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Look up what they did to Moroccans in the North and what they did to Canary Islands. Complete genocide, they have colonies in the Maghreb to this day as well. Also complete hypocrite who expelled all their Muslims/Arabs along with Jews but are only allowing Jews to have a right to return apologizing for the Reconquista but all the North Africans are left out, when it was them who built that civilization. They can't even give back Ceuta and Melilla while crying about the Brits in Gibraltar.
They have done horrible things to African and Native Americans, crimes against a group of people that has rarely if ever been matched in human history
I find the civilizations contribution to the culture and human civilization to be much lower than what their grip extended.
Very fascist in mistreating their own ethnic minorities (Catalonians, Galicians and Basques) and have a similar enemy mentality to the entire Arab world to this day
They're an unproductive welfare economy where the people enjoy a standard of living much higher than they contribute, with high unemployment. Living from EU subsides and tourism. I didn't think it was very clean either.
I also read it is a country with the highest amount of infidelity and promiscuity. Such loose morals are not attractive to me either
Also the language in Spain sucks compared to how the Latinos speak it, I found the food to not be very good, the Spanish Empire was even more brutal than the English one, the style/aesthetic doesn't please me, etc. the only positive thing I can say about it is that their descendant countries in the New World have produced very vibrant and diverse locales, only possible because of their abandonment of the more problematic Spanish influence
It's one of the worst European countries for sure, I'm just glad the based Brits treat it how it should be treated.
I like even Fr*nce more tbh.
Why is Spain not shat on by leftists when compared to Britain, France and Poland?
My opinion of them is extremely negative.Look up what they did to Moroccans in the North and what they did to Canary Islands. Complete genocide, they have colonies in the Maghreb to this day as well. Also complete hypocrite who expelled all their Muslims/Arabs along with Jews but are only allowing Jews to have a right to return apologizing for the Reconquista but all the North Africans are left out, when it was them who built that civilization. They can't even give back Ceuta and Melilla while crying about the Brits in Gibraltar.
They have done horrible things to African and Native Americans, crimes against a group of people that has rarely if ever been matched in human history
I find the civilizations contribution to the culture and human civilization to be much lower than what their grip extended.
Very fascist in mistreating their own ethnic minorities (Catalonians, Galicians and Basques) and have a similar enemy mentality to the entire Arab world to this day
They're an unproductive welfare economy where the people enjoy a standard of living much higher than they contribute, with high unemployment. Living from EU subsides and tourism. I didn't think it was very clean either.
I also read it is a country with the highest amount of infidelity and promiscuity. Such loose morals are not attractive to me either
Also the language in Spain sucks compared to how the Latinos speak it, I found the food to not be very good, the Spanish Empire was even more brutal than the English one, the style/aesthetic doesn't please me, etc. the only positive thing I can say about it is that their descendant countries in the New World have produced very vibrant and diverse locales, only possible because of their abandonment of the more problematic Spanish influence
It's one of the worst European countries for sure, I'm just glad the based Brits treat it how it should be treated.
I like even Fr*nce more tbh.
R: 387 / I: 63
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
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📺 • 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
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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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
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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R: 479 / I: 74
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
R: 95 / I: 14
/leftybritpol/ - class unconciousness edition
Yeah we aren't seeing a revolution or social democracy, we are just gonna get gradual radicalisation until some dickhead puts an end to british "democracy" once and for all. Anyways here's Wonderwall.
R: 261 / I: 62
Original threads:
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 9
>Liberation Day editionOriginal threads:
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
/isg/ - Internet Spectacle General
A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together with the Leftypol Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
R: 106 / I: 8
<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?
R: 125 / I: 18
Pseuds really need to stop bringing up "dialectics", "dialectical materialism" or any other philosophy crap when talking about communism or marxism.
Marx: philosophy is religion rendered into thought and hence to be condemned. One has to leave philosophy aside and devote oneself to the study of the actual world, etc. etc. (1) As for the so-called dialectical method. Here are (2) Hegel. (3 & 4) Marx on Hegel. And (5) Marx on his own "method". Marx is very clear here: he does not have a method. A scientific investigation has to "appropriate the material in detail, analyze all forms of development and trace out their inner connections" rather than starting out with a ready made schema and distorting the material to fit it.
Bonus tracks (maxed out images lol):
>One has to “leave philosophy aside” (Wigand, p. 187, cf. Hess, Die letzten Philosophen, p. 8), one has to leap out of it and devote oneself like an ordinary man to the study of actuality, for which there exists also an enormous amount of literary material, unknown, of course, to the philosophers. When, after that, one again encounters people like Krummacher or “Stirner”, one finds that one has long ago left them “behind” and below. Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as onanism and sexual love.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch03e.htm
> Feuerbach’s great achievement is:
>(1) The proof that philosophy is nothing else but religion rendered into thought and expounded by thought, i.e., another form and manner of existence of the estrangement of the essence of man; hence equally to be condemned;
>(2) The establishment of true materialism and of real science, by making the social relationship of “man to man” the basic principle of the theory;
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm
Pseuds really need to stop bringing up "dialectics", "dialectical materialism" or any other philosophy crap when talking about communism or marxism.
Marx: philosophy is religion rendered into thought and hence to be condemned. One has to leave philosophy aside and devote oneself to the study of the actual world, etc. etc. (1) As for the so-called dialectical method. Here are (2) Hegel. (3 & 4) Marx on Hegel. And (5) Marx on his own "method". Marx is very clear here: he does not have a method. A scientific investigation has to "appropriate the material in detail, analyze all forms of development and trace out their inner connections" rather than starting out with a ready made schema and distorting the material to fit it.
Bonus tracks (maxed out images lol):
>One has to “leave philosophy aside” (Wigand, p. 187, cf. Hess, Die letzten Philosophen, p. 8), one has to leap out of it and devote oneself like an ordinary man to the study of actuality, for which there exists also an enormous amount of literary material, unknown, of course, to the philosophers. When, after that, one again encounters people like Krummacher or “Stirner”, one finds that one has long ago left them “behind” and below. Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as onanism and sexual love.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch03e.htm
> Feuerbach’s great achievement is:
>(1) The proof that philosophy is nothing else but religion rendered into thought and expounded by thought, i.e., another form and manner of existence of the estrangement of the essence of man; hence equally to be condemned;
>(2) The establishment of true materialism and of real science, by making the social relationship of “man to man” the basic principle of the theory;
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm
R: 574 / I: 162
/rus/ - Russia General
Трясемся от грядущей мобки, охуеваем с пиздеца и ждем левого поворота пыни вместе.
R: 12 / I: 7
>May 10
<A ceasefire is announced from 5pm (IST) between India and Pakistan following reported US mediated talks.
<May 11
>Following the deadline, both countries accused each other of violating the ceasefire agreement.
India versus Pakistan 5
Nuclear Gandhi Edition>May 10
<A ceasefire is announced from 5pm (IST) between India and Pakistan following reported US mediated talks.
<May 11
>Following the deadline, both countries accused each other of violating the ceasefire agreement.
R: 541 / I: 239
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Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/
• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war [Currently Down]
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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️
• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺
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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥
(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)
Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #115: No more funni words Edition
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Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/
• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war [Currently Down]
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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️
• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥
(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)
Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
R: 99 / I: 25
Movements for a lefty chud
Are there any communist or general leftist movements that would accept someone who fully supports the workers expropriating the means of production, but still has chudish views on gender and race? Basically I think anything related to transgender stuff is a meme, and I think there are genuine differences in intelligence and rates of violence between races caused by genetics, but I also support the working class seizing the means of production from the bourgeoisie. Is it possible to reconcile Marxist economic views with being a chud on social issues?
R: 48 / I: 3
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.
R: 23 / I: 3 (sage)
>fought on the side of Iran during the Iran-Iraq war
>bombed universities, hospitals and passenger planes in the name of fighting Ba'athists
>supported the US bombings and embargo in the 90s
>received public US funding, training and arms under the 'Iraq Liberation' act
>called on the death of female communist movement
>pushed for the US invasion
>served as PM for 8 years
>used sectarian death squads which gave rise to a civil war and ISIS in the name of fighting the insurgency
>restructured the economy according to will of the occupation
>massacred workers (redundant)
>viewed positively by the US and Iran
>remembered by Iraqis for blocking a shoe and selling the country to ISIS
Campists want me to abandon class struggle and critically support the guy on the right otherwise the guy on the left will get me 🤡
The quintessential Islamist
>leader of a prominent Islamist resistance group>fought on the side of Iran during the Iran-Iraq war
>bombed universities, hospitals and passenger planes in the name of fighting Ba'athists
>supported the US bombings and embargo in the 90s
>received public US funding, training and arms under the 'Iraq Liberation' act
>called on the death of female communist movement
>pushed for the US invasion
>served as PM for 8 years
>used sectarian death squads which gave rise to a civil war and ISIS in the name of fighting the insurgency
>restructured the economy according to will of the occupation
>massacred workers (redundant)
>viewed positively by the US and Iran
>remembered by Iraqis for blocking a shoe and selling the country to ISIS
Campists want me to abandon class struggle and critically support the guy on the right otherwise the guy on the left will get me 🤡
R: 12 / I: 0
Fascist neologisms
I think it’s a good idea to not let reactionary neologisms like “coded “” woke” etc the vague fascist liberal empirical terms creep in we must be aware . They stifle thought and lack a dialectical analysis
R: 602 / I: 79 (full)
>Following a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, that resulted in 26 fatalities, India has retaliated with 'Operation Sindoor', targeting nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied territories. This operation marks a significant escalation in the ongoing tensions between the two nations. Pakistan, in response, has heightened its emergency measures and reported shooting down two Indian jets, intensifying the military confrontation. International reactions and calls for peace are noted, amidst growing concerns over regional stability.
INDIA VS PAKISTAN 4th thread
<i want to blow up nothingburger gang edition>Following a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, that resulted in 26 fatalities, India has retaliated with 'Operation Sindoor', targeting nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied territories. This operation marks a significant escalation in the ongoing tensions between the two nations. Pakistan, in response, has heightened its emergency measures and reported shooting down two Indian jets, intensifying the military confrontation. International reactions and calls for peace are noted, amidst growing concerns over regional stability.
R: 132 / I: 21
Another radlib myth deboonked. Marx and Engels did talk about the middle class and it means exactly what even non-communists would expect it to mean.
>This middle class — which includes everyone who is a gentleman, i. e., has a decent income without being excessively wealthy-is, however, a middle class only compared with the wealthy nobility and capitalists; in relation to the workers its position is that of an aristocracy
https://wikirouge.net/texts/en/The_Position_of_the_Political_Parties
Incoming cope in 3… 2…
Another radlib myth deboonked. Marx and Engels did talk about the middle class and it means exactly what even non-communists would expect it to mean.
>This middle class — which includes everyone who is a gentleman, i. e., has a decent income without being excessively wealthy-is, however, a middle class only compared with the wealthy nobility and capitalists; in relation to the workers its position is that of an aristocracy
https://wikirouge.net/texts/en/The_Position_of_the_Political_Parties
Incoming cope in 3… 2…
R: 420 / I: 307
>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!
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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.
