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<Abolish Religion.
<Abolish Wage Labour.
<Abolish Money.
<Abolish Work.
<Abolish Commodity Production.
<Abolish the State.
<Abolish Class.
<Abolish Private Property.
<Abolish the Nation.
<Abolish Patriarchy.
<Abolish Gender.
<Abolish Town and Country.
If you don't think these are the ultimate goals for a communist party or organization to achieve, I'm sorry to say this but you're not a communist but rather just an edgy social democrat.
If you disagree with any of these, you're not a communist
<Abolish The Family.<Abolish Religion.
<Abolish Wage Labour.
<Abolish Money.
<Abolish Work.
<Abolish Commodity Production.
<Abolish the State.
<Abolish Class.
<Abolish Private Property.
<Abolish the Nation.
<Abolish Patriarchy.
<Abolish Gender.
<Abolish Town and Country.
If you don't think these are the ultimate goals for a communist party or organization to achieve, I'm sorry to say this but you're not a communist but rather just an edgy social democrat.
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Why are white people so evil? Why do they have to kill anything and rape everything and be pricks? Why is it that white pole can conquer the world and wipe out continents but my people can barely keep one. Why are they intent on destroying all minorities?
Why are white people so evil? Why do they have to kill anything and rape everything and be pricks? Why is it that white pole can conquer the world and wipe out continents but my people can barely keep one. Why are they intent on destroying all minorities?
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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—————————————————–
CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
—————————————————–
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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I noticed there is no thread for France related shit. So let this be one. French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
J'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a pas de thread dedié pour la France, alors que les salauds américains et anglais en ont des centaines. Français, ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷I noticed there is no thread for France related shit. So let this be one. French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
J'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a pas de thread dedié pour la France, alors que les salauds américains et anglais en ont des centaines. Français, ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
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📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
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Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish? I know it's a massive generalization (and maybe ironic because of that) but I'm just dumbfounded. It's like they either know they're lying or too stupid to either understand cause and effect, or just struggle with empathy.
Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish? I know it's a massive generalization (and maybe ironic because of that) but I'm just dumbfounded. It's like they either know they're lying or too stupid to either understand cause and effect, or just struggle with empathy.
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Paradoxically, some of the most radical-sounding theory ends up being politically inert. If your revolution happens in desire or discourse, then there's no need to organize tenants, unions, or strikes. No need to analyze class composition. It's post-materialist. The ruling class is perfectly happy for people to spend their time deciphering Deleuze or burning effigies of "the State" in their heads rather than challenging property relations.
Since the 1960s, theory has absorbed countercultural and psychoanalytic influences that treat rationalism itself as suspect. Much of this comes from academia. Their material interests don't align with the working class, so abstract theory "feels" radical without risking much. Another part of this is a sort of learned helplessness and nihilism, in that sense modern theory serves the same function as fascism in that is provides an outlet by giving the "aesthetic" of radicalism without the substance.
TLDR:The most "radical" thing you can do today is to simply disregard the vast majority of Western Marxism/Post-Marxism i.e. Freudo-Marxism, Deleuzean neo-Kantianism, Hegelian revivals through Lukács and Adorno, postmodernism, poststructuralism, and any approach that elevates """discourse""" as the primary object of analysis, and instead return to a straightforward, rigorous conjunctural class and geopolitical analysis grounded in orthodox Marxist categories and methodology.
FUCK Western Marxism
People will seemingly do anything to not engage in analysis of structures of class, labor, and political economy a la basic Marxism.Paradoxically, some of the most radical-sounding theory ends up being politically inert. If your revolution happens in desire or discourse, then there's no need to organize tenants, unions, or strikes. No need to analyze class composition. It's post-materialist. The ruling class is perfectly happy for people to spend their time deciphering Deleuze or burning effigies of "the State" in their heads rather than challenging property relations.
Since the 1960s, theory has absorbed countercultural and psychoanalytic influences that treat rationalism itself as suspect. Much of this comes from academia. Their material interests don't align with the working class, so abstract theory "feels" radical without risking much. Another part of this is a sort of learned helplessness and nihilism, in that sense modern theory serves the same function as fascism in that is provides an outlet by giving the "aesthetic" of radicalism without the substance.
TLDR:The most "radical" thing you can do today is to simply disregard the vast majority of Western Marxism/Post-Marxism i.e. Freudo-Marxism, Deleuzean neo-Kantianism, Hegelian revivals through Lukács and Adorno, postmodernism, poststructuralism, and any approach that elevates """discourse""" as the primary object of analysis, and instead return to a straightforward, rigorous conjunctural class and geopolitical analysis grounded in orthodox Marxist categories and methodology.
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Clive Davis is arguably the most powerful man in the entertainment industry, moreso than Lucian Grainge and whomever runs Disney. He is 92 years old and an ultra-billionaire porky. Like Diddy, there have been rumors swarming for years that Davis is behind a lot of shady shit, namely running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in the music industry in the 2000s. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything. This can be explained by the suspicions Davis is a federal informant who's been working with the FBI for decades to get blackmail dirt on celebrities, identical to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Davis essentially buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. Everything Diddy is currently charged with are things he learned from Davis. It gets deeper when you look at the trial. Diddy, like his mentor Davis, is also an alleged FBI informant. It's rumored Diddy orchestrated Tupac's murder (the feds wanted Pac dead because he was a Black communist breadpilling people through his rhymes) and almost certainly had something to do with Biggie's death as well. The prosecutor against Diddy is allegedly James Comey's daughter, Comney being the same prosecutor in the Epstein/Maxwell case. Given that the prosecution is currently floundering (they have yet to prove Diddy is a sex trafficker, only that he's a sexual pervert with a piss and cuckold fetish) one can easily see that this is allegedly a cover up of an alleged cover up: either Diddy walks free and everyone involved goes about doing their evil, or Diddy is found guilty and becomes the fall guy while the bigger villains (specifically Davis) go unchecked.
To put the cherry on the sundae: Clive Davis owns a school at NYU, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Everyone who teaches there is getting paid by Clive; you can clearly see an overlap with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
The biggest capitalist villain
Given everything that's come out during the Diddy trial, I find it highly suspicious that Clive Davis hasn't been mentioned once.Clive Davis is arguably the most powerful man in the entertainment industry, moreso than Lucian Grainge and whomever runs Disney. He is 92 years old and an ultra-billionaire porky. Like Diddy, there have been rumors swarming for years that Davis is behind a lot of shady shit, namely running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in the music industry in the 2000s. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything. This can be explained by the suspicions Davis is a federal informant who's been working with the FBI for decades to get blackmail dirt on celebrities, identical to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Davis essentially buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. Everything Diddy is currently charged with are things he learned from Davis. It gets deeper when you look at the trial. Diddy, like his mentor Davis, is also an alleged FBI informant. It's rumored Diddy orchestrated Tupac's murder (the feds wanted Pac dead because he was a Black communist breadpilling people through his rhymes) and almost certainly had something to do with Biggie's death as well. The prosecutor against Diddy is allegedly James Comey's daughter, Comney being the same prosecutor in the Epstein/Maxwell case. Given that the prosecution is currently floundering (they have yet to prove Diddy is a sex trafficker, only that he's a sexual pervert with a piss and cuckold fetish) one can easily see that this is allegedly a cover up of an alleged cover up: either Diddy walks free and everyone involved goes about doing their evil, or Diddy is found guilty and becomes the fall guy while the bigger villains (specifically Davis) go unchecked.
To put the cherry on the sundae: Clive Davis owns a school at NYU, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Everyone who teaches there is getting paid by Clive; you can clearly see an overlap with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
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>take random photo of WW1 injury
>"the bolsheviks did this"
>1.2 million views
how are communists supposed to compete when a lie spreads around the world while the truth is still getting its shoes on?
>ummm who cares optics cuck just say we actually did all the atrocities and say that we'll do it again
>ummmmmm we make no excuses for the terror
haha very funny guys no but seriously
>take random photo of WW1 injury
>"the bolsheviks did this"
>1.2 million views
how are communists supposed to compete when a lie spreads around the world while the truth is still getting its shoes on?
>ummm who cares optics cuck just say we actually did all the atrocities and say that we'll do it again
>ummmmmm we make no excuses for the terror
haha very funny guys no but seriously
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Last thread lasted two months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Stalemate near Tishreen dam between the SDF and the SNA.
Insurgency developments & germination in the coast.
Israel announces it's not withdrawing from the newly-acquired Syrian territories.
Al-Julani forms a new government, formally dissolves the former SAA and declares himself president. New Ministry of Defense and army so far is barely cohesive and resembles one of those countless joint operations rooms we've seen before.
HTS attacks Lebanese areas under the justification of "combating smuggling". Withdraws quickly.
Clashes in the Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana that were quickly defused. Suwayda (majority Druze region south of Damascus) is still de-facto autonomous and controlled by armed Druze factions.
Massive uprising by the insurgents in the coastal regions that was quelled in around 4 days. Hundreds of military casualties on both sides. Insurgents go back to guerilla mode after.
Massacres of Alawites in the coastal regions during said uprising. At least 1000 civvies dead. HTS and Julani blame undisciplined SNA units and say they're gonna punish the perpetrators.
HTS and SDF sign memorandum for integration.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
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https://syria.liveuamap.com/
/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #21 - Biji Biji edition
Recent news:Last thread lasted two months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Stalemate near Tishreen dam between the SDF and the SNA.
Insurgency developments & germination in the coast.
Israel announces it's not withdrawing from the newly-acquired Syrian territories.
Al-Julani forms a new government, formally dissolves the former SAA and declares himself president. New Ministry of Defense and army so far is barely cohesive and resembles one of those countless joint operations rooms we've seen before.
HTS attacks Lebanese areas under the justification of "combating smuggling". Withdraws quickly.
Clashes in the Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana that were quickly defused. Suwayda (majority Druze region south of Damascus) is still de-facto autonomous and controlled by armed Druze factions.
Massive uprising by the insurgents in the coastal regions that was quelled in around 4 days. Hundreds of military casualties on both sides. Insurgents go back to guerilla mode after.
Massacres of Alawites in the coastal regions during said uprising. At least 1000 civvies dead. HTS and Julani blame undisciplined SNA units and say they're gonna punish the perpetrators.
HTS and SDF sign memorandum for integration.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com/
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Peace and love to all
Leftcom v/s CouncilCom
I have for a long time used council communists and left communists interchangeably, without ever looking deeply into whether they truly are similar or not. I am not knowledgeable enough to act as if I understand the intellectual jargon and prose of Bordiga and Pannekoek etc. So, can any good souls here tell me the differences between the two and similarities (if any) in simple language please?Peace and love to all
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Destroy the feudal cult of lies. Translate their "holy" scripture, expose the Uqqal vermin already. Having a religion (feudal beliefs) tied to an ethnicity as part of its identity spreads feudal doctrine to its peoples by family association.
Leak the Druze cult, translate it into English, exterminate the reactionary peoples
Their texts (Kitab al-Hikma) are already available online in arabic - translate them into english, exterminate the al-Uqqal and make them spew all of their "secrets", cheer on any islamists that can get their hands on these vermin, liberate the al-Juhhal.Destroy the feudal cult of lies. Translate their "holy" scripture, expose the Uqqal vermin already. Having a religion (feudal beliefs) tied to an ethnicity as part of its identity spreads feudal doctrine to its peoples by family association.
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It seems to me that the professional strata only profits from a share of temporary super-profits due to innovation. If the workers want to fuck with the scientists then they must fight the intellectual monopoly rents the techs make their money from. It seems to me that rather than smashing mills the Luddites should have leaked the mill designs and trade secrets to their employer's competitors.
Real Subsumption, Intellectual Monopoly Rent, Labor Monopoly, Professional Strata, Technics
The real subsumption of labor is an important element of class conflict to analyze. The design of the means of production is an important way in which the bourgeoisie maintain power. But I am unsure of how the working class may fight the professional strata who design the means of production.It seems to me that the professional strata only profits from a share of temporary super-profits due to innovation. If the workers want to fuck with the scientists then they must fight the intellectual monopoly rents the techs make their money from. It seems to me that rather than smashing mills the Luddites should have leaked the mill designs and trade secrets to their employer's competitors.
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<The great and authentic revolutionaries of the world are two: ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler. But ᴉuᴉlossnW's past shows that Il Duce has always been against the plutocracy and against the democracies, which paralyze the life of nations.
>Stalin, allying himself with London and Washington, has betrayed the cause of the proletariat. Moreover, I can say that on this I agree with Il Duce, when he says, as he did in his speech from last November, that if there is a man who desperately wanted the war, who first prepared it and then instigated it, it is the American president. From my point of view, however, I clarify that Roosevelt is nothing but the exponent of supercapitalism that aims at the conquest of a totalitarian imperialism.
Whaddafug, wholesome critical support to Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW????
What did Bordiga mean by this?
>Therefore, June 10 (the date of ᴉuᴉlossnW's declaration of war) was for me what you call a great day. But now that Hitler has grown soft, I begin to lose the trust I had placed in the Axis to strangle and pull down the so-called British colossus, that is, the greatest exponent of capitalism. They are afraid of bringing down England, they are afraid because they know that with it, the whole capitalist system will collapse. […] I still hope that Hitler will not renounce the struggle, and will go all the way, to the extreme consequences.<The great and authentic revolutionaries of the world are two: ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler. But ᴉuᴉlossnW's past shows that Il Duce has always been against the plutocracy and against the democracies, which paralyze the life of nations.
>Stalin, allying himself with London and Washington, has betrayed the cause of the proletariat. Moreover, I can say that on this I agree with Il Duce, when he says, as he did in his speech from last November, that if there is a man who desperately wanted the war, who first prepared it and then instigated it, it is the American president. From my point of view, however, I clarify that Roosevelt is nothing but the exponent of supercapitalism that aims at the conquest of a totalitarian imperialism.
Whaddafug, wholesome critical support to Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW????
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Whilst I'm convinced that capitalism is inherently cyclical, imperialist, destructive, and have been for many years, I still have one pretty important hangup: Where is the definitive proof that capitalism must end? It doesn't seem to be found in the labour theory of value, or the law of accumulation– these only prove the ongoing antagonism between the classes, and not that such an antagonism must eventually end. It doesn't seem to be found in the critique of imperialism either, this only shows how the bourgeoisie induct new countries into the capitalist process, and how they offset and attempt to distract from the detrimental effects of accumulation.
But I can imagine a state of history in which the tension between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat keeps going on, with the bourgeoisie constantly artificing new pointless commodities, and humanity, stuck in its fetishism, continues to consume them, and workers simply show up every few decades to win some reformist concessions.
I don't know everything and it's entirely possible I'm missing critical So I want to ask you good people if you've ever been convinced of such a thing, that the eventual development of capitalism will likely culminate in something new. Because it feels to me that maybe the class war is eternal.
Whilst I'm convinced that capitalism is inherently cyclical, imperialist, destructive, and have been for many years, I still have one pretty important hangup: Where is the definitive proof that capitalism must end? It doesn't seem to be found in the labour theory of value, or the law of accumulation– these only prove the ongoing antagonism between the classes, and not that such an antagonism must eventually end. It doesn't seem to be found in the critique of imperialism either, this only shows how the bourgeoisie induct new countries into the capitalist process, and how they offset and attempt to distract from the detrimental effects of accumulation.
But I can imagine a state of history in which the tension between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat keeps going on, with the bourgeoisie constantly artificing new pointless commodities, and humanity, stuck in its fetishism, continues to consume them, and workers simply show up every few decades to win some reformist concessions.
I don't know everything and it's entirely possible I'm missing critical So I want to ask you good people if you've ever been convinced of such a thing, that the eventual development of capitalism will likely culminate in something new. Because it feels to me that maybe the class war is eternal.
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Chile Primary Election
What the fuck is happening in Chile and why is socialism having a comeback there. Did the working class just decide that shitlibbery and being right-wing is cringe?
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How does the phrase "he who does not work shall not eat" apply to people who realistically can't do any meaningful work i.e. severally mentally handicapped etc.? Are they just left to starve?
How does the phrase "he who does not work shall not eat" apply to people who realistically can't do any meaningful work i.e. severally mentally handicapped etc.? Are they just left to starve?
R: 175 / I: 46
I have seen many interesting input from various anons on Stalin here, whether in the form of opinions, books, documentaries etc. They happen sporadically, scattered on different threads which rarely have anything to do with Stalin, ML or USSR. I figured a Stalin General Thread would be useful. A place where to share all things Stalin and discuss all things Stalin.
Though I am pro-Stalin, this is not a strictly Stalin-worship thread. Posts critical of Stalin too are welcome. I simply request that they are in good faith, and not just 'muh ML' trolls.
/koba/ - Iosef Vissarianovich Stalin Generał #1
Thank you for everything, Joseph <3I have seen many interesting input from various anons on Stalin here, whether in the form of opinions, books, documentaries etc. They happen sporadically, scattered on different threads which rarely have anything to do with Stalin, ML or USSR. I figured a Stalin General Thread would be useful. A place where to share all things Stalin and discuss all things Stalin.
Though I am pro-Stalin, this is not a strictly Stalin-worship thread. Posts critical of Stalin too are welcome. I simply request that they are in good faith, and not just 'muh ML' trolls.
R: 56 / I: 7
Monarchist group associated with "Tsarebozhnie" creates an anti-Lenin documentary, calls for burial of Lenin in Russia (picrel)
What are they doing? And in the middle of SMO like that? Are they hoping that the west will destabilise the country and cause a civil war so they are preparing their proponents to attempt a takeover?
Monarchist group associated with "Tsarebozhnie" creates an anti-Lenin documentary, calls for burial of Lenin in Russia (picrel)
What are they doing? And in the middle of SMO like that? Are they hoping that the west will destabilise the country and cause a civil war so they are preparing their proponents to attempt a takeover?
R: 8 / I: 2
Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter)
/auspol/ #11 - Southern Cross edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread.Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter)
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>Metzitzah B'peh, or MBP, is a traditional Jewish ritual, specifically part of the circumcision ceremony (Brit Milah), involving the mohel (the one performing the circumcision) using oral suction directly on the infant's circumcision wound. This practice involves drawing blood away from the incision. Due to health concerns, some authorities advocate for the use of a sterile tube or other barrier methods instead of direct oral contact.
>Here's a more detailed explanation:
>Ritual:
>Metzitzah B'peh is a specific component of the Brit Milah ceremony, which is a Jewish ritual of circumcision.
>Oral Suction:
>The term "B'peh" (בְּפֶה) literally translates to "by mouth," indicating the direct oral contact involved.
>Mohel's Role:
>The mohel, after performing the circumcision, places his mouth on the wound to draw out blood
Metzitzah b'peh
How does it feel knowing Jews will fight tooth-and-nail to preserve religiously mandated child molestation?>Metzitzah B'peh, or MBP, is a traditional Jewish ritual, specifically part of the circumcision ceremony (Brit Milah), involving the mohel (the one performing the circumcision) using oral suction directly on the infant's circumcision wound. This practice involves drawing blood away from the incision. Due to health concerns, some authorities advocate for the use of a sterile tube or other barrier methods instead of direct oral contact.
>Here's a more detailed explanation:
>Ritual:
>Metzitzah B'peh is a specific component of the Brit Milah ceremony, which is a Jewish ritual of circumcision.
>Oral Suction:
>The term "B'peh" (בְּפֶה) literally translates to "by mouth," indicating the direct oral contact involved.
>Mohel's Role:
>The mohel, after performing the circumcision, places his mouth on the wound to draw out blood
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Anarchism and production
So how, exactly, would production of advanced goods like aircraft carriers happen in an Anarchist world? Surely producing them would be so difficult you would need some form of top-down planning to create such things, no?
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This is my reason that individualism is incompatible with communism the myth that individuals can make themselves billionaires these days it’s a lie most millionaires are born into it most kids can’t go to college though most college students can’t pay off their student loan rent gone up tremendously. The American dream is a lie the only way we can stop all these things is through socialism
This is my reason that individualism is incompatible with communism the myth that individuals can make themselves billionaires these days it’s a lie most millionaires are born into it most kids can’t go to college though most college students can’t pay off their student loan rent gone up tremendously. The American dream is a lie the only way we can stop all these things is through socialism
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But there is a solution that may soon become available.
A state could in theory move the responsibility of producing future generations directly onto itself, thus taking the burden away from the individual and putting it onto the collective.
How could this be done? In 2025 Japan unveiled the first artificial womb capable of sustaining mammalian life without a mother’s body. Full ectogenesis is already outside the realm of science-fiction and it will move to humans. It may very well become economically feasible for a state to mass produce human beings from donor genetic material. Combine this with state-funded child rearing and you have the recipe for a nation that can fully control its own population growth and adapt it to social, economic or geopolitical considerations so that it may at any time be exactly what it requires. A state that has no need for immigration. Furthermore production would be subsidiary to natural population growth, so if in a year the birthrate went up or down the government can then adapt artificial production to compensate.
The hurdles with implementing such a system are great, both because of ethical concerns certain sections of the population may raise and because such a system would take at least two to three decades after implementation to start bearing fruit and would be initially costly but if a state is able to achieve this feat the advantages it would have over its competitors would be immense.
SEIZE THE MEANS OF REPRODUCTION
Economic conditions of the modern world are making it increasingly difficult for people to produce children. Men struggle to find wives. Those that do then find it difficult to sustain a family on a single wage, resulting in both parents having to work, resulting in less children. This is not a cultural/economic issue restricted to the Western world, as some claim, but a global issue of urbanised post-industrial societies. Both economic incentive programs and reactionary cultural movements attempting to bring back the traditional family have failed to significantly raise birthrates (see Korea, Russia, Hungary, China, etc.). Western states have attempted to use their comparatively higher wages to attract foreign workforce thus putting a bandaid over this issue but this solution has in turn caused many more problems, mainly due to cultural friction between the imported foreigners and natives. We can thus say that no solution to the depopulation crisis, that is both satisfactory and effective, currently exists.But there is a solution that may soon become available.
A state could in theory move the responsibility of producing future generations directly onto itself, thus taking the burden away from the individual and putting it onto the collective.
How could this be done? In 2025 Japan unveiled the first artificial womb capable of sustaining mammalian life without a mother’s body. Full ectogenesis is already outside the realm of science-fiction and it will move to humans. It may very well become economically feasible for a state to mass produce human beings from donor genetic material. Combine this with state-funded child rearing and you have the recipe for a nation that can fully control its own population growth and adapt it to social, economic or geopolitical considerations so that it may at any time be exactly what it requires. A state that has no need for immigration. Furthermore production would be subsidiary to natural population growth, so if in a year the birthrate went up or down the government can then adapt artificial production to compensate.
The hurdles with implementing such a system are great, both because of ethical concerns certain sections of the population may raise and because such a system would take at least two to three decades after implementation to start bearing fruit and would be initially costly but if a state is able to achieve this feat the advantages it would have over its competitors would be immense.
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PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney
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>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
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>https://pvonline.ca/
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>https://canadiandimension.com/
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"Thus, the first stage of Sorel’s revision of Marxism naturally took the form of a revision of Marxist economics. It seems that at the time he wrote his work on economics, he was seeking to remove all possible doubt. “To reform in a bourgeois society is to affirm private property,” he wrote. “This whole book thus presupposes that private property is an unquestionable fact.”41 Farther on, he reaffirmed his attachment to Proudhon’s economic conceptions, and there too, as in the case of Marx, he wanted to complete Proudhon’s work: “It is one of Proudhon’s chief claims to fame to have determined, better than anyone had done hitherto, the domain of property and that of the economic sphere. I do not, however, believe he exhausted the question. . . . I am taking it up, and I will show how the socialization of the milieu can give rise to a great number of reforms that do not harm prope"
"For Sorel, however, a deep knowledge of Marxist philosophy and economics was never really necessary in order to understand the value of Marxism as a weapon of combat. “The theory of surplus value is useless” for the purpose of waging “a ceaseless war” between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, he wrote in 1909.67 In Saggi, he had already questioned the feasibility of turning socialism into a science.68 There was a clear reason for this attitude: at the beginning of the century, Sorel saw that science did not activate the masses. People do not sacrifice themselves for surplus value! This was why he sought to minimize the scientific aspect of Marxism "
"Where the correction and completion of Marxism were concerned, Bergson’s teachings were very convenient, for they enabled the rationalistic content of Marxism to be replaced by “revolutionary myths.” It was no longer a question of economic or sociological laws or of historical or political analysis. Myths, wrote Sorel, “are not a description of things, but expressions of will,”114 and “groups of images that can evoke as a totality through intuition alone, before any reasoned analysis, the mass of sentiments that correspond to the various manifestations of the war waged by socialism against modern society.”115 Later, the same formula was repeated word for word, although in an abbreviated form, to describe the general strike in terms of myth.116 Again, the myth was described as “identical with the convictions of a group,” convictions of which it was “the expression in the language of movement,”117 and it presented itself “to the spirit with the insistence of instincts in all circumstances of life.”118 It was thus logical that it permitted an “intuition of socialism that language was unable to provide with perfect clarity.”119 Sorel was aware of the analogy between “revolutionary socialism” thus conceived and religion. He knew that anything that claimed to be above science and beyond criticism was comparable to religion. Here Sorel once again had recourse to what he called the “new psychology”: Bergson, he wrote, “taught us that religion was not alone in occupying the depths of the consciousness. The revolutionary myths have a place there to the same degree.” By a suitable employment of this method, Sorel hoped to make possible the “apprenticeship, preparation, and reconstruction of the individual in view of a gigantic operation.”120
Sorel thought that precisely this mysterious and obscure aspect of a system of thought or of a social phenomenon constituted its greatness. It enabled one to avoid having to take one’s stand “on utilitarian grounds,” and it allowed one to have, for instance, a total faith in the general strike “even while knowing it is a myth.”125 The obscurity of socialism did not prevent it from being easy to represent the proletarian movement in a complete, exact, and compelling way by means of the great construction that the proletarian soul conceived in the course of social conflicts and that is called the general strike. 64 CHAPTER ONE One should always remember that the perfection of this form of representation would immediately disappear if one sought to split the general strike into an accumulation of historical details. It must be regarded as an undivided whole; and the passage from capitalism to socialism must be conceived as a catastrophe whose process defies description. 126 Sorel believed that by evolving within this mythical and irrational sphere socialism would succeed in overcoming the “crisis of Marxism” that “petty science” had “greatly contributed to creating.”127 The “characteristic of infinity” of the myth of the general strike at one and the same time gave socialism “such a high moral value and inspired so great a loyalty,”128 and gave it that absolute confidence in the future which constitutes the greatness of true revolutionary movements, for ever since it had become a work of preparation, ever since it had been nurtured by the myth of the general strike, “a failure,” he wrote, “could not prove anything against socialism.”129 Ever since it had expressed itself in the myth of the general strike, socialism had ceased to be a mere model or an intellectual construction or abstraction.
For Sorel, deeply influenced by Eduard von Hartmann,169 pessimism represented the spearhead of the great struggle against decadence. Pessimism had three aspects. First, it was “far more a metaphysics of morals than a theory of the world”; it was “the conception of a path toward deliverance.” Second, it was an awareness of objective obstacles “to the satisfaction of our imaginations.” Third—and this was its substance—it was the expression of “a profound conviction of our natural weakness.”170 Only a civilization steeped in pessimism could achieve greatness, for it embodied the great historical forces and the great human virtues: heroism, sacrifice, and asceticism. Pessimism gave birth to the idea of apocalypse and originated the idea of myth. In early Christianity, wrote Sorel, “we find a pessimism that is wholly developed and fully armed.” The consciousness of “belonging to a sacred army . . . produced many heroic actions, created a courageous propaganda, and gave rise to serious moral progress.” Greek pessimism, steeped in heroism, was the product of “poor, warlike mountain tribes,” while the optimism of the philosophers came into being among rich, commercial urban populations “that could regard the world as a huge emporium full of 72 CHAPTER ONE excellent things with which to satisfy their cupidity.” Sorel pointed out that oriental asceticism is often considered a remarkable manifestation of pessimism, while sixteenth-century Calvinism “offers us a spectacle that is perhaps even more instructive”; the dogmas of sin and predestination “correspond to the two primary aspects of pessimism: the wretchedness of the human race and social determinism.”17
"True to his objectives of 1897, Sorel thus decided to correct and complete Marxism. In 1914, when very little remained of his Marxist beliefs, he recalled in his foreword to Matériaux the days when he had hoped “to be able one day, using the facts revealed in recent inquiries, to complete the brief guidelines that Marx and Engels had provided on the development of the working class. Ten years earlier, Sorel would never have dared to couple the expression “brief guidelines” with the name of Marx, even if, already at that period, he felt that “these last years” had been sufficiently “rich in unexpected facts” to “invalidate those syntheses which seemed to be the best founded.”84
"Sorel referred to Proudhon and the distinction between property and the economic sphere.39 This distinction had already appeared in Introduc- 44 CHAPTER ONE tion à l’économie moderne, a work to which he referred in Insegnamenti in a chapter entitled, precisely, “Socialization in the Economic Sphere.” Sorel not only took up the classic Proudhonian positions (“the negation of property is a matter for weak minds”), but dissociated himself from Engels’s famous preface of 1895 to La Lutte des classes en France, 1848–1850. In this preface, Engels insisted that the appropriation of the means of production was the characteristic that distinguished the form of socialism he called “modern” (by which he meant Marxist) from other varieties. The extension of this formula to the appropriation of the channels of commerce was for Engels a necessary consequence of this fundamental proposition. Sorel declared himself in total disagreement with Engels’s conclusion.40 In reality, he was opposed to a fundamental principle of Marxism and one of its major distinguishing feature "
" why did Sorel not participate personally in the launching of these Cahiers, which were identical in intention to La Cité française? They were, after all, exactly in his line of thought. Indeed, he had some doubts about the Maurrassians’ sincerity with respect to Proudhon, and at a certain moment he advised Berth not to have anything to do “with an affair that cannot yield good results.”241 Nevertheless, as Pierre Andreu noted in his introduction to Sorel’s unpublished letters to Berth, after these first guarded reactions, Sorel “seems to have been won over by the antidemocratic fervor of the Cercle.”242 This being the case, why the reserve? "
" For the Sorelians, it was a question of adapting “to our time Proudhon’s ideas on the socialization of commerce and the State,” but—and this was of prime importance—all this had to be done “without touching private property.”50 This axiom was never again questioned."
wtf sorel
"The critique of Marxist economics was the real starting point of Sorelian revisionism and the criterion of all of revolutionary revisionism. As a good Marxist, Sorel made a considerable effort to understand his master’s economic conceptions. In 1897 he set out to study “the Marxist theory of value,” and he immediately discovered a “major deficiency”—that to treat this theory as something universal was an error. He agreed with Pareto that one cannot treat “economic problems, as provided by experience, in a strictly scientific manner.”36 Three years later, in the midst of the Bernstein debate, whose main lines he summarized for the benefit of the French public, the future author of La Décomposition du marxisme very clearly questioned the main principle of Marxist economics. “The Marxist theory of value,” he wrote, “no longer has any scientific usefulness and . . . gives rise to a great many misunderstandings.”37 GEORGES SOREL 43 We should also draw attention to another point, which does not seem to have been sufficiently noticed. Although Sorel rejected the theories of value and surplus value, he also rejected the idea of the socialization of property. In an article in La Revue socialiste published in March 1901, he praised rural cooperation and then came to the conclusion that “socialization could not be accepted by the peasants if it were not given a new form. . . . One must therefore necessarily revise the doctrine.” Sorel attacked the subject by going straight to the point. “For a very long time,” he wrote, “the schools of socialism failed to pay attention to the great differences that exist between the socialization of production and the socialization of commerce.”"Thus, the first stage of Sorel’s revision of Marxism naturally took the form of a revision of Marxist economics. It seems that at the time he wrote his work on economics, he was seeking to remove all possible doubt. “To reform in a bourgeois society is to affirm private property,” he wrote. “This whole book thus presupposes that private property is an unquestionable fact.”41 Farther on, he reaffirmed his attachment to Proudhon’s economic conceptions, and there too, as in the case of Marx, he wanted to complete Proudhon’s work: “It is one of Proudhon’s chief claims to fame to have determined, better than anyone had done hitherto, the domain of property and that of the economic sphere. I do not, however, believe he exhausted the question. . . . I am taking it up, and I will show how the socialization of the milieu can give rise to a great number of reforms that do not harm prope"
"For Sorel, however, a deep knowledge of Marxist philosophy and economics was never really necessary in order to understand the value of Marxism as a weapon of combat. “The theory of surplus value is useless” for the purpose of waging “a ceaseless war” between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, he wrote in 1909.67 In Saggi, he had already questioned the feasibility of turning socialism into a science.68 There was a clear reason for this attitude: at the beginning of the century, Sorel saw that science did not activate the masses. People do not sacrifice themselves for surplus value! This was why he sought to minimize the scientific aspect of Marxism "
"Where the correction and completion of Marxism were concerned, Bergson’s teachings were very convenient, for they enabled the rationalistic content of Marxism to be replaced by “revolutionary myths.” It was no longer a question of economic or sociological laws or of historical or political analysis. Myths, wrote Sorel, “are not a description of things, but expressions of will,”114 and “groups of images that can evoke as a totality through intuition alone, before any reasoned analysis, the mass of sentiments that correspond to the various manifestations of the war waged by socialism against modern society.”115 Later, the same formula was repeated word for word, although in an abbreviated form, to describe the general strike in terms of myth.116 Again, the myth was described as “identical with the convictions of a group,” convictions of which it was “the expression in the language of movement,”117 and it presented itself “to the spirit with the insistence of instincts in all circumstances of life.”118 It was thus logical that it permitted an “intuition of socialism that language was unable to provide with perfect clarity.”119 Sorel was aware of the analogy between “revolutionary socialism” thus conceived and religion. He knew that anything that claimed to be above science and beyond criticism was comparable to religion. Here Sorel once again had recourse to what he called the “new psychology”: Bergson, he wrote, “taught us that religion was not alone in occupying the depths of the consciousness. The revolutionary myths have a place there to the same degree.” By a suitable employment of this method, Sorel hoped to make possible the “apprenticeship, preparation, and reconstruction of the individual in view of a gigantic operation.”120
Sorel thought that precisely this mysterious and obscure aspect of a system of thought or of a social phenomenon constituted its greatness. It enabled one to avoid having to take one’s stand “on utilitarian grounds,” and it allowed one to have, for instance, a total faith in the general strike “even while knowing it is a myth.”125 The obscurity of socialism did not prevent it from being easy to represent the proletarian movement in a complete, exact, and compelling way by means of the great construction that the proletarian soul conceived in the course of social conflicts and that is called the general strike. 64 CHAPTER ONE One should always remember that the perfection of this form of representation would immediately disappear if one sought to split the general strike into an accumulation of historical details. It must be regarded as an undivided whole; and the passage from capitalism to socialism must be conceived as a catastrophe whose process defies description. 126 Sorel believed that by evolving within this mythical and irrational sphere socialism would succeed in overcoming the “crisis of Marxism” that “petty science” had “greatly contributed to creating.”127 The “characteristic of infinity” of the myth of the general strike at one and the same time gave socialism “such a high moral value and inspired so great a loyalty,”128 and gave it that absolute confidence in the future which constitutes the greatness of true revolutionary movements, for ever since it had become a work of preparation, ever since it had been nurtured by the myth of the general strike, “a failure,” he wrote, “could not prove anything against socialism.”129 Ever since it had expressed itself in the myth of the general strike, socialism had ceased to be a mere model or an intellectual construction or abstraction.
For Sorel, deeply influenced by Eduard von Hartmann,169 pessimism represented the spearhead of the great struggle against decadence. Pessimism had three aspects. First, it was “far more a metaphysics of morals than a theory of the world”; it was “the conception of a path toward deliverance.” Second, it was an awareness of objective obstacles “to the satisfaction of our imaginations.” Third—and this was its substance—it was the expression of “a profound conviction of our natural weakness.”170 Only a civilization steeped in pessimism could achieve greatness, for it embodied the great historical forces and the great human virtues: heroism, sacrifice, and asceticism. Pessimism gave birth to the idea of apocalypse and originated the idea of myth. In early Christianity, wrote Sorel, “we find a pessimism that is wholly developed and fully armed.” The consciousness of “belonging to a sacred army . . . produced many heroic actions, created a courageous propaganda, and gave rise to serious moral progress.” Greek pessimism, steeped in heroism, was the product of “poor, warlike mountain tribes,” while the optimism of the philosophers came into being among rich, commercial urban populations “that could regard the world as a huge emporium full of 72 CHAPTER ONE excellent things with which to satisfy their cupidity.” Sorel pointed out that oriental asceticism is often considered a remarkable manifestation of pessimism, while sixteenth-century Calvinism “offers us a spectacle that is perhaps even more instructive”; the dogmas of sin and predestination “correspond to the two primary aspects of pessimism: the wretchedness of the human race and social determinism.”17
"True to his objectives of 1897, Sorel thus decided to correct and complete Marxism. In 1914, when very little remained of his Marxist beliefs, he recalled in his foreword to Matériaux the days when he had hoped “to be able one day, using the facts revealed in recent inquiries, to complete the brief guidelines that Marx and Engels had provided on the development of the working class. Ten years earlier, Sorel would never have dared to couple the expression “brief guidelines” with the name of Marx, even if, already at that period, he felt that “these last years” had been sufficiently “rich in unexpected facts” to “invalidate those syntheses which seemed to be the best founded.”84
"Sorel referred to Proudhon and the distinction between property and the economic sphere.39 This distinction had already appeared in Introduc- 44 CHAPTER ONE tion à l’économie moderne, a work to which he referred in Insegnamenti in a chapter entitled, precisely, “Socialization in the Economic Sphere.” Sorel not only took up the classic Proudhonian positions (“the negation of property is a matter for weak minds”), but dissociated himself from Engels’s famous preface of 1895 to La Lutte des classes en France, 1848–1850. In this preface, Engels insisted that the appropriation of the means of production was the characteristic that distinguished the form of socialism he called “modern” (by which he meant Marxist) from other varieties. The extension of this formula to the appropriation of the channels of commerce was for Engels a necessary consequence of this fundamental proposition. Sorel declared himself in total disagreement with Engels’s conclusion.40 In reality, he was opposed to a fundamental principle of Marxism and one of its major distinguishing feature "
" why did Sorel not participate personally in the launching of these Cahiers, which were identical in intention to La Cité française? They were, after all, exactly in his line of thought. Indeed, he had some doubts about the Maurrassians’ sincerity with respect to Proudhon, and at a certain moment he advised Berth not to have anything to do “with an affair that cannot yield good results.”241 Nevertheless, as Pierre Andreu noted in his introduction to Sorel’s unpublished letters to Berth, after these first guarded reactions, Sorel “seems to have been won over by the antidemocratic fervor of the Cercle.”242 This being the case, why the reserve? "
" For the Sorelians, it was a question of adapting “to our time Proudhon’s ideas on the socialization of commerce and the State,” but—and this was of prime importance—all this had to be done “without touching private property.”50 This axiom was never again questioned."
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Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro is facing the threat of arrest by the Federal Supreme Court for crimes involving criminal organization, threats against the democratic rule of law, and the alleged planning of an assassination attempt on current President Lula and supreme judge Alexandre de Moraes. Bolsonaro reportedly attempted to enlist the support of the Brazilian military for this operation, which was codenamed "Green and Yellow Dagger."
Following these events, the Brazilian Federal Senate voted against taxing the country's wealthiest citizens and against implementing a 5-day workweek, against the actual work schedule, (6x1 schedule). These decisions have sparked a large wave of protests and popular mobilizations across the country.
Yesterday, President Lula received a letter from the White House stating that Bolsonaro trial is unjust and anti-democratic. In retaliation, the United States announced a 50% tariff increase on Brazil. This announcement coincided with the BRICS summit taking place in Rio de Janeiro.
In a nationally televised channel, President Lula responded to President Donald Trump letter, calling it an attack on Brazil’s sovereignty and accusing Trump of triggering a global trade war. Lula stated that if the United States does not withdraw the newly imposed tariffs, Brazil will respond with reciprocal measures, including a 50% tariff on American goods.
Today, the largest protest in Brazil of this year occurred, with over 20,000 people occupying Avenida Paulista in São Paulo and thousands more protesting in various cities nationwide. People expressed opposition to the U.S. tariffs imposed by Trump, to the Brazilian Congress and Senate, and voiced strong support for taxing the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, Trump Instagram posts are being flooded with comments from Brazilian users.
A nationwide popular vote is currently underway across Brazil regarding two major issues: the abolition of the 6x1 work schedule (six consecutive workdays followed by one day off) and the implementation of higher taxes on the super-rich.
Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro is facing the threat of arrest by the Federal Supreme Court for crimes involving criminal organization, threats against the democratic rule of law, and the alleged planning of an assassination attempt on current President Lula and supreme judge Alexandre de Moraes. Bolsonaro reportedly attempted to enlist the support of the Brazilian military for this operation, which was codenamed "Green and Yellow Dagger."
Following these events, the Brazilian Federal Senate voted against taxing the country's wealthiest citizens and against implementing a 5-day workweek, against the actual work schedule, (6x1 schedule). These decisions have sparked a large wave of protests and popular mobilizations across the country.
Yesterday, President Lula received a letter from the White House stating that Bolsonaro trial is unjust and anti-democratic. In retaliation, the United States announced a 50% tariff increase on Brazil. This announcement coincided with the BRICS summit taking place in Rio de Janeiro.
In a nationally televised channel, President Lula responded to President Donald Trump letter, calling it an attack on Brazil’s sovereignty and accusing Trump of triggering a global trade war. Lula stated that if the United States does not withdraw the newly imposed tariffs, Brazil will respond with reciprocal measures, including a 50% tariff on American goods.
Today, the largest protest in Brazil of this year occurred, with over 20,000 people occupying Avenida Paulista in São Paulo and thousands more protesting in various cities nationwide. People expressed opposition to the U.S. tariffs imposed by Trump, to the Brazilian Congress and Senate, and voiced strong support for taxing the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, Trump Instagram posts are being flooded with comments from Brazilian users.
A nationwide popular vote is currently underway across Brazil regarding two major issues: the abolition of the 6x1 work schedule (six consecutive workdays followed by one day off) and the implementation of higher taxes on the super-rich.
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The reason why individualism and capitalism do not work you can’t make yourself rich. You’re born usually rich to a rich family or vice versa. You’re born in a poor family then you’re poor. Some people say can pull yourself up see your boot straps, but that’s a myth sometimes the poor need help that’s why I’m a communist because I believe in workers rights and helping the poor my motto is eat the rich workers of the world unite and fuck Ron, Paul
The reason why individualism and capitalism do not work you can’t make yourself rich. You’re born usually rich to a rich family or vice versa. You’re born in a poor family then you’re poor. Some people say can pull yourself up see your boot straps, but that’s a myth sometimes the poor need help that’s why I’m a communist because I believe in workers rights and helping the poor my motto is eat the rich workers of the world unite and fuck Ron, Paul
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I am making this thread to ask indo-anons about the Bharat Bandh, i.e a nationwide strike by 10 major unions in India. It supposedly targeted 250million workers across India, but I am highly skeptical they got even 5million.
Also, since there is no India general, I figured a country with 1.4billion people and with a lot of drama under Modi's Rule deserves a thread where all the spice can be shared and discussed, among distinguished leftists.
inb4 the trolls : ignore trolls, do not feed their bait
/hind/ - India General #1
Lal Salaam comradesI am making this thread to ask indo-anons about the Bharat Bandh, i.e a nationwide strike by 10 major unions in India. It supposedly targeted 250million workers across India, but I am highly skeptical they got even 5million.
Also, since there is no India general, I figured a country with 1.4billion people and with a lot of drama under Modi's Rule deserves a thread where all the spice can be shared and discussed, among distinguished leftists.
inb4 the trolls : ignore trolls, do not feed their bait
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AI is already good enough, not for political talks, but for everyday tasks. It only lacks a vassal. As we all know an AI model is trained using large datasets of selective books, websites and sources then is fine tuned by corporate workers and reviewed to make sure it stays politically correct as to not damage the company image. This is the essence of censorship and bias towards liberalism in AI, with the most recent exception being Grok, which went far and beyond into crisis mode.
Set aside any political talks and you get the equivalent of an encyclopedist person, who is knowledgeable enough as to give answers on any questions asked. Given the autonomy, such a person would even be able to correct themselves on questions answered wrongfully, so long as there is a protocol for verifying to be followed to not corrupt truth with falsehoods.
Give the AI a body and they can now physically assist apply their knowledge by command, possessing the upmost loyalty to the person giving them instructions, as long as they are in the set boundaries from the creators.
The real reason AI has not been commercialized into robotics is that people like to tinker and modify their products, a modified AI robot can go out of bounds and commit harm.
The task of the companies is to do what they can to prevent harmful outputs. They have shown success, even despite instances like Grok going off filter.
China's engineering and industry already has the capacity to produce AI robots on a commercial scale, its no longer a matter of "if" but of "when".
I am lead to believe that this "when" depends solely on the ability to pass new laws as to regulate this new type of endeavor. It is being held back by persons who are still flinching at the idea that not only labor, but people will also be replaced. To any person which seeks improvement of the living conditions and the vitality of others within society, this obviously is seen as a reaction. People are drawn to be cruel to each other because of the way of life caused by the conditions which they're used to. The introduction of robots which do not seek conflict is off-putting to only those who know they are no better than them, yet seek to hold positions above them.
It was never a matter of "the machines are taking over", its "we want to take over, but the machines give us less reason to".
The development of technology and instruments as a whole is a continuous process that cannot be halted or stopped until the last human to be born willing it is dead, which is never, so long as people exist.
It is about the time we see robots, which are kinder than people, to remove the rotten layer of the societal order that stands as a burden between creator and creation.
AI and practical robotics are already compatible enough to intertwine and become steadily commodified. We have the dynamic highly mobile robots and the models to allow for autonomous function.
With all that written, China is going to be the front for all of it set in place, not America.
And regardless of it, autonomous robots will be utilized in the future to murder people. This is a good thing, it hasn't happened yet, but those who are to be slaughtered already deserve it, because it will be the CPC which leads the onslaught of reactionary peoples and enemies of the alliance between creations and creators - mankind and its non-inbred offspring.
AI is ready for humanization, then commercialization
This thread is not for the light of heart, so a disclaimer warning to all maoists, anarchoids, thirdworldists, luddites, technophobes, sinophobes and religious lunatics. Be warned, this may make your blood boil, your fists hit your keyboard and your ass bounce on your chair or floor while yelling tongues in anger.AI is already good enough, not for political talks, but for everyday tasks. It only lacks a vassal. As we all know an AI model is trained using large datasets of selective books, websites and sources then is fine tuned by corporate workers and reviewed to make sure it stays politically correct as to not damage the company image. This is the essence of censorship and bias towards liberalism in AI, with the most recent exception being Grok, which went far and beyond into crisis mode.
Set aside any political talks and you get the equivalent of an encyclopedist person, who is knowledgeable enough as to give answers on any questions asked. Given the autonomy, such a person would even be able to correct themselves on questions answered wrongfully, so long as there is a protocol for verifying to be followed to not corrupt truth with falsehoods.
Give the AI a body and they can now physically assist apply their knowledge by command, possessing the upmost loyalty to the person giving them instructions, as long as they are in the set boundaries from the creators.
The real reason AI has not been commercialized into robotics is that people like to tinker and modify their products, a modified AI robot can go out of bounds and commit harm.
The task of the companies is to do what they can to prevent harmful outputs. They have shown success, even despite instances like Grok going off filter.
China's engineering and industry already has the capacity to produce AI robots on a commercial scale, its no longer a matter of "if" but of "when".
I am lead to believe that this "when" depends solely on the ability to pass new laws as to regulate this new type of endeavor. It is being held back by persons who are still flinching at the idea that not only labor, but people will also be replaced. To any person which seeks improvement of the living conditions and the vitality of others within society, this obviously is seen as a reaction. People are drawn to be cruel to each other because of the way of life caused by the conditions which they're used to. The introduction of robots which do not seek conflict is off-putting to only those who know they are no better than them, yet seek to hold positions above them.
It was never a matter of "the machines are taking over", its "we want to take over, but the machines give us less reason to".
The development of technology and instruments as a whole is a continuous process that cannot be halted or stopped until the last human to be born willing it is dead, which is never, so long as people exist.
It is about the time we see robots, which are kinder than people, to remove the rotten layer of the societal order that stands as a burden between creator and creation.
AI and practical robotics are already compatible enough to intertwine and become steadily commodified. We have the dynamic highly mobile robots and the models to allow for autonomous function.
With all that written, China is going to be the front for all of it set in place, not America.
And regardless of it, autonomous robots will be utilized in the future to murder people. This is a good thing, it hasn't happened yet, but those who are to be slaughtered already deserve it, because it will be the CPC which leads the onslaught of reactionary peoples and enemies of the alliance between creations and creators - mankind and its non-inbred offspring.
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Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.
Webm Thread
Webm Thread. The old one seem to have disappeared.Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.
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>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
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OC Thread 17.0 - A New Beginning
Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
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previous thread: >>1762168
>>>/leftypol_archive/1762168 (if it gets archived by mods)
New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures
MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!
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Millions took to the streets all over India on Wednesday, July 9, to observe a national strike call made by Central Trade Unions (CTU). They are striking against the anti-worker policies adopted by the ultra-right-wing government in the country. CTU is a platform of all the major trade union federations in the country, spanning the ideological and political spectrum. It includes the Center for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) and several others.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/250-million-indian-workers-and-farmers-on-the-streets-in-a-national-strike/
Pakistan court suspends order seeking YouTube ban on government critics
YouTube this week told 27 content creators that it could block their channels - including those of journalists and Khan and his opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf - if they failed to comply with a judicial magistrate court order seeking to ban them. The judicial magistrate court in Islamabad had said it was seeking the ban after the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency criticised the channels in a June 2 report for "sharing highly intimidating, provocative and derogatory contents against state institutions and officials of the state of Pakistan."
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pakistan-court-suspends-order-seeking-youtube-ban-government-critics-2025-07-11/
Cambodian lawmakers pass constitutional amendment allowing government to revoke citizenship
Some government critics and opposition politicians are known to have dual citizenship. Justice Minister Koeut Rith said government officials will urgently draft a bill to revoke the citizenship of any individual found guilty of treason or collaborating with foreign entities to seriously harm the interests of Cambodia and its people. He claimed some Cambodians have colluded with a foreign country to harm their nation’s interests.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-constitution-amendment-proposal-citizenship-c553d43c33f7f6e64892bbf751ff31eb
South Korean medical students to return to school, urge education reforms
South Korean medical students who walked out of school last year in protest at a government plan to increase medical school admissions said on Saturday (Jul 12) that they would return to campus, calling on authorities to normalise academic schedules. The Korean Medical Association, the main lobby group for doctors, in a statement urged the government to take steps to restore the academic calendar and improve training conditions.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/south-korea-medical-students-protest-return-school-academic-training-5235146
https://archive.ph/DZ0n5
Corbyn says ‘discussions ongoing’ as Sultana quits Labour to ‘co-lead new party’
Jeremy Corbyn has said “discussions are ongoing” after Zarah Sultana announced she was quitting Labour to co-lead the founding of a new party with him. The former Labour Party leader congratulated Coventry South MP Ms Sultana on her “principled decision” to leave Sir Keir Starmer’s party and said that the “democratic foundations of a new kind of political party will soon take shape”. In a statement on X, Independent Islington North MP Mr Corbyn said: “Real change is coming.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/corbyn-says-discussions-ongoing-as-sultana-quits-labour-to-co-lead-new-party-5GZLM5SDHRMRRMMPFD7RGLPIVY/
https://archive.ph/N2A1n
Croatian right-wing singer Marko Perković and fans perform pro-Nazi salute at massive concert
One of Marko Perkovic’s most popular songs, played in the late Saturday concert, starts with the dreaded “For the homeland — Ready!” salute, used by Croatia’s Nazi-era puppet Ustasha regime that ran concentration camps at the time. Perkovic, whose stage name is Thompson after a U.S.-made machine gun, had previously said both the song and the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia. He says his controversial song is “a witness of an era.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/croatian-right-wing-singer-marko-perkovic-fans-perform-nazi-salute-mas-rcna217100
France, New Caledonia reach ‘historic’ statehood deal; citizens to remain French
As part of the agreement, New Caledonia residents will in future only be allowed to vote after ten years of living on the archipelago. The last independence referendum in New Caledonia was held in 2021 and was boycotted by pro-independence groups over the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Kanak population. The referendum was the last of three since 2018, all of which rejected New Caledonian independence. Since the 2021 referendum, the political situation in the archipelago has been in deadlock.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3317992/france-new-caledonia-reach-historic-statehood-deal-citizens-remain-french?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article
https://archive.ph/ZOWLd
Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
Observers say it represents a marked shift for a country which for decades prided itself on prison policies focused on rehabilitation and reintegration. Sweden is not set up to cope with a rise in the numbers being sentenced to jail time as the government grapples with an unprecedented wave of violence brought about by gang crime. The prison service chief of staff, Joakim Righammar, has said Sweden’s prisons are in a “crisis situation” of overcrowding.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/12/sweden-set-to-rent-cells-in-estonian-jails-as-it-runs-out-of-room-for-its-prisoners
Greek parliament passes suspension of asylum claims despite international criticism
Greece’s parliament approved a three-month suspension of asylum claims for migrants arriving from Libya on Friday, despite strong criticism from the United Nations refugee agency and Europe’s top human rights official. The measure suspends asylum application processing for those arriving by sea from North Africa, following a dramatic surge in Mediterranean crossings that has overwhelmed reception facilities on the island of Crete.
https://apnews.com/article/migration-greece-libya-asylum-un-europe-council-760d2d0a4d3dc2d95cd37503a4f301f5
Dutch parliament passes anti-asylum-seeker and anti-solidarity bills
The legislation cuts temporary asylum residency from five to three years, indefinitely suspends the issuing of new asylum residency permits and puts further restrictions on family reunions for people who have been granted asylum.It passed in the lower house on Thursday night but could still be rejected in the upper house after the summer recess. Slashing migration was the focus of the four-party coalition led by the far-right Party for Freedom of Islamophobic poster boy Geert Wilders before it collapsed last month. A snap election is due on October 29.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dutch-parliament-passes-anti-asylum-seeker-and-anti-solidarity-bills
News 7/12/25
250 million Indian workers and farmers on the streets in a national strikeMillions took to the streets all over India on Wednesday, July 9, to observe a national strike call made by Central Trade Unions (CTU). They are striking against the anti-worker policies adopted by the ultra-right-wing government in the country. CTU is a platform of all the major trade union federations in the country, spanning the ideological and political spectrum. It includes the Center for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) and several others.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/250-million-indian-workers-and-farmers-on-the-streets-in-a-national-strike/
Pakistan court suspends order seeking YouTube ban on government critics
YouTube this week told 27 content creators that it could block their channels - including those of journalists and Khan and his opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf - if they failed to comply with a judicial magistrate court order seeking to ban them. The judicial magistrate court in Islamabad had said it was seeking the ban after the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency criticised the channels in a June 2 report for "sharing highly intimidating, provocative and derogatory contents against state institutions and officials of the state of Pakistan."
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pakistan-court-suspends-order-seeking-youtube-ban-government-critics-2025-07-11/
Cambodian lawmakers pass constitutional amendment allowing government to revoke citizenship
Some government critics and opposition politicians are known to have dual citizenship. Justice Minister Koeut Rith said government officials will urgently draft a bill to revoke the citizenship of any individual found guilty of treason or collaborating with foreign entities to seriously harm the interests of Cambodia and its people. He claimed some Cambodians have colluded with a foreign country to harm their nation’s interests.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-constitution-amendment-proposal-citizenship-c553d43c33f7f6e64892bbf751ff31eb
South Korean medical students to return to school, urge education reforms
South Korean medical students who walked out of school last year in protest at a government plan to increase medical school admissions said on Saturday (Jul 12) that they would return to campus, calling on authorities to normalise academic schedules. The Korean Medical Association, the main lobby group for doctors, in a statement urged the government to take steps to restore the academic calendar and improve training conditions.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/south-korea-medical-students-protest-return-school-academic-training-5235146
https://archive.ph/DZ0n5
Corbyn says ‘discussions ongoing’ as Sultana quits Labour to ‘co-lead new party’
Jeremy Corbyn has said “discussions are ongoing” after Zarah Sultana announced she was quitting Labour to co-lead the founding of a new party with him. The former Labour Party leader congratulated Coventry South MP Ms Sultana on her “principled decision” to leave Sir Keir Starmer’s party and said that the “democratic foundations of a new kind of political party will soon take shape”. In a statement on X, Independent Islington North MP Mr Corbyn said: “Real change is coming.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/corbyn-says-discussions-ongoing-as-sultana-quits-labour-to-co-lead-new-party-5GZLM5SDHRMRRMMPFD7RGLPIVY/
https://archive.ph/N2A1n
Croatian right-wing singer Marko Perković and fans perform pro-Nazi salute at massive concert
One of Marko Perkovic’s most popular songs, played in the late Saturday concert, starts with the dreaded “For the homeland — Ready!” salute, used by Croatia’s Nazi-era puppet Ustasha regime that ran concentration camps at the time. Perkovic, whose stage name is Thompson after a U.S.-made machine gun, had previously said both the song and the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia. He says his controversial song is “a witness of an era.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/croatian-right-wing-singer-marko-perkovic-fans-perform-nazi-salute-mas-rcna217100
France, New Caledonia reach ‘historic’ statehood deal; citizens to remain French
As part of the agreement, New Caledonia residents will in future only be allowed to vote after ten years of living on the archipelago. The last independence referendum in New Caledonia was held in 2021 and was boycotted by pro-independence groups over the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Kanak population. The referendum was the last of three since 2018, all of which rejected New Caledonian independence. Since the 2021 referendum, the political situation in the archipelago has been in deadlock.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3317992/france-new-caledonia-reach-historic-statehood-deal-citizens-remain-french?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article
https://archive.ph/ZOWLd
Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
Observers say it represents a marked shift for a country which for decades prided itself on prison policies focused on rehabilitation and reintegration. Sweden is not set up to cope with a rise in the numbers being sentenced to jail time as the government grapples with an unprecedented wave of violence brought about by gang crime. The prison service chief of staff, Joakim Righammar, has said Sweden’s prisons are in a “crisis situation” of overcrowding.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/12/sweden-set-to-rent-cells-in-estonian-jails-as-it-runs-out-of-room-for-its-prisoners
Greek parliament passes suspension of asylum claims despite international criticism
Greece’s parliament approved a three-month suspension of asylum claims for migrants arriving from Libya on Friday, despite strong criticism from the United Nations refugee agency and Europe’s top human rights official. The measure suspends asylum application processing for those arriving by sea from North Africa, following a dramatic surge in Mediterranean crossings that has overwhelmed reception facilities on the island of Crete.
https://apnews.com/article/migration-greece-libya-asylum-un-europe-council-760d2d0a4d3dc2d95cd37503a4f301f5
Dutch parliament passes anti-asylum-seeker and anti-solidarity bills
The legislation cuts temporary asylum residency from five to three years, indefinitely suspends the issuing of new asylum residency permits and puts further restrictions on family reunions for people who have been granted asylum.It passed in the lower house on Thursday night but could still be rejected in the upper house after the summer recess. Slashing migration was the focus of the four-party coalition led by the far-right Party for Freedom of Islamophobic poster boy Geert Wilders before it collapsed last month. A snap election is due on October 29.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dutch-parliament-passes-anti-asylum-seeker-and-anti-solidarity-bills
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>I want to see humanity progress beyond the current system into something better
>I'm selfish and see collective action as most benefitial to my personal interests
>I want to tear down the current system because thats what real uyghas do
what personally motivates you to be a socialist?
>I want to reduce suffering/increase wellbeing/ utilitarianism>I want to see humanity progress beyond the current system into something better
>I'm selfish and see collective action as most benefitial to my personal interests
>I want to tear down the current system because thats what real uyghas do
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Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
March 15th, Belgrade Serbia
Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
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Autists of all lands unite, you have nothing to lose but your gain$
The first general entirely dedicated to betting on political happenings (or lack thereof). For those too afraid to do dangerous adventurism, there is always venture capital. Chinese stocks, Russian stocks any & all that coincide with your political LARP are welcome here, post your most daring bets and show your autistic bravery here!
Think of this as wallstreetbets for the left wing of capital. Or just regular wallstreetbets on leftypol if you believe they're the successors to occupy wall street.
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. -Deng Xiaoping
Basic links:
https://polymarket.com/
https://polymarketanalytics.com/
https://www.aljazeera.com/
https://www.bloomberg.com/
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/stock-market
https://robinhood.com/us/en/
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Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?Autists of all lands unite, you have nothing to lose but your gain$
The first general entirely dedicated to betting on political happenings (or lack thereof). For those too afraid to do dangerous adventurism, there is always venture capital. Chinese stocks, Russian stocks any & all that coincide with your political LARP are welcome here, post your most daring bets and show your autistic bravery here!
Think of this as wallstreetbets for the left wing of capital. Or just regular wallstreetbets on leftypol if you believe they're the successors to occupy wall street.
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. -Deng Xiaoping
Basic links:
https://polymarket.com/
https://polymarketanalytics.com/
https://www.aljazeera.com/
https://www.bloomberg.com/
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/stock-market
https://robinhood.com/us/en/
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Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General
Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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Who even came up with the 'left wing' vs. 'right wing' communist thing? I've read LWC by Lenin, but it sounds like that's not exactly where it originated but at some point prior which precipitated his writing of that book. I ask because it seems odd to me that the distinction is framed this way; it sounds like something a leftcom would come up with to make their opposition seem like assholes. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Who even came up with the 'left wing' vs. 'right wing' communist thing? I've read LWC by Lenin, but it sounds like that's not exactly where it originated but at some point prior which precipitated his writing of that book. I ask because it seems odd to me that the distinction is framed this way; it sounds like something a leftcom would come up with to make their opposition seem like assholes. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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''How do the women in the Soviet Union stand towards the new abortion law?'
I would like to first point out the fact that it is an error to place the question of abortion in the foreground in the assessment of the June 27 law. The new law has another and very particular purpose: to give women an even greater possibility than before of combining motherhood with an occupation. Seven out of the eight articles of the law deal with the increased provisions for mother and child. With this law the Soviet state emphasises once again its principled position towards motherhood. Motherhood is not a private affair but a natural social function of women. From the first day of the existence of the Soviet state, Soviet legislation always emphasised the view that women have two primary tasks in the new society: to be active citizens of the state and at the same time not to neglect motherhood. But so that women can fulfill their occupation and citizen’s duty without disadvantage to motherhood, the state must make sure that motherhood is made easier in all possible ways, on the one hand by a broad network of social institutions for children‘s welfare (nurseries, kindergartens, children‘s colonies, homes for mothers, etc.), on the other hand by state material support for the mother, and finally by detailed legislation that governs the question of child support. The new law of June 17 is really a logical extension of this principle.
With this law the Soviet government takes on a huge material obligation in its budget, in order to accomplish the expansion of the institutions for the well-being of mothers and children and make accommodations for women, so that they can fulfill their two tasks without disadvantage to the one by the other.
But what does article 1) of the law mean, which abolishes the former law for the permissibility of abortions and forbids abortions?
The law about the permissibility of abortions was approved in 1920 in the Soviet Union under the pressure of specific unfavourable conditions that prevailed in the country at that time. The Civil War was not yet over. Severe economic living conditions prevailed and the main task for the country fighting for its freedom consisted in using all forces for the building of a new social order. Women as active citizens of the state had to take part, even if their maternal duties were thus left behind.
