made a huge difference? Was there any progress?Can someone redpill on Kronstadt?
Im sure there someone more informed about this than me around so Id thought I would ask. Are there any valid reasons to not support the Kronstadt rebellion, it seems to be a genuine working class movement and alot of the things they said were basically true and Pertopavlovsk resolution seems reasonable.News 1/29/23
Jailed Italian anarchist leader enters 100th day of hunger strikeWhat the FUCK was his problem
Why didn't the Strasserites defect to the KPD? Like, did they genuinely believe that Thalmann and co were unironically controlled by jews and they will exterminate all Germans and shit? If they wanted their little germanic volkstate they could've done that alongside the leftists right? Instead they choose to do it the hard way and ended up getting buttfucked along with that retard RohmAccomplishments of white supremacy
1. The complete genocide or cultural erasure of countless indigenous groups around the world - if they weren't outright killed, they were turned into docile Christian alcoholics and drug addicts and either removed to ghettoes or forced into servitude for the white colonizersIssues in objective morality and forming a society
So in recent times a question was haunting my mind, as we create the terms "bad,good…" etc. In our utopian society how will we judge people, what will be the rules… like a killers' reason to hurt someone may differ , as like in Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment , where Raskolnikov thinks killing a landlady will please and make everything better for him , and killing may be pleasing for their spirit, like if someone bullies your LOVER… you feel an ache… your lover is sad… then you find your hands in blood, you killed that person and as long as your lover is happy , you'll be divinely be happy too… So, nevermind, as there are a lot of human actions derives from a lot of sparks from one's revolt to this absurd world, I think it all returns no nothingness, why would we define killing "bad" in an anarcho syndicalist society maybe? Or how will those rules be defined and work… Like some nazi said if your anarchist utopia aims to please everyone what would you do to racists… Or why the idea of racism is "wrong", how can I define anything "wrong and bad", do u guys have an idea about that how these will work and defined?Pretty nice knowing how much better things have gotten
Since the whole Covid fiasco has ended along with a shitload of overseas wars most developing states have been generally at peace most older colonial powers have lost a lot of their influence most notably France and the level of infrastructural development almost worldwide has led to a lot more people even if slowly being raised out of extreme poverty and being able to find some sort of comfort in actually finished homes, medical treatment or simply being given more time away from work to enjoy other things in life along with how much easier it is to find work thanks to the whole world trade thing and the internetWould space colonization inevitably lead to space feudalism?
If we had ftl travel and were able to colonize planets similar to Earth what would prevent each colony from resorting to planet or multiplanetary level feudalism? I mean communication between different colonies would be rendered difficult and each would develop their own culture and economic aystem wich would make it even harder for their to establish and interplanetary political system. Was dune right in demonstrating that space faring civilization are bound to feudalism?Revisionism in the USSR
By the 60s the USSR had completely degenerated into a capitalist dictatorship of the grand bourgeoisie. The Trotskyite-Khruschevite clique had completely destroyed the mighty advancements made by Comrades Lenin and Stalin and put in power the remnants of the old bourgeoisie as well as the new forming bourgeoisie, leading to an imperialist path, somewhat similarly to the example of Yugoslavia, where a gang of capitalist agents already took power, leading to Yugoslavia becoming a US puppet antagonizing the socialist bloc, the difference being that Khrushchev's USSR became independently imperialist and attacked socialism from within.Mao Doomed Marxism
I used to like Mao as his writings on Marxism as they were very clear. However at this point in my evolution and political education I can no longer consider him a great leader or decent Marxist.News 1/27/23
Main opposition slams ruling party's push to keep NIS' authority to conduct anti-communist investigationswhats the deal with post lefties?
Is there more to post-leftism other than pointing out recuperation/thermidor exist therefore we should just give up on leftism. Like some of the critiques are valid but wheres the alternative?ECONOMICS
>Economics is the social """science""" that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes what's viewed as basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions. Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, and sellers. Macroeconomics analyzes the economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact, and factors affecting it: employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land, currency inflation, economic growth, and public policies that have impact on these elements.Books on the history of the Roman Empire
I'm looking for books about the history of the Roman Empire. Im not really familiar with any authors on this topic and the only book i know of is Edward Gibbons History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Also any thoughts on that ? How does it hold up today? Is there any value in reading it ?Lacan/Psychoanalysis = CIA diversionary trick?