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R: 62 / I: 6
I must ask this question, specially here to see the perspective of the left: does racism against white people exist or is it just hatred or does it not exist at all like many leftists say? I need to see the perspective of the left and not just the perspective of the right to get a full picture of this
I must ask this question, specially here to see the perspective of the left: does racism against white people exist or is it just hatred or does it not exist at all like many leftists say? I need to see the perspective of the left and not just the perspective of the right to get a full picture of this
R: 2 / I: 0
The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), comprised of 21 affiliations, passed the motion last week at congress with the support of 88 per cent of delegates, as calls continue to grow for an international economic boycott of Israel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/norwegian-unions-vote-economic-boycott-israel
Thousands march against immigration in Warsaw
Saturday’s event was organised by nationalist leader Robert Bąkiewicz, a former PiS parliamentary candidate and also previously the main organiser of the Independence March that takes place in Warsaw each November.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/11/thousands-march-against-immigration-in-warsaw/
Fragile ceasefire holds between India, Pakistan as Trump offers more help
A ceasefire between India and Pakistan was holding on Sunday after both sides blamed the other for initial violations, as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to help the arch-rivals find a solution on the disputed Kashmir region.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/fragile-ceasefire-holds-between-india-pakistan-trump-offers-more-help-2025-05-11/
Bangladesh interim government bans former ruling party of Hasina
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the country’s other main political party, headed by former prime minister Khaleda Zia, had previously opposed the move to ban the Awami League. A post on the league’s official X account said on Sunday: “People no longer feel safe under Yunus,” denouncing the ban that “stoked division within society, strangled democratic norms, fuelled [an] ongoing pogrom against dissenters, strangled inclusivity [and] all undemocratic steps under [the] pretext of [addressing the] July-August violence and reform scheme.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bangladesh-interim-government-bans-former-ruling-party-hasina
Lebanon: Palestinian factions wary of Abbas disarmament plan
For the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the question of arms cannot be separated from the legacy of collective trauma and the politics of self-defence. "The issue of arms in the camps has not been formally placed on the agenda of the president’s visit, nor has it been raised through official channels," said Abdullah Dandan, the PFLP’s political relations officer in Lebanon.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-palestinian-factions-wary-abbas-disarmament-plan
Hamas says it will release US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander
“Taiwan now has a registered population of 2.6 per cent indigenous, 1.2 per cent foreign and 96.2 per cent other population,” the page reads. According to Taiwanese media, the page previously said: “Taiwan’s current registered population is composed of Han Chinese as the largest ethnic group, accounting for 96.4 per cent of the total population.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/11/hamas-says-it-will-release-israeli-american-captive-edan-alexander
https://archive.ph/Hq1zH
No Han Chinese in Taiwan? KMT slams ‘denial of history’ on Executive Yuan web page
The revised web page of Taiwan’s top administrative body, the Executive Yuan, categorises Han Chinese – the overwhelming majority on both sides of the Taiwan Strait – as “other population”.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3309913/no-han-chinese-taiwan-kmt-slams-denial-history-executive-yuan-web-page?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/trWoe
South Korean conservative party fails in a bid to switch presidential candidates
Saturday’s chaotic U-turn, after a failed attempt to replace Kim with former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, underscored the People Power Party’s leadership crisis following the ouster of former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law imposition in December, which possibly doomed the conservatives’ chances of winning another term in government.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-election-conservative-party-candidates-cc3141d0582486c6199b62f25d37445a
Uruguay’s municipal elections: National Party dominates, Frente Amplio retains Montevideo
Uruguay’s 2025 municipal and departmental elections have concluded with the center-right National Party (Partido Nacional) maintaining its dominance across most of the country, while the left-wing Frente Amplio secured a clear victory in Montevideo, the capital.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/12/uruguay-s-municipal-elections-national-party-dominates-frente-amplio-retains-montevideo
Thirteen gold mine workers massacred in Peru
The killings, carried out by a gang at the La Poderosa gold mine, have ignited outrage across Peru. The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 4 million soles (about US$1.1 million), which the mine owners ignored, effectively sentencing the miners to death.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/11/qtzu-m11.html
News 5/11/25
Norwegian unions vote for economic boycott of IsraelThe Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), comprised of 21 affiliations, passed the motion last week at congress with the support of 88 per cent of delegates, as calls continue to grow for an international economic boycott of Israel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/norwegian-unions-vote-economic-boycott-israel
Thousands march against immigration in Warsaw
Saturday’s event was organised by nationalist leader Robert Bąkiewicz, a former PiS parliamentary candidate and also previously the main organiser of the Independence March that takes place in Warsaw each November.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/11/thousands-march-against-immigration-in-warsaw/
Fragile ceasefire holds between India, Pakistan as Trump offers more help
A ceasefire between India and Pakistan was holding on Sunday after both sides blamed the other for initial violations, as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to help the arch-rivals find a solution on the disputed Kashmir region.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/fragile-ceasefire-holds-between-india-pakistan-trump-offers-more-help-2025-05-11/
Bangladesh interim government bans former ruling party of Hasina
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the country’s other main political party, headed by former prime minister Khaleda Zia, had previously opposed the move to ban the Awami League. A post on the league’s official X account said on Sunday: “People no longer feel safe under Yunus,” denouncing the ban that “stoked division within society, strangled democratic norms, fuelled [an] ongoing pogrom against dissenters, strangled inclusivity [and] all undemocratic steps under [the] pretext of [addressing the] July-August violence and reform scheme.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bangladesh-interim-government-bans-former-ruling-party-hasina
Lebanon: Palestinian factions wary of Abbas disarmament plan
For the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the question of arms cannot be separated from the legacy of collective trauma and the politics of self-defence. "The issue of arms in the camps has not been formally placed on the agenda of the president’s visit, nor has it been raised through official channels," said Abdullah Dandan, the PFLP’s political relations officer in Lebanon.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-palestinian-factions-wary-abbas-disarmament-plan
Hamas says it will release US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander
“Taiwan now has a registered population of 2.6 per cent indigenous, 1.2 per cent foreign and 96.2 per cent other population,” the page reads. According to Taiwanese media, the page previously said: “Taiwan’s current registered population is composed of Han Chinese as the largest ethnic group, accounting for 96.4 per cent of the total population.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/11/hamas-says-it-will-release-israeli-american-captive-edan-alexander
https://archive.ph/Hq1zH
No Han Chinese in Taiwan? KMT slams ‘denial of history’ on Executive Yuan web page
The revised web page of Taiwan’s top administrative body, the Executive Yuan, categorises Han Chinese – the overwhelming majority on both sides of the Taiwan Strait – as “other population”.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3309913/no-han-chinese-taiwan-kmt-slams-denial-history-executive-yuan-web-page?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/trWoe
South Korean conservative party fails in a bid to switch presidential candidates
Saturday’s chaotic U-turn, after a failed attempt to replace Kim with former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, underscored the People Power Party’s leadership crisis following the ouster of former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law imposition in December, which possibly doomed the conservatives’ chances of winning another term in government.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-election-conservative-party-candidates-cc3141d0582486c6199b62f25d37445a
Uruguay’s municipal elections: National Party dominates, Frente Amplio retains Montevideo
Uruguay’s 2025 municipal and departmental elections have concluded with the center-right National Party (Partido Nacional) maintaining its dominance across most of the country, while the left-wing Frente Amplio secured a clear victory in Montevideo, the capital.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/12/uruguay-s-municipal-elections-national-party-dominates-frente-amplio-retains-montevideo
Thirteen gold mine workers massacred in Peru
The killings, carried out by a gang at the La Poderosa gold mine, have ignited outrage across Peru. The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 4 million soles (about US$1.1 million), which the mine owners ignored, effectively sentencing the miners to death.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/11/qtzu-m11.html
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Planetary Caste System?
Do we actually have a planetary caste system? If you think about the relative value of passports and nationalities, is it possible to use caste analysis to consider the international system?
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My life circumstances, mostly economic, are the ones which are pushing me into being a revolutionary. That and despising all elements of bourgeois society, from it's unending moralism to its "entrepreneurship" (glorification of exploitation!).
This is my life goal. Maybe I will fail. But I will try.
I'm going to be the next Lenin
I just feel like I'm going to be like a reincarnation of him. I don't particularly like his theory but I think I am going to be a revolutionary.My life circumstances, mostly economic, are the ones which are pushing me into being a revolutionary. That and despising all elements of bourgeois society, from it's unending moralism to its "entrepreneurship" (glorification of exploitation!).
This is my life goal. Maybe I will fail. But I will try.
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This is of course not something we see under capitalist neoliberalism where the "dieing out of itself" only strengthens the mode of production.
Even in the two socialist countries where the mode of production hasn't been replaced there have been a growth in private sector employment.
Withering Away Takes Mode of Production
Why is it that in socialist economies the state "dieing out of itself [as the base shaping superstructure]" also takes with it the mode of production?This is of course not something we see under capitalist neoliberalism where the "dieing out of itself" only strengthens the mode of production.
Even in the two socialist countries where the mode of production hasn't been replaced there have been a growth in private sector employment.
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Accelerate
We must proletarianize the fascist petty-bourgeoisie and accelerate the revolution. We must boycott small businesses and small landlords. The petty-bourgeoisie are far too bought into the system to resist and appealing to them is misguided.
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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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https://www.marxists.org/archive/martov/1921/xx/decomp.htm
>Psychologically the most characteristic thing about the rush of the “extreme leftists” toward “sovietism” is their desire to jump over the historic inertia of the masses. Dominating their logic, however, is the idea that soviets constitute a new, “finally discovered,” political mode. This, they say, is the specific instrument of the class rule of the proletariat, just as the democratic republic is according to them the specific instrument of the rule of the bourgeoisie.
The Communist Manifesto declared: “We have already seen that the first step in the working-class revolution is raising the proletariat to the position of a ruling class, the conquest of democracy.”
In 1852, in Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx wrote:
Every previous revolution has brought the machinery of State to a greater perfection instead of breaking it up.
On the 12th of April 1871, in a letter to Kugelmann, he formulated his viewpoint on the problem of revolution as follows:
If you look at the last chapter of my Eighteenth Brumaire, you will see that I declare the next attempt of the French Revolution to be not merely to hand over, from one set to another, the bureaucratic and military machine, as was the case up to now, but to shatter it. That is precisely the preliminary condition of any real people’s revolution on the Continent. It is exactly this that constitutes the attempt of our heroic Parisian comrades.
It is not for any idle reason that Engels wrote in 1891, in his preface to Civil War in France:
<… the State is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy; and at best an evil inherited by the proletariat after its victorious struggle for class supremacy whose worse sides the proletariat, just like the Commune, will have at the earliest possible moment to lop off, until such time as a new generation, reared under new and free social conditions, will be able to throw on the scrap-heap all the useless lumber of the State.
The proletariat lops off “the worst sides” of the democratic State (for example: the police, permanent army, the bureaucracy as an independent entity, exaggerated centralization, etc.) But it does not suppress the democratic State as such. On the contrary, it creates the democratic State in order to have it replace the “military and bureaucratic State,” which must be shattered.
<If there is anything about which there can be no doubt it is that our party and the working class can only gain supremacy under a political régime like the democratic republic. The latter is, indeed, the specific form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as has been demonstrated by the French revolution
That is how Engels expresses himself in his critique of the draft of the Erfurt program. He does not speak there of a “soviet” republic (the term was, of course, unknown), nor of a commune-republic, in contrast to the “State.” Neither does he speak of the “trade-union republic” imagined by Smith and Morrisson and by the French syndicalists. Clearly and explicitly, Engels speaks of the democratic republic, that is, of a State democratized from top to bottom, “an evil inherited by the proletariat.”
This is stated so dearly, so explicitly, that when Lenin quotes these words, he finds it necessary to obscure their meaning.
<Engels – he says –repeats here in a particularly emphatic form the fundamental idea which, like a red thread, runs throughout all Marx’s work, viz., that the Democratic Republic comes nearest the dictatorship of the proletariat. For such a republic, without in the least setting aside the domination of capital, and, therefore, the oppression of the masses and the class struggle, inevitably leads to such an extension, intensification and development of that struggle that, as soon as the chance arises for satisfying the fundamental interests of the oppressed masses, this chance is realized inevitably and solely in the form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the guidance of these masses by the proletariat.
(State and Revolution, Chapter IV.)
Engels does not speak of a political form that “comes nearest the dictatorship,” as is interpreted by Lenin in his commentaries. He speaks of the only “specific” political form in which the dictatorship can he realized. According to Engels, the dictatorship is forged in the democratic republic. Lenin, on the other hand, sees democracy merely as the means of sharpening the class struggle, thus confronting the proletariat with the problem of the dictatorship. For Lenin, the democratic republic finds its conclusion in the dictatorship of the proletariat, giving birth to The latter but destroying itself in the delivery. Engels, on the contrary, is of the opinion that when the proletariat has gained supremacy in the democratic republic and thus realized its dictatorship, within the democratic republic, it will consolidate the latter by that very, act and invest it, for the first time, with a character that is genuinely, fundamentally and completely democratic. That is why, in 1848, Engels and Marx identified the act of “raising the proletariat to a ruling class” with “the conquest of democracy.”
Apologize.
tldr: Martov argues that, contrary to Lenin's interpretation, Marx and Engels saw the democratic republic—not soviets—as the essential and specific political form through which the proletariat could achieve and exercise its dictatorship, transforming the state into a truly democratic instrument of class rule.https://www.marxists.org/archive/martov/1921/xx/decomp.htm
>Psychologically the most characteristic thing about the rush of the “extreme leftists” toward “sovietism” is their desire to jump over the historic inertia of the masses. Dominating their logic, however, is the idea that soviets constitute a new, “finally discovered,” political mode. This, they say, is the specific instrument of the class rule of the proletariat, just as the democratic republic is according to them the specific instrument of the rule of the bourgeoisie.
The Communist Manifesto declared: “We have already seen that the first step in the working-class revolution is raising the proletariat to the position of a ruling class, the conquest of democracy.”
In 1852, in Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx wrote:
Every previous revolution has brought the machinery of State to a greater perfection instead of breaking it up.
On the 12th of April 1871, in a letter to Kugelmann, he formulated his viewpoint on the problem of revolution as follows:
If you look at the last chapter of my Eighteenth Brumaire, you will see that I declare the next attempt of the French Revolution to be not merely to hand over, from one set to another, the bureaucratic and military machine, as was the case up to now, but to shatter it. That is precisely the preliminary condition of any real people’s revolution on the Continent. It is exactly this that constitutes the attempt of our heroic Parisian comrades.
It is not for any idle reason that Engels wrote in 1891, in his preface to Civil War in France:
<… the State is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy; and at best an evil inherited by the proletariat after its victorious struggle for class supremacy whose worse sides the proletariat, just like the Commune, will have at the earliest possible moment to lop off, until such time as a new generation, reared under new and free social conditions, will be able to throw on the scrap-heap all the useless lumber of the State.