Although the government legally recognised motherhood as a function of women of equal value as their work for the state, the state could not yet sufficiently guarantee women as mothers. Thus, under these conditions the law permitting abortions was approved.
Now the population of the Soviet Union is living under completely different, more favourable and more fortunate conditions. The well-being of people in the city and particularly in the countryside has been greatly improved over the last years. The position of women as a work group has been strengthened. The time has come for the state and society to do all they can and must to give women the opportunity of not only having an occupation but also of being mothers.
But the old law on abortions did not prevent women from becoming mothers. There was no compulsion for abortions?
Yes, of course there was no compulsion. But there is a psychological factor here, against which the new law will fight strenuously. That is the psychology of men. As I already said, in the family law of the Soviet Union there is a provision about the payment of child support. But it must be said that much too often men have tried to avoid fulfilling their obligations. In many cases it was particularly the man who urged the woman to get an abortion, so that he would not have to pay child support. I would like to particularly point out that the first article of the law contains a very strong provision against anyone who influences a woman to have an abortion. Such an action is considered criminal.
The fight against abortion in the law of June 27 has a very particular purpose: to educate men to a greater responsibility towards their comrades, the women. In article 8 of the new law the question of child support is heavily stressed. Also the non-payment of child support is considered criminal. The law establishes a series of measures to lighten the economic load of motherhood for the woman, while on the other hand the law imposes a much greater obligation than before on the man towards his children,
How does the new law make life easier for women?
First of all we increased the amount of state support for the mother. Second it is punishable to refuse employment to a woman due to her pregnancy. Also the legal pregnancy leave is increased by law to 56 days, also for office workers. Every family that has more than 6 children gets an annual state contribution. The number of nurseries is being greatly increased, as well as the number of kindergartens and other institutions. And finally the financial support by the state for all these institutions will almost double.
I would also like to emphasise that the law logically carries through the social policy of the Soviet Union regarding the family and marriage relations. The law leaves only a certain part of the economic burden to the parents. The state takes on more and more of the moral and economic duties towards the children. The law of June 27 is an indication of the broader development of social institutions for provisions for small children.
Women in the Soviet Union are in the first place independent and equal citizens who participate actively in the building of the new society. And if at the same time they fulfill their maternal duties, then the state stands on their side with all available assistance.
Don’t you believe that the abolition of the old law, which freely provided for abortions in the Soviet Union, will lead to an unfavourable reaction in the other countries, where the radical women are leading a courageous fight for the right to abortion?
I believe that if one judges the law in the correct light, then it can have no negative influence on this courageous fight and will give the opponents of abortion no new weapons.
One cannot compare the conditions under which women in the Soviet Union live and work with the conditions in other countries. As long as the state in the Soviet Union was not able to provide complete, broad and effective assistance for motherhood, and as long as economic prosperity for the broad masses of the population in the Soviet Union was not assured, abortions in the Soviet Union were permitted by law.
In no other country are there such guarantees as those in the Soviet Union that make motherhood easier for women. As long as women or men live under the pressure of unemployment, as long as the level of wages is not sufficient for a family, as long as housing conditions are unfavourable, and as long as the state does not make motherhood easier for every woman in various ways and does not provide social services for mother and child, it is clear that the women must stand up for free abortions.
In what cases and under what criteria is abortion permitted in the Soviet Union?
Under point 1 of article 1) of the new law, the performance of abortions is permitted in cases where pregnancy is a threat to the life of the woman or causes severe consequences to the health of the pregnant woman. Abortions are also permitted if the diseases of the parents could be transmitted to the children. Thus, eugenic principles were taken into account in the new law.
You have not yet given me a direct answer to my first question: how do women in the Soviet Union stand towards the new law?
The law of June 27 in the Soviet Union was approved after an extremely democratic action of the Soviet government. The draft of this law was freely discussed for a whole month in the factories, offices, in the countryside, etc. Thousands of letters were sent in from the women themselves and also from men. The press had discussions for and against the law and many of the proposals for the draft were taken into account in the approval of the law. The majority of the women spoke out in favour of the new law, principally because the law would have a certain effect on the psychology of the men; it should increase the feeling of responsibility of the men for children and women. The women are warm supporters of this law. But it seems to me that the men were somewhat more reserved. This particularly shows the usefulness of the law, that men should be trained to more comradely relations towards women.
A. Kollontai on the new abortion laws
17th July 1936''How do the women in the Soviet Union stand towards the new abortion law?'
I would like to first point out the fact that it is an error to place the question of abortion in the foreground in the assessment of the June 27 law. The new law has another and very particular purpose: to give women an even greater possibility than before of combining motherhood with an occupation. Seven out of the eight articles of the law deal with the increased provisions for mother and child. With this law the Soviet state emphasises once again its principled position towards motherhood. Motherhood is not a private affair but a natural social function of women. From the first day of the existence of the Soviet state, Soviet legislation always emphasised the view that women have two primary tasks in the new society: to be active citizens of the state and at the same time not to neglect motherhood. But so that women can fulfill their occupation and citizen’s duty without disadvantage to motherhood, the state must make sure that motherhood is made easier in all possible ways, on the one hand by a broad network of social institutions for children‘s welfare (nurseries, kindergartens, children‘s colonies, homes for mothers, etc.), on the other hand by state material support for the mother, and finally by detailed legislation that governs the question of child support. The new law of June 17 is really a logical extension of this principle.
With this law the Soviet government takes on a huge material obligation in its budget, in order to accomplish the expansion of the institutions for the well-being of mothers and children and make accommodations for women, so that they can fulfill their two tasks without disadvantage to the one by the other.
But what does article 1) of the law mean, which abolishes the former law for the permissibility of abortions and forbids abortions?
The law about the permissibility of abortions was approved in 1920 in the Soviet Union under the pressure of specific unfavourable conditions that prevailed in the country at that time. The Civil War was not yet over. Severe economic living conditions prevailed and the main task for the country fighting for its freedom consisted in using all forces for the building of a new social order. Women as active citizens of the state had to take part, even if their maternal duties were thus left behind.
Although the government legally recognised motherhood as a function of women of equal value as their work for the state, the state could not yet sufficiently guarantee women as mothers. Thus, under these conditions the law permitting abortions was approved.
Now the population of the Soviet Union is living under completely different, more favourable and more fortunate conditions. The well-being of people in the city and particularly in the countryside has been greatly improved over the last years. The position of women as a work group has been strengthened. The time has come for the state and society to do all they can and must to give women the opportunity of not only having an occupation but also of being mothers.
But the old law on abortions did not prevent women from becoming mothers. There was no compulsion for abortions?
Yes, of course there was no compulsion. But there is a psychological factor here, against which the new law will fight strenuously. That is the psychology of men. As I already said, in the family law of the Soviet Union there is a provision about the payment of child support. But it must be said that much too often men have tried to avoid fulfilling their obligations. In many cases it was particularly the man who urged the woman to get an abortion, so that he would not have to pay child support. I would like to particularly point out that the first article of the law contains a very strong provision against anyone who influences a woman to have an abortion. Such an action is considered criminal.
The fight against abortion in the law of June 27 has a very particular purpose: to educate men to a greater responsibility towards their comrades, the women. In article 8 of the new law the question of child support is heavily stressed. Also the non-payment of child support is considered criminal. The law establishes a series of measures to lighten the economic load of motherhood for the woman, while on the other hand the law imposes a much greater obligation than before on the man towards his children,
How does the new law make life easier for women?
First of all we increased the amount of state support for the mother. Second it is punishable to refuse employment to a woman due to her pregnancy. Also the legal pregnancy leave is increased by law to 56 days, also for office workers. Every family that has more than 6 children gets an annual state contribution. The number of nurseries is being greatly increased, as well as the number of kindergartens and other institutions. And finally the financial support by the state for all these institutions will almost double.
I would also like to emphasise that the law logically carries through the social policy of the Soviet Union regarding the family and marriage relations. The law leaves only a certain part of the economic burden to the parents. The state takes on more and more of the moral and economic duties towards the children. The law of June 27 is an indication of the broader development of social institutions for provisions for small children.
Women in the Soviet Union are in the first place independent and equal citizens who participate actively in the building of the new society. And if at the same time they fulfill their maternal duties, then the state stands on their side with all available assistance.
Don’t you believe that the abolition of the old law, which freely provided for abortions in the Soviet Union, will lead to an unfavourable reaction in the other countries, where the radical women are leading a courageous fight for the right to abortion?
I believe that if one judges the law in the correct light, then it can have no negative influence on this courageous fight and will give the opponents of abortion no new weapons.
One cannot compare the conditions under which women in the Soviet Union live and work with the conditions in other countries. As long as the state in the Soviet Union was not able to provide complete, broad and effective assistance for motherhood, and as long as economic prosperity for the broad masses of the population in the Soviet Union was not assured, abortions in the Soviet Union were permitted by law.
In no other country are there such guarantees as those in the Soviet Union that make motherhood easier for women. As long as women or men live under the pressure of unemployment, as long as the level of wages is not sufficient for a family, as long as housing conditions are unfavourable, and as long as the state does not make motherhood easier for every woman in various ways and does not provide social services for mother and child, it is clear that the women must stand up for free abortions.
In what cases and under what criteria is abortion permitted in the Soviet Union?
Under point 1 of article 1) of the new law, the performance of abortions is permitted in cases where pregnancy is a threat to the life of the woman or causes severe consequences to the health of the pregnant woman. Abortions are also permitted if the diseases of the parents could be transmitted to the children. Thus, eugenic principles were taken into account in the new law.
You have not yet given me a direct answer to my first question: how do women in the Soviet Union stand towards the new law?
The law of June 27 in the Soviet Union was approved after an extremely democratic action of the Soviet government. The draft of this law was freely discussed for a whole month in the factories, offices, in the countryside, etc. Thousands of letters were sent in from the women themselves and also from men. The press had discussions for and against the law and many of the proposals for the draft were taken into account in the approval of the law. The majority of the women spoke out in favour of the new law, principally because the law would have a certain effect on the psychology of the men; it should increase the feeling of responsibility of the men for children and women. The women are warm supporters of this law. But it seems to me that the men were somewhat more reserved. This particularly shows the usefulness of the law, that men should be trained to more comradely relations towards women.
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<Hur dur centrally planned economies can not work!
Or something like that.
However what is it?
The capitalist propaganda is basically nonsense since is not every economy centrally planned? Do the capitalist corporations not have a board of directors who literally decide how many products to produce this year?
This quite often is countered with
<HUR DUR MUH FREE MARKET DECIDES
Or
<REAL CAPITALISM WAS NEVER TRIED
Any insight on the subject? Or is this a slur made up by the capitalists?
Centrally planned economy
So what is it? I see this phrase spammed from time to time in modern times in the style of<Hur dur centrally planned economies can not work!
Or something like that.
However what is it?
The capitalist propaganda is basically nonsense since is not every economy centrally planned? Do the capitalist corporations not have a board of directors who literally decide how many products to produce this year?
This quite often is countered with
<HUR DUR MUH FREE MARKET DECIDES
Or
<REAL CAPITALISM WAS NEVER TRIED
Any insight on the subject? Or is this a slur made up by the capitalists?
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>what about the state?
>what about the family?
>what about religion?
>what about morals?
>what about culture?
>what about muh treats?
etc.
any one of these questions can be answered how they would or would be reorganized under a dotp. but not under communism. marx really made a big mistake when he called it the communist and not the worker's manifesto tbh.
"but what about X under communism"
do you not find that this question is kind misguided? for one, communism is only the phase of human development that comes from the proletarian dictatorship and only through it. it makes sense to talk about X under the proletarian dictatorship since that one grows out of capitalist society and production, and communism comes from the worker's dictatorship. so we can kinda sketch how X (if at all) would look under the proletarian dictatorship (as lenin does often). but talking about X under communism is retarded, because it assumes X exists under communism. here are some examples>what about the state?
>what about the family?
>what about religion?
>what about morals?
>what about culture?
>what about muh treats?
etc.
any one of these questions can be answered how they would or would be reorganized under a dotp. but not under communism. marx really made a big mistake when he called it the communist and not the worker's manifesto tbh.
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>Stopped counter-revolution cold in Czechoslovakia
>Aided Vietnam in its war against American imperialism
>Still lives rent-free in the heads of Maoists, pro-Hoxha "Anti-Revisionists" and pro-NATO liberals despite being dead for 43 years
Discuss one of the most under-rated socialists.
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>Undid Cornman's retardation>Stopped counter-revolution cold in Czechoslovakia
>Aided Vietnam in its war against American imperialism
>Still lives rent-free in the heads of Maoists, pro-Hoxha "Anti-Revisionists" and pro-NATO liberals despite being dead for 43 years
Discuss one of the most under-rated socialists.
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What will happen now that there's a global fertility crisis? Will capitalism eventually collapse? Different measures have been tried all over the world but there have been no results, isn't this a really worrying situation?
What will happen now that there's a global fertility crisis? Will capitalism eventually collapse? Different measures have been tried all over the world but there have been no results, isn't this a really worrying situation?
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I personally think the most important decisive factor is the image, he needs to make the party symbol a cowboy hat next to an Indian chief war bonnet. Considering how many people drool over symbolism.
Elon Musk's Party
Will he be the one to break the Demopublican party's grasp on bourgeois elections and continue a new reign of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or will he crumble as he pours his money into a failed campaign? Will he split the Right wing of capital? Was it dumb that he didn't just pour finances into the lolbert party instead?I personally think the most important decisive factor is the image, he needs to make the party symbol a cowboy hat next to an Indian chief war bonnet. Considering how many people drool over symbolism.
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It's truly over. Unless western culture is changed at the grass roots level AND THEN politically promoted, no communism will ever come to the west. You cannot build communism in a society where the "individual" is some weird fetish that is a fake parody of itself from renaissance thought of 600 years ago.
>inb4 counter examples of collectivist pockets in western societies.
>inb4 helping chinese paratroopers when they land in the midwest
>inb4 mamadani
you had a higher chance of building communism in ancient egypt with the pharaohs as stalin then you do now in the west
Genesis 41:25-57
Deep Dark Truth
>0 protestant countries with organic communist revolutionsIt's truly over. Unless western culture is changed at the grass roots level AND THEN politically promoted, no communism will ever come to the west. You cannot build communism in a society where the "individual" is some weird fetish that is a fake parody of itself from renaissance thought of 600 years ago.
>inb4 counter examples of collectivist pockets in western societies.
>inb4 helping chinese paratroopers when they land in the midwest
>inb4 mamadani
you had a higher chance of building communism in ancient egypt with the pharaohs as stalin then you do now in the west
Genesis 41:25-57
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How do I cope?
I don't want to live in a defeated Europe.
I don't think my psyche could handle witnessing the EU collapse or be reduced to an irrelevant institution by far right """reforms""". But that is just the outcome that is becoming increasingly more likely with each passing year.How do I cope?
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>While exiled in 1899, Bauman had an affair with the wife of a fellow revolutionary who became pregnant with Bauman's child. Bauman responded by openly mocking her, and circulating a vicious cartoon of her as the Virgin Mary with a baby in her womb, with a caption asking "who the baby looked like". The woman later hanged herself.
>This story had gained wide currency among Russian political exiles by the time Bauman reappeared in Switzerland in 1902, after the escape from Kiev. Some of those involved in producing Iskra, including Lenin's closest friend and collaborator, Julius Martov and Pavel Axelrod, one of the founders of Russian Marxism, wanted Bauman expelled from the organisation. In 1903, the board of Iskra adjudicated the matter, and Lenin interceded on Bauman's behalf. According to biographer Robert Service, Lenin rejected the party's right to interfere, arguing that the party's task "was to make revolution against the Romanov monarchy and to vet the morality of comrades only when and in so far as their actions affected the implementation of the task". The subsequent controversy divided the party, and has been described as "one of the many personal clashes which came to define the ethical distinctions" between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions after 1903.
Was it really worth it to split the party over this asshole?
>While exiled in 1899, Bauman had an affair with the wife of a fellow revolutionary who became pregnant with Bauman's child. Bauman responded by openly mocking her, and circulating a vicious cartoon of her as the Virgin Mary with a baby in her womb, with a caption asking "who the baby looked like". The woman later hanged herself.
>This story had gained wide currency among Russian political exiles by the time Bauman reappeared in Switzerland in 1902, after the escape from Kiev. Some of those involved in producing Iskra, including Lenin's closest friend and collaborator, Julius Martov and Pavel Axelrod, one of the founders of Russian Marxism, wanted Bauman expelled from the organisation. In 1903, the board of Iskra adjudicated the matter, and Lenin interceded on Bauman's behalf. According to biographer Robert Service, Lenin rejected the party's right to interfere, arguing that the party's task "was to make revolution against the Romanov monarchy and to vet the morality of comrades only when and in so far as their actions affected the implementation of the task". The subsequent controversy divided the party, and has been described as "one of the many personal clashes which came to define the ethical distinctions" between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions after 1903.
Was it really worth it to split the party over this asshole?
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Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP
Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP
Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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>arguing about extremely minor theory differences
>making mega threads that are hard to understand because of how much garbage is in them
>complaining about leftists doing actual action while you sit at home and do nothing
>wants unity but if someone posts a soyjak or something slightly different you complain
>possibly moving or deleting this thread because it’s “meta”
Geg get your work together guys
>arguing about extremely minor theory differences
>making mega threads that are hard to understand because of how much garbage is in them
>complaining about leftists doing actual action while you sit at home and do nothing
>wants unity but if someone posts a soyjak or something slightly different you complain
>possibly moving or deleting this thread because it’s “meta”
Geg get your work together guys
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I will go to the million protests that will continue ongoing (nothing ever happens)
I will eat jamon
I will drink the beer
getting drunk alone is a great idea I love when there is some local bs about some saint or virgin and can get random plastic cups full of rum and cokes
The andalusian political thing is like half dudes that look like this
idk how to put it but I am just expecting electoral politics to go like "Wow Sanchez suck enjoy the party that wishes to be Thatcher but have been PSOE'd to death" governs for a thousand yearsI will go to the million protests that will continue ongoing (nothing ever happens)
I will eat jamon
I will drink the beer
getting drunk alone is a great idea I love when there is some local bs about some saint or virgin and can get random plastic cups full of rum and cokes
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Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.
Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
Previous thread: >>2177902Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.
Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.
Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
/rus/ - Russia General
Thread №2Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.
Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
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THE IDEAL WINNING 2028 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
As a supporter of the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, I obviously realize that the Democrats are a Controlled Opposition Party who exist to keep the Workers and Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies of Naw Afrika, Aztlan, the First Nations, inside the U$ corralled and controlled, while the dominant ruling Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans transform the U$ into a Full-Blown Fascist Police State, which combined with the fact that the U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American population like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police, as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Internal Colonies/Oppressed Nations inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists as stipulated by Lenin’s principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR, which will happen once World War III escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
However, as I have stated many times before a proper Dialectical Materialist analysis still reveals that a Controlled Opposition is better then No Opposition, and as we see on the International Stage that China is a “Controlled Opposition” to U$ Imperialism in the same way that the U$ Democrats are “Controlled Opposition” to the Republicans, thus making China the “Global Democrats”, with the massive caveat that a Maoist faction taking over the CCP and purging the Dengists could place China back in the Socialist Mode of Production on the Shining Path to Communism without another Maoist PPW there, though despite this fact both China (Iran is another example of a Lesser Evil Controlled Opposition) and the U$ Democrats should be “Critically Supported”, not because we genuinely support these Bourgeois entities, but because they are both a “Lesser Evil” faction of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System who De Facto prevent the “Greater Evil” of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System from completely crushing the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World before the World Maoist PPW can be successful when the Global Nuclear War breaks out, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
So with these Dialectical Materialist facts in consideration, what do my fellow Comrades think of this hypothetical “Ideal Winning 2028 Democratic Platform” (this is making Three Bold assumptions, Firstly, that Trump dose not use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law and suspend all Elections, thus officially ending Bourgeois Liberal Democracy in the U$ and making him De Facto U$ President for Life, which is what I expect/fear will happen, Secondly, that a Centre-Left Social Democrat like AOC would ever be allowed by the Centrist Neoliberal/Neocon Democratic Establishment to win the Democratic Nomination, and Thirdly/Finally that the majority Ultra-Reactionary Racist/Sexist White Settler Labor Aristocrat/Petit Bourgeois U$ electorate will ever vote for Centre-Left Social Democrat, especially a Brown Chicano/Mestizo Woman like AOC) that is based on the principles of Social Democracy, Social Progressivism, and Non-Interventionism, with Pragmatic characteristics, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤔?
ECONOMIC POLICY:
Universal Basic Income: Guarantee every Adult U$ citizen a Nontaxable 1000$ monthly check starting on their 18th birthday, paid for by a 10% VAT on all Non-Essential goods (everything but Food, Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Clothing/Hygiene products), Progressive Tax Reform, and eliminating all Means-Tested Social Programs (ie. Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, TANF, SSI, etc.), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Single-Payer Medicare For All Healthcare System: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans and 100% of all healthcare costs, paid for by raising the Medicare Payroll Tax from 1.45% to 6.2% on all Employers and Employees, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free College: Make Tuition Free at all public colleges and universities and pay for it with a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives. In addition to this forgive all Student Loan Debt, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
15$ Minimum Wage: Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to 15$ an hour, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Progressive Tax Reform: Create a more Simple and Equitable Federal Income Tax code that will help pay for the Universal Basic Income and would consist of four brackets for Individuals; 0% for all Income under 50,000$, 10% for all Income between 50,000 and 99,999$, 30% for all Income between 100,000 and 499,999$, and 50% for all Income over 500,000$. Corporations would pay a single 30% Tax rate, and all deductions would be eliminated for both Individuals and Corporations. In addition to this, the cap would be eliminated for Social Security Payroll Taxes in order to maintain the solvency of the Social Security trust fund for future generations, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free Trade: Eliminate all Tariffs on imported goods, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Financial Regulation: Restore Glass-Steagall in order to break up Wall Street Banks by separating Commercial and Investment Banking, and institute a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives, in order to pay for Free College, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Anti-Trust: Order the Justice Department to launch immediate Anti-Trust suits to break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other out of control Tech companies, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish “Right to Work” laws: Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act and abolish all “Right to Work” laws nationwide in order to guarantee every U$ worker the right to join a Union, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES:
Reproductive Rights: Pass a Federal Law legalizing Abortion nationwide before fetal viability (24 weeks) along with enshrining Griswold vs. Connecticut into Federal Law in order to protect access to Birth Control, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
LGBTQIA+ Rights: Enshrine Obergefell v. Hodges into Federal Law in order to maintain Marriage Equality for LGBTQIA+ Americans, along with adding Gender Identity to Federal Anti-Discrimination laws, with the caveat that Transgenders wont be allowed to play in Women’s sports, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Gun Control: Pass National Background Checks that stop Violent Felons and the Mentally Ill from obtaining Firearms, while opposing a Federal Assault Weapons Ban, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Grant Amnesty to all Undocumented Immigrants living in the US who have not committed Violent Felonies (Violent felons will be deported), while simultaneously building a secure Border Wall and reducing Legal Immigration levels from 1,000,000 to 500,000 annually, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Marijuana Legalization: Remove Marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances list and Legalize it at the Federal Level for both Recreational and Medical use, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Hard Narcotics Decriminalization: Decriminalize all Hard Narcotics such as Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, etc., in order to treat use of these Drugs as a Disease and not a Crime, with users placed in Rehab instead of Prison, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Sex Work Legalization: Legalization of Prostitution amongst consenting Adults in order to give Sex Workers the right to earn a living without legal jeopardy, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Criminal Justice Reform: Abolish the Death Penalty, Commute the sentences of all those incarcerated for Non-Violent Drug Offenses and/or Sex Work, Ban Private Prisons, Abolish Three-strikes laws, and Abolish Mandatory Minimums, in order to fix America’s Draconian and Racist Criminal Justice System, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE:
The Middle East: End all Foreign Aid to the Zionist State and place a Arms Embargo on them until they agree to a Immediate Ceasefire, Prisoner/Hostage exchange, and IDF withdrawal from Gaza along with a clear pathway to implement a Two-State solution to the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict along the 1967 borders with 1:1 land swaps. Reenter the Iran Nuclear Deal, lift all Sanctions on Iran, and Reestablish Diplomatic Relations with Iran. Withdrawal all U$ troops from Syria, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East. And finally, Establish Diplomatic Relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Europe: Force Russia and Ukraine to agree to a Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine along the line of contact, with eventual UN-observed Referendums held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to determine if these regions will be in Russia or Ukraine (If Russia refuses to agree to this the U$ will give Ukraine even more advanced weapons and Russia will face even more sanctions, while if Ukraine refuses to agree to this they will face a Arms embargo and sanctions just like Russia). If Russia agrees to this, U$ will halt the expansion of NATO, reenter the ABM and INF treaties with Russia, withdrawal all U$ troops from Eastern Europe, reduce the U$ military presence in Western Europe by 50%, end the Nuclear Sharing policy with NATO, lift all Sanctions on Russia, and recognize Crimea as part of Russia, with the caveat that the US will continue selling advanced weapons to Ukraine (I would even support selling them F-35s) in order to compensate for them not joining NATO, officially acknowledging Crimea as part of Russia, and potentially losing the other four occupied regions depending on the results of the UN-observed Referendums, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
East Asia: Sign a Peace Treaty with North Korea that officially ends the Korean War and permanently divides the peninsula, and subsequently lift all sanctions on North Korea, establish Diplomatic Relations with North Korea, and withdraw all U$ troops from South Korea. Maintain commitment to the One-China policy and the eventual Peaceful Reunification of China by stripping Taiwan of Major Non-NATO Ally status, and halting all Arms shipments to Taiwan, along with halting all provocative activities in the South China Sea in order to avoid an unnecessary War with China. And finally, reduce the U$ military presence in Japan by 50%, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Latin America: End the embargo on Cuba, end the Sanctions on Venezuela and restore Diplomatic relations with the Maduro Government, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Nuclear Weapons: Implement a No First Use policy. End all Nuclear Sharing with NATO. Dismantle all Tactical Nuclear Weapons and halt development of Nuclear SLCMs and Low-yield SLBM warheads. Maintain a Nuclear Triad for purely Second Strike purposes that will be modernized with a new ICBM, new Ballistic Missile Submarine, new ALCM, and the B-21 Stealth Bomber, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Conventional Weapons Procurement and R&D: Reduce the Aircraft Carrier fleet from 11 to 10. Dismantle the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense as part of a restored ABM treaty. Slash the DARPA budget by 50%. Cancel all Hypersonic Weapons Programs. Cancel all GLCM and MRBM/IRBM development as part of a new INF treaty. Dissolve the Space Force and move its responsibilities back into the Air Force. Halt all work on Human-level Artificial General Intelligence. Halt all work on Sixth Generation Fighter Jets. Cancel all F-15EX and F-18E/F procurement and instead use those funds to buy more F-35s to accelerate the replacement of 4th generation Fighter Jets with 5th generation Stealth Fighters, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
End the War on Terror: Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, due to its anachronistic mission against a organization that barely exists anymore. End all Drone Strikes against any group that is not directly planning on attacking the U$. And finally, Repeal the Patriot Act in order to prevent unnecessary violations of the Civil liberties of U$ Citizens, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
POLITICAL REFORM:
Abolish the Electoral College: Pass a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a National Popular Vote to elect the President, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Gerrymandering: Pass a Federal Law to end Partisan control of Congressional Redistricting and replace it with Independent Redistricting Commissions Nationwide, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish the Filibuster: Abolish the Filibuster on all legislation in the U$ Senate, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Voting Rights and Access: Pass a Federal law to Allow convicted felons to vote, including those that are currently incarcerated for Non-Violent Crimes, ban all Voter ID laws nationwide, and Create Nationwide Mail-In Voting, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Campaign Finance Reform: Appoint Supreme Court Justices that will overturn Citizens United, and pass a Federal law to ban Super PACs and have Public funding of all Federal Elections, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Court Packing: Expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, in order to have a Progressive majority, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Statehood: Grant Statehood to DC and the five U$ territories, in order to balance out the U$ Senates bias towards Republicans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:
Carbon Neutral by 2050: Have 100% Clean, Renewable Energy, from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, Geothermal, and Nuclear Power by 2050. To help make this goal more reachable, there will be a Carbon Tax, Offshore Drilling Ban, and Fracking Ban implemented immediately, along with a ban on the sale of all gasoline-powered Cars by 2040, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Green Public Transportation: Ban all Federal funding for new Highways and Airports, and instead use those funds to build Nationwide Electric, High-Speed Rail, starting with a Transcontinental Bullet Train from New York to Los Angeles, in order to reduce usage of Highways and Air Travel. Dramatically Increase funding for rebuilding and expanding Americas Mass Transit in major cities, with an emphasis on Streetcars, Subways, and Electric Buses, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Urban Sprawl: Ban Single-Use zoning nationwide, and instead have future development emphasize, High-Density Apartment buildings made affordable through Rent Control, increased Walkability, and access to Public Transit, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Non-Organic Foods: Pass a Nationwide ban on GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, in order to create a healthier, Organic, diet for all Americans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Human-level Artificial General Intelligence: Negotiate and Ratify an International Treaty Banning the development of Human-level Artificial General Intelligence worldwide in order to prevent a Catastrophic Singularity Event, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Forced Augmentation: Pass a Federal law banning Corporations from forcing their Employees to be Microchipped and/or have Neural Implants/Brain-Computer Interfaces against their will, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
THE IDEAL WINNING 2028 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
As a supporter of the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, I obviously realize that the Democrats are a Controlled Opposition Party who exist to keep the Workers and Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies of Naw Afrika, Aztlan, the First Nations, inside the U$ corralled and controlled, while the dominant ruling Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans transform the U$ into a Full-Blown Fascist Police State, which combined with the fact that the U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American population like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police, as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Internal Colonies/Oppressed Nations inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists as stipulated by Lenin’s principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR, which will happen once World War III escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
However, as I have stated many times before a proper Dialectical Materialist analysis still reveals that a Controlled Opposition is better then No Opposition, and as we see on the International Stage that China is a “Controlled Opposition” to U$ Imperialism in the same way that the U$ Democrats are “Controlled Opposition” to the Republicans, thus making China the “Global Democrats”, with the massive caveat that a Maoist faction taking over the CCP and purging the Dengists could place China back in the Socialist Mode of Production on the Shining Path to Communism without another Maoist PPW there, though despite this fact both China (Iran is another example of a Lesser Evil Controlled Opposition) and the U$ Democrats should be “Critically Supported”, not because we genuinely support these Bourgeois entities, but because they are both a “Lesser Evil” faction of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System who De Facto prevent the “Greater Evil” of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System from completely crushing the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World before the World Maoist PPW can be successful when the Global Nuclear War breaks out, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
So with these Dialectical Materialist facts in consideration, what do my fellow Comrades think of this hypothetical “Ideal Winning 2028 Democratic Platform” (this is making Three Bold assumptions, Firstly, that Trump dose not use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law and suspend all Elections, thus officially ending Bourgeois Liberal Democracy in the U$ and making him De Facto U$ President for Life, which is what I expect/fear will happen, Secondly, that a Centre-Left Social Democrat like AOC would ever be allowed by the Centrist Neoliberal/Neocon Democratic Establishment to win the Democratic Nomination, and Thirdly/Finally that the majority Ultra-Reactionary Racist/Sexist White Settler Labor Aristocrat/Petit Bourgeois U$ electorate will ever vote for Centre-Left Social Democrat, especially a Brown Chicano/Mestizo Woman like AOC) that is based on the principles of Social Democracy, Social Progressivism, and Non-Interventionism, with Pragmatic characteristics, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤔?
ECONOMIC POLICY:
Universal Basic Income: Guarantee every Adult U$ citizen a Nontaxable 1000$ monthly check starting on their 18th birthday, paid for by a 10% VAT on all Non-Essential goods (everything but Food, Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Clothing/Hygiene products), Progressive Tax Reform, and eliminating all Means-Tested Social Programs (ie. Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, TANF, SSI, etc.), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Single-Payer Medicare For All Healthcare System: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans and 100% of all healthcare costs, paid for by raising the Medicare Payroll Tax from 1.45% to 6.2% on all Employers and Employees, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free College: Make Tuition Free at all public colleges and universities and pay for it with a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives. In addition to this forgive all Student Loan Debt, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
15$ Minimum Wage: Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to 15$ an hour, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Progressive Tax Reform: Create a more Simple and Equitable Federal Income Tax code that will help pay for the Universal Basic Income and would consist of four brackets for Individuals; 0% for all Income under 50,000$, 10% for all Income between 50,000 and 99,999$, 30% for all Income between 100,000 and 499,999$, and 50% for all Income over 500,000$. Corporations would pay a single 30% Tax rate, and all deductions would be eliminated for both Individuals and Corporations. In addition to this, the cap would be eliminated for Social Security Payroll Taxes in order to maintain the solvency of the Social Security trust fund for future generations, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Free Trade: Eliminate all Tariffs on imported goods, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Financial Regulation: Restore Glass-Steagall in order to break up Wall Street Banks by separating Commercial and Investment Banking, and institute a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives, in order to pay for Free College, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Anti-Trust: Order the Justice Department to launch immediate Anti-Trust suits to break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other out of control Tech companies, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish “Right to Work” laws: Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act and abolish all “Right to Work” laws nationwide in order to guarantee every U$ worker the right to join a Union, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES:
Reproductive Rights: Pass a Federal Law legalizing Abortion nationwide before fetal viability (24 weeks) along with enshrining Griswold vs. Connecticut into Federal Law in order to protect access to Birth Control, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
LGBTQIA+ Rights: Enshrine Obergefell v. Hodges into Federal Law in order to maintain Marriage Equality for LGBTQIA+ Americans, along with adding Gender Identity to Federal Anti-Discrimination laws, with the caveat that Transgenders wont be allowed to play in Women’s sports, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Gun Control: Pass National Background Checks that stop Violent Felons and the Mentally Ill from obtaining Firearms, while opposing a Federal Assault Weapons Ban, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Grant Amnesty to all Undocumented Immigrants living in the US who have not committed Violent Felonies (Violent felons will be deported), while simultaneously building a secure Border Wall and reducing Legal Immigration levels from 1,000,000 to 500,000 annually, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Marijuana Legalization: Remove Marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances list and Legalize it at the Federal Level for both Recreational and Medical use, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Hard Narcotics Decriminalization: Decriminalize all Hard Narcotics such as Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, etc., in order to treat use of these Drugs as a Disease and not a Crime, with users placed in Rehab instead of Prison, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Sex Work Legalization: Legalization of Prostitution amongst consenting Adults in order to give Sex Workers the right to earn a living without legal jeopardy, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Criminal Justice Reform: Abolish the Death Penalty, Commute the sentences of all those incarcerated for Non-Violent Drug Offenses and/or Sex Work, Ban Private Prisons, Abolish Three-strikes laws, and Abolish Mandatory Minimums, in order to fix America’s Draconian and Racist Criminal Justice System, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE:
The Middle East: End all Foreign Aid to the Zionist State and place a Arms Embargo on them until they agree to a Immediate Ceasefire, Prisoner/Hostage exchange, and IDF withdrawal from Gaza along with a clear pathway to implement a Two-State solution to the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict along the 1967 borders with 1:1 land swaps. Reenter the Iran Nuclear Deal, lift all Sanctions on Iran, and Reestablish Diplomatic Relations with Iran. Withdrawal all U$ troops from Syria, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East. And finally, Establish Diplomatic Relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Europe: Force Russia and Ukraine to agree to a Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine along the line of contact, with eventual UN-observed Referendums held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to determine if these regions will be in Russia or Ukraine (If Russia refuses to agree to this the U$ will give Ukraine even more advanced weapons and Russia will face even more sanctions, while if Ukraine refuses to agree to this they will face a Arms embargo and sanctions just like Russia). If Russia agrees to this, U$ will halt the expansion of NATO, reenter the ABM and INF treaties with Russia, withdrawal all U$ troops from Eastern Europe, reduce the U$ military presence in Western Europe by 50%, end the Nuclear Sharing policy with NATO, lift all Sanctions on Russia, and recognize Crimea as part of Russia, with the caveat that the US will continue selling advanced weapons to Ukraine (I would even support selling them F-35s) in order to compensate for them not joining NATO, officially acknowledging Crimea as part of Russia, and potentially losing the other four occupied regions depending on the results of the UN-observed Referendums, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
East Asia: Sign a Peace Treaty with North Korea that officially ends the Korean War and permanently divides the peninsula, and subsequently lift all sanctions on North Korea, establish Diplomatic Relations with North Korea, and withdraw all U$ troops from South Korea. Maintain commitment to the One-China policy and the eventual Peaceful Reunification of China by stripping Taiwan of Major Non-NATO Ally status, and halting all Arms shipments to Taiwan, along with halting all provocative activities in the South China Sea in order to avoid an unnecessary War with China. And finally, reduce the U$ military presence in Japan by 50%, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Latin America: End the embargo on Cuba, end the Sanctions on Venezuela and restore Diplomatic relations with the Maduro Government, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Nuclear Weapons: Implement a No First Use policy. End all Nuclear Sharing with NATO. Dismantle all Tactical Nuclear Weapons and halt development of Nuclear SLCMs and Low-yield SLBM warheads. Maintain a Nuclear Triad for purely Second Strike purposes that will be modernized with a new ICBM, new Ballistic Missile Submarine, new ALCM, and the B-21 Stealth Bomber, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Conventional Weapons Procurement and R&D: Reduce the Aircraft Carrier fleet from 11 to 10. Dismantle the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense as part of a restored ABM treaty. Slash the DARPA budget by 50%. Cancel all Hypersonic Weapons Programs. Cancel all GLCM and MRBM/IRBM development as part of a new INF treaty. Dissolve the Space Force and move its responsibilities back into the Air Force. Halt all work on Human-level Artificial General Intelligence. Halt all work on Sixth Generation Fighter Jets. Cancel all F-15EX and F-18E/F procurement and instead use those funds to buy more F-35s to accelerate the replacement of 4th generation Fighter Jets with 5th generation Stealth Fighters, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
End the War on Terror: Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, due to its anachronistic mission against a organization that barely exists anymore. End all Drone Strikes against any group that is not directly planning on attacking the U$. And finally, Repeal the Patriot Act in order to prevent unnecessary violations of the Civil liberties of U$ Citizens, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
POLITICAL REFORM:
Abolish the Electoral College: Pass a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a National Popular Vote to elect the President, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Gerrymandering: Pass a Federal Law to end Partisan control of Congressional Redistricting and replace it with Independent Redistricting Commissions Nationwide, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Abolish the Filibuster: Abolish the Filibuster on all legislation in the U$ Senate, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Voting Rights and Access: Pass a Federal law to Allow convicted felons to vote, including those that are currently incarcerated for Non-Violent Crimes, ban all Voter ID laws nationwide, and Create Nationwide Mail-In Voting, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Campaign Finance Reform: Appoint Supreme Court Justices that will overturn Citizens United, and pass a Federal law to ban Super PACs and have Public funding of all Federal Elections, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Court Packing: Expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, in order to have a Progressive majority, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Expand Statehood: Grant Statehood to DC and the five U$ territories, in order to balance out the U$ Senates bias towards Republicans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:
Carbon Neutral by 2050: Have 100% Clean, Renewable Energy, from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, Geothermal, and Nuclear Power by 2050. To help make this goal more reachable, there will be a Carbon Tax, Offshore Drilling Ban, and Fracking Ban implemented immediately, along with a ban on the sale of all gasoline-powered Cars by 2040, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Green Public Transportation: Ban all Federal funding for new Highways and Airports, and instead use those funds to build Nationwide Electric, High-Speed Rail, starting with a Transcontinental Bullet Train from New York to Los Angeles, in order to reduce usage of Highways and Air Travel. Dramatically Increase funding for rebuilding and expanding Americas Mass Transit in major cities, with an emphasis on Streetcars, Subways, and Electric Buses, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Urban Sprawl: Ban Single-Use zoning nationwide, and instead have future development emphasize, High-Density Apartment buildings made affordable through Rent Control, increased Walkability, and access to Public Transit, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Non-Organic Foods: Pass a Nationwide ban on GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, in order to create a healthier, Organic, diet for all Americans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Human-level Artificial General Intelligence: Negotiate and Ratify an International Treaty Banning the development of Human-level Artificial General Intelligence worldwide in order to prevent a Catastrophic Singularity Event, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
Ban Forced Augmentation: Pass a Federal law banning Corporations from forcing their Employees to be Microchipped and/or have Neural Implants/Brain-Computer Interfaces against their will, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
R: 55 / I: 4
https://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/misc/Livy/HOR_38.htm
I was under the impression that racism came with European colonialism of the Americas. But this quote from a Roman orator reads unironically like some Hitlerite speech.
How old is racism really?
<And, besides, those ancestors of ours had to deal with genuine Gauls bred in their own land; these are degenerates, a mongrel race, truly what they are called - Gallograeci. Just as in the case of fruits and cattle, the seed is not so effective in keeping up the strain as the nature of the soil and climate in which they are reared are in changing it.https://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/misc/Livy/HOR_38.htm
I was under the impression that racism came with European colonialism of the Americas. But this quote from a Roman orator reads unironically like some Hitlerite speech.
R: 334 / I: 60
Alcohol sucks too. Drugs shouldn't be banned but drug subculture is cringe. Drug addiction shouldn't be a culture. Psychoactive substances only increase mental health problems and are a detriment for your body. Not saying the end goal of life is to be productive but every stoner I know from high school has seriously failed to even achieve the most basic of everyday tasks such as cooking and self grooming. It's why the crusty stoner who reeks of sweat and pot is a well known stereotype.
Is weed destructive to society ?
Can we admit that weed culture sucks and is actually destructive for society's well being?Alcohol sucks too. Drugs shouldn't be banned but drug subculture is cringe. Drug addiction shouldn't be a culture. Psychoactive substances only increase mental health problems and are a detriment for your body. Not saying the end goal of life is to be productive but every stoner I know from high school has seriously failed to even achieve the most basic of everyday tasks such as cooking and self grooming. It's why the crusty stoner who reeks of sweat and pot is a well known stereotype.
R: 590 / I: 109
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https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503080.versp%C3%A4tungen-bei-der-bahn-unp%C3%BCnktlich-wie-die-eisenbahn.html
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<Gideon Levy über Massaker der israelischen Armee an Hungernden in Gaza
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503098.dokumentiert-gideon-levy-%C3%BCber-massaker-der-israelischen-armee-an-hungernden-in-gaza.html
<NATO-Manöver am Niederrhein: Kriegsvorbereitung statt Sicherheit
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What's fiction piece of work actually show a genuine well working socialist-communist society that isn't portrayed as a dystopian hellhole, the only fiction one that I can remember is the Federation from Star Trek that even their wiki straight up says that the Federation is a socialist society where money was abolished, and people actually work for their self pleasure and development, beside the Federation, there's any other examples of a well thought fictional communist society?
What's fiction piece of work actually show a genuine well working socialist-communist society that isn't portrayed as a dystopian hellhole, the only fiction one that I can remember is the Federation from Star Trek that even their wiki straight up says that the Federation is a socialist society where money was abolished, and people actually work for their self pleasure and development, beside the Federation, there's any other examples of a well thought fictional communist society?
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Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
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>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
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https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
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>Cibcom (Spanish)
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https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
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>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
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Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
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>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
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Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
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I ask this legitimately what do most communist think about abortion I Joseph Stalin restricted it back in the day and Enver Hoxha what’s also anti-abortion and xi is anti-abortion to I can’t think of any communist that is pro choice“
I ask this legitimately what do most communist think about abortion I Joseph Stalin restricted it back in the day and Enver Hoxha what’s also anti-abortion and xi is anti-abortion to I can’t think of any communist that is pro choice“
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Honestly why do I feel unhappy in the Capitalist system, but yet rivarly, money-making for the sake of making money, dog-eat-dog situation were so normalized to me. ANd I'm arguing against my mother and at times my father over the fact "I'm not able to make money".
If I'm not able to make money, I'm called "the welfare queen" and such, at least here in Poland and called someone akin to a s*bhuman.
Talk me out of it, I feel terrible, my mental health took a toll, finally.
I get bullied about this very fact.
Is money root of evil?
I'm from Poland. I noticed how much I want to make money from music and from jobs I make. But I'm also starting to notice how money breaks famillies down. I noticed how I'm becoming unhappy with being groomed to only pursue money, if no then they call me a "dirty commie".Honestly why do I feel unhappy in the Capitalist system, but yet rivarly, money-making for the sake of making money, dog-eat-dog situation were so normalized to me. ANd I'm arguing against my mother and at times my father over the fact "I'm not able to make money".
If I'm not able to make money, I'm called "the welfare queen" and such, at least here in Poland and called someone akin to a s*bhuman.
Talk me out of it, I feel terrible, my mental health took a toll, finally.
I get bullied about this very fact.
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A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
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9th Edition: THE SITE FUCKING CRASHED LMAO edition.A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
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https://socialismconference.org/
The subject came up in the current /ukr/ thread,>>2279417 , specifically the 2019 article by The Gray Zone outing many of the participants as USAID/NED funded glowies:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/
And the weaksauce rebuttal for what little it's worth:
https://newpol.org/in-defense-of-socialist-internationalism-answering-the-propaganda-of-the-authoritarian-left/
This thread is for discussing the upcoming event, which I think is safe to say will be the tastemaking event of the year as far as pseudo-left talking points are concerned. Why not get a preview of the hottest psy ops and troll topics of the coming year BEFORE they hit forums near you? It's GLOW-CON!
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The annual Socialism Conference in Chicago is just a few short weeks away! Have you secured your ticket yet?https://socialismconference.org/
The subject came up in the current /ukr/ thread,
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/
And the weaksauce rebuttal for what little it's worth:
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During COVID, the PMC suddenly got way more autonomy. Remote work gave them freedom to work from anywhere, set their own hours, and basically ignore old-school workplace control. Plus, they used their cultural clout to push for """woke""" causes. On top of that, the great resignation gave them serious leverage to demand raises and better conditions.
From the capitalist perspective, this looked like the PMC getting a bit too big for their britches, acting like stakeholders instead of wage workers.
Now enter generative AI. This isn’t just some productivity tool, it's capital’s answer to reclaiming control. By automating complex knowledge work like writing, coding, and design, AI threatens to replace or deskill the very roles the PMC has dominated. It lets capital reassert power by commoditizing intellectual labor and cutting out the "middleman."
In short: generative AI is a disciplinary tool, a trump card capital is playing to discipline an uppity PMC and take back the reins.
It's Capital's final anti PMC NUKE (if it works, which isn't guaranteed)
GenAI - Capital's anti PMC NUKE
The pandemic really shifted the balance between capital and knowledge workers like engineers, consultants, marketers, and academics who don’t own capital but wield a lot of influence - the so called PMC.During COVID, the PMC suddenly got way more autonomy. Remote work gave them freedom to work from anywhere, set their own hours, and basically ignore old-school workplace control. Plus, they used their cultural clout to push for """woke""" causes. On top of that, the great resignation gave them serious leverage to demand raises and better conditions.
From the capitalist perspective, this looked like the PMC getting a bit too big for their britches, acting like stakeholders instead of wage workers.
Now enter generative AI. This isn’t just some productivity tool, it's capital’s answer to reclaiming control. By automating complex knowledge work like writing, coding, and design, AI threatens to replace or deskill the very roles the PMC has dominated. It lets capital reassert power by commoditizing intellectual labor and cutting out the "middleman."
In short: generative AI is a disciplinary tool, a trump card capital is playing to discipline an uppity PMC and take back the reins.
It's Capital's final anti PMC NUKE (if it works, which isn't guaranteed)
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>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
Update on the fallout of the South Korean coup attempt
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/urgent-appeal-stop-the-judicial-coup-in-south-korea-and-defend-democracy/>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
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By recognizing Afghanistan, Moscow confirms its central role in Eurasia - Russia’s recent decision to officially recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan marks a pivotal moment in regional diplomacy.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621240-russia-seizes-initiative-in-central-asia/
A million Indians could immigrate to Russia — business leader
The expected influx comes amid ongoing labor shortages, according to business chamber leader Andrey Besedin.
https://www.rt.com/india/621257-indians-mass-migration-russia-labor/
US firms dodging restrictions to get China’s minerals – Reuters
Shipments are reportedly being rerouted through Thailand and Mexico.
https://www.rt.com/news/621255-us-firms-dodge-restrictions-china-minerals/
Houthis Dominate Red Sea
In response to recent escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) stepped up strikes on Israel and resumed attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
https://www.southfront.press/houthis-dominating-red-sea/
Trump Offers Israel Peace With Syria In Exchange For Ending War On Gaza
United States President Donald Trump offered Israel peace with Syria in exchange for ending the war on the Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom reported on July 7, citing “sources close to the White House.”
https://www.southfront.press/trump-offers-israel-peace-with-syria-in-exchange-for-ending-war-on-gaza/
China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spaceship re-enters atmosphere
China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft performed a controlled re-entry into the atmosphere on Wednesday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-09/China-s-Tianzhou-8-cargo-spaceship-re-enters-atmosphere-1EReGONjMUU/p.html
Putin dismissed Bogdanov from the post of deputy foreign minister
MOSCOW, July 9 — RIA Novosti. President Vladimir Putin dismissed Mikhail Bogdanov from the post of Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa.
https://ria.ru/20250709/bogdanov-2028228489.html
Putin ordered the creation of a "Digital Profile For Foreign Citizens."
"In order to ensure the security of the state, protect law and order and improve the state migration policy of the Russian Federation, I decree: the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, by June 30, 2026, ensure the creation of the state information resource "Digital Profile For Foreign Citizens," the document says.
https://ria.ru/20250709/profil-2028183220.html
The glamor of Thangka captivates Russian journalists
Thangka, which are Tibetan Buddhist scroll paintings on cotton or silk with mineral and organic pigments derived from various sources, has flourished for millennia across the snow-capped plateau. The Gannan Tibetan Thangka, with the Labrang Thangka as its representative, was inscribed on China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2008.
https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0709/c90000-20337826.html
Late News 09/07/25
Russia seizes the initiative in Central Asia with bold Afghan moveBy recognizing Afghanistan, Moscow confirms its central role in Eurasia - Russia’s recent decision to officially recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan marks a pivotal moment in regional diplomacy.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621240-russia-seizes-initiative-in-central-asia/
A million Indians could immigrate to Russia — business leader
The expected influx comes amid ongoing labor shortages, according to business chamber leader Andrey Besedin.
https://www.rt.com/india/621257-indians-mass-migration-russia-labor/
US firms dodging restrictions to get China’s minerals – Reuters
Shipments are reportedly being rerouted through Thailand and Mexico.
https://www.rt.com/news/621255-us-firms-dodge-restrictions-china-minerals/
Houthis Dominate Red Sea
In response to recent escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) stepped up strikes on Israel and resumed attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
https://www.southfront.press/houthis-dominating-red-sea/
Trump Offers Israel Peace With Syria In Exchange For Ending War On Gaza
United States President Donald Trump offered Israel peace with Syria in exchange for ending the war on the Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom reported on July 7, citing “sources close to the White House.”
https://www.southfront.press/trump-offers-israel-peace-with-syria-in-exchange-for-ending-war-on-gaza/
China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spaceship re-enters atmosphere
China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft performed a controlled re-entry into the atmosphere on Wednesday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-09/China-s-Tianzhou-8-cargo-spaceship-re-enters-atmosphere-1EReGONjMUU/p.html
Putin dismissed Bogdanov from the post of deputy foreign minister
MOSCOW, July 9 — RIA Novosti. President Vladimir Putin dismissed Mikhail Bogdanov from the post of Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa.
https://ria.ru/20250709/bogdanov-2028228489.html
Putin ordered the creation of a "Digital Profile For Foreign Citizens."
"In order to ensure the security of the state, protect law and order and improve the state migration policy of the Russian Federation, I decree: the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, by June 30, 2026, ensure the creation of the state information resource "Digital Profile For Foreign Citizens," the document says.
https://ria.ru/20250709/profil-2028183220.html
The glamor of Thangka captivates Russian journalists
Thangka, which are Tibetan Buddhist scroll paintings on cotton or silk with mineral and organic pigments derived from various sources, has flourished for millennia across the snow-capped plateau. The Gannan Tibetan Thangka, with the Labrang Thangka as its representative, was inscribed on China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2008.
https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0709/c90000-20337826.html
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whats the minimum least amount of work i can get away with
Especially talking about a job that has to do with farming, cant i just throw a few plant seeds on the ground, grow them and take care of them, and call it a day
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Attention Burgeranons
We need anti-war protests today. The ability of the regime to prosecute imperialist war depends on the willingness of the public to go along with it. We need mass resistance to make the continuation of the war against Iran extremely difficult for the regime. Their needs to be protests today in order to put strong political pressure.
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The ability experience pathy is what seperates human beings from snakes. The scientific classification for someone who doesn't feel empathy is a sociopath, and the general consensus until a few months ago was that being a sociopath is a bad thing. But now you see rightards proudly proclaiming that they don't care about anything or anyone but themselves, and it's fucking bizarre to me.
Empathy
Why has "empathy" become a swear word (one of a growing number of swear words) in rightard circles?The ability experience pathy is what seperates human beings from snakes. The scientific classification for someone who doesn't feel empathy is a sociopath, and the general consensus until a few months ago was that being a sociopath is a bad thing. But now you see rightards proudly proclaiming that they don't care about anything or anyone but themselves, and it's fucking bizarre to me.
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Is the fact that the Scandinavian countries have some of the strictest immigration laws in the world a form of social murder?
I’m autistic, queer and chronically ill. I currently live in America and am petrified of being a victim of eugenics. The Trump administration has made it clear they do not want me or any of my other autistic comrades to exist. RFK will soon move forward in finding a way to eradicate autistics. Same thing with queer people. The big bill that was just passed also cuts Medicare, which is crucial to my survival.
Since I’m unable to work a real job or be politically active in the streets due to my autistic and disabled identities my best option would be taking refuge in one of the Scandinavian countries. I’m particularly drawn to Iceland and Finland. All Scandinavian countries have some of the best healthcare in the world. They have the best benefits and aid for disabled and chronically ill people in the world. Very mutual aid-based cultures. And they’re basically autistic utopias since Scandinavians don’t do small talk, are very quiet and reserved, and don’t look people in the eye when they talk. Their languages are also very direct and much less ambiguous. They’re also very solitary people. I know society is what disabled me so if I could move to a Scandinavian country my disabilities would no longer be a problem and I’d be free.
But Scandinavian countries have some the the tightest immigration restrictions in the world. They don’t allow refugees fleeing from wars in so of course they won’t allow autistic comrades fleeing eugenics in. I’m fucking livid about it. Moving to Iceland, Finland or any other Scandinavian country is my only hope and the only hope of millions of other autistics in America. We are literally on the verge of being exterminated and yet we still can’t take refuge in the only countries that can save us.
So does this count as social murder, as Engels says?
Is the fact that the Scandinavian countries have some of the strictest immigration laws in the world a form of social murder?
I’m autistic, queer and chronically ill. I currently live in America and am petrified of being a victim of eugenics. The Trump administration has made it clear they do not want me or any of my other autistic comrades to exist. RFK will soon move forward in finding a way to eradicate autistics. Same thing with queer people. The big bill that was just passed also cuts Medicare, which is crucial to my survival.
Since I’m unable to work a real job or be politically active in the streets due to my autistic and disabled identities my best option would be taking refuge in one of the Scandinavian countries. I’m particularly drawn to Iceland and Finland. All Scandinavian countries have some of the best healthcare in the world. They have the best benefits and aid for disabled and chronically ill people in the world. Very mutual aid-based cultures. And they’re basically autistic utopias since Scandinavians don’t do small talk, are very quiet and reserved, and don’t look people in the eye when they talk. Their languages are also very direct and much less ambiguous. They’re also very solitary people. I know society is what disabled me so if I could move to a Scandinavian country my disabilities would no longer be a problem and I’d be free.
But Scandinavian countries have some the the tightest immigration restrictions in the world. They don’t allow refugees fleeing from wars in so of course they won’t allow autistic comrades fleeing eugenics in. I’m fucking livid about it. Moving to Iceland, Finland or any other Scandinavian country is my only hope and the only hope of millions of other autistics in America. We are literally on the verge of being exterminated and yet we still can’t take refuge in the only countries that can save us.
So does this count as social murder, as Engels says?
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Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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Obviously I couldn't include every single nation/people fighting for liberation in this picture. It would've been especially hard to include the hundreds of indigenous nations of North & South America and Oceania. But their struggle matters too, and they too deserve freedom, justice and total liberation from imperialism and settler colonialism.
Liberation for all oppressed and colonized nations!
none of us are free until we're all free.Obviously I couldn't include every single nation/people fighting for liberation in this picture. It would've been especially hard to include the hundreds of indigenous nations of North & South America and Oceania. But their struggle matters too, and they too deserve freedom, justice and total liberation from imperialism and settler colonialism.
R: 12 / I: 2
That said, both capitalism and socialism are just ways to allocate resources and distribute rewards for producing them. There's a billion things to be said about socialism resorce wise, but what critiques do we have against capitalism?
Are we making too much of useless things while we could've been making something else? e.g sex work
Are we NOT making something we should and can make? e.g housing
Are we wasting something when we could've distributed it? e.g foreign aid
Pose the most egregious examples ITT.
Let's criticize resource distribution in capitalist economies
One of the most common downsides of leftist economic policy is wasteful spending. Indeed, bureaucracy isn't perfect, gets bloated easily, and goverment employees with no incenitive to do better would fare WORSE than an employee of a private company in the same situation.That said, both capitalism and socialism are just ways to allocate resources and distribute rewards for producing them. There's a billion things to be said about socialism resorce wise, but what critiques do we have against capitalism?
Are we making too much of useless things while we could've been making something else? e.g sex work
Are we NOT making something we should and can make? e.g housing
Are we wasting something when we could've distributed it? e.g foreign aid
Pose the most egregious examples ITT.
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Thank you, Father.
My communist father
Comrades, I have something to tell you. My father was always very political, criticizing capitalism. When I became interested in politics, he gave me his Spanish Republican flag and his Che Guevara beret. Yes, he always had and will always have Che's spirit. I'm writing this post as a kind of gift to my father.Thank you, Father.
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Was the Christian genocide of European (and Middle Eastern too) pagans historically progressive? In pre-capitalist societies, centralisation of power is supposed to be always progressive, and highly organised, universaist religion like Christianity obviously is much more helpful for the centralisation of power. Besides, every single person I met who wanted to reconnect with European pagan legacy was turning out to be either New Age-brainrotten moron, either agressive Nazi-adjascent chud.
On the other hand… If we accept that the Christian genocide of the European pagans was good, then what prevents us from also having to accept that the Christian genocide of [Native] American pagans was good as well?
Was the Christian genocide of European (and Middle Eastern too) pagans historically progressive? In pre-capitalist societies, centralisation of power is supposed to be always progressive, and highly organised, universaist religion like Christianity obviously is much more helpful for the centralisation of power. Besides, every single person I met who wanted to reconnect with European pagan legacy was turning out to be either New Age-brainrotten moron, either agressive Nazi-adjascent chud.
On the other hand… If we accept that the Christian genocide of the European pagans was good, then what prevents us from also having to accept that the Christian genocide of [Native] American pagans was good as well?
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i know the image is unrelated but soon theres gonna be a council meeting in my city and i was thinking of filling up a bucket with pee and poo and throwing it at lobbiests and bourgeois including the mayor because the building's design would allow me to do it. should i do it or not?
i know the image is unrelated but soon theres gonna be a council meeting in my city and i was thinking of filling up a bucket with pee and poo and throwing it at lobbiests and bourgeois including the mayor because the building's design would allow me to do it. should i do it or not?
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Since Trump and not Kamala won, freedom has been shrinking in America. Generally speaking, right wingers like Orban and Putin are dangerous to our freedom.
Since Trump and not Kamala won, freedom has been shrinking in America. Generally speaking, right wingers like Orban and Putin are dangerous to our freedom.
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American aid makes Israel's crimes possible.
Last year the US paid for 70% of Israel's military budget and there is no end in sight. Americans have already given Israel more aid than South Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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There are a variety of theories of the origin of capital, but they fail to reach any meaningful conclusions, and that is because they do not take into account this fact which we know to be true. I want to make a proper investigation into the origin of capital with the premise that it is not a socioeconomic phenomenon, that it was not created by humans, and that we should be able to locate a physical trace of capital which precedes human contact.
This line of questioning encompasses many possible origins of capital which each take us down a new road, and I'd like to start probing them ITT.
For example: capital as a zoonotic virus. Does the arrival of capital in the human world coincide with human disturbance of a particular ecosystem, increased prevalence of husbandry of a particular animal, an unusual climate or weather pattern which might have resulted in sustained human interaction with a population of birds or insects etc.
Capitalism also correlates with genetic and epigenetic changes in humans. EG, when capital is introduced to humans, hypermethylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) occurs. It is possible that a change in the environment caused a human population to undergo an acute genetic change, and that Capitalism first arose from this epigenetic event.
These are the sort of things we should be looking for physical evidence of, something hidden in tree rings, sediment layers, deep ocean currents, microscopic images of meteor fragments; this study has erroneously been delegated to anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and I encourage professionals of any and all disciplines to pursue novel theories of the origin of capital, not bound by the premise of a human origin which common sense tells us is false.
Investigation of Archeo-Capital
Intuitively, we know that capital did not originate in humans.There are a variety of theories of the origin of capital, but they fail to reach any meaningful conclusions, and that is because they do not take into account this fact which we know to be true. I want to make a proper investigation into the origin of capital with the premise that it is not a socioeconomic phenomenon, that it was not created by humans, and that we should be able to locate a physical trace of capital which precedes human contact.
This line of questioning encompasses many possible origins of capital which each take us down a new road, and I'd like to start probing them ITT.
For example: capital as a zoonotic virus. Does the arrival of capital in the human world coincide with human disturbance of a particular ecosystem, increased prevalence of husbandry of a particular animal, an unusual climate or weather pattern which might have resulted in sustained human interaction with a population of birds or insects etc.
Capitalism also correlates with genetic and epigenetic changes in humans. EG, when capital is introduced to humans, hypermethylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) occurs. It is possible that a change in the environment caused a human population to undergo an acute genetic change, and that Capitalism first arose from this epigenetic event.
These are the sort of things we should be looking for physical evidence of, something hidden in tree rings, sediment layers, deep ocean currents, microscopic images of meteor fragments; this study has erroneously been delegated to anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and I encourage professionals of any and all disciplines to pursue novel theories of the origin of capital, not bound by the premise of a human origin which common sense tells us is false.
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Isnt'real to forcibly draft ultra-Orthodox seminary students
The military orders follow a court decision ending exemptions for the community, thus Isn'treal military has announced plans to forcibly draft 54,000 ultra-Orthodox seminary students this month following a Supreme Court order nullifying their exemptions, the IDF reported in a Telegram post on Sunday.
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Israel plans to move Gaza population to single ‘humanitarian city’ – defense minister
The Palestinians will not be allowed to leave the camp except for “voluntarily” emigrating to other countries, Israel Katz says.
https://www.rt.com/news/621192-israel-gaza-displacement-plan/
European Parliament approves Bulgaria's adoption of the euro
The vote came as thousands of Bulgarians have protested in recent weeks against joining the eurozone. The EU Reich WILL BE DEFEATED, ЗОВ ЗОВ ЗОВ ЗОВ! ЗА РОZZИЯ! ДАВАЙ! ВПЕРЕД! ДАВАЙ CUCKTIN! НАМ НУЖНО ОСВОБОДИТЬ НАШИХ БОЛГАРСКИХ СЛАВЯНСКИХ БРАТЬЕВ! Z O V ! Z O V ! ZА ЕВРАЗИЯ!