Why is this stuff so popular among leftists? In any left-adjacent space you encounter this guy, the farther left you go the more he pops up!1st world de-industrialization aggrievement
why do so many of the aggrieved imperial core proles who lost their jobs to de-industrialization believe the bourgeois clowns who promise them they'll bring back the manufacturing jobs? Can't they see that the high-pay, good-pension, unionized, low-barrier-to-entry, manufacturing jobs of the mid 20th century were entirely a byproduct of the New Deal, FDR's war economy, and a postwar hegemony that had not yet begun to decay? Can't they see that the bourgeoisie outsourced their jobs to the cheapest labor sources? Why would the bourgeoisie ever bring back the jobs from the imperial periphery? Why would the bourgeoisie ever decrease their own negotiating power by resurrecting a highly-paid and unionized labor force in the imperial core? Why would the bourgeoisie sacrifice profit for the happiness of their civilians? Isn't it reactionary and class-collaborationist to believe these kinds of promises from bourgeois politicians? Why do some self-described "socialists" also believe these false promises? Since when has the bourgeoisie ever gone against its own interests? Even when they do limited social democracy, it's simply to prevent the collapse of the bourgeois mode of production, not to decrease their own wealth or to benefit the proletariat. Also, the threat to jobs is not just outsourcing, but also automation, and prison labor, and undocumented labor. You have a quadruple threat to people who sell their labor power, and 3/4 of those threats come from people who are also brutalized under the current system. Why not join forces with those people? Why believe the promises of bourgeois politicians who make false promises? Could it be that all of this is motivated by false consciousness, and a chauvinist ethnonationalist ideology that puts internationalism and class consciousness in the back seat?Allied Intervention against Soviet Russia
Can we get a thread on this topic. Documents, archives, sources anything showing that Western imperialist powers wanted to stop the spread of soviet power and worker-peasant states.RUSSIAN THREAD
The previous thread died (is full) for our sins. >>326202Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
When did you realize that Marxism-Leninism-Maoism was the ideology of the proletariat and that People's War was universal? Maybe around 2019 for me after reading the PCP's works.Friendly reminder
Dear tourists: here is a reminder that 4chan has been nothing but a testing ground for anonymous bots to spout nonsense ever since m00t quit and started working for googleLISTEN TO IT
https://michael-hudson.com/2015/12/super-imperialism-in-84-seconds/THE LEFT CONTROLS EVERYTHING!!
>NOOOOOO! THE LEFT CONTROLS EVERYTHING!!News 1/26/23
Israel raid in Jenin kills nine Palestinians in 'massacre'The left-right divide is obsolete: The case of Malvinas
I talked with a mod on /meta/ to get unbanned, so before any mod action see that thread before deciding anything.“”””supply chain issues”””””
How badly are we being lied to about the causes behind the “everything shortage?” The standard official explanation for shortages—especially in burgerland— of everything from consumer electronics to baby formula to medicines is “supply chain disruptions” during and after the covid shutdown. There was then a sudden rebound of consumer demand, but there were too many kinks in the supply chain to meet it.500-900 million died of COVID in china. Source: Falun gong. Lmao
What is the Marxist analysis for people believing Falun gong???*ding ding* Happy new year!
A toast to /leftypol/!anyone else here a MLA(not the format)
After reading sum theereee Ive decided that the only way to achieve socialism in our time is MARXIST-LENINIST-ANARCHISM.Take the bread pill
"In a world without money, everything was shared collectively. People lived in harmony with each other and with nature. Resources were abundant and everyone had everything they needed.News 1/25/23
NUMSA, other organizations seek court action to end South Africa’s debilitating power outagesBritish state media insults Japan calling them poor, racist and bureaucratic
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490The legacy of the alt-right
>4chan traffic at an all-time low/Sankara/
Just learned about Thomas Sankara and the 1983 Revolution in Burkina Faso. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara Holy shit this guy was cool. Massively increased education, agricultural production, and access to healthcare, said fuck you to the IMF and world bank, outlawed forced marriage and female genital mutilation, championed gender equality, and was on the cutting edge of ecological preservation and responding to the AIDS crisis. FUCK Blaise Compaoré. What a backstabbing piece of shit. He is apparently still walking around free after being sentenced to life in prison, and talking about healing divisions and shit. Burkina Faso could have been another Cuba. Instead it is one of the most underdeveloped nations in Africa. Fuck all counterrevolutionaries and the evil western empires that prop them up.Communist Israel.