The proletariat lops off “the worst sides” of the democratic State (for example: the police, permanent army, the bureaucracy as an independent entity, exaggerated centralization, etc.) But it does not suppress the democratic State as such. On the contrary, it creates the democratic State in order to have it replace the “military and bureaucratic State,” which must be shattered.
<If there is anything about which there can be no doubt it is that our party and the working class can only gain supremacy under a political régime like the democratic republic. The latter is, indeed, the specific form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as has been demonstrated by the French revolution
That is how Engels expresses himself in his critique of the draft of the Erfurt program. He does not speak there of a “soviet” republic (the term was, of course, unknown), nor of a commune-republic, in contrast to the “State.” Neither does he speak of the “trade-union republic” imagined by Smith and Morrisson and by the French syndicalists. Clearly and explicitly, Engels speaks of the democratic republic, that is, of a State democratized from top to bottom, “an evil inherited by the proletariat.”
This is stated so dearly, so explicitly, that when Lenin quotes these words, he finds it necessary to obscure their meaning.
<Engels – he says –repeats here in a particularly emphatic form the fundamental idea which, like a red thread, runs throughout all Marx’s work, viz., that the Democratic Republic comes nearest the dictatorship of the proletariat. For such a republic, without in the least setting aside the domination of capital, and, therefore, the oppression of the masses and the class struggle, inevitably leads to such an extension, intensification and development of that struggle that, as soon as the chance arises for satisfying the fundamental interests of the oppressed masses, this chance is realized inevitably and solely in the form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the guidance of these masses by the proletariat.
(State and Revolution, Chapter IV.)
Engels does not speak of a political form that “comes nearest the dictatorship,” as is interpreted by Lenin in his commentaries. He speaks of the only “specific” political form in which the dictatorship can he realized. According to Engels, the dictatorship is forged in the democratic republic. Lenin, on the other hand, sees democracy merely as the means of sharpening the class struggle, thus confronting the proletariat with the problem of the dictatorship. For Lenin, the democratic republic finds its conclusion in the dictatorship of the proletariat, giving birth to The latter but destroying itself in the delivery. Engels, on the contrary, is of the opinion that when the proletariat has gained supremacy in the democratic republic and thus realized its dictatorship, within the democratic republic, it will consolidate the latter by that very, act and invest it, for the first time, with a character that is genuinely, fundamentally and completely democratic. That is why, in 1848, Engels and Marx identified the act of “raising the proletariat to a ruling class” with “the conquest of democracy.”
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Social progressivism isn't bourgeois, college professors are labor aristocrats, the middle class isn't a Marxist term, income doesn't have a causal link to class, social conservatism's only role is that of division of the proletariat, you can't become another class than the one your relationship to the means of production dictate, class interests are not subject to change and they will always be the most important political issue as long as capitalism exists.
I'm willing to die on that hill and anyone who uses identity politics to incorrectly attribute class is no Marxist.
Relation to the means of production is the only criteria for class.
I'm sick of the colloquial use of "petty-bourgeois" in relation to some idpol "issue".Social progressivism isn't bourgeois, college professors are labor aristocrats, the middle class isn't a Marxist term, income doesn't have a causal link to class, social conservatism's only role is that of division of the proletariat, you can't become another class than the one your relationship to the means of production dictate, class interests are not subject to change and they will always be the most important political issue as long as capitalism exists.
I'm willing to die on that hill and anyone who uses identity politics to incorrectly attribute class is no Marxist.
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Illegalism is lumpen "socialism."
Trade unions are labor aristocracy "socialism."
Worker co-operatives are petty-bourgeois "socialism."
Proletarian socialism is when the worker's state owns all the banks, monopolies and land.
But reformism never works and you'll probably die in a revolution.
Am I getting it right?
Shit seems fucked.
Illegalism is lumpen "socialism."
Trade unions are labor aristocracy "socialism."
Worker co-operatives are petty-bourgeois "socialism."
Proletarian socialism is when the worker's state owns all the banks, monopolies and land.
But reformism never works and you'll probably die in a revolution.
Am I getting it right?
Shit seems fucked.
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Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
/CYBERCOM/
This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
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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: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.
R: 0 / I: 0
Anyone got any other good vids of these dipshits getting what's coming to them
The cleaner the packs the better
IOF pack smoking vids
These mfs are really using car backup cameras to kill IsraelisAnyone got any other good vids of these dipshits getting what's coming to them
The cleaner the packs the better
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industrial devolution
many people are rightly coming to the conclusion that you fundamentally cannot fix this. the idea of marxist socialism is just a more efficient capitalism; one without "contradictions", where the rape of the earth and its people will serve an abstract "mankind", even as it is conceptually abolished. we're all being taken on a ride to the extinction of the species, and you are either for it, or against it. this is pure theology - good vs evil. which side are you on?
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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
Previous thread: >>1950708PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
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I am going to Lithuania. What do I need to see there? Must sees, local food, something to consoom?
Any way to troll them if needed?
inb4 moved siberia
I am going to Lithuania. What do I need to see there? Must sees, local food, something to consoom?
Any way to troll them if needed?
inb4 moved siberia
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Since the 1980s, revolutionaries are establishing the new political power of the proletariat in Dandakaranya, advancing an alternative model, a New Democratic India. This episode of revolutionary war has been raging for more than 40 years.
This revolution is a painful thorn in the eyes of the reactionary state: Thus, escalating repression, in 2024 they unleashed the genocidal »Operation Kagaar« against Adivasi Resistance. More than 450 people have become martyrs since then. Since 2022, Chhattisgarh state govt. leased 85% of the state's mines to the private sector, esp. Adani, L&T, Tata, Jindal. 50 million people were displaced for such »development projects« in over 50 years. This is outright genocide for the plunder of our country's wealth!
Revolutionaries must stand unwaveringly with the Adivasi struggle for their jal-jangal-zameen-izzat-adhikar. The central government must be forced to agree to Maoist demands for ceasefire. Stop Operation Kagaar!!!
>share this message and video with your friends, comrades, activist groups
STOP OPERATION KAGAAR
Video: In India A Protracted People's War is Raging…Since the 1980s, revolutionaries are establishing the new political power of the proletariat in Dandakaranya, advancing an alternative model, a New Democratic India. This episode of revolutionary war has been raging for more than 40 years.
This revolution is a painful thorn in the eyes of the reactionary state: Thus, escalating repression, in 2024 they unleashed the genocidal »Operation Kagaar« against Adivasi Resistance. More than 450 people have become martyrs since then. Since 2022, Chhattisgarh state govt. leased 85% of the state's mines to the private sector, esp. Adani, L&T, Tata, Jindal. 50 million people were displaced for such »development projects« in over 50 years. This is outright genocide for the plunder of our country's wealth!
Revolutionaries must stand unwaveringly with the Adivasi struggle for their jal-jangal-zameen-izzat-adhikar. The central government must be forced to agree to Maoist demands for ceasefire. Stop Operation Kagaar!!!
>share this message and video with your friends, comrades, activist groups
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/cardinals-set-second-day-conclave-elect-new-pope-2025-05-08/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZAzgIoamU
/POPE/ THREAD II BUGERPOPE EDITION
Vance killed Francis editionhttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/cardinals-set-second-day-conclave-elect-new-pope-2025-05-08/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZAzgIoamU
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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.
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The interim administration of Afghanistan has officially banned chess, continuing its opposition to various forms of entertainment and sports in the country. According to the reports, the decision was made due to “religious considerations” and restrictions outlined by the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. This move places chess-related activities in Afghanistan on hold indefinitely.
Officials from the Ministry of Sports, confirmed the suspension of chess activities on Sunday, May 11, explaining that until suitable answers are found regarding religious concerns, the sport would remain prohibited. According to the reports, no activities related to chess would be allowed to resume without resolving these issues.
The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has taken further steps by dissolving the Afghanistan Chess Federation, labeling the game “haram” (forbidden) according to its interpretation of Islamic law. This decision follows a growing trend of restrictions on cultural, social, and sporting events since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan.
In the days leading up to the announcement, several chess players and enthusiasts reportedly sought permission and financial support from the Ministry of Sports to continue their activities. However, they were met with the news of the ban, further complicating their efforts to engage in the game.
Chess, once a popular intellectual sport in Afghanistan, had enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, with the national federation operating under the Ministry of Sports. The Taliban’s recent stance reflects their broader strategy to limit cultural and recreational pursuits in the country, citing Islamic legal interpretations.
The ban on chess is another example of the Taliban’s increasing restrictions on freedoms in Afghanistan. These limitations extend beyond sports to include cultural and educational activities, profoundly impacting Afghanistan society. It remains uncertain how long these policies will last or whether international pressure could reverse some of these decisions.
https://www.khaama.com/chess-banned-in-afghanistan-due-to-religious-restrictions/
https://www.barrons.com/news/taliban-govt-suspends-chess-in-afghanistan-over-gambling-e38dd617
Taliban banned chess due to being against Sharia law
Chess has been banned in Afghanistan indefinitely due to religious concerns, with the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue involved.The interim administration of Afghanistan has officially banned chess, continuing its opposition to various forms of entertainment and sports in the country. According to the reports, the decision was made due to “religious considerations” and restrictions outlined by the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. This move places chess-related activities in Afghanistan on hold indefinitely.
Officials from the Ministry of Sports, confirmed the suspension of chess activities on Sunday, May 11, explaining that until suitable answers are found regarding religious concerns, the sport would remain prohibited. According to the reports, no activities related to chess would be allowed to resume without resolving these issues.
The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has taken further steps by dissolving the Afghanistan Chess Federation, labeling the game “haram” (forbidden) according to its interpretation of Islamic law. This decision follows a growing trend of restrictions on cultural, social, and sporting events since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan.
In the days leading up to the announcement, several chess players and enthusiasts reportedly sought permission and financial support from the Ministry of Sports to continue their activities. However, they were met with the news of the ban, further complicating their efforts to engage in the game.
Chess, once a popular intellectual sport in Afghanistan, had enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, with the national federation operating under the Ministry of Sports. The Taliban’s recent stance reflects their broader strategy to limit cultural and recreational pursuits in the country, citing Islamic legal interpretations.
The ban on chess is another example of the Taliban’s increasing restrictions on freedoms in Afghanistan. These limitations extend beyond sports to include cultural and educational activities, profoundly impacting Afghanistan society. It remains uncertain how long these policies will last or whether international pressure could reverse some of these decisions.
https://www.khaama.com/chess-banned-in-afghanistan-due-to-religious-restrictions/
https://www.barrons.com/news/taliban-govt-suspends-chess-in-afghanistan-over-gambling-e38dd617
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
/leftydeutschpol/ - "Sie nannten ihn Fotzenfritze" Edition
Say whatever you want. This country is hell on earth. Linkspartei bei der Bundespressekonferenz reden über Stalingrad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
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Since former President Yoon Seok-yul was impeached by the Constitutional Court in an 8-0 vote, South Korea's political landscape has taken a turn for the worse. Angry conservatives have chosen former Employment and Labor Minister Kim Moon-soo, a converted Marxist, as the candidate of the People's Power (Yoon's party), while the liberal-leaning Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea, who has betrayed even his own labor-friendly agenda, seems to have won the "loyalty pledge" of the country's progressive parties: the Social Democratic Party, the Basic Income Party, and the Progressive Party. The anti-liberal left-wing Democratic Labor Party, on the other hand, is not likely to do much better, not only because they are on the outskirts, but also because of their disastrous performance in past contests. Another is the Reform Party, which has a base of ugly Incel supporters. There are also a number of anti-communist Christian parties.
About the situation in South korea
About the situation in South KoreaSince former President Yoon Seok-yul was impeached by the Constitutional Court in an 8-0 vote, South Korea's political landscape has taken a turn for the worse. Angry conservatives have chosen former Employment and Labor Minister Kim Moon-soo, a converted Marxist, as the candidate of the People's Power (Yoon's party), while the liberal-leaning Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea, who has betrayed even his own labor-friendly agenda, seems to have won the "loyalty pledge" of the country's progressive parties: the Social Democratic Party, the Basic Income Party, and the Progressive Party. The anti-liberal left-wing Democratic Labor Party, on the other hand, is not likely to do much better, not only because they are on the outskirts, but also because of their disastrous performance in past contests. Another is the Reform Party, which has a base of ugly Incel supporters. There are also a number of anti-communist Christian parties.
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<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.
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It’s done. Fascism and Nazism have become normalized again in western culture.
It’s OVER
Americans elected a literal fascist. Elon Musk did the Nazi salute during the inauguration. Fascist “manosphere” Internet personalities like Andrew Tate, Sneako, Adin Ross, and Fresh&Fit are mainstream cultural icons. Israel and India are run by fascists. RFK is openly calling for the US gov to commit eugenics against autistic people, identical to Aktion T4. A racist who’re woman was given $700k by online donors after she called an autistic Black boy a racial slur. And now, one of the most famous musicians in the world (Kanye West) released a song praising Hitler.It’s done. Fascism and Nazism have become normalized again in western culture.