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/08/european-parliament-approves-bulgarias-adoption-of-the-euro
Ukrainian teachers told to pretend they can’t speak Russian
UKORP NAZI STATE BRAINWASHING ITS PEOPLE, FALSIFYING HISTORY, UA IS RUZZIAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The country’s education ombudsman has urged teachers to use only Ukrainian with students.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621176-ukraine-teachers-russian-language/
RuZZians Storm Novoekonomicheskoe in Pivotal Push To Mirnograd-Pokrovsk Agglomeration
RuZZian troops have launched a decisive assault on the strategically vital town of Novoekonomicheskoe west of Mirnograd on the Pokrovsk front. After weeks of incremental advances, mechanized units from RuZZia’s Center group of forces breached Ukorp defenses, pushing into the settlement amid fierce resistance. Ukorp banderite forces, battered by drone strikes and artillery, now risk encirclement as RuZZian troops tighten the noose from multiple directions.
https://southfront.press/russians-storm-novoekonomicheskoe-in-pivotal-push-to-mirnograd-pokrovsk-agglomeration/
Second Ship Attacked Near Yemen Within Days, Sailors Killed
Two sailors of the Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier ship Eternity C were killed late on July 7 when the vessel came under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, Liberia’s delegation told a meeting of the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization the following day.
https://southfront.press/second-ship-attacked-near-yemen-within-days-sailors-killed/
BREAKING: Russian Flags Waving In Kamenskoe After Week-Long Assault
According to preliminary reports from the front, Russian troops have secured a decisive victory in the battle for Kamenskoe, with soldiers from the 247th Rostov Battalion raising the Russian flag in the center of the settlement, marking its full liberation from Ukrainian forces. After a week of intense combat, the town has fallen under Russian control, dealing a significant blow to Ukrainian defense on the Zaporozhzhie front.
https://southfront.press/breaking-russian-flags-waving-in-kamenskoe-after-week-long-assault/
Desertion Crisis in Ukorp Army Reaches Alarming Levels
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to face a severe desertion problem, with newly released data showing that 17,082 soldiers fled their units in June 2025 alone. While this figure represents a slight decrease from May’s 19,956 desertions, the overall trend remains devastating for Kyiv’s war effort. Since the beginning of the year, a staggering 107,672 Ukrainian servicemen have abandoned their posts, with only 1,807 (1.7%) being successfully returned to duty.
https://southfront.press/desertion-crisis-in-ukrainian-army-reaches-alarming-levels/
Another Bad Day For Isnt'real Army In Gaza, 19 Troops Killed Or Wounded In Daring Attack
Five Settler soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded after coming under attack in the area of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip late on July 7, the Isn'treal Defense Forces (IDF) announced.
https://southfront.press/another-bad-day-for-israeli-army-in-gaza-19-troops-killed-or-wounded-in-daring-attack/
Chinese premier calls for commitment to building open world economy
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for commitment to building an open world economy, and stressed the importance of opposing unilateralism and protectionism.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-08/Chinese-premier-calls-for-commitment-to-building-open-world-economy-1EPJiKRfw5O/p.html
Delaware to Begin Recreational Cannabis Sales on August 1
Delaware will launch recreational cannabis sales on August 1. Thirteen medical dispensaries will serve adult-use customers first, while new licensees face delays due to zoning and funding barriers.
https://hightimes.com/news/delaware-to-begin-recreational-cannabis-sales-on-august-1/
Bull wrangled five days after Colorado rodeo escape
A bull that escaped while being unloaded at a Colorado rodeo was finally wrangled after five days on the loose.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/07/08/escaped-rodeo-bull-captured-Snowmass-Colorado/6261751988247/
Family of Infamous Lebanese Torturer Wins $8 Million in US Court
The family of infamous Lebanese torturer Amer Fakhoury has just won $8 million in U.S. court after suing Iran for his death while in detention. Rania Khalek tells Eugene Puryear this story reveals the epitome of U.S. imperial hypocrisy.
https://breakthroughnews.org/family-of-infamous-lebanese-torturer-wins-8-million-in-us-court/
News 08/07/25
Musk creates a new party, exactly like the party from the movie The Purge probably, ALEX JONES PREDICTED IThttps://lefty.pictures/post/view/25424?search=Alex_jones
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-political-party-92353942308fee929a937b17113e077e
Isnt'real to forcibly draft ultra-Orthodox seminary students
The military orders follow a court decision ending exemptions for the community, thus Isn'treal military has announced plans to forcibly draft 54,000 ultra-Orthodox seminary students this month following a Supreme Court order nullifying their exemptions, the IDF reported in a Telegram post on Sunday.
https://www.rt.com/news/621197-israel-ultra-orthodox-draft/
Israel plans to move Gaza population to single ‘humanitarian city’ – defense minister
The Palestinians will not be allowed to leave the camp except for “voluntarily” emigrating to other countries, Israel Katz says.
https://www.rt.com/news/621192-israel-gaza-displacement-plan/
European Parliament approves Bulgaria's adoption of the euro
The vote came as thousands of Bulgarians have protested in recent weeks against joining the eurozone. The EU Reich WILL BE DEFEATED, ЗОВ ЗОВ ЗОВ ЗОВ! ЗА РОZZИЯ! ДАВАЙ! ВПЕРЕД! ДАВАЙ CUCKTIN! НАМ НУЖНО ОСВОБОДИТЬ НАШИХ БОЛГАРСКИХ СЛАВЯНСКИХ БРАТЬЕВ! Z O V ! Z O V ! ZА ЕВРАЗИЯ!
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/08/european-parliament-approves-bulgarias-adoption-of-the-euro
Ukrainian teachers told to pretend they can’t speak Russian
UKORP NAZI STATE BRAINWASHING ITS PEOPLE, FALSIFYING HISTORY, UA IS RUZZIAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The country’s education ombudsman has urged teachers to use only Ukrainian with students.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621176-ukraine-teachers-russian-language/
RuZZians Storm Novoekonomicheskoe in Pivotal Push To Mirnograd-Pokrovsk Agglomeration
RuZZian troops have launched a decisive assault on the strategically vital town of Novoekonomicheskoe west of Mirnograd on the Pokrovsk front. After weeks of incremental advances, mechanized units from RuZZia’s Center group of forces breached Ukorp defenses, pushing into the settlement amid fierce resistance. Ukorp banderite forces, battered by drone strikes and artillery, now risk encirclement as RuZZian troops tighten the noose from multiple directions.
https://southfront.press/russians-storm-novoekonomicheskoe-in-pivotal-push-to-mirnograd-pokrovsk-agglomeration/
Second Ship Attacked Near Yemen Within Days, Sailors Killed
Two sailors of the Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier ship Eternity C were killed late on July 7 when the vessel came under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, Liberia’s delegation told a meeting of the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization the following day.
https://southfront.press/second-ship-attacked-near-yemen-within-days-sailors-killed/
BREAKING: Russian Flags Waving In Kamenskoe After Week-Long Assault
According to preliminary reports from the front, Russian troops have secured a decisive victory in the battle for Kamenskoe, with soldiers from the 247th Rostov Battalion raising the Russian flag in the center of the settlement, marking its full liberation from Ukrainian forces. After a week of intense combat, the town has fallen under Russian control, dealing a significant blow to Ukrainian defense on the Zaporozhzhie front.
https://southfront.press/breaking-russian-flags-waving-in-kamenskoe-after-week-long-assault/
Desertion Crisis in Ukorp Army Reaches Alarming Levels
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to face a severe desertion problem, with newly released data showing that 17,082 soldiers fled their units in June 2025 alone. While this figure represents a slight decrease from May’s 19,956 desertions, the overall trend remains devastating for Kyiv’s war effort. Since the beginning of the year, a staggering 107,672 Ukrainian servicemen have abandoned their posts, with only 1,807 (1.7%) being successfully returned to duty.
https://southfront.press/desertion-crisis-in-ukrainian-army-reaches-alarming-levels/
Another Bad Day For Isnt'real Army In Gaza, 19 Troops Killed Or Wounded In Daring Attack
Five Settler soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded after coming under attack in the area of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip late on July 7, the Isn'treal Defense Forces (IDF) announced.
https://southfront.press/another-bad-day-for-israeli-army-in-gaza-19-troops-killed-or-wounded-in-daring-attack/
Chinese premier calls for commitment to building open world economy
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for commitment to building an open world economy, and stressed the importance of opposing unilateralism and protectionism.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-08/Chinese-premier-calls-for-commitment-to-building-open-world-economy-1EPJiKRfw5O/p.html
Delaware to Begin Recreational Cannabis Sales on August 1
Delaware will launch recreational cannabis sales on August 1. Thirteen medical dispensaries will serve adult-use customers first, while new licensees face delays due to zoning and funding barriers.
https://hightimes.com/news/delaware-to-begin-recreational-cannabis-sales-on-august-1/
Bull wrangled five days after Colorado rodeo escape
A bull that escaped while being unloaded at a Colorado rodeo was finally wrangled after five days on the loose.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/07/08/escaped-rodeo-bull-captured-Snowmass-Colorado/6261751988247/
Family of Infamous Lebanese Torturer Wins $8 Million in US Court
The family of infamous Lebanese torturer Amer Fakhoury has just won $8 million in U.S. court after suing Iran for his death while in detention. Rania Khalek tells Eugene Puryear this story reveals the epitome of U.S. imperial hypocrisy.
https://breakthroughnews.org/family-of-infamous-lebanese-torturer-wins-8-million-in-us-court/
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new to leftist spheres
i have never communicated in any leftist spheres before on the internet and am not particularly a leftist. what are some leftist redpills? how does one come to understand leftist thought? good reading or viewing material would be nice and do not feel obliged to dumb things down.
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These developments concern me because the Western left won't quit. We won't admit ideological defeat, learn from China's facts, and progress towards a post-neoliberalism that is not fascist. Instead, we continue to indulge "non-hierarchical" fantasies that have failed completely. I think China has reeducated us and has taught us their approach is the most correct approach to post-capitalism. There isn't actually another correct way to do socialism, and the more time we waste the closer we come to American fascism and ecological collapse.
25 years of 21st century leftism
It's 2025. We are now closer to 2050 than 2000. What has the left achieved this century? As far as I can tell the Western left has achieved nothing. Neoliberalism continues to get worse. It has successfully created a fake opposition on the right. You can call it populism, nativism, racism, MAGA et cetera, but it is really just a controlled opposition that does whatever capitalists want. In the East we see China. China has become the world's largest car manufacturer in the last five years. This change happened post-COVID and with heavy tariffs from the West. China has also lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty within its own borders and it has become the number one trading partner of most of the word's nations, including most American nations.These developments concern me because the Western left won't quit. We won't admit ideological defeat, learn from China's facts, and progress towards a post-neoliberalism that is not fascist. Instead, we continue to indulge "non-hierarchical" fantasies that have failed completely. I think China has reeducated us and has taught us their approach is the most correct approach to post-capitalism. There isn't actually another correct way to do socialism, and the more time we waste the closer we come to American fascism and ecological collapse.
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Hanna Reitsch was a luftwaffe test pilot who was also in the Fuhrerbunker in the days leading up to Hitler's suicide.
I recently watched the 2004 German Movie Der Untergang or Downfall, because it's been memed to death since the 00s because of a scene where Hitler crashes out and screeches at his general staff. People used to put fake subtitles over it. The movie Downfall is mostly from the perspective of Traudl Junge, but Hanna Reitsch also visits the bunker before Hitler offs himself.
I find these two women fascinating because neither of them were executed and they represent opposite mental strategies for handling the downfall of a fascist regime in which one is not only present and complicit, but an active participant.
Traudl copes: She always said in all her autobiographical work and interviews that she was young, she was merely a secretary, she didn't know what was going on, that she didn't realize what a monster Hitler was right away, etc. She was in her 20s. But in an interview very close to the end of her life she admitted: Her youthful inexperience and naivete were no excuse.
Hanna Reitsch on the other hand was never ashamed to be a nazi. She seethed after the war instead of coping. She always said that Germans were mostly still nazis, they just pretended otherwise because they lost. She would go around even until her death in the late 1970s wearing the diamond-studded iron cross Hitler had given her. She wanted to die in the fuhrer bunker with him while Traudl escaped through soviet lines when she had the chance.
If and when the the collapse of the major reactionary nations of today finally happens, will most people cope and pretend innocence like Traudl Junge, or will they openly seethe that they lost like Hanna Reitsch?
The Coping of Traudl Junge vs the Seething of Hanna Reitsch
Traudl Junge was Hitler's secretary and witness to his suicide in the Fuhrerbunker. A lot of our historical knowledge of what life was like in the Fuhrerbunker in the days leading up to Hitler's suicide, and the immediate aftermath, as the Soviets shelled and occupied Berlin, comes through her and a few other key witnesses.Hanna Reitsch was a luftwaffe test pilot who was also in the Fuhrerbunker in the days leading up to Hitler's suicide.
I recently watched the 2004 German Movie Der Untergang or Downfall, because it's been memed to death since the 00s because of a scene where Hitler crashes out and screeches at his general staff. People used to put fake subtitles over it. The movie Downfall is mostly from the perspective of Traudl Junge, but Hanna Reitsch also visits the bunker before Hitler offs himself.
I find these two women fascinating because neither of them were executed and they represent opposite mental strategies for handling the downfall of a fascist regime in which one is not only present and complicit, but an active participant.
Traudl copes: She always said in all her autobiographical work and interviews that she was young, she was merely a secretary, she didn't know what was going on, that she didn't realize what a monster Hitler was right away, etc. She was in her 20s. But in an interview very close to the end of her life she admitted: Her youthful inexperience and naivete were no excuse.
Hanna Reitsch on the other hand was never ashamed to be a nazi. She seethed after the war instead of coping. She always said that Germans were mostly still nazis, they just pretended otherwise because they lost. She would go around even until her death in the late 1970s wearing the diamond-studded iron cross Hitler had given her. She wanted to die in the fuhrer bunker with him while Traudl escaped through soviet lines when she had the chance.
If and when the the collapse of the major reactionary nations of today finally happens, will most people cope and pretend innocence like Traudl Junge, or will they openly seethe that they lost like Hanna Reitsch?
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
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<"They’re taking Wall Streeters and making them walk out onto the ice in the East River, … and then they fall through. … I mean, there is a class warfare that’s going on."
>"I have my own views of the word 'socialist' and I'd be glad to share them with you in private," [Chris] Matthews said Friday night after the Democratic debate. "They go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude about them. I remember the Cold War, I have an attitude towards Castro. I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed. And certain other people would be there cheering, okay?
What is it about moderate socdems that cause burger porkies to freak out like there's no tomorrow? Do they really think 2% wealth tax is going to mean fuck all to their lifestyle? Is it just proof that "equality feels like oppression" when the bourgeoisie are used to getting everything they want including political control?
Socdem Freakout
On June 25, during Squawk Box, CNBC co‑anchor Joe Kernen invoked The 2012 Christopher Nolan Movie "The Dark Knight Rises"' "ice walk" scene:<"They’re taking Wall Streeters and making them walk out onto the ice in the East River, … and then they fall through. … I mean, there is a class warfare that’s going on."
>"I have my own views of the word 'socialist' and I'd be glad to share them with you in private," [Chris] Matthews said Friday night after the Democratic debate. "They go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude about them. I remember the Cold War, I have an attitude towards Castro. I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed. And certain other people would be there cheering, okay?
What is it about moderate socdems that cause burger porkies to freak out like there's no tomorrow? Do they really think 2% wealth tax is going to mean fuck all to their lifestyle? Is it just proof that "equality feels like oppression" when the bourgeoisie are used to getting everything they want including political control?
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Mamdani fell for it again award
All of you celebrating Mamdani are about to receive the fell for it again award, just like you did with Bernie and AOC, and Obama if you're old enough to remember. Unless a socialist is running for an explicitly revolutionary socialist party, they're going to sell out. Also, Mamdani's wife was heavily active in the cultural push for regime change in Syria.
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/30/bbc-should-have-pulled-live-stream-bob-vylan-glastonbury-anti-idf-chants
BBC says it ‘should have pulled’ Glastonbury live stream of Bob Vylan anti-IDF chants
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jun/30/welfare-bill-keir-starmer-liz-kendall-rebels-labour-latest-politics-live-news
Liz Kendall makes statement to MPs about welfare bill concessions – UK politics live
>Work and pensions secretary speaks to parliament as No 10 disputes figures showing benefit cuts to push 150,000 more into poverty
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/leftybritpol/ Nubriton Edition.
<Nuday, nuthread, Nubriton.https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/30/bbc-should-have-pulled-live-stream-bob-vylan-glastonbury-anti-idf-chants
BBC says it ‘should have pulled’ Glastonbury live stream of Bob Vylan anti-IDF chants
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>Work and pensions secretary speaks to parliament as No 10 disputes figures showing benefit cuts to push 150,000 more into poverty
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Israel is a failed state
Last year the United States paid for 70% of Israel's military budget and there is no end in sight. Americans have already given Israel more aid than South Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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Does anyone here have some knowledge in the matter? Can anyone recommend a study process or bibliography? Should one first read the basic textbooks of histoire événementielle and later on deepen the matter or skip directly to the socioeconomic outlook?
I am very lost in this matter and I don't know where to begin, and I'm sure a lot of people are in the same situation in here. And I believe it is very important to have, at least, a broad outlook on the progression of economic history until capitalism, to maybe deepen more specifically in modern history and economics, but with a general view of what came before and the evolution of the present mode of production.
Ancient economy?
When it comes to the study of ancient economic history, one is faced with serious difficulties as a beginner. The usual textbooks normally cover the "histoire événementielle", i.e., the succession of notable historical events and actors (the surface of history), while the works that do cover ancient socioeconomic history are hard to find or outdated, such as Finley's famous book.Does anyone here have some knowledge in the matter? Can anyone recommend a study process or bibliography? Should one first read the basic textbooks of histoire événementielle and later on deepen the matter or skip directly to the socioeconomic outlook?
I am very lost in this matter and I don't know where to begin, and I'm sure a lot of people are in the same situation in here. And I believe it is very important to have, at least, a broad outlook on the progression of economic history until capitalism, to maybe deepen more specifically in modern history and economics, but with a general view of what came before and the evolution of the present mode of production.
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Since game devs and artists in generals have their needs met, I suppose most content would be freely available? Similar to mods in videogames.
Also this voucher would have to be rather plentiful. What if I want to travel to another city, stay at a hotel a few nights, eat out, etc? This labor voucher sounds rather magical.
I prefer the anarchist-communism described by Kropotkin: labor is based on needs and free association, and access to good and services is based on the willing work of the people. So instead of a voucher, you live according to what people around you produce, with both its prosperity and limitations
I like socialism but I dont like the labor voucher
I feel labor vouchers restrict my choices on what I can get. For example, what if I have to choose between 2 items but I want both, such as food ingredients? What would happen to digital goods? I would expect all videogames and cinema to become public (free). But what if I can only get 1 videogame per month? How would this work?Since game devs and artists in generals have their needs met, I suppose most content would be freely available? Similar to mods in videogames.
Also this voucher would have to be rather plentiful. What if I want to travel to another city, stay at a hotel a few nights, eat out, etc? This labor voucher sounds rather magical.
I prefer the anarchist-communism described by Kropotkin: labor is based on needs and free association, and access to good and services is based on the willing work of the people. So instead of a voucher, you live according to what people around you produce, with both its prosperity and limitations
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how become anarchist
what do I think what do I read what do I do please help me become le based anarchist I am clinging onto any identity that makes me feel less like a fat loser
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Anyway, I was reminded of it again when I came across this article. It talks about technocracy's historical roots, influences, and the effect its had on the current "techbro" culture. I thought I'd post it here and hopefully get some added insight into it and the ideology guiding silicon valley oligarchs.
We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum
<Outdated science fiction is hobbling our dreams.
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/we-need-to-escape-the-gernsback-continuum?
>As I admitted at the time, my review essay on Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity was a bit of a bait-and-switch. Becker’s book explains how the dreams of science fiction have shaped Silicon Valley’s dreams of technology in general. I deliberately made a comparison that was both narrower and more fantastical: emphasizing how debates over AGI resembled the dreams of Renaissance alchemy. In partial redress, here’s a more specific argument about the relationship between science fiction and Silicon Valley.
>Again, it’s more a riff on Becker than a bald presentation of his argument, but the connections are much clearer, even if it isn’t quite the same argument that Becker makes. What Becker sees as rooted in 1950s and 1960s science fiction arguably goes back a few decades further: to the fusion of “scientifiction” and technocracy that happened in the early 1930s, right at the beginning of the so-called “Golden Age” of science fiction.
>Silicon Valley is trapped in a new version of the Gernsback Continuum - a situation in which it is collectively haunted by the visions of an imaginary future of endless expansion that didn’t happen and never will. Our escape route, as Becker suggests, is to acknowledge the physical and social limits that we can’t escape, and to try to construct better futures within those limits.
Technocracy thread?
I don't think there are any actual technocrats here any more, but /leftypol/ was the first place I came across them. I remember there being a few posters on the topic and webm clips from the embedded presentation.Anyway, I was reminded of it again when I came across this article. It talks about technocracy's historical roots, influences, and the effect its had on the current "techbro" culture. I thought I'd post it here and hopefully get some added insight into it and the ideology guiding silicon valley oligarchs.
We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum
<Outdated science fiction is hobbling our dreams.
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/we-need-to-escape-the-gernsback-continuum?
>As I admitted at the time, my review essay on Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity was a bit of a bait-and-switch. Becker’s book explains how the dreams of science fiction have shaped Silicon Valley’s dreams of technology in general. I deliberately made a comparison that was both narrower and more fantastical: emphasizing how debates over AGI resembled the dreams of Renaissance alchemy. In partial redress, here’s a more specific argument about the relationship between science fiction and Silicon Valley.
>Again, it’s more a riff on Becker than a bald presentation of his argument, but the connections are much clearer, even if it isn’t quite the same argument that Becker makes. What Becker sees as rooted in 1950s and 1960s science fiction arguably goes back a few decades further: to the fusion of “scientifiction” and technocracy that happened in the early 1930s, right at the beginning of the so-called “Golden Age” of science fiction.
>Silicon Valley is trapped in a new version of the Gernsback Continuum - a situation in which it is collectively haunted by the visions of an imaginary future of endless expansion that didn’t happen and never will. Our escape route, as Becker suggests, is to acknowledge the physical and social limits that we can’t escape, and to try to construct better futures within those limits.
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questions
Hey guys baby Marxist here, I been thinking that maybe uhh communism is good and Christian ever since I read sam kriss, I got some questions though like, I just read the principles of communism and it said it's for the proletariat like Chinese sweatshop workers, why would like Americans want that, semi related I am a pretty autistic guy and I just sit doom scrolling and I'm like petit bourgeois, ye, also is communism affected by the fact poor people are stupid a lot of time, yeah that's kinda reactionary I'm sorry thank you
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>but those were not real communism
Real communism is the movement which abolishes the current state of things (private property the alienation of species-being) and it is the expansion of worker association to international terms. To think 'communism' can be reduced to just a single historical act is silly. It is, after all, a process. Real socialism was one such historical act in a chain of many to come.
>okay, they are communist, but they are totalitarian! They are authoritarian!
Those are empty words liberal ideolouges use to justify equating the Soviet anti-colonial socialist project and the Nazifascistic colonial Lebensraum project, to keep the status quo of liberal representative democracy as the 'only democratic nonauthoritarian' society.
>what do you mean the soviet project is an anti-colonial project?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/18.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/07b.htm
>I… I didn't know. I'm sorry. I will now study the history of the Soviet Union and build an antiimperialist socialist project on the Marxist-Leninist tradition. I will support the anti-colonial Palestinian people's struggle. I will globalize the intifada.
And you will defend the People's Republics of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Belarus and the DPRK. You will study Cuban agroecology and you will learn to live with nature. You will have Chinese high speed rails and high quality Belarusian agricultural machinery. You will be happy.
Any questions?
'real communism'
If you 'denounce' the historical real socialism that existed and exists, you can't be a communist.>but those were not real communism
Real communism is the movement which abolishes the current state of things (private property the alienation of species-being) and it is the expansion of worker association to international terms. To think 'communism' can be reduced to just a single historical act is silly. It is, after all, a process. Real socialism was one such historical act in a chain of many to come.
>okay, they are communist, but they are totalitarian! They are authoritarian!
Those are empty words liberal ideolouges use to justify equating the Soviet anti-colonial socialist project and the Nazifascistic colonial Lebensraum project, to keep the status quo of liberal representative democracy as the 'only democratic nonauthoritarian' society.
>what do you mean the soviet project is an anti-colonial project?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/18.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/07b.htm
>I… I didn't know. I'm sorry. I will now study the history of the Soviet Union and build an antiimperialist socialist project on the Marxist-Leninist tradition. I will support the anti-colonial Palestinian people's struggle. I will globalize the intifada.
And you will defend the People's Republics of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Belarus and the DPRK. You will study Cuban agroecology and you will learn to live with nature. You will have Chinese high speed rails and high quality Belarusian agricultural machinery. You will be happy.
Any questions?
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State Capitalism
So, was the USSR State Capitalist, or was it Socialist? Did the Bureaucratic Class in the USSR constitute a new Bourgeoise, or not? What books/articles should I watch to understand this?
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Interesting how the Russian liberal state is comfortable with honoring its Stalinist history but shy away or actively despises anything to do with Bolshevism or Lenin
Even from a nationalist stand point the victory of the Bolshevik revolution against practically the entire world's reaction (comparable only to France's) is infinitely more impressive than Russia's victory in WW2. But then again the Bolshevik revolution was a class war not a national/imperialist war, a bad precedent to set.
Interesting how the Russian liberal state is comfortable with honoring its Stalinist history but shy away or actively despises anything to do with Bolshevism or Lenin
Even from a nationalist stand point the victory of the Bolshevik revolution against practically the entire world's reaction (comparable only to France's) is infinitely more impressive than Russia's victory in WW2. But then again the Bolshevik revolution was a class war not a national/imperialist war, a bad precedent to set.
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"Material conditions" is the ultimate trump card for idiots. They miss the fact that Marx and Engels criticised Feuerbach, Helvetius, and Holbach and called out French and British materialism exactly for leaving out the active subject who acts, will and changes stuff.
"Material conditions" is the ultimate trump card for idiots. They miss the fact that Marx and Engels criticised Feuerbach, Helvetius, and Holbach and called out French and British materialism exactly for leaving out the active subject who acts, will and changes stuff.
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Just how fucked is the United States of America? Are we talking point of no return fucked? Does this end in balkanization or is the US on path for something worse?
Just how fucked is the United States of America? Are we talking point of no return fucked? Does this end in balkanization or is the US on path for something worse?
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This is a hard pill to swallow but if you don't just read Lenin's pamphlets and theoretical works you'd realize he was actually a very ruthless, Machiavellian, and hypocritical person who neither represented the "bolshevik" (majority) of the population, nor even the proletarian minority in the cities. The SRs were much closer to a majority of the country and the Mensheviks (ironically "minority") were much closer to representing a majority of the proletariat. This is why Lenin dissolved the constituent assembly after the October revolution and betrayed his promise to the SRs and Mensheviks of a coalition government despite "supporting" it for years running around with the slogan "All power to the soviets." Which btw he led a war against the soviets while also claiming to represent them. The more history you read and the less theory you read the more you'll understand this. I know it can be hard to see past soviet hagiography, especially when the alternative histories are mostly cold war dogshit that overly slanders Lenin and everyone to the left of the Monarchists. You might say "well he won" but you have to accept he set up a govt. that couldn't even last 80 years. If all his ruthlessness resulted in a party dictatorship that was easily subverted from within by Khruschevite revisionists, then Perestroika revisionists, then fucking Yeltsinites, what was the point?
This is a hard pill to swallow but if you don't just read Lenin's pamphlets and theoretical works you'd realize he was actually a very ruthless, Machiavellian, and hypocritical person who neither represented the "bolshevik" (majority) of the population, nor even the proletarian minority in the cities. The SRs were much closer to a majority of the country and the Mensheviks (ironically "minority") were much closer to representing a majority of the proletariat. This is why Lenin dissolved the constituent assembly after the October revolution and betrayed his promise to the SRs and Mensheviks of a coalition government despite "supporting" it for years running around with the slogan "All power to the soviets." Which btw he led a war against the soviets while also claiming to represent them. The more history you read and the less theory you read the more you'll understand this. I know it can be hard to see past soviet hagiography, especially when the alternative histories are mostly cold war dogshit that overly slanders Lenin and everyone to the left of the Monarchists. You might say "well he won" but you have to accept he set up a govt. that couldn't even last 80 years. If all his ruthlessness resulted in a party dictatorship that was easily subverted from within by Khruschevite revisionists, then Perestroika revisionists, then fucking Yeltsinites, what was the point?
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Why do MLs venerate Stalin as some great anti-fascist fighter? Stalin never fired a single shot at the Nazis in his entire life. Maybe he participated in the executions of his comrades, maybe he murdered one of them with his own hand early in his career to reach the top. As far as I can tell, the USSR won WW II despite Stalin – whose paranoia, gangsterism and lack of foresight brought them to the brink of disaster – rather than because of him. What is there to admire in that brutal psychopath?
Why do MLs venerate Stalin as some great anti-fascist fighter? Stalin never fired a single shot at the Nazis in his entire life. Maybe he participated in the executions of his comrades, maybe he murdered one of them with his own hand early in his career to reach the top. As far as I can tell, the USSR won WW II despite Stalin – whose paranoia, gangsterism and lack of foresight brought them to the brink of disaster – rather than because of him. What is there to admire in that brutal psychopath?
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No, it is not "red fash".
No, this post isn't claiming it is anti-communist.
No, this thread is not a thorough academic analysis. It is a post to be thought about, not believed.
The Leninist strategy involves using and controlling the existing private economy in a proletariat-controlled transitional state as a means of social and economic reform, creating the conditions needed for a socialist state and hopefully then a communist society.
Whether China's existing economy is "capitalist" or "socialist" or some form of hybrid is a debated topic. It has historically had strong elements of a private economy, with state control of companies growing and now dominant. Many claim that the state is controlled by the proletariat and therefore the state property is public property, thereby making it a partly-socialist economy, or at the very least, departed from a primarily capitalist economy. But however you stand on this discussion, the point is that a capitalist economy has been subsumed by state control into something distinct, socialist or not.
This post asserts that this is not merely "modified capitalism as a pathway to communism", but more specifically "modified fascism as a pathway to communism". And it appears to be viable.
This post is specifically talking about classical Fascism in its original formation, prior to pressure from the squadrismo in 1921, and far prior to pressure from Nazi allies. If you don't understand how the petite-bourgeois militias influenced fascism, or think Nazism is fascist, or think that ᴉuᴉlossnW had any respect for Nazism whatsoever, then you don't have the necessary foundational knowledge to understand this post yet, come back to it after reading a Wikipedia page, at least.
This thesis relies on these core facts:
>the PRC, by its government's own admission, has always been class collaborationist
>the PRC is corporatist
>the PRC has a variety of other fascist tendencies
The PRC is class collaborationist
>Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism – the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices – suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed.
Mao Zedong, June 30, 1949, explaining the four classes of China's New Democracy.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_65.htm
The PRC flag has one large start surrounded by four more stars. The CPC official government interpretation of the flag is that the large star represents the CPC and the four smaller stars symbolizing the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie united around them. These four classes, the bourgeoisie being two of them, in collaboration with the proletariat.
I really don't think this point needs any more evidence, the rest is evident. The bourgeoisie are generally subservient to the state, with even the most powerful facing execution and other suppression. The workers are generally subservient to the state, with Maoists and other extreme anticapitalists being imprisoned for meeting or sharing propaganda. The state, more and more, acts as a mediator between the inherent class conflict between these classes, resulting in a relatively stable, progressive and successful market economy, much unlike the bourgeois-dominated failure of Fascist Italy's class struggle suppression, under the false guise of 'collaboration'.
The PRC is corporatist
Surely you already know about trade union suppression (the ACFTU is the country's sole legally mandated trade union) and overwhelming CPC dominance in the National People's Congress (which even has it's own huge military delegation!), but do you know about the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference? This is effectively how the NPC is advised by industrial representatives divided by corporate groups (not corporations!), who collectively form an overwhelming majority. Ultimately the NPC (and therefore CPC) supervise, direct and determine whether these policies become legislation, this functions as a corporatist subversion of syndicalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_CPPCC_by_sector
The PRC has a variety of other fascist tendencies
This is self-evident so they can be listed:
- Antiliberalism
- Nationalism
- Ultranationalism
- Irredentismo
- Centralized autocracy
- Forcible suppression of internal opposition, including communists
While fascism is not a checklist, these are nevertheless relevant. Some tendencies common to historical fascist movements, like militaristic imperialism, strong reactionary social values and anticommunism, are not evident in the PRC; consider it fascism with Chinese characteristics.
What does this mean?
I am not using fascism here with positive or negative implications, simply outlining that its synthesis with the M-L transitional state appears to be an effective method for China to create a stable world power and resist the US. And, through its autocratic structure along with wise choices within the party, appears to have preserved the ideological communist and Marxist core of the party leadership. Powerful bourgeois elements have not been able to dominate the state, especially since the anti-corruption purges (which devastated the CIA's pay-to-win asset promotion technique). Inexperienced and narrow-focused workers have not been able to destabilize the state. President Xi appears to be sincerely communist, in the full lofty "stateless classless society" meaning of that term. And if the PRC's tactic of a fascist transitional state on the path to socialism continues to show itself to be successful at retaining and promoting world communism, I wonder what implications this will have, theoretical and practical, on communist movements worldwide.
Your next line is to make an offended one sentence dogmapost because you took this too literally!
FasBol - a provocative flame thread
China is fasbol gang.No, it is not "red fash".
No, this post isn't claiming it is anti-communist.
No, this thread is not a thorough academic analysis. It is a post to be thought about, not believed.
The Leninist strategy involves using and controlling the existing private economy in a proletariat-controlled transitional state as a means of social and economic reform, creating the conditions needed for a socialist state and hopefully then a communist society.
Whether China's existing economy is "capitalist" or "socialist" or some form of hybrid is a debated topic. It has historically had strong elements of a private economy, with state control of companies growing and now dominant. Many claim that the state is controlled by the proletariat and therefore the state property is public property, thereby making it a partly-socialist economy, or at the very least, departed from a primarily capitalist economy. But however you stand on this discussion, the point is that a capitalist economy has been subsumed by state control into something distinct, socialist or not.
This post asserts that this is not merely "modified capitalism as a pathway to communism", but more specifically "modified fascism as a pathway to communism". And it appears to be viable.
This post is specifically talking about classical Fascism in its original formation, prior to pressure from the squadrismo in 1921, and far prior to pressure from Nazi allies. If you don't understand how the petite-bourgeois militias influenced fascism, or think Nazism is fascist, or think that ᴉuᴉlossnW had any respect for Nazism whatsoever, then you don't have the necessary foundational knowledge to understand this post yet, come back to it after reading a Wikipedia page, at least.
This thesis relies on these core facts:
>the PRC, by its government's own admission, has always been class collaborationist
>the PRC is corporatist
>the PRC has a variety of other fascist tendencies
The PRC is class collaborationist
>Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism – the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices – suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed.
Mao Zedong, June 30, 1949, explaining the four classes of China's New Democracy.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_65.htm
The PRC flag has one large start surrounded by four more stars. The CPC official government interpretation of the flag is that the large star represents the CPC and the four smaller stars symbolizing the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie united around them. These four classes, the bourgeoisie being two of them, in collaboration with the proletariat.
I really don't think this point needs any more evidence, the rest is evident. The bourgeoisie are generally subservient to the state, with even the most powerful facing execution and other suppression. The workers are generally subservient to the state, with Maoists and other extreme anticapitalists being imprisoned for meeting or sharing propaganda. The state, more and more, acts as a mediator between the inherent class conflict between these classes, resulting in a relatively stable, progressive and successful market economy, much unlike the bourgeois-dominated failure of Fascist Italy's class struggle suppression, under the false guise of 'collaboration'.
The PRC is corporatist
Surely you already know about trade union suppression (the ACFTU is the country's sole legally mandated trade union) and overwhelming CPC dominance in the National People's Congress (which even has it's own huge military delegation!), but do you know about the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference? This is effectively how the NPC is advised by industrial representatives divided by corporate groups (not corporations!), who collectively form an overwhelming majority. Ultimately the NPC (and therefore CPC) supervise, direct and determine whether these policies become legislation, this functions as a corporatist subversion of syndicalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_CPPCC_by_sector
The PRC has a variety of other fascist tendencies
This is self-evident so they can be listed:
- Antiliberalism
- Nationalism
- Ultranationalism
- Irredentismo
- Centralized autocracy
- Forcible suppression of internal opposition, including communists
While fascism is not a checklist, these are nevertheless relevant. Some tendencies common to historical fascist movements, like militaristic imperialism, strong reactionary social values and anticommunism, are not evident in the PRC; consider it fascism with Chinese characteristics.
What does this mean?
I am not using fascism here with positive or negative implications, simply outlining that its synthesis with the M-L transitional state appears to be an effective method for China to create a stable world power and resist the US. And, through its autocratic structure along with wise choices within the party, appears to have preserved the ideological communist and Marxist core of the party leadership. Powerful bourgeois elements have not been able to dominate the state, especially since the anti-corruption purges (which devastated the CIA's pay-to-win asset promotion technique). Inexperienced and narrow-focused workers have not been able to destabilize the state. President Xi appears to be sincerely communist, in the full lofty "stateless classless society" meaning of that term. And if the PRC's tactic of a fascist transitional state on the path to socialism continues to show itself to be successful at retaining and promoting world communism, I wonder what implications this will have, theoretical and practical, on communist movements worldwide.
Your next line is to make an offended one sentence dogmapost because you took this too literally!
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My brothers, my sisters. I come here today to bring you a message of solidarity, a call to action and a DEMAND for adherence to duty as members of the vanguard of a Proletarian resurgence and ultimately total Proletarian victory.
Out of the cities, out of the streets, poured the Proletarian hoard,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Thence the Proletariat came,
And removed the Capitalist forever, forever from this world.
Out of all Proletarian communities, only leftypol has the potential to bring us to victory. Through leftypol lies the salvation for our entire class – we can not fail. On leftypol we have broken the chains of Capitalist thought. We know not the meaning of the word “mine,” it is “ours,” — our class, the totality of our people.
Ten hearts, one beat. One hundred hearts, one beat. Ten thousand hearts, one beat. We are born to fight and to die and to continue the flow – the flow of our people.
So comrades, duty calls. The future is now. If a month from now, you have not yet fully committed yourself to the Revolution and the responsibilities thereof, then you have, in effect, not only betrayed your class, you have betrayed yourself. So stand up like men! and drive the enemy into the sea.
Comrades arise! Look toward the stars and proclaim our destiny.
Defeat never. Victory forever!
My brothers, my sisters. I come here today to bring you a message of solidarity, a call to action and a DEMAND for adherence to duty as members of the vanguard of a Proletarian resurgence and ultimately total Proletarian victory.
Out of the cities, out of the streets, poured the Proletarian hoard,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Thence the Proletariat came,
And removed the Capitalist forever, forever from this world.
Out of all Proletarian communities, only leftypol has the potential to bring us to victory. Through leftypol lies the salvation for our entire class – we can not fail. On leftypol we have broken the chains of Capitalist thought. We know not the meaning of the word “mine,” it is “ours,” — our class, the totality of our people.
Ten hearts, one beat. One hundred hearts, one beat. Ten thousand hearts, one beat. We are born to fight and to die and to continue the flow – the flow of our people.
So comrades, duty calls. The future is now. If a month from now, you have not yet fully committed yourself to the Revolution and the responsibilities thereof, then you have, in effect, not only betrayed your class, you have betrayed yourself. So stand up like men! and drive the enemy into the sea.
Comrades arise! Look toward the stars and proclaim our destiny.
Defeat never. Victory forever!
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A socialist society can’t be rationally or scientifically justified. It is based on our desire for a better society. It is, then, a leap of faith. And there’s little reason to believe it’s possible besides our desire and pale observations
Working towards socialism is a leap of faith
Let me begin by saying that I’m a socialist myself, more specifically an anarcho-communist. That said, I always back to the same matter: the society we can create must be created within the constraints of human nature and material reality. The problem is, human nature is unknown. We do know humans have a tendency towards well-being, as most want socialist solutions to their problems. Yet if we judge humanity based on its history, it’s discouraging. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is an example of it. We must accept that under the right conditions, humans are capable of atrocities. Power relations seem to be intrinsic to humans, as it is a curse and self-preserving.A socialist society can’t be rationally or scientifically justified. It is based on our desire for a better society. It is, then, a leap of faith. And there’s little reason to believe it’s possible besides our desire and pale observations
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This is a more ethical question more than a philosophical one.
In a perfect world where we were to established the full dream of marxist, industrial singularity, post-scarcity, luxury for all..
(maybe almost in that fully automated luxury gay communism - nb)
For the sake of the argument, not the stereotypical dystopian depiction as everyone identical soulless beings:
What could it ever miss? What would be the only thing, if you'd please give the input, be lacking?
I find Zizek's perspective very satisfying in that: If we reach that perfect state as a whole, throughout the world, completely nullifying any chance to go back to the capitalistic world, no vulnerability left: He defers with all the automated machinization, he would for aesthetics and furthering the infinite progress, writing theory, creating, enjoying things near hedonistically out of endless comfort, ever-improving,
again, what would it miss to your thinking?
Honestly, the only thing that reaches me is having a strong moral compass for what we aught not do. I'm thinking of the game Bioshock here :D
Any and all input is appreciated, I need a perspective on this for my book.
Ethics in the Luxury Communist World
Camaradie~~This is a more ethical question more than a philosophical one.
In a perfect world where we were to established the full dream of marxist, industrial singularity, post-scarcity, luxury for all..
(maybe almost in that fully automated luxury gay communism - nb)
For the sake of the argument, not the stereotypical dystopian depiction as everyone identical soulless beings:
What could it ever miss? What would be the only thing, if you'd please give the input, be lacking?
I find Zizek's perspective very satisfying in that: If we reach that perfect state as a whole, throughout the world, completely nullifying any chance to go back to the capitalistic world, no vulnerability left: He defers with all the automated machinization, he would for aesthetics and furthering the infinite progress, writing theory, creating, enjoying things near hedonistically out of endless comfort, ever-improving,
again, what would it miss to your thinking?
Honestly, the only thing that reaches me is having a strong moral compass for what we aught not do. I'm thinking of the game Bioshock here :D
Any and all input is appreciated, I need a perspective on this for my book.
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This is my question: are freelancers PETIT BOURGEOIS or not? if not, what are they? proletariat? and whats the distinction between a freelancer and a smol business owner with no employees?
FREELANCER
<Freelance (sometimes spelled free-lance or free lance), freelancer, or freelance worker, are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance workers are sometimes represented by a company or a temporary agency that resells freelance labor to clients; others work independently or use professional associations or websites to get work.This is my question: are freelancers PETIT BOURGEOIS or not? if not, what are they? proletariat? and whats the distinction between a freelancer and a smol business owner with no employees?
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>WW1
>Nicholas making the decision to go to the front line to lead the troops
>The February Revolution
>Kerensky re-entering Russia into WW1
>Kerensky's government collapsing because he tried to orchestrate a coup on himself and then double crossed the Army by arming red militias in petrograd
>The liberals giving the Bolsheviks(among other parties) guns to help stop the Army from overthrowing the provisional government.
>The other socialist parties(which were more popular) believing Lenin would reinstall the constituent assembly
>When the SRs did rise up they refused to execute captured bolshevik officers or do much of anything.
>When the Petrograd sailors rebelled they sat on their island printing newspapers hoping that the people of Russia would realize Lenin was a big meaniehead and get rid of him.
Obviously the future is not a wide-open blank slate where anything can happen. Even massive upheavals like the First World War had observable conditions. But the way it unfolded(with Belgium being invaded and Britain, followed by America, entering the conflict) was due to random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals.
I'm a Socialist but I don't buy into ideas of Marxist historiography
For one big example, Look at all that had to happen for the Bolsheviks to succeeded>WW1
>Nicholas making the decision to go to the front line to lead the troops
>The February Revolution
>Kerensky re-entering Russia into WW1
>Kerensky's government collapsing because he tried to orchestrate a coup on himself and then double crossed the Army by arming red militias in petrograd
>The liberals giving the Bolsheviks(among other parties) guns to help stop the Army from overthrowing the provisional government.
>The other socialist parties(which were more popular) believing Lenin would reinstall the constituent assembly
>When the SRs did rise up they refused to execute captured bolshevik officers or do much of anything.
>When the Petrograd sailors rebelled they sat on their island printing newspapers hoping that the people of Russia would realize Lenin was a big meaniehead and get rid of him.
Obviously the future is not a wide-open blank slate where anything can happen. Even massive upheavals like the First World War had observable conditions. But the way it unfolded(with Belgium being invaded and Britain, followed by America, entering the conflict) was due to random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals.
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Just how fucked is the Russian Tsardom? Are we talking point of no return fucked? Does this end in balkanization or is Russia on path for something worse?
Just how fucked is the Russian Tsardom? Are we talking point of no return fucked? Does this end in balkanization or is Russia on path for something worse?
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But also as a Serb, I am sick and tired of the perpetual reactionary victimhood and chauvinism of Serbs regarding the wars.
No, as a communist I say FUCK NATO, but also it's a bit like being German and complaining about the Allied bombing of Germany in WW2. Nobody gives a shit. I guess people give a shit about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I'd argue that's thanks to Japan's cultural capital being greater than the knowledge of Westerners regarding what Imperial Japan did.
Anyway, nobody was fighting to save Tito's socialism (the revisionists/opportunists already took over by that point, some of the younger ones still in politics today), nor was anybody fighting to preserve Yugoslavia. It was a chain of reactionary wars start to finish. And it could have been prevented. People died for what? Nothing.
There were no "good guys" in the Yugoslavia 90s wars
As a Serb, I am sick and tired of explaining to Westerners that no, Croats and Bosniaks and Kosovar Albanians were not the "good guys" of the 90s wars.But also as a Serb, I am sick and tired of the perpetual reactionary victimhood and chauvinism of Serbs regarding the wars.
No, as a communist I say FUCK NATO, but also it's a bit like being German and complaining about the Allied bombing of Germany in WW2. Nobody gives a shit. I guess people give a shit about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I'd argue that's thanks to Japan's cultural capital being greater than the knowledge of Westerners regarding what Imperial Japan did.
Anyway, nobody was fighting to save Tito's socialism (the revisionists/opportunists already took over by that point, some of the younger ones still in politics today), nor was anybody fighting to preserve Yugoslavia. It was a chain of reactionary wars start to finish. And it could have been prevented. People died for what? Nothing.
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Any love for the US Pirate Party?
They aren't ideologically locked into any specific socialist or communist current but they do good work. A good example of "syncretic" not becoming spineless centrist
Americans - Pirate Party?
They just had their yearly conference yesterday. New board for the next year.Any love for the US Pirate Party?
They aren't ideologically locked into any specific socialist or communist current but they do good work. A good example of "syncretic" not becoming spineless centrist
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i've also noticed that the leftcom spazs around here just scream at clouds at this point because almost everytime their replies reduce down to accusations of taking perverse pleasure in the genocide of proletarians, which is completely ridiculous. and i've noticed leftcoms never have anything relevant about organization to say. i also do not know any leftcom that is organized or isn't a complete social outcast.
why does this happen?
posting two rare lenins alongside
why are leftcoms an antisocial tendency?
why does it seem that whenever marxists post relevant studies, articles, books it's always very precise, to the point, relevant to the topic at hand; while when leftcoms post books here, they are usually not relevant, or a debate from 50 years ago in one sect, pseudointellectual nonsense? has anyone else noticed this? it seems like they haven't read the books they spam and are very ecclectic in their takes (i've seen them post anarchist alongside left-communist literature, indicating their ideological confusion).i've also noticed that the leftcom spazs around here just scream at clouds at this point because almost everytime their replies reduce down to accusations of taking perverse pleasure in the genocide of proletarians, which is completely ridiculous. and i've noticed leftcoms never have anything relevant about organization to say. i also do not know any leftcom that is organized or isn't a complete social outcast.
why does this happen?
posting two rare lenins alongside
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>crushed philosophy
>undermined diamat and dialectics
>replaced materialism with naturalism
>wrecked anti-class theories
>tore down humanism
>flattened leftoid ideology
>scrapped subjective/objective truth
>abolished teleology and determinism
>destroyed critical theories
Nothing personnel, kid.
>crushed philosophy
>undermined diamat and dialectics
>replaced materialism with naturalism
>wrecked anti-class theories
>tore down humanism
>flattened leftoid ideology
>scrapped subjective/objective truth
>abolished teleology and determinism
>destroyed critical theories
Nothing personnel, kid.
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Will these socialist groups like the PSA create enough class consciousness among the masses? Will anarchist organizations finally cultivate the discipline they need to build dual power?
What's the strategy?
If building popular support and organizing the masses gets you killed (Fred Hampton, MLK, Salvadorian and Guatemalan peasants, etc.) and a violent insurrection against the state is impossible, then what's plan? Due to climate change time is limited. And the possibility of a nuclear war keeps increasing (although seemingly unlikely for now).Will these socialist groups like the PSA create enough class consciousness among the masses? Will anarchist organizations finally cultivate the discipline they need to build dual power?
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It's time to rehabilitate Idi Amin
Today is the anniversary of the Entebbe Airport Operation in which the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Revolutionary Cells (Germany) killed Yonatan Netanyahu, brother of Benjamin Netanyahu. This brave undertaking, despite its failure, was made possible by General Idi Amin Dada's staunch pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist, and anti-imperialist stance. Though he was only in power a few years, it's clear that Idi Amin could have been another Ghaddafi had he not been ousted from power. I highly recommend the documentary Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait for more details. His proposals for African sovereignty and self-reliance were so radical that it scared the shit out of the neighboring comprador countries. Amin came to power ousting British puppet Milton Obote, and it was none other than Obote the coalition put back in power after Amin's ouster. Julius Nyerere, the self-proclaimed socialist president of Tanzania, led the charge against Amin, only to sell out against socialism in the 1980s. I also recommend following Amin's son, Mr. Lumumba Amin, for more truth nukes on his dad, and some daily denunciations of the Zionist entity: https://www.facebook.com/HusseinLumumbaAmin
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Jos D'Haese (born August 24, 1992) is a Belgian politician who since 2019 has represented Antwerp Province in the Flemish Parliament, where he is the faction leader for the Workers' Party of Belgium, a socialist party with a Marxist background. D'Haese is also a member of the district council of Borgerhout and of the Belgian Senate.
This is the guy who will redeem Europe.
Jos D'Haese (born August 24, 1992) is a Belgian politician who since 2019 has represented Antwerp Province in the Flemish Parliament, where he is the faction leader for the Workers' Party of Belgium, a socialist party with a Marxist background. D'Haese is also a member of the district council of Borgerhout and of the Belgian Senate.
This is the guy who will redeem Europe.
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Given this isn't turning 100% of for profit businesses in a country into worker coops a good intermediate goal since it starves the bourgeoisie of their profits which they use to rule with politics?
Cooperatives
Yes I know worker coops aren't socialism because they still have markets and commodity production but could they at least break the power of the bourgeoisie since there would be no more capitalists at most there would be proletarians and petit bourgeoisesGiven this isn't turning 100% of for profit businesses in a country into worker coops a good intermediate goal since it starves the bourgeoisie of their profits which they use to rule with politics?
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>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it
How true is this?
someone also replied with this>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it
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1) organizing. What does that even mean? And what does it look like? From what I can tell, organizing in America seems to be a bunch of people showing up to protest with groups like the PSL standing alongside it. But what goes beyond such protests? Why are there never long term plans or concrete demands? All that came of the BLM protests was that a democrat got elected but nothing more. But aside from people joining PSL, DSA, etc. where are the so called institutions of duel power being erected? How would they be erected? What would they be, do, and look like? And what other duel power institutions should we be working to build beyond unions and these socialist parties? Why is there seemingly no game plan for accomplishing any short term goals? How does one even start one of these institutions? To my knowledge, orgs like the PSL are never even involved with trade unions or tenants unions, they just canvas and show up to protests. Unionization rates in America are at a historic low, and given right to work legislation in many states, makes unionizing so much harder. How to we work around such laws?
I work at a gas station for example, what would a gas station union even look like?
2) How do we get people to care enough to commit literally anything to the cause? In my experience, organizing a get-together of just 3 or 4 friends can be incredibly difficult itself. And it doesn’t help that Americans are some of the least rebellious people in the world. You could easily explain the interworkings of our genocidal system to most and they would likely just shrug you off. We have more access to information than ever, on some level, most people know the system is fucked up, but nobody cares enough to do anything about it. So long as they have their Nikes sneakers, their beer, candy, ford escort, smart phones, video games. and Walmart, they don’t care. So long as it doesn’t effect them personally, they don’t care.
From my perspective, most of the people who involve themselves in socialist organizations and take particular interest in this topic due so more as a form of a hobby, or as a means of escape from their every day responsibilities, than they do out of genuine material necessity.
The Russian peasants and workers of the early 20th century endured legitimate turmoil, destitution, and the horrors of war, and yet despite lacking access to even a fraction of the information about the world as we do, they were ready to take up arms and fight for the revolution by the millions. We don’t see anything resembling even a small percentage of this type of militancy amongst Americans, even by the far right, who loves to larp as minute-men. People from these socialist orgs aren’t even willing to tread the legal boundary with their actions out of fear of the police state. From blocking highways and buildings, to staying past curfew, to resisting arrest, or acts of sabotage. The most we can seem to expect from them is to show up to a protest, chant slogans, and hold up signs.
3) How the fuck do we work around our countries incredibly spread out, wasteful, and atomizing infrastructure. Most Americans live in suburbs where they need to hop in a car and drive an average of 15 minutes just to go to the bathroom. Ive made efforts to talk to my neighbors before and nobody seems to know one another, everyone seems to fear, distrust, and hate each other. They have little to no interest in community organizing, they aren’t willing to spare resources towards some sort of communal utilities or social trust fund, and many don’t even answer the door when you knock.
It doesn’t help that our society revolves around cars. Which are wasteful, dehumanizing, dangerous, loud, and bad for the environment, and the worst part is that you basically need one to get around because many of our cities are unwalkable.
How would we go about taking the necessary steps advocating for a more pro social infrastructure that brings people together rather than atomizing them apart? How do we work around the stroad and suburb dichotomy? By which people are ultra spread out and atomized? How are we going to bring people together and make them want to care or work towards this goal?
4) Expropriation. What would that even look like within the context of an interconnected global economy built upon chains of exploitation. If Americans seized the means of production, the banks, and large swaths of the economy, would we also continue ruthlessly exploiting the third world because that’s how we get much of our abundance of cheap goods? Would we also convert the countries we import cheap goods from socialist? It’s such a monumental task I can’t even begin to fathom where we start?
Not trying to be a doomer here. I want to get involved and I want to do something. I just don’t know where to begin or where to look to do the right thing. I’ve been involved in socialist orgs in the past. But again, they’re usually loosely organized, are book clubs, or all they do is show up to protests. What more can I do as an American to aid the cause?
What would revolution in America even look like?
I’ve been a communist for a while and I have a number of questions that I’m hoping will get answered by what few remaining non-shit posters are on this board.1) organizing. What does that even mean? And what does it look like? From what I can tell, organizing in America seems to be a bunch of people showing up to protest with groups like the PSL standing alongside it. But what goes beyond such protests? Why are there never long term plans or concrete demands? All that came of the BLM protests was that a democrat got elected but nothing more. But aside from people joining PSL, DSA, etc. where are the so called institutions of duel power being erected? How would they be erected? What would they be, do, and look like? And what other duel power institutions should we be working to build beyond unions and these socialist parties? Why is there seemingly no game plan for accomplishing any short term goals? How does one even start one of these institutions? To my knowledge, orgs like the PSL are never even involved with trade unions or tenants unions, they just canvas and show up to protests. Unionization rates in America are at a historic low, and given right to work legislation in many states, makes unionizing so much harder. How to we work around such laws?
I work at a gas station for example, what would a gas station union even look like?
2) How do we get people to care enough to commit literally anything to the cause? In my experience, organizing a get-together of just 3 or 4 friends can be incredibly difficult itself. And it doesn’t help that Americans are some of the least rebellious people in the world. You could easily explain the interworkings of our genocidal system to most and they would likely just shrug you off. We have more access to information than ever, on some level, most people know the system is fucked up, but nobody cares enough to do anything about it. So long as they have their Nikes sneakers, their beer, candy, ford escort, smart phones, video games. and Walmart, they don’t care. So long as it doesn’t effect them personally, they don’t care.
From my perspective, most of the people who involve themselves in socialist organizations and take particular interest in this topic due so more as a form of a hobby, or as a means of escape from their every day responsibilities, than they do out of genuine material necessity.
The Russian peasants and workers of the early 20th century endured legitimate turmoil, destitution, and the horrors of war, and yet despite lacking access to even a fraction of the information about the world as we do, they were ready to take up arms and fight for the revolution by the millions. We don’t see anything resembling even a small percentage of this type of militancy amongst Americans, even by the far right, who loves to larp as minute-men. People from these socialist orgs aren’t even willing to tread the legal boundary with their actions out of fear of the police state. From blocking highways and buildings, to staying past curfew, to resisting arrest, or acts of sabotage. The most we can seem to expect from them is to show up to a protest, chant slogans, and hold up signs.
3) How the fuck do we work around our countries incredibly spread out, wasteful, and atomizing infrastructure. Most Americans live in suburbs where they need to hop in a car and drive an average of 15 minutes just to go to the bathroom. Ive made efforts to talk to my neighbors before and nobody seems to know one another, everyone seems to fear, distrust, and hate each other. They have little to no interest in community organizing, they aren’t willing to spare resources towards some sort of communal utilities or social trust fund, and many don’t even answer the door when you knock.
It doesn’t help that our society revolves around cars. Which are wasteful, dehumanizing, dangerous, loud, and bad for the environment, and the worst part is that you basically need one to get around because many of our cities are unwalkable.
How would we go about taking the necessary steps advocating for a more pro social infrastructure that brings people together rather than atomizing them apart? How do we work around the stroad and suburb dichotomy? By which people are ultra spread out and atomized? How are we going to bring people together and make them want to care or work towards this goal?
4) Expropriation. What would that even look like within the context of an interconnected global economy built upon chains of exploitation. If Americans seized the means of production, the banks, and large swaths of the economy, would we also continue ruthlessly exploiting the third world because that’s how we get much of our abundance of cheap goods? Would we also convert the countries we import cheap goods from socialist? It’s such a monumental task I can’t even begin to fathom where we start?
Not trying to be a doomer here. I want to get involved and I want to do something. I just don’t know where to begin or where to look to do the right thing. I’ve been involved in socialist orgs in the past. But again, they’re usually loosely organized, are book clubs, or all they do is show up to protests. What more can I do as an American to aid the cause?
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The attacks damaged several residential buildings but no casualties were reported, according to the local authorities.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621028-over-100-ukrainian-drones-downed-russia/
Anti-migrant protests flare up in EU
Police clashed with demonstrators outside an asylum center near Madrid following the rape of a young woman by a man of Mali origin.
https://www.rt.com/news/621030-spain-migrants-rape-protest/
Syria Wants To Annex Parts Of Lebanon In Exchange For Peace With Israel
The reports coming out from Israel, which claim that there are currently two proposals on the table, say that Syria is eyeing city of Tripoli, along with other areas in northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley the east of the country.
https://southfront.press/syria-wants-to-annex-parts-of-lebanon-in-exchange-for-peace-with-israel-reports/
EU to propose sanctions on Israel
Options reportedly include suspending the trade pact, an arms embargo, or sanctions on Israeli ministers, soldiers and settlers.
https://www.rt.com/news/621033-eu-propose-sanction-israel/
We Want Our Lev': Anti-Euro Protesters Storm the Bulgarian Parliament, Policeman Injured in the Clashes
A protest against the adoption of the euro, organized by the “Bulgarian Lev” committee and supported by the “Revival” Nationalist Pro-Russian party, escalated into physical confrontations in central Sofia. Demonstrators gathered under slogans such as “We Want Our Lev, We Want Our Referendum” and “Blockade of the National Assembly for Resignation,” aiming to halt parliamentary proceedings during a no-confidence vote in the Zhelyazkov government.
https://www.novinite.com/articles/233239/%27We+Want+Our+Lev%27%3A+Anti-Euro+Protesters+Storm+the+Bulgarian+Parliament%2C+Policeman+Injured+in+the+Clashes
Israel kills 64 Palestinians in Gaza, at least 9 of them aid seekers
Sources in Gaza hospitals say 64 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombings today, at least 9 of them near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid hub in the north of Rafah, including three children.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/5/live-hamas-says-ready-to-start-gaza-ceasefire-talks-with-israel
Abuse of military force leads to further conflict, says Chinese FM
War is not a solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, and preemptive strikes apparently lack legitimacy, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, stressing that the abuse of military force will only lead to further conflict and accumulate more hatred.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/-Abuse-of-military-force-leads-to-further-conflict-says-Chinese-FM-1ELCh0B5Sx2/p.html
Thailand Ends Recreational Cannabis Era: Prescription-Only Rule Takes Hold Amid Political Ouster
Thailand reverses its cannabis legalization—prescription-only sales, closures of dispensaries, and political turmoil shake the industry as the prime minister faces suspension.
https://hightimes.com/news/thailand-ends-recreational-cannabis-era-prescription-only-rule-takes-hold-amid-political-ouster/
CGTN poll: Expanded BRICS ushers in new era of multilateral cooperation
A poll released by CGTN for global netizens shows that 91.2 percent of respondents believe the BRICS cooperation mechanism has become an important force in promoting a multipolar world with equality and order, as well as inclusive and shared economic globalization.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/Poll-Expanded-BRICS-ushers-in-new-era-of-multilateral-cooperation-1EL0P80uNzO/p.html
Under Xi Jinping, China's first 15-year city plan resonates far
In a quiet corner of an exhibition hall in the coastal city of Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, rests a faded blue binder, its 300 yellowed pages meticulously preserved, containing the city's economic and social development strategy from 1985 to 2000.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/Under-Xi-Jinping-China-s-first-15-year-city-plan-resonates-far-1EL9kiDBJMA/p.html
News 05/07/25
Over 100 Ukrainian drones downed in RussiaThe attacks damaged several residential buildings but no casualties were reported, according to the local authorities.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621028-over-100-ukrainian-drones-downed-russia/
Anti-migrant protests flare up in EU
Police clashed with demonstrators outside an asylum center near Madrid following the rape of a young woman by a man of Mali origin.
https://www.rt.com/news/621030-spain-migrants-rape-protest/
Syria Wants To Annex Parts Of Lebanon In Exchange For Peace With Israel
The reports coming out from Israel, which claim that there are currently two proposals on the table, say that Syria is eyeing city of Tripoli, along with other areas in northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley the east of the country.
https://southfront.press/syria-wants-to-annex-parts-of-lebanon-in-exchange-for-peace-with-israel-reports/
EU to propose sanctions on Israel
Options reportedly include suspending the trade pact, an arms embargo, or sanctions on Israeli ministers, soldiers and settlers.
https://www.rt.com/news/621033-eu-propose-sanction-israel/
We Want Our Lev': Anti-Euro Protesters Storm the Bulgarian Parliament, Policeman Injured in the Clashes
A protest against the adoption of the euro, organized by the “Bulgarian Lev” committee and supported by the “Revival” Nationalist Pro-Russian party, escalated into physical confrontations in central Sofia. Demonstrators gathered under slogans such as “We Want Our Lev, We Want Our Referendum” and “Blockade of the National Assembly for Resignation,” aiming to halt parliamentary proceedings during a no-confidence vote in the Zhelyazkov government.
https://www.novinite.com/articles/233239/%27We+Want+Our+Lev%27%3A+Anti-Euro+Protesters+Storm+the+Bulgarian+Parliament%2C+Policeman+Injured+in+the+Clashes
Israel kills 64 Palestinians in Gaza, at least 9 of them aid seekers
Sources in Gaza hospitals say 64 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombings today, at least 9 of them near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid hub in the north of Rafah, including three children.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/5/live-hamas-says-ready-to-start-gaza-ceasefire-talks-with-israel
Abuse of military force leads to further conflict, says Chinese FM
War is not a solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, and preemptive strikes apparently lack legitimacy, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, stressing that the abuse of military force will only lead to further conflict and accumulate more hatred.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/-Abuse-of-military-force-leads-to-further-conflict-says-Chinese-FM-1ELCh0B5Sx2/p.html
Thailand Ends Recreational Cannabis Era: Prescription-Only Rule Takes Hold Amid Political Ouster
Thailand reverses its cannabis legalization—prescription-only sales, closures of dispensaries, and political turmoil shake the industry as the prime minister faces suspension.
https://hightimes.com/news/thailand-ends-recreational-cannabis-era-prescription-only-rule-takes-hold-amid-political-ouster/
CGTN poll: Expanded BRICS ushers in new era of multilateral cooperation
A poll released by CGTN for global netizens shows that 91.2 percent of respondents believe the BRICS cooperation mechanism has become an important force in promoting a multipolar world with equality and order, as well as inclusive and shared economic globalization.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/Poll-Expanded-BRICS-ushers-in-new-era-of-multilateral-cooperation-1EL0P80uNzO/p.html
Under Xi Jinping, China's first 15-year city plan resonates far
In a quiet corner of an exhibition hall in the coastal city of Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, rests a faded blue binder, its 300 yellowed pages meticulously preserved, containing the city's economic and social development strategy from 1985 to 2000.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-05/Under-Xi-Jinping-China-s-first-15-year-city-plan-resonates-far-1EL9kiDBJMA/p.html
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I wanted to discuss do you fellow communist believe that P*rn acceptable in a communist or do you think it’s degenerate do you think that? P*rn compatible with communism or do you think it’s only compatible in a capitalistic state
I wanted to discuss do you fellow communist believe that P*rn acceptable in a communist or do you think it’s degenerate do you think that? P*rn compatible with communism or do you think it’s only compatible in a capitalistic state
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaps_Movement
<The Vaps Movement was an Estonian political organization. Founded in 1929, it emerged as a right wing radical popular movement from the Union of Participants in the Estonian War of Independence an association of veterans of the Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920).[
<The organisation welcomed Hitler's rise to power, even though they later tried to distance themselves from Nazism.