Let's make a thought experiment./ukraine/ thread #113
Make a new thread faster next time editionWho killed JFK, really?
>John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in office. Kennedy was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election. He was also the youngest president at the end of his tenure. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. He was a Democrat who represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to his presidency.Idealistic to Mention Capitalism As to Blame
It is idealistic to tell someone to blame capitalism when talking about the woes of the modern day. Capitalism, back then and even more so now, is a very vague abstract concept. For some people, its their work, for other people its literally markets. So many different explanations. But whatever it is, its something that isn't tangible. That you have to build together like a puzzle. Thats why its idealistic to be talking about capitalism to workers. A much better example would be the boss. They are tangible. They exist. You can easily identify them and explain your relationship between them than you can capitalism.Reviving the trade guilds
Are trade guilds [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild] a viable mode of worker-organized labor to form a parallel mode of production to help construct socialism? They could differ from co-ops in that they require no formal association apart from validation and admittance, and allow ad-hoc production of commodities using internally communal means of production. So in other words, similar to co-ops but they don't seek to compete in the capitalist market but simply exist for themselves, to the extent they can achieve satisfaction of their own needs in some wayNews 1/24/23
Ambulance workers stage another day of strike action as dispute over pay for overstretched staff shows no sign of endingADAM SMITH THE FOUNDER OF ECONOMICS
We need to have a dedicated thread about this guy because im sick of hearing about him being the founder of free market capitalism. I haven't read him but i would like some input from people who have, because i'm fairly certain that he didn't like the "free market" or the "invisible hand" at all.New Multitude- 2019-2023
Hey guys, Editor. I'm sorry to say but I'm announcing the end of the New Multitude project as of today.Honestly the worst thing about rightoids…
Is the fact that these worm-like invertebrate faggots can’t ever just say what they really believe about the world. I fucking hate these cowardly weasel cunts, honestly 4chinlets are better than most rightoids, at least they’re too autistic to hide their psychotic nonsense. But the average right wing dickweed? God it’s just dog whistle after dog whistle, when you point out what they’ve implicitly told you they believe in they act shocked and appalled and try gas lighting tf out of you. I despise cowards, I hate people that can’t say what they believe, I do think this infects certain sections of the left as well, but ffs even the most deranged stalinist will usually say their beliefs more or less outright. Fucking hate the cowardice of rightoids, goddamn/leftybritpol/
#BackTheBlue editionfuck john nash all my homies hate john nash
>be LITERAL SCHIZO named JOHN NASHNo Ethical Consumption?
Is this really true? After all, the current super-exploitation happening in the 3rd world is due to uneven development of capitalism, primarily the fact that in more developed countries, active labor movements were able to secure certain privileges like better pay, which made seeking cheaper labor in less developed regions more appealing. However, the proletarianization of the 3rd world brings forth the proletarian labor struggle there. If there are various movements aimed at improving the conditions of workers in less-developed countries, doesn't supporting those movements materially help them advance? To wit, doesn't purchasing commodities produced with less exploitative practices help the workers of the world gain more victories in the labor struggle? Isn't purchasing "Fair Trade" or other "ethically" sourced goods a form of proletarian unity then?News 1/23/23
Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office releases nearly 200 people held after San Marcos University raidChina at Davos Planned economy impossible we support private sector more "reforms" of public sector
"Some people say China will go for the planned economy. That’s by no means possible. We'll support the private sector and promote fair competition, anti-monopoly and entrepreneurship. — Liu He, Vice PM of the PRC"Belarus
I've heard that this country is claimed to be a continuation of the USSR. OTOH I've heard from Belarussian commies claim the opposite and that Lukashenko is just another thirdoid dictator.Communes
https://www.ic.org/Nationalism vs Internationalism
Despite Marxist theory being anti nationalist and for a worker international movement, almost every single communist country has been nationalist. With the USSR adopting "Socialism in one country" and communist movements in South America/ Africa and Asia always adopting Nationalism. It seems the only people that advocate for internationalism are Capitalists who seek to subjugate the world in a neoliberal hellscape.Individualist Socialism
Thoughts on the concept of individualist socialism?It's Dengism all the way down.