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>Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration aimed at increasing biodiversity and restoring natural processes. It differs from other forms of ecological restoration in that rewilding aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems. It is also distinct from other forms of restoration in that, while it places emphasis on recovering geographically specific sets of ecological interactions and functions that would have maintained ecosystems prior to human influence, rewilding is open to novel or emerging ecosystems which encompass new species and new interactions.
<A key feature of rewilding is its focus on replacing human interventions with natural processes. Rewilding enables the return of intact, large mammal assemblages, to promote the restoration of trophic networks.[4] This mechanism of rewilding is a process of restoring natural processes by introducing or re-introducing large mammals to promote resilient, self-regulating, and self-sustaining ecosystems. Large mammals can influence ecosystems by altering biogeochemical pathways as they contribute to unique ecological roles, they are landscape engineers that aid in shaping the structure and composition of natural habitats. Rewilding projects are often part of programs for habitat restoration and conservation biology, and should be based on sound socio-ecological theory and evidence.
Will socialism have to "Rewild" part of the planet to deal with climate changes?
Abolish suburbs and put everyone into high density cities or small towns in order to preserve natural environment?
Rewilding
What do we think of "rewilding"?>Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration aimed at increasing biodiversity and restoring natural processes. It differs from other forms of ecological restoration in that rewilding aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems. It is also distinct from other forms of restoration in that, while it places emphasis on recovering geographically specific sets of ecological interactions and functions that would have maintained ecosystems prior to human influence, rewilding is open to novel or emerging ecosystems which encompass new species and new interactions.
<A key feature of rewilding is its focus on replacing human interventions with natural processes. Rewilding enables the return of intact, large mammal assemblages, to promote the restoration of trophic networks.[4] This mechanism of rewilding is a process of restoring natural processes by introducing or re-introducing large mammals to promote resilient, self-regulating, and self-sustaining ecosystems. Large mammals can influence ecosystems by altering biogeochemical pathways as they contribute to unique ecological roles, they are landscape engineers that aid in shaping the structure and composition of natural habitats. Rewilding projects are often part of programs for habitat restoration and conservation biology, and should be based on sound socio-ecological theory and evidence.
Will socialism have to "Rewild" part of the planet to deal with climate changes?
Abolish suburbs and put everyone into high density cities or small towns in order to preserve natural environment?
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I'm walking through the streets in my city and everything is dead, shops and restaurants are empty, malls are deader than dead. Some stores have closed down or went bankrupt due to low traffic. Streets have barely any cars. At night it's generally the same, nightclubs are dead, bars are empty. Nothing is happening. The city feels vacant everywhere. im guessing people can't afford to live downtown anymore so they move in the outskirts but besides going to work and watching Netflix what the fuck do people even do? Is everyone just too obese to enjoy outdoor shit now?
Dead cities phenomenon
Why is every major western city completely dead post COVID?I'm walking through the streets in my city and everything is dead, shops and restaurants are empty, malls are deader than dead. Some stores have closed down or went bankrupt due to low traffic. Streets have barely any cars. At night it's generally the same, nightclubs are dead, bars are empty. Nothing is happening. The city feels vacant everywhere. im guessing people can't afford to live downtown anymore so they move in the outskirts but besides going to work and watching Netflix what the fuck do people even do? Is everyone just too obese to enjoy outdoor shit now?
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Fact of the matter is that imagining some sort of Japan without a military is absolute delusional nonsense. Let's not delude ourselves: Either the US acts as their military or they get their own military. Without their own remilitarization, there's no way they willingly kick out the US; if the US ever withdraws, they'd immediately go towards remilitarization. Even just for the sake of their occupation of the Diaoyu Dao, they will want a military. There's no utopian "no military" option where they just willingly give up the Diaoyu Dao and become friendly with China. So what's the better option? Obviously its better for Japanese militarists to be subservient to the USA than for them to be wholly let loose.
This is probably the reason the PRC sends warships over to the Diaoyu Dao while also condemning remilitarization, they know what they want: they'd rather keep the status quo of US occupation of Japan for as long as possible. By letting Japan know they'll militarily resolve the Diaoyu Dao dispute if they kick out the US bases, they are ensuring that the US bases are perpetual. Which is their goal, because frankly, its better for China that Japan is kept down like a dog. Who knows what they'll try if they're given sovereignty again.
>but, its hampering cross-strait reunification!
And a sovereign Japan wouldn't be just as hostile to China reintegrating Taiwan? No, they'd be just as aggressive about it.
>but, its colonization of the ryukyu people! Ryukyu can be independent and demilitarized!
Ryukyuan independence is supported by like, 3% of the Ryukyuan people. The idea of Ryukyu being independent is just as delusional as the idea of Japan both being sovereign and demilitarized. Fact of the matter is that Japan will have control over these islands for the foreseeable future and its not even a question to anyone except delusional Chinese nationalists who want their vassal state back. Live in reality: either Japanese militarists or US military bases dominate these islands. No third option, and its better for China if its the US military for as long as possible.
US Occupation of Japan
What's with the left's obsession with decrying the US occupation of Japan? They'd almost make you forget that, even without American influence Japan’s a reactionary nation.Fact of the matter is that imagining some sort of Japan without a military is absolute delusional nonsense. Let's not delude ourselves: Either the US acts as their military or they get their own military. Without their own remilitarization, there's no way they willingly kick out the US; if the US ever withdraws, they'd immediately go towards remilitarization. Even just for the sake of their occupation of the Diaoyu Dao, they will want a military. There's no utopian "no military" option where they just willingly give up the Diaoyu Dao and become friendly with China. So what's the better option? Obviously its better for Japanese militarists to be subservient to the USA than for them to be wholly let loose.
This is probably the reason the PRC sends warships over to the Diaoyu Dao while also condemning remilitarization, they know what they want: they'd rather keep the status quo of US occupation of Japan for as long as possible. By letting Japan know they'll militarily resolve the Diaoyu Dao dispute if they kick out the US bases, they are ensuring that the US bases are perpetual. Which is their goal, because frankly, its better for China that Japan is kept down like a dog. Who knows what they'll try if they're given sovereignty again.
>but, its hampering cross-strait reunification!
And a sovereign Japan wouldn't be just as hostile to China reintegrating Taiwan? No, they'd be just as aggressive about it.
>but, its colonization of the ryukyu people! Ryukyu can be independent and demilitarized!
Ryukyuan independence is supported by like, 3% of the Ryukyuan people. The idea of Ryukyu being independent is just as delusional as the idea of Japan both being sovereign and demilitarized. Fact of the matter is that Japan will have control over these islands for the foreseeable future and its not even a question to anyone except delusional Chinese nationalists who want their vassal state back. Live in reality: either Japanese militarists or US military bases dominate these islands. No third option, and its better for China if its the US military for as long as possible.
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> Move into Palestine
> Colonize Palestine
> Start a war and then claim victim status
> Proceed to genocide local people
> Get constant support from every Western power
Why do they get away with everything? They're the only country that commits a genocide in the modern day and actively gets rousing support from the Empire of the US. They're the new Nazi regime just with a star of David instead. I'm seriously fucking sick of it.
Free Palestine!
How evil are they?
> Claim to want to live in peace> Move into Palestine
> Colonize Palestine
> Start a war and then claim victim status
> Proceed to genocide local people
> Get constant support from every Western power
Why do they get away with everything? They're the only country that commits a genocide in the modern day and actively gets rousing support from the Empire of the US. They're the new Nazi regime just with a star of David instead. I'm seriously fucking sick of it.
Free Palestine!
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men pay for sex, and men with more money tend to have more options, but on the other side of the equation very poor men also have lots of sex also. I want to know what is the real logic behind all of this.
how does capitalism interact with sex?
I lost my virginity after getting a job and some money, this made me think about how the world of sex interacts with money.men pay for sex, and men with more money tend to have more options, but on the other side of the equation very poor men also have lots of sex also. I want to know what is the real logic behind all of this.
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Have you ever noticed that the "United Nations" consists of a bunch of divided states, and the "United States" consists of a bunch of divided nations? What's up with that?
Have you ever noticed that the "United Nations" consists of a bunch of divided states, and the "United States" consists of a bunch of divided nations? What's up with that?
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Lets have a thread on basic definitions of left-wing terms.
It doesn't seem to me that even the most foundational words like "Socialism" are consistently defined.
<"To each according to their contribution."
<"Worker ownership of the means of production."
<"Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other.
<Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat."
Which of these you accept has implications such as on the form of the argument over the USSR takes.
Other terms which aren't defined consistently to my knowledge are terms like "imperialism", "left-wing", "worker", "identity politics", etc.
Lets have a thread on basic definitions of left-wing terms.
It doesn't seem to me that even the most foundational words like "Socialism" are consistently defined.
<"To each according to their contribution."
<"Worker ownership of the means of production."
<"Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other.
<Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat."
Which of these you accept has implications such as on the form of the argument over the USSR takes.
Other terms which aren't defined consistently to my knowledge are terms like "imperialism", "left-wing", "worker", "identity politics", etc.
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All cops private or publicly funded are private entities in nature.
Even in ideal situation where the police aren’t corrupt and incompetent, there is not a single cop let alone person with the capacity to act as a protecter for everyone much less an entire town or city because such a person would exist as a one man army.
This idea matters because it clarifies why I feel that the police officer that was killed had it coming along with every other police officer acting performing their service when not assigned to protect any specific person. The officer in question is retired and shouldn’t be trying to do anything unless asked or at least given permission. The moment he got involved in the murder of that father’s son, he already justified his own death just off by the fact that he didn’t and shouldn’t have done anything and let other officers that were assigned to that original shop handle the situation.
Ironically enough, by involving himself, that cop also just made the jobs of his fellow cops even harder by jeapordizing any plans those other officers made and by blowing the situation out of control.
That kid was under no obligation to listen or even respect whatever the fuck that pig was doing and the father doesn’t have any reason to feel or even be tried guilty for murdering him either.
Tldr, all cops are private and the one that got murdered deserved it entirely. I don’t even give a shit about the racebait garbage or the comments, I genuinely think everyone should be allowed to kill retired and out of duty pigs out of vengeance and self defence just off the principle that those people shouldn’t be involved in violence if it isn’t permitted or asked for.
An abstract idea about cops I learned from this video
This is like the third time I’m posting this article, because there’s a specific idea I got from this situation that didn’t come from me before.All cops private or publicly funded are private entities in nature.
Even in ideal situation where the police aren’t corrupt and incompetent, there is not a single cop let alone person with the capacity to act as a protecter for everyone much less an entire town or city because such a person would exist as a one man army.
This idea matters because it clarifies why I feel that the police officer that was killed had it coming along with every other police officer acting performing their service when not assigned to protect any specific person. The officer in question is retired and shouldn’t be trying to do anything unless asked or at least given permission. The moment he got involved in the murder of that father’s son, he already justified his own death just off by the fact that he didn’t and shouldn’t have done anything and let other officers that were assigned to that original shop handle the situation.
Ironically enough, by involving himself, that cop also just made the jobs of his fellow cops even harder by jeapordizing any plans those other officers made and by blowing the situation out of control.
That kid was under no obligation to listen or even respect whatever the fuck that pig was doing and the father doesn’t have any reason to feel or even be tried guilty for murdering him either.
Tldr, all cops are private and the one that got murdered deserved it entirely. I don’t even give a shit about the racebait garbage or the comments, I genuinely think everyone should be allowed to kill retired and out of duty pigs out of vengeance and self defence just off the principle that those people shouldn’t be involved in violence if it isn’t permitted or asked for.
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MAGA Communism vs Christcoms
Which will triumph in the end, /leftypol/?
pick a side, thin crust or deep dish, idk it is a tough choice.
MAGA Communism vs Christcoms
Which will triumph in the end, /leftypol/?
pick a side, thin crust or deep dish, idk it is a tough choice.
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>From whore to pope, there is a mass of such rabble. But the honest and ‘working’ lumpenproletariat belongs here as well; e.g. the great mob of porters etc. who render service in seaport cities etc.
>People who have passed the normal age of the labourer; the victims of industry.
>Pauperism is the hospital of the active labour-army and the dead weight of the industrial reserve army.
>In short, the whole indefinite, disintegrated mass, thrown hither and thither, which the French call la bohème
<Think its roughly anyone not "integrated" or marginally "integrated" into the mode of production, this includes the precarious: old, broken, beggars (including beggar children), but also criminals, and bohemians.
<The lumpenproletariat also seems to include precarious contract-workers, as being sufficiently marginal.
<This is just by having the notion of 'working' lumpenproletariate and identifying them with porters.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch05.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch05.htm
Lumpen: What For and How?
What is a lumpen (how is it defined), and what is it good for (what can they do to help).>From whore to pope, there is a mass of such rabble. But the honest and ‘working’ lumpenproletariat belongs here as well; e.g. the great mob of porters etc. who render service in seaport cities etc.
>People who have passed the normal age of the labourer; the victims of industry.
>Pauperism is the hospital of the active labour-army and the dead weight of the industrial reserve army.