<… the League won absolute majorities in local elections in the three largest cities at the beginning of 1934.
<The movement maintained good relations with Finnish fascist movements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldemarininkai
<The group stemmed from the militarized Iron Wolf organization established in 1927
<<Iron Wolfs was a semi-official Lithuanian militarized organization active in 1928–1930 … it was inspired by the Blackshirts
<In 1929–1940, voldemarininkai planned eight coups
<They increasingly sympathized and collaborated with Nazi Germany. After the German occupation of Lithuania in June 1941, voldemarininkai reestablished Iron Wolf and gained control of the Lithuanian police and the Lithuanian TDA Battalion which participated in the Holocaust and killed about 26,000 Jews between July and December 1941.
Latvia's the outlier because there was no party dictatorship but a single dictator, which held corporativist views and was inspired by nazi ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81rlis_Ulmanis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizsargi
<On the night of 15–16 May 1934, Ulmanis, with the support of Minister of War Jānis Balodis, proclaimed a state of war and dissolved all political parties and the Saeima (parliament).
<The bloodless coup was carried out by army and units of the national guard Aizsargi loyal to Ulmanis.
<<… many became accomplices of the German occupation authorities (in particular, made up the backbone of the Latvian auxiliary police) and took an active part in the genocide of Jews on the territory of Latvia
Among other things, these fascistic organizations tried several coup d'etats… all at the same time… at the same time, similar coup d'etats were happening everywhere across Europe… except in the USSR (thank you, Stalin, for the Moscow Trials). All installed fascistic governments. All participated in the Holocaust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Estonian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Lithuanian_coup_attempt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Latvian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
The Soviet Union and the respective governments signed several treaties of cooperation. These were mostly mutual defense, Soviet troops stationed in the Baltic states and naval bases to be lended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Estonian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Latvian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
The Soviet Union never invaded these countries. Her troops were there legally. The formal integration of the Baltic states happened because of the will of the Baltic workers and peasants. The Baltic bourgeois governments collapsed once the Soviet Union demanded that the treaties be upheld. On 18 and 21 June 1940, new "popular front" governments were formed in each Baltic country. A month later when the new assemblies met their sole item of business for each of them was a resolution to join the Soviet Union. But considering that the Baltics were historically relativaly filled with petty-bourgeois and petty-nobility, considering that they had fascistic and anti-communist organizations since the Russian Civil War, is it really unexpected that their ancestors are most vocal about alleged injusticed they faced?
There was no Soviet occupation of the Baltic states
Since the 1900s did Germany have an imperialist inclination towards the Baltic states (and the Ukraine). After WW1, during the era of nazification, all three Baltic states had an active fifth column. This column was influenced by hitlerite ideas.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaps_Movement
<The Vaps Movement was an Estonian political organization. Founded in 1929, it emerged as a right wing radical popular movement from the Union of Participants in the Estonian War of Independence an association of veterans of the Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920).[
<The organisation welcomed Hitler's rise to power, even though they later tried to distance themselves from Nazism.
<… the League won absolute majorities in local elections in the three largest cities at the beginning of 1934.
<The movement maintained good relations with Finnish fascist movements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldemarininkai
<The group stemmed from the militarized Iron Wolf organization established in 1927
<<Iron Wolfs was a semi-official Lithuanian militarized organization active in 1928–1930 … it was inspired by the Blackshirts
<In 1929–1940, voldemarininkai planned eight coups
<They increasingly sympathized and collaborated with Nazi Germany. After the German occupation of Lithuania in June 1941, voldemarininkai reestablished Iron Wolf and gained control of the Lithuanian police and the Lithuanian TDA Battalion which participated in the Holocaust and killed about 26,000 Jews between July and December 1941.
Latvia's the outlier because there was no party dictatorship but a single dictator, which held corporativist views and was inspired by nazi ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81rlis_Ulmanis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizsargi
<On the night of 15–16 May 1934, Ulmanis, with the support of Minister of War Jānis Balodis, proclaimed a state of war and dissolved all political parties and the Saeima (parliament).
<The bloodless coup was carried out by army and units of the national guard Aizsargi loyal to Ulmanis.
<<… many became accomplices of the German occupation authorities (in particular, made up the backbone of the Latvian auxiliary police) and took an active part in the genocide of Jews on the territory of Latvia
Among other things, these fascistic organizations tried several coup d'etats… all at the same time… at the same time, similar coup d'etats were happening everywhere across Europe… except in the USSR (thank you, Stalin, for the Moscow Trials). All installed fascistic governments. All participated in the Holocaust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Estonian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Lithuanian_coup_attempt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Latvian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
The Soviet Union and the respective governments signed several treaties of cooperation. These were mostly mutual defense, Soviet troops stationed in the Baltic states and naval bases to be lended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Estonian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Latvian_Mutual_Assistance_Treaty
The Soviet Union never invaded these countries. Her troops were there legally. The formal integration of the Baltic states happened because of the will of the Baltic workers and peasants. The Baltic bourgeois governments collapsed once the Soviet Union demanded that the treaties be upheld. On 18 and 21 June 1940, new "popular front" governments were formed in each Baltic country. A month later when the new assemblies met their sole item of business for each of them was a resolution to join the Soviet Union. But considering that the Baltics were historically relativaly filled with petty-bourgeois and petty-nobility, considering that they had fascistic and anti-communist organizations since the Russian Civil War, is it really unexpected that their ancestors are most vocal about alleged injusticed they faced?
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Picrel: an abomination.
>DEATH=LIFE
Good luck explaining that to your average Joe!
>Muh PHOENIX (mythical creature from like an irrelevant 2000 years old folklore) is like, totally ASHING itself… Uhm… in order to… Uhm… something about property relations I added to this
/SHIT/-tier leftist propaganda thread
This thread is dedicated to sharing shit-tier leftist propaganda pics, vids, and articles for the sole purpose of bettering ourselves, with added commentary from us dedicated to identifying the exact reasons of /SHIT/tieness.Picrel: an abomination.
>DEATH=LIFE
Good luck explaining that to your average Joe!
>Muh PHOENIX (mythical creature from like an irrelevant 2000 years old folklore) is like, totally ASHING itself… Uhm… in order to… Uhm… something about property relations I added to this
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Over 40 episodes out already! Check it out - great resource!
Actually Existing Socialism
A podcast dedicated to exploring, past, present, and future real world manifestations of Actually Existing Socialism by talking to those who've studied, lived in, or currently live in a socialist country.Over 40 episodes out already! Check it out - great resource!
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Rude and sarcastic shitposters may be ignored :0
Starting examples:
> To anarchists: Explain how a "dictatorship of the proletariat" can be democratic.
> To M-Ls: Summarize a Trotskyist critique of the Soviet Union during the 1920s, without mentioning Stalin
> To Trotskyists: Distinguish mutual aid from charity.
/crosspol/ - Socialist Cross-pollination
Welcome to /crosspol/. ITT we challenge comrades to prove they have a basic understanding of other ideologies.Rude and sarcastic shitposters may be ignored :0
Starting examples:
> To anarchists: Explain how a "dictatorship of the proletariat" can be democratic.
> To M-Ls: Summarize a Trotskyist critique of the Soviet Union during the 1920s, without mentioning Stalin
> To Trotskyists: Distinguish mutual aid from charity.
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On June 30, 2025, Russian forces completed the full liberation of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The announcement was made by the region’s head, Leonid Pasechnik. Eleven years after declaring independence, and nearly three years after joining the Russian Federation, the LPR now stands fully under Russian control. What began with mass protests and barricades in 2014 has culminated in a hard-won homecoming.
https://www.rt.com/russia/620794-make-lugansk-russian-again/
Israeli Special Forces Landed Few Kilometers Away From Syrian Capital
Early on July 4, Israeli special forces landed from helicopters and conducted a lengthy raid near Yafour, a resort town located some ten kilometers to the west of the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to Syrian media. The special forces, who were transported by at least three helicopters, landed at a base of the Republican Guards, an elite formation of the former Syrian Arab Army, in the outskirts of Yafour. They reportedly operated there for around five hours before withdrawing.
https://southfront.press/israeli-special-forces-landed-few-kilometers-away-from-syrian-capital/
Germany plans six-month military service
Germany is planning to introduce a voluntary six-month military service in order to double the number of reservists, Reuters has reported, citing informed sources.
Earlier this year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to make the Bundeswehr the “strongest army” on the continent, with Defense Minister Boris Pistorius eyeing a “drastic increase” to Germany’s military budget of up to €90 billion ($102 billion) by 2028. The German government expects that attracting volunteers would allow the country to increase the number of reservists from around 100,000 to 200,000, Reuters reported in an article on Friday.
https://www.rt.com/news/621004-germany-military-service-reservists/
A robot revolution in building the largest railway station in west China
CHONGQING – As the new section of the Chongqing-Xiamen high-speed railway, from Chongqing to Qianjiang, officially opened a week ago, the key hub along this route, Chongqing East Railway Station, was also put into operation.
From obtaining the design blueprints in May 2022 to its official inauguration, it has taken 38 months to complete what is now the largest high-speed rail station in west China. Behind this monumental construction project are a group of unsung heroes – robots.
http://en.qstheory.cn/2025-07/04/c_1105476.htm
President Trump Announces UFC Fight On White House Lawn In Celebration Of America’s 249th Birthday
During a rally in Iowa Thursday, President Donald Trump announced as part of his year-long celebration of America’s 249th anniversary next year there will be a UFC fight at the White House.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/president-trump-announces-ufc-fight-on-white-house-lawn-in-celebration-of-americas-250th-birthday
California Psychedelics Legalization Advocates Push for 2026 Ballot Initiative
Psychedelics policy reform advocates in California are calling for a ballot initiative to legalize certain drugs including psilocybin and MDMA after legislative attempts at change failed to cross the finish line two years in a row.
https://hightimes.com/news/california-psychedelics-legalization-advocates-push-for-2026-ballot-initiative/
US and Colombia recall envoys as diplomatic rift deepens
Prosecutors in Colombia open a probe into an alleged plot to overthrow President Petro as ties sharply deteriorate.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/us-and-colombia-recall-envoys-as-diplomatic-rift-deepens
Elon Musk revives third party idea after ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ passes
And Alex Jones called it first before Al Jazeera copied it https://lefty.pictures/post/view/25424?search=Alex_jones
https://banned.video/watch?id=686427917611fb2266095c1f
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/elon-musk-revives-third-party-idea-after-one-big-beautiful-bill-passes
US Buckles Under High-Intensity War, But Drains Resources Anyway
The US suspension of arms supplies to Ukraine represents a limit of material means, not political will, former Marine Brian Berletic tells Sputnik.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250704/us-buckles-under-high-intensity-war-but-drains-resources-anyway-1122395457.html
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News 04/07/25
Make Lugansk Russian Again: Moscow delivers on key objective of Ukraine conflictOn June 30, 2025, Russian forces completed the full liberation of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The announcement was made by the region’s head, Leonid Pasechnik. Eleven years after declaring independence, and nearly three years after joining the Russian Federation, the LPR now stands fully under Russian control. What began with mass protests and barricades in 2014 has culminated in a hard-won homecoming.
https://www.rt.com/russia/620794-make-lugansk-russian-again/
Israeli Special Forces Landed Few Kilometers Away From Syrian Capital
Early on July 4, Israeli special forces landed from helicopters and conducted a lengthy raid near Yafour, a resort town located some ten kilometers to the west of the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to Syrian media. The special forces, who were transported by at least three helicopters, landed at a base of the Republican Guards, an elite formation of the former Syrian Arab Army, in the outskirts of Yafour. They reportedly operated there for around five hours before withdrawing.
https://southfront.press/israeli-special-forces-landed-few-kilometers-away-from-syrian-capital/
Germany plans six-month military service
Germany is planning to introduce a voluntary six-month military service in order to double the number of reservists, Reuters has reported, citing informed sources.
Earlier this year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to make the Bundeswehr the “strongest army” on the continent, with Defense Minister Boris Pistorius eyeing a “drastic increase” to Germany’s military budget of up to €90 billion ($102 billion) by 2028. The German government expects that attracting volunteers would allow the country to increase the number of reservists from around 100,000 to 200,000, Reuters reported in an article on Friday.
https://www.rt.com/news/621004-germany-military-service-reservists/
A robot revolution in building the largest railway station in west China
CHONGQING – As the new section of the Chongqing-Xiamen high-speed railway, from Chongqing to Qianjiang, officially opened a week ago, the key hub along this route, Chongqing East Railway Station, was also put into operation.
From obtaining the design blueprints in May 2022 to its official inauguration, it has taken 38 months to complete what is now the largest high-speed rail station in west China. Behind this monumental construction project are a group of unsung heroes – robots.
http://en.qstheory.cn/2025-07/04/c_1105476.htm
President Trump Announces UFC Fight On White House Lawn In Celebration Of America’s 249th Birthday
During a rally in Iowa Thursday, President Donald Trump announced as part of his year-long celebration of America’s 249th anniversary next year there will be a UFC fight at the White House.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/president-trump-announces-ufc-fight-on-white-house-lawn-in-celebration-of-americas-250th-birthday
California Psychedelics Legalization Advocates Push for 2026 Ballot Initiative
Psychedelics policy reform advocates in California are calling for a ballot initiative to legalize certain drugs including psilocybin and MDMA after legislative attempts at change failed to cross the finish line two years in a row.
https://hightimes.com/news/california-psychedelics-legalization-advocates-push-for-2026-ballot-initiative/
US and Colombia recall envoys as diplomatic rift deepens
Prosecutors in Colombia open a probe into an alleged plot to overthrow President Petro as ties sharply deteriorate.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/us-and-colombia-recall-envoys-as-diplomatic-rift-deepens
Elon Musk revives third party idea after ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ passes
And Alex Jones called it first before Al Jazeera copied it https://lefty.pictures/post/view/25424?search=Alex_jones
https://banned.video/watch?id=686427917611fb2266095c1f
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/elon-musk-revives-third-party-idea-after-one-big-beautiful-bill-passes
US Buckles Under High-Intensity War, But Drains Resources Anyway
The US suspension of arms supplies to Ukraine represents a limit of material means, not political will, former Marine Brian Berletic tells Sputnik.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250704/us-buckles-under-high-intensity-war-but-drains-resources-anyway-1122395457.html
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As a leftist person, what would you do with the money in country?
Donate? Burn it?
is a doubt that I have for a long time
Imagine you receive a good inheritance
Imagine you receive a good inheritance.As a leftist person, what would you do with the money in country?
Donate? Burn it?
is a doubt that I have for a long time
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Future of imageboard
tiktok zommers have brains full of capitalist ideas. You have to have the most beautiful body, if possible be rich, handsome and intelligent. Trump's fans don't understand the extent of the capitalism he's creating. Trump is intelligent not because he's rich or because he represents his own stereotype, but rather because he has flooded the internet with these nefarious ideas. As a community we need to ask ourselves, “How can we use internet culture to get our ideas across to as many people as possible?” As a community we need to ask ourselves, “How can we use internet culture to get our ideas across to as many people as possible?” This thing remains the essence of an ideological battle. There's always a grey area in the process. The general public implies people who want to give in to ease. The only way to reach them is through ideological propaganda. Reformat their brains like MK Ultra or Trump. Conspiracy theories and other nonsense about pizzagate have reached the American people. Now we have to convince the conspiracists that the evils of their heat are Trump and Kamala has to use our counter-culture to look cool to the average American. Great dictators have used these techniques in order to get elected Trump has done it. Repeat a lie to them 100 times and in their heads it would become truth. Psychological bias in an election campaign remains legion. So why not start turning things around?
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What's the deal with runes? Best answer is a link to an existing antifash guide, anecdotes are also cool.
I saw someone at work (different floor, same building) with about twenty Germanic runes tattooed below their ear. I only memorized two of them, which I recognize as mannaz ᛗ and algiz ᛉ, which my ignorant quick deduction suspects means it was the 24 Elder Futhark runes and not some esoteric Nazi shit like Wiligut runes (picrel). Therefore, no need to beat the guy up.
What's the deal with runes? Best answer is a link to an existing antifash guide, anecdotes are also cool.
I saw someone at work (different floor, same building) with about twenty Germanic runes tattooed below their ear. I only memorized two of them, which I recognize as mannaz ᛗ and algiz ᛉ, which my ignorant quick deduction suspects means it was the 24 Elder Futhark runes and not some esoteric Nazi shit like Wiligut runes (picrel). Therefore, no need to beat the guy up.
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Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
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>Thesis and Antithesis - A study in contradictions…Original threads:
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quick you have 5 seconds to convince THEM to join the intergalactic communist jihad. What are you uploadin(They are a giant computer god) to get them to join the cause??
quick you have 5 seconds to convince THEM to join the intergalactic communist jihad. What are you uploadin(They are a giant computer god) to get them to join the cause??
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Real change is not gradual. Conflicts within society build up until they trigger a fundamental break. This is the idea of quantity changing into quality. Revolutions happen when the old order decays and new forces grow strong enough to replace it. Or as Lenin says it, when the old cannot rule in the old way, and the new is not strong enough to rule in the new way. Ideas develop out of real conditions. How people produce and who owns the tools of production shape their worldview. Change the material base first and thought will follow. In a word, this is the theory of dialectical materialism. Ignoring this is chasing illusions. Anarchists often misunderstand or dismiss these insights, treating them like empty words instead of tools for understanding how power shifts.
A small ownership class controls land, factories, machines and raw materials. Workers must sell their labor for a wage, while owners keep all the extra value. This setup depends on private property and state power. But a socialist revolution will make productive forces common property. Classes, wages and markets will gradually disappear under the proletarian dictatorship. Production will be organized to meet people’s needs. The old state apparatus loses its purpose and it withers away. This is, in a word, the theory of revolution.
Practical goals are clear. Build mass unions and cooperatives to sharpen class awareness, but don’t mistake them for the final goal. Form a disciplined workers’ party that can win political power. Use that power to expropriate the capitalist class, protect gains with proletarian red army, and reorganize production on a social basis. Strikes, elections and protests prepare the ground. Only a full socialist revolution, led by a communist party, can uproot exploitation.
Anarchism or Socialism?
Socialism today splits into reformists, anarchists and Marxists. Reformists give up on breaking with capitalism and settle for minor adjustments and class cooperation. Anarchists start with the individual, believing free communities will emerge naturally. Marxists put the organized working class at the center. They argue that only a united proletariat taking control of production can end exploitation. The real divide is between building from isolated individuals or from the collective strength of workers.Real change is not gradual. Conflicts within society build up until they trigger a fundamental break. This is the idea of quantity changing into quality. Revolutions happen when the old order decays and new forces grow strong enough to replace it. Or as Lenin says it, when the old cannot rule in the old way, and the new is not strong enough to rule in the new way. Ideas develop out of real conditions. How people produce and who owns the tools of production shape their worldview. Change the material base first and thought will follow. In a word, this is the theory of dialectical materialism. Ignoring this is chasing illusions. Anarchists often misunderstand or dismiss these insights, treating them like empty words instead of tools for understanding how power shifts.
A small ownership class controls land, factories, machines and raw materials. Workers must sell their labor for a wage, while owners keep all the extra value. This setup depends on private property and state power. But a socialist revolution will make productive forces common property. Classes, wages and markets will gradually disappear under the proletarian dictatorship. Production will be organized to meet people’s needs. The old state apparatus loses its purpose and it withers away. This is, in a word, the theory of revolution.
Practical goals are clear. Build mass unions and cooperatives to sharpen class awareness, but don’t mistake them for the final goal. Form a disciplined workers’ party that can win political power. Use that power to expropriate the capitalist class, protect gains with proletarian red army, and reorganize production on a social basis. Strikes, elections and protests prepare the ground. Only a full socialist revolution, led by a communist party, can uproot exploitation.
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Ceci étant dit, nous pouvons maintenant avoir une discussion.
Il s'agit maintenant de tranquillement mépriser le pouvoir en nous branlant les uns les autres, en cercle peut être.
Le thread francophone
Ahem.. Nique la france!Ceci étant dit, nous pouvons maintenant avoir une discussion.
Il s'agit maintenant de tranquillement mépriser le pouvoir en nous branlant les uns les autres, en cercle peut être.
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whatever, fuck your crackka empire
fuck you mamdani
fuck you Kamala
fuck you trump
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A thread dedicated to posting declassified CIA documents, preferably of their anti-communist activities and their involvment in imperialist policies.
Let's start with the CIA's recommended actions to be taken after Khruschev's famous anti-Stalin """secret speech""" at the 20th congress. It's an interesting document because it showcases that
>yes, the CIA (and burger policy makers) do actually believe their own propaganda, even when they are completely conscious of the fact that they just "made it up, lol". It's a truly scizophrenic institution.
>yes, they prefer to control "both sides" of any topic, instead of just lamely chosing the obvious side to take
>yes, the M-Ls are always right:
<Leon Trotsky in his book The Revolution Betrayed, alleged that the rise of Joseph Stalin to power was a Soviet Thermidor for 'not restoring capitalism', yet still being a 'counterrevolutionary regression' within the regime of the USSR, as Thermidor did not restore a monarchy, etc. Marxist-Leninists and Stalinists have periodically argued that Nikita Khruschev's rise to power and the implementation of De-Stalinization as the Soviet Union’s Thermidor. A CIA document considered Khruschev's "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" may have 'marked the "Thermidor" of the Russian Revolution'.
Declassified CIA documents thread
Know thy enemy. Know how the glow operates, how it plans, how it thinks, how it manipulates.A thread dedicated to posting declassified CIA documents, preferably of their anti-communist activities and their involvment in imperialist policies.
Let's start with the CIA's recommended actions to be taken after Khruschev's famous anti-Stalin """secret speech""" at the 20th congress. It's an interesting document because it showcases that
>yes, the CIA (and burger policy makers) do actually believe their own propaganda, even when they are completely conscious of the fact that they just "made it up, lol". It's a truly scizophrenic institution.
>yes, they prefer to control "both sides" of any topic, instead of just lamely chosing the obvious side to take
>yes, the M-Ls are always right:
<Leon Trotsky in his book The Revolution Betrayed, alleged that the rise of Joseph Stalin to power was a Soviet Thermidor for 'not restoring capitalism', yet still being a 'counterrevolutionary regression' within the regime of the USSR, as Thermidor did not restore a monarchy, etc. Marxist-Leninists and Stalinists have periodically argued that Nikita Khruschev's rise to power and the implementation of De-Stalinization as the Soviet Union’s Thermidor. A CIA document considered Khruschev's "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" may have 'marked the "Thermidor" of the Russian Revolution'.
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If this pattern isn't isolated to a single org but seems to infect the whole field of them, DSA, CPUSA, PSL, and so forth, then it's indicative of a structural problem. These structural problems of systemic uselessness seem to be pervasive well beyond just the United States. What's going on here? How do we fix the formula?
Genuinely, would we have better results in these kinds of conditions if our orgs were fully underground to begin with? I suspect that one advantage the anarchists have is the lack of a publically visible, legally sanctioned, easy to target organizational structure. Every fed knows the leadership of the PSL, or the DSA, and anyone who's ever paid dues, so there's a very strong incentive to stay safely within legal boundaries. Infiltration and cooption is painfully easy. On the other hand, the anarchist model is also obviously a failure, given that they simply function along lines of pure spontaneity without much coherent organization to begin with.
How dig ourselves out of this common trap, and the resulting malaise?
Why Are They All Tailist Opportunists?
Every experience I've ever had with a major American org, be it PSL, DSA, SALT, CPUSA has left a profoundly disappointing impression. They uniformly have no militancy, no coherent program for building power, and no pattern of success. Often, their strategy invariably finds itself expresses in mindlessly tailing the activist cause du jour, recruiting from liberal protests, then creating their own nonviolent liberal protests and book clubs to fundraise off of ad infinitum. Usually their electoral strategy involves endorsing the Democrats or trying to launch a presidential run for some figure with no national profile who receives 0.015% of the vote. At best they'll make a mild contribution to local tenant organizing on a micro scale. At worst, they're fed-filled cults run by sex pests. Anarchists, who lack the political organizing capabilities to accomplish anything of note, usually somehow lap these orgs in actual militant activity. At least they're capable of creating some minor property damage.If this pattern isn't isolated to a single org but seems to infect the whole field of them, DSA, CPUSA, PSL, and so forth, then it's indicative of a structural problem. These structural problems of systemic uselessness seem to be pervasive well beyond just the United States. What's going on here? How do we fix the formula?
Genuinely, would we have better results in these kinds of conditions if our orgs were fully underground to begin with? I suspect that one advantage the anarchists have is the lack of a publically visible, legally sanctioned, easy to target organizational structure. Every fed knows the leadership of the PSL, or the DSA, and anyone who's ever paid dues, so there's a very strong incentive to stay safely within legal boundaries. Infiltration and cooption is painfully easy. On the other hand, the anarchist model is also obviously a failure, given that they simply function along lines of pure spontaneity without much coherent organization to begin with.
How dig ourselves out of this common trap, and the resulting malaise?
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The ideal of democracy is always saved by comparing it to the horror word fascism, so no one has to deal with what democracy actually is, the perfected form of class rule. Its elections, freedoms and rights don’t oppose capitalism, they organize its smooth reproduction.
Retarded PBs can't see this because theyvve internalized the form of rule itself they only oppose features of class domination through the very constitutional, parliamentary and electoral mechanisms designed to preserve that domination. Their socialism ends where critique of the state begins. It's even funnier with "MLs" who minequote Lenin misunderstanding the whole basis and context of Lenin's fight for democracy, like he was actually fighting in democracy's stead and its appraisal, and not something to do with what early 1900s Russian proletarian movement was contending with.
The ideal of democracy is always saved by comparing it to the horror word fascism, so no one has to deal with what democracy actually is, the perfected form of class rule. Its elections, freedoms and rights don’t oppose capitalism, they organize its smooth reproduction.
Retarded PBs can't see this because theyvve internalized the form of rule itself they only oppose features of class domination through the very constitutional, parliamentary and electoral mechanisms designed to preserve that domination. Their socialism ends where critique of the state begins. It's even funnier with "MLs" who minequote Lenin misunderstanding the whole basis and context of Lenin's fight for democracy, like he was actually fighting in democracy's stead and its appraisal, and not something to do with what early 1900s Russian proletarian movement was contending with.
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What unites post-soc boomers with burger boomers is:
>they did gone got it way better than the following generation(s)
>loudmouthedness
>know-it-all mentality
What differentiates post-soc boomers from burger boomers (from most obvious to less):
>They enjoyed WAAAAAY more "social benefits": world class and completely free education; rents paid toward the local gov. (instead of private entities) that cost them at most 5% of the median wage; way more off time, paid holidays, maternity leaves, etc.
>during the regime change (soc -> cap) they faced a market environment that was basically EMPTY, meaning they could easily become the "plumbing tsar in a region" with just their basic socialist provided education (if they were anti-social enough) and pre-capitalist "colleague-network" (as opposed to burger: heavily saturated market + inter-p-bourg networked "capital");
>they had a MUCH EASIER access to unproductive/parasitic capital post-economic-system-transition, especially in the sense of (almost) FREE REAL ESTATE (acquired during socialism), which they converted to rent seeking, and so on;
>and very importantly, the "post-soc to pro-capitalist transition period" had basically provided them a period which paralleled what Marx and Engels called the "phase of primitive accumulation" in the context of Great Britain, which is to say: legalized robbery;
>the afformentioned meant in the context of industrializing Britain that newly emerging capitalists just could force everyday serfs into wage labour. For post-soc boomers, however, this meant the unashamed STEALING of state manufacturing, importing, exporting, EVEN if they were literally illegal under the post-socialist law…
I could go on, but hear me out on the consequences!
Fucking post-soc boomers:
>Had it easier than post-ww2 boomers in Burgerland (explained above);
>and naturally hid their own "privileges" (which, as I said included semi-illegal "pirate" activities) behind their facade of "talents";
>many of them even recieved literal NGO/SOROS/CIA/etc. funds and now control a country based on their pseudo-opposition to said NGO/SOROS/CIA/etc. funds (prime example: Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz coalition…
Now imagine, when a burger boomer "educumates" a burger zoomer about how he's lazy Vs. a post-soc boomer, who literally was allowed to STEAL so that that "HOLY PRIVATIZATION" could take place…
Well… Just imagine why I smirk, when burger comrades cry about their boomers.
OUR POST-SOC BOOMERS HAD IT WAY EASIER. THEY COULD STEAL (PUBLIC RESOURCES, COMPANIES, FIELDS, PLANTS, GRANTS, ETC.) AND THEY STILL THINK THEY CLIMBED A ROUGH(ER THAN AVG.) MOUNTAIN! THEIR REACTIONARY ATTITUDE IS REINFORCED BY HOW MUCH EASIER THEY JAD IT, COMPARED TO BURGER BOOMERS!!!
Thank you for listening, but all these complaints are like tears in the rain, and trust me, I've seen the BOOMHAUSER GATE iron wall come down, like tears in the rain… Time to die….
Post-socialist boomers are WAY WORSE than burger boomers
Whenever I see our burger comrades cry about their boomers? I just smirk. You guys got it good.What unites post-soc boomers with burger boomers is:
>they did gone got it way better than the following generation(s)
>loudmouthedness
>know-it-all mentality
What differentiates post-soc boomers from burger boomers (from most obvious to less):
>They enjoyed WAAAAAY more "social benefits": world class and completely free education; rents paid toward the local gov. (instead of private entities) that cost them at most 5% of the median wage; way more off time, paid holidays, maternity leaves, etc.
>during the regime change (soc -> cap) they faced a market environment that was basically EMPTY, meaning they could easily become the "plumbing tsar in a region" with just their basic socialist provided education (if they were anti-social enough) and pre-capitalist "colleague-network" (as opposed to burger: heavily saturated market + inter-p-bourg networked "capital");
>they had a MUCH EASIER access to unproductive/parasitic capital post-economic-system-transition, especially in the sense of (almost) FREE REAL ESTATE (acquired during socialism), which they converted to rent seeking, and so on;
>and very importantly, the "post-soc to pro-capitalist transition period" had basically provided them a period which paralleled what Marx and Engels called the "phase of primitive accumulation" in the context of Great Britain, which is to say: legalized robbery;
>the afformentioned meant in the context of industrializing Britain that newly emerging capitalists just could force everyday serfs into wage labour. For post-soc boomers, however, this meant the unashamed STEALING of state manufacturing, importing, exporting, EVEN if they were literally illegal under the post-socialist law…
I could go on, but hear me out on the consequences!
Fucking post-soc boomers:
>Had it easier than post-ww2 boomers in Burgerland (explained above);
>and naturally hid their own "privileges" (which, as I said included semi-illegal "pirate" activities) behind their facade of "talents";
>many of them even recieved literal NGO/SOROS/CIA/etc. funds and now control a country based on their pseudo-opposition to said NGO/SOROS/CIA/etc. funds (prime example: Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz coalition…
Now imagine, when a burger boomer "educumates" a burger zoomer about how he's lazy Vs. a post-soc boomer, who literally was allowed to STEAL so that that "HOLY PRIVATIZATION" could take place…
Well… Just imagine why I smirk, when burger comrades cry about their boomers.
OUR POST-SOC BOOMERS HAD IT WAY EASIER. THEY COULD STEAL (PUBLIC RESOURCES, COMPANIES, FIELDS, PLANTS, GRANTS, ETC.) AND THEY STILL THINK THEY CLIMBED A ROUGH(ER THAN AVG.) MOUNTAIN! THEIR REACTIONARY ATTITUDE IS REINFORCED BY HOW MUCH EASIER THEY JAD IT, COMPARED TO BURGER BOOMERS!!!
Thank you for listening, but all these complaints are like tears in the rain, and trust me, I've seen the BOOMHAUSER GATE iron wall come down, like tears in the rain… Time to die….
R: 54 / I: 6
the 5 year plans always seems to follow the same pattern though
>nationalize an industry
>up production
>profit
>reinvest into industry
>expand into new industry
>repeat
how to become a rich country?
i really want to understand how lenin, stalin, mao, kim, xi etc. managed to turn so many shitholes into nuclear superpowersthe 5 year plans always seems to follow the same pattern though
>nationalize an industry
>up production
>profit
>reinvest into industry
>expand into new industry
>repeat
R: 609 / I: 164 (full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
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Say whatever you want. This country is hell on earth. Linkspartei bei der Bundespressekonferenz reden über Stalingrad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
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For instance, Che Guevara was killed. Such a thing is liable to happen, because a revolutionary may get killed. Che Guevara, however, was a victim of his own non-Marxist-Leninist views.
Who was Che Guevara? When we speak of Che Guevara, we also mean somebody else who poses as a Marxist, in comparison to whom, in our opinion, Che Guevara was a man of fewer words. He was a rebel, a revolutionary, but not a Marxist-Leninist as they try to present him. I may be mistaken—you Latin-Americans are better acquainted with Che Guevara, but I think that he was a leftist fighter. His is a bourgeois and petty-bourgeois leftism, combined with some ideas that were progressive, but also anarchist which, in the final analysis, lead to adventurism.
The views of Che Guevara and anyone else who poses as a Marxist and claims "paternity" of these ideas have never been or had anything to do with Marxism-Leninism. Che Guevara also had some "exclairicies" in his adoption of certain Marxist-Leninist principles, but they still did not become a full philosophical world-outlook which could impel him to genuinely revolutionary actions.
We cannot say that Che Guevara and his comrades were cowards. No, by no means! On the contrary, they were brave people. There are also bourgeois who are brave men. But the only truly great heroes and really brave proletarian revolutionaries are those who proceed from the Marxist-Leninist philosophical principles and put all their physical and mental energies at the service of the world proletariat for the liberation of the peoples from the yolk of the imperialists, feudal lords and others.
We have defended the Cuban revolution because it was against US imperialism. As Marxist-Leninists let us study it a bit and the ideas which guided it in this struggle. The Cuban revolution did not begin on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and was not carried out on the basis of the laws of the proletarian revolution of a Marxist-Leninist party. After the liberation of the country, Castro did not set out on the Marxist-Leninist course, either, but on the contrary, continued on the course of his liberal ideas. It is a fact, which nobody can deny, that the participants in this revolution took up arms and went to the mountains, but it is an undeniable fact also that they did not fight as Marxist-Leninists. They were liberation fighters against the Battista clique and triumphed over it precisely because that clique was a weak link of capitalism. Battista was an obedient flunky of imperialism, who rode roughshod over the Cuban people. The Cuban people, however, fought and triumphed over this clique and over American imperialism at the same time…
In our opinion, the theory that the revolution is carried out by a few "heroes" constitutes a danger to Marxism-Leninism, especially in the Latin-American countries. Your South-American continent has great revolutionary traditions, but, as we said above, it also has some other traditions which may seem revolutionary but which, in fact, are not genuinely on the road of the revolution. Any putsch carried out there is called a revolution! But a putsch can never be a revolution, because one overthrown clique is replaced by another, in a word, things remain as they were. In addition to all the nuclei of anti-Marxist trends which still exist in the ranks of the old parties that have placed themselves in the service of the counterrevolution, there is now another trend which we call left adventurism.
This trend, and that other offspring of the bourgeoisie, modern revisionism, constitute great dangers to the people, including those of the Latin-American countries. Carefully disguised, modern revisionism is a great deceiver of the peoples and revolutionaries. In different countries it puts on different disguises. In Latin America, Castroism, disguised as Marxism-Leninism, is leading people, even revolutionaries, into left adventurism. This trend appears to be in contradiction with modern revisionism. Those who are ideologically immature think thus, but it is not so. The Castroites are not opposed to the modern revisionists. On the contrary, they are in their service. The separate courses each of them follows lead them to the same point.
The question whenever the Soviet revisionists fail to prevent the masses of the working class and the people from carrying out the revolution, this trend steps in and, by means of a putsch, destroys what the revisionists are unable to destroy by means of evolution. The Soviet revisionists and all the traitor cliques which led the revisionist parties preach evolution, coexistence and all those other anti-Marxist theories we know. From the terms it employs, left adventurism seems more revolutionary, because it advocates armed struggle! But what does it mean by armed struggle? Clearly—putsches. Marxism-Leninism teaches us that only by proceeding with prudent and sure steps, only by basing ourselves firmly on the principles of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine, only by making the masses conscious can victory be ensured in the preparation and launching of the armed uprising, and only in this way will we never fall into adventurism.
The authors of the theory that the "starter motor" sets the "big motor" in motion pose as if they are for the armed struggle, but in fact they are opposed to it and work to discredit it. The example and tragic end of Che Guevara, the following and prorogation of this theory also by other self-styled Marxists, who are opposed to the great struggles by the masses of people, are publicly known facts which refute their claims: We must guard against the people lest they betray us, lest they hand us over to the police; we must set up "wild" isolated detachments, so that the enemy does not get wind of them and does not retaliate with terror against the population! They publicize these and many other confusing theories, which you know only too well. What sort of Marxism-Leninism is this which advocates attacking the enemy, fighting it with these "wild" detachments, etc. without having a Marxist-Leninist party to lead the fight? There is nothing Marxist-Leninist about it. Such anti-Marxist and anti-Leninist theories can bring nothing but defeat for Marxism-Leninism and the revolution, as Che Guevara's undertaking in Bolivia did.
This trend brings the theses of the armed uprising into disrepute. What great damage it causes the revolution! With the killing of Guevara, the masses of common people, contaminated by the influences of these anarchist views, will think: "Now there is no one else to lead us, to liberate us!" Or perhaps a group of people with another Guevara will be set up again to take to the mountains to make the "revolution," and the masses, who expect a great deal from these individuals and are burning to fight the bourgeoisie, may be deceived into following them. And what will happen? Something that is clear to us. Since these people are not the vanguard of the working class, since they are not guided by the enlightening principles of Marxism-Leninism, they will encounter misunderstanding among the broad masses and sooner or later they will fail, but at the same time the genuine struggle will be discredited, because the masses will regard armed struggle with distrust. We must prepare the masses politically and ideologically, and convince them through their own practical experience. That is why we say that this inhibiting, reactionary theory about the revolution that is being spread in Latin America is the offspring of modern revisionism and must be unmasked by the Marxist-Leninists.
Certain leaders of some Latin-American state put in the odd word in a veiled "opposition" to the Soviet Union, but we cannot infer from this that they are really opposed to it. Those words are only pressure and blackmail for the purpose of gaining some advantage, on the one hand, of deceiving the naive, on the other. If the advocates of these theories were to stop serving the Soviets in their imperialist-revisionist expansion, the latter would cut off all aid to them. We know the Soviets only too well. However, this will not occur, because they serve the Soviets admirably. This is why the Soviet revisionists continue to give them aid and keep them alive.
It is the duty of all the Marxist-Leninists to expose this anti-Marxist trend, the advocates of which style themselves Marxist-Leninists and use Marxist terminology only as a disguise without which they would be lost. We must tear this disguise from them and this can be done only through organized struggle on the Marxist-Leninist course, as you comrades from Ecuador and others are doing.
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For instance, Che Guevara was killed. Such a thing is liable to happen, because a revolutionary may get killed. Che Guevara, however, was a victim of his own non-Marxist-Leninist views.
Who was Che Guevara? When we speak of Che Guevara, we also mean somebody else who poses as a Marxist, in comparison to whom, in our opinion, Che Guevara was a man of fewer words. He was a rebel, a revolutionary, but not a Marxist-Leninist as they try to present him. I may be mistaken—you Latin-Americans are better acquainted with Che Guevara, but I think that he was a leftist fighter. His is a bourgeois and petty-bourgeois leftism, combined with some ideas that were progressive, but also anarchist which, in the final analysis, lead to adventurism.
The views of Che Guevara and anyone else who poses as a Marxist and claims "paternity" of these ideas have never been or had anything to do with Marxism-Leninism. Che Guevara also had some "exclairicies" in his adoption of certain Marxist-Leninist principles, but they still did not become a full philosophical world-outlook which could impel him to genuinely revolutionary actions.
We cannot say that Che Guevara and his comrades were cowards. No, by no means! On the contrary, they were brave people. There are also bourgeois who are brave men. But the only truly great heroes and really brave proletarian revolutionaries are those who proceed from the Marxist-Leninist philosophical principles and put all their physical and mental energies at the service of the world proletariat for the liberation of the peoples from the yolk of the imperialists, feudal lords and others.
We have defended the Cuban revolution because it was against US imperialism. As Marxist-Leninists let us study it a bit and the ideas which guided it in this struggle. The Cuban revolution did not begin on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and was not carried out on the basis of the laws of the proletarian revolution of a Marxist-Leninist party. After the liberation of the country, Castro did not set out on the Marxist-Leninist course, either, but on the contrary, continued on the course of his liberal ideas. It is a fact, which nobody can deny, that the participants in this revolution took up arms and went to the mountains, but it is an undeniable fact also that they did not fight as Marxist-Leninists. They were liberation fighters against the Battista clique and triumphed over it precisely because that clique was a weak link of capitalism. Battista was an obedient flunky of imperialism, who rode roughshod over the Cuban people. The Cuban people, however, fought and triumphed over this clique and over American imperialism at the same time…
In our opinion, the theory that the revolution is carried out by a few "heroes" constitutes a danger to Marxism-Leninism, especially in the Latin-American countries. Your South-American continent has great revolutionary traditions, but, as we said above, it also has some other traditions which may seem revolutionary but which, in fact, are not genuinely on the road of the revolution. Any putsch carried out there is called a revolution! But a putsch can never be a revolution, because one overthrown clique is replaced by another, in a word, things remain as they were. In addition to all the nuclei of anti-Marxist trends which still exist in the ranks of the old parties that have placed themselves in the service of the counterrevolution, there is now another trend which we call left adventurism.
This trend, and that other offspring of the bourgeoisie, modern revisionism, constitute great dangers to the people, including those of the Latin-American countries. Carefully disguised, modern revisionism is a great deceiver of the peoples and revolutionaries. In different countries it puts on different disguises. In Latin America, Castroism, disguised as Marxism-Leninism, is leading people, even revolutionaries, into left adventurism. This trend appears to be in contradiction with modern revisionism. Those who are ideologically immature think thus, but it is not so. The Castroites are not opposed to the modern revisionists. On the contrary, they are in their service. The separate courses each of them follows lead them to the same point.
The question whenever the Soviet revisionists fail to prevent the masses of the working class and the people from carrying out the revolution, this trend steps in and, by means of a putsch, destroys what the revisionists are unable to destroy by means of evolution. The Soviet revisionists and all the traitor cliques which led the revisionist parties preach evolution, coexistence and all those other anti-Marxist theories we know. From the terms it employs, left adventurism seems more revolutionary, because it advocates armed struggle! But what does it mean by armed struggle? Clearly—putsches. Marxism-Leninism teaches us that only by proceeding with prudent and sure steps, only by basing ourselves firmly on the principles of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine, only by making the masses conscious can victory be ensured in the preparation and launching of the armed uprising, and only in this way will we never fall into adventurism.
The authors of the theory that the "starter motor" sets the "big motor" in motion pose as if they are for the armed struggle, but in fact they are opposed to it and work to discredit it. The example and tragic end of Che Guevara, the following and prorogation of this theory also by other self-styled Marxists, who are opposed to the great struggles by the masses of people, are publicly known facts which refute their claims: We must guard against the people lest they betray us, lest they hand us over to the police; we must set up "wild" isolated detachments, so that the enemy does not get wind of them and does not retaliate with terror against the population! They publicize these and many other confusing theories, which you know only too well. What sort of Marxism-Leninism is this which advocates attacking the enemy, fighting it with these "wild" detachments, etc. without having a Marxist-Leninist party to lead the fight? There is nothing Marxist-Leninist about it. Such anti-Marxist and anti-Leninist theories can bring nothing but defeat for Marxism-Leninism and the revolution, as Che Guevara's undertaking in Bolivia did.
This trend brings the theses of the armed uprising into disrepute. What great damage it causes the revolution! With the killing of Guevara, the masses of common people, contaminated by the influences of these anarchist views, will think: "Now there is no one else to lead us, to liberate us!" Or perhaps a group of people with another Guevara will be set up again to take to the mountains to make the "revolution," and the masses, who expect a great deal from these individuals and are burning to fight the bourgeoisie, may be deceived into following them. And what will happen? Something that is clear to us. Since these people are not the vanguard of the working class, since they are not guided by the enlightening principles of Marxism-Leninism, they will encounter misunderstanding among the broad masses and sooner or later they will fail, but at the same time the genuine struggle will be discredited, because the masses will regard armed struggle with distrust. We must prepare the masses politically and ideologically, and convince them through their own practical experience. That is why we say that this inhibiting, reactionary theory about the revolution that is being spread in Latin America is the offspring of modern revisionism and must be unmasked by the Marxist-Leninists.
Certain leaders of some Latin-American state put in the odd word in a veiled "opposition" to the Soviet Union, but we cannot infer from this that they are really opposed to it. Those words are only pressure and blackmail for the purpose of gaining some advantage, on the one hand, of deceiving the naive, on the other. If the advocates of these theories were to stop serving the Soviets in their imperialist-revisionist expansion, the latter would cut off all aid to them. We know the Soviets only too well. However, this will not occur, because they serve the Soviets admirably. This is why the Soviet revisionists continue to give them aid and keep them alive.
It is the duty of all the Marxist-Leninists to expose this anti-Marxist trend, the advocates of which style themselves Marxist-Leninists and use Marxist terminology only as a disguise without which they would be lost. We must tear this disguise from them and this can be done only through organized struggle on the Marxist-Leninist course, as you comrades from Ecuador and others are doing.
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Gierek won Deng won Market socialism won hardlinercucks lost geg
>but muh betraying the revolution
Deng and Gierek lifted milions out of poverty,very bourgie indeed
>but muh
Gierek won Deng won Market socialism won hardlinercucks lost geg
>but muh betraying the revolution
Deng and Gierek lifted milions out of poverty,very bourgie indeed
>but muh
R: 95 / I: 15
Iran is putting actual anti-fascism into action
Iran has gone of the full-scale offensive against the most genocidal fascist regime to exist in our lifetime: the Zionist entity. Iran pounding Tel Aviv and turning it into Gaza represents real anti-fascism more than a bunch of liberals crying about Trump holding a parade or black bloc wackos smashing windows. Fascism is only on the run when its proverbial skull meets the pavement.
R: 134 / I: 43
<Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to win a second term in more than two decades as his Labor Party dramatically increased its parliamentary majority. It marked a stunning comeback for the progressive leader, who trailed in the polls two months ago.
Australian Labor Won
>SYDNEY — Australia’s center-left government convincingly won reelection Saturday in a remarkable turnaround driven partly by anger over President Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war and its effect on the close U.S. military ally.<Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to win a second term in more than two decades as his Labor Party dramatically increased its parliamentary majority. It marked a stunning comeback for the progressive leader, who trailed in the polls two months ago.
R: 308 / I: 18
Honest question: why don’t radical leftists agree to volunteer at group homes for disabled adults or become special education teachers?
As the fear of mass eugenics is becoming a reality in America, we can all see how the disabled (in particular, people with intellectual disabilities and neurodivergent differences) will soon be set up for mass eradication. The disabled aren’t “parasites” but full and equal human individuals who deserve respect, dignity and autonomy. They are hated in capitalism on the basis that they aren’t “useful” to the system. We also see instances where RFK is trying to wipe out autistic identities by creating a eugenicist “autism registry.”
Given this, why aren’t radical leftists dedicating most of their activism towards fighting and advocating for the disabled? Or dedicating their time and every to caring for those who are entirely dependent on the care of others to survive. Truth is we ALL need care from others. Why focus on any other issue when eugenics is the biggest evil in our world today and needs to be defeated before anything else?
I strongly believe radical leftists need to work and care for disabled people and we can start doing that by agreeing to be special Ed teachers (and thereby advocate for disabled children) or work at group homes for disabled adults. That’s a much better use of our energy and VALUES than protesting or political organizing. Eugenics is at the heart of capitalism and there’s no revolution without the disabled.
Honest question: why don’t radical leftists agree to volunteer at group homes for disabled adults or become special education teachers?
As the fear of mass eugenics is becoming a reality in America, we can all see how the disabled (in particular, people with intellectual disabilities and neurodivergent differences) will soon be set up for mass eradication. The disabled aren’t “parasites” but full and equal human individuals who deserve respect, dignity and autonomy. They are hated in capitalism on the basis that they aren’t “useful” to the system. We also see instances where RFK is trying to wipe out autistic identities by creating a eugenicist “autism registry.”
Given this, why aren’t radical leftists dedicating most of their activism towards fighting and advocating for the disabled? Or dedicating their time and every to caring for those who are entirely dependent on the care of others to survive. Truth is we ALL need care from others. Why focus on any other issue when eugenics is the biggest evil in our world today and needs to be defeated before anything else?
I strongly believe radical leftists need to work and care for disabled people and we can start doing that by agreeing to be special Ed teachers (and thereby advocate for disabled children) or work at group homes for disabled adults. That’s a much better use of our energy and VALUES than protesting or political organizing. Eugenics is at the heart of capitalism and there’s no revolution without the disabled.
R: 86 / I: 7
More than $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts , MAGA is a death cult.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/what-is-in-big-beautiful-bill-trump
Trump’s ’Big Beautiful Bill’
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/guide/the-big-beautiful-bill-act-senate-republican/More than $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts , MAGA is a death cult.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/what-is-in-big-beautiful-bill-trump
R: 72 / I: 20
- To what degree is it ok to lie to fellow workers in order to make socialism more appealing to them?
- What are the benefits and risks of doing so?
- How much theoretical knowledge do you have?
- Can you convey it without using wanky words like "class", "state", "proletariat" and "capital"?
Rhetoric
Which one are you?- To what degree is it ok to lie to fellow workers in order to make socialism more appealing to them?
- What are the benefits and risks of doing so?
- How much theoretical knowledge do you have?
- Can you convey it without using wanky words like "class", "state", "proletariat" and "capital"?
R: 15 / I: 0
I've spent the last six months working/organising with what's basically one of the most well-known indigenous resistance groups here in Australia. I was asked to write a political program for them. I did. I was hesitant on how receptive they'd be for it, since it's basically "we need to become a Communist party" and has a section specifically devoted to Marxism-Leninism. When I presented it to them I tried to tiptoe around it to test the waters with basic anti-capitalist, anti-colonial talk before plunging in to namedropping Communism and ML.
The waters were very receptive.
Far more receptive than I was expecting or hoped. They asked me to print it out and give them a copy they could "translate into blackfellas language", since I have a rather formal writing style - which they said was good, it meant they could use me to communicate their ideas into coherent statements and policies and translate it to more formal political language.
So I come to you, Anons. I don't really have anyone irl I can share this with to get a second opinion, so I humbly ask you lot to read this and tell me what you think. The people it was meant for liked it a lot, but they're not really Communists, although they were very receptive to the basic ideas once I explained it to them. I framed it through the lens of being a method to decisively defeat colonialism and showing them the link to Capitalism - i.e. the economic mode of production of private property - and why that must be defeated too. Telling them stories of legendary anti-colonial revolutions in Vietnam - they'd never heard of Uncle Ho - also helped sell the idea.
I'm looking for some thoughts and advice on what you guys think. Are there bits I should change, reword, or add? This is not meant to be an outline of policy or an ideological manifesto, but more a broad outline of political ideology, strategy, and tactics.
Just to answer some, what I'm assuming will be questions you might have:
>Who are these people?
Aboriginal Australian activists in the Tent Embassy in my city.
>What's the tent embassy?
In Australia, the colonial powers never actually legally settled any agreements with the original indigenous peoples. Terf Island just said it was all "Terra Nullius" ("land belonging to no-one") and called dibs on all 7.7 million square kilometers. However, there were (and still are) more than 250 indigenous nations in Australia - all of them had defined territorial boundaries, governments, "capital formation centers" (kinda, they all lived in communitarian societies, but they did have farms, quarries, logging camps and fisheries), and permanent settlements with villages and towns. Most nations consisted of a single or a small handful of clans or tribes, but larger ones operated in a confederal, decentralised, horizontal, collective government consisting of multiple such tribes and clans. It's estimated around 1.1 Million people lived in Australia in 1787, the year before Britain arrived.
At no point, however, did the colonial powers ever recognise their sovereignty, and it's still a contentious point in Australian politics today. In the 1970s, some guy went to Canberra (Capital City) and set up a tent he claimed was the "Embassy" of the original aboriginal peoples of that particular spot right outside Parliament House. Clever idea. Fast forward to today, and the embassy is still there, and while sovereignty and colonialism is still a contentious issue that keeps coming up to the forefront of politics, and Embassies have been set up in virtually every major city in the country, they haven't accomplished much. I didn't know there was one in my city until this year, and apparently it's been there since I was 5 months old. But when I started hanging out with them, I found out they want to change that. So I've been helping them.
>Why don't you know any comrades irl?
TLDR I got kicked out of the party I was with in Dec 2023 because some personal events happened and they were worried I'd make them look bad. It wasn't fair, but whatever. Some months later I was advised I'd have an opportunity to appeal the expulsion eventually, and I should join up in organising work on single-issue programs in the meantime. I'm fairly confident what's wrong will be put right soon enough.
Turning the Tent Embassy into a fighting center of working-class, anti-colonial organisation is the best I can do. It has been real work to get this from being a ramshackle group of tents with signs into something even slightly resembling what we want it to be, but real progress is being made.
>What are their goals?
Well, read the program, duh. But in short they want to make the Embassy into a place where people can come to learn about Aboriginal culture and tradition that was almost lost. They want to have facilities they can make money off of to fund the embassy and expand its practical and political activities. I'm reminded of Lenin writing that "tea-houses" run by comrades whose profits go towards funding worker's organisations and communists is a great idea, and their idea of being able to sell modernised versions of traditional indigenous food for the same purposes is basically the same. When I asked them how they intend on defeating colonialism and what the long-term goal is, they described to me, verbatim, Lenin's theory of Dual Power. Almost word-for-word. I think that's why the warmed to me so quickly, I've been able to put into coherent words what they've spent years thinking.
Anons, pls help. I kind of know what I'm doing but I am only one man. I've got quite a couple years of irl organising under my belt, I think I've read a decent amount of M/E/L/S/M, and it's great to actually use them. Putting the theory I've read to use is amazing, though I'm still flying solo and I know enough to know I don't know enough. I'm powering through reading as much of the relevant Lenin as I can to try make up for it. Hence why I come here.
Anons, I need some second opinions
Anons, I might be about to do something big, and I wanted to ask some other comrades for advice. No I am not about to commit an act of domestic terrorism.I've spent the last six months working/organising with what's basically one of the most well-known indigenous resistance groups here in Australia. I was asked to write a political program for them. I did. I was hesitant on how receptive they'd be for it, since it's basically "we need to become a Communist party" and has a section specifically devoted to Marxism-Leninism. When I presented it to them I tried to tiptoe around it to test the waters with basic anti-capitalist, anti-colonial talk before plunging in to namedropping Communism and ML.
The waters were very receptive.
Far more receptive than I was expecting or hoped. They asked me to print it out and give them a copy they could "translate into blackfellas language", since I have a rather formal writing style - which they said was good, it meant they could use me to communicate their ideas into coherent statements and policies and translate it to more formal political language.
So I come to you, Anons. I don't really have anyone irl I can share this with to get a second opinion, so I humbly ask you lot to read this and tell me what you think. The people it was meant for liked it a lot, but they're not really Communists, although they were very receptive to the basic ideas once I explained it to them. I framed it through the lens of being a method to decisively defeat colonialism and showing them the link to Capitalism - i.e. the economic mode of production of private property - and why that must be defeated too. Telling them stories of legendary anti-colonial revolutions in Vietnam - they'd never heard of Uncle Ho - also helped sell the idea.
I'm looking for some thoughts and advice on what you guys think. Are there bits I should change, reword, or add? This is not meant to be an outline of policy or an ideological manifesto, but more a broad outline of political ideology, strategy, and tactics.
Just to answer some, what I'm assuming will be questions you might have:
>Who are these people?
Aboriginal Australian activists in the Tent Embassy in my city.
>What's the tent embassy?
In Australia, the colonial powers never actually legally settled any agreements with the original indigenous peoples. Terf Island just said it was all "Terra Nullius" ("land belonging to no-one") and called dibs on all 7.7 million square kilometers. However, there were (and still are) more than 250 indigenous nations in Australia - all of them had defined territorial boundaries, governments, "capital formation centers" (kinda, they all lived in communitarian societies, but they did have farms, quarries, logging camps and fisheries), and permanent settlements with villages and towns. Most nations consisted of a single or a small handful of clans or tribes, but larger ones operated in a confederal, decentralised, horizontal, collective government consisting of multiple such tribes and clans. It's estimated around 1.1 Million people lived in Australia in 1787, the year before Britain arrived.
At no point, however, did the colonial powers ever recognise their sovereignty, and it's still a contentious point in Australian politics today. In the 1970s, some guy went to Canberra (Capital City) and set up a tent he claimed was the "Embassy" of the original aboriginal peoples of that particular spot right outside Parliament House. Clever idea. Fast forward to today, and the embassy is still there, and while sovereignty and colonialism is still a contentious issue that keeps coming up to the forefront of politics, and Embassies have been set up in virtually every major city in the country, they haven't accomplished much. I didn't know there was one in my city until this year, and apparently it's been there since I was 5 months old. But when I started hanging out with them, I found out they want to change that. So I've been helping them.
>Why don't you know any comrades irl?
TLDR I got kicked out of the party I was with in Dec 2023 because some personal events happened and they were worried I'd make them look bad. It wasn't fair, but whatever. Some months later I was advised I'd have an opportunity to appeal the expulsion eventually, and I should join up in organising work on single-issue programs in the meantime. I'm fairly confident what's wrong will be put right soon enough.
Turning the Tent Embassy into a fighting center of working-class, anti-colonial organisation is the best I can do. It has been real work to get this from being a ramshackle group of tents with signs into something even slightly resembling what we want it to be, but real progress is being made.
>What are their goals?
Well, read the program, duh. But in short they want to make the Embassy into a place where people can come to learn about Aboriginal culture and tradition that was almost lost. They want to have facilities they can make money off of to fund the embassy and expand its practical and political activities. I'm reminded of Lenin writing that "tea-houses" run by comrades whose profits go towards funding worker's organisations and communists is a great idea, and their idea of being able to sell modernised versions of traditional indigenous food for the same purposes is basically the same. When I asked them how they intend on defeating colonialism and what the long-term goal is, they described to me, verbatim, Lenin's theory of Dual Power. Almost word-for-word. I think that's why the warmed to me so quickly, I've been able to put into coherent words what they've spent years thinking.
Anons, pls help. I kind of know what I'm doing but I am only one man. I've got quite a couple years of irl organising under my belt, I think I've read a decent amount of M/E/L/S/M, and it's great to actually use them. Putting the theory I've read to use is amazing, though I'm still flying solo and I know enough to know I don't know enough. I'm powering through reading as much of the relevant Lenin as I can to try make up for it. Hence why I come here.