Dengism. Dengism. Dengism. You are all Dengists!!! None of you are free from Dengism!!!The EU is worse than the American Empire
And I wanna say how you nighas cope with this shitThe USSR was Left Ultra
>Instead of Market reforms for productive forces the country stuck to planned economy stagnation and collapseGREAT BOOKS
Should all workers read the great books? or is that just elitist?News 1/21/23
Protests in Stockholm, including Koran-burning, draw strong condemnation from TurkeyPUTIN EXPOSED
https://web.archive.org/web/20100616112833/http://www.anticompromat.org/putinav/felsht.htmlVeganism
What should the communist position be on veganism?News 1/20/23
Germany: Deliveries delayed as postal workers strikeThe 1945 Project
>1619 ProjectNews 1/19/23
More than 1m march in France amid strikes over plan to raise retirement ageDoes Gorbachov prove the Great Man Theory?
Seriously. I can imagine a million different scenarios where the USSR could've survived and became a degenerated worker's state but at every point of my inquiry some retard descision by Gorbachov pops up and its like, no, historical and material reality just can't explain how much a retard he was.PDF request about Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin The Social Dynamics of Repression
It was a very interesting research and i don't find it free anymore. Does someone have a link of the PDF of "Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin The Social Dynamics of Repression" of WENDY Z. GOLDMAN?News 1/18/23
NHS strikes escalate with same-day action by nurses and ambulance staffSoviet Union would have become biggest economy by 2097
I did some rough calculations which indicated the Soviet Union would have become the world's biggest economy by the start of 2096 if anti revisionists took over the government in 1987. I know the USSR was revisionist before 1987 but this is a revisionist website it would have taken longer and not changed that much on already rough estimates.Thoughts on Brezhnev?
I'm admittedly still fairly new to Marxism/Leninism but from my layman's glance he kinda seems (by results) the greatest leader the soviet union ever had. He didn't push the absolutely castrated CIA manufactured "De-Stalinization" line that Khrushchev did yet he didn't fall into the same genuine over abundances of repression he state under stalin did. He successfully supported socialist revolution in Africa and the middle east while also avoiding the nuclear confrontation championed by Mao. He kept the Union together and, for all the complaints of "stagnation" by capitalist economists in the west (and their lackies the world over) maintained an astoundingly high standard of living in the soviet union; one which is in many ways superior to modern American standards of living with their provision of universal healthcare and education.Greta Thunberg says her goal is to replace capitalism
According to the activist, the economic system is responsible for the climate crisis.NAZIS PRAISE DPRK: OFFICIAL MEDIAS PROUDLY REPORT IT
What did they mean by this? Are the nazbol memes becoming real?Resolutions for unity and strength
Leftypol ought to develop resolutions on specific topics. These resolutions being explanations of official positions of the board on things like "are baristas proletarian?" and "what is the nature of the war in Ukraine?".News 1/17/23
Thousands of Farmers Continue Advancing Towards LimaWhat is the Left's position on CBDCs?