>In short, the whole indefinite, disintegrated mass, thrown hither and thither, which the French call la bohème
<Think its roughly anyone not "integrated" or marginally "integrated" into the mode of production, this includes the precarious: old, broken, beggars (including beggar children), but also criminals, and bohemians.
<The lumpenproletariat also seems to include precarious contract-workers, as being sufficiently marginal.
<This is just by having the notion of 'working' lumpenproletariate and identifying them with porters.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch05.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch05.htm
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In this way, psychology greases the wheels of capitalism by stigmatizing survival mechanisms that are triggered from the environments people live in. Instead of working towards an environment that doesn’t evoke these responses, people are instead asked to work on themselves. The individual is scapegoated and the economic system is passed over. I think modalities like liberation psychology present themselves as one solution to this problem but I’m not sure it goes far enough. Too much of it still carries the baggage of “social justice” that makes it difficult to move past. I would like to know if people here have suggestions on how it could be advanced within a far left framework.
Fixing Psychology
I simultaneously hate and appreciate psychology. There is potential for it to be incredibly useful but it’s bogged down by absolute dogshit social constructs like vid related. Obviously, people can start anticipating scarcity and develop a “mindset” centered around it, but these dumbasses never address the elephant in the room which is that capitalism creates scarcity and having a mindset that anticipates it is a rational response when you’ve been conditioned like Pavlov’s dog.In this way, psychology greases the wheels of capitalism by stigmatizing survival mechanisms that are triggered from the environments people live in. Instead of working towards an environment that doesn’t evoke these responses, people are instead asked to work on themselves. The individual is scapegoated and the economic system is passed over. I think modalities like liberation psychology present themselves as one solution to this problem but I’m not sure it goes far enough. Too much of it still carries the baggage of “social justice” that makes it difficult to move past. I would like to know if people here have suggestions on how it could be advanced within a far left framework.
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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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>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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Religion
Hey guys I'm indian and ive been thinking of starting a new religion to save this country. Basically i just realised that the only real change that can happen here is through religion, like the buddha did. When my religion takes over, ill start adding coommunist stuff to it. The basic gist of it is that god isnt intelligent or even alive and that we can do anything, such as worshipping the sun, cannibalizing etc, also nothing happens after death, but you still live on through your children quite literally. Whats your opinion on this? I'm thinking of a cool name, I might steal mithraism. Also do you guys think my reduction of Indian history into religion is true?
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>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.
A very special friend of ours warned us about this months ago and nobody listened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qda4JY36BBA
It's Official
>the killing of Brian Thompson>violent and chaotic anti-American student protests
>Tesla burnings
>violent attacks on pro-life activists and other right-wingers
>arson attack on Gov Shapiro's home
>multiple assassination attempts on Trump
We have now entered an American Years of Lead without question.
A very special friend of ours warned us about this months ago and nobody listened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qda4JY36BBA
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Friends, I need help. One of my best friends, who is an arab muslim, just told me she's reading the book Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr and told me I should read it too. We were talking about Palestine, which we do a lot, but this time she started talking about how the jews were causing all sorts of problems in Europe, how Karl Marx was a jew and how they caused the French and Russian revolutions. Then she straight up asked me if I really think 6 million died. Like I said she's muslim but isn't very conservative (she doesn't even wear hijab). She's a compassionate, rational and perfectly lovely person otherwise. The fuck do I do?
I haven't read the book yet but it references both Protocols of the Elders of Zion and a letter supposedly written by the prominent freemason Albert Pike which outlines a secret plan for three world wars (I happen to know quite a lot about Pike and this letter is a hoax). What do you do when friends you love start going down these rabbit holes?
Friends, I need help. One of my best friends, who is an arab muslim, just told me she's reading the book Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr and told me I should read it too. We were talking about Palestine, which we do a lot, but this time she started talking about how the jews were causing all sorts of problems in Europe, how Karl Marx was a jew and how they caused the French and Russian revolutions. Then she straight up asked me if I really think 6 million died. Like I said she's muslim but isn't very conservative (she doesn't even wear hijab). She's a compassionate, rational and perfectly lovely person otherwise. The fuck do I do?
I haven't read the book yet but it references both Protocols of the Elders of Zion and a letter supposedly written by the prominent freemason Albert Pike which outlines a secret plan for three world wars (I happen to know quite a lot about Pike and this letter is a hoax). What do you do when friends you love start going down these rabbit holes?
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Public prosecutors in Germany have moved to strip a politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) of his immunity as a lawmaker after initiating a probe into bribery and money laundering allegations, local media reported on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-prosecutors-move-strip-afd-lawmakers-immunity-amid-bribery-probe-2025-05-09/
NHS plans cuts to jobs and services to avoid £6.6bn deficit
In a survey for NHS Providers, 47 per cent of trust leaders warned they are rolling back services to balance the books, while another 43 per cent are considering doing so.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-plans-cuts-jobs-and-services-avoid-ps66bn-deficit
Israel intercepts missile launched by Yemen’s Houthis
Houthi rebels fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” towards Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, while also claiming a drone attack “targeting a vital Israeli enemy target” in the same area, according to the group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/9/houthis-claim-responsibility-for-missile-attack-on-israel-airport
https://archive.ph/HRCbA
Aid workers slam plans by US contractors to take over Gaza aid distribution
The newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is reportedly attempting to implement a new aid distribution system that supplants the current arrangement run by the United Nations and other international aid agencies. The UN and aid groups have rejected the Israeli authorities’ attempts to control aid distribution.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/aid-workers-slam-plans-us-contractors-take-over-gaza-aid-distribution
PKK says held congress on dissolution, decision to be announced ‘very soon’
"The PKK 12th congress was successfully held in the Media Defense Areas from May 5 to 7. The congress was conducted in two different areas in parallel, with delegates representing all areas of work,” said a statement from the congress committee reported by the PKK-affiliated ANF news outlet, referring to areas of the Kurdistan Region bordering Turkey and Iran where the group is believed to be headquartered.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/09052025
https://archive.ph/WeniQ
SACP, Contralesa to mobilise for referendum to resolve land issue
The South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) will jointly mobilise for a referendum to resolve the land question. The announcement follows bilateral talks held today by the SACP and Contralesa in Braamfontein, Johannesburg today.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-contralesa-to-mobilise-for-a-referendum-to-resolve-land-issue/
Panamanian president refuses to renegotiate new US Panama Canal deal
On Tuesday, thousands of people marched in the capital Panama City in the largest demonstration yet against an agreement signed during last month’s visit by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. The deal followed suggestions by US President Donald Trump that Washington should seize control of the Panama Canal.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/panamanian-president-refuses-renegotiate-new-us-panama-canal-deal
Colombia's top court orders arrests of former legislature presidents
Name, of the Alianza Verde party, and Calle, of the Liberal party, are accused of receiving 4 billion pesos (about $1 million) to help secure congressional approval for key legislation under President Gustavo Petro
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-top-court-orders-arrests-former-legislature-presidents-2025-05-07/
Chile: Mapuche Leader Julia Chuñil Remains Missing After Six Months
The 72-year-old woman has become a symbol in the Mapuche people’s struggle to recover their ancestral lands and protect native forests. Before her disappearance on November 8, 2024, she led a fierce resistance against the logging of 900 hectares of forest in Mafil, a territory that agroforestry companies are attempting to take from Indigenous communities.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-mapuche-leader-chunil-remains-missing-after-six-months/
Australia's Woodside confronts protests, investor anger at annual meet
Climate change activists blew whistles and shouted on Thursday as they disrupted Australian gas producer Woodside Energy's (WDS.AX)annual general meeting, heckling Chief Executive Meg O’Neill and forcing several suspensions.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/australian-climate-protesters-disrupt-woodsides-annual-meet-2025-05-08/
Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire
Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir overnight, killing at least five civilians in a growing military standoff that erupted following an attack on tourists in the India-controlled portion of the disputed region.
https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-india-pakistan-military-strikes-conflict-1fe7cb3d7e0ea613f8461ca190a73eb0
News 5/9/25
German prosecutors move to strip AfD lawmaker's immunity amid bribery probePublic prosecutors in Germany have moved to strip a politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) of his immunity as a lawmaker after initiating a probe into bribery and money laundering allegations, local media reported on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-prosecutors-move-strip-afd-lawmakers-immunity-amid-bribery-probe-2025-05-09/
NHS plans cuts to jobs and services to avoid £6.6bn deficit
In a survey for NHS Providers, 47 per cent of trust leaders warned they are rolling back services to balance the books, while another 43 per cent are considering doing so.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-plans-cuts-jobs-and-services-avoid-ps66bn-deficit
Israel intercepts missile launched by Yemen’s Houthis
Houthi rebels fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” towards Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, while also claiming a drone attack “targeting a vital Israeli enemy target” in the same area, according to the group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/9/houthis-claim-responsibility-for-missile-attack-on-israel-airport
https://archive.ph/HRCbA
Aid workers slam plans by US contractors to take over Gaza aid distribution
The newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is reportedly attempting to implement a new aid distribution system that supplants the current arrangement run by the United Nations and other international aid agencies. The UN and aid groups have rejected the Israeli authorities’ attempts to control aid distribution.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/aid-workers-slam-plans-us-contractors-take-over-gaza-aid-distribution
PKK says held congress on dissolution, decision to be announced ‘very soon’
"The PKK 12th congress was successfully held in the Media Defense Areas from May 5 to 7. The congress was conducted in two different areas in parallel, with delegates representing all areas of work,” said a statement from the congress committee reported by the PKK-affiliated ANF news outlet, referring to areas of the Kurdistan Region bordering Turkey and Iran where the group is believed to be headquartered.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/09052025
https://archive.ph/WeniQ
SACP, Contralesa to mobilise for referendum to resolve land issue
The South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) will jointly mobilise for a referendum to resolve the land question. The announcement follows bilateral talks held today by the SACP and Contralesa in Braamfontein, Johannesburg today.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-contralesa-to-mobilise-for-a-referendum-to-resolve-land-issue/
Panamanian president refuses to renegotiate new US Panama Canal deal
On Tuesday, thousands of people marched in the capital Panama City in the largest demonstration yet against an agreement signed during last month’s visit by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. The deal followed suggestions by US President Donald Trump that Washington should seize control of the Panama Canal.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/panamanian-president-refuses-renegotiate-new-us-panama-canal-deal
Colombia's top court orders arrests of former legislature presidents
Name, of the Alianza Verde party, and Calle, of the Liberal party, are accused of receiving 4 billion pesos (about $1 million) to help secure congressional approval for key legislation under President Gustavo Petro
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-top-court-orders-arrests-former-legislature-presidents-2025-05-07/
Chile: Mapuche Leader Julia Chuñil Remains Missing After Six Months
The 72-year-old woman has become a symbol in the Mapuche people’s struggle to recover their ancestral lands and protect native forests. Before her disappearance on November 8, 2024, she led a fierce resistance against the logging of 900 hectares of forest in Mafil, a territory that agroforestry companies are attempting to take from Indigenous communities.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-mapuche-leader-chunil-remains-missing-after-six-months/
Australia's Woodside confronts protests, investor anger at annual meet
Climate change activists blew whistles and shouted on Thursday as they disrupted Australian gas producer Woodside Energy's (WDS.AX)annual general meeting, heckling Chief Executive Meg O’Neill and forcing several suspensions.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/australian-climate-protesters-disrupt-woodsides-annual-meet-2025-05-08/
Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire
Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir overnight, killing at least five civilians in a growing military standoff that erupted following an attack on tourists in the India-controlled portion of the disputed region.
https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-india-pakistan-military-strikes-conflict-1fe7cb3d7e0ea613f8461ca190a73eb0
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I'm not even picking on anyone in particular here, although there are obviously certain nations that are better than others in this regard (the difference between the US and China comes to mind), but overall it seems like every ideology's implicit end goal is to cover the whole earth. Why is that? I would say it's a result of material conditions blah blah blah, but it seems to go back to the dawn of civilization itself, which confuses me.
World peace
Why can't we have a world where people with differing ideologies can just agree to live separately and not fuck with eachother? Why does everyone feel the need to "save", "liberate" or "civilize" other nations?I'm not even picking on anyone in particular here, although there are obviously certain nations that are better than others in this regard (the difference between the US and China comes to mind), but overall it seems like every ideology's implicit end goal is to cover the whole earth. Why is that? I would say it's a result of material conditions blah blah blah, but it seems to go back to the dawn of civilization itself, which confuses me.
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>Following a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, that resulted in 26 fatalities, India has retaliated with 'Operation Sindoor', targeting nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied territories. This operation marks a significant escalation in the ongoing tensions between the two nations. Pakistan, in response, has heightened its emergency measures and reported shooting down two Indian jets, intensifying the military confrontation. International reactions and calls for peace are noted, amidst growing concerns over regional stability.