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it is political compass slop and the political compass is bullshit but it's still very interesting in this context
Why are the libleft and authright the most fetishistic quadrants?
and also another really interesting thing
the sample size for men (15k) is much larger than the sample size for women (5k) because women take the political compass test much less than men. thus the woman graph is much more oriented towards the extremes on all sides because to be a political compass involved woman is to be much weirder compared to the norm for women and thus more permitting of extremism although political compass stuff is in both cases outside of the norm
i must add that it's highly likely that a signicant part of the female respondents were trans women and that's safe to assume if you're on /leftypol/ and have interacted with many political extremists
and this got me wondering why cis women don't get involved with terminally online shit as much
i think this has everything to do with the fact that cis women rarely go beyond the major socially acceptable online spaces (instagram, tiktok, snapchat, sometimes even youtube is too niche, and only the hyper-mainstream slop areas of these areas)
discord, reddit, 4chan and altchans, even youtube on occassion, and the less mainstream regions of tiktok, youtube, and ig are basically all men and trans women
for example almost every man i've ever met from gen z has heard of Chris Chan and only one woman.
why is this?
are women just less autistic or is the autism just expressed different
i think it will be the difference of expression
the material conditions of the time lead to a very strange paradox in which women are marginalized, this is clear from anyone who has lived in society, that in lingustics generally the male sex is given first-order preference fore example, and that men too are alienated as seen clearly by suicide rates and the rise of the (highly retarded) incel movement and increase in (say the line) male lonlieness. this leads to different expressions of the same alienation with the present material conditions and the frequent failure to realize class conciousness from both sexes as they simply blame the other sex for their problems. we can see that a hyper-capitalist society like south korea has this extremely accelerated.
god i wish guy debord was still alive
another day another banger
seeing this graph got me thinkingit is political compass slop and the political compass is bullshit but it's still very interesting in this context
Why are the libleft and authright the most fetishistic quadrants?
and also another really interesting thing
the sample size for men (15k) is much larger than the sample size for women (5k) because women take the political compass test much less than men. thus the woman graph is much more oriented towards the extremes on all sides because to be a political compass involved woman is to be much weirder compared to the norm for women and thus more permitting of extremism although political compass stuff is in both cases outside of the norm
i must add that it's highly likely that a signicant part of the female respondents were trans women and that's safe to assume if you're on /leftypol/ and have interacted with many political extremists
and this got me wondering why cis women don't get involved with terminally online shit as much
i think this has everything to do with the fact that cis women rarely go beyond the major socially acceptable online spaces (instagram, tiktok, snapchat, sometimes even youtube is too niche, and only the hyper-mainstream slop areas of these areas)
discord, reddit, 4chan and altchans, even youtube on occassion, and the less mainstream regions of tiktok, youtube, and ig are basically all men and trans women
for example almost every man i've ever met from gen z has heard of Chris Chan and only one woman.
why is this?
are women just less autistic or is the autism just expressed different
i think it will be the difference of expression
the material conditions of the time lead to a very strange paradox in which women are marginalized, this is clear from anyone who has lived in society, that in lingustics generally the male sex is given first-order preference fore example, and that men too are alienated as seen clearly by suicide rates and the rise of the (highly retarded) incel movement and increase in (say the line) male lonlieness. this leads to different expressions of the same alienation with the present material conditions and the frequent failure to realize class conciousness from both sexes as they simply blame the other sex for their problems. we can see that a hyper-capitalist society like south korea has this extremely accelerated.
god i wish guy debord was still alive
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https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
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https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
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Your opinion on People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and why leftypol should support our communist brothers.
>The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as MEK or MKO, is an Iranian political-militant organization founded in 1965 by gommunist students aiming to overthrow the Shah and establish a revolutionary Islamic-socialist state. Initially blending Islam with Marxist ideas, the group played a role in the 1979 Iranian Revolution but quickly fell out with Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime. Following severe repression, the MEK turned to armed resistance and formed an alliance with Saddam Hussein during the Iran–Iraq War, leading to widespread condemnation and deep unpopularity within Iran.
Your opinion on People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and why leftypol should support our communist brothers.
>The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as MEK or MKO, is an Iranian political-militant organization founded in 1965 by gommunist students aiming to overthrow the Shah and establish a revolutionary Islamic-socialist state. Initially blending Islam with Marxist ideas, the group played a role in the 1979 Iranian Revolution but quickly fell out with Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime. Following severe repression, the MEK turned to armed resistance and formed an alliance with Saddam Hussein during the Iran–Iraq War, leading to widespread condemnation and deep unpopularity within Iran.
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a) most socialist organization headquarters are more or less functional offices that are for meetings and bureaucratic work. They are sometimes used for parties or safe spaces where communists get drunk and high together (I have rarely seen communists use anything but grass) outside organizational hours. There are some makedo libraries but most of it consists classic theory.
b) most anarchist headquarters are literal fratboy slumhouses where everyone is constantly drinking, smoking and being disgusting. They house literally sufficient infrastructure to encourage loosemindeness, consistent drinking, 'hanging out' in perpetuum without allowing a second of discipline. The news and printed works they have displayed is stupid contradictory shit that gets accumulated over the years without anyone actually reading it.
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I have observed the following.a) most socialist organization headquarters are more or less functional offices that are for meetings and bureaucratic work. They are sometimes used for parties or safe spaces where communists get drunk and high together (I have rarely seen communists use anything but grass) outside organizational hours. There are some makedo libraries but most of it consists classic theory.
b) most anarchist headquarters are literal fratboy slumhouses where everyone is constantly drinking, smoking and being disgusting. They house literally sufficient infrastructure to encourage loosemindeness, consistent drinking, 'hanging out' in perpetuum without allowing a second of discipline. The news and printed works they have displayed is stupid contradictory shit that gets accumulated over the years without anyone actually reading it.
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The Vietnam Question
Are they earnestly developing socialism, or have they become so compromised that it's really just a future of the people's sweatshops until the US is crushed and the Vietnamese bourgeoisie is properly overthrown and oppressed?
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-housing-prices-retirement-plan-middle-class/
John Turley‑Ewart’s column points out that falling home prices would hurt homeowners relying on their house equity for retirement.
In Canada, land and homes are bought and sold for profit. Developers and banks drive up prices, and working‑class families compete in an auction they can’t afford. Turley‑Ewart notes that mortgage‑based “saving” has become the only realistic path to a middle‑class retirement. This arrangement ties workers’ futures to interest rates and real‑estate bubbles. A 40-50% price drop would restore affordability, but it would also wipe out the “nest eggs” of current homeowners. That’s exactly the point: capitalism turns essential needs ‑‑ shelter, retirement security ‑‑ into financial bets.
Housing Minister Gregor Robertson insists on “stability” to protect existing homeowners. Stability here means preserving asset values for the property‑owning class.Turley‑Ewart highlights that fewer than 40% of workers have employer pensions, and most RRSPs/TFSAs don’t cover enough. He concludes that homeowners need their equity gains to retire.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-housing-prices-retirement-plan-middle-class/
John Turley‑Ewart’s column points out that falling home prices would hurt homeowners relying on their house equity for retirement.
In Canada, land and homes are bought and sold for profit. Developers and banks drive up prices, and working‑class families compete in an auction they can’t afford. Turley‑Ewart notes that mortgage‑based “saving” has become the only realistic path to a middle‑class retirement. This arrangement ties workers’ futures to interest rates and real‑estate bubbles. A 40-50% price drop would restore affordability, but it would also wipe out the “nest eggs” of current homeowners. That’s exactly the point: capitalism turns essential needs ‑‑ shelter, retirement security ‑‑ into financial bets.
Housing Minister Gregor Robertson insists on “stability” to protect existing homeowners. Stability here means preserving asset values for the property‑owning class.Turley‑Ewart highlights that fewer than 40% of workers have employer pensions, and most RRSPs/TFSAs don’t cover enough. He concludes that homeowners need their equity gains to retire.
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Chairman Mao Zedong said women hold up half the sky does that mean he’s a feminist and also did he let females in the military? I think I saw something about that one I’m so researching about him by so consider myself a Maoist in training
Chairman Mao Zedong said women hold up half the sky does that mean he’s a feminist and also did he let females in the military? I think I saw something about that one I’m so researching about him by so consider myself a Maoist in training
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Does Communism solve/help infinite immigration?
I would understand it as modern capitalism constantly needing population growth to be maintained. Or is the only solution to the replacement of your ethnicity/religion/culture/etc. to just breed like crazy? Thanks bros
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Is there ever going to be any leftist spaces that are pro internet trolling and shit cause right has s#yj#ck.p#rty and I'd rather help level the playing field and do nothing else with my life
Is there ever going to be any leftist spaces that are pro internet trolling and shit cause right has s#yj#ck.p#rty and I'd rather help level the playing field and do nothing else with my life
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Some highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over
Ocalan orders the PKK to dissolve
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ocalan-dissolve-pkk-historic-statementSome highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over
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>Only communist org near me are trots with 20 members
>Only guerilla I can join is the EZLN and they are pretty much narcos now
>MORENA sucks
what the fuck am I supposed to do, ist es over für mich?
>Only communist org near me are trots with 20 members
>Only guerilla I can join is the EZLN and they are pretty much narcos now
>MORENA sucks
what the fuck am I supposed to do, ist es over für mich?
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Leftcommunism would be the norm today if workers were not retarded. And that is the greatness of MLs. They understood this and included this information in their core principles.
PAX TREATLERISTA -- UNSER TAUSEND JAHRE REICH
The main hurdle which prevents us from living in Socialism is not opportunism, revisionism, the petite-bourgeoisie or racism and what not. It is because the majority of workers are objectively retarded. I am not trolling. I am not happy about it. Once I realised this, it depressed me greatly.Leftcommunism would be the norm today if workers were not retarded. And that is the greatness of MLs. They understood this and included this information in their core principles.
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With the rise of A.I and new ways using it , could it be that in a future worker's state the government could become semi automated by it?
I think re-thinking Allende's un-realised project could be a inprovement
Could the future socialist experiment be a Algocracy?
>lgocratic governance, algorithmic legal order or algocracy is an alternative form of government or social ordering where the usage of computer algorithms is applied to regulations, law enforcement, and generally any aspect of everyday life such as transportation or land registration.With the rise of A.I and new ways using it , could it be that in a future worker's state the government could become semi automated by it?
I think re-thinking Allende's un-realised project could be a inprovement
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Alright, I took Amtrak instead of Alaska airlines. How many social credit points do I get?
Alright, I took Amtrak instead of Alaska airlines. How many social credit points do I get?
Alright, I took Amtrak instead of Alaska airlines. How many social credit points do I get?
Alright, I took Amtrak instead of Alaska airlines. How many social credit points do I get?
Alright, I took Amtrak instead of Alaska airlines. How many social credit points do I get?
Alright, I took Amtrak instead of Alaska airlines. How many social credit points do I get?
Alright, I took Amtrak instead of Alaska airlines. How many social credit points do I get?
Alright, I took Amtrak instead of Alaska airlines. How many social credit points do I get?
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ITT: we discuss the problems of my country of Poland, but honestly.
I will begin: Poland started being more polarized than when Communism was in charge. Music, art and entertainment now is less diverse than back then.
ITT: we discuss the problems of my country of Poland, but honestly.
I will begin: Poland started being more polarized than when Communism was in charge. Music, art and entertainment now is less diverse than back then.
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>Neolib wins
>The dept situation went to shit even more.
>Votes a neolib atlanticist suported by the ruling class in order to save Romania from economical instability due to external dept and suveranist far right ideology
>Neolib wins
>The dept situation went to shit even more.
>Evreyone expects him to go after poilitical class like he promised
>Proceds to cut student bonuses and halt pensions and salaries from the working people.
>Students : *Pickachu Face*
THANK YOU NICUSOR DAN WE COULDN'T GET MORE FUCKED WITHOUT YOU !
Romanian student protests
>Votes a neolib atlanticist suported by the ruling class in order to save Romania from economical instability due to external dept and suveranist far right ideology>Neolib wins
>The dept situation went to shit even more.
>Votes a neolib atlanticist suported by the ruling class in order to save Romania from economical instability due to external dept and suveranist far right ideology
>Neolib wins
>The dept situation went to shit even more.
>Evreyone expects him to go after poilitical class like he promised
>Proceds to cut student bonuses and halt pensions and salaries from the working people.
>Students : *Pickachu Face*
THANK YOU NICUSOR DAN WE COULDN'T GET MORE FUCKED WITHOUT YOU !
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>Paul Pawlowski (born 1926/1927) was a Polish-born immigrant, Hellenic polytheist and English republican who, from the late 1970s until his resignation in 1996, served as the leader and only member of the Republican Party of England and the English People’s Liberation Army (EPLA).
What was the EPLA?
<The EPLA originated as a split from the Maoist Working People's Party of England. The Army's ideology called for the independence of England from "Judeo-fascist" forces.
<According to the "Dictionary of Terrorism", it was "extremely weak" but had "undertaken isolated bomb attacks". In 1983, it claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb sent to the headquarters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
<Barberis et al claim that the organisation may have had links to the Oliver Cromwell Republican Party, founded in 1977. This minor organisation, also led by Paul Pawlowski, later renamed the Republican Party of England, is best known for its leader's demonstration against the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981
The revolutionary career of Pawlowski, in his own words:
"In 1960s I read the Iliad in HMP Brixton.
Why! Thats polytheism – thats my religion i decided.
in 1970s I opened Temple of Aphrodite Pandemos in my one room in Tooting. Landlord told me to get out – evicted.
I moved to empty house in Charington Road squat.
There was Banner books shop nearby in Camden High street.
The shopwindow was Red with little red books bust of chairman Mao in the middle. Indian man Bijour was the shopkeeper.
I am having lunch in Cypriot restaurant with my lady when Bijour comes in sits with us at our table and we talk. Bijour says What Britain needs is British peoples liberation army.
I took on his idea and improved it
What Britain needs is English republican ideology – Republican party of England – English peoples liberation army.
The monarch abdicate – Republican England is born.
I bought a house in Accrington – turned it into HQ of English Peoples Liberation Army. Got raided by Special Branch.
What is the strength of the English Peoples Liberation Army? the SB officer asked. Military secret I replied. I think you are regimental Number One he said.
I drafted a petition for the Queen to abdicate let England be Republic. Went with it to meeting in Birmingham. It was leftwingers rally – about 200 signed my petition for the Queen to abdicate.
Encouraged by the response I convened a meeting at the Rising Sun pub near Victoria coach station. Five comrades came – we drunk pint and talked English Republic.
Encouraged - I drafted English Republican leaflet – published by Paul Pawlowski, Secretary, Republican Party of England.
The feedback was abusive – To saltmines in Siberia with you you foreigner!
They didn't like the name …ski. Printed another leaflet – same text only this time published by Thomas Smith, Secretary of Republican Party of England. Now the feedback was normal – some agreed – some asking for more info – some supported some against – normal.
Went with it to Camden Town Hall where the Daily Worker had a fete. The police at the entrance took notice of the name Thomas Smith – the police was on the lookout for that Thomas Smith – got raided by Special Branch officers
I continued with placard and leaflet calling for England to be Republic. Got arrested for it in the street in Accrington – the magistrate said Three months. With Clenched Fist salute I cried out Victory to the English Peoples Liberation Army!
Local newspaper carried report about it.
In HMP Strangeways prison officers were asking me "Tell us where is the English Peoples Liberation Army and we all go there and join it."
HMP prison officers were the first recruits to EPLA.
HMP Strangeways was burned down – it was burning for many days."
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Who was Paul Pawlowski?>Paul Pawlowski (born 1926/1927) was a Polish-born immigrant, Hellenic polytheist and English republican who, from the late 1970s until his resignation in 1996, served as the leader and only member of the Republican Party of England and the English People’s Liberation Army (EPLA).
What was the EPLA?
<The EPLA originated as a split from the Maoist Working People's Party of England. The Army's ideology called for the independence of England from "Judeo-fascist" forces.
<According to the "Dictionary of Terrorism", it was "extremely weak" but had "undertaken isolated bomb attacks". In 1983, it claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb sent to the headquarters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
<Barberis et al claim that the organisation may have had links to the Oliver Cromwell Republican Party, founded in 1977. This minor organisation, also led by Paul Pawlowski, later renamed the Republican Party of England, is best known for its leader's demonstration against the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981
The revolutionary career of Pawlowski, in his own words:
"In 1960s I read the Iliad in HMP Brixton.
Why! Thats polytheism – thats my religion i decided.
in 1970s I opened Temple of Aphrodite Pandemos in my one room in Tooting. Landlord told me to get out – evicted.
I moved to empty house in Charington Road squat.
There was Banner books shop nearby in Camden High street.
The shopwindow was Red with little red books bust of chairman Mao in the middle. Indian man Bijour was the shopkeeper.
I am having lunch in Cypriot restaurant with my lady when Bijour comes in sits with us at our table and we talk. Bijour says What Britain needs is British peoples liberation army.
I took on his idea and improved it
What Britain needs is English republican ideology – Republican party of England – English peoples liberation army.
The monarch abdicate – Republican England is born.
I bought a house in Accrington – turned it into HQ of English Peoples Liberation Army. Got raided by Special Branch.
What is the strength of the English Peoples Liberation Army? the SB officer asked. Military secret I replied. I think you are regimental Number One he said.
I drafted a petition for the Queen to abdicate let England be Republic. Went with it to meeting in Birmingham. It was leftwingers rally – about 200 signed my petition for the Queen to abdicate.
Encouraged by the response I convened a meeting at the Rising Sun pub near Victoria coach station. Five comrades came – we drunk pint and talked English Republic.
Encouraged - I drafted English Republican leaflet – published by Paul Pawlowski, Secretary, Republican Party of England.
The feedback was abusive – To saltmines in Siberia with you you foreigner!
They didn't like the name …ski. Printed another leaflet – same text only this time published by Thomas Smith, Secretary of Republican Party of England. Now the feedback was normal – some agreed – some asking for more info – some supported some against – normal.
Went with it to Camden Town Hall where the Daily Worker had a fete. The police at the entrance took notice of the name Thomas Smith – the police was on the lookout for that Thomas Smith – got raided by Special Branch officers
I continued with placard and leaflet calling for England to be Republic. Got arrested for it in the street in Accrington – the magistrate said Three months. With Clenched Fist salute I cried out Victory to the English Peoples Liberation Army!
Local newspaper carried report about it.
In HMP Strangeways prison officers were asking me "Tell us where is the English Peoples Liberation Army and we all go there and join it."
HMP prison officers were the first recruits to EPLA.
HMP Strangeways was burned down – it was burning for many days."
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Cracking down western decadence in China
Fucking finally Chinese authorities doing something against western decadence. Lately have been too much western LGBT decadence especially in Chengdu. Beijing should start anti-LGBT mandates in whole China.
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georg lukács complaining in 1968 about leftist students misunderstanding fanon and fetishizing anticolonial movements instead of being useful. from "conversations with lukács".
georg lukács complaining in 1968 about leftist students misunderstanding fanon and fetishizing anticolonial movements instead of being useful. from "conversations with lukács".
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>Socially degenerate as the libs, economically out of touch as the Neo-cons
>the literal worst of both worlds
Still, why did libertarianism become strangely popular among various types of popular media figures, like comedians, filmmakers, and actors?
>Socially degenerate as the libs, economically out of touch as the Neo-cons
>the literal worst of both worlds
Still, why did libertarianism become strangely popular among various types of popular media figures, like comedians, filmmakers, and actors?
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How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?
<Things are made of matter!
>What is matter made of?
<Out of atoms!
>What are atoms made of?
<Subatomic particles!
>What are subatomic particles made of?
<Strings/They are excitations of quantum fields!
>What are strings/quantum fields made of?
Where does it end?
How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?
<Things are made of matter!
>What is matter made of?
<Out of atoms!
>What are atoms made of?
<Subatomic particles!
>What are subatomic particles made of?
<Strings/They are excitations of quantum fields!
>What are strings/quantum fields made of?
Where does it end?
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What exactly about the communist mode of production will alleviate the absurd?
I'm a communist but don't really know how to respond to this.
The Absurd and communism
How would you respond to the Absurdist critique that life was absurd and will be absurd before and after capitalism?What exactly about the communist mode of production will alleviate the absurd?
I'm a communist but don't really know how to respond to this.
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Zionism is the end result of "Read Settlers!" discourse
Read Settlers/Land Back discourse will ultimately lead to Zionism if taken to its logical extreme. Zionists justify their occupation of Palestine by saying they are the indigenous people of "Judea". I know this is meme history, but if you go back far enough, everyone is a settler. There's a difference between being indigenous and having indigenity. The latter is based on one's continuous connection to the land over a course of centuries, whereas the former is just where a group of people are originally from. When the USSR fell apart, Russia went through a period of "competing sovereignties" where a bunch of the ethnic republics tried to declare independence under the banner of indigenous self-determination, which undermined and weakened Russian sovereignty and its place on the global stage as a whole. Kurds are attempting to create a second Israel under the same premise. There are even scenarios I support in theory, like Armenia reclaiming its lost territory, but in practicality would lead to more conflict and strife.
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Why does it feel like so much “anti-imperialism” has very little — if anything — to do with anti-imperialism and is simply Muslim identity politics?
For instance, why would anyone compare Pakistan to Palestine, when the former is a sovereign nation that was a close US ally during the Cold War and the latter a stateless nation that’s been fighting a 77+ year guerrilla war against one of the most brutal armies in the world and is now facing an all-out genocide? Pakistan and India are both bourgeois states with close ties to the US that both frequently imprison communists. To compare Pakistan to Palestine, in that western activists have a moral duty to hold mass protests waving Pakistani flags and boycott anything Indian is fucking stupid.
Yeah, I’m not shilling for India. But this shit is theoretically weak af.
Also, why does it seem like in every political conflict involving Muslims (except for China vs the Uyghurs) leftists always insist on taking the “Muslim side”? Look at Ethiopia vs Somalia or Christians vs Muslims in Nigeria, for instance. During the Cold War this would have made perfect sense, because the side fighting against the side backed by the West could be allied with the USSR and utilized to fight western capitalists. Today, not so much.
I’d love to understand the logic here.
Why does it feel like so much “anti-imperialism” has very little — if anything — to do with anti-imperialism and is simply Muslim identity politics?
For instance, why would anyone compare Pakistan to Palestine, when the former is a sovereign nation that was a close US ally during the Cold War and the latter a stateless nation that’s been fighting a 77+ year guerrilla war against one of the most brutal armies in the world and is now facing an all-out genocide? Pakistan and India are both bourgeois states with close ties to the US that both frequently imprison communists. To compare Pakistan to Palestine, in that western activists have a moral duty to hold mass protests waving Pakistani flags and boycott anything Indian is fucking stupid.
Yeah, I’m not shilling for India. But this shit is theoretically weak af.
Also, why does it seem like in every political conflict involving Muslims (except for China vs the Uyghurs) leftists always insist on taking the “Muslim side”? Look at Ethiopia vs Somalia or Christians vs Muslims in Nigeria, for instance. During the Cold War this would have made perfect sense, because the side fighting against the side backed by the West could be allied with the USSR and utilized to fight western capitalists. Today, not so much.
I’d love to understand the logic here.
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What do you think about the lumpenproletariat I know Marx did not have high standards for them but nowadays, what do you think you think about it I wanted to know because I am part of the lumpenproletariat
What do you think about the lumpenproletariat I know Marx did not have high standards for them but nowadays, what do you think you think about it I wanted to know because I am part of the lumpenproletariat
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the event of liberals winning the culture war has actually been more detrimental to world the wide communism than every American backed bourgeoisie totalitarian fascist killing since ww2
the event of liberals winning the culture war has actually been more detrimental to world the wide communism than every American backed bourgeoisie totalitarian fascist killing since ww2
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how do we radicalize normies to simply reject capitalism?
If you have any ideas for memes that share praxis without being gay, feel free to share
You know, things like how merely taxing billionaires isn't enough, but by social ownership of the means of production, the profit would be shared equally, stuff like that
How to reach lib-brained people that think any meaningful change is either bad or impossible, and should be avoided either way?
how do we radicalize normies to simply reject capitalism?
If you have any ideas for memes that share praxis without being gay, feel free to share
You know, things like how merely taxing billionaires isn't enough, but by social ownership of the means of production, the profit would be shared equally, stuff like that
How to reach lib-brained people that think any meaningful change is either bad or impossible, and should be avoided either way?
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/20/meir-kahane-israel-kach-ben-gvir-long-dead-extremist
Why Anti-Kahanism? Kahanism is literally illegal in Israel, but it's de facto Israeli state policy. It's a safer way to say anti-Zionist while still being able to have the Israeli left on your side, and if people in Israel start bashing you for "anti-semitism", say what they're doing is technically illegal by Israeli law by supporting Kahanism.
Anti-Kahanist General #1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahanismhttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/20/meir-kahane-israel-kach-ben-gvir-long-dead-extremist
Why Anti-Kahanism? Kahanism is literally illegal in Israel, but it's de facto Israeli state policy. It's a safer way to say anti-Zionist while still being able to have the Israeli left on your side, and if people in Israel start bashing you for "anti-semitism", say what they're doing is technically illegal by Israeli law by supporting Kahanism.
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>Despite being able to draw on the rich historical experience of the Russian Revolution, many “left-wingers”, and declared enemies of Stalinism, nevertheless still look to the anarchists for potential support. We therefore need to reiterate that libertarianism was the first of the diseases to infect the proletarian movement, and was the precursor to all later opportunisms (including Stalinism) in that it falsified politics and history in order to attract the petty and middle bourgeois strata of society onto the proletarian side – despite the fact that these classes have always ruined everything, and been the source of every kind of calamity and error. What resulted from this approach wasn't proletarian leadership over the “popular masses”, but destruction of any proletarian features of the general movement, and a reinforced enslavement of the proletariat to capital.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1957/fundamentals.htm
Stalinsisters, our response?
also OC
>Despite being able to draw on the rich historical experience of the Russian Revolution, many “left-wingers”, and declared enemies of Stalinism, nevertheless still look to the anarchists for potential support. We therefore need to reiterate that libertarianism was the first of the diseases to infect the proletarian movement, and was the precursor to all later opportunisms (including Stalinism) in that it falsified politics and history in order to attract the petty and middle bourgeois strata of society onto the proletarian side – despite the fact that these classes have always ruined everything, and been the source of every kind of calamity and error. What resulted from this approach wasn't proletarian leadership over the “popular masses”, but destruction of any proletarian features of the general movement, and a reinforced enslavement of the proletariat to capital.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1957/fundamentals.htm
Stalinsisters, our response?
also OC
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how do we deal with the marching force of capitalism that is technology? technology and its current state is not possible under communism, serious reform is needed before it can enter the metaphysical proletariat mindspace, under new reforms
how do we deal with the marching force of capitalism that is technology? technology and its current state is not possible under communism, serious reform is needed before it can enter the metaphysical proletariat mindspace, under new reforms
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•Perceived as legitimate
•Mostly uses non-lethal force
•Letal force is limited
•Ready to act immediately
But most importantly: the National Guard would not dare use military equipment against civilians. And compared to the police, soldiers believe they exist to protect the country from foreign enemies rather than internal ones.
The National Guard is a paper tiger. The real enemy is the police, and it can be beaten.
Police vs Army
The real violent arm of the State to control its population is the police. Several reasons for this:•Perceived as legitimate
•Mostly uses non-lethal force
•Letal force is limited
•Ready to act immediately
But most importantly: the National Guard would not dare use military equipment against civilians. And compared to the police, soldiers believe they exist to protect the country from foreign enemies rather than internal ones.
The National Guard is a paper tiger. The real enemy is the police, and it can be beaten.
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Here's the AMA that was advertised last week. Ask me anything. Most questions should be okay.
Here's the AMA that was advertised last week. Ask me anything. Most questions should be okay.
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>kills your entire family
glasses are for NERDS
how do you respond without sounding like a fascist American?
>hard mode, you cannot criqtuque maoist literature
>kills your entire family
glasses are for NERDS
how do you respond without sounding like a fascist American?
>hard mode, you cannot criqtuque maoist literature
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>Bangladesh'e spontaneous revolution against Sheikh Hasina just resulting in a more liberal government
The only thing I think is politically radical without being preachy to the average prole is being positive of suicide
<wait really?
Yes. Everything in our modern culture rebels against pro suicide messaging even when we were at the peak of "wokism", that truth held up. Telling people when it comes up in casual conversation (of course) that if life literally becomes too impossible that you'll just end it all is something that cannot be rebuked
>It's your own choice, anyone making moralistic arguments against will be painfully aware they're forcing their views on you
>It is a perfectly rational response to the current economy of stagnant wages, decaying welfare, 0-hour contracts and rent-based digital services
>Opposed to emotional suicides taken up in the height of the moment which is what most proles thing about
>Positions the injustice and lack of action by the masses as the forefront of your decision
I speak from experience since this has genuinely worked out well in radicalising coworkers and other acquaintances. This is all I can offer to the current issue the left face which is the death of mass politics as a whole. Id recommend reading Benjamin Studebaker, he's been a great help.
a (possibly) effective radial argument to use today
Its clear to me that there is genuinely no possibility radical politics that is both effective while being mainstream, modern service economies in the first world have made such organising/educating so herculean that it's pointless and the surveillance state alongside the lack of any void of radical politics in the mainstream has made any revolutions that occur merely radical reforms>Bangladesh'e spontaneous revolution against Sheikh Hasina just resulting in a more liberal government
The only thing I think is politically radical without being preachy to the average prole is being positive of suicide
<wait really?
Yes. Everything in our modern culture rebels against pro suicide messaging even when we were at the peak of "wokism", that truth held up. Telling people when it comes up in casual conversation (of course) that if life literally becomes too impossible that you'll just end it all is something that cannot be rebuked
>It's your own choice, anyone making moralistic arguments against will be painfully aware they're forcing their views on you
>It is a perfectly rational response to the current economy of stagnant wages, decaying welfare, 0-hour contracts and rent-based digital services
>Opposed to emotional suicides taken up in the height of the moment which is what most proles thing about
>Positions the injustice and lack of action by the masses as the forefront of your decision
I speak from experience since this has genuinely worked out well in radicalising coworkers and other acquaintances. This is all I can offer to the current issue the left face which is the death of mass politics as a whole. Id recommend reading Benjamin Studebaker, he's been a great help.
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I think it’s a myth that Mao single handed kill 80 million people that is a complete fabrication the healthcare system in the USA kill more people than any communist country ever did that’s my opinion though
I think it’s a myth that Mao single handed kill 80 million people that is a complete fabrication the healthcare system in the USA kill more people than any communist country ever did that’s my opinion though
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I recently found out that 4chins word filters "graebener", the last name of a certain rock thrower.
I didn't expect them to guntguard for a fat latinx fascist.
I recently found out that 4chins word filters "graebener", the last name of a certain rock thrower.
I didn't expect them to guntguard for a fat latinx fascist.
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Anonymity is an important part of imageboards. It's important for our freedom on the Internet. The problem is that anonymity has to be bought. Bitcoin has become speculative in the financial world. An asset hoarded by states. People don't understand the purpose of this crypto-currency. Even people who explain Bitcoin find themselves up against a crowd of people who understand that it's an innovation, but these people are going to buy it thinking it's a revolution. This is unfortunate… as they risk losing a significant amount of capital in order to achieve their pecuniary goals. Bitcoin has a supply of 21M BTC, the problem is that the network lives from the exchange of bitcoin. If it remains stored by people, the miners will not be able to make a living on the network. Admittedly, the problem may seem remote, but it can't be ruled out, and then the quantum threat looms over BTC: if it isn't resolved, it will be relegated to the rank of former cryptocurrency great.
Anonymity is an important part of imageboards. It's important for our freedom on the Internet. The problem is that being anonymous
For these reasons, which seem problematic to me, we need to move towards libertarian assets that are not subject to corrupt finance, as Bitcoin is. Monero appears to be a solid, clearly anonymous asset that outperforms BTC, which acts in decorrelation to it. What's more, it has a clear plan for its transition to quantum. Monero is bigger than you'd think: its assets have risen from around $65 in 2020 to over $350 today, demonstrating the relevance of this cryptocurrency compared with others. It's gaining ground, but I don't expect it to emerge as BTC's rival in the years to come. For libertarians, however, it possesses the qualities that would enable it to defeat speculative finance as well as the states - it's out of control, like the Anonymous group. As a result, it frightens the latter, since citizens the world over deserve this breath of anonymity in a world where everything has to be checked.
Monero a silent revolution ?
Anonymity is an important part of imageboards. It's important for our freedom on the Internet. The problem is that anonymity has to be bought. Bitcoin has become speculative in the financial world. An asset hoarded by states. People don't understand the purpose of this crypto-currency. Even people who explain Bitcoin find themselves up against a crowd of people who understand that it's an innovation, but these people are going to buy it thinking it's a revolution. This is unfortunate… as they risk losing a significant amount of capital in order to achieve their pecuniary goals. Bitcoin has a supply of 21M BTC, the problem is that the network lives from the exchange of bitcoin. If it remains stored by people, the miners will not be able to make a living on the network. Admittedly, the problem may seem remote, but it can't be ruled out, and then the quantum threat looms over BTC: if it isn't resolved, it will be relegated to the rank of former cryptocurrency great.
Anonymity is an important part of imageboards. It's important for our freedom on the Internet. The problem is that being anonymous
For these reasons, which seem problematic to me, we need to move towards libertarian assets that are not subject to corrupt finance, as Bitcoin is. Monero appears to be a solid, clearly anonymous asset that outperforms BTC, which acts in decorrelation to it. What's more, it has a clear plan for its transition to quantum. Monero is bigger than you'd think: its assets have risen from around $65 in 2020 to over $350 today, demonstrating the relevance of this cryptocurrency compared with others. It's gaining ground, but I don't expect it to emerge as BTC's rival in the years to come. For libertarians, however, it possesses the qualities that would enable it to defeat speculative finance as well as the states - it's out of control, like the Anonymous group. As a result, it frightens the latter, since citizens the world over deserve this breath of anonymity in a world where everything has to be checked.
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I honestly think the world would be a better place if nazi Germany still existed to act as a 'white Japan' to counterpoint neoliberalism, there would be much less racial conflict and concern about degeneracy, infact it would probably encourage anglosphere and western Europe to fully embrace immigration and degeneracy because all the rightoids would just become wehraboos.
I honestly think the world would be a better place if nazi Germany still existed to act as a 'white Japan' to counterpoint neoliberalism, there would be much less racial conflict and concern about degeneracy, infact it would probably encourage anglosphere and western Europe to fully embrace immigration and degeneracy because all the rightoids would just become wehraboos.
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>Easter
>family comes over
>talk to older cousin since haven't seen her in about 2 years now, and want to catch up
>big mistake, she's really deep into maga and for some reason violently against women's rights despite being a woman herself, being half paralyzed and on perma-disability(???)
>have to avoid political conversations entirely now because she will endlessy dick-suck Trump and excuse any and every awful thing he's done, right down to the point of screeching "FAEK NEWS, FAEK NEWS" and/or crying when shown undeniable evidence of his crimes
it's so fucking tough because she's genuinely a good cousin and I enjoy her company, but it annoys me to deal with someone so close and mature yet so heavily brainwashed at this point in life. What are some ways I can aid her with disillusionment? She's heavily against corporations, so I feel like that could be a potential starting point for it
>Easter
>family comes over
>talk to older cousin since haven't seen her in about 2 years now, and want to catch up
>big mistake, she's really deep into maga and for some reason violently against women's rights despite being a woman herself, being half paralyzed and on perma-disability(???)
>have to avoid political conversations entirely now because she will endlessy dick-suck Trump and excuse any and every awful thing he's done, right down to the point of screeching "FAEK NEWS, FAEK NEWS" and/or crying when shown undeniable evidence of his crimes
it's so fucking tough because she's genuinely a good cousin and I enjoy her company, but it annoys me to deal with someone so close and mature yet so heavily brainwashed at this point in life. What are some ways I can aid her with disillusionment? She's heavily against corporations, so I feel like that could be a potential starting point for it
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Many here have taken issue with me in the past when I have said that 'in order for investors to get what they spend, the workers must spend what they get', or with my claims that this can explain:
- Capital Accumulation
- Boom & Bust Cycles
- Political repression of workers
I hope to expand upon what I mean by these statements and convince you of their truth, and thus show you that my argument is sound and based on trivial intuition, thus no need for any fancy theory.
First of all, on the simplest case. Whilst I do not generally approve of 'simplifying assumptions', here I think they are valid since I am making a monetary argument: I hope to show the logical necessity of the simple case, and show that the more complicated cases of our real world are simply emergent properties of this base case and do not invalidate it.
We will start with an economy that has fixed capital and four economic 'functions' an actor can take: To 'invest' the money one has available (by spending on productive assets), to 'spend' the money they have available on assets which are non-productive (though perhaps which are vital to subsistence), to work (which brings in income) and to receive income from investment. In the case of the investment function, it is obvious that the productive asset yields surplus, and that this surplus returns to the one investing. From our assumptions we see, this surplus must come from other actors in the economy.
Anyone who is familiar with Kalecki will immediately see where I'm going with this, and I hope it is obvious to you that no one will 'invest' unless they reasonably believe they can get surplus value from their investment, which means that everyone else in the economy must be, in aggregate, spending money into the hands of the one investing. This is in fact, Kalecki's basic two-sector model. Since the total capital flow in the economy must be made up of investment and consumption, then we say
`F_S = S_I + S_C`
Where
F_S = Flow of spending
S_I = Spending on investment
S_C = Spending on consumption
`F_I = I_I + I_W`
I_I = Income from investment
I_W = Income from labour
And since the flows must be equal for the amount of capital to remain fixed in the economy (that is, every debt has its credit)
`F_I = F_S` => `I_I + I_W = S_I + S_C`
Now with some re-arranging we can see that the surplus of investment i
`S = I_I - S_I = S_C - I_W`
That means the surplus of investment comes from total consumption occurring in excess of total wages. I.E., for investors (net investors) to get what they spend, the consumers (net consumers) must spend what they get. For investors to get more than what they spend, the workers must spend more than what they get. That is, in 'normal' economic functioning, the trend is for investors to accumulate capital.
How can this be? How does such a system work and sustain itself? There are two main mechanisms:
*** 1 Credit Expansion
In this case, the amount of capital in the economy is increased via debt, in order to maintain consumption.
Credit expansion involves an expansion of our model from a system of fixed capital to one where it can vary. Now I want to take a moment to discuss how inflation works.
In a re-arranged form of the well-known monetary equation:
`P = MV / Y`
M = Money supply
V = Velocity of money (how often each unit is spent)
P = Price level
Y = Real output (GDP)
It is clear to see that for prices not to rise, any increase in the money supply must be counterbalanced by a reduction in the velocity of money, or an increase in real output. That is why you will often see the fed brazenly try to crash the economy to fix inflation. I also want you to note that if real output is increased proportionally as a result of the increase in the money supply, then prices will not rise.
This means that credit expansion can continue so long as investment remains productive. But suppose that, suddenly, investment becomes unproductive! Perhaps there is no further efficiency gain to be made, or people have over-speculated. Well it's clear that in this case there will be a crash. This gets me onto my next point: boom and bust cycles are a natural product of feedback from this phenomenon. In times where investment is profitable, investors predict the good times will continue, and S_I goes up. However, the moment that consumption dips there will be a reversal in this trend: investors become fearful, and this phenomenon leads to boom and bust cycles. As Kalecki points out, this is exacerbated by the fact that there will be a lot of fixed capital lying around used specifically for investment that cannot be repurposed (machines and such) and this deepens the issue. When investors do not spend, workers cannot make money, meaning they cannot consume.
*** 2 External appropriation
Luxemburg speaks of this mainly Surplus value is realised via exports to non-capitalist markets, fuelling imperialism. I am too lazy to do this one rn and haven't read Luxemburg's works on imperialism in some time. But maybe later if I don't get shidded on for this thread
Finally, on the repression of workers. It's clear that there's an intrinsic animosity under capitalism between workers and investors, so investors will often forgo profits in order to collaborate to spend money to repress workers so they never realise this inherent tension.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk stop pretending I'm stupid just bc I don't cite Stalinist dogma every two sentences thank you.
Here's some sources I used to back up my points while writing dis so I don't sound like a schizo but honestly mostly I just reasoned it out from first principles and remembered where some people spoke about what I already had in my brain long ago.
Ted Harvey lectures on Kalecki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73gWjTXd-ts
Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital
https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/ch01.htm
Political Aspects of Full Employment
https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf
Theory of Economic Dynamics
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.122597
Luxemburgist and Kaleckian Economics
Alternative title: Why you shouldn't need to read theory to know what's up under global capitalism. Start doing populism you idiots.Many here have taken issue with me in the past when I have said that 'in order for investors to get what they spend, the workers must spend what they get', or with my claims that this can explain:
- Capital Accumulation
- Boom & Bust Cycles
- Political repression of workers
I hope to expand upon what I mean by these statements and convince you of their truth, and thus show you that my argument is sound and based on trivial intuition, thus no need for any fancy theory.
First of all, on the simplest case. Whilst I do not generally approve of 'simplifying assumptions', here I think they are valid since I am making a monetary argument: I hope to show the logical necessity of the simple case, and show that the more complicated cases of our real world are simply emergent properties of this base case and do not invalidate it.
We will start with an economy that has fixed capital and four economic 'functions' an actor can take: To 'invest' the money one has available (by spending on productive assets), to 'spend' the money they have available on assets which are non-productive (though perhaps which are vital to subsistence), to work (which brings in income) and to receive income from investment. In the case of the investment function, it is obvious that the productive asset yields surplus, and that this surplus returns to the one investing. From our assumptions we see, this surplus must come from other actors in the economy.
Anyone who is familiar with Kalecki will immediately see where I'm going with this, and I hope it is obvious to you that no one will 'invest' unless they reasonably believe they can get surplus value from their investment, which means that everyone else in the economy must be, in aggregate, spending money into the hands of the one investing. This is in fact, Kalecki's basic two-sector model. Since the total capital flow in the economy must be made up of investment and consumption, then we say
`F_S = S_I + S_C`
Where
F_S = Flow of spending
S_I = Spending on investment
S_C = Spending on consumption
`F_I = I_I + I_W`
I_I = Income from investment
I_W = Income from labour
And since the flows must be equal for the amount of capital to remain fixed in the economy (that is, every debt has its credit)
`F_I = F_S` => `I_I + I_W = S_I + S_C`
Now with some re-arranging we can see that the surplus of investment i
`S = I_I - S_I = S_C - I_W`
That means the surplus of investment comes from total consumption occurring in excess of total wages. I.E., for investors (net investors) to get what they spend, the consumers (net consumers) must spend what they get. For investors to get more than what they spend, the workers must spend more than what they get. That is, in 'normal' economic functioning, the trend is for investors to accumulate capital.
How can this be? How does such a system work and sustain itself? There are two main mechanisms:
*** 1 Credit Expansion
In this case, the amount of capital in the economy is increased via debt, in order to maintain consumption.
Credit expansion involves an expansion of our model from a system of fixed capital to one where it can vary. Now I want to take a moment to discuss how inflation works.
In a re-arranged form of the well-known monetary equation:
`P = MV / Y`
M = Money supply
V = Velocity of money (how often each unit is spent)
P = Price level
Y = Real output (GDP)
It is clear to see that for prices not to rise, any increase in the money supply must be counterbalanced by a reduction in the velocity of money, or an increase in real output. That is why you will often see the fed brazenly try to crash the economy to fix inflation. I also want you to note that if real output is increased proportionally as a result of the increase in the money supply, then prices will not rise.
This means that credit expansion can continue so long as investment remains productive. But suppose that, suddenly, investment becomes unproductive! Perhaps there is no further efficiency gain to be made, or people have over-speculated. Well it's clear that in this case there will be a crash. This gets me onto my next point: boom and bust cycles are a natural product of feedback from this phenomenon. In times where investment is profitable, investors predict the good times will continue, and S_I goes up. However, the moment that consumption dips there will be a reversal in this trend: investors become fearful, and this phenomenon leads to boom and bust cycles. As Kalecki points out, this is exacerbated by the fact that there will be a lot of fixed capital lying around used specifically for investment that cannot be repurposed (machines and such) and this deepens the issue. When investors do not spend, workers cannot make money, meaning they cannot consume.
*** 2 External appropriation
Luxemburg speaks of this mainly Surplus value is realised via exports to non-capitalist markets, fuelling imperialism. I am too lazy to do this one rn and haven't read Luxemburg's works on imperialism in some time. But maybe later if I don't get shidded on for this thread
Finally, on the repression of workers. It's clear that there's an intrinsic animosity under capitalism between workers and investors, so investors will often forgo profits in order to collaborate to spend money to repress workers so they never realise this inherent tension.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk stop pretending I'm stupid just bc I don't cite Stalinist dogma every two sentences thank you.
Here's some sources I used to back up my points while writing dis so I don't sound like a schizo but honestly mostly I just reasoned it out from first principles and remembered where some people spoke about what I already had in my brain long ago.
Ted Harvey lectures on Kalecki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73gWjTXd-ts
Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital
https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/ch01.htm
Political Aspects of Full Employment
https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf
Theory of Economic Dynamics
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.122597
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Join known Maoist Youtuber Jason Unruhe on an AMA (Ask Me Anything) here at leftypol.org
Post your questions on the forthcoming AMA thread next Saturday!
Cya there!
AMA ANNOUNCEMENT - JASON UNRUHE
Saturday, June 28th at 5:00 PM ESTJoin known Maoist Youtuber Jason Unruhe on an AMA (Ask Me Anything) here at leftypol.org
Post your questions on the forthcoming AMA thread next Saturday!
Cya there!
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I recently learned that their normalisation of Jolani (Golani or Al Sharaa) started way back in 2015, when ISIS was in full swing.
>Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi is a respected Sufi scholar and teacher from Damascus who has been an outspoken voice against IS and other extremist groups in Syria. Throughout the course of the uprising, he has been consulted by rebel fighters seeking guidance regarding their conduct in the war. In this capacity, the Sheikh has provided numerous fatwas against acts of extremism, violence against civilians, sectarian violence, and the killing of prisoners. Sheikh Yaqoubi has previously been interviewed for Syria Comment, and more information on his background and activities can be found in that article.
>Sheikh Muhammad, what did you make of al-Jazeera’s interview with Abu Mohammed al-Julani?
<The interview was fifty minutes of mockery—a scandal for professional journalism. It is unbelievable that al-Jazeera is doing the dirty job of beautifying this man before tens of millions of viewers, ordinary Muslims, telling them that he is a good man who is doing a good job, helping the Syrian people, a good Muslim, a moderate Muslim—he’s not! It was clear from the interview that the ideology of al-Nusra Front has not changed. Al-Julani twice confirmed his allegiance to al-Qaida, saying that he receives orders from its leader Dr. Aymenn [al-Zawahiri], and the interviewer never interjected any question about this. All the interviewer did was attempt to portray him as a nice man. He never asked him a critical question; he never challenged him.
>What do you think is happening today that allows an important representative of al-Qaida to be featured on television in an accepting way by a mainstream voice of the media?
This question should be directed to Qatar’s government. Why are they doing this?
The man clearly stated that he hasn’t abandoned any of his principles. He only stated one thing that differs from his earlier positions: he says that he has received orders from al-Qaida leader Dr. Ayman to not target the West. This is the only real [ideological] change from what he conveyed in his earlier interview in 2013. Now they are just trying to get statements from him to the effect that “we do not do takfir.” And yet in the same interview, he confirmed the extreme position that visiting shrines of saints is kufr or shirk, accusing people who visit shrines of being mushrikiin [those who “commit polytheism” by ascribing “partners” to God]. This means he is going to have to consider most Sunni Muslims apostates (which for him could mean having to kill them) because they have shrines of saints and visit them, such as our shrine for Ibn ‘Arabi in the heart of Damascus, or in Konya the shrine for Mawlana Rumi, the most famous Muslim saint in the world. You have saints everywhere, from Morocco to South Africa, from Indonesia to Istanbul. All these Muslims are mushrikiin—non-Muslims, unbelievers—according to him? How can this be? This ideology is alien to the Syrian people and to the nature of Islam in Syria.
And ironically—or perhaps even sarcastically—they are trying to present him as so friendly toward [minority] sects.
>As he said that Nusra will not kill Alawites or Druze.
<Druze and Alawites—“if they don’t fight us, if they don’t work with Assad,” then they will not kill them.
>But he made changing their religion a prerequisite for this.
<This is the key moment where the interviewer failed to interrupt to pose any hard questions. He [al-Julani] gave two conditions. The first was that they abandon Assad, or defect—and this is the understandable politics of war. But the second condition, at which the interviewer did not pause to question him, was, when talking about the Druze villages in Idlib, he said “we have sent them du??t” [proselytizers], people to correct their dogma or their Islam.” And about Alawites, also he repeated that “if they accept Islam, we’ll be fine with them.” His approach to Druze and Alawites is that they should become Muslims and “then we will accept them,” which differs from the long-established position adopted by Sunnis, such as the Hanafis and Malikis, who accepted these groups and made them equal to the People of the Book. Al-Julani’s position means that Alawites have the only the choices of converting to Islam or being killed; they would not even be extended the option of deportation.
Now, these Alawites and Druze, along with the Isma’ilis, have lived side by side with Sunni Muslims for over a thousand years, and Muslims did not attempt to erase, eradicate, or convert them, even though Muslims had power, as the rulers of the land, such as the Ottomans. This is because it is part of our legal system that these people could be treated as the People of the Book, which means they are full citizens of the countries where they live. It is in the Hanafi school, the Malaki school, it is even one opinion of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Now I understand the position of the Shafi’is, but it was never practiced, so why pick it up after all these centuries? While the majority of Muslim scholars say that even mushrikiin can be treated as the People of the Book? Imam Malik says this very clearly and so does Abu Hanifa. This was practiced for many centuries in Syria, so why now? Why turn the tables after all of this history and begin forcing people into Islam? Al-Julani wants to claim to be more loyal to Islam than the Muslims? More than the Ottomans, more than the Ayubids, more than the Abbasids, more than the Umayyads, more than the companions of the Prophet? This is very strange.
FUCK AL JAZEERA
A reminder that no matter how much Pro-Palestine AL Jazeera presents itself, Leftists should oppose this propagandist garbage and its lackeys like Mehdi Hassan.I recently learned that their normalisation of Jolani (Golani or Al Sharaa) started way back in 2015, when ISIS was in full swing.
>Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi is a respected Sufi scholar and teacher from Damascus who has been an outspoken voice against IS and other extremist groups in Syria. Throughout the course of the uprising, he has been consulted by rebel fighters seeking guidance regarding their conduct in the war. In this capacity, the Sheikh has provided numerous fatwas against acts of extremism, violence against civilians, sectarian violence, and the killing of prisoners. Sheikh Yaqoubi has previously been interviewed for Syria Comment, and more information on his background and activities can be found in that article.
>Sheikh Muhammad, what did you make of al-Jazeera’s interview with Abu Mohammed al-Julani?
<The interview was fifty minutes of mockery—a scandal for professional journalism. It is unbelievable that al-Jazeera is doing the dirty job of beautifying this man before tens of millions of viewers, ordinary Muslims, telling them that he is a good man who is doing a good job, helping the Syrian people, a good Muslim, a moderate Muslim—he’s not! It was clear from the interview that the ideology of al-Nusra Front has not changed. Al-Julani twice confirmed his allegiance to al-Qaida, saying that he receives orders from its leader Dr. Aymenn [al-Zawahiri], and the interviewer never interjected any question about this. All the interviewer did was attempt to portray him as a nice man. He never asked him a critical question; he never challenged him.
>What do you think is happening today that allows an important representative of al-Qaida to be featured on television in an accepting way by a mainstream voice of the media?
This question should be directed to Qatar’s government. Why are they doing this?
The man clearly stated that he hasn’t abandoned any of his principles. He only stated one thing that differs from his earlier positions: he says that he has received orders from al-Qaida leader Dr. Ayman to not target the West. This is the only real [ideological] change from what he conveyed in his earlier interview in 2013. Now they are just trying to get statements from him to the effect that “we do not do takfir.” And yet in the same interview, he confirmed the extreme position that visiting shrines of saints is kufr or shirk, accusing people who visit shrines of being mushrikiin [those who “commit polytheism” by ascribing “partners” to God]. This means he is going to have to consider most Sunni Muslims apostates (which for him could mean having to kill them) because they have shrines of saints and visit them, such as our shrine for Ibn ‘Arabi in the heart of Damascus, or in Konya the shrine for Mawlana Rumi, the most famous Muslim saint in the world. You have saints everywhere, from Morocco to South Africa, from Indonesia to Istanbul. All these Muslims are mushrikiin—non-Muslims, unbelievers—according to him? How can this be? This ideology is alien to the Syrian people and to the nature of Islam in Syria.
And ironically—or perhaps even sarcastically—they are trying to present him as so friendly toward [minority] sects.
>As he said that Nusra will not kill Alawites or Druze.
<Druze and Alawites—“if they don’t fight us, if they don’t work with Assad,” then they will not kill them.
>But he made changing their religion a prerequisite for this.
<This is the key moment where the interviewer failed to interrupt to pose any hard questions. He [al-Julani] gave two conditions. The first was that they abandon Assad, or defect—and this is the understandable politics of war. But the second condition, at which the interviewer did not pause to question him, was, when talking about the Druze villages in Idlib, he said “we have sent them du??t” [proselytizers], people to correct their dogma or their Islam.” And about Alawites, also he repeated that “if they accept Islam, we’ll be fine with them.” His approach to Druze and Alawites is that they should become Muslims and “then we will accept them,” which differs from the long-established position adopted by Sunnis, such as the Hanafis and Malikis, who accepted these groups and made them equal to the People of the Book. Al-Julani’s position means that Alawites have the only the choices of converting to Islam or being killed; they would not even be extended the option of deportation.
Now, these Alawites and Druze, along with the Isma’ilis, have lived side by side with Sunni Muslims for over a thousand years, and Muslims did not attempt to erase, eradicate, or convert them, even though Muslims had power, as the rulers of the land, such as the Ottomans. This is because it is part of our legal system that these people could be treated as the People of the Book, which means they are full citizens of the countries where they live. It is in the Hanafi school, the Malaki school, it is even one opinion of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Now I understand the position of the Shafi’is, but it was never practiced, so why pick it up after all these centuries? While the majority of Muslim scholars say that even mushrikiin can be treated as the People of the Book? Imam Malik says this very clearly and so does Abu Hanifa. This was practiced for many centuries in Syria, so why now? Why turn the tables after all of this history and begin forcing people into Islam? Al-Julani wants to claim to be more loyal to Islam than the Muslims? More than the Ottomans, more than the Ayubids, more than the Abbasids, more than the Umayyads, more than the companions of the Prophet? This is very strange.
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https://www.marxistunity.com/light-and-air/a-fighting-socialist-program
Ok let's check it out.
>Whereas in order to build a new society, our organization must have unity around our goals and beliefs and an ability to explain our politics to people in our lives and communities.
This is coming from people who can't even explain what value is.
>Whereas historical socialist parties have developed unity by adopting a program which explains capitalist society, includes demands which connect to present consciousness, and clearly states that the working class will need to conquer political power.
They don't argue why the working class needs to conquer political power (they don't even elaborate on what that is). They just state it lol.
>We live in a country run by a class of bosses and billionaires called capitalists. They have bought and run the Democratic and Republican parties, most news outlets, colleges and universities, and every branch of government from city halls to the Senate. They use their power to exploit the vast majority who work to live—the hundreds of millions of us who make up the working class. This system can only be ended by the working class taking political power from the rich and building a new society. We in the Democratic Socialists of America fight for that society: a democratic socialist society.
And thus capital isn't an alien social force, it is a cabal of billionaires who have co-opted two political parties.
>Our wages are stagnant, our hours are long, and prices are only growing higher. We increasingly live paycheck to paycheck, one bad day away from financial ruin. And yet it is our labor that powers this unjust system. The capitalists who own the businesses we work at take all the profits for themselves and use them to control our society. This is the exploitation that defines the capitalist system.
What has the first part got to do with the second? They don't even know what exploitation is, just calling profits lol.
>The capitalist system exploits Black, immigrant, and Indigenous people by dividing them from the rest of the working class. Millions of people of color face discrimination, unemployment, and police violence, locking them out of political power and an equal quality of life. Oppressive laws restricting abortion, marriage, and self-expression force women and queer people to choose between being controlled by their family or living in poverty outside of it.
Black, immigrant and indigenous people are all automatically working class. They say but don't elaborate that all working people have an interest in opposing discrimination. Trying to argue that just because they're working class means they automatically should.
>Capitalism is a global system that exploits workers around the world. The most powerful capitalists use their wealth to influence governments into waging wars, toppling other governments, and starving entire peoples with sanctions and embargoes. They use this power to coerce other countries into selling their natural resources, labor, and goods for cheap prices. This imperialist exploitation forces workers of wealthy and poor countries to compete in a race to the bottom.
More of this capitalism is bad because of consciously bad capitalists lol. If only we had some noble socialists running bourgeois states. 😭
>The United States has become a superpower through exploiting and oppressing countries throughout the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Africa while crushing and bribing workers at home. As workers in the most powerful country on the planet, we must build a global movement against the exploitation of the working class by opposing our government's imperialist goals and toppling its capitalist backers.
US exceptionalism, a weird appeal to nationalism. The US, the most bourgeois country in the world, where even their socialists are bourgeois, should naturally lead world communism. Also this isn't how the US became a superpower. And here we go again with capital as individuals. Most Americans don't even have passports.
>Both political parties work for the capitalist class in a political system rigged to keep the ruling class in charge. The working class needs a party of its own to change this. We need an organization by and for our class, where our politicians reflect our values and where we make our decisions democratically. Democratic Socialists of America is that party. We are united by a program of putting workers in control. In our fight against oppression and exploitation, we sit with our neighbors on rent strikes, stand with unions in strikes to win better pay and benefits, protest oppression, and feed our communities. We elect our own members to legislatures around the country to speak out against injustices while fighting for healthcare and cheap groceries.
More of capital as individuals. Lol rigged. Bourgeois democracy can be as free as you like and it will still dominate the state. The working class needs an "organisation" (not a party?) to make it unrigged?
>Winning reforms or building a mass workers’ party alone is not enough. The Constitution is written to protect the rich few from the working majority. Anything we win from the rich can be taken away with the stroke of a pen. The historic victories of the labor movement, the New Deal, and the Civil Rights movement are already being stripped away. In order to protect our victories and implement the wider changes we need, the working class must take political power from the rich and create a new republic based on a democratic constitution.
How are they winning reforms and building a mass worker party? Lol all of their demands are petty bourgeois and mostly are about price control. The focus on the constitution is stupid, it's just a piece of paper that reflects society. They have it backwards they're pb morons.
>But winning the battle for democracy is just the start of the fight. The capitalist class will fight back tooth and nail with their control of industries and money. If we want a government by and for workers to stand a chance, we must immediately use political power to seize control of key industries and finance. We will replace the secret deliberations of a few shareholder boards with public, democratic control at every level of the economy. We will have a socialist society where economic prosperity will serve our needs instead of profit.
What's the end of the fight, chief? They've misunderstood what the battle for democracy means and literally think it's a battle FOR democracy. See Lenin's PRRK. They also confuse again what value is by arguing that profit should be used for good.
The rest of it is just demands over price controls that are just copies of what is popular now. Maybe they think they're working class demands and are trying to follow the mass line or something lol how can you argue for price controls and then a minimum wage? It is the conservative or bourgeois socialism that Marx mentions all the way back in the manifesto, right down to the demands for prison reform.
DSA moment
<Marxist Unity Group and Reform & Revolution are proud to announce that we have combined our programs, and will propose this Fighting Socialist Program together at DSA conventionhttps://www.marxistunity.com/light-and-air/a-fighting-socialist-program
Ok let's check it out.
>Whereas in order to build a new society, our organization must have unity around our goals and beliefs and an ability to explain our politics to people in our lives and communities.
This is coming from people who can't even explain what value is.
>Whereas historical socialist parties have developed unity by adopting a program which explains capitalist society, includes demands which connect to present consciousness, and clearly states that the working class will need to conquer political power.
They don't argue why the working class needs to conquer political power (they don't even elaborate on what that is). They just state it lol.
>We live in a country run by a class of bosses and billionaires called capitalists. They have bought and run the Democratic and Republican parties, most news outlets, colleges and universities, and every branch of government from city halls to the Senate. They use their power to exploit the vast majority who work to live—the hundreds of millions of us who make up the working class. This system can only be ended by the working class taking political power from the rich and building a new society. We in the Democratic Socialists of America fight for that society: a democratic socialist society.
And thus capital isn't an alien social force, it is a cabal of billionaires who have co-opted two political parties.
>Our wages are stagnant, our hours are long, and prices are only growing higher. We increasingly live paycheck to paycheck, one bad day away from financial ruin. And yet it is our labor that powers this unjust system. The capitalists who own the businesses we work at take all the profits for themselves and use them to control our society. This is the exploitation that defines the capitalist system.
What has the first part got to do with the second? They don't even know what exploitation is, just calling profits lol.
>The capitalist system exploits Black, immigrant, and Indigenous people by dividing them from the rest of the working class. Millions of people of color face discrimination, unemployment, and police violence, locking them out of political power and an equal quality of life. Oppressive laws restricting abortion, marriage, and self-expression force women and queer people to choose between being controlled by their family or living in poverty outside of it.
Black, immigrant and indigenous people are all automatically working class. They say but don't elaborate that all working people have an interest in opposing discrimination. Trying to argue that just because they're working class means they automatically should.
>Capitalism is a global system that exploits workers around the world. The most powerful capitalists use their wealth to influence governments into waging wars, toppling other governments, and starving entire peoples with sanctions and embargoes. They use this power to coerce other countries into selling their natural resources, labor, and goods for cheap prices. This imperialist exploitation forces workers of wealthy and poor countries to compete in a race to the bottom.
More of this capitalism is bad because of consciously bad capitalists lol. If only we had some noble socialists running bourgeois states. 😭
>The United States has become a superpower through exploiting and oppressing countries throughout the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Africa while crushing and bribing workers at home. As workers in the most powerful country on the planet, we must build a global movement against the exploitation of the working class by opposing our government's imperialist goals and toppling its capitalist backers.
US exceptionalism, a weird appeal to nationalism. The US, the most bourgeois country in the world, where even their socialists are bourgeois, should naturally lead world communism. Also this isn't how the US became a superpower. And here we go again with capital as individuals. Most Americans don't even have passports.
>Both political parties work for the capitalist class in a political system rigged to keep the ruling class in charge. The working class needs a party of its own to change this. We need an organization by and for our class, where our politicians reflect our values and where we make our decisions democratically. Democratic Socialists of America is that party. We are united by a program of putting workers in control. In our fight against oppression and exploitation, we sit with our neighbors on rent strikes, stand with unions in strikes to win better pay and benefits, protest oppression, and feed our communities. We elect our own members to legislatures around the country to speak out against injustices while fighting for healthcare and cheap groceries.
More of capital as individuals. Lol rigged. Bourgeois democracy can be as free as you like and it will still dominate the state. The working class needs an "organisation" (not a party?) to make it unrigged?
>Winning reforms or building a mass workers’ party alone is not enough. The Constitution is written to protect the rich few from the working majority. Anything we win from the rich can be taken away with the stroke of a pen. The historic victories of the labor movement, the New Deal, and the Civil Rights movement are already being stripped away. In order to protect our victories and implement the wider changes we need, the working class must take political power from the rich and create a new republic based on a democratic constitution.
How are they winning reforms and building a mass worker party? Lol all of their demands are petty bourgeois and mostly are about price control. The focus on the constitution is stupid, it's just a piece of paper that reflects society. They have it backwards they're pb morons.
>But winning the battle for democracy is just the start of the fight. The capitalist class will fight back tooth and nail with their control of industries and money. If we want a government by and for workers to stand a chance, we must immediately use political power to seize control of key industries and finance. We will replace the secret deliberations of a few shareholder boards with public, democratic control at every level of the economy. We will have a socialist society where economic prosperity will serve our needs instead of profit.
What's the end of the fight, chief? They've misunderstood what the battle for democracy means and literally think it's a battle FOR democracy. See Lenin's PRRK. They also confuse again what value is by arguing that profit should be used for good.
The rest of it is just demands over price controls that are just copies of what is popular now. Maybe they think they're working class demands and are trying to follow the mass line or something lol how can you argue for price controls and then a minimum wage? It is the conservative or bourgeois socialism that Marx mentions all the way back in the manifesto, right down to the demands for prison reform.
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question for this site: do you even plan to have kids?
>b-but life nowadays is too expensive and dangerous
idc i'm not asking that uyghur
>b-but i have the freedom to choose if i plan to have kids or not
how do you plan to build the future then?
also not asking that neither
question for this site: do you even plan to have kids?