The idea is that CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) will replace cash eventually and physical cash would be outlawed after a certain point. This allows the government to track all transactions better and freeze or seize funds more quickly than getting a bank to freeze someone's bank account when he has done something the government doesn't like, which is what communists/socialists generally support.Stalin deportation of chechens and death toll
Did this happen and if it did was it justified? I saw kadyrov post about it todaySpace Race
>The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II. The technological advantage demonstrated by spaceflight achievement was seen as necessary for national security, and became part of the symbolism and ideology of the time. The Space Race brought pioneering launches of artificial satellites, robotic space probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and ultimately to the MoonLarouchepac Gunman
https://www.abqjournal.com/2565117/solomon-pena-arrested-in-shootings-targeting-new-mexico-democratic-politicians-homes.htmlGreat Man Theory
How does leftypol refute great man theory? You are really telling me that people like Ben Franklin, Jesus, Mohammed, Hitler, Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Gorbachev, etc. didn't singlehandedly alter the course of history to a notable extent?? Like for instance Ben Franklin pretty much secured French aid to the American Revolution which in the end may have even won the war. Speaking of France, there's Napoleon.The Labour Files
>Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has obtained the largest leak in British political history, exposing how unelected officials undermined democracy within the Labour Party. The leaked data comprises 500 gigabytes of documents, emails, video and audio files from the Labour Party dating from 1998 to 2021.Far Right Coup In France Foiled
It seems the cool thing for Right wingers to do these days is find a group of gullible incompetent loonies and get them arrested. I just don't see how the left can come back after this devastating string of victories in Greece, America, Brazil, Germany, and now France.The twelve sexual commandments of the revolutionary proletariat
https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1924-2/revolutionary-manliness/revolutionary-manliness-texts/twelve-commandments-of-revolutionary-sex/News 1/16/23
Peace banners dominate annual Rosa Luxemburg procession in BerlinRobert Mugabe and Zimbabwe
Breadpill me on Robert Mugabe. Did he have real potential to change Zimbabwe for the better? To what extent was he a good communist and where did he fail? Where lies the dissonance between his actual failures and Western propaganda to demonise native Zimbabweans liberation struggle?Should communists support the war against Serbia?
Why was Serbia trying to start another invasion and genocide after they committed it in Bosnia and Croatia, killing hundred of thousand people, ethnically cleansing huge area? In comparison, the war on Serbia committed way less atrocities. Bombing and mass killing Sarajevo, Zadar, Šibenik, Vukovar, Osjek, Dubrovnik, Mostar, Slavonski Brod, Zenica, Tuzla… All that cities suffered way more atrocities then any town in Serbia, so shouldn't we as communists support the war on Serbia? After they did it also in WWII in Bosnian and Croatian areas in Bosnia - 1941 and later untill they and Germans lost war in 1945. And after they trying to do it again on Albanian's Kosovo today. Should based Putin and Zgang invade Serbia today and stop the next genocide in it's crib?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?Conservative Billionaires
How do socialists get around the fact that rightoid billionaires fund tons of propaganda:Balkanizing the US/ national divorce
If a group of people tried hard enough, would it be possible to split the US into smaller countries?New Reading Group for Capital Vol. I
UPDATE 1/16/2022: NEW OFFICIAL THREAD ON /EDU/ >>>/edu/12217Artifacts of Capitalism
ITT: products, services, business models, etc that would not exist in communism.News 1/14/23
Lützerath: Protesters, police clash near German coal mineCold Civil War
Is this term useful to describe the state of some western countries right now? The amount of protests is increasing, even if they are directionless. Gen Z is radicalising. We see this in communist parties filled with old heads and people in their 30s or 20s. Nothing in between. And liberalism can only ignore real economical and ecologial problems for so long. Also, maybe this is a controversial take, the culture war is a manifestation of that cold civil war. Also I don't think all culture war is an export of american politics.Is "Multipolarism" Russian Glowshit?