INDIA VS PAKISTAN 3
<Silly hats edition>Following a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, that resulted in 26 fatalities, India has retaliated with 'Operation Sindoor', targeting nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied territories. This operation marks a significant escalation in the ongoing tensions between the two nations. Pakistan, in response, has heightened its emergency measures and reported shooting down two Indian jets, intensifying the military confrontation. International reactions and calls for peace are noted, amidst growing concerns over regional stability.
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Of course, the Poles, being a classified reaKKKtionary group will cast their votes for the candidate that they (wrongly) believe is the right one, and while most likely the uninspired liberal Trzaskowski will win, this election also sees (so far) a rise in the popularity of a right wing agent of Satan candidate Mentzen (his name is German - that already is an ill omen)
I guess people deciding to caste their vote for the KKKlandidate from KKKonfederacja is bad enough, but currently he has 3rd place in most polls (which are a shit source of info, at least in Poland, but his supporters are loud at least). Like his memes say, he might actually have a higher chance of beating PO's Trzaskowski if he gets to the 2nd turn (which he likely won't). Of course the postulates are the same old rightoid spiel - low taxes, privatize stuff, shit that would never help any common prole (which is funny because common cis male proles are his biggest electorates, followed by teenagers and young adults with delusions of grandeur and entrepreneurial success)
In true Polish fashion there is no real good candidate, maybe Razem's Zandberg who actually has leftist postulates, criticized Israel (uncommon among Polish politics even though the population is like 80% anti-Israel at least), ran the pre-www Polish section of the Marxist Internet Archive as a teenager. But then, Razem is a socdem party through and through - unless Zandberg somehow gets elected and randomly brings back the Polish People's Republic.
His biggest supporters are actually among academic young adults, most of studentoid friends of mine actually vote for him.
Sometimes I wonder what CIA programming Poles went through to just go "jezu komunis" at any leftist postulate and causes them to react towards nazism (speaking of - plenty more nazi stickers around my place recently, being Polish and a nazi has to be a new suicide cult)
tl;dr the Poles have had it too good for long enough.
Poland Elections
The presidential elections in Poland are coming soon, which means that it's time for me to bitch about this place (or more exactly the people that reside in it, which science still has not fully been able to describe the behaviorism of) again.Of course, the Poles, being a classified reaKKKtionary group will cast their votes for the candidate that they (wrongly) believe is the right one, and while most likely the uninspired liberal Trzaskowski will win, this election also sees (so far) a rise in the popularity of a right wing agent of Satan candidate Mentzen (his name is German - that already is an ill omen)
I guess people deciding to caste their vote for the KKKlandidate from KKKonfederacja is bad enough, but currently he has 3rd place in most polls (which are a shit source of info, at least in Poland, but his supporters are loud at least). Like his memes say, he might actually have a higher chance of beating PO's Trzaskowski if he gets to the 2nd turn (which he likely won't). Of course the postulates are the same old rightoid spiel - low taxes, privatize stuff, shit that would never help any common prole (which is funny because common cis male proles are his biggest electorates, followed by teenagers and young adults with delusions of grandeur and entrepreneurial success)
In true Polish fashion there is no real good candidate, maybe Razem's Zandberg who actually has leftist postulates, criticized Israel (uncommon among Polish politics even though the population is like 80% anti-Israel at least), ran the pre-www Polish section of the Marxist Internet Archive as a teenager. But then, Razem is a socdem party through and through - unless Zandberg somehow gets elected and randomly brings back the Polish People's Republic.
His biggest supporters are actually among academic young adults, most of studentoid friends of mine actually vote for him.
Sometimes I wonder what CIA programming Poles went through to just go "jezu komunis" at any leftist postulate and causes them to react towards nazism (speaking of - plenty more nazi stickers around my place recently, being Polish and a nazi has to be a new suicide cult)
tl;dr the Poles have had it too good for long enough.
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Capitalists (the lemonade stand owners) make lemonade each year.
Workers help make the lemonade and get paid with money (wages) to buy snacks and toys (MOS).
How it works:
At the end of the year, the owners have lemonade (C') and money (M').
They use some money (M) to buy new supplies (MOP: lemons, sugar) and pay workers (LP) for next year.
Workers spend their wages on snacks and toys (MOS), which buys back some lemonade.
Owners also use leftover money (m) to buy fancy stuff for themselves (like a new bike 🚴).
The tricky part:
If the price of lemons or snacks is too cheap, owners might lose money when selling them (lower profits).
BUT if they buy their own fancy stuff cheaply, they save money personally (yay for bikes!).
What happens?
In the business world, losing money on sales makes profits look smaller. 😢
But the money they save on personal stuff isn’t shown in the business accounts. 😎
So, value “moves” from the business piggy bank to their personal piggy bank.
In short:
When prices don’t match the “true value” of things, money shuffles around. If owners save on personal treats, their business profits look lower, but they’re actually just moving money to their own pockets! 🤑
Think of it like a magic trick: the money isn’t gone—it’s just hiding in a different hat! 🎩✨
The Circuit M'-C' ... P ... M-C
Imagine a big lemonade stand economy. 🍋Capitalists (the lemonade stand owners) make lemonade each year.
Workers help make the lemonade and get paid with money (wages) to buy snacks and toys (MOS).
How it works:
At the end of the year, the owners have lemonade (C') and money (M').
They use some money (M) to buy new supplies (MOP: lemons, sugar) and pay workers (LP) for next year.
Workers spend their wages on snacks and toys (MOS), which buys back some lemonade.
Owners also use leftover money (m) to buy fancy stuff for themselves (like a new bike 🚴).
The tricky part:
If the price of lemons or snacks is too cheap, owners might lose money when selling them (lower profits).
BUT if they buy their own fancy stuff cheaply, they save money personally (yay for bikes!).
What happens?
In the business world, losing money on sales makes profits look smaller. 😢
But the money they save on personal stuff isn’t shown in the business accounts. 😎
So, value “moves” from the business piggy bank to their personal piggy bank.
In short:
When prices don’t match the “true value” of things, money shuffles around. If owners save on personal treats, their business profits look lower, but they’re actually just moving money to their own pockets! 🤑
Think of it like a magic trick: the money isn’t gone—it’s just hiding in a different hat! 🎩✨
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How should the secular international Communist left combat these powerful spooks? Or should they simply ignore it and focus on building the labor movement?
Zionazism
Zionazism seems schizo at first glance but it is just the logical endpoint of White supremacism, Christian supremacism, and European settler-colonialism: Jews have been knighted as "honorary" whites, and have been enlisted as crusaders against Muslims by white European Christians. It is an alliance of the two older Abrahamic faiths against the new one, and an alliance of the "true whites" and the "off whites" against the browns.How should the secular international Communist left combat these powerful spooks? Or should they simply ignore it and focus on building the labor movement?
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Colonialism vs everyone else.
Is there a reason why Europe managed to conquer the world compared to every other continent? Other than the simple "Europeans are the superior species" reasoning?
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this ends the argument that the american proletariat is an oppressed class that has any potential for class conciousness.
a million dollars from theater.
this ends the argument that the american proletariat is an oppressed class that has any potential for class conciousness.
a million dollars from theater.
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It appears that most organizations, especially leftoid orgs are completely disorganized and glorify piglike behavior expecting praise and new recruits without putting in the necessary effort to hold a structured organization.
They often blame the lack of finances, the lack of members and dismiss any notion of uniformity. And even when finances are not a problem, they may refuse out of individualism "I don't like wearing suits" and such other excuses which are more common within the declassed and more liberal structures. Of course there are outliers, there are declassed organizations with suits. What about yours though? Do you even have the will to implement these crucial elements in your organization or would you rather dismiss and criticize them as being stuck up?
I remind that the very same institutions and bourgeoisie NGOs that dominate the social order already see the necessity in these elements as far as to emphasize their importance in managerial courses, logically if you want to compete with them for attention from the broader "public" you need to 1UP them. If you don't like it then have fun playing play-pretend with your gay ass libtarded idpol friends and running a small business on a legalized squat or some shit. But if you agree on the necessity of these things, what have you done to try to implement them OR how have you managed to implement them in your org?
This is assuming you're not in an insurrectionary organization / party and care about public appearances.
Discipline, Order, Logistics, Uniforms, Marching, Anthems, Slogans, Mannerisms, Appearances
If you are in an organization that claims to adhere to the proletarian movement how many of the elements in the title does your organization adhere to? Do you go out with shitty cardboard signs and hippie beanie clothes like losers? Are participants in your org willing to adopt a uniformed look or do they reject uniformity in favor of individual choices? Can you all form a line adhering to height? Can you march in unison? Can you sing in unison? Can you handle the logistics to obtain uniforms? Can you design banners, uniforms, flags and have them produced? Do you print reading material? Do you know how to behave when handing out printed material? Do you know how to behave in front of agitators? Do you know how to give interviews? Do you know how to recruit? And many other questions.It appears that most organizations, especially leftoid orgs are completely disorganized and glorify piglike behavior expecting praise and new recruits without putting in the necessary effort to hold a structured organization.
They often blame the lack of finances, the lack of members and dismiss any notion of uniformity. And even when finances are not a problem, they may refuse out of individualism "I don't like wearing suits" and such other excuses which are more common within the declassed and more liberal structures. Of course there are outliers, there are declassed organizations with suits. What about yours though? Do you even have the will to implement these crucial elements in your organization or would you rather dismiss and criticize them as being stuck up?
I remind that the very same institutions and bourgeoisie NGOs that dominate the social order already see the necessity in these elements as far as to emphasize their importance in managerial courses, logically if you want to compete with them for attention from the broader "public" you need to 1UP them. If you don't like it then have fun playing play-pretend with your gay ass libtarded idpol friends and running a small business on a legalized squat or some shit. But if you agree on the necessity of these things, what have you done to try to implement them OR how have you managed to implement them in your org?
This is assuming you're not in an insurrectionary organization / party and care about public appearances.
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The way the reporters make the incident sound as if the father in this context just flat out overpowered the cop and his gun. Like, you cannot tell me that this guy somehow managed to not only win a fight but somehow get the strength to kill a dude with his bare fists and tank a bullet’s impact just off feelings of sheer concentrated unquestioned vengeance and hate. That sounds made up
The way the reporters make the incident sound as if the father in this context just flat out overpowered the cop and his gun. Like, you cannot tell me that this guy somehow managed to not only win a fight but somehow get the strength to kill a dude with his bare fists and tank a bullet’s impact just off feelings of sheer concentrated unquestioned vengeance and hate. That sounds made up
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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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The War on Drugs in the United States began in the early 1970s, officially declared by terrorist Richard Nixon in 1971. This initiative was a response to rising concerns about drug use, particularly among returning Vietnam veterans and within countercultural movements. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 laid the groundwork for this campaign, categorizing drugs into schedules based on their potential for abuse and medical utility. The primary goal was to curb drug use and trafficking through strict enforcement measures by punishment and by death.
One of the most significant consequences of the War on Drugs has been its impact on social alienation. The aggressive enforcement strategies employed have led to widespread criminalization of drug users, being used as a disguise to kill off small ethnic groups who did not want to experience yankee sobriety in the wage slave hell. This has resulted in millions being incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses, contributing to a system that prioritizes punishment and death over rehabilitation, care and scientific study. This has also greatly increased the power of pigs who enforce laws which can now kill and rape anyone by planting drugs and pigging out.
Moreover, the stigma associated with drug-related offenses has lasting effects on people's lives post-incarceration. Many face barriers to employment, housing, and access to social services due to criminal records stemming from drug convictions. This cycle perpetuates poverty and limits opportunities for affected people and their families.
The War on Drugs has also had disastrous consequences for scientific research related to substances and the development of medicines. Policies have restricted research to certain controlled substances due to their classification as illegal drugs. Propaganda has also hindered the public's understanding of drugs and created an artificial division between drugs / substances and medicine, which does not exist.
For instance, cannabis remains classified as a Schedule I substance under yankee federal law, which implies it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. This classification has severely limited research opportunities into its therapeutic benefits despite growing evidence supporting its efficacy in treating various medical conditions and the escape of sober slavery.
Additionally, funding for addiction treatment programs often just funds cults like alcoholics anonymous and WOD propaganda outlets rather than smart environments for sobering up to be able to still enjoying the benefits of psychoactive substances in moderate terms in the long term.
In summary, when forced, sobriety is slavery. The WOD is the modern war for slavery over the human mind and scientific study.
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
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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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The War on Drugs in the United States began in the early 1970s, officially declared by terrorist Richard Nixon in 1971. This initiative was a response to rising concerns about drug use, particularly among returning Vietnam veterans and within countercultural movements. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 laid the groundwork for this campaign, categorizing drugs into schedules based on their potential for abuse and medical utility. The primary goal was to curb drug use and trafficking through strict enforcement measures by punishment and by death.
One of the most significant consequences of the War on Drugs has been its impact on social alienation. The aggressive enforcement strategies employed have led to widespread criminalization of drug users, being used as a disguise to kill off small ethnic groups who did not want to experience yankee sobriety in the wage slave hell. This has resulted in millions being incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses, contributing to a system that prioritizes punishment and death over rehabilitation, care and scientific study. This has also greatly increased the power of pigs who enforce laws which can now kill and rape anyone by planting drugs and pigging out.