>b-but life nowadays is too expensive and dangerous
idc i'm not asking that uyghur
>b-but i have the freedom to choose if i plan to have kids or not
how do you plan to build the future then?
also not asking that neither
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1. Many seem to presume that capitalism is already global but I don't think that's the case; there are plenty of areas which capitalism has not de/re territorialised as of yet. I am not even sure that the rate of globalisation is decelerating. Is there clear evidence of this?
2. I understand Marxism to be the study of the *development* of material relations, so I would generally assume that the closer you get to the imperial 'core', and the most developed/mature zone, the closer you get to the place where revolution can happen. Don't most revolutions occur in the capital cities of nations because this is where the core of power resides? Why wouldn't a revolution against imperialism therefore occur in the capital 'country' of capitalism (I.E., the country which holds the reserve currency, has most imperial power and is the controller of foreign surpluses).
I agree that the third-world is where the brunt of exploitation occurs obviously and is thus the largest pressure point, but I would assume that any pressure would have to destabilise the core in some way and precipitate a revolution there as well.
Third Worldism?
I am a quite sceptical of the third-worldist position, I wonder if anyone could illuminate the answer to these two questions for me:1. Many seem to presume that capitalism is already global but I don't think that's the case; there are plenty of areas which capitalism has not de/re territorialised as of yet. I am not even sure that the rate of globalisation is decelerating. Is there clear evidence of this?
2. I understand Marxism to be the study of the *development* of material relations, so I would generally assume that the closer you get to the imperial 'core', and the most developed/mature zone, the closer you get to the place where revolution can happen. Don't most revolutions occur in the capital cities of nations because this is where the core of power resides? Why wouldn't a revolution against imperialism therefore occur in the capital 'country' of capitalism (I.E., the country which holds the reserve currency, has most imperial power and is the controller of foreign surpluses).
I agree that the third-world is where the brunt of exploitation occurs obviously and is thus the largest pressure point, but I would assume that any pressure would have to destabilise the core in some way and precipitate a revolution there as well.
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“Three Worlds” Strategy: Apology for Capitulation
Statement by the Revolutionary Communist Party USA published in Revolution, 1978
For some time now, considerable attention in the international communist movement has been devoted to debating the Chinese international line. Since the counter-revolutionary coup in China shortly after Comrade Mao Tsetung’s death, it has become crystal clear that the “three worlds” strategy is part and parcel of the Chinese revisionists’ general line for the restoration of capitalism in China and capitulation to imperialism, particularly at this time U.S. imperialism, on a world scale.
In 1966 Mao wrote to his wife and close comrade, Chiang Ching, that if, after he died the capitalist-roaders came to power, then “The right in power could utilize my words to become mighty for a while. But then the left will be able to utilize others of my words and organize itself to overthrow the right.” These words were very prophetic indeed. But what is remarkable is how few of his words the revisionists in China can dredge up to try to lend Mao’s prestige to a line that runs counter to everything Mao spent his life fighting for.
Of course, what stands out most sharply is that the “three worlds” theory is not a theory at all, but rather an empty and shallow justification for the Chinese revisionists to pursue a pragmatic policy in international affairs. A policy not based on advancing the interests of world revolution but on the contrary a policy of sacrificing support for revolutionary struggles and based on an overall line of gutting socialism in China itself for what the revisionist usurpers see to be their immediate and narrow interests. It is a chauvinist “theory” that substitutes the national interests of China–as perceived through the distorted looking glass of the bourgeoisie–for the worldwide struggle against imperialism and demands that these “interests” occupy the central position in the international communist movement.
Because the “three worlds” strategy is a recipe for capitulation, it has found ardent supporters in many countries throughout the world among precisely those self-styled “Marxists” anxious to grab hold of any justification–especially one backed by a country as prestigious as the People’s Republic of China–for capitulating to their own bourgeoisie. In our own country we have seen this most clearly and shamelessly on the part of the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist (formerly the October League) which has used this “theory” to justify their line of aiming their “main blow” not at their own rulers, the U.S. ruling class, but at the Soviet social-imperialists. Similarly, they and others like them have found the “three worlds” strategy a handy justification for ignoring and in fact opposing the genuine struggles for national liberation in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. But just as this revisionist line has been taken up by opportunists and social-chauvinists around the world, genuine Marxist-Leninists have come forward to fight it from every corner of the globe also.
Reading of the Day (6/25/25)
Decided to do another one of these. Not gonna make myself do them every day (be honest, y'all don't read enough to necessitate that) but this is a nice exercise in making study questions while I organize irl political ed. and work on my teaching cert. Enjoy:“Three Worlds” Strategy: Apology for Capitulation
Statement by the Revolutionary Communist Party USA published in Revolution, 1978
For some time now, considerable attention in the international communist movement has been devoted to debating the Chinese international line. Since the counter-revolutionary coup in China shortly after Comrade Mao Tsetung’s death, it has become crystal clear that the “three worlds” strategy is part and parcel of the Chinese revisionists’ general line for the restoration of capitalism in China and capitulation to imperialism, particularly at this time U.S. imperialism, on a world scale.
In 1966 Mao wrote to his wife and close comrade, Chiang Ching, that if, after he died the capitalist-roaders came to power, then “The right in power could utilize my words to become mighty for a while. But then the left will be able to utilize others of my words and organize itself to overthrow the right.” These words were very prophetic indeed. But what is remarkable is how few of his words the revisionists in China can dredge up to try to lend Mao’s prestige to a line that runs counter to everything Mao spent his life fighting for.
Of course, what stands out most sharply is that the “three worlds” theory is not a theory at all, but rather an empty and shallow justification for the Chinese revisionists to pursue a pragmatic policy in international affairs. A policy not based on advancing the interests of world revolution but on the contrary a policy of sacrificing support for revolutionary struggles and based on an overall line of gutting socialism in China itself for what the revisionist usurpers see to be their immediate and narrow interests. It is a chauvinist “theory” that substitutes the national interests of China–as perceived through the distorted looking glass of the bourgeoisie–for the worldwide struggle against imperialism and demands that these “interests” occupy the central position in the international communist movement.
Because the “three worlds” strategy is a recipe for capitulation, it has found ardent supporters in many countries throughout the world among precisely those self-styled “Marxists” anxious to grab hold of any justification–especially one backed by a country as prestigious as the People’s Republic of China–for capitulating to their own bourgeoisie. In our own country we have seen this most clearly and shamelessly on the part of the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist (formerly the October League) which has used this “theory” to justify their line of aiming their “main blow” not at their own rulers, the U.S. ruling class, but at the Soviet social-imperialists. Similarly, they and others like them have found the “three worlds” strategy a handy justification for ignoring and in fact opposing the genuine struggles for national liberation in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. But just as this revisionist line has been taken up by opportunists and social-chauvinists around the world, genuine Marxist-Leninists have come forward to fight it from every corner of the globe also.
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Like how now some Jews are panicking about mamdani winning the primary and saying they have to jump ship despite him being a simple progressive democrat even tho they make him sound like the second coming of Hitler lol
Judaism is a mental illness
There's something incredibly eerie about Judaism that I can't seem to point my finger on. All religions induce strange mental disorders. But Judaism indices a particular kind of disorder I don't know what to call. It always looked like Jews seemed to live in a parallel reality where every non jew is potentially a dangerous aggressor regardless of his ethnic origins, political motivation, country etc… which is an incredibly paranoid reality. It's almost akin to a mental disorder where no one can be truly trusted except Jews. They live in a state of perpetual victimhood where something benign like a joke at their expense can quickly escalate to harassment and persecution and eventually genocide. So to them any means of persecuting non Jews in a preventive manner is justified, like how IDF soldiers would shoot a child because he can potentially become a terrorist in the future. Which is a retarded way of viewing things since these types of behavior only increase antisemitism which increases their paranoia and aggressiveness. It's almost like a self designed feedback loop of oppression. And it's so obvious to non Jews it only makes us laugh how they're completely unable to see this.Like how now some Jews are panicking about mamdani winning the primary and saying they have to jump ship despite him being a simple progressive democrat even tho they make him sound like the second coming of Hitler lol
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1968
What was it about 1968 that made it such a revolutionary year in the West? What was the historical materialist context which made it so revolutionary and made it the closest that the West came to revolution and how was it coopted and liberalized in the 70s and 80s?
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Which side does leftypol support? The bourgeois police which is anti-EU or the medieval clerics who are pro-EU
>Armenian police have attempted to raid the seat of the country’s Apostolic Church, the country’s largest religion, in the city of Vagharshapat, leading to major clashes between clerics, church members and law enforcement.
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Police clash with clerics in Armenia
Now this will be a funny thread.Which side does leftypol support? The bourgeois police which is anti-EU or the medieval clerics who are pro-EU
>Armenian police have attempted to raid the seat of the country’s Apostolic Church, the country’s largest religion, in the city of Vagharshapat, leading to major clashes between clerics, church members and law enforcement.
https://swentr.site/russia/620613-police-clerics-clash-armenia/
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The "famines" argument against socialism is ridiculous and can be debunked by thinking critically for a single minute.
Every major famine in a socialist country was the last of its kind. Yes there were absolutely preventable famines (e.g the 4 Pests Campaign), but they were generally the last famines to occur in those countries.
Capitalism causes ongoing famines in the 3rd world. Because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, capitalists need to offset this by increasing the rate of exploitation by lowering wages, done by moving the industrial heartland of the world from the west to Asia and Africa, paying people next to nothing. There are also easily preventable incidents here, mistakes are not exclusive to socialism because there's "no checks and balances", as seen with the Nestle anti-breast feeding campaign. "But they apologized and tried to fix it" so did China.
The millions who died "from socialism" are nothing compared to the casualties of capitalism. Of course there are casualties under socialism, it's the transitory mode of production between capitalism and communism. It still has to interact with the value-form because the revolution isn't global yet.
You will literally never hear an ancap/libertarian type even mention the 3rd world and you will never hear a liberal mention the third world outside of meaningless nothingburger moralism.
The "famines" argument against socialism is ridiculous and can be debunked by thinking critically for a single minute.
Every major famine in a socialist country was the last of its kind. Yes there were absolutely preventable famines (e.g the 4 Pests Campaign), but they were generally the last famines to occur in those countries.
Capitalism causes ongoing famines in the 3rd world. Because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, capitalists need to offset this by increasing the rate of exploitation by lowering wages, done by moving the industrial heartland of the world from the west to Asia and Africa, paying people next to nothing. There are also easily preventable incidents here, mistakes are not exclusive to socialism because there's "no checks and balances", as seen with the Nestle anti-breast feeding campaign. "But they apologized and tried to fix it" so did China.
The millions who died "from socialism" are nothing compared to the casualties of capitalism. Of course there are casualties under socialism, it's the transitory mode of production between capitalism and communism. It still has to interact with the value-form because the revolution isn't global yet.
You will literally never hear an ancap/libertarian type even mention the 3rd world and you will never hear a liberal mention the third world outside of meaningless nothingburger moralism.
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using "solidarity" to mean "left unity" is one of the worst rhetorical tricks leftists play. the bourgeoisie don't have "right wing unity", otherwise there'd be no proletarians who hold reactionary views because they'd have "unity" and not exploit those ones. what they have is CLASS unity. and most leftists are NOT proletarians. solidarity means unite the proletariat, not some nebulous "left"!
using "solidarity" to mean "left unity" is one of the worst rhetorical tricks leftists play. the bourgeoisie don't have "right wing unity", otherwise there'd be no proletarians who hold reactionary views because they'd have "unity" and not exploit those ones. what they have is CLASS unity. and most leftists are NOT proletarians. solidarity means unite the proletariat, not some nebulous "left"!
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I don't know enough about their economics and the governance of China, the CPC, the NPC, its history and culture because the books I ordered on the matter will take months to arrive.
I'm sorry China, you can exist without my KKKritical support for a bit, just hold on until I get to read about you.
Once I get the books it will take awhile for me to read them.
- Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Marketisation of the Chinese economy by Harpal Bar
- Marxism and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Jin Huiming
- China's Political System by Yin Zhongqing
- Constitution Peoples Republic China
- A Study of the Scientific Outlook on Development: Theory and Practice Hardcover by Yan Zhimin (Author), Wang Shouli (Author)
- Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (Vols 1-4 and as many as the series goes)
- Selected Works of Hu Jintao: 2001-2012 (Intercultural publishing)
- Chinese Economic History Up to 1949 (Key Papers on China) (2 vols)
- Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners by Roland Boer
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Paperback by Ezra F. Vogel
-Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite Hardcover by Bruce Gilley
I cannot find Selected Works of Hu Jintao: 2001-2012 in english, it appears there it is only in chinese in four volumes for now. So my KKKritical support will have to wait until I can know what he was up to. So Dengists-Xiists, restock your books supply.
I cannot support China because...
I cannot support China becauseI don't know enough about their economics and the governance of China, the CPC, the NPC, its history and culture because the books I ordered on the matter will take months to arrive.
I'm sorry China, you can exist without my KKKritical support for a bit, just hold on until I get to read about you.
Once I get the books it will take awhile for me to read them.
- Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Marketisation of the Chinese economy by Harpal Bar
- Marxism and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Jin Huiming
- China's Political System by Yin Zhongqing
- Constitution Peoples Republic China
- A Study of the Scientific Outlook on Development: Theory and Practice Hardcover by Yan Zhimin (Author), Wang Shouli (Author)
- Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (Vols 1-4 and as many as the series goes)
- Selected Works of Hu Jintao: 2001-2012 (Intercultural publishing)
- Chinese Economic History Up to 1949 (Key Papers on China) (2 vols)
- Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners by Roland Boer
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Paperback by Ezra F. Vogel
-Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite Hardcover by Bruce Gilley
I cannot find Selected Works of Hu Jintao: 2001-2012 in english, it appears there it is only in chinese in four volumes for now. So my KKKritical support will have to wait until I can know what he was up to. So Dengists-Xiists, restock your books supply.
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>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.
A very special friend of ours warned us about this months ago and nobody listened.
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It's Official
>the killing of Brian Thompson>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.
A very special friend of ours warned us about this months ago and nobody listened.
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Virility is pretty useful for everyone and I mean everyone regardless of whatever label they attach to themselves. Having the strength, determination, intellect, and mental resilience to force changes on your environment by your hands is by far one of the most influential means of fixing the world around you. Hell, virility is a progression from the weakness the earliest and I mean the earliest humans had to face with. To call virility reactionary and not an asset that can be used for progressive changes is counterproductive. If anything, there are objectively far too many people too physically and emotionally weak to help themselves, help other people, or organize any resistance against blatant oppression when faced with (surprisingly weak) oppressors.
After all, how many adults are physically strong enough to lift another person away from a dangerous situation? How many have the mental resilience needed to even clean themselves and their homes on their own? How many can handle just eating right and being able to recognize the need to share food with others?
The bourgeoisie isn’t invincible, I can confidently say that most of them are weaker than I am in terms of physical strength and mental resilience.
Anyways, I’m doing plyometric and endurance training again and I’m going to buy myself a cool vest to get some extra gains in power. You should too.
Virility is pretty useful for everyone and I mean everyone regardless of whatever label they attach to themselves. Having the strength, determination, intellect, and mental resilience to force changes on your environment by your hands is by far one of the most influential means of fixing the world around you. Hell, virility is a progression from the weakness the earliest and I mean the earliest humans had to face with. To call virility reactionary and not an asset that can be used for progressive changes is counterproductive. If anything, there are objectively far too many people too physically and emotionally weak to help themselves, help other people, or organize any resistance against blatant oppression when faced with (surprisingly weak) oppressors.
After all, how many adults are physically strong enough to lift another person away from a dangerous situation? How many have the mental resilience needed to even clean themselves and their homes on their own? How many can handle just eating right and being able to recognize the need to share food with others?
The bourgeoisie isn’t invincible, I can confidently say that most of them are weaker than I am in terms of physical strength and mental resilience.
Anyways, I’m doing plyometric and endurance training again and I’m going to buy myself a cool vest to get some extra gains in power. You should too.
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Was it libcoded when Marx wrote a letter to Abe Lincoln, congratulating him on his electoral victory? Would Marx have been excited about Zohran Mamdani winning?
Was it libcoded when Marx wrote a letter to Abe Lincoln, congratulating him on his electoral victory? Would Marx have been excited about Zohran Mamdani winning?
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TIL Lenin used to term his beliefs as 'revolutionary social democracy'. I was reading 'Hands off Rosa Luxemburg!'; the various opinions people have on Trotsky or Luxemburg aside, I was surprised to find that Lenin apparently spoke of his own beliefs this way given what social democracy is nowadays.
>“… from the beginning we declared (see One Step Forward, Two Steps Back): We are not creating a special ‘Bolshevik’ tendency; always and everywhere we merely uphold the point of view of revolutionary Social Democracy. And right up to the social revolution there will inevitably always be an opportunist wing and a revolutionary wing of Social Democracy”
Apparently it's just another one of those things that got co-opted over time and he switched explicitly to terming it communism after 1917 or so. I wonder what his motives were for calling it social democracy? I know it does not exactly matter what labels we stick on what, but I find looking at the history of terminology revealing
TIL Lenin used to term his beliefs as 'revolutionary social democracy'. I was reading 'Hands off Rosa Luxemburg!'; the various opinions people have on Trotsky or Luxemburg aside, I was surprised to find that Lenin apparently spoke of his own beliefs this way given what social democracy is nowadays.
>“… from the beginning we declared (see One Step Forward, Two Steps Back): We are not creating a special ‘Bolshevik’ tendency; always and everywhere we merely uphold the point of view of revolutionary Social Democracy. And right up to the social revolution there will inevitably always be an opportunist wing and a revolutionary wing of Social Democracy”
Apparently it's just another one of those things that got co-opted over time and he switched explicitly to terming it communism after 1917 or so. I wonder what his motives were for calling it social democracy? I know it does not exactly matter what labels we stick on what, but I find looking at the history of terminology revealing
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>japanese right wing loses big during tokyo election
>japanese right wing win big cause all the votes went to other right wing parties
japanese communists also lost some of their most commie blocs they held for decades, reiwa didnt even gain a single seat
>japanese right wing loses big during tokyo election
>japanese right wing win big cause all the votes went to other right wing parties
japanese communists also lost some of their most commie blocs they held for decades, reiwa didnt even gain a single seat
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The longer the bourgeoisie states exist and hold nukes the greater the threat becomes, in the statistical paradoxes of infinity in all probabilities they will one day have to be used, since a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie can only be finite.
80,000 Hours researchers estimate the chance of nuclear war over the next century is 20–50%
https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/nuclear-security/
Nuclear Holocaust Odds
Is it almost pretty much a guarantee at this point? Soon?The longer the bourgeoisie states exist and hold nukes the greater the threat becomes, in the statistical paradoxes of infinity in all probabilities they will one day have to be used, since a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie can only be finite.
80,000 Hours researchers estimate the chance of nuclear war over the next century is 20–50%
https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/nuclear-security/
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Fuck Debord, Deleuze, Guattari, Adorno, Zizek, all the Frankfurt school, all other postmodernist, critical theory, all these indecipherable philosophers. I despise these social fascist lickspittles. Why are they even considered remotely socialist? It's like they didn't take a single lesson from The German Ideology, they read Marx encyclopedically but don't even pay attention to what he's saying! All they see is the long winded style of writing he inherited from Hegel and replicate that rather than spending a moment to realize that their philosophy is useless. Like liberals they pick out a few 'radical' sounding things and ignore the real work on political economy!
Their understanding of socialism is completely liberal because it is just taking the aesthetics and going 'Well, they had some good points. But I think we need a new way'. Liberal scum. Always they end up supporting NATO and social democracy, or they become ridiculous anarchists. The post-modernists have had a terrible effect on socialism. It is the ideology of neoliberal capitalism, incompatible with Marxism and communism. Post modernists need their delusions beaten out of them to show that the real world does have meaning. Postism is completely rubbish. All 'posts' are ridiculous theories, that included Post-colonialism. Fundementally they are bourgeois, because it is rejecting real progress.
All these lickspittles say is the most radical things ever. "Let's abolish capitalism and all exploitation! Let's abolish time! Let's abolish the current way we see the world!". But then they don't do anything about it! And lots of what they are asking for and conflating with the class struggle is ridiculous like paedophilia and time abolishing. These ones are the ideological fault for postisms and identity politics becoming such a big thing. Nobody real can read their work. Even Marx tried to make his work readable even though at times it is difficult. But they revel in how complex and difficult it is. This is for a reason - their audience is the petit-bourgeois, not the working class.
There has never been a good philosopher. Hegel might have been useful to Marx, but once Marx transcended him he should never be read (Lenin is wrong on this). The only real philosophers are the ones who are working in the struggle. The fascists should be ostracised and their books burned. I despise them and I am angered whenever I hear one of their evil names.
Fuck Debord, Deleuze, Guattari, Adorno, Zizek, all the Frankfurt school, all other postmodernist, critical theory, all these indecipherable philosophers. I despise these social fascist lickspittles. Why are they even considered remotely socialist? It's like they didn't take a single lesson from The German Ideology, they read Marx encyclopedically but don't even pay attention to what he's saying! All they see is the long winded style of writing he inherited from Hegel and replicate that rather than spending a moment to realize that their philosophy is useless. Like liberals they pick out a few 'radical' sounding things and ignore the real work on political economy!
Their understanding of socialism is completely liberal because it is just taking the aesthetics and going 'Well, they had some good points. But I think we need a new way'. Liberal scum. Always they end up supporting NATO and social democracy, or they become ridiculous anarchists. The post-modernists have had a terrible effect on socialism. It is the ideology of neoliberal capitalism, incompatible with Marxism and communism. Post modernists need their delusions beaten out of them to show that the real world does have meaning. Postism is completely rubbish. All 'posts' are ridiculous theories, that included Post-colonialism. Fundementally they are bourgeois, because it is rejecting real progress.
All these lickspittles say is the most radical things ever. "Let's abolish capitalism and all exploitation! Let's abolish time! Let's abolish the current way we see the world!". But then they don't do anything about it! And lots of what they are asking for and conflating with the class struggle is ridiculous like paedophilia and time abolishing. These ones are the ideological fault for postisms and identity politics becoming such a big thing. Nobody real can read their work. Even Marx tried to make his work readable even though at times it is difficult. But they revel in how complex and difficult it is. This is for a reason - their audience is the petit-bourgeois, not the working class.
There has never been a good philosopher. Hegel might have been useful to Marx, but once Marx transcended him he should never be read (Lenin is wrong on this). The only real philosophers are the ones who are working in the struggle. The fascists should be ostracised and their books burned. I despise them and I am angered whenever I hear one of their evil names.
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I’m at my last end with these people. Imagine taking part in militant mass protests only to insist the solution is to vote Democrat and throw emotional blackmail on anyone who doesn’t. Just like how liberals showed up to the George Floyd uprising five years ago with voter registration forms, liberals are already showing up at the LA uprising protests to convince people to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections last year. How much longer before libs start showing up with Ukrainian flags and attempt to make the protests about keeping the US in NATO or whatever? They’re also already blaming “white anarchists” for the more militant actions despite footage showing the vast majority of people defending themselves from the pigs are Mexicans and Central Americans themselves.
Do liberals honestly believe this brutality wouldn’t have happened under Harris? Biden and Harris sent goons to brutalize anti-genocide protesters all last year. I fucking hate this.
Anyone else feel the same?
ShitLib Fatigue
I can’t be the only one suffering from an extreme amount of ShitLib fatigue right now.I’m at my last end with these people. Imagine taking part in militant mass protests only to insist the solution is to vote Democrat and throw emotional blackmail on anyone who doesn’t. Just like how liberals showed up to the George Floyd uprising five years ago with voter registration forms, liberals are already showing up at the LA uprising protests to convince people to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections last year. How much longer before libs start showing up with Ukrainian flags and attempt to make the protests about keeping the US in NATO or whatever? They’re also already blaming “white anarchists” for the more militant actions despite footage showing the vast majority of people defending themselves from the pigs are Mexicans and Central Americans themselves.
Do liberals honestly believe this brutality wouldn’t have happened under Harris? Biden and Harris sent goons to brutalize anti-genocide protesters all last year. I fucking hate this.
Anyone else feel the same?
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Like fuck, you guys do realize that these wars will never go anywhere or amount to anything? They never have.
Weaklings trying to fight. That’s all it is
The fuck are y’all screaming and crying about India v pakistan, iran v israel, and Ukraine conflicts? It’s literally weak, scrawny, and fat wannabe tough guys (who basically never train) fighting each other on a country level just to grab whatever last shred of dignity they have and cherish it before dying pathetically to a drone or shell. None of that shit is going to affect you, but it is fun to watch the explosions get set off along with the goofier clips of the idiots who sign up to die in these wars arbitrarily or who get arrested for terrorism once the fighting dies down.Like fuck, you guys do realize that these wars will never go anywhere or amount to anything? They never have.
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Norwegian communism
Norwegian communist party is now at 7,3% with a consistent and steady trend that is growing rapidly. Rødt is now the largest left-wing party outside of the main legacy party Arbeiderpartiet.
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>free trade is colonialist oppression and communism creates self-reliance, but also Cuba must trade with capitalist states and beg for sanction relief because they have shortages of everything from electricity and medicine to plastic straws.
>free trade is colonialist oppression and communism creates self-reliance, but also Cuba must trade with capitalist states and beg for sanction relief because they have shortages of everything from electricity and medicine to plastic straws.
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I mean think about it, a movement that is mostly aimed towards popular, first kind of chaotic but quickly unified by a main theory, this being Marx. The movement born from this (and other writing, arguably stands for other socialist movement, be they formed from Marx' works or completely separate in origin), with the birth of disparate and not always so united communities, which for a good while were usualy persecuted by the established power. With the development of studies surrounding socialism further on, we see the birth of dogmas, notably in the established socialist states like the USSR, where those established theories becomes official policy. Meanwhile in non socialist states, the communities stay either persecuted or at best tolerated. With the variety of movements and ideas, I find it quite close to early christianity and its oh so varied theological takes.
On another note, I do find interesting how much leftist organization do use religious speech patterns in general, with key words carrying their almost self evident meaning, with a common ideal and struggle and so on. The idea came to me as I was thinking about future history, how will, in say 400 years, these leftist communities be studied ? Could a comparison to medieval/early modern jewish communities also be drawn out ?
Any opinion on the matter ? The comparison could probably be expanded. I'm just kind of curious.
Socialism: the new christianity ?
On this anniversary of the Bloody Week, something has struck me, how come socialism and more specifically marxism, in its history since its inception, has been so similar to early christian history ?I mean think about it, a movement that is mostly aimed towards popular, first kind of chaotic but quickly unified by a main theory, this being Marx. The movement born from this (and other writing, arguably stands for other socialist movement, be they formed from Marx' works or completely separate in origin), with the birth of disparate and not always so united communities, which for a good while were usualy persecuted by the established power. With the development of studies surrounding socialism further on, we see the birth of dogmas, notably in the established socialist states like the USSR, where those established theories becomes official policy. Meanwhile in non socialist states, the communities stay either persecuted or at best tolerated. With the variety of movements and ideas, I find it quite close to early christianity and its oh so varied theological takes.
On another note, I do find interesting how much leftist organization do use religious speech patterns in general, with key words carrying their almost self evident meaning, with a common ideal and struggle and so on. The idea came to me as I was thinking about future history, how will, in say 400 years, these leftist communities be studied ? Could a comparison to medieval/early modern jewish communities also be drawn out ?
Any opinion on the matter ? The comparison could probably be expanded. I'm just kind of curious.
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What the fuck is wrong with the people managing it?
Why the fuck are zionists so cartoonishly unhinged? Like, you kind of have to sit back to acknowledge how easily their behaviour would fit into an actual children’s cartoon given how easy it is for literally any mf to consider them to be objectively evil. They cannot be stupid right?
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Do you guys know any charity or something of the like that can be trusted to actually give the money to the people in need or spend it sensibly to help them?
Thank you.
Donation to Palestine
I have some spare cash that would be more useful to the people of Palestine, but I really don't know which fund raiser could is a scam or legit.Do you guys know any charity or something of the like that can be trusted to actually give the money to the people in need or spend it sensibly to help them?
Thank you.
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I did have a period of NEETdom, it's a quiet liberating, spent my days reading books, mangas, playing vidya, going to the gym and doing walks, almost 0 stress, pretty freeing lifestyle, I would keep being a NEET if I had the oportunity, but life is a bitch, I survived with Mombux.
WHAT'S THE LEFTYPOL CONSENSUS ON NEETs?
Are they lumpen? Class traitor? Revolutionary lifestyle that doesn't contribute to the working relation of modern capitalism? Leeches? Vagabonds? What's your opinion on NEETs? Did you had a NEETdom period in your life? How was it?I did have a period of NEETdom, it's a quiet liberating, spent my days reading books, mangas, playing vidya, going to the gym and doing walks, almost 0 stress, pretty freeing lifestyle, I would keep being a NEET if I had the oportunity, but life is a bitch, I survived with Mombux.
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mfw clara zetkin who first introduced the idea of an international womens day gets reduced today to just another basic feminist or womens rights figure, the exact kind of liberal shit she was totally against
< She viewed the feminist movement as being primarily composed of upper-class and middle-class women who had their own class interests in mind, which were incompatible with the interests of working-class women. Thus, feminism and the socialist fight for women's rights were incompatible. In her mind, socialism was the only way to truly end the oppression of women. One of her primary goals was to get women out of the house and into work so that they could participate in trade unions and other workers rights organizations to improve conditions for themselves. While she argued that the socialist movement should fight to achieve reforms that would lessen female oppression, she was convinced that such reforms could only prevail if they were embedded into a general move towards socialism; otherwise, they could easily be eradicated by future legislation.
mfw clara zetkin who first introduced the idea of an international womens day gets reduced today to just another basic feminist or womens rights figure, the exact kind of liberal shit she was totally against
< She viewed the feminist movement as being primarily composed of upper-class and middle-class women who had their own class interests in mind, which were incompatible with the interests of working-class women. Thus, feminism and the socialist fight for women's rights were incompatible. In her mind, socialism was the only way to truly end the oppression of women. One of her primary goals was to get women out of the house and into work so that they could participate in trade unions and other workers rights organizations to improve conditions for themselves. While she argued that the socialist movement should fight to achieve reforms that would lessen female oppression, she was convinced that such reforms could only prevail if they were embedded into a general move towards socialism; otherwise, they could easily be eradicated by future legislation.
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DHKP-C mucho underappreciated
DHKP-C literally controlled neighborhoods in Istanbul and held 1st of may marches with tens of thousands until they were weakened by Turkish state sponsored mafias and drug gangs. Most Halk Cephe members also went to fight in Palestine later on. One of the most underapriciated peoples front fr.
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The Italian grassroots trade union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) launched a general strike on Friday, June 20, to escalate national mobilization against armament and war. Echoing a slogan from broader peace campaigns – “Abbassate le armi, alzate i salari” (“Lower the weapons, raise the wages”) – striking workers aiming to expose the consequences of Europe’s, and more specifically Italy’s, growing military-industrial agenda, including more cuts in the region’s public services.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/21/italian-workers-strike-against-war-and-militarization/
British parliament votes in favour of assisted dying law
The “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)” law would give mentally competent, terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less left to live the right to choose to end their lives with medical help. Those who would want the procedure would have to be signed off on by two doctors and a panel of experts.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/20/british-parliament-votes-in-favour-of-assisted-dying-law
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Top Bulgarian official says he’ll intervene to stop food price spikes before eurozone entry
A top Bulgarian official has said he will intervene to stem sharp rises in the prices of food and drink that he blames on speculators profiteering ahead of the country's expected entry into the eurozone. Inflation is a politically explosive topic in Bulgaria, as the country looks set to join the eurozone on Jan. 1 next year. Public support is starkly divided, particularly because of fears that currency convergence will import western European prices to the EU's poorest country.
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Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian marches across Europe
In London, AFP journalists saw tens of thousands of protesters, who waved Palestinian flags as they marched through the British capital clad in keffiyeh scarves. In Berlin, more than 10,000 people gathered in the centre of the city in support of Gaza, according to police figures. And in the Swiss capital Bern, march organisers estimated that 20,000 people rallied in front of the national parliament, urging the government to back a ceasefire. There have been monthly protests in the British capital since the start of the 20-month-long war between Israel and Hamas, which has ravaged Gaza.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/06/tens-thousands-join-pro-palestinian-marches-across-europe
Jordan urged to cancel Israel gas deal after supply halted amid Iran war
The production halt - resulting from disruptions at the Leviathan gas field - is being cited by the Jordanian National Campaign to Overturn the Gas Agreement with the Zionist Entity, known by its slogan "The Enemy's Gas is Occupation", as grounds to terminate the deal. The campaign, a coalition of public figures, political parties and professional associations opposed to normalisation with Israel, views the current situation as a legal and political opportunity to annul the agreement under the force majeure clause. This clause permits cancellation without financial penalties if unforeseen events prevent the fulfilment of contractual obligations.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordan-urged-cancel-israel-gas-deal-after-supply-halted-amid-iran-war
Erdogan says UNRWA to open office in Turkey, calls for more support for agency
Addressing foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, Erdogan said opening an Ankara UNRWA office would deepen Turkey's support for the agency. "We must not allow UNRWA, which plays an irreplaceable role in terms of taking care of Palestinian refugees, to be paralysed by Israel. We expect our organisation and each member state to provide financial and moral support to UNRWA to thwart Israel's games," Erdogan said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/erdogan-says-unrwa-open-office-turkey-calls-more-support-agency-2025-06-21/
Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution
Members of the Bille and Ogale communities in the Niger delta, which have a combined population of about 50,000, are suing Shell and a Nigerian-based subsidiary of the company, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, which is now the Renaissance Africa Energy Company. The two communities began the legal action in 2015, claiming they had suffered systemic and ongoing oil pollution for years due to the companies’ operations in the African country, including the pollution of drinking water.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/nigerian-communities-shell-high-court-oil-pollution
Sri Lanka plans IMF talks on ways to lure foreign investors
Beyond last year's economic growth of 5%, Sri Lanka still needs to focus on deeper reforms such as reforming loss-making state enterprises and trimming a bloated public service, Dissanayake said. … Colombo boosted power prices by 15% last week in its effort to secure IMF executive board approval for the fifth tranche of its facility, standing at about $334 million.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-plans-imf-talks-ways-lure-foreign-investors-2025-06-16/
UN expert recommends NTF-ELCAC abolition amid rampant red-tagging and media attacks
Khan questioned the need to retain the NTF-ELCAC which was established by the previous administration under a different political context, considering its ruinous effect on their human rights, including the right to freedom of expression. She said that the Philippine government had briefly told her how it has been considering the task force into a peacebuilding entity, Khan expressed her doubt whether an entity that is widely considered to have been a major source of vilification, threats and harassment can transform itself into a credible peacebuilder.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/06/19/un-expert-recommends-ntf-elcac-abolition-amid-rampant-red-tagging-and-media-attacks/
Canada poised to pass infrastructure bill despite pushback from Indigenous people
While the bill says the government must consult Indigenous communities in cases where their rights are affected by a fast-tracked project, it also allows the Liberal cabinet to overrule pre-existing laws to speed up permits for major projects. The federal legislation comes as provinces also pass bills that speed up infrastructure projects. Ontario plans to create “special economic zones” that would bypass all provincial laws, amid tensions between the premier and First Nations chiefs in areas slated for mining. Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier, provoked criticism earlier this week criticized for saying First Nations communities “keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government” for more money. He apologized the following day after meeting with chiefs from the Anishinabek Nation, which represents 39 of Ontario’s 133 First Nations chiefs.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/20/canada-infrastructure-bill-indigenous-rights
Panama suspends constitutional protections in the northwest after destructive protests
What began as nationwide protests against changes to the social security system morphed Thursday night into people damaging the local airport and the facilities of banana giant Chiquita Brands, which fired thousands of striking workers in the province last month. Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino had said at the time that the banana workers’ strike was illegal and included some 5,000 workers. On May 27, the government declared a state of emergency in the province without suspending constitutional protections.
https://apnews.com/article/panama-protests-chiquita-banana-cd8c42c8cb695c2e39ee6fb3ec886388
Petro says Colombia will vote on constituent assembly next year
The Senate’s fierce opposition to a widely supported labor reform has shown “who is with” the people and “those who insults and condemn them, those who forbid them to speak. Now that popular knowledge must be expressed where the people are king, at the ballot box,” Petro added. For this reason, said the president, the government plans to convene a national constituent assembly that would be called during the same elections that will elect a new Congress and a successor to Petro. "I await the decision of millions so that the next government and congress will have the imperative mandate to build the social rule of law, social justice, deep democracy with the people, peace."
https://colombiareports.com/petro-says-colombia-will-vote-on-constituent-assembly-next-year/
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Italian workers strike against war and militarizationThe Italian grassroots trade union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) launched a general strike on Friday, June 20, to escalate national mobilization against armament and war. Echoing a slogan from broader peace campaigns – “Abbassate le armi, alzate i salari” (“Lower the weapons, raise the wages”) – striking workers aiming to expose the consequences of Europe’s, and more specifically Italy’s, growing military-industrial agenda, including more cuts in the region’s public services.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/21/italian-workers-strike-against-war-and-militarization/
British parliament votes in favour of assisted dying law
The “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)” law would give mentally competent, terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less left to live the right to choose to end their lives with medical help. Those who would want the procedure would have to be signed off on by two doctors and a panel of experts.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/20/british-parliament-votes-in-favour-of-assisted-dying-law
https://archive.ph/Jofq5
Top Bulgarian official says he’ll intervene to stop food price spikes before eurozone entry
A top Bulgarian official has said he will intervene to stem sharp rises in the prices of food and drink that he blames on speculators profiteering ahead of the country's expected entry into the eurozone. Inflation is a politically explosive topic in Bulgaria, as the country looks set to join the eurozone on Jan. 1 next year. Public support is starkly divided, particularly because of fears that currency convergence will import western European prices to the EU's poorest country.
https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-eurozone-official-stop-food-price-spikes-before-entry/
https://archive.ph/VG8b1
Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian marches across Europe
In London, AFP journalists saw tens of thousands of protesters, who waved Palestinian flags as they marched through the British capital clad in keffiyeh scarves. In Berlin, more than 10,000 people gathered in the centre of the city in support of Gaza, according to police figures. And in the Swiss capital Bern, march organisers estimated that 20,000 people rallied in front of the national parliament, urging the government to back a ceasefire. There have been monthly protests in the British capital since the start of the 20-month-long war between Israel and Hamas, which has ravaged Gaza.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/06/tens-thousands-join-pro-palestinian-marches-across-europe
Jordan urged to cancel Israel gas deal after supply halted amid Iran war
The production halt - resulting from disruptions at the Leviathan gas field - is being cited by the Jordanian National Campaign to Overturn the Gas Agreement with the Zionist Entity, known by its slogan "The Enemy's Gas is Occupation", as grounds to terminate the deal. The campaign, a coalition of public figures, political parties and professional associations opposed to normalisation with Israel, views the current situation as a legal and political opportunity to annul the agreement under the force majeure clause. This clause permits cancellation without financial penalties if unforeseen events prevent the fulfilment of contractual obligations.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordan-urged-cancel-israel-gas-deal-after-supply-halted-amid-iran-war
Erdogan says UNRWA to open office in Turkey, calls for more support for agency
Addressing foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, Erdogan said opening an Ankara UNRWA office would deepen Turkey's support for the agency. "We must not allow UNRWA, which plays an irreplaceable role in terms of taking care of Palestinian refugees, to be paralysed by Israel. We expect our organisation and each member state to provide financial and moral support to UNRWA to thwart Israel's games," Erdogan said.
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Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution
Members of the Bille and Ogale communities in the Niger delta, which have a combined population of about 50,000, are suing Shell and a Nigerian-based subsidiary of the company, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, which is now the Renaissance Africa Energy Company. The two communities began the legal action in 2015, claiming they had suffered systemic and ongoing oil pollution for years due to the companies’ operations in the African country, including the pollution of drinking water.
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Sri Lanka plans IMF talks on ways to lure foreign investors
Beyond last year's economic growth of 5%, Sri Lanka still needs to focus on deeper reforms such as reforming loss-making state enterprises and trimming a bloated public service, Dissanayake said. … Colombo boosted power prices by 15% last week in its effort to secure IMF executive board approval for the fifth tranche of its facility, standing at about $334 million.
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UN expert recommends NTF-ELCAC abolition amid rampant red-tagging and media attacks
Khan questioned the need to retain the NTF-ELCAC which was established by the previous administration under a different political context, considering its ruinous effect on their human rights, including the right to freedom of expression. She said that the Philippine government had briefly told her how it has been considering the task force into a peacebuilding entity, Khan expressed her doubt whether an entity that is widely considered to have been a major source of vilification, threats and harassment can transform itself into a credible peacebuilder.
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Canada poised to pass infrastructure bill despite pushback from Indigenous people
While the bill says the government must consult Indigenous communities in cases where their rights are affected by a fast-tracked project, it also allows the Liberal cabinet to overrule pre-existing laws to speed up permits for major projects. The federal legislation comes as provinces also pass bills that speed up infrastructure projects. Ontario plans to create “special economic zones” that would bypass all provincial laws, amid tensions between the premier and First Nations chiefs in areas slated for mining. Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier, provoked criticism earlier this week criticized for saying First Nations communities “keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government” for more money. He apologized the following day after meeting with chiefs from the Anishinabek Nation, which represents 39 of Ontario’s 133 First Nations chiefs.
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Panama suspends constitutional protections in the northwest after destructive protests
What began as nationwide protests against changes to the social security system morphed Thursday night into people damaging the local airport and the facilities of banana giant Chiquita Brands, which fired thousands of striking workers in the province last month. Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino had said at the time that the banana workers’ strike was illegal and included some 5,000 workers. On May 27, the government declared a state of emergency in the province without suspending constitutional protections.
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Petro says Colombia will vote on constituent assembly next year
The Senate’s fierce opposition to a widely supported labor reform has shown “who is with” the people and “those who insults and condemn them, those who forbid them to speak. Now that popular knowledge must be expressed where the people are king, at the ballot box,” Petro added. For this reason, said the president, the government plans to convene a national constituent assembly that would be called during the same elections that will elect a new Congress and a successor to Petro. "I await the decision of millions so that the next government and congress will have the imperative mandate to build the social rule of law, social justice, deep democracy with the people, peace."
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Is the tor node just permanently offline now?The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty.
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you don't need another economic argument
For investors to get what they spend, workers must spend what they get. This gives rise to capital accumulation, boom and bust cycles, unemployment, wage and political suppression, etc. If you need any more economic theory than this for engaging in the class struggle, you're an obsequious tool.
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But then the DNC came in and promoted doing these useless No Kings liberal protests (also promoted by revisionist socialist orgs and liberal NGOs) as a safe outlet of energy for the masses who were upset at the vile manner ICE was being portrayed in to the media, and of course general anti-Republican sentiment over the last 5-6 months.
That’s why the former was drowned out and all the petit-bourgeois liberals who were more concerned with “owning” leftists and conservatives and going back to brunch, while ignoring the bipartisan effort that it takes to even maintain infrastructure like ICE supported it rather than actually challenging to some degree an arm of the US state and subsequently having to deal with the question of US imperialism and its aftermath effects.
Communists need to stop supporting these protests, the anti-ICE protests are still going strong. No amount of “do somethingner” cope can cover the fact that this was a useless display of controlled anger and only meant to soothe angry liberals who oppose billionaires/oligarchs and not the bourgeois class as a whole
No Kings Protest was an Establishment Diversion
How couldn’t yall see this? It’s obvious that the anti-ICE protests were objectively a potential source of revolutionary energy (even though many of them got co-opted and curtailed by DSA/PSL and other NGO type orgs into peaceful protests) and the oppressed Indigenous and Chicano proletariat were where the more of the organizing should’ve taken place.But then the DNC came in and promoted doing these useless No Kings liberal protests (also promoted by revisionist socialist orgs and liberal NGOs) as a safe outlet of energy for the masses who were upset at the vile manner ICE was being portrayed in to the media, and of course general anti-Republican sentiment over the last 5-6 months.
That’s why the former was drowned out and all the petit-bourgeois liberals who were more concerned with “owning” leftists and conservatives and going back to brunch, while ignoring the bipartisan effort that it takes to even maintain infrastructure like ICE supported it rather than actually challenging to some degree an arm of the US state and subsequently having to deal with the question of US imperialism and its aftermath effects.
Communists need to stop supporting these protests, the anti-ICE protests are still going strong. No amount of “do somethingner” cope can cover the fact that this was a useless display of controlled anger and only meant to soothe angry liberals who oppose billionaires/oligarchs and not the bourgeois class as a whole
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Does the Islamic republic really need this cuck? He's pretty useless, a symbolic head figure like the British monarchy, only worse because he comes with cucked shit a fatwa forbidding nuclear weapons.
He should step down.
Does the Islamic republic really need this cuck? He's pretty useless, a symbolic head figure like the British monarchy, only worse because he comes with cucked shit a fatwa forbidding nuclear weapons.
He should step down.
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What happened? Why did this happen and why did the USSR fail? Was it state capitalisms? What about the Sino-soviet split? Why that happen? How come the proletariat didn't revolt globally during ww2 at the height of communist power and influence? Did nuclear weapons stall the revolution and allow a counter revolution?
This thread exist to discuss all things related to the cold war and its aftermath. Please post your theories, or any information you have in regards to this topic here.
==The Cold war==
The cold war, a 44 year old counter-revolutionWhat happened? Why did this happen and why did the USSR fail? Was it state capitalisms? What about the Sino-soviet split? Why that happen? How come the proletariat didn't revolt globally during ww2 at the height of communist power and influence? Did nuclear weapons stall the revolution and allow a counter revolution?
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>Denounces USSR for seeking peaceful coexistence with the West and breaks off relations with them
>Meets with Nixon and Kissinger 10 years later, beginning the normalization of relations with the US
What did Mao mean by this?
>Denounces USSR for seeking peaceful coexistence with the West and breaks off relations with them
>Meets with Nixon and Kissinger 10 years later, beginning the normalization of relations with the US
What did Mao mean by this?
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Why are we constantly being raided for the past week? It feels like every day there’s some raid attempt from /pol. It’s incredibly frustrating and it’s probably cia trying to derail our threads
Why are we constantly being raided for the past week? It feels like every day there’s some raid attempt from /pol. It’s incredibly frustrating and it’s probably cia trying to derail our threads
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Your opinion on this guy says everything I need to know about you. Are you
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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It does bother me. It actually does bother me to a certain degree. Why don't they do anything?
If there are so many people on the left—in fact, the majority of the people on the left are people in the upper middle class, college-educated people who have resources, who have fucking time, money, and resources to do things—but they don't do anything. They simply don't do anything.
And it kind of bothers me because it's like, I have been homeless. I've been homeless before. And I'll probably be homeless again multiple times in the future. I will probably be homeless. This is just the way it goes based on my material conditions. And yet I am doing every single fucking thing that I can to advance the movement—whether it's writing, whether it's helping try to organize events, whether it's having one-on-one conversations with people at those events, whether it's uprooting my entire life and moving to a location that I believe will facilitate having those conversations, whether it's spending my time making museums and flyers and turning those out and putting them out, or building a brand and outreach.
Anybody can do that. I literally put my entire website code out so anyone can do what I do. There's nothing special about what I do. And in fact, someone who is college-educated—I'm not college-educated, I've never been to college—could probably do what I do a whole lot better. But no one does. And it bothers me.
It bothers me because I've literally had moments in my life where I have been down in the dirt, like, wanting to give up on living. But I've still got a tab open trying to work on shit for the movement. People will call me a grifter. People will call me mentally ill for believing in this shit. And it's like, the people who have the money and the time and the resources just do not give a fuck.
Or if they do give a fuck, they are donating to NGOs. Like, cool, bro, you gave to a fucking charity that is tied to the CIA and 95% of their donations go to the board of directors. And then the board of directors have a $20,000 a year salary. Cool. Do you feel like you did something? You sending money to charity does not negate your lack of contribution to a real revolutionary movement, and in fact this is the function of charity in a post BPP Breakfast Program America, to get the people with the resources to disengage.
But the guy who's trying to get it out the mud anyway they can—like, oh yeah, I found this pamphlet from 1910 from a Chicago socialist magazine on archive.org—I'm going to spend all night, two nights in a row, while also trying to do other shit, to reformat that and publish that and get that out there, because that's what I have the time to do and that's what I have the capability to do. All the while I'm living in a fucking Motel 6. Anyone could have edited that book, anyone could do what I do, and if you have a base of income so you don't have to beg, you can do a lot MORE THAN ME.
And there are people who live in fucking McMansion-ass neighborhoods who spend all their time bitching about the treatlerism and the American working class can never be saved. The ones who do the least have the most to say. And it's like, bro, shut the fuck up and do something. Or give your money to people like me who are willing to put in the fucking work and sacrifice their entire lives to the cause.
Because otherwise you're just filling the fucking void with noise that just demoralizes people like me who are trying to do the work. And there are other people like me, but there are not nearly enough people who are trying to fucking get this shit out the mud, brother, because we are in the mud. We're in the trenches. It's a class war and we're in the trenches.
And some of you people are like, I'll just take the grill pill. Have you ever thought about the people who cannot stop for a single second to take that pill because otherwise they will die? Because every fucking moment of their life has been spent trying to survive? Why is the onus on those people to fight this class war while you check out? Why do you get to feel morally superior when in reality, you're no better than the liberals you criticism. Fuck Chapotraphouse and fuck this grillpill shit, beyond glad I've never seen a single episode of that slop. You got podcasters living on 200k a year telling you to "just grill", must be nice to be able to grill.
And those are some of the people who are fighting the cause. But you, with enough privilege to take the grill pill, are checking out. Make that make sense.
It does bother me. It actually does bother me to a certain degree. Why don't they do anything?
If there are so many people on the left—in fact, the majority of the people on the left are people in the upper middle class, college-educated people who have resources, who have fucking time, money, and resources to do things—but they don't do anything. They simply don't do anything.
And it kind of bothers me because it's like, I have been homeless. I've been homeless before. And I'll probably be homeless again multiple times in the future. I will probably be homeless. This is just the way it goes based on my material conditions. And yet I am doing every single fucking thing that I can to advance the movement—whether it's writing, whether it's helping try to organize events, whether it's having one-on-one conversations with people at those events, whether it's uprooting my entire life and moving to a location that I believe will facilitate having those conversations, whether it's spending my time making museums and flyers and turning those out and putting them out, or building a brand and outreach.
Anybody can do that. I literally put my entire website code out so anyone can do what I do. There's nothing special about what I do. And in fact, someone who is college-educated—I'm not college-educated, I've never been to college—could probably do what I do a whole lot better. But no one does. And it bothers me.
It bothers me because I've literally had moments in my life where I have been down in the dirt, like, wanting to give up on living. But I've still got a tab open trying to work on shit for the movement. People will call me a grifter. People will call me mentally ill for believing in this shit. And it's like, the people who have the money and the time and the resources just do not give a fuck.
Or if they do give a fuck, they are donating to NGOs. Like, cool, bro, you gave to a fucking charity that is tied to the CIA and 95% of their donations go to the board of directors. And then the board of directors have a $20,000 a year salary. Cool. Do you feel like you did something? You sending money to charity does not negate your lack of contribution to a real revolutionary movement, and in fact this is the function of charity in a post BPP Breakfast Program America, to get the people with the resources to disengage.
But the guy who's trying to get it out the mud anyway they can—like, oh yeah, I found this pamphlet from 1910 from a Chicago socialist magazine on archive.org—I'm going to spend all night, two nights in a row, while also trying to do other shit, to reformat that and publish that and get that out there, because that's what I have the time to do and that's what I have the capability to do. All the while I'm living in a fucking Motel 6. Anyone could have edited that book, anyone could do what I do, and if you have a base of income so you don't have to beg, you can do a lot MORE THAN ME.
And there are people who live in fucking McMansion-ass neighborhoods who spend all their time bitching about the treatlerism and the American working class can never be saved. The ones who do the least have the most to say. And it's like, bro, shut the fuck up and do something. Or give your money to people like me who are willing to put in the fucking work and sacrifice their entire lives to the cause.
Because otherwise you're just filling the fucking void with noise that just demoralizes people like me who are trying to do the work. And there are other people like me, but there are not nearly enough people who are trying to fucking get this shit out the mud, brother, because we are in the mud. We're in the trenches. It's a class war and we're in the trenches.
And some of you people are like, I'll just take the grill pill. Have you ever thought about the people who cannot stop for a single second to take that pill because otherwise they will die? Because every fucking moment of their life has been spent trying to survive? Why is the onus on those people to fight this class war while you check out? Why do you get to feel morally superior when in reality, you're no better than the liberals you criticism. Fuck Chapotraphouse and fuck this grillpill shit, beyond glad I've never seen a single episode of that slop. You got podcasters living on 200k a year telling you to "just grill", must be nice to be able to grill.
And those are some of the people who are fighting the cause. But you, with enough privilege to take the grill pill, are checking out. Make that make sense.
R: 1 / I: 0 (sage)
deliberately targeting civilians, while Hamas is doing everything in its power to minimize civilian damage in Gaza.
100,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Gaza by Israel, causing the deaths of 7,000,000 Gazans (a number that includes both terrorists and civilians). This means that for every ton of bombs dropped by Israel on Gaza, more than ten Gazans died. Since Gaza is insanely dense, this figure is only possible if Israel is trying to maximize civilian damage by literally bombing a city, thus proving that Israel is the literal devil and needs to be removed from the Earth.
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Reminder that Israel is a terror organization that is using human shields to protect itself and isdeliberately targeting civilians, while Hamas is doing everything in its power to minimize civilian damage in Gaza.
100,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Gaza by Israel, causing the deaths of 7,000,000 Gazans (a number that includes both terrorists and civilians). This means that for every ton of bombs dropped by Israel on Gaza, more than ten Gazans died. Since Gaza is insanely dense, this figure is only possible if Israel is trying to maximize civilian damage by literally bombing a city, thus proving that Israel is the literal devil and needs to be removed from the Earth.
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Think about the Opium Wars in China and how the British exercised imperialism by trying to get loads of Chinese addicted to smack. Wouldn’t it make sense for leftists to strategically peddle deadly drugs like fentanyl, krokodil, and this new shit mentioned in vidrel into bourgeois and settler neighbourhoods in order to cause severe chaos and weaken their power? Imagine if nepo babies of porkies began dropping like flies because the drugs they were sold were laced with substances that could kill them instantly. Imagine if comrades became high-end dealers and started selling this stuff ourselves in order to kill off as many porkies as possible. Not just porkies but also gentrifiers in places like Highland Park, Wicker Park, Bushwick, and the like. It would do a great deal to bring the ruling class to their knees and would give comrades as well as the internally colonized a better chance to fight back.
“Narco terrorism”
Are drug dealers our unironic alliesThink about the Opium Wars in China and how the British exercised imperialism by trying to get loads of Chinese addicted to smack. Wouldn’t it make sense for leftists to strategically peddle deadly drugs like fentanyl, krokodil, and this new shit mentioned in vidrel into bourgeois and settler neighbourhoods in order to cause severe chaos and weaken their power? Imagine if nepo babies of porkies began dropping like flies because the drugs they were sold were laced with substances that could kill them instantly. Imagine if comrades became high-end dealers and started selling this stuff ourselves in order to kill off as many porkies as possible. Not just porkies but also gentrifiers in places like Highland Park, Wicker Park, Bushwick, and the like. It would do a great deal to bring the ruling class to their knees and would give comrades as well as the internally colonized a better chance to fight back.
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It feels like the objective conditions for capitalism's collapse are just screaming at us every single day. Economic crises, ecological breakdown unprecedented scale, mass alienation and atomization as the baseline state, political dysfunction that borders on parody, imperial decay… the contradictions are so obvious a child could point them out.
Yet, despite all this, there's no coherent, mass movement building critical power. We have scattered struggles, localized resistance, theory posting, and… well, mostly just watching the whole rotten system unravel in slow motion. Historically, shouldn't these blatant contradictions be fueling significant class struggle and revolutionary organization on a much larger scale?
Are we just stuck in a cycle of commentary and theory without effective action? What does meaningful praxis even look like in an era of hyper-fragmentation, digital distraction, pervasive state/corporate surveillance and control, and the decimation of traditional working-class sites of power? Are we missing something fundamental about how change happens in the 21st century under late-stage capital, or is this just the long, drawn-out decline we're witnessing, with no revolutionary break on the horizon?
Interested to hear genuine thoughts and analysis, not just doomposting (though understand that too). What's the materialist analysis of our current incapacity despite the system's obvious decay?
Anyone else feel like we're just watching the collapse happen?
Serious question for the comrades here.It feels like the objective conditions for capitalism's collapse are just screaming at us every single day. Economic crises, ecological breakdown unprecedented scale, mass alienation and atomization as the baseline state, political dysfunction that borders on parody, imperial decay… the contradictions are so obvious a child could point them out.
Yet, despite all this, there's no coherent, mass movement building critical power. We have scattered struggles, localized resistance, theory posting, and… well, mostly just watching the whole rotten system unravel in slow motion. Historically, shouldn't these blatant contradictions be fueling significant class struggle and revolutionary organization on a much larger scale?
Are we just stuck in a cycle of commentary and theory without effective action? What does meaningful praxis even look like in an era of hyper-fragmentation, digital distraction, pervasive state/corporate surveillance and control, and the decimation of traditional working-class sites of power? Are we missing something fundamental about how change happens in the 21st century under late-stage capital, or is this just the long, drawn-out decline we're witnessing, with no revolutionary break on the horizon?
Interested to hear genuine thoughts and analysis, not just doomposting (though understand that too). What's the materialist analysis of our current incapacity despite the system's obvious decay?
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International trade through fossil fuels is responsible for the population growth around the globe. Especially the trade of food and agrochemicals. What will happen once fossil fuels either run out (worse case scenario) or we stop using them to stop climate change (best case scenario)?
This leaves only some options:
- Use non-fossil fuel ships like in the past, which are certainly slower and lower capacity, causing famine and death
- Global production declines either way because of the damage already done. Adding to this the stopping of international trade, and you have a massive social and economic disaster.
What are the possible solutions and outcomes?
International trade through fossil fuels is responsible for the population growth around the globe. Especially the trade of food and agrochemicals. What will happen once fossil fuels either run out (worse case scenario) or we stop using them to stop climate change (best case scenario)?
This leaves only some options:
- Use non-fossil fuel ships like in the past, which are certainly slower and lower capacity, causing famine and death
- Global production declines either way because of the damage already done. Adding to this the stopping of international trade, and you have a massive social and economic disaster.
What are the possible solutions and outcomes?
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2. It would demonstrate that their nuclear program was actually successful and Trump did nothing to stop it
3. It would demonstrate that they are capable of Mutually Assured Destruction with Israel if existentially threatened by US intervention
4. It could kill Netanyahu / decapitate Israeli high command
Strategic reasons for Iran to perform a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Tel Aviv
1. It would demonstrate that Iron Dome and David's Sling are insufficient for the defense of Israel2. It would demonstrate that their nuclear program was actually successful and Trump did nothing to stop it
3. It would demonstrate that they are capable of Mutually Assured Destruction with Israel if existentially threatened by US intervention
4. It could kill Netanyahu / decapitate Israeli high command
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Wu Wei is the graceful art of effortless action, the Daoist way of flowing with life rather than constantly fighting against it. It's not about doing nothing—it’s about doing things so naturally that they unfold with ease, like a river winding around rocks instead of crashing into them.
Wu Wei is the graceful art of effortless action, the Daoist way of flowing with life rather than constantly fighting against it. It's not about doing nothing—it’s about doing things so naturally that they unfold with ease, like a river winding around rocks instead of crashing into them.
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/Iran-Israel/ General #30
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However, in the 30's he becomes disillusioned with Hitler and ends up in the early 40s becoming a full melting-pot style Lib. Whilst living in America he declared that the greatest advantage of being American was to have "turned one's back on race, caste, and all that pertains to the rooted state." In 1937 he produced the second piece 'The Surrender of Barcelona' a depiction of old Barcelona as an open cosmopolitan city, liberated, but one that is somehow surrendering to an invisible, existential enemy (an allegory for its descent into fascism).
IMO this piece is much better than his earlier work and shows that fascists are mentally ill freaks who can't make good art. The moral of this post is fascists are mentally ill retards and I hope they all get treatment soon.
WyndHam Lewis: Case Study in Fascist Disillusionment
I was reading about this artist called Wyndham Lewis (found him through a book on Virginia Woolf's denunciation of fascism) who operated from the 1910s to the 1950s roughly who started something called the 'Vorticist' movement which was basically a shitty cubist clone (left is an example). Lewis was very machisimo patriarchal pro-fascist in his youth, saying that Anglo-Saxons should unite against 'all the Blacks, Browns, and High Yallers’ and finding ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler quite compelling early on. He talked often about there being a crisis for men not finding women now that they found independence (remind you of anything?) and was very big on moid machisimo in art. His main critique of Hitler was that he focused too much on Germans and not on race in general.However, in the 30's he becomes disillusioned with Hitler and ends up in the early 40s becoming a full melting-pot style Lib. Whilst living in America he declared that the greatest advantage of being American was to have "turned one's back on race, caste, and all that pertains to the rooted state." In 1937 he produced the second piece 'The Surrender of Barcelona' a depiction of old Barcelona as an open cosmopolitan city, liberated, but one that is somehow surrendering to an invisible, existential enemy (an allegory for its descent into fascism).
IMO this piece is much better than his earlier work and shows that fascists are mentally ill freaks who can't make good art. The moral of this post is fascists are mentally ill retards and I hope they all get treatment soon.
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>Azov Battalion officially integrated into National Guard of Ukraine in 2014
So you're telling me that Ukraine has nazi groups that are officially integrated into its military and it's somehow not a nazi state?
>Azov Battalion officially integrated into National Guard of Ukraine in 2014
So you're telling me that Ukraine has nazi groups that are officially integrated into its military and it's somehow not a nazi state?
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/Iran-Israel/ General #29
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<Anti-communism
Liberals do it.
<Anti-organized labor
Liberals do it.
<Colonialism
Liberals do it.
<Genocide
Liberals do it.
What, instead of the police beating your ass, it's paramilitary thugs? Instead of parliamentary elections, you have a fascist party dictatorship? But is this really a meaningful difference to liberalism?
How do we seriously define fascism?
Fascism
How do we seriously define fascism?<Anti-communism
Liberals do it.
<Anti-organized labor
Liberals do it.
<Colonialism
Liberals do it.
<Genocide
Liberals do it.
What, instead of the police beating your ass, it's paramilitary thugs? Instead of parliamentary elections, you have a fascist party dictatorship? But is this really a meaningful difference to liberalism?
How do we seriously define fascism?
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The entire "everybody acts in a way that is ultimately reducible to their material interests and the ideas they have are just distortions or window dressing" thing is one of the biggest strawmen ever made about communists. It's not that communists think people just follow their interests it's that the system forces people to act within the constraints of material interests. And morality all that good vs. evil shit exists mainly to hide and obscure that fact, that the core reality of capitalism is driven by profit, the competition for money and the harsh truth that without capital, you're left to struggle, that it isn't some natural, self-correcting system, it's man-made, and it runs on the logic of capital, accumulate or collapse.
The entire "everybody acts in a way that is ultimately reducible to their material interests and the ideas they have are just distortions or window dressing" thing is one of the biggest strawmen ever made about communists. It's not that communists think people just follow their interests it's that the system forces people to act within the constraints of material interests. And morality all that good vs. evil shit exists mainly to hide and obscure that fact, that the core reality of capitalism is driven by profit, the competition for money and the harsh truth that without capital, you're left to struggle, that it isn't some natural, self-correcting system, it's man-made, and it runs on the logic of capital, accumulate or collapse.