I know I'll get inevitable get flamed for this, but I'm not saying that Russia bad or that we should ever side with NATO or any social chauvinist radlib shit like that. However, the ideology of "multipolarism" seems to be in contradiction to what's actually happening and is largely in the service of the geopolitical interests of one country in particular. What actually seems to be happening is not that there are multiple "poles" forming; regional powers directly competing with the global hegemonic power of the United States, but more an anti-hegemonic league of nations loosely aligned around the desire to resist American influence. What nations are actively trying to be "poles"? China? India? Brazil? South Africa? Iran? I guess you could argue that they all exhibit their own sort of international influence, but none of them are really presenting themselves as new "poles" of global power that stand in singular opposition to American global power or each other. It's really only Russia trying to position itself this way. At times, it comes across as a ham-fisted attempt at reviving Soviet internationalism without embracing communism again, replacing socialist internationalism with Duginoid schizoposting about Eurasianism and Atlanticism or whatever.Non-vegans are liberals; in favor of a Vegan-Stalin
Title.Race Realism
Hey everyone. I just made a new blog dedicated to countering race realist pseudoscience and bad history as well. Here's the first post. If it interests you check it out.Porky: workers are getting lazy
https://archive.is/t4e6kNews 1/13/23
South African power cuts worsen as Eskom extends worst-ever outages/Climate/
Figured the climate was serious enough to warrant it's own thread.Communism must become a religion
The question of whether Marxism/communism/socialism is a religion is not new. Lenin was categorically against such research. Moreover, he considered attempts to combine Marxism with religion an abomination. And here, as it seems to me, Vladimir Ilyich, despite all his genius, made a very common methodological mistake – he judged everyone by himself. What was Marxism to him? Teaching, science.Artists panic as new AI "Stable Fusion" shows inevitability of their jobs made obsolete
>The generated images are looking scarily good, considering how little VRAM it uses.News 1/12/23
Indonesia admits historical rights violations — but shirks accountabilityHaiti Fucked
The last 10 remaining senators in Haiti’s parliament have officially left office, leaving the country without a single democratically elected government official. There is now no constitutional representation at any state level, the latest sign that the country has become a failed state (from the article).Rent-seeking behavior, Technology, and Superprofits
As Marx explained, the profit in the price of a commodity is equal to surplus value divided by (constant capital + variable capital).Collaborative Theory
Idea: Write theory collectively. If you look at most modern scientific (natural science) research most papers have like 50 names on them. This can be done very simplyNews 1/11/23
Peru President Under Investigation After Dozens Killed In ProtestsAmerican Rail Strike
This is probably the most important strike of this decade. On Wednesday Congress is likely to block the strike but if they do it the workers might just strike anyway. Workers have basically no time off and they were offered only one extra day off in the negotiations which most workers find unexceptionable.Cultic activities around Pol Pot's tomb
A number of cultic activities and practices have been observed around Pol Pot's grave.[473] People from Anlong Veng, but also from other parts of Cambodia, go to his grave to make offerings of food on certain holy days, including the Festival of the Dead and the Cambodian New Year. Some people make daily offerings of food, as well as more significant offerings such as a pig's head and court music sang by an orchestra.[473] Amanda Pike, an investigative journalist who has visited Cambodia, states that some of Pol Pot's supporters still cling to his memory and ideology and she also states that some fervent believers still worship him.[474] She reports that these people dig through Pol Pot's ashes and snatch up fragments of his bones to take away as talismans.[474] Cambodian villagers say that they dream of Pol Pot and afterwards they win the lottery or become cured from malaria.[475] In addition, people kneel down near his grave and start praying. They chant: "All your children are here, Grandpa. Don't say that we've forgotten you". They ask for good health and for their children to be educated, just like Pol Pot was.[475] When asked about why they go to Pol Pot's grave, some say they knew him personally. Others say that they go to pay their respects to a former leader. Most seem to perceive that some part of the world thinks of Pol Pot in a negative light, however they insist that he was a supporter of the common farmer and a defender of Cambodia.[475] There have also been cases of people dreaming of Pol Pot and sleepwalking all the way to his grave.[475] Amanda Pike talks about an old woman named Chou Kitt – a Cambodian genocide survivor that lost most of her family under the Khmer Rouge – who says that Pol Pot visited her in her dream. Pike reports:[475]News 1/10/23
At least 17 dead in deadliest day of anti-government protests in Perutransit as red aid
You know how certain communist organizations do free food programs, free jackets etc., like mutual aid without the anarchistic, individualistic connotations?Marxism = idealist?
https://filosofia.dickinson.edu/encyclopedia/platonism-marxismNews 1/9/23
World leaders condemn Brazil violence as US lawmakers call for Bolsonaro extradition