Moreover, the stigma associated with drug-related offenses has lasting effects on people's lives post-incarceration. Many face barriers to employment, housing, and access to social services due to criminal records stemming from drug convictions. This cycle perpetuates poverty and limits opportunities for affected people and their families.
The War on Drugs has also had disastrous consequences for scientific research related to substances and the development of medicines. Policies have restricted research to certain controlled substances due to their classification as illegal drugs. Propaganda has also hindered the public's understanding of drugs and created an artificial division between drugs / substances and medicine, which does not exist.
For instance, cannabis remains classified as a Schedule I substance under yankee federal law, which implies it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. This classification has severely limited research opportunities into its therapeutic benefits despite growing evidence supporting its efficacy in treating various medical conditions and the escape of sober slavery.
Additionally, funding for addiction treatment programs often just funds cults like alcoholics anonymous and WOD propaganda outlets rather than smart environments for sobering up to be able to still enjoying the benefits of psychoactive substances in moderate terms in the long term.
In summary, when forced, sobriety is slavery. The WOD is the modern war for slavery over the human mind and scientific study.
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
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I ask this because it feels like, even if we want to overthrow capitalism and create a new society, it’s too late and we here just to pick up the pieces of whatever is left. Often people say (even intellectuals) that unions or the labor movement has been destroyed. How exactly? What stops workers from coming together or why are unions so weak? Since we are new generations and the classical tradition has been lost or suppressed, what can we do? Is it objectively more difficult to organize or is it only lack of commitment? Something feels off. As if the entire movement is dead. Only little clusters here and there. Pic related.
Where does the current left stand?
As someone young (millennial) who only recently developed class consciousness and wants to do something (preferably libertarian flavor), where does the left stand?I ask this because it feels like, even if we want to overthrow capitalism and create a new society, it’s too late and we here just to pick up the pieces of whatever is left. Often people say (even intellectuals) that unions or the labor movement has been destroyed. How exactly? What stops workers from coming together or why are unions so weak? Since we are new generations and the classical tradition has been lost or suppressed, what can we do? Is it objectively more difficult to organize or is it only lack of commitment? Something feels off. As if the entire movement is dead. Only little clusters here and there. Pic related.
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Hello, people, I'm creating this thread so a person more knowledgeable than me can help.
So, lately I found out about some group of people on the web that defend a kind of scientific racism, things like I.Q, race and the relation between genes and behavior. The more I read about it more became clear the dangerous implications of those "findings", but I'm not versed on biology or psychology to have a full nuanced picture. Anyway, anyone know great books that show "the other side of the picture" about the relation of genes, I.Q, behavior and race?
Hello, people, I'm creating this thread so a person more knowledgeable than me can help.
So, lately I found out about some group of people on the web that defend a kind of scientific racism, things like I.Q, race and the relation between genes and behavior. The more I read about it more became clear the dangerous implications of those "findings", but I'm not versed on biology or psychology to have a full nuanced picture. Anyway, anyone know great books that show "the other side of the picture" about the relation of genes, I.Q, behavior and race?
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what would you say to a revolutionary tribunal composed of folks from the reservations and dudes liberated from prison? do you consider settlers to be a class?
what would you say to a revolutionary tribunal composed of folks from the reservations and dudes liberated from prison? do you consider settlers to be a class?
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This says Germany and allies had 5.5 million soldiers against Soviets' 2.9 millions in 1941. 1.9 Nazis to every Soviet. Meanwhile, Soviets had 3 tanks to every Nazi one, 2 planes per every Nazi plane.
Pretty certain that a better equipped military, even if smaller, deals better K/D ratio than other way.
2nd pic: full losses vs sanitary losses. The hilarious part about this is, it claims that 3 people have died for every 1 injured. This is, frankly, impossible.
This is the apex of idiocy:
>Given that the losses of the fronts were constantly replenished, the list number was maintained at about a certain level, as far as possible, and the percentage of average monthly losses varied depending on the intensity of the fighting. If you add up all the losses for a certain period of the war, then their total will often significantly exceed the average enlisted strength of the active army (navy, branch of the armed forces) for this period. Sometimes — several times. For example, if in a company with an average monthly strength of one hundred people, the average monthly losses were 25%, then for a year with the same number of companies on the list (100%), the total losses would be 300%. If, for example, we take the Western Front, its average monthly strength in 1941 was 501120 people [ 57 ], and irretrievable losses for that year amounted to 956293 people [ 58 ] Therefore, in 1941 the front lost 190.8% of its enlisted personnel, while every month 30.3% of its personnel irretrievably retired.. Together with sanitary losses, 259% of the average monthly population decreased during the same period. Thus, taking into account the replenishment, 41.1% of personnel were lost in the troops of this front every month in 1941.
Not only it contradicts factual reports from the frontlines at these dates, it contradicts military science itself, because 25% losses in a unit make unit unable to fight, period. As in, dead weight. Even Soviets attempts at counterattack would be impossible due to lack of moving parts in a unit.
Krivosheev
https://statehistory.ru/books/pod-red--G-F--Krivosheeva_Rossiya-i-SSSR-v-voynakh-XX-veka--Statisticheskoe-issledovanie/27This says Germany and allies had 5.5 million soldiers against Soviets' 2.9 millions in 1941. 1.9 Nazis to every Soviet. Meanwhile, Soviets had 3 tanks to every Nazi one, 2 planes per every Nazi plane.
Pretty certain that a better equipped military, even if smaller, deals better K/D ratio than other way.
2nd pic: full losses vs sanitary losses. The hilarious part about this is, it claims that 3 people have died for every 1 injured. This is, frankly, impossible.
This is the apex of idiocy:
>Given that the losses of the fronts were constantly replenished, the list number was maintained at about a certain level, as far as possible, and the percentage of average monthly losses varied depending on the intensity of the fighting. If you add up all the losses for a certain period of the war, then their total will often significantly exceed the average enlisted strength of the active army (navy, branch of the armed forces) for this period. Sometimes — several times. For example, if in a company with an average monthly strength of one hundred people, the average monthly losses were 25%, then for a year with the same number of companies on the list (100%), the total losses would be 300%. If, for example, we take the Western Front, its average monthly strength in 1941 was 501120 people [ 57 ], and irretrievable losses for that year amounted to 956293 people [ 58 ] Therefore, in 1941 the front lost 190.8% of its enlisted personnel, while every month 30.3% of its personnel irretrievably retired.. Together with sanitary losses, 259% of the average monthly population decreased during the same period. Thus, taking into account the replenishment, 41.1% of personnel were lost in the troops of this front every month in 1941.
Not only it contradicts factual reports from the frontlines at these dates, it contradicts military science itself, because 25% losses in a unit make unit unable to fight, period. As in, dead weight. Even Soviets attempts at counterattack would be impossible due to lack of moving parts in a unit.
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Even fascists enter into this line of argument, mistakenly calling it "cultural marxism" (in the last years the term "woke" has also gained track). According to them, a conspiracy has been launched to destroy Western culture, and this would be the implementation of this "cultural Marxism", manifesting itself as the dictatorship of political correctness, the control of the media and educational institutions, promoting through them pessimism, liberalism, and the degeneration of society.
Looking at their description of "cultural Marxism," one can see that Marxism has nothing to do with it; in fact, it is antithetical. Marxism seeks to transform society, to end capitalism, and to bring humanity to a higher, more evolved stage. However, postmodernists (in all their variants) only patch up the system, advocating for supposed partial struggles that, when used by them, serve as a brake, not a pedal for advancing society. Like fascists, they do the dirty work for capitalists. They distort Marxism, achieving disunity and the absolute disorganization of workers, leaving them at the mercy of exploitation in a decadent, putrid, and degenerate society. Thus, fascists should find another name to define the postmodernist movement that defends the system, since, as fellow travelers, both fascists and postmodernists have the same interest in maintaining the hegemony of capital.
Fascists pin the beginning of this movement on the need of the left to destroy everything Western in order to achieve revolution, since they failed to lift up all of Europe in 1917. Therefore, work focused on this need would begin in 1930. It would begin with the Frankfurt School and supposedly develop to this day. Although they are right that it began with the Frankfurt School in 1930 based on misunderstood ideas of Antonio Gramsci, we must analyze the material conditions that led to this, since on this point they are clearly mistaken.
In 1930, the labor movement was stronger than ever, especially in Europe. The USSR had consolidated; through the Comintern and its sections, it had more capacity than ever. Therefore, was it impossible to make a revolution in Europe when it was more present and closer than ever? Clearly not, so it makes no sense to claim that it was a response by Marxism to a supposed inability, but rather the opposite: in the face of the revolutionary offensive and the failure of fascism, stopping it required other methods that would maintain the capitalist system in Europe and around the world. This was the emergence of ideological postmodernism, following the Frankfurt School, to degenerate Marxism and destroy the communist parties from within and without. This thought reached its peak in May 1968 in France and periodically promoted the birth of similar movements that only confirmed the condemnation of the working class to exploitation. These authors set themselves up as defenders of "critical" Marxism when in reality they critiqued it with the intention of defenestrating, dumbing down, and destroying it. Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Jürgen Habermas were followed by Sigmund Freud, Louis Althusser, and, more recently, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Žižek, and Immanuel Wallerstein. These are just a few of the most famous, but the list, unfortunately, is much longer.
A dictatorship of ideological postmodernism has been imposed. While economic control by capitalism has continued, the postmodern left has been allowed to set the pace of social "advancement," which in reality is nothing more than forcing consumption and behavior patterns in the way capitalism wants, degenerating society and increasingly oppressing the working class. Everything that isn't politically correct is subject to a media lynching that censors, or ("cancels") it. The old, working-class left has been overwhelmed by the "new left", by partial, meaningless, and aimless demands for progress. The old left has been dismissed as something old-fashioned and obsolete, something from the past that no longer makes any sense. They need to force the organizations that were once combative to adopt the new dogma, to the prevailing ideology, to not oppose that which is already a reality and can no longer be changed. For us communists, everything can be changed: nothing is stagnant, everything is in constant movement and subject to transformation. Since the destruction of the capitalist state is necessary for the construction of a new proletarian, socialist state, we should not leave any pillar of capitalism standing.
The persecution and influence of ideological postmodernism occurs at all levels of society, both individually and collectively: no association or organization of any kind is exempt from subjugation to the dogmas of postmodernism. Workers' associations and communist parties are no exception either, and they have suffered a major attack from these ideas and their champions. The saddest thing is that they have had great success in communist parties and organizations, which have introduced into their programs, to give just a few examples, a series of issues that clearly undermine the foundations of Marxism and that go against the transformation of society:
>Absolute renunciation of violence. Instead of seeing it as an instrument, they have accepted the discourse of the bourgeoisie so that it can perpetuate itself in power. A class that holds power will never give it up without a fight. They have fallen into the crudest idealism.
>Acceptance of liberal feminism's anti-communist, anti-worker, and anti-progress ideas, incorporating them into their "neomarxism", which perverts the ideology into a docile state, eliminating everything revolutionary about it. We're talking about illogical gender quotas, the promotion of queer theory, rejection of monogamy and nuclear family, support for prostitution and unhealthy promiscuity, the equation and even superiority of the so-called feminist struggle with the class struggle, and a long list of shameful issues promoted by the bourgeoisie and profoundly anti-Marxist in nature.
>Acceptance of bourgeois environmentalism, rejecting the concept of prioritizing production and industrialization so that the country can achieve independence and revolutionary development. Natural resources, and therefore the environment, must be protected, but not in a childish manner, without taking into account the country's productive needs at specific times.
>General demilitarization, one of the points of the program that all these communist parties and organizations have adopted at the behest of the bourgeoisie. How can a revolution defend itself without an army? It needs to be completely reformed, but thinking that they will be able to disband it without consequences is nothing more than falling back into the most absurd idealism.
>They completely renounce discipline, democratic centralism (some maintain it in name, but in practice only develop internal liberalism), and revolutionary vigilance in favor of assembly-based politics and the relaxation of militant life to the point of creating only amateurs who treat it as a hobby. With this, they have destroyed any capacity for combativeness in these parties: alcoholism and drug addiction are now accepted as something good or even, as something to be expected from a leftist.
(I say communist parties because they call themselves that; of course, they are not, they are merely part of the system and contribute to the disorganization of the working class.)
Class struggle is rejected with theories that are each more surreal than the last. Some also speak of a new phase of capitalism with the sole intention of perpetuating domination and oppression, but with a "human" face. Many of the defenders of these theories attempt to justify them by revising the revolutionary essence of Marxism. It is true that changes have occurred with the development of imperialism, but these variations do not affect its fundamental laws, and so we remain in the same historical phase. They magically transform the minority into the revolutionary or transgressive, the rare and marginal into the supposed vanguard of future transformations. They fail to realize that their scale of oppression is nothing more than a metaphysical construct destined to fail if its objective were to bring about real change and not to blur class consciousness and weaken working-class and revolutionary organizations. That a group, in this case a class, plays a revolutionary role is not due to the marginal, alien, non-normative, or minority character of certain individuals, but rather to the material conditions of that class, which inevitably lead it to play a revolutionary role in the transformation of society. The bourgeois class is a minority compared to the working class, and this does not make it revolutionary; on the contrary, it is parasitic and unproductive, while the working class is the one that produces wealth and is subjugated, since it does not own the means of production.