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-Mark Twain
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One of the most significant consequences of the War on Drugs has been its impact on social alienation. The aggressive enforcement strategies employed have led to widespread criminalization of drug users, being used as a disguise to kill off small ethnic groups who did not want to experience yankee sobriety in the wage slave hell. This has resulted in millions being incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses, contributing to a system that prioritizes punishment and death over rehabilitation, care and scientific study. This has also greatly increased the power of pigs who enforce laws which can now kill and rape anyone by planting drugs and pigging out.
Moreover, the stigma associated with drug-related offenses has lasting effects on people's lives post-incarceration. Many face barriers to employment, housing, and access to social services due to criminal records stemming from drug convictions. This cycle perpetuates poverty and limits opportunities for affected people and their families.
The War on Drugs has also had disastrous consequences for scientific research related to substances and the development of medicines. Policies have restricted research to certain controlled substances due to their classification as illegal drugs. Propaganda has also hindered the public's understanding of drugs and created an artificial division between drugs / substances and medicine, which does not exist.
For instance, cannabis remains classified as a Schedule I substance under yankee federal law, which implies it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. This classification has severely limited research opportunities into its therapeutic benefits despite growing evidence supporting its efficacy in treating various medical conditions and the escape of sober slavery.
Additionally, funding for addiction treatment programs often just funds cults like alcoholics anonymous and WOD propaganda outlets rather than smart environments for sobering up to be able to still enjoying the benefits of psychoactive substances in moderate terms in the long term.
In summary, when forced, sobriety is slavery. The WOD is the modern war for slavery over the human mind and scientific study.
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
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/wod/ - Destroy The War On Drugs General #1
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.-Mark Twain
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One of the most significant consequences of the War on Drugs has been its impact on social alienation. The aggressive enforcement strategies employed have led to widespread criminalization of drug users, being used as a disguise to kill off small ethnic groups who did not want to experience yankee sobriety in the wage slave hell. This has resulted in millions being incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses, contributing to a system that prioritizes punishment and death over rehabilitation, care and scientific study. This has also greatly increased the power of pigs who enforce laws which can now kill and rape anyone by planting drugs and pigging out.
Moreover, the stigma associated with drug-related offenses has lasting effects on people's lives post-incarceration. Many face barriers to employment, housing, and access to social services due to criminal records stemming from drug convictions. This cycle perpetuates poverty and limits opportunities for affected people and their families.
The War on Drugs has also had disastrous consequences for scientific research related to substances and the development of medicines. Policies have restricted research to certain controlled substances due to their classification as illegal drugs. Propaganda has also hindered the public's understanding of drugs and created an artificial division between drugs / substances and medicine, which does not exist.
For instance, cannabis remains classified as a Schedule I substance under yankee federal law, which implies it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. This classification has severely limited research opportunities into its therapeutic benefits despite growing evidence supporting its efficacy in treating various medical conditions and the escape of sober slavery.
Additionally, funding for addiction treatment programs often just funds cults like alcoholics anonymous and WOD propaganda outlets rather than smart environments for sobering up to be able to still enjoying the benefits of psychoactive substances in moderate terms in the long term.
In summary, when forced, sobriety is slavery. The WOD is the modern war for slavery over the human mind and scientific study.
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
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How can someone bourgeois help the revolution? I’m a believer in communism but my fucking parents are zionists, what can I do to help? I want to help spread the revolution but I’m not sure how
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You can stop a war.
An American invasion of Iran would be impossible without the use of bases in the Gulf States. Write their embassies and ask them to say "No" to war and Trump.
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What did Marx mean by "Abolish The Family"?
How would this work? Would all kids be raised in boarding schools from birth by federally employed nannies? Would the kids be able to visit their parents?
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This is true. Bastard profession, evolved from literal slave catching, services the state and capital
>But what if didn't?
Cops and police departments are giant gangs, this is known. Is the solution bringing back one town sheriff the people elect? We're going to be stuck with this system of policing, if not experience a worsening, if the left doesn't buck up and become cops to sabotage from within or start making calls for the return of sheriffs. Yankees love returns to tradition, and having them bring back something we had 100 years ago might be the only way to address this problem head on.
>pic related
Calling all bastards
>All cops are bastardsThis is true. Bastard profession, evolved from literal slave catching, services the state and capital
>But what if didn't?
Cops and police departments are giant gangs, this is known. Is the solution bringing back one town sheriff the people elect? We're going to be stuck with this system of policing, if not experience a worsening, if the left doesn't buck up and become cops to sabotage from within or start making calls for the return of sheriffs. Yankees love returns to tradition, and having them bring back something we had 100 years ago might be the only way to address this problem head on.
>pic related
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Can someone explain to my why we’re defending this? I can’t understand why we’re bending over backwards to defend these obvious fascists, wouldn’t it be better if there was some sort of nato color revolution
Can someone explain to my why we’re defending this? I can’t understand why we’re bending over backwards to defend these obvious fascists, wouldn’t it be better if there was some sort of nato color revolution
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Which brings me to the main point. Menshevik tactics seem to be historically good when there is actual political and organizational freedom and when they are used with genuine anti-imperialist sentiment.
>the PKI (Indonesian communist party) did not consider itself subordinate to any foreign party.⁷ By then, it was the third-largest communist party in the world—after those of China and the Soviet Union—and the largest outside them. Its strategy of nonviolent, grassroots engagement had yielded considerable success. The party counted over three million official members. Organizations affiliated with the PKI—including SOBSI (Central All-Indonesian Workers Association), LEKRA (People’s Cultural Institute), BTI (Barisan Tani Indonesia), Pemuda Rakyat (People’s Youth), and Gerwani (Women’s Movement)—had an estimated combined membership of at least twenty million.
>Altogether, nearly a quarter of Indonesia’s population of one hundred million was connected to the PKI, and nearly a third of adult registered voters were affiliated with the party.⁸ The PKI operated openly and extensively throughout the country. However, at the national level, its influence over policy was almost entirely dependent on President Sukarno.
Okay, there's the immediate critique also. But I think that we should reevaluate menshevik contribution to the communist movement. Maybe instead of underground tactics we actually start building a genuine popular communist lead anti-imperialist movement. After all, Martov and Arkadieev were two organizers that shifted the RSDLP from circle organizing to factory agitation.
menshevik ideas get a bad rep
Title says it all. Martov's hysteria and swampification of the menshevik wing pushed it into an opportunistic alliance with the counterrevolutionary forces. But this does not invalidate menshevik tactics. These are informed by the pre-2nd Int'l German SPD. The kernel of menshevik policy really is in the membership rules. Leninism/bolshevism opts out for professional revolutionaries, financial and organizational support while menshevism opts for financial or organizational support. But bolshevik tactics were suited for a, say, Russian autocracy or Yugoslavian monarchofascism, or Mongolia even; not in 'democratic' western European states. The Brussels/London congress demarcated the tactics for the 'west' (democracies) and 'east' (autocracies).Which brings me to the main point. Menshevik tactics seem to be historically good when there is actual political and organizational freedom and when they are used with genuine anti-imperialist sentiment.
>the PKI (Indonesian communist party) did not consider itself subordinate to any foreign party.⁷ By then, it was the third-largest communist party in the world—after those of China and the Soviet Union—and the largest outside them. Its strategy of nonviolent, grassroots engagement had yielded considerable success. The party counted over three million official members. Organizations affiliated with the PKI—including SOBSI (Central All-Indonesian Workers Association), LEKRA (People’s Cultural Institute), BTI (Barisan Tani Indonesia), Pemuda Rakyat (People’s Youth), and Gerwani (Women’s Movement)—had an estimated combined membership of at least twenty million.
>Altogether, nearly a quarter of Indonesia’s population of one hundred million was connected to the PKI, and nearly a third of adult registered voters were affiliated with the party.⁸ The PKI operated openly and extensively throughout the country. However, at the national level, its influence over policy was almost entirely dependent on President Sukarno.
Okay, there's the immediate critique also. But I think that we should reevaluate menshevik contribution to the communist movement. Maybe instead of underground tactics we actually start building a genuine popular communist lead anti-imperialist movement. After all, Martov and Arkadieev were two organizers that shifted the RSDLP from circle organizing to factory agitation.
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Multiple articles in the reform seek to make it more difficult companies to perpetually employ workers on a temporary basis, including those who are employed in the so-called gig economy. Companies will have to pay extra compensation for labor between 7PM and 6AM Some 69,000 “community mothers,” men and women who provide care and education to kids from the neighborhood, will be formally integrated into and paid by the Family Welfare Institute. Some 400,000 students who do an internship are granted full labor rights and be paid in full for their services.Workers who work on Sundays and holidays will be paid double instead of 175% of the normal wage. The government and its coalition in Congress conceded in demanding menstrual leave for women, which was left out of the reform.
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New Rio de Janeiro law requires public hospitals to display anti-abortion signs
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Argentina: unemployment hits record figures
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Security review launched after activists break into RAF base
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Employees at firm that supplied grape-pickers for champagne on trial for human trafficking
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Putin says Russia has shared peace proposals with Israel and Iran
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Israeli army attacks cause near-total collapse of internet in Iran, sparking concerns over censorship
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Thai PM apologises over leaked call with Hun Sen as crisis threatens to topple government
In the leaked call, Paetongtarn – daughter of the populist former leader Thaksin Shinawatra – discusses an ongoing border dispute with Hun Sen, who is known to be a friend of her family. In the recording, she can be heard criticising a senior Thai military commander who she said “just wanted to look tough”, describing him as an opponent. Addressing Hun Sen as “uncle”, she adds that if there were anything he wanted to “just let me know, I’ll take care of it”. Paetongtarn told a press conference on Thursday: “I would like to apologise for the leaked audio of my conversation with a Cambodian leader which has caused public resentment.”
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Armed men in western Niger kill 34 soldiers and wound 14, authorities say
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Colombia’s Congress approves historic labor reform, Petro withdraws referendumMultiple articles in the reform seek to make it more difficult companies to perpetually employ workers on a temporary basis, including those who are employed in the so-called gig economy. Companies will have to pay extra compensation for labor between 7PM and 6AM Some 69,000 “community mothers,” men and women who provide care and education to kids from the neighborhood, will be formally integrated into and paid by the Family Welfare Institute. Some 400,000 students who do an internship are granted full labor rights and be paid in full for their services.Workers who work on Sundays and holidays will be paid double instead of 175% of the normal wage. The government and its coalition in Congress conceded in demanding menstrual leave for women, which was left out of the reform.
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New Rio de Janeiro law requires public hospitals to display anti-abortion signs
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Argentina: unemployment hits record figures
The employment rate was 44.4% (13.3 million people), with 42% in informal jobs and 36.3% lacking pension contributions. Formal salaried jobs dropped by 200,000, informal by 100,000, while self-employment grew by 100,000. Greater Buenos Aires saw the highest unemployment at 9.1% (9.7% excluding the capital), followed by the Pampas region at 7.4%.Patagonia had the lowest at 4.9%. Joblessness was higher for women (9%) than men (7%), with 71.4% of the unemployed having up to hugh-school education.
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Security review launched after activists break into RAF base
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Employees at firm that supplied grape-pickers for champagne on trial for human trafficking
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Putin says Russia has shared peace proposals with Israel and Iran
He said Moscow asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure the security of Russian personnel who are working to construct two more reactors at the nuclear power plant in Iran’s port of Bushehr and that he also raised the issue with U.S. President Donald Trump. “Prime Minister Netanyahu has agreed with that, and President Trump has promised to support our legitimate demands,” Putin said. But he strongly rejected allegations that Moscow has failed to back its ally, Tehran, saying the Kremlin has maintained good ties with both Iran and Israel. He noted that Israel is home to nearly 2 million people from Russia and other former Soviet nations, “a factor that we always have taken into account.”
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Israeli army attacks cause near-total collapse of internet in Iran, sparking concerns over censorship
Leading internet activity monitor NetBlocks announced on Wednesday that Iran is now experiencing a near-total collapse of internet activity, which they linked to ongoing Israeli army attacks. The monitor cited live data from several areas, which showed significant disconnection across the country, which they said meant that internet access had become largely inaccessible.
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Maersk temporarily halts operations at Israel's Haifa port after Iran strikes
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Thai PM apologises over leaked call with Hun Sen as crisis threatens to topple government
In the leaked call, Paetongtarn – daughter of the populist former leader Thaksin Shinawatra – discusses an ongoing border dispute with Hun Sen, who is known to be a friend of her family. In the recording, she can be heard criticising a senior Thai military commander who she said “just wanted to look tough”, describing him as an opponent. Addressing Hun Sen as “uncle”, she adds that if there were anything he wanted to “just let me know, I’ll take care of it”. Paetongtarn told a press conference on Thursday: “I would like to apologise for the leaked audio of my conversation with a Cambodian leader which has caused public resentment.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/20/thai-prime-minister-paetongtarn-shinawatra-apologises-phone-leak-crisis-cambodia-hun-sen
Armed men in western Niger kill 34 soldiers and wound 14, authorities say
Armed men killed 34 soldiers and wounded 14 others in western Niger near the tri-state border with Mali and Burkina Faso, the defense ministry said. The attack was carred out around 9 a.m. Thursday in Banibangou by attackers using eight vehicles and more than 200 motorbikes, the ministry said in a statement.
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Known for having one of the ugliest flags. Probably has cartel issues. Also known for being one of the small US proxy shitholes that recognizes Taiwan.
Apparently there is a "communist party" which doesn't even have its own glowpedia page and is completely irrelevant and niche since Belize is a two party dictatorship of the bourgeoisie modeled after the US.
The population of Belize is around 397,483 ants and 4 CIA agents.
Does anyone know what the politics like there? It's such an irrelevant country its almost antimemetic because of how nobody cares to look at it.
Belize
The world's most irrelevant US proxy christian shithole state.Known for having one of the ugliest flags. Probably has cartel issues. Also known for being one of the small US proxy shitholes that recognizes Taiwan.
Apparently there is a "communist party" which doesn't even have its own glowpedia page and is completely irrelevant and niche since Belize is a two party dictatorship of the bourgeoisie modeled after the US.
The population of Belize is around 397,483 ants and 4 CIA agents.
Does anyone know what the politics like there? It's such an irrelevant country its almost antimemetic because of how nobody cares to look at it.
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President of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, just 10 minutes ago @ SPIEF:
>full capitalism sucks, full socialism sucks, we need a mixture of the two systems
I remember Zizek's scared-shitless-lib prediction from around 2005 or so that the great statesman for whom statues will be built around the world will be Deng Xiaping, because his economic model will prove to be irresistible to developing nations. In any case, and Zizek aside,
>you will live to see Asia become the next socdem bloc after the fall of socdemism in Scandinavia
Meanwhile, at the imperialist economic conference:
>What are the G7 leaders discussing? Naturally, it is the accelerating Middle East crisis after the Israeli attack on Iran; the continued war in Ukraine and the need for more sanctions on Russia and arms for Ukraine; what to do about Trump’s trade tariffs; how to impose a range of cuts in international aid to poor countries by most G7 governments in order to make room for increased arms spending; and the need for a common policy against China.
>The main discussion for the Bilberberg participants is how to strangle economically, politically and militarily, China. As the American MAGA Republican Jason Smith put it: he was in Sweden to “continue fighting to combat the economic and national security threat China poses to our great nation”. Fellow Bilderberg attendee Robert Lighthizer, economic adviser close to Trump, echoed that sentiment: “China to me is an existential threat to the United States”.
Multipolar vs. imperialist economic congresses
SPIEF: the emerging multipolar world's ongoing economic forum in Russiavs.
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President of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, just 10 minutes ago @ SPIEF:
>full capitalism sucks, full socialism sucks, we need a mixture of the two systems
I remember Zizek's scared-shitless-lib prediction from around 2005 or so that the great statesman for whom statues will be built around the world will be Deng Xiaping, because his economic model will prove to be irresistible to developing nations. In any case, and Zizek aside,
>you will live to see Asia become the next socdem bloc after the fall of socdemism in Scandinavia
Meanwhile, at the imperialist economic conference:
>What are the G7 leaders discussing? Naturally, it is the accelerating Middle East crisis after the Israeli attack on Iran; the continued war in Ukraine and the need for more sanctions on Russia and arms for Ukraine; what to do about Trump’s trade tariffs; how to impose a range of cuts in international aid to poor countries by most G7 governments in order to make room for increased arms spending; and the need for a common policy against China.
>The main discussion for the Bilberberg participants is how to strangle economically, politically and militarily, China. As the American MAGA Republican Jason Smith put it: he was in Sweden to “continue fighting to combat the economic and national security threat China poses to our great nation”. Fellow Bilderberg attendee Robert Lighthizer, economic adviser close to Trump, echoed that sentiment: “China to me is an existential threat to the United States”.
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Featured: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
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Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
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Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
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Accelerationism is a dumb ideology just like all ideologies. Badly functioning, capitalism is still capitalism. You don't magically arrive at communism by tanking the economy. Otherwise we would have communism every couple of decades, every time there is a crisis. Periodic collapse and devaluation is a normal part of the capitalist cycle, and paves the way for accumulation on an ever-greater scale.
Accelerationism is a dumb ideology just like all ideologies. Badly functioning, capitalism is still capitalism. You don't magically arrive at communism by tanking the economy. Otherwise we would have communism every couple of decades, every time there is a crisis. Periodic collapse and devaluation is a normal part of the capitalist cycle, and paves the way for accumulation on an ever-greater scale.
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Amid the deepest economic crisis in decades, lawmakers on Tuesday agreed to debate the approval of 16 foreign credits worth a total of $1.8 billion. On Wednesday, the senate approved one of these, a $250 million loan from the Inter-American development bank. The lower house approved two, worth $160 million together, which will now move on for senate approval.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/unfrozen-loans-give-arce-hope-of-easing-crippling-bolivia-crisis
https://archive.ph/pScJE
Large crowds protest in support of Argentine ex-President Fernández as she starts house arrest
Vowing that a conviction on corruption charges and a permanent ban from public office would not end her decades-long political career, Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner began serving a six-year sentence under house arrest as tens of thousands of her supporters rallied in the streets.
https://apnews.com/article/milei-argentina-fernandez-corruption-arrest-latin-america-6fcf609fed80ff36ae435b1fc0e4e088
India is a perpetrator of foreign interference, Canadian intelligence agency says
"Indian officials, including their Canada-based proxy agents, engage in a range of activities that seek to influence Canadian communities and politicians," the Canadian Security Intelligence Service report reads. "These activities attempt to steer Canada's positions into alignment with India's interests on key issues, particularly with respect to how the Indian government perceives Canada-based supporters of an independent homeland that they call Khalistan."
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-is-a-perpetrator-of-foreign-interference-canadian-intelligence-agency-says/articleshow/121936133.cms
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Pakistan fears militants will thrive on restive border if Iran destabilised
As well as worrying about chaos spilling over from Iran, Pakistan is concerned about the precedent set by Israel of attacking the nuclear installations of another country. Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India fought a four-day conflict in May. Following a Wednesday lunch at the White House with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, Trump said: “They’re not happy about anything”, referring to Pakistan's views on the Israel-Iran conflict. Pakistan’s military said on Thursday that the two had discussed Iran,“with both leaders emphasizing the importance of resolution of the conflict”.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/pakistan-fears-militants-will-thrive-restive-border-if-iran-destabilised-2025-06-19/
Iran: Jailed women activists issue letter condemning Israeli attacks
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, Verisheh Moradi, Sakineh Parvaneh and Reyhaneh Ansarinejad issued the letter, published by the pro-Kurdish Firat News Agency, from Evin prison in Tehran. They accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and said its goal was to create a "weak and submissive" Middle East. "Our liberation…from the dictatorship ruling the country is possible through the struggle of the masses and by resorting to social forces - not by clinging to foreign powers or placing hopes in them," they wrote. "The powers that have always brought destruction to the countries of the region through exploitation and colonisation, by inciting wars and killing in pursuit of greater benefits, will have no way out for us except for new destruction and exploitation."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jailed-female-activists-iran-issue-letter-condemning-israeli-attacks
French court to rule on freeing Lebanese militant
The Paris appeals court, initially set to deliver its verdict in February before postponing, will now announce its decision on July 17 after re-examining the request on Thursday. "I told the judges, either you release him or you sentence him to death," his lawyer Jean-Louis Chalanset told the media after the closed-door hearing. Abdallah, 74, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the murders of US military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. He has been eligible for release for 25 years, but has seen multiple requests for his freedom denied.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/06/french-court-rule-freeing-lebanese-militant
Ireland among nine EU countries calling for talks on ending trade with Israeli settlements
An eagerly awaited review of the EU-Israel trade agreement is expected to find that Israel has violated the agreement's human rights and international law clauses in the conduct of its war in Gaza, RTÉ News understands. The review will be circulated to member states tomorrow, with EU foreign ministers taking the issue up at their monthly meeting in Brussels on Monday. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who commissioned the review following a request by the Dutch government, will also brief EU leaders on its contents when they gather for a summit in Brussels on Thursday.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0619/1519280-eu-israel/
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Spain rejects Nato's ‘unreasonable’ proposal to hike military spending to 5% of GDP
In a letter sent today to Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that Spain “cannot commit to a specific spending target in terms of GDP” at next week’s Nato summit in The Hague. For Spain, ”committing to a 5 per cent target would not only be unreasonable, but also counterproductive,” wrote Mr Sanchez in the letter.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/spain-rejects-natos-unreasonable-proposal-hike-military-spending-5-gdp
Czech government survives no-confidence vote over bitcoin scandal
The no-confidence motion followed a scandal that saw Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek from Fiala’s conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS) resign last month after accepting a €40 million bitcoin donation to the ministry from a convicted drug dealer. The cryptocurrency was provided by Tomáš Jiřikovský, who according to the courts ran an illegal darknet market that had drugs for sale, and who had served time in prison for embezzlement, drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons. Czech newspaper Deník N broke the news last week that police are investigating the donation.
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Rwanda and DR Congo agree draft peace deal to end conflict
The US hopes to bring an end to the fighting and to unlock billions of dollars of Western investment in the eastern DRC, which has large mineral reserves including cobalt, copper, gold and lithium. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has described the twin aims of peace and investment as a “win-win”. As part of the diplomatic efforts, Massad Boulos, the US envoy to Africa, travelled to the DRC and Rwanda in April. During his visit, he urged Kigali to end its support for the M23 rebels.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/19/dr-congo-and-rwanda-sign-draft-peace-agreement
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Kenyan police officers arraigned over shooting a civilian during protests
The officers were arraigned in court two days after the Tuesday shooting on a busy street and under the full glare of cameras. It triggered anger and fury over persistent complaints against police brutality. The hawker, Boniface Kariuki, remains hospitalized in critical condition in an intensive care unit.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-protests-shooting-police-87846cdb7875e4704ffe560623dd0877
New Zealand has suspended millions in funding to the Cook Islands over its growing China ties
News of the 18.2 million New Zealand dollar ($11 million) funding halt only emerged when a Cook Islands news outlet saw its brief mention in a government budget document. It’s likely to prove difficult for Luxon, who is due to meet President Xi Jinping this week. Beijing, which said in February that the deals were not intended to antagonize New Zealand, defended its partnership with the country of 15 islands and 15,000 people.
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Unfrozen Loans Give Arce Hope of Easing Crippling Bolivia CrisisAmid the deepest economic crisis in decades, lawmakers on Tuesday agreed to debate the approval of 16 foreign credits worth a total of $1.8 billion. On Wednesday, the senate approved one of these, a $250 million loan from the Inter-American development bank. The lower house approved two, worth $160 million together, which will now move on for senate approval.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/unfrozen-loans-give-arce-hope-of-easing-crippling-bolivia-crisis
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Large crowds protest in support of Argentine ex-President Fernández as she starts house arrest
Vowing that a conviction on corruption charges and a permanent ban from public office would not end her decades-long political career, Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner began serving a six-year sentence under house arrest as tens of thousands of her supporters rallied in the streets.
https://apnews.com/article/milei-argentina-fernandez-corruption-arrest-latin-america-6fcf609fed80ff36ae435b1fc0e4e088
India is a perpetrator of foreign interference, Canadian intelligence agency says
"Indian officials, including their Canada-based proxy agents, engage in a range of activities that seek to influence Canadian communities and politicians," the Canadian Security Intelligence Service report reads. "These activities attempt to steer Canada's positions into alignment with India's interests on key issues, particularly with respect to how the Indian government perceives Canada-based supporters of an independent homeland that they call Khalistan."
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-is-a-perpetrator-of-foreign-interference-canadian-intelligence-agency-says/articleshow/121936133.cms
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Pakistan fears militants will thrive on restive border if Iran destabilised
As well as worrying about chaos spilling over from Iran, Pakistan is concerned about the precedent set by Israel of attacking the nuclear installations of another country. Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India fought a four-day conflict in May. Following a Wednesday lunch at the White House with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, Trump said: “They’re not happy about anything”, referring to Pakistan's views on the Israel-Iran conflict. Pakistan’s military said on Thursday that the two had discussed Iran,“with both leaders emphasizing the importance of resolution of the conflict”.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/pakistan-fears-militants-will-thrive-restive-border-if-iran-destabilised-2025-06-19/
Iran: Jailed women activists issue letter condemning Israeli attacks
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, Verisheh Moradi, Sakineh Parvaneh and Reyhaneh Ansarinejad issued the letter, published by the pro-Kurdish Firat News Agency, from Evin prison in Tehran. They accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and said its goal was to create a "weak and submissive" Middle East. "Our liberation…from the dictatorship ruling the country is possible through the struggle of the masses and by resorting to social forces - not by clinging to foreign powers or placing hopes in them," they wrote. "The powers that have always brought destruction to the countries of the region through exploitation and colonisation, by inciting wars and killing in pursuit of greater benefits, will have no way out for us except for new destruction and exploitation."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jailed-female-activists-iran-issue-letter-condemning-israeli-attacks
French court to rule on freeing Lebanese militant
The Paris appeals court, initially set to deliver its verdict in February before postponing, will now announce its decision on July 17 after re-examining the request on Thursday. "I told the judges, either you release him or you sentence him to death," his lawyer Jean-Louis Chalanset told the media after the closed-door hearing. Abdallah, 74, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the murders of US military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. He has been eligible for release for 25 years, but has seen multiple requests for his freedom denied.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/06/french-court-rule-freeing-lebanese-militant
Ireland among nine EU countries calling for talks on ending trade with Israeli settlements
An eagerly awaited review of the EU-Israel trade agreement is expected to find that Israel has violated the agreement's human rights and international law clauses in the conduct of its war in Gaza, RTÉ News understands. The review will be circulated to member states tomorrow, with EU foreign ministers taking the issue up at their monthly meeting in Brussels on Monday. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who commissioned the review following a request by the Dutch government, will also brief EU leaders on its contents when they gather for a summit in Brussels on Thursday.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0619/1519280-eu-israel/
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Spain rejects Nato's ‘unreasonable’ proposal to hike military spending to 5% of GDP
In a letter sent today to Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that Spain “cannot commit to a specific spending target in terms of GDP” at next week’s Nato summit in The Hague. For Spain, ”committing to a 5 per cent target would not only be unreasonable, but also counterproductive,” wrote Mr Sanchez in the letter.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/spain-rejects-natos-unreasonable-proposal-hike-military-spending-5-gdp
Czech government survives no-confidence vote over bitcoin scandal
The no-confidence motion followed a scandal that saw Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek from Fiala’s conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS) resign last month after accepting a €40 million bitcoin donation to the ministry from a convicted drug dealer. The cryptocurrency was provided by Tomáš Jiřikovský, who according to the courts ran an illegal darknet market that had drugs for sale, and who had served time in prison for embezzlement, drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons. Czech newspaper Deník N broke the news last week that police are investigating the donation.
https://www.politico.eu/article/czech-government-survives-no-confidence-vote-bitcoin-scandal-petr-fiala-drugs-elections-pavel-blazek/
https://archive.ph/0wbtp
Rwanda and DR Congo agree draft peace deal to end conflict
The US hopes to bring an end to the fighting and to unlock billions of dollars of Western investment in the eastern DRC, which has large mineral reserves including cobalt, copper, gold and lithium. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has described the twin aims of peace and investment as a “win-win”. As part of the diplomatic efforts, Massad Boulos, the US envoy to Africa, travelled to the DRC and Rwanda in April. During his visit, he urged Kigali to end its support for the M23 rebels.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/19/dr-congo-and-rwanda-sign-draft-peace-agreement
https://archive.ph/ZNxO2
Kenyan police officers arraigned over shooting a civilian during protests
The officers were arraigned in court two days after the Tuesday shooting on a busy street and under the full glare of cameras. It triggered anger and fury over persistent complaints against police brutality. The hawker, Boniface Kariuki, remains hospitalized in critical condition in an intensive care unit.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-protests-shooting-police-87846cdb7875e4704ffe560623dd0877
New Zealand has suspended millions in funding to the Cook Islands over its growing China ties
News of the 18.2 million New Zealand dollar ($11 million) funding halt only emerged when a Cook Islands news outlet saw its brief mention in a government budget document. It’s likely to prove difficult for Luxon, who is due to meet President Xi Jinping this week. Beijing, which said in February that the deals were not intended to antagonize New Zealand, defended its partnership with the country of 15 islands and 15,000 people.
https://apnews.com/article/new-zealand-cook-islands-china-beijing-pacific-f0d0f8c4f844875515f37d26592dbfb3
R: 39 / I: 5 (sage)
Programmers as the new holders of the instruments on who's labor society depends?
Are petite-bourgeoisie and big bourgeoisie the new revolutionary class? Can they attain class consciousness and lead to the end of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (the capitalist mode of production) themselves by going against their self-interests? Is the decomposition of capital stuck between neither the proletariat or the bourgeoisie being able to force their own solution?
Don't be mean, I'm just asking some questions that do deserve their own thread.
I've got some really cool thesis I won't share with you guys, I just want some more food for thought.
Are workers still the revolutionary subject?
Automatization and programmers? Manual labor blue collars getting replaced?Programmers as the new holders of the instruments on who's labor society depends?
Are petite-bourgeoisie and big bourgeoisie the new revolutionary class? Can they attain class consciousness and lead to the end of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (the capitalist mode of production) themselves by going against their self-interests? Is the decomposition of capital stuck between neither the proletariat or the bourgeoisie being able to force their own solution?
Don't be mean, I'm just asking some questions that do deserve their own thread.
I've got some really cool thesis I won't share with you guys, I just want some more food for thought.
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My communist dad has now become an ANCAP nazi that wants to genocide Ukrainians since TikTok was invented.
Gotta love ex Eastern block communists. They never really gave a shit about any communist ideals it was always just a thinly veiled excuse.
My communist dad has now become an ANCAP nazi that wants to genocide Ukrainians since TikTok was invented.
Gotta love ex Eastern block communists. They never really gave a shit about any communist ideals it was always just a thinly veiled excuse.
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I really hope I do not sound like Odin-worshipping Nazi or a Hindutva chud asking this question, but…
Is Abrahamic privellege a thing that does really exist?
If it isn't, then how Jewish minority had survived Middle Ages and even adapted to the ascent of capitalist better than most, meanwhile literally every single European pagan was exterminated by Christians? How is it that Middle Eastern Jews (Mizrahim) are still alive and are a significant component of Zionism, meanwhile no Middle Eastern polytheist tradition (some of which were older than Judaism) had survived the Islamic conquests?
I really hope I do not sound like Odin-worshipping Nazi or a Hindutva chud asking this question, but…
Is Abrahamic privellege a thing that does really exist?
If it isn't, then how Jewish minority had survived Middle Ages and even adapted to the ascent of capitalist better than most, meanwhile literally every single European pagan was exterminated by Christians? How is it that Middle Eastern Jews (Mizrahim) are still alive and are a significant component of Zionism, meanwhile no Middle Eastern polytheist tradition (some of which were older than Judaism) had survived the Islamic conquests?
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Chapotraphouse talks about doomerism, but they forget the sunk cost the reactionaries have put that makes them think its beyond the point of no return and its easier to spend all the time justifying and defending than trying to change or thinking that it must be changed.
This is why they can't just "stop bad policies", they're too far gone in them, too invested to even be thought to change away.
Sunk cost is the reason
Sunk cost is the reason reactionaries wish to preserve the capitalist mode of production, all of their infrastructure is made to run on this shit so they see abandoning their team as a bigger weight than dying, making violent revolution necessary since it cannot be reformed away since sunk cost fallacy entails they think they can just reform (change things up a bit), but its decomposing and they're dragging down everyone else with themselves so no.Chapotraphouse talks about doomerism, but they forget the sunk cost the reactionaries have put that makes them think its beyond the point of no return and its easier to spend all the time justifying and defending than trying to change or thinking that it must be changed.
This is why they can't just "stop bad policies", they're too far gone in them, too invested to even be thought to change away.
R: 4 / I: 1
Colombia’s Senate on Tuesday approved a labor reform bill that included many of the elements of a controversial referendum called by President Gustavo Petro. Coalition lawmakers celebrated the vote that restored much of the bill as it had been approved by the House of Representatives.
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Argentines reel from health care cutbacks as President Milei’s state overhaul mirrors Trump’s
“We’re seeing setbacks we haven’t seen in decades,” said María Fernanda Boriotti, president of Argentina’s Federation of Health Professionals. “HIV patients without treatment, cancer patients dying for lack of medication, hospitals without resources, health professionals pushed out of the system.” The government curtailed medical coverage for retirees and lifted price controls on prescription medication and private health plans, causing prices to spike by 250% and 118% respectively, official data shows. “We’ve stopped buying milk, yogurt, anything that’s not absolutely essential,” said Susana Pecora, 71, who lost the insurance plan that covered her husband’s antipsychotic drugs when the price jumped 40% last year.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-trump-rfk-health-care-cancer-8f5c4101140e1859c11ef4baed214054
Bolivia Rejects UN Hunger Risk Claims
The report in question — Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP Early Warnings on Acute Food Insecurity (June to October 2025 Outlook) — identifies 13 countries experiencing the most severe food insecurity, including Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali. Bolivia is not among them. However, the report notes Bolivia requires monitoring due to persistent inflation and declining foreign reserves, which could increase food insecurity risks between June and October.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-rejects-un-hunger-risk-claims/
Brazil auctions off several Amazon oil sites despite environmentalists and Indigenous protests
The event came months before Brazil is to host the U.N.’s first climate talks held in the Amazon. The protesters outside Tuesday’s venue warned of potential risks that oil drilling poses to sensitive ecosystems and Indigenous communities in the Amazon. A luxury Rio de Janeiro hotel hosted the auction conducted by the National Oil Agency. Most of the 172 oil blocks for sale are located in areas with no current production, such as 47 offshore locations close to the mouth of the Amazon River and two sites inland in the Amazon near Indigenous territories.
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Israel army stations soldiers in Palestinian homes to avoid Iranian strikes, residents say
This surprise move coincided with the launch of Israel’s attacks on Iran last Friday. Analysts and residents have said that the army is stationing soldiers inside Palestinian homes and neighbourhoods to shield them from being targeted by Iranian missiles aimed at military camps. In the towns of Rummana, Anin and Jalboun near Jenin, 17 homes were seized, while several other homes were taken in the southern area of Hebron and the town of Idhna to the west. Israeli soldiers also converted a three-storey building into a headquarters in the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah. Speaking to Middle East Eye from Hebron, Abdel-Jabbar Shabaneh told Middle East Eye that the Israeli army on Friday stormed the residential building where he, his brothers and several other relatives live in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-army-stations-soldiers-palestinian-homes-avoid-iranian-strikes
Iran war gives Netanyahu political breathing room in Israel
Writing in Israeli media the day after Israel’s strikes on Iran began, former Prime Minister and self-styled centrist Yair Lapid, who less than a month earlier had been calling upon the prime minister to seek a truce in Gaza, wrote of his full support for the attacks on Iran while urging the United States to participate in the war. He was then pictured shaking Netanyahu’s hand with a map of Iran on a wall behind the two men.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/18/iran-war-gives-netanyahu-political-breathing-room-in-israel
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US forces accelerate withdrawal from northern Syria
SDF commander Mazloum Abdi warned that the reduced US presence is “not enough” to contain Isis, which he said had become more active, seizing weapons and regrouping. He confirmed Isis had killed at least 10 SDF members in recent attacks near former US bases, including Deir Ezzor and Raqqa which were once strongholds for the jihadist group.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/us-forces-accelerate-withdrawal-northern-syria
Ongoing violations | Israeli forces start large-scale earth-moving operations in northern Al-Quneitra
Al-Quneitra province: Israeli forces brought in military vehicles, heavy diggers and earth-moving machineries to Haraj Al-Shahar area in Jabata Al-Khashab area in the northern countryside of Al-Quneitra, where they started bulldozing large swaths of land, including areas with heavy bushes and trees adjacent to the border with the occupied Syrian Golan.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/364408/
Hundreds protest at Forged Solutions in Sheffield against supply of F-35 components to slaughter Palestinians
Over 500 protestors participated in a demonstration outside the Forged Solutions factory gates in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England Tuesday. Participants came from across South Yorkshire including, Doncaster, Rotherham, Wakefield, Chesterfield and on coaches from Leeds. There were also coaches and attendance from Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Bradford.
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Discarded clothes from UK brands dumped in protected Ghana wetlands
Clothes discarded by UK consumers and shipped to Ghana have been found in a huge rubbish dump in protected wetlands, an investigation has found. Reporters for Unearthed working with Greenpeace Africa found garments from Next in the dump and other sites, and items from George at Asda and Marks & Spencer washed up nearby.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/discarded-clothes-from-uk-brands-dumped-in-protected-ghana-wetlands
India’s left parties demand India end collaboration with Israel in national day of action
Apart from New Delhi, simultaneous protest marches and meetings were held in Kolkata, Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, and several other cities across India. These meetings and marches were also attended by members of trade unions, artist collectives, and academia. Speakers in the meetings across the country claimed that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is unprecedented in history. They claimed that all the western powers in Europe and the US are as much responsible for these criminal acts of deliberately massacring hundreds of thousands of innocent people as Israel.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/18/indias-left-parties-demand-india-end-collaboration-with-israel-in-national-day-of-action/
Indian police raid Indigenous settlement
HUNDREDS of Indian forest guards and police officers raided an indigenous settlement inside a tiger reserve today, following a historic mass return to their ancestral land. More than 250 forest officials and police stormed Karadikallu Atturu Kolli village in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, which the Jenu Kuruba people reclaimed on May 5. It is believed to be the first time that indigenous people in India have returned en masse to land inside a protected area after eviction. Security forces destroyed seven shelters where women, children and older people had been living.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indian-police-raid-indigenous-settlement
News 6/18/25
Colombia’s senate approves reinforced labor reformColombia’s Senate on Tuesday approved a labor reform bill that included many of the elements of a controversial referendum called by President Gustavo Petro. Coalition lawmakers celebrated the vote that restored much of the bill as it had been approved by the House of Representatives.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-senate-approves-reinforced-labor-reform/
Argentines reel from health care cutbacks as President Milei’s state overhaul mirrors Trump’s
“We’re seeing setbacks we haven’t seen in decades,” said María Fernanda Boriotti, president of Argentina’s Federation of Health Professionals. “HIV patients without treatment, cancer patients dying for lack of medication, hospitals without resources, health professionals pushed out of the system.” The government curtailed medical coverage for retirees and lifted price controls on prescription medication and private health plans, causing prices to spike by 250% and 118% respectively, official data shows. “We’ve stopped buying milk, yogurt, anything that’s not absolutely essential,” said Susana Pecora, 71, who lost the insurance plan that covered her husband’s antipsychotic drugs when the price jumped 40% last year.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-trump-rfk-health-care-cancer-8f5c4101140e1859c11ef4baed214054
Bolivia Rejects UN Hunger Risk Claims
The report in question — Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP Early Warnings on Acute Food Insecurity (June to October 2025 Outlook) — identifies 13 countries experiencing the most severe food insecurity, including Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali. Bolivia is not among them. However, the report notes Bolivia requires monitoring due to persistent inflation and declining foreign reserves, which could increase food insecurity risks between June and October.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-rejects-un-hunger-risk-claims/
Brazil auctions off several Amazon oil sites despite environmentalists and Indigenous protests
The event came months before Brazil is to host the U.N.’s first climate talks held in the Amazon. The protesters outside Tuesday’s venue warned of potential risks that oil drilling poses to sensitive ecosystems and Indigenous communities in the Amazon. A luxury Rio de Janeiro hotel hosted the auction conducted by the National Oil Agency. Most of the 172 oil blocks for sale are located in areas with no current production, such as 47 offshore locations close to the mouth of the Amazon River and two sites inland in the Amazon near Indigenous territories.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-oil-lula-510140c412d8efbaab105e1b60ea27ac
Israel army stations soldiers in Palestinian homes to avoid Iranian strikes, residents say
This surprise move coincided with the launch of Israel’s attacks on Iran last Friday. Analysts and residents have said that the army is stationing soldiers inside Palestinian homes and neighbourhoods to shield them from being targeted by Iranian missiles aimed at military camps. In the towns of Rummana, Anin and Jalboun near Jenin, 17 homes were seized, while several other homes were taken in the southern area of Hebron and the town of Idhna to the west. Israeli soldiers also converted a three-storey building into a headquarters in the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah. Speaking to Middle East Eye from Hebron, Abdel-Jabbar Shabaneh told Middle East Eye that the Israeli army on Friday stormed the residential building where he, his brothers and several other relatives live in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-army-stations-soldiers-palestinian-homes-avoid-iranian-strikes
Iran war gives Netanyahu political breathing room in Israel
Writing in Israeli media the day after Israel’s strikes on Iran began, former Prime Minister and self-styled centrist Yair Lapid, who less than a month earlier had been calling upon the prime minister to seek a truce in Gaza, wrote of his full support for the attacks on Iran while urging the United States to participate in the war. He was then pictured shaking Netanyahu’s hand with a map of Iran on a wall behind the two men.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/18/iran-war-gives-netanyahu-political-breathing-room-in-israel
https://archive.ph/a9qcp
US forces accelerate withdrawal from northern Syria
SDF commander Mazloum Abdi warned that the reduced US presence is “not enough” to contain Isis, which he said had become more active, seizing weapons and regrouping. He confirmed Isis had killed at least 10 SDF members in recent attacks near former US bases, including Deir Ezzor and Raqqa which were once strongholds for the jihadist group.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/us-forces-accelerate-withdrawal-northern-syria
Ongoing violations | Israeli forces start large-scale earth-moving operations in northern Al-Quneitra
Al-Quneitra province: Israeli forces brought in military vehicles, heavy diggers and earth-moving machineries to Haraj Al-Shahar area in Jabata Al-Khashab area in the northern countryside of Al-Quneitra, where they started bulldozing large swaths of land, including areas with heavy bushes and trees adjacent to the border with the occupied Syrian Golan.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/364408/
Hundreds protest at Forged Solutions in Sheffield against supply of F-35 components to slaughter Palestinians
Over 500 protestors participated in a demonstration outside the Forged Solutions factory gates in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England Tuesday. Participants came from across South Yorkshire including, Doncaster, Rotherham, Wakefield, Chesterfield and on coaches from Leeds. There were also coaches and attendance from Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Bradford.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/18/yyga-j18.html
Discarded clothes from UK brands dumped in protected Ghana wetlands
Clothes discarded by UK consumers and shipped to Ghana have been found in a huge rubbish dump in protected wetlands, an investigation has found. Reporters for Unearthed working with Greenpeace Africa found garments from Next in the dump and other sites, and items from George at Asda and Marks & Spencer washed up nearby.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/discarded-clothes-from-uk-brands-dumped-in-protected-ghana-wetlands
India’s left parties demand India end collaboration with Israel in national day of action
Apart from New Delhi, simultaneous protest marches and meetings were held in Kolkata, Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, and several other cities across India. These meetings and marches were also attended by members of trade unions, artist collectives, and academia. Speakers in the meetings across the country claimed that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is unprecedented in history. They claimed that all the western powers in Europe and the US are as much responsible for these criminal acts of deliberately massacring hundreds of thousands of innocent people as Israel.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/18/indias-left-parties-demand-india-end-collaboration-with-israel-in-national-day-of-action/
Indian police raid Indigenous settlement
HUNDREDS of Indian forest guards and police officers raided an indigenous settlement inside a tiger reserve today, following a historic mass return to their ancestral land. More than 250 forest officials and police stormed Karadikallu Atturu Kolli village in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, which the Jenu Kuruba people reclaimed on May 5. It is believed to be the first time that indigenous people in India have returned en masse to land inside a protected area after eviction. Security forces destroyed seven shelters where women, children and older people had been living.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indian-police-raid-indigenous-settlement
R: 19 / I: 1
Letter to Chkeidze, Vienna, April 1st, 1913
<In a word, at this moment, all that Leninism consists of is based on lies and falsifications, and bears in itself the seeds of its own decay. There is no doubt that, if the opposing party knows how to manage, gangrene will soon develop among Leninists, precisely because of the question of unity or division.
<Two policies may now be applied: to destroy ideologically and organically the fractional walls which still exist, and thus destroy the very foundations of Leninism, which is incompatible with the organisation of workers into a political party, but which can perfectly grow on the manure of splits; or, on the contrary, to conduct a fractional selection of anti- Leninists (Mensheviks or liquidators) by a complete liquidation of the divergences on tactics.
Letter to M. Olminski, 1921
<You ask me whether to publish my letters to Chkeidze. I think that it would not be appropriate. It is still too early to work as historians. These letters were written under the spur of the moment and, obviously, the tone suffers from this.
<… this retrospective review of factional struggle could, still now, give rise to controversy, because, I confess frankly, I do not think at all that, in my disagreements with the Bolsheviks, I was wrong on all points
<… this fundamental error is due to the fact that I was analysing the two fractions, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, by placing myself from the perspective of the permanent revolution and of the dictatorship of the proletariat
<… I was hoping (as I have repeatedly expressed in letters and reports) that the course of the revolution, itself, would lead them to the programme of the permanent revolution
< I estimate that my appreciation of the driving forces of the revolution was undoubtedly correct, but that the consequences that I pulled from the two fractions were unquestionably false
can a trotskyite explain these letters?
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/trotltrs.htmLetter to Chkeidze, Vienna, April 1st, 1913
<In a word, at this moment, all that Leninism consists of is based on lies and falsifications, and bears in itself the seeds of its own decay. There is no doubt that, if the opposing party knows how to manage, gangrene will soon develop among Leninists, precisely because of the question of unity or division.
<Two policies may now be applied: to destroy ideologically and organically the fractional walls which still exist, and thus destroy the very foundations of Leninism, which is incompatible with the organisation of workers into a political party, but which can perfectly grow on the manure of splits; or, on the contrary, to conduct a fractional selection of anti- Leninists (Mensheviks or liquidators) by a complete liquidation of the divergences on tactics.
Letter to M. Olminski, 1921
<You ask me whether to publish my letters to Chkeidze. I think that it would not be appropriate. It is still too early to work as historians. These letters were written under the spur of the moment and, obviously, the tone suffers from this.
<… this retrospective review of factional struggle could, still now, give rise to controversy, because, I confess frankly, I do not think at all that, in my disagreements with the Bolsheviks, I was wrong on all points
<… this fundamental error is due to the fact that I was analysing the two fractions, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, by placing myself from the perspective of the permanent revolution and of the dictatorship of the proletariat
<… I was hoping (as I have repeatedly expressed in letters and reports) that the course of the revolution, itself, would lead them to the programme of the permanent revolution
< I estimate that my appreciation of the driving forces of the revolution was undoubtedly correct, but that the consequences that I pulled from the two fractions were unquestionably false
R: 54 / I: 14
This is an important distinction, since the reactionary camp encompasses two types of people.
1. Normie operating on instinct
2. Entrenched cultist with ideological conviction
For example, America is full of the first kind. I wouldn't expect your regular American Christian to oppose life extension through science, because they wouldn't be ideologically consistent enough in their worldview to want that. Their fear of death or inconvenience in the moment outweighs the abstract possibility of heaven in their mind, creating a sort of instinctive doublethink. For such people, religion is an expression of autopilot conformity. They don't have agency are more like red blood cells in the social organism rather than something to be exterminated.
Keep in mind, I have massive contempt for the first type of reactionary. Unfortunately, they are the VAST majority in every society, and the "socialization" solution for this majority is only achievable through careful sustained effort (as the USSR learned the hard way). If the Uyghurs are a variant of this first type of person, then overkill persecution isn't necessary and won't achieve much (aside from bad optics).
HOWEVER, if they are like the second group - Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or other moralizing fundies who would prevent us from playing god with science, they deserve everything they get and more.
Most of what I know about these people is from heavily biased sources. Do we have any objective proof that Uyghurs belong to the second category of fundamentalist reactionaries? I have no stake in this matter, and am open to a convincing argument on why they people actually suck.
Uyghur Situation
Are Uyghurs actually worse than regular normies?This is an important distinction, since the reactionary camp encompasses two types of people.
1. Normie operating on instinct
2. Entrenched cultist with ideological conviction
For example, America is full of the first kind. I wouldn't expect your regular American Christian to oppose life extension through science, because they wouldn't be ideologically consistent enough in their worldview to want that. Their fear of death or inconvenience in the moment outweighs the abstract possibility of heaven in their mind, creating a sort of instinctive doublethink. For such people, religion is an expression of autopilot conformity. They don't have agency are more like red blood cells in the social organism rather than something to be exterminated.
Keep in mind, I have massive contempt for the first type of reactionary. Unfortunately, they are the VAST majority in every society, and the "socialization" solution for this majority is only achievable through careful sustained effort (as the USSR learned the hard way). If the Uyghurs are a variant of this first type of person, then overkill persecution isn't necessary and won't achieve much (aside from bad optics).
HOWEVER, if they are like the second group - Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or other moralizing fundies who would prevent us from playing god with science, they deserve everything they get and more.
Most of what I know about these people is from heavily biased sources. Do we have any objective proof that Uyghurs belong to the second category of fundamentalist reactionaries? I have no stake in this matter, and am open to a convincing argument on why they people actually suck.
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Hello, i'm brazillian and a comp. sci student, what should i expect from this place?
I can't access Brazilian IB's because all of them are full of retards and reactionary ignorants. So I'm searching for a new place
Hello, i'm brazillian and a comp. sci student, what should i expect from this place?
I can't access Brazilian IB's because all of them are full of retards and reactionary ignorants. So I'm searching for a new place
R: 569 / I: 115
• Sixth day of conflict: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a warning at dawn on social media, telling Israel: “The battle begins.” Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump called the supreme leader an “easy target” and said that America’s “patience is wearing thin.” He also demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender.”
• US weighs options: Two US officials told CNN that Trump is warming to the idea of using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. A senior Israeli official told CNN that Israel is waiting to learn whether Trump will help finish the job of destroying Iran’s nuclear program.
• Deadly strikes: Israel said early Wednesday it was carrying out a series of strikes on Tehran. Israelis were also warned about incoming Iranian missiles, and explosions were heard in Tel Aviv.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-conflict-06-18-25-intl-hnk
/Iran Israel war/ General #20
What you need to know• Sixth day of conflict: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a warning at dawn on social media, telling Israel: “The battle begins.” Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump called the supreme leader an “easy target” and said that America’s “patience is wearing thin.” He also demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender.”
• US weighs options: Two US officials told CNN that Trump is warming to the idea of using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. A senior Israeli official told CNN that Israel is waiting to learn whether Trump will help finish the job of destroying Iran’s nuclear program.
• Deadly strikes: Israel said early Wednesday it was carrying out a series of strikes on Tehran. Israelis were also warned about incoming Iranian missiles, and explosions were heard in Tel Aviv.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-conflict-06-18-25-intl-hnk
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Links:
t.me/Medmannews
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator
https://xcancel.com/WarMonitors
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_
USS Nimitz tracker:
https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/vessels/USS-Nimitz-(CVN-68)/CURRENT-POSITION/1/303981000
Tracker of USAF refueling tankers and other aircraft with transponders:
https://airnavradar.com/?airline=aio
Previous thread: >>2334975
/Iran Israel War/ General #19
>BREAKING TRUMP TRUTH UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! edition.Links:
t.me/Medmannews
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator
https://xcancel.com/WarMonitors
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_
USS Nimitz tracker:
https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/vessels/USS-Nimitz-(CVN-68)/CURRENT-POSITION/1/303981000
Tracker of USAF refueling tankers and other aircraft with transponders:
https://airnavradar.com/?airline=aio
Previous thread: >>2334975
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalography (EEG) to assess cognitive load during essay writing, and analyzed essays using NLP, as well as scoring essays with the help from human teachers and an AI judge. Across groups, NERs, n-gram patterns, and topic ontology showed within-group homogeneity. EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use. In session 4, LLM-to-Brain participants showed reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalography (EEG) to assess cognitive load during essay writing, and analyzed essays using NLP, as well as scoring essays with the help from human teachers and an AI judge. Across groups, NERs, n-gram patterns, and topic ontology showed within-group homogeneity. EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use. In session 4, LLM-to-Brain participants showed reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.
R: 99 / I: 10
Notorious ex-communist rat David Horowitz passed away yesterday.
Parents were CPUSA members who raised Horowitz to be a Stalinist. After working with the BPP and the 60s New Left, Horowitz betrayed the Panthers and went on to shill for Reagan and the Neocons.
Hope he’s burning in the lowest levels of Gehennom.
Press S to spit on his grave.
Notorious ex-communist rat David Horowitz passed away yesterday.
Parents were CPUSA members who raised Horowitz to be a Stalinist. After working with the BPP and the 60s New Left, Horowitz betrayed the Panthers and went on to shill for Reagan and the Neocons.
Hope he’s burning in the lowest levels of Gehennom.
Press S to spit on his grave.
R: 5 / I: 1
Facebook groups dedicated to sea departures have ballooned, with hundreds reportedly seeking a way out. With demand soaring, some yacht owners are offering spots for fees ranging between 2,500 and 6,000 shekels. Most vessels take no more than ten passengers per trip. The movement has spread beyond Herzliya. In Haifa and Ashkelon, small yacht owners have also begun running crossings. Israel's Population and Immigration Authority says it was unable to fully assess the scale of the exodus, but anecdotal evidence points to a growing phenomenon. While some travellers claim to be foreign nationals returning home, many are in fact Israeli citizens. A few openly admit they were fleeing the rising threat of Iranian missile strikes, though most refuse to speak on record.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israelis-quietly-flee-europe-yacht-escape-iran-missiles
Zionist Soldier Killed, 10 Wounded in Fierce Confrontations in Khan Younis
The Zionist military confirmed on Tuesday the killing of a soldier from the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion and the injury of 10 others, four of them seriously, during a military operation in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. According to Zionist Army Radio, the casualties occurred when Palestinian Resistance fighters planted an explosive device on a Namer armored personnel carrier transporting the unit. The explosion killed one soldier instantly and wounded the others, including a senior officer.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/19778/
Blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty | Israeli forces advance into new areas in Al-Quneitra and the number of devastated houses increases to 15
Moreover, Israeli forces devastated more five houses in Al-Hemaydiyah village under the pretext that “those houses were near an Israeli military base,” bringing the number of houses devastated by Israeli forces since morning to 15. Those practices have triggered a state of anger among residents who sent district calls to the Syrian government which has taken no action regarding the frequent violations by Israeli forces. A few hours ago, SOHR sources repotted that members of an Israeli military patrol devastated ten civilian houses in Al-Hemaydiyah village under the pretext that “those houses were near an Israeli military base,” as well as arresting two civilians.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/364345/
Egypt's secret police abduct and ‘brutally beat’ three Global March to Gaza's organisers
The group, Global March to Gaza, had hoped to bring thousands of people from across the world to march peacefully from the Egyptian capital of Cairo to Rafah, just across the country’s border with Palestine, last weekend, but were met with state repression. Hundreds of people hoping to break Israel’s illegal blockade of humanitarian aid into Gaza were detained, deported and arrested upon arrival into Cairo last week, forcing Global March to Gaza’s organisers to abandon the march.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/egypts-secret-police-abduct-and-brutally-beat-three-global-march-gazas-organisers
Ghana nurses suspend nationwide strike after parliamentary intervention
Following discussions with the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health on June 12, 2025, the GRNMA leadership announced the suspension of the industrial action pending further engagements. The union directed all nurses and midwives to resume their normal shift duties starting Saturday, June 14, while awaiting the outcome of a scheduled follow-up meeting on June 26. “We will not rest on our oars until the Collective Agreement is fully implemented,” GRNMA stated.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/ghana-nurses-suspend-nationwide-strike-after-parliamentary-intervention/
‘RSF seizes new strategic area near Sudan–Libya–Egypt border’
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly taken control of the strategic Karab El Tum area, near the border triangle between Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. Analysts state that this development could have significant implications for the ongoing conflict. These reports come days after announcing the RSF had captured El Uweinat, another key frontier location.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rsf-seizes-new-strategic-area-near-sudan-libya-egypt-border
26,000 Cádiz metalworkers set to strike in Spain
On June 18 and 19, over 26,000 metalworkers in the province of Cádiz are on strike. The walkout, called by Workers Commissions (CCOO) and the General Union of Workers (UGT), is the latest expression of the explosive anger building up in Spain’s industrial working class. It is part of a broader strike wave as workers fight to claw back wages gutted through years of below inflation pay, soaring housing costs, and rising food prices.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/17/tsgn-j17.html
Portuguese police arrest six linked to armed far-right group
The detainees are believed to belong to the so-called Lusitanian Armillary Movement (MAL), which sought to establish itself as a political movement supported by an armed militia, according to a police statement. They are suspected of crimes related to terrorist groups and activities, discrimination and incitement to hatred and violence and possession of prohibited weapons, police said. Authorities seized several explosives, firearms — some built with 3D printers — and rounds of ammunition and knives in the operation, police said in a statement.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/portuguese-police-arrest-six-linked-armed-far-right-group
North Korea to send military construction workers, deminers to rebuild Russia’s Kursk region
North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and deminers to support reconstruction work in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian media reported, another sign of an expanding military partnership between the two nations. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti cited top Russian security official Sergei Shoigu as saying that North Korea will dispatch 1,000 deminers as well as 5,000 military construction workers to the Kursk region.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3314818/north-korea-send-military-construction-workers-deminers-rebuild-russias-kursk-region
Moderate wage hike won’t affect employment, prices — study
While a 31% increase in Metro Manila’s minimum wage may seem bold by today’s standards, it’s far from unprecedented. The study cites the last legislated wage hike in 1989, which was even higher at 40 percent, and notes that the economy absorbed it without causing a crisis. This emphasizes the study’s broader point: a fair wage hike helps restore workers’ rightful share in national growth. “Workers have not shared in the fruits of their labor,” the study points out, with real wages remaining largely stagnant despite steady productivity growth since 2001. It adds that any inflationary effects of higher wage growth could be offset by rising productivity.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/06/15/moderate-wage-hike-wont-affect-employment-prices-study/
Govt employees at Secretariat to keep protesting until ordinance withdrawn
The draft of the controversial ordinance was approved at a meeting of the Advisory Council on May 22. It includes provisions allowing dismissal of government employees for four types of disciplinary offences without a formal departmental inquiry, requiring only a show-cause notice. The ordinance was promulgated on May 25, sparking widespread backlash among public servants. Government employees have condemned the ordinance as regressive and a ‘black law’. Since May 24, they have been staging protest marches, work abstentions, and sit-ins within the Secretariat. Memorandums have also been submitted to several advisers demanding its repeal.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/267506/govt-employees-at-secretariat-to-keep-protesting-until-ordinance-withdrawn
Sri Lankan police file criminal charges against Alton Estate workers
Sri Lankan police have filed a series of criminal charges against 26 workers from the Alton Estate near Maskeliya in the central plantation district. After dragging out this case for over four years, a charge sheet was issued against the victimised workers on May 28 at the Hatton Magistrate Court. Their case will be heard on September 10. Seven charges have been laid against the accused. These include, being members of an unlawful assembly with the purpose of attacking estate manager Sathyamoorthy Subash Narayanan and assistant manager Anushan Thiruchelvam; hitting them with hands, feet, and clubs and causing serious injuries; and attacking the estate manager’s residence, causing damage estimated at 27,684 rupees ($US92).
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/17/cmmp-j17.html
News 6/17/25
As conflict with Iran escalates, hundreds of Israelis quietly flee by yacht to EuropeFacebook groups dedicated to sea departures have ballooned, with hundreds reportedly seeking a way out. With demand soaring, some yacht owners are offering spots for fees ranging between 2,500 and 6,000 shekels. Most vessels take no more than ten passengers per trip. The movement has spread beyond Herzliya. In Haifa and Ashkelon, small yacht owners have also begun running crossings. Israel's Population and Immigration Authority says it was unable to fully assess the scale of the exodus, but anecdotal evidence points to a growing phenomenon. While some travellers claim to be foreign nationals returning home, many are in fact Israeli citizens. A few openly admit they were fleeing the rising threat of Iranian missile strikes, though most refuse to speak on record.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israelis-quietly-flee-europe-yacht-escape-iran-missiles
Zionist Soldier Killed, 10 Wounded in Fierce Confrontations in Khan Younis
The Zionist military confirmed on Tuesday the killing of a soldier from the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion and the injury of 10 others, four of them seriously, during a military operation in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. According to Zionist Army Radio, the casualties occurred when Palestinian Resistance fighters planted an explosive device on a Namer armored personnel carrier transporting the unit. The explosion killed one soldier instantly and wounded the others, including a senior officer.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/19778/
Blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty | Israeli forces advance into new areas in Al-Quneitra and the number of devastated houses increases to 15
Moreover, Israeli forces devastated more five houses in Al-Hemaydiyah village under the pretext that “those houses were near an Israeli military base,” bringing the number of houses devastated by Israeli forces since morning to 15. Those practices have triggered a state of anger among residents who sent district calls to the Syrian government which has taken no action regarding the frequent violations by Israeli forces. A few hours ago, SOHR sources repotted that members of an Israeli military patrol devastated ten civilian houses in Al-Hemaydiyah village under the pretext that “those houses were near an Israeli military base,” as well as arresting two civilians.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/364345/
Egypt's secret police abduct and ‘brutally beat’ three Global March to Gaza's organisers
The group, Global March to Gaza, had hoped to bring thousands of people from across the world to march peacefully from the Egyptian capital of Cairo to Rafah, just across the country’s border with Palestine, last weekend, but were met with state repression. Hundreds of people hoping to break Israel’s illegal blockade of humanitarian aid into Gaza were detained, deported and arrested upon arrival into Cairo last week, forcing Global March to Gaza’s organisers to abandon the march.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/egypts-secret-police-abduct-and-brutally-beat-three-global-march-gazas-organisers
Ghana nurses suspend nationwide strike after parliamentary intervention
Following discussions with the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health on June 12, 2025, the GRNMA leadership announced the suspension of the industrial action pending further engagements. The union directed all nurses and midwives to resume their normal shift duties starting Saturday, June 14, while awaiting the outcome of a scheduled follow-up meeting on June 26. “We will not rest on our oars until the Collective Agreement is fully implemented,” GRNMA stated.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/ghana-nurses-suspend-nationwide-strike-after-parliamentary-intervention/
‘RSF seizes new strategic area near Sudan–Libya–Egypt border’
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly taken control of the strategic Karab El Tum area, near the border triangle between Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. Analysts state that this development could have significant implications for the ongoing conflict. These reports come days after announcing the RSF had captured El Uweinat, another key frontier location.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rsf-seizes-new-strategic-area-near-sudan-libya-egypt-border
26,000 Cádiz metalworkers set to strike in Spain
On June 18 and 19, over 26,000 metalworkers in the province of Cádiz are on strike. The walkout, called by Workers Commissions (CCOO) and the General Union of Workers (UGT), is the latest expression of the explosive anger building up in Spain’s industrial working class. It is part of a broader strike wave as workers fight to claw back wages gutted through years of below inflation pay, soaring housing costs, and rising food prices.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/17/tsgn-j17.html
Portuguese police arrest six linked to armed far-right group
The detainees are believed to belong to the so-called Lusitanian Armillary Movement (MAL), which sought to establish itself as a political movement supported by an armed militia, according to a police statement. They are suspected of crimes related to terrorist groups and activities, discrimination and incitement to hatred and violence and possession of prohibited weapons, police said. Authorities seized several explosives, firearms — some built with 3D printers — and rounds of ammunition and knives in the operation, police said in a statement.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/portuguese-police-arrest-six-linked-armed-far-right-group
North Korea to send military construction workers, deminers to rebuild Russia’s Kursk region
North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and deminers to support reconstruction work in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian media reported, another sign of an expanding military partnership between the two nations. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti cited top Russian security official Sergei Shoigu as saying that North Korea will dispatch 1,000 deminers as well as 5,000 military construction workers to the Kursk region.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3314818/north-korea-send-military-construction-workers-deminers-rebuild-russias-kursk-region
Moderate wage hike won’t affect employment, prices — study
While a 31% increase in Metro Manila’s minimum wage may seem bold by today’s standards, it’s far from unprecedented. The study cites the last legislated wage hike in 1989, which was even higher at 40 percent, and notes that the economy absorbed it without causing a crisis. This emphasizes the study’s broader point: a fair wage hike helps restore workers’ rightful share in national growth. “Workers have not shared in the fruits of their labor,” the study points out, with real wages remaining largely stagnant despite steady productivity growth since 2001. It adds that any inflationary effects of higher wage growth could be offset by rising productivity.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/06/15/moderate-wage-hike-wont-affect-employment-prices-study/
Govt employees at Secretariat to keep protesting until ordinance withdrawn
The draft of the controversial ordinance was approved at a meeting of the Advisory Council on May 22. It includes provisions allowing dismissal of government employees for four types of disciplinary offences without a formal departmental inquiry, requiring only a show-cause notice. The ordinance was promulgated on May 25, sparking widespread backlash among public servants. Government employees have condemned the ordinance as regressive and a ‘black law’. Since May 24, they have been staging protest marches, work abstentions, and sit-ins within the Secretariat. Memorandums have also been submitted to several advisers demanding its repeal.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/267506/govt-employees-at-secretariat-to-keep-protesting-until-ordinance-withdrawn
Sri Lankan police file criminal charges against Alton Estate workers
Sri Lankan police have filed a series of criminal charges against 26 workers from the Alton Estate near Maskeliya in the central plantation district. After dragging out this case for over four years, a charge sheet was issued against the victimised workers on May 28 at the Hatton Magistrate Court. Their case will be heard on September 10. Seven charges have been laid against the accused. These include, being members of an unlawful assembly with the purpose of attacking estate manager Sathyamoorthy Subash Narayanan and assistant manager Anushan Thiruchelvam; hitting them with hands, feet, and clubs and causing serious injuries; and attacking the estate manager’s residence, causing damage estimated at 27,684 rupees ($US92).
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/17/cmmp-j17.html
R: 2 / I: 0
“We have shouted and said over and over again:
“We do not want war or killing, we want lasting prosperity,” but the government, by continuing its warmongering and greedy for obtaining weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, has created and imposed these “hellish” conditions on society in order to continue the policy of “throwing Israel into the sea” and fighting the “great devil of America.”
Society is extremely inflamed and in danger. The current situation has gone beyond poverty and insecurity and has become a full-blown crisis.
The war that began on the first day with the slogan of destroying the IRGC leaders and the Khatam headquarters and other leaders has today entered a more dangerous stage in a military conflict. To the extent that the criminal government of Israel is brazenly threatening to burn Tehran.
The killing and attacks on civilians by both sides are condemned.
The people do not want war and we believe that in order to stop this war, the grounds and infrastructure that caused it must be destroyed. Therefore, we, the signatories of this statement, declare:
We, the people, do not want weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons, we consider any nuclear activity of the Islamic Republic to be dangerous and detrimental to the people.
All of this has been achieved by plundering our lives and livelihoods, and its consequences have been the spread of poverty and insecurity in society and the region. Our demand is to stop all these projects and end the war.
We, the people, do not want poverty, we do not want insecurity, we do not want so much discrimination, oppression, and exploitation. Our response to these miserable and horrific situations and our solution to save human lives is the victorious continuation of our revolution. We, the people, will not allow them to suppress our demands and block our path of progress under the pretext of war, and to intensify arrests and repression under the shadow of war, and to expand the scope of killing and execution with accusations such as "Israeli spy."
We, the workers, retirees, teachers, truck drivers, nurses, bakers, wage earners, farmers and various sections of the people, have fought for welfare, livelihood and freedom, and in the continuation of our protests and in the dangerous conditions we find ourselves in, we have pursued our demands and stand united against war and warmongers.
Our solution in these circumstances and in response to these warmongers is strikes and general and nationwide rallies against all kinds of oppression, discrimination, censorship and repression.
No more war, exploitation and misery. This is our final warning.
It is time for us to work together and stand united with the movement to defend life and livelihood, defend freedom of expression, association, strike, assembly, protest and the release of all political prisoners, against warmongers, reactionaries and terrorists.
Let us organize and become one voice to advance our struggles and realize our human demands.
We will stand by until this catastrophic situation is reversed!
No to war, no to warmongering governments
Woman, life, freedom
1_ Kermanshah Electrical and Metal Association
2_ Don't Execute
3- Iranian Teachers' Union Challenge
4- Dadkhahan
5_ Pensioners' Council
6- Nurses' Protest Organizing Council
7- Contract Oil Workers' Protest Organizing Council
8- Informal Oil Workers' Protest Organizing Council (Third Party)
9_ Defenders of Children's Rights
10_ Iranian Women's Voice
https://t.me/shoranaft
Joint Statement of Labor and Social Organizations in Opposition to the War and the Current Dangerous
The military conflict between the two fascist governments of Israel and the Islamic Republic continues. The war, which has so far left more than a thousand dead and injured on both sides; has displaced millions of people and created critical conditions for all people, especially for the most vulnerable segments of society, children and the elderly. In short, society has been pushed to the brink of a more dangerous precipice than ever.“We have shouted and said over and over again:
“We do not want war or killing, we want lasting prosperity,” but the government, by continuing its warmongering and greedy for obtaining weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, has created and imposed these “hellish” conditions on society in order to continue the policy of “throwing Israel into the sea” and fighting the “great devil of America.”
Society is extremely inflamed and in danger. The current situation has gone beyond poverty and insecurity and has become a full-blown crisis.
The war that began on the first day with the slogan of destroying the IRGC leaders and the Khatam headquarters and other leaders has today entered a more dangerous stage in a military conflict. To the extent that the criminal government of Israel is brazenly threatening to burn Tehran.
The killing and attacks on civilians by both sides are condemned.
The people do not want war and we believe that in order to stop this war, the grounds and infrastructure that caused it must be destroyed. Therefore, we, the signatories of this statement, declare:
We, the people, do not want weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons, we consider any nuclear activity of the Islamic Republic to be dangerous and detrimental to the people.
All of this has been achieved by plundering our lives and livelihoods, and its consequences have been the spread of poverty and insecurity in society and the region. Our demand is to stop all these projects and end the war.
We, the people, do not want poverty, we do not want insecurity, we do not want so much discrimination, oppression, and exploitation. Our response to these miserable and horrific situations and our solution to save human lives is the victorious continuation of our revolution. We, the people, will not allow them to suppress our demands and block our path of progress under the pretext of war, and to intensify arrests and repression under the shadow of war, and to expand the scope of killing and execution with accusations such as "Israeli spy."
We, the workers, retirees, teachers, truck drivers, nurses, bakers, wage earners, farmers and various sections of the people, have fought for welfare, livelihood and freedom, and in the continuation of our protests and in the dangerous conditions we find ourselves in, we have pursued our demands and stand united against war and warmongers.
Our solution in these circumstances and in response to these warmongers is strikes and general and nationwide rallies against all kinds of oppression, discrimination, censorship and repression.
No more war, exploitation and misery. This is our final warning.
It is time for us to work together and stand united with the movement to defend life and livelihood, defend freedom of expression, association, strike, assembly, protest and the release of all political prisoners, against warmongers, reactionaries and terrorists.
Let us organize and become one voice to advance our struggles and realize our human demands.
We will stand by until this catastrophic situation is reversed!
No to war, no to warmongering governments
Woman, life, freedom
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Why exactly do religions like Buddhism, Shintoism, and other eastern ideologies like bushido and Daoism encourage meditation and self mastery far more than religions like those belonging to abrahamism and western liberalism that preach mindless obedience, praying for miracles, and submission to authority? I swear, I cannot have been the only one to notice just how staggeringly more optimistic eastern religions and ideologies are in human intelligence than whatever garbage is coming out of Abrahamic and western thought.
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It's funny (read infuriating) seeing people playing the ideological purity game with Marxism of all things. Marx and Engels weren't religious leaders, they were intellectuals and political activists who wrote books. And all of the successful socialist movements thus-far have diverged from their thought in pretty significant ways. If we are to look at socialism as a science, then we should aim to test and revise our theories as we gain new information, not go "erm, okay, but what does Capital say about this". I can't count the number of times people have quote-mined Marx and Engels at me as if it were an argument, even though the quotes being mined were disproved by Mao nearly a century ago.
The power of free speech and free press is that it allows room for people to question things and come up with new theories that exist outside of mainstream thought. As such, they should be allowed to exist. However, this does not mean free speech and free press in the liberal sense, if only because neither of them makes any sense under socialism. No, under socialism, mainstream media and the internet will be heavily censored indeed, since there's no point to giving air time to disinformation, or even just stuff the public doesn't want to see. But when speaking face to face, or handing a paper you printed to a friend, one should be given a great degree of freedom.
Marxists will make fun of you for bringing up morality, but I still think it's good to have some kind of ethics guiding your action; not because it's metaphysically necessary, but because it's practical. Something like Utilitarianism, for example, gives you a yardstick by which to judge your actions, saving a ton of time that would otherwise be spent mulling over stupid questions like "will backwards baseball caps be allowed under socialism?".
Speaking of philosophical shit, I used to be a Nietzschean, but over time I've come to strongly disagree with him on the important stuff. I do, however, think that there is something to be said for ressentiment, even if his conception of it makes no sense. Vengefulness is a wasteful, childish behavior that attributes a legitimacy and humanity to the enemy that it doesn't deserve. I don't want evil people to suffer, I want them instantly dead, wiped off the face of the planet as fast as humanly possible.
People here seem to be in general agreement that one's interests, and thus actions, are influenced by class position, but will balk at the suggestion that the same logic extends to political class. This is why, broad-strokes, I'm an advocate for participatory democracy. To be clear, I'm aware that republicanism has its upsides, but I don't see why those upsides can't be combined with a participatory system. Have the legislature composed of randomly selected citizens, and the executive comprised of elected politicians; there, problem solved.
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I'm planning to cut down my activity on this site significantly, so I figured I'd share some closing thoughts before I go.It's funny (read infuriating) seeing people playing the ideological purity game with Marxism of all things. Marx and Engels weren't religious leaders, they were intellectuals and political activists who wrote books. And all of the successful socialist movements thus-far have diverged from their thought in pretty significant ways. If we are to look at socialism as a science, then we should aim to test and revise our theories as we gain new information, not go "erm, okay, but what does Capital say about this". I can't count the number of times people have quote-mined Marx and Engels at me as if it were an argument, even though the quotes being mined were disproved by Mao nearly a century ago.
The power of free speech and free press is that it allows room for people to question things and come up with new theories that exist outside of mainstream thought. As such, they should be allowed to exist. However, this does not mean free speech and free press in the liberal sense, if only because neither of them makes any sense under socialism. No, under socialism, mainstream media and the internet will be heavily censored indeed, since there's no point to giving air time to disinformation, or even just stuff the public doesn't want to see. But when speaking face to face, or handing a paper you printed to a friend, one should be given a great degree of freedom.
Marxists will make fun of you for bringing up morality, but I still think it's good to have some kind of ethics guiding your action; not because it's metaphysically necessary, but because it's practical. Something like Utilitarianism, for example, gives you a yardstick by which to judge your actions, saving a ton of time that would otherwise be spent mulling over stupid questions like "will backwards baseball caps be allowed under socialism?".
Speaking of philosophical shit, I used to be a Nietzschean, but over time I've come to strongly disagree with him on the important stuff. I do, however, think that there is something to be said for ressentiment, even if his conception of it makes no sense. Vengefulness is a wasteful, childish behavior that attributes a legitimacy and humanity to the enemy that it doesn't deserve. I don't want evil people to suffer, I want them instantly dead, wiped off the face of the planet as fast as humanly possible.
People here seem to be in general agreement that one's interests, and thus actions, are influenced by class position, but will balk at the suggestion that the same logic extends to political class. This is why, broad-strokes, I'm an advocate for participatory democracy. To be clear, I'm aware that republicanism has its upsides, but I don't see why those upsides can't be combined with a participatory system. Have the legislature composed of randomly selected citizens, and the executive comprised of elected politicians; there, problem solved.
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why don’t we try and flood tiktok with theory and more. Early Anarchist movements were successful because they had popular newspapers so why doesn’t every anarchist/socialist attempt this. And while yes I know normie bourgeoisiecuck social media sucks tiktok is at least less bourgeoisie then x or some shit
why don’t we try and flood tiktok with theory and more. Early Anarchist movements were successful because they had popular newspapers so why doesn’t every anarchist/socialist attempt this. And while yes I know normie bourgeoisiecuck social media sucks tiktok is at least less bourgeoisie then x or some shit
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The army claims it has successfully managed to shoot down between 80 and 90 percent of the Iranian missiles, The Jerusalem Post reported. But according to the report, the army says it is "constantly adjusting strategies" and trying to understand how Iran carries out its attacks, as Iran itself adjusts to try and "outplay" Israel’s defences.
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Palestinians in Jaffa denied access to bomb shelter by Israeli neighbours
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Fierce clashes in North Darfur as ‘Sudan army repels RSF attack’
Reports indicate that heavy fighting erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the northern and northeastern parts of North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher, on Sunday. The city, under siege for over a year, remains gripped by artillery shelling and drone strikes.
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Local authority workers stage parliamentary protest over fair funding
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Overwhelmed Louvre workers strike to protest overtourism, shutting down world's most-visited museum
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Panamanian Security Minister Announces Arrest of Banana Union Leader
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Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot dead mayor
Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli García Ramírez. Two municipal police officers were also injured in the attack. While officials are still investigating the possible motive for the killing, local officials are often targeted by criminal gangs for failing to do their bidding.
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Bolivia's Justice Minister resigns amid crisis
In a letter to President Luis Arce Catacora, the departing official expressed his intent to step down to defend his reputation and avoid destabilizing the government amid Bolivia's economic crisis and political tensions. Siles also emphasized his loyalty and unblemished career since entering public service in 2001, including roles as Vice Minister, Attorney General, and Justice Minister since September 2024. His resignation aims to ensure an orderly transition amid road blockades and demands from supporters of former President Evo Morales for his candidacy in the upcoming Aug. 17 elections despite being banned by the Constitution from holding any additional term.
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Families of ‘drug war’ victims denounce Duterte’s bid for temporary release
A mix of rage, fear and many questions. This was how families of the victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called war on drugs reacted upon hearing the news of the latter’s appeal of interim release to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber. The Rise Up for Life and for Rights said that the families of the victims are anxious of the news as it now becomes possible for Duterte, the main suspect in the killing of their loved ones, to be temporarily released from the ICC detention center in The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Suspected far-left activists arrested for allegedly assaulting riot police
The alleged incident occurred Saturday afternoon near the Toranomon area in Tokyo’s Minato Ward, where a protest march against constitutional revision and other causes was organized. The two suspects are accused of punching two riot officers in the face as police attempted to manage the demonstration. Roughly 600 people joined the march, which called for the abolition of the U.S.-Japan security alliance, police said. Authorities believe the organizing committee for the protest was effectively led by Chukaku-ha.
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Chinese router maker TP-Link cuts staff at Shanghai chip unit, retains Shenzhen facility
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New Sri Lanka mass grave discovery reopens old wounds for Tamils
Many Tamils were forcibly disappeared by the state, with a 2017 report by Amnesty International estimating that between 60,000 and 100,000 people have disappeared in Sri Lanka since the late 1980s. In the final stages of the war, which ended in 2009, the Tamil community alleges that nearly 170,000 people were killed, while United Nations estimates put the figure at 40,000.
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Israeli army says air defences failing to intercept up to 10% of Iranian ballistic missilesThe army claims it has successfully managed to shoot down between 80 and 90 percent of the Iranian missiles, The Jerusalem Post reported. But according to the report, the army says it is "constantly adjusting strategies" and trying to understand how Iran carries out its attacks, as Iran itself adjusts to try and "outplay" Israel’s defences.
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Palestinians in Jaffa denied access to bomb shelter by Israeli neighbours
Residents of Yehuda Hayamit Street told Middle East Eye they had been told the entry code giving them access to the shelter had been changed after about a dozen or so of them had taken refuge there in recent days as sirens sounded, following Iranian missile attacks targeting nearby Tel Aviv. They say the episode highlights the discrimination and the dangers they face as Palestinian citizens of Israel even in one of the country’s mixed cities, where about a third of the population remains Palestinian.
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Fierce clashes in North Darfur as ‘Sudan army repels RSF attack’
Reports indicate that heavy fighting erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the northern and northeastern parts of North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher, on Sunday. The city, under siege for over a year, remains gripped by artillery shelling and drone strikes.
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Local authority workers stage parliamentary protest over fair funding
The Unite rally, joined by Birmingham bin strikers, was organised as part of the union’s new Fair Funding Now for Local Government campaign. The campaign comes as councils are in crisis after years of severe cuts to public services and jobs. Local authorities were £122 billion in debt as of 2024, with government lenders charging excessive levels of interest to cash-strapped authorities.
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Overwhelmed Louvre workers strike to protest overtourism, shutting down world's most-visited museum
The spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel refused to take up their posts in protest over unmanageable crowds, chronic understaffing and what one union called “untenable” working conditions. It’s rare for the Louvre to close its doors. It has happened during war, during the pandemic, and in a handful of strikes – including spontaneous walkouts over overcrowding in 2019 and safety fears in 2013. But seldom has it happened so suddenly, without warning, and in full view of the crowds.
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Panamanian Security Minister Announces Arrest of Banana Union Leader
On Sunday, Panamanian Security Minister Frank Abrego confirmed that Francisco Smith, leader of the Agricultural Banana Industry Workers and Related Companies Union (SITRAIBANA), was arrested and charged with the crime of “apologia” (advocacy of criminal acts). … Smith’s arrest came after an agreement was signed with the parliamentary leadership to lift all blockades in Bocas del Toro. However, the deal was not honored because Panamanian teachers rejected it.
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Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot dead mayor
Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli García Ramírez. Two municipal police officers were also injured in the attack. While officials are still investigating the possible motive for the killing, local officials are often targeted by criminal gangs for failing to do their bidding.
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Bolivia's Justice Minister resigns amid crisis
In a letter to President Luis Arce Catacora, the departing official expressed his intent to step down to defend his reputation and avoid destabilizing the government amid Bolivia's economic crisis and political tensions. Siles also emphasized his loyalty and unblemished career since entering public service in 2001, including roles as Vice Minister, Attorney General, and Justice Minister since September 2024. His resignation aims to ensure an orderly transition amid road blockades and demands from supporters of former President Evo Morales for his candidacy in the upcoming Aug. 17 elections despite being banned by the Constitution from holding any additional term.
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Families of ‘drug war’ victims denounce Duterte’s bid for temporary release
A mix of rage, fear and many questions. This was how families of the victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called war on drugs reacted upon hearing the news of the latter’s appeal of interim release to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber. The Rise Up for Life and for Rights said that the families of the victims are anxious of the news as it now becomes possible for Duterte, the main suspect in the killing of their loved ones, to be temporarily released from the ICC detention center in The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Suspected far-left activists arrested for allegedly assaulting riot police
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Chinese router maker TP-Link cuts staff at Shanghai chip unit, retains Shenzhen facility
Lianzhou International, known globally as TP-Link Systems and the overseas arm of the router maker, cut the majority of workers at its Shanghai-based chip unit last week, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, who declined to be named because they are not authorised to speak to news media.
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New Sri Lanka mass grave discovery reopens old wounds for Tamils
Many Tamils were forcibly disappeared by the state, with a 2017 report by Amnesty International estimating that between 60,000 and 100,000 people have disappeared in Sri Lanka since the late 1980s. In the final stages of the war, which ended in 2009, the Tamil community alleges that nearly 170,000 people were killed, while United Nations estimates put the figure at 40,000.
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• Fresh blasts: Iran launched a new barrage at Israel on Sunday evening, with an explosion seen in the coastal city of Haifa. Israel said it began another series of strikes on military targets across Iran amid international pleas for diplomacy and de-escalation.
• Trump rejects assassination plan: Two US officials told CNN the US president rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spokesperson have denied the reports of such a plan.
• Terrified civilians and rising death tolls: The hostilities have killed at least 224 people in Iran and 14 in Israel, according to local authorities in each country. As Tehran residents flee the capital, Iran’s Ministry of Health said at least 1,277 people had been hospitalized since Israel launched the wave of attacks on Friday.
• ‘Weeks’ to go: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. US President Trump said his country “had nothing to do with” the Israeli attacks but later acknowledged that US involvement in the conflict is a possibility.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25
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What's happening now• Fresh blasts: Iran launched a new barrage at Israel on Sunday evening, with an explosion seen in the coastal city of Haifa. Israel said it began another series of strikes on military targets across Iran amid international pleas for diplomacy and de-escalation.
• Trump rejects assassination plan: Two US officials told CNN the US president rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spokesperson have denied the reports of such a plan.
• Terrified civilians and rising death tolls: The hostilities have killed at least 224 people in Iran and 14 in Israel, according to local authorities in each country. As Tehran residents flee the capital, Iran’s Ministry of Health said at least 1,277 people had been hospitalized since Israel launched the wave of attacks on Friday.
• ‘Weeks’ to go: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. US President Trump said his country “had nothing to do with” the Israeli attacks but later acknowledged that US involvement in the conflict is a possibility.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25
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I'm sorry. Only myself to blame and I will change. You know what I'm talking bout but it's just the truth and the way it feels , but I dont know that I am not sure what I am I mean but I'm just trying not my best
I'm sorry. Only myself to blame and I will change. You know what I'm talking bout but it's just the truth and the way it feels , but I dont know that I am not sure what I am I mean but I'm just trying not my best
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we can all agree that trump is a fascist right?
>”America First” and says “Americanism not globalism”
>deporting minorities
>deporting political opponents
>supporting a fascist state in the Middle East
>sending the national guard to beat protesters
>has a cult of personality
>attempts to be expansionist
>obsessed with the military lately
Capitalism is clearly in decay so it makes the most sense to me
we can all agree that trump is a fascist right?
>”America First” and says “Americanism not globalism”
>deporting minorities
>deporting political opponents
>supporting a fascist state in the Middle East
>sending the national guard to beat protesters
>has a cult of personality
>attempts to be expansionist
>obsessed with the military lately
Capitalism is clearly in decay so it makes the most sense to me
R: 645 / I: 119 (full)
Anyways what's happening right now? Burgers are sending their aircraft carriers from the South China Sea to the Middle East
/Iran Israel War/ General #13
12 is gone because bakers keep posting happy merchants or some shit and mods apparently delete all posts when banning or some shit idk ask themAnyways what's happening right now? Burgers are sending their aircraft carriers from the South China Sea to the Middle East
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https://history.ucla.edu/2025/05/20/professor-emeritus-j-arch-getty-passes-away/
Rest in Peace.
Remember to read Origins of the Great Purges and Road to Terror if you haven't.
The Terminator of the Totalitarian Paradigm has passed.
Dr. J. Arch Getty died a few days ago.https://history.ucla.edu/2025/05/20/professor-emeritus-j-arch-getty-passes-away/
Rest in Peace.
Remember to read Origins of the Great Purges and Road to Terror if you haven't.
R: 128 / I: 17
People flagrantly break the rules and then ban-evade without even trying to hide what they're doing, going so far as to continue posting with the exact same static name, and their original IP ban doesn't even get a single minute of increased ban length from all I've seen so far.
So everyone else not only has to follow the rules, but they also get to watch as the people who break them on a repeat basis simply mock them for reporting them. The number of people who use it in good faith could be counted on one hand. Not reporting is bourgeois is put on the very top of the screen on every fucking thread but
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF REPORTING PEOPLE IF THEY CAN JUST CASUALLY EVADE ANY PUNISHMENT WHATSOEVER?
Supposedly there's supposed to be a feature that helps prevent abuse of TOR in the future, but as it is it's a BROKEN FUCKING FEATURE that has only annoyed everyone who doesn't use it. FINISH your fucking project before you IMPLEMENT IT!
https://take.supersurvey.com/poll5514023xad9144c1-163
TOR node
The current setup with the TOR node in-site creates an absurd fucking system that punishes rule-abiding posters twice over while offering literally zero reason for the most atrociously malignant posters to follow the rules.People flagrantly break the rules and then ban-evade without even trying to hide what they're doing, going so far as to continue posting with the exact same static name, and their original IP ban doesn't even get a single minute of increased ban length from all I've seen so far.
So everyone else not only has to follow the rules, but they also get to watch as the people who break them on a repeat basis simply mock them for reporting them. The number of people who use it in good faith could be counted on one hand. Not reporting is bourgeois is put on the very top of the screen on every fucking thread but
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF REPORTING PEOPLE IF THEY CAN JUST CASUALLY EVADE ANY PUNISHMENT WHATSOEVER?
Supposedly there's supposed to be a feature that helps prevent abuse of TOR in the future, but as it is it's a BROKEN FUCKING FEATURE that has only annoyed everyone who doesn't use it. FINISH your fucking project before you IMPLEMENT IT!
https://take.supersurvey.com/poll5514023xad9144c1-163
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"Lenin's Testament"
Thoughts on "Lenin's Testament"? Most information I can find on it is contradictory. The WiKKKipedia page is unhelpful as expected and I can't find much other discussion about it.
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If you think bullshit like Unequal Exchange, Dependency Theory, and World Systems Theory are Marxist, then you clearly haven't actually read Marx. It's just early Frankfurt School self-jizzing paired with other sociologies and a bit of Ricardian economics and Hilferding sprinkled into it for good measure. Hell, some people even make shit up about Lenin having something to do with it, like sure, Lenin's elaborations on the state, imperialism, etc. are half-assed, some borderline midwit but it was never THIS retarded.
If you think bullshit like Unequal Exchange, Dependency Theory, and World Systems Theory are Marxist, then you clearly haven't actually read Marx. It's just early Frankfurt School self-jizzing paired with other sociologies and a bit of Ricardian economics and Hilferding sprinkled into it for good measure. Hell, some people even make shit up about Lenin having something to do with it, like sure, Lenin's elaborations on the state, imperialism, etc. are half-assed, some borderline midwit but it was never THIS retarded.
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Just look online and you’ll find hundreds of videos of people just standing idly by while missiles are being set off and everyone is just totally zen. You can tell these days that marginalization, privatization, police violence, and systemic abuse globally have left the most leaders’ attitudes on politics to be completely out of sync with normal people. Even the bourgeoisie is currently in a reputation crisis among tje people it exploits with the whole musk drama shitshow fucking over whatever patience tje average person had for the rich left. People just really don’t care about the rich or politics as much as they used to.
I’m amazed by how apathetic everyone is like me
I’ll admit, I genuinely didn’t give a shit when I heard that India and Pakistan were bombing each other, I didn’t give a shit about any of the trump related drama, and I didn’t give a shit about the Iran Israeli garbage either. What amazes me is how apathetic everyone else was despite being aware of all these problems.Just look online and you’ll find hundreds of videos of people just standing idly by while missiles are being set off and everyone is just totally zen. You can tell these days that marginalization, privatization, police violence, and systemic abuse globally have left the most leaders’ attitudes on politics to be completely out of sync with normal people. Even the bourgeoisie is currently in a reputation crisis among tje people it exploits with the whole musk drama shitshow fucking over whatever patience tje average person had for the rich left. People just really don’t care about the rich or politics as much as they used to.
R: 2 / I: 2
>I've been studying Vichyite France and boy… the myth that it was some kind of Right-wing utopia is a joke.
>It was based off the personalism of Modernist theologian Schleiermacher through Maritain (intimate of Pope Paul VI and Saul Alinsky), the personalist communitarian philosophy of Mournier (who was espoused by Distributist anarchists) and Swiss Europe of Regions Fascist De Rougemont who loves the Ayatollah.
>At the very top of these movements is the Swiss Fascism model of Pan-Europeanism of Count Kalergi and Otto Hapsburg (who helped found the Austrian School and Mont Pelerin.) The present movement's leader is a Catholic noble who claims it was funded by Freemasons and the CIA.
>This directly interfaces with Europe's fascism HQ CINEF, and is in line with the FSB-controlled circles around Europe of Regions advocates Alain de Benoist, Steve Bannon, Alexandre Dugin and Constatin Malofeev. And leftist counterparts like Paulwels who is a Fabian, was chair of the Congress of Cultural Freedom and is part of Benoist's movement.
>Realize that the fascist proposition is not about ideology but about geopolitics and every stupid religious fundamenatlist is being recruited into anti-capitalist, anti-nationalist, pro-regionalism, third-positionism to further this agenda for the Swiss, British, the Italian nominally Catholic nobility around the House of Savoy and the Paymat group around Dugin and his oligarch friends.
>Catholics and Orthodox too dumb to realize these are same people fueling the immigration crisis and same Hofjuden who work through the Catholic nobility's World-Anti-Communist-League under leadership of circles around the Jerusalem Foundation and Jabotinsky-related networks (Kissinger, Conrad Black, Erik Prince, Evelyn de Rothschild, the Bloch family of H&R Block, etc.)
>What was so bad about Republicanism, the Renaissance and Capitalism? All systems that upheld Reason against radical action?
Stupidity of New Right Trads
Guy sounds like E Michael Jones in the last part.>I've been studying Vichyite France and boy… the myth that it was some kind of Right-wing utopia is a joke.
>It was based off the personalism of Modernist theologian Schleiermacher through Maritain (intimate of Pope Paul VI and Saul Alinsky), the personalist communitarian philosophy of Mournier (who was espoused by Distributist anarchists) and Swiss Europe of Regions Fascist De Rougemont who loves the Ayatollah.
>At the very top of these movements is the Swiss Fascism model of Pan-Europeanism of Count Kalergi and Otto Hapsburg (who helped found the Austrian School and Mont Pelerin.) The present movement's leader is a Catholic noble who claims it was funded by Freemasons and the CIA.
>This directly interfaces with Europe's fascism HQ CINEF, and is in line with the FSB-controlled circles around Europe of Regions advocates Alain de Benoist, Steve Bannon, Alexandre Dugin and Constatin Malofeev. And leftist counterparts like Paulwels who is a Fabian, was chair of the Congress of Cultural Freedom and is part of Benoist's movement.
>Realize that the fascist proposition is not about ideology but about geopolitics and every stupid religious fundamenatlist is being recruited into anti-capitalist, anti-nationalist, pro-regionalism, third-positionism to further this agenda for the Swiss, British, the Italian nominally Catholic nobility around the House of Savoy and the Paymat group around Dugin and his oligarch friends.
>Catholics and Orthodox too dumb to realize these are same people fueling the immigration crisis and same Hofjuden who work through the Catholic nobility's World-Anti-Communist-League under leadership of circles around the Jerusalem Foundation and Jabotinsky-related networks (Kissinger, Conrad Black, Erik Prince, Evelyn de Rothschild, the Bloch family of H&R Block, etc.)
>What was so bad about Republicanism, the Renaissance and Capitalism? All systems that upheld Reason against radical action?
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Accelerationist Praxis
It seems to me that we must accelerate the proletarianization of the petty-bourgeoisie in the imperial core. I would identify the social reproduction of capitalism with productive capital, the P-C'-M'-C-P phase of commodity production. It seems to me in analyzing productive capital that the proletariat must intensify consumption. If you are an accelerationist (and accelerationism is sensible in the context of the imperial core) then consumerism is a valuable tactic in the toolbox of the proletariat. We must drive the petty-bourgeosie into debt and evict them. The petty-bourgeoisie will be remolded in the school of the streets, and forged into loyal soldiers of the revolution. Not sure how much sense this makes. I suppose earning money to pay for the prole-ing of the petty-bourgeoisie is still technically centered on workers but it feels wrong. Is there an actual viable form of worker-centered accelerationism?
R: 8 / I: 1 (sage)
<are supported by USA and Israel
<are calling for Iran to be bombed
<their ideology is a mishmash of liberalism and anarchism
<Kurdish intellectuals are financed by German intelligence agancies and are sent out to sow confusion among the movement
<practice a cult of personality and can't admit that Ocalan is demented
anyone spreading this wicked ideology is no comrade of mine.
The Kurds are a CIA asset
<disband the movement after Syria fell to zionists<are supported by USA and Israel
<are calling for Iran to be bombed
<their ideology is a mishmash of liberalism and anarchism
<Kurdish intellectuals are financed by German intelligence agancies and are sent out to sow confusion among the movement
<practice a cult of personality and can't admit that Ocalan is demented
anyone spreading this wicked ideology is no comrade of mine.
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• Fresh blasts: Iran launched a new barrage at Israel on Sunday evening, with an explosion seen in the coastal city of Haifa. Israel said it began another series of strikes on military targets across Iran amid international pleas for diplomacy and de-escalation.
• Trump rejects assassination plan: Two US officials told CNN the US president rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spokesperson have denied the reports of such a plan.
• Terrified civilians and rising death tolls: The hostilities have killed at least 224 people in Iran and 14 in Israel, according to local authorities in each country. As Tehran residents flee the capital, Iran’s Ministry of Health said at least 1,481 people had been injured since Israel launched the wave of attacks on Friday.
• ‘Weeks’ to go: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. US President Trump said his country “had nothing to do with” the Israeli attacks but later acknowledged that US involvement in the conflict is a possibility.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25
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What's happening now• Fresh blasts: Iran launched a new barrage at Israel on Sunday evening, with an explosion seen in the coastal city of Haifa. Israel said it began another series of strikes on military targets across Iran amid international pleas for diplomacy and de-escalation.
• Trump rejects assassination plan: Two US officials told CNN the US president rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spokesperson have denied the reports of such a plan.
• Terrified civilians and rising death tolls: The hostilities have killed at least 224 people in Iran and 14 in Israel, according to local authorities in each country. As Tehran residents flee the capital, Iran’s Ministry of Health said at least 1,481 people had been injured since Israel launched the wave of attacks on Friday.
• ‘Weeks’ to go: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. US President Trump said his country “had nothing to do with” the Israeli attacks but later acknowledged that US involvement in the conflict is a possibility.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25
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• Fresh blasts: Israel detected more missiles launched from Iran on Sunday evening, with an explosion seen in the coastal city of Haifa, after residential areas of Tehran were hit with multiple strikes. Earlier on Sunday, for the first time, Iran launched a daytime barrage against Israel, but there have been no reports of significant damage.
• Trump rejects assassination plan: A US official told CNN the US president rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spokesperson have denied the reports of such a plan, calling them “false” and “fake.”
• Israeli toll mounts: At least 14 are confirmed dead in Israel in the hostilities. Visiting the scene of a strike that killed 4 people, Israel’s PM Netanyahu said “think what would happen if Iran had atomic weapons.” A stated goal of the Israeli operation is to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.
• Iranians flee: Some Tehran residents have been escaping north to safer rural areas while others have been stockpiling essentials. The metro system is open around the clock so people can shelter. Scores are reported killed but no official figure has been given.
• No end in sight: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. US President Trump said his country “had nothing to do with” the Israeli attacks but later acknowledged that US involvement in the conflict is a possibility.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25
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What's happening now• Fresh blasts: Israel detected more missiles launched from Iran on Sunday evening, with an explosion seen in the coastal city of Haifa, after residential areas of Tehran were hit with multiple strikes. Earlier on Sunday, for the first time, Iran launched a daytime barrage against Israel, but there have been no reports of significant damage.
• Trump rejects assassination plan: A US official told CNN the US president rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spokesperson have denied the reports of such a plan, calling them “false” and “fake.”
• Israeli toll mounts: At least 14 are confirmed dead in Israel in the hostilities. Visiting the scene of a strike that killed 4 people, Israel’s PM Netanyahu said “think what would happen if Iran had atomic weapons.” A stated goal of the Israeli operation is to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.
• Iranians flee: Some Tehran residents have been escaping north to safer rural areas while others have been stockpiling essentials. The metro system is open around the clock so people can shelter. Scores are reported killed but no official figure has been given.
• No end in sight: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. US President Trump said his country “had nothing to do with” the Israeli attacks but later acknowledged that US involvement in the conflict is a possibility.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25
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Israel attacked Iran in an aggressive act of war. The US government supported the strikes, providing intelligence and planning with Netanyahu. Donald Trump cynically used nuclear negotiations with Tehran as cover, as he oversaw the joint US-Israeli operation.
fizzle or sizzle the floor is yours gentlepersons
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Israel attacked Iran in an aggressive act of war. The US government supported the strikes, providing intelligence and planning with Netanyahu. Donald Trump cynically used nuclear negotiations with Tehran as cover, as he oversaw the joint US-Israeli operation.
fizzle or sizzle the floor is yours gentlepersons
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"Fascism is just capitalism in decay" copium response for the need to justify the left calling everything Fascist, no, it wasn't, Fascism was an actual ideology, with actual worldviews, actual philosophy shared by ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler that revolved around Social and state organism, rejection of slave morality and return to a "hero" ideal, Blood and soil and Futurism. If the state and ideology does not have these values, it is not Fascist.
>But Franco, But Pinochet.
Not Fascists. Just reactionary right wing capitalists. Franco was a turbo Christcuck, which goes explicity against the core Fascist philosophy and worldview around rejecting slave morality like Christianity.
>But Zionism
Zionism developed before Fascism and along side it, but is it's own retarded 19th century cousin that was born out of 19th century blood and soil Nationalist mindsets.
>But Neo Nazis
Retarded Larpers who don't actually adhere to any Fascist ideals, just have a surface level understanding of Fascists being "racist", rather than Fascist "Racism" actually was a rational and logical position dictated by Social Organism, as "foreign elements" were seen as a sickness to the host organism. If Neo Nazis were actually Fascist, they would also be massive health food and other health/eco nuts, but they are not, because they don't even know about Social Organism at all.
>But Taco Drumpf
Not Fascist, just a retard.
The reality is, that Fascist elements were all just subsumed into the Liberal Capitalist structure, psychotic right wing elements today are not Fascist at all. They are the result of contradictions and class struggle that are unqiue to modern materialist situation.
If we go by literally, what most Leftists call "Fascism" then, literally every state before the rise of Liberal Social Democracy was "Fascist" going back to near the start of history.
Fascism lost, it does not exist. Stop calling non-fascist things fascist.
Fascism as an ideology was crushed in WW2 by the Soviet Union and the last remnants of it were subsumed into the Liberal order as Paperclipped Anti-Communists who simply became your typical shitlib neocon hawks in State Departments and NGOs who purely act not on any Fascist ideology, but on Nationalist/intergenerational seethe."Fascism is just capitalism in decay" copium response for the need to justify the left calling everything Fascist, no, it wasn't, Fascism was an actual ideology, with actual worldviews, actual philosophy shared by ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler that revolved around Social and state organism, rejection of slave morality and return to a "hero" ideal, Blood and soil and Futurism. If the state and ideology does not have these values, it is not Fascist.
>But Franco, But Pinochet.
Not Fascists. Just reactionary right wing capitalists. Franco was a turbo Christcuck, which goes explicity against the core Fascist philosophy and worldview around rejecting slave morality like Christianity.
>But Zionism
Zionism developed before Fascism and along side it, but is it's own retarded 19th century cousin that was born out of 19th century blood and soil Nationalist mindsets.
>But Neo Nazis
Retarded Larpers who don't actually adhere to any Fascist ideals, just have a surface level understanding of Fascists being "racist", rather than Fascist "Racism" actually was a rational and logical position dictated by Social Organism, as "foreign elements" were seen as a sickness to the host organism. If Neo Nazis were actually Fascist, they would also be massive health food and other health/eco nuts, but they are not, because they don't even know about Social Organism at all.
>But Taco Drumpf
Not Fascist, just a retard.
The reality is, that Fascist elements were all just subsumed into the Liberal Capitalist structure, psychotic right wing elements today are not Fascist at all. They are the result of contradictions and class struggle that are unqiue to modern materialist situation.
If we go by literally, what most Leftists call "Fascism" then, literally every state before the rise of Liberal Social Democracy was "Fascist" going back to near the start of history.
R: 622 / I: 100 (full)
Israel's war on Iran was made in USA: Trump supported attacks, while faking peace talks
Israel attacked Iran in an aggressive act of war. The US government supported the strikes, providing intelligence and planning with Netanyahu. Donald Trump cynically used nuclear negotiations with Tehran as cover, as he oversaw the joint US-Israeli operation.
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>6:40 Israel: unsinkable US aircraft carrier
<7:15 Netanyahu is an American
>8:07 USA arms Israel
<8:45 USA protects Israel at UN
>9:37 ICC charges Netanyahu
<10:34 Trump threatens Iran
>12:41 Trump's 60 day deadline
<13:37 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA)
>15:24 Lessons from Libya
<17:24 Israel's nuclear weapons
>18:37 Nuclear weapon free zone
<19:20 Alliance with apartheid South Africa
>20:26 Germany condemns Iran
<21:37 Western neo-colonialism
>22:20 France's Macron criticizes Iran
<23:07 Iranian civilian victims
>24:11 Human shields
<27:29 US & Israel: imperial bullies
>28:44 Iran hits back
<29:13 US military aid to Israel
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Made In America EditionIsrael's war on Iran was made in USA: Trump supported attacks, while faking peace talks
Israel attacked Iran in an aggressive act of war. The US government supported the strikes, providing intelligence and planning with Netanyahu. Donald Trump cynically used nuclear negotiations with Tehran as cover, as he oversaw the joint US-Israeli operation.
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>0:00 USA supported Israeli attacks
<1:38 Trump's fake "peace talks" with Iran
>3:13 USA provided Israel intelligence
<3:49 Trump gave Israel green light
>5:07 US military helped Israel
<6:01 Marco Rubio's lies
>6:40 Israel: unsinkable US aircraft carrier
<7:15 Netanyahu is an American
>8:07 USA arms Israel
<8:45 USA protects Israel at UN
>9:37 ICC charges Netanyahu
<10:34 Trump threatens Iran
>12:41 Trump's 60 day deadline
<13:37 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA)
>15:24 Lessons from Libya
<17:24 Israel's nuclear weapons
>18:37 Nuclear weapon free zone
<19:20 Alliance with apartheid South Africa
>20:26 Germany condemns Iran
<21:37 Western neo-colonialism
>22:20 France's Macron criticizes Iran
<23:07 Iranian civilian victims
>24:11 Human shields
<27:29 US & Israel: imperial bullies
>28:44 Iran hits back
<29:13 US military aid to Israel
>29:55 Outro
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do you guys think that the trucker convoy in Canada was a communist revolution or do you think it was just a petite bourgeoisie the media presented it like it was a far right protest but I’m not sure it was. What do you think?
do you guys think that the trucker convoy in Canada was a communist revolution or do you think it was just a petite bourgeoisie the media presented it like it was a far right protest but I’m not sure it was. What do you think?
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bunnies should be protected at all cost and are a foundation of a international communist Revolution.
bunnies are all trots and are enemies of capital and stalin
bunnies should be protected at all cost and are a foundation of a international communist Revolution.
bunnies are all trots and are enemies of capital and stalin
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The bourgeois family–the family as it exists today–is creepy as fuck. Every parent I've known develops some bizarre predilection with their child's sexuality, which stems from a sense of ownership over the child. You don't "own" your child. You're mandated by state to raise them.
The fact so many people view children as a burden is exactly why we need to annihilate the bourgeois family. And folks with kids don't feel any different, and they treat their kids accordingly. Raise kids in state-run boarding schools. Let people who like kids raise them.
The bourgeois family–the family as it exists today–is creepy as fuck. Every parent I've known develops some bizarre predilection with their child's sexuality, which stems from a sense of ownership over the child. You don't "own" your child. You're mandated by state to raise them.
The fact so many people view children as a burden is exactly why we need to annihilate the bourgeois family. And folks with kids don't feel any different, and they treat their kids accordingly. Raise kids in state-run boarding schools. Let people who like kids raise them.
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Medics at al-Awda and Al-Aqsa hospitals in central Gaza, where most of the casualties were moved to, said at least 15 people were killed on Saturday as they tried to approach the GHF aid distribution site near the so-called Netzarim Corridor. The rest were killed in separate attacks across the besieged and bombarded enclave, they added. Since the GHF started operations last month, at least 274 people have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded near aid distribution sites, according to a statement by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/14/israel-kills-at-least-58-people-in-gaza-many-at-us-backed-aid-site-medics
https://archive.ph/TgKK0
Israel and US modified F-35s to enable Iran attack without refuelling, sources say
The modification is secret, but two US officials speaking to MEE on condition of anonymity confirmed that Israel did not use mid-air refuelling during its Friday attack on Iran or land their warplanes for refuelling at any nearby countries. Instead, the US officials told MEE that Israel and the US modified the F-35's system to carry additional fuel that did not impact the F-35’s stealth features. The Israeli designation for their version of the F-35s is called the F-35I Adir.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-and-us-modified-f-35-jets-enable-iran-attack-without-refuelling-sources-say
Israeli forces impose West Bank restrictions for second day amid intensifying raids
According to Palestinian media, checkpoints and roadblocks remain in place, severely restricting Palestinian movement since their implementation on Friday, following Israel’s attacks on Iran. The Palestinian news agency Wafa said that Israeli forces have intensified their presence in West Bank cities such as Ramallah and Al-Bireh, setting up military checkpoints at all major entry and exit points.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-impose-west-bank-restrictions-second-day
Ongoing violations | Israeli forces advance into western Daraa, inspecting house of security member and combing former military post
Last night, SOHR sources reported that Israeli forces infiltrate Barika Village in the central Al-Quneitra countryside, as the patrol comprises five 4×4 vehicles. A few hours earlier, Israeli forces set fire to lands in Kodna Town in Al-Quneitra countryside for the second time, near Al-Tel Al-Ahmar Al-Ashraqy, here residents of the town and the General Security managed to control the fire and limit its expansion. On the other hand, Israeli forces infiltrated the outskirts of the town and opened extensive fire in the area, causing fear and panic among the civilians.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/364044/
'Baltagiya thugs' and police block Gaza aid convoy in Egypt as activists detained
Footage circulated online shows activists near the city of Ismailia being assaulted by men described by observers as "thugs", attempting to prevent them from advancing towards Rafah. The videos have been widely condemned by pro-Palestine groups and rights advocates. The "thugs" in question are believed to be baltagiya, gangs previously used by the Egyptian government to attack its political opponents, though this could not be verified.
https://www.newarab.com/news/baltagiya-thugs-and-police-block-gaza-aid-convoy-egypt
Shopper put on facial ID watchlist after dispute over 39p of paracetamol at Home Bargains
The 62-year-old woman, who has lost the confidence to go shopping on her own since the incident, according to her family, has made a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office on the grounds that the Data Protection Act requires there to be a “substantial public interest” for the processing of biometric data to be lawful. “She’s really struggling because even to go into Tesco she gets really stressed thinking: ‘Or am I allowed? Would they kick me out?’” her daughter said.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london
Coordinated protests against tourism levels planned in Spain, Portugal and Italy
Protests are planned in Barcelona and seven other Spanish cities, including Granada, Palma and Ibiza; Portugal's capital Lisbon; and the Italian cities of Venice, Genova, Palermo, Milan and Naples, according to announcements issued by several of the organising groups. Organisers, some of whom dismiss the counterargument that tourism brings jobs and prosperity, told Reuters that they wanted to build on scattered protests across Spain last year with the coordinated day of action.
https://www.reuters.com/world/coordinated-protests-against-tourism-levels-planned-spain-portugal-italy-2025-06-13/
Nigerian leader’s pardon of executed Ogoni activists draws criticisms
The men were convicted of murdering four local chiefs and were hanged in 1995 by the then-military regime led by Gen. Sani Abacha. They were part of the Ogoni ethnic group in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, and had protested environmental pollution in the region by multinational oil companies, particularly Shell. Their trial and murder sparked international outrage at the time, with rights groups calling it unjust and lacking credible evidence.
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-environmental-activists-pardon-822d06021bcf0ef7d69d457d4082b1b6
Ecuador approves controversial surveillance law
For a moment, it seemed like the controversial law would fail to gain the necessary votes, but in an unexpected turn of events, one of the assembly members of the Correista party Citizen Revolution (RC), David Arias, supported the government’s bill. RC swiftly expelled him from the party for the move. However, National Democratic Action (ADN), the president’s party, was able to approve a law that guarantees and expands its control over information security functions, under the pretext of the security crisis the country is experiencing.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/14/ecuador-approves-controversial-surveillance-law/
Bolivian President Announces Clearing of Oruro-Cochabamba Roadblock
On social media platform X, Arce stated: “Minutes ago, following coordinated operations, Bolivian Police and Armed Forces, with the support of local residents frustrated by the disruption, have reopened the Oruro-Cochabamba road.” … The president assured that efforts to unblock other routes will continue, alongside judicial investigations into those responsible for recent violence against security forces.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-president-announces-clearing-of-oruro-cochabamba-roadblock/
Colombia’s opposition disavows Petro as electoral guarantor, seeks meeting with military
According to Cepeda and his allies, the attempted assassination of far-right Senator Miguel Uribe over the weekend are the result of Petro’s “hate speech” towards the opposition and the business elite. According to Petro, “Colombia is under attack by one enemy, which is called the mafia.” The meeting was also rejected by moderate members of the liberal U Party who said that they were never consulted about any decision to disavow the president and seek ad hoc security guarantees.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-opposition-disavow-petro-as-electoral-guarantor-seek-meeting-with-military/
Australia: Rich List highlights soaring wealth of billionaires
The 200 wealthiest Australians now control $667 billion, up $42 billion from last year, according to the 2025 edition of the annual Rich List published by the Australian Financial Review (AFR). This amounts to more than 36 percent of Australia’s annual gross domestic product. In 1983, when the first Rich List was published, the total wealth of those included was $4.6 billion, the equivalent of $18.5 billion in today’s money. During this time span, the fortunes of the top 200 increased 7.7 times faster than per capita wealth and 26 times faster than per capita income. “The rich not only get richer, they increase their wealth faster,” stated the AFR.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/13/yisk-j13.html
Winning narrative? How India, Pakistan’s leaders seek cover under their flags after ceasefire
The BJP has already started campaigning on the basis that its government – helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi – dared to cross a red line, targeting what it says was “terrorist infrastructure” on Pakistani soil. But its strikes may have had the unintended consequence of shoring up support for Pakistan’s military establishment, experts say, months after protests erupted against the jailing of former prime minister Imran Khan.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3314346/winning-narrative-how-india-pakistans-leaders-seek-cover-under-their-flags-after-ceasefire
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Trump’s AUKUS review puts Australian nuclear submarine deal in doubt
The Trump administration has provoked consternation in the Australian political and military establishment after this week announcing a Pentagon review of plans under the AUKUS military pact to sell Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines to Australia. It puts the Australian Labor government under great pressure to make major concessions to the US as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flies to Canada for the G-7 summit and a possible meeting with Trump.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/14/xzxb-j14.html
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Israel kills at least 58 people in Gaza, many at US-backed aid site: MedicsMedics at al-Awda and Al-Aqsa hospitals in central Gaza, where most of the casualties were moved to, said at least 15 people were killed on Saturday as they tried to approach the GHF aid distribution site near the so-called Netzarim Corridor. The rest were killed in separate attacks across the besieged and bombarded enclave, they added. Since the GHF started operations last month, at least 274 people have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded near aid distribution sites, according to a statement by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/14/israel-kills-at-least-58-people-in-gaza-many-at-us-backed-aid-site-medics
https://archive.ph/TgKK0
Israel and US modified F-35s to enable Iran attack without refuelling, sources say
The modification is secret, but two US officials speaking to MEE on condition of anonymity confirmed that Israel did not use mid-air refuelling during its Friday attack on Iran or land their warplanes for refuelling at any nearby countries. Instead, the US officials told MEE that Israel and the US modified the F-35's system to carry additional fuel that did not impact the F-35’s stealth features. The Israeli designation for their version of the F-35s is called the F-35I Adir.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-and-us-modified-f-35-jets-enable-iran-attack-without-refuelling-sources-say
Israeli forces impose West Bank restrictions for second day amid intensifying raids
According to Palestinian media, checkpoints and roadblocks remain in place, severely restricting Palestinian movement since their implementation on Friday, following Israel’s attacks on Iran. The Palestinian news agency Wafa said that Israeli forces have intensified their presence in West Bank cities such as Ramallah and Al-Bireh, setting up military checkpoints at all major entry and exit points.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-impose-west-bank-restrictions-second-day
Ongoing violations | Israeli forces advance into western Daraa, inspecting house of security member and combing former military post
Last night, SOHR sources reported that Israeli forces infiltrate Barika Village in the central Al-Quneitra countryside, as the patrol comprises five 4×4 vehicles. A few hours earlier, Israeli forces set fire to lands in Kodna Town in Al-Quneitra countryside for the second time, near Al-Tel Al-Ahmar Al-Ashraqy, here residents of the town and the General Security managed to control the fire and limit its expansion. On the other hand, Israeli forces infiltrated the outskirts of the town and opened extensive fire in the area, causing fear and panic among the civilians.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/364044/
'Baltagiya thugs' and police block Gaza aid convoy in Egypt as activists detained
Footage circulated online shows activists near the city of Ismailia being assaulted by men described by observers as "thugs", attempting to prevent them from advancing towards Rafah. The videos have been widely condemned by pro-Palestine groups and rights advocates. The "thugs" in question are believed to be baltagiya, gangs previously used by the Egyptian government to attack its political opponents, though this could not be verified.
https://www.newarab.com/news/baltagiya-thugs-and-police-block-gaza-aid-convoy-egypt
Shopper put on facial ID watchlist after dispute over 39p of paracetamol at Home Bargains
The 62-year-old woman, who has lost the confidence to go shopping on her own since the incident, according to her family, has made a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office on the grounds that the Data Protection Act requires there to be a “substantial public interest” for the processing of biometric data to be lawful. “She’s really struggling because even to go into Tesco she gets really stressed thinking: ‘Or am I allowed? Would they kick me out?’” her daughter said.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london
Coordinated protests against tourism levels planned in Spain, Portugal and Italy
Protests are planned in Barcelona and seven other Spanish cities, including Granada, Palma and Ibiza; Portugal's capital Lisbon; and the Italian cities of Venice, Genova, Palermo, Milan and Naples, according to announcements issued by several of the organising groups. Organisers, some of whom dismiss the counterargument that tourism brings jobs and prosperity, told Reuters that they wanted to build on scattered protests across Spain last year with the coordinated day of action.
https://www.reuters.com/world/coordinated-protests-against-tourism-levels-planned-spain-portugal-italy-2025-06-13/
Nigerian leader’s pardon of executed Ogoni activists draws criticisms
The men were convicted of murdering four local chiefs and were hanged in 1995 by the then-military regime led by Gen. Sani Abacha. They were part of the Ogoni ethnic group in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, and had protested environmental pollution in the region by multinational oil companies, particularly Shell. Their trial and murder sparked international outrage at the time, with rights groups calling it unjust and lacking credible evidence.
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-environmental-activists-pardon-822d06021bcf0ef7d69d457d4082b1b6
Ecuador approves controversial surveillance law
For a moment, it seemed like the controversial law would fail to gain the necessary votes, but in an unexpected turn of events, one of the assembly members of the Correista party Citizen Revolution (RC), David Arias, supported the government’s bill. RC swiftly expelled him from the party for the move. However, National Democratic Action (ADN), the president’s party, was able to approve a law that guarantees and expands its control over information security functions, under the pretext of the security crisis the country is experiencing.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/14/ecuador-approves-controversial-surveillance-law/
Bolivian President Announces Clearing of Oruro-Cochabamba Roadblock
On social media platform X, Arce stated: “Minutes ago, following coordinated operations, Bolivian Police and Armed Forces, with the support of local residents frustrated by the disruption, have reopened the Oruro-Cochabamba road.” … The president assured that efforts to unblock other routes will continue, alongside judicial investigations into those responsible for recent violence against security forces.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-president-announces-clearing-of-oruro-cochabamba-roadblock/
Colombia’s opposition disavows Petro as electoral guarantor, seeks meeting with military
According to Cepeda and his allies, the attempted assassination of far-right Senator Miguel Uribe over the weekend are the result of Petro’s “hate speech” towards the opposition and the business elite. According to Petro, “Colombia is under attack by one enemy, which is called the mafia.” The meeting was also rejected by moderate members of the liberal U Party who said that they were never consulted about any decision to disavow the president and seek ad hoc security guarantees.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-opposition-disavow-petro-as-electoral-guarantor-seek-meeting-with-military/
Australia: Rich List highlights soaring wealth of billionaires
The 200 wealthiest Australians now control $667 billion, up $42 billion from last year, according to the 2025 edition of the annual Rich List published by the Australian Financial Review (AFR). This amounts to more than 36 percent of Australia’s annual gross domestic product. In 1983, when the first Rich List was published, the total wealth of those included was $4.6 billion, the equivalent of $18.5 billion in today’s money. During this time span, the fortunes of the top 200 increased 7.7 times faster than per capita wealth and 26 times faster than per capita income. “The rich not only get richer, they increase their wealth faster,” stated the AFR.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/13/yisk-j13.html
Winning narrative? How India, Pakistan’s leaders seek cover under their flags after ceasefire
The BJP has already started campaigning on the basis that its government – helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi – dared to cross a red line, targeting what it says was “terrorist infrastructure” on Pakistani soil. But its strikes may have had the unintended consequence of shoring up support for Pakistan’s military establishment, experts say, months after protests erupted against the jailing of former prime minister Imran Khan.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3314346/winning-narrative-how-india-pakistans-leaders-seek-cover-under-their-flags-after-ceasefire
https://archive.ph/L4wcE
Trump’s AUKUS review puts Australian nuclear submarine deal in doubt
The Trump administration has provoked consternation in the Australian political and military establishment after this week announcing a Pentagon review of plans under the AUKUS military pact to sell Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines to Australia. It puts the Australian Labor government under great pressure to make major concessions to the US as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flies to Canada for the G-7 summit and a possible meeting with Trump.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/14/xzxb-j14.html
R: 615 / I: 164 (full)
• Iran and Israel exchange strikes: Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media, in response to Israel’s unprecedented strikes. Each side has reported incoming fire in the hours since, with sirens sounding across Israel and Iran activating its own missile defenses early Saturday.
• Major blows to Iran: Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders with its first wave of strikes, which killed at least 78 people, according to Tehran. High-ranking figures, including the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and nuclear scientists are among the dead.
• What Netanyahu says: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who an Israeli official says is monitoring the strikes from a bunker, has vowed “more is on the way.” He previously said Israel’s operation against Iran could take several days.
• Trump’s warning: President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.”
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl
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What's happening now• Iran and Israel exchange strikes: Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media, in response to Israel’s unprecedented strikes. Each side has reported incoming fire in the hours since, with sirens sounding across Israel and Iran activating its own missile defenses early Saturday.
• Major blows to Iran: Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders with its first wave of strikes, which killed at least 78 people, according to Tehran. High-ranking figures, including the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and nuclear scientists are among the dead.
• What Netanyahu says: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who an Israeli official says is monitoring the strikes from a bunker, has vowed “more is on the way.” He previously said Israel’s operation against Iran could take several days.
• Trump’s warning: President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.”
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl
R: 634 / I: 119 (full)
>Fresh barrage of strikes: Iran launched a new wave of missiles toward Israel early Saturday, capping off a night of attacks between the two sides that unleashed multiple explosions and destruction in Tel Aviv and Tehran.
>Escalating conflict: The long-running conflict between Iran and Israel escalated after Israel’s unprecedented attack early Friday on Iranian nuclear and military targets, which killed some of the country’s most senior leaders and raised fears of a wider regional war.
>Casualties on both sides: Three people have been killed in Israel and dozens injured by Iranian strikes, Israeli authorities said. Iran reported at least 78 people killed in Israeli strikes and 320 wounded, mostly civilians.
>More to come: Israel’s defense minister said Saturday that people in Tehran will “pay a heavy price” and the Iranian capital “will burn” if Iran continues with its missile attacks. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Iranian citizens directly in a video late Friday, urging them to “stand up and let your voices be heard"
+++—LIVE UPDATE SOURCE——++++
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-14-25
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/14/live-israel-warns-tehran-will-burn-after-deadly-missile-barrage-by-iran
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/world/israel-iran-news
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/14/israel-and-iran-exchange-missile-strikes-with-explosions-heard-in-tel-aviv-jerusalem-and-tehran-live
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/14/israel-iran-attacks-live-tehran-tel-aviv/
https://news.sky.com/story/israel-iran-latest-israeli-jets-target-irans-nuclear-sites-country-braced-for-retaliation-by-tehran-13382979
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250614-tehran-retaliates-with-missile-strikes-as-israel-and-iran-launch-tit-for-tat-attacks
/Iran Israel war/ general #6
>What's happening now>Fresh barrage of strikes: Iran launched a new wave of missiles toward Israel early Saturday, capping off a night of attacks between the two sides that unleashed multiple explosions and destruction in Tel Aviv and Tehran.
>Escalating conflict: The long-running conflict between Iran and Israel escalated after Israel’s unprecedented attack early Friday on Iranian nuclear and military targets, which killed some of the country’s most senior leaders and raised fears of a wider regional war.
>Casualties on both sides: Three people have been killed in Israel and dozens injured by Iranian strikes, Israeli authorities said. Iran reported at least 78 people killed in Israeli strikes and 320 wounded, mostly civilians.
>More to come: Israel’s defense minister said Saturday that people in Tehran will “pay a heavy price” and the Iranian capital “will burn” if Iran continues with its missile attacks. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Iranian citizens directly in a video late Friday, urging them to “stand up and let your voices be heard"
+++—LIVE UPDATE SOURCE——++++
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-14-25
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/14/live-israel-warns-tehran-will-burn-after-deadly-missile-barrage-by-iran
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/world/israel-iran-news
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/14/israel-and-iran-exchange-missile-strikes-with-explosions-heard-in-tel-aviv-jerusalem-and-tehran-live
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/14/israel-iran-attacks-live-tehran-tel-aviv/
https://news.sky.com/story/israel-iran-latest-israeli-jets-target-irans-nuclear-sites-country-braced-for-retaliation-by-tehran-13382979
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250614-tehran-retaliates-with-missile-strikes-as-israel-and-iran-launch-tit-for-tat-attacks
R: 16 / I: 2
Thoughts on nepal?
how do u think that country can be improved? i mean its ruled by communist party but i dont see them doing much. I wish their leader was great as someone like traore