A new consumer culture has been created that presupposes individual liberation, as if it were possible to make changes individually and not as a collective entity that achieves progress by force. A culture of general depravity has been established in society, especially among young people, who, under the pretext of destroying tradition, are destroying everything to pave the way for the concepts of the new consumerism, drug and alcohol addiction, prostitution, pornography, and a life of excess and degeneration that instills a heightened consumerism that alienates and destroys consciences and identities alike. "We only have one life to live"; they don't realize that living involves being productive, educating ourselves, having interests, being healthy, reproducing our species, and contributing to the overall progress of society. Living is not being a nihilist who only follows trends and dogmas imposed by those in power. They've created the false illusion that communists who don't conform to this way of thinking are actually reactionaries, much more to the right than to the left. As if renouncing absolutely everything for the sake of social trends were more revolutionary. As if supporting the current general degeneration of society were something positive.
Being promiscuous, "lacking" a sexual identity, being a drug addict and advocating for it, dyeing your hair, or liberally claiming dogmas about partial struggles doesn't make you a revolutionary; what makes you a revolutionary is organizing yourself in a disciplined way to transform society. The new left continues their hidden defense of the capitalist system and the absurd justification of Western parliamentary democracies, which are the true drivers and defenders of the existence of such system. Unfortunately, we're all influenced by this postmodernism. It's normal to have fallen at some point throughout our lives under these dogmas, under the vices of consumption that they dictate to us. It's necessary to open our eyes, be self-critical, and see that they only want to destroy any possibility of transforming society and maintain current exploitation. Therefore, it's necessary to vehemently fight against this ideological postmodernism, realizing that postmodern revisionism is nothing more than another attempt by its proponent—the bourgeoisie—to eliminate working-class and revolutionary organizations, perpetuate their oppression, and destroy society.
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About the complete dominance of postmodernism in the current left
Currently, one of the biggest and most important enemies of marxism is ideological postmodernism. This new wave of ideological decay has covered itself with a cloak of supposed modernity and progress, and they even pretend to give the image that it is a product of the evolution of Marxism itself. Nothing could be further from the truth.Even fascists enter into this line of argument, mistakenly calling it "cultural marxism" (in the last years the term "woke" has also gained track). According to them, a conspiracy has been launched to destroy Western culture, and this would be the implementation of this "cultural Marxism", manifesting itself as the dictatorship of political correctness, the control of the media and educational institutions, promoting through them pessimism, liberalism, and the degeneration of society.
Looking at their description of "cultural Marxism," one can see that Marxism has nothing to do with it; in fact, it is antithetical. Marxism seeks to transform society, to end capitalism, and to bring humanity to a higher, more evolved stage. However, postmodernists (in all their variants) only patch up the system, advocating for supposed partial struggles that, when used by them, serve as a brake, not a pedal for advancing society. Like fascists, they do the dirty work for capitalists. They distort Marxism, achieving disunity and the absolute disorganization of workers, leaving them at the mercy of exploitation in a decadent, putrid, and degenerate society. Thus, fascists should find another name to define the postmodernist movement that defends the system, since, as fellow travelers, both fascists and postmodernists have the same interest in maintaining the hegemony of capital.
Fascists pin the beginning of this movement on the need of the left to destroy everything Western in order to achieve revolution, since they failed to lift up all of Europe in 1917. Therefore, work focused on this need would begin in 1930. It would begin with the Frankfurt School and supposedly develop to this day. Although they are right that it began with the Frankfurt School in 1930 based on misunderstood ideas of Antonio Gramsci, we must analyze the material conditions that led to this, since on this point they are clearly mistaken.
In 1930, the labor movement was stronger than ever, especially in Europe. The USSR had consolidated; through the Comintern and its sections, it had more capacity than ever. Therefore, was it impossible to make a revolution in Europe when it was more present and closer than ever? Clearly not, so it makes no sense to claim that it was a response by Marxism to a supposed inability, but rather the opposite: in the face of the revolutionary offensive and the failure of fascism, stopping it required other methods that would maintain the capitalist system in Europe and around the world. This was the emergence of ideological postmodernism, following the Frankfurt School, to degenerate Marxism and destroy the communist parties from within and without. This thought reached its peak in May 1968 in France and periodically promoted the birth of similar movements that only confirmed the condemnation of the working class to exploitation. These authors set themselves up as defenders of "critical" Marxism when in reality they critiqued it with the intention of defenestrating, dumbing down, and destroying it. Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Jürgen Habermas were followed by Sigmund Freud, Louis Althusser, and, more recently, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Žižek, and Immanuel Wallerstein. These are just a few of the most famous, but the list, unfortunately, is much longer.
A dictatorship of ideological postmodernism has been imposed. While economic control by capitalism has continued, the postmodern left has been allowed to set the pace of social "advancement," which in reality is nothing more than forcing consumption and behavior patterns in the way capitalism wants, degenerating society and increasingly oppressing the working class. Everything that isn't politically correct is subject to a media lynching that censors, or ("cancels") it. The old, working-class left has been overwhelmed by the "new left", by partial, meaningless, and aimless demands for progress. The old left has been dismissed as something old-fashioned and obsolete, something from the past that no longer makes any sense. They need to force the organizations that were once combative to adopt the new dogma, to the prevailing ideology, to not oppose that which is already a reality and can no longer be changed. For us communists, everything can be changed: nothing is stagnant, everything is in constant movement and subject to transformation. Since the destruction of the capitalist state is necessary for the construction of a new proletarian, socialist state, we should not leave any pillar of capitalism standing.
The persecution and influence of ideological postmodernism occurs at all levels of society, both individually and collectively: no association or organization of any kind is exempt from subjugation to the dogmas of postmodernism. Workers' associations and communist parties are no exception either, and they have suffered a major attack from these ideas and their champions. The saddest thing is that they have had great success in communist parties and organizations, which have introduced into their programs, to give just a few examples, a series of issues that clearly undermine the foundations of Marxism and that go against the transformation of society:
>Absolute renunciation of violence. Instead of seeing it as an instrument, they have accepted the discourse of the bourgeoisie so that it can perpetuate itself in power. A class that holds power will never give it up without a fight. They have fallen into the crudest idealism.
>Acceptance of liberal feminism's anti-communist, anti-worker, and anti-progress ideas, incorporating them into their "neomarxism", which perverts the ideology into a docile state, eliminating everything revolutionary about it. We're talking about illogical gender quotas, the promotion of queer theory, rejection of monogamy and nuclear family, support for prostitution and unhealthy promiscuity, the equation and even superiority of the so-called feminist struggle with the class struggle, and a long list of shameful issues promoted by the bourgeoisie and profoundly anti-Marxist in nature.
>Acceptance of bourgeois environmentalism, rejecting the concept of prioritizing production and industrialization so that the country can achieve independence and revolutionary development. Natural resources, and therefore the environment, must be protected, but not in a childish manner, without taking into account the country's productive needs at specific times.
>General demilitarization, one of the points of the program that all these communist parties and organizations have adopted at the behest of the bourgeoisie. How can a revolution defend itself without an army? It needs to be completely reformed, but thinking that they will be able to disband it without consequences is nothing more than falling back into the most absurd idealism.
>They completely renounce discipline, democratic centralism (some maintain it in name, but in practice only develop internal liberalism), and revolutionary vigilance in favor of assembly-based politics and the relaxation of militant life to the point of creating only amateurs who treat it as a hobby. With this, they have destroyed any capacity for combativeness in these parties: alcoholism and drug addiction are now accepted as something good or even, as something to be expected from a leftist.
(I say communist parties because they call themselves that; of course, they are not, they are merely part of the system and contribute to the disorganization of the working class.)
Class struggle is rejected with theories that are each more surreal than the last. Some also speak of a new phase of capitalism with the sole intention of perpetuating domination and oppression, but with a "human" face. Many of the defenders of these theories attempt to justify them by revising the revolutionary essence of Marxism. It is true that changes have occurred with the development of imperialism, but these variations do not affect its fundamental laws, and so we remain in the same historical phase. They magically transform the minority into the revolutionary or transgressive, the rare and marginal into the supposed vanguard of future transformations. They fail to realize that their scale of oppression is nothing more than a metaphysical construct destined to fail if its objective were to bring about real change and not to blur class consciousness and weaken working-class and revolutionary organizations. That a group, in this case a class, plays a revolutionary role is not due to the marginal, alien, non-normative, or minority character of certain individuals, but rather to the material conditions of that class, which inevitably lead it to play a revolutionary role in the transformation of society. The bourgeois class is a minority compared to the working class, and this does not make it revolutionary; on the contrary, it is parasitic and unproductive, while the working class is the one that produces wealth and is subjugated, since it does not own the means of production.
A new consumer culture has been created that presupposes individual liberation, as if it were possible to make changes individually and not as a collective entity that achieves progress by force. A culture of general depravity has been established in society, especially among young people, who, under the pretext of destroying tradition, are destroying everything to pave the way for the concepts of the new consumerism, drug and alcohol addiction, prostitution, pornography, and a life of excess and degeneration that instills a heightened consumerism that alienates and destroys consciences and identities alike. "We only have one life to live"; they don't realize that living involves being productive, educating ourselves, having interests, being healthy, reproducing our species, and contributing to the overall progress of society. Living is not being a nihilist who only follows trends and dogmas imposed by those in power. They've created the false illusion that communists who don't conform to this way of thinking are actually reactionaries, much more to the right than to the left. As if renouncing absolutely everything for the sake of social trends were more revolutionary. As if supporting the current general degeneration of society were something positive.
Being promiscuous, "lacking" a sexual identity, being a drug addict and advocating for it, dyeing your hair, or liberally claiming dogmas about partial struggles doesn't make you a revolutionary; what makes you a revolutionary is organizing yourself in a disciplined way to transform society. The new left continues their hidden defense of the capitalist system and the absurd justification of Western parliamentary democracies, which are the true drivers and defenders of the existence of such system. Unfortunately, we're all influenced by this postmodernism. It's normal to have fallen at some point throughout our lives under these dogmas, under the vices of consumption that they dictate to us. It's necessary to open our eyes, be self-critical, and see that they only want to destroy any possibility of transforming society and maintain current exploitation. Therefore, it's necessary to vehemently fight against this ideological postmodernism, realizing that postmodern revisionism is nothing more than another attempt by its proponent—the bourgeoisie—to eliminate working-class and revolutionary organizations, perpetuate their oppression, and destroy society.
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>"China is not communist."
Realistically speaking how do you even respond to this without sounding mad or like you're coping? You know deep down that they are right.
>"China is not communist."
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>Among all the large and small nations of Austria, only three standard-bearers of progress took an active part in history, and still retain their vitality — the Germans, the Poles and the Magyars. Hence they are now revolutionary.
>All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm. For that reason they are now counter-revolutionary.
>There is no country in Europe which does not have in some corner or other one or several ruined fragments of peoples, the remnant of a former population that was suppressed and held in bondage by the nation which later became the main vehicle of historical development. These relics of a nation mercilessly trampled under foot in the course of history, as Hegel says, these residual fragments of peoples always become fanatical standard-bearers of counter-revolution and remain so until their complete extirpation or loss of their national character, just as their whole existence in general is itself a protest against a great historical revolution.
>The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.
https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1849/01/13.htm
Based on Comrade Engels' writings, which ethnic groups today should we consider "residual" or non-historic/counter-revolutionary peoples? I think discussing this could add a great deal of theoretical clarity to /leftypol/ users' positions on the various geopolitical conflicts occurring in the world today.
>Among all the large and small nations of Austria, only three standard-bearers of progress took an active part in history, and still retain their vitality — the Germans, the Poles and the Magyars. Hence they are now revolutionary.
>All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm. For that reason they are now counter-revolutionary.
>There is no country in Europe which does not have in some corner or other one or several ruined fragments of peoples, the remnant of a former population that was suppressed and held in bondage by the nation which later became the main vehicle of historical development. These relics of a nation mercilessly trampled under foot in the course of history, as Hegel says, these residual fragments of peoples always become fanatical standard-bearers of counter-revolution and remain so until their complete extirpation or loss of their national character, just as their whole existence in general is itself a protest against a great historical revolution.
>The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.
https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1849/01/13.htm
Based on Comrade Engels' writings, which ethnic groups today should we consider "residual" or non-historic/counter-revolutionary peoples? I think discussing this could add a great deal of theoretical clarity to /leftypol/ users' positions on the various geopolitical conflicts occurring in the world today.
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/07/uss-truman-loses-third-fighter-jet-amid-red-sea-deployment.html
https://archive.ph/jbAv8
Footage of two guerrilla actions in Zap
“On May 1 at 5:35 p.m., a container belonging to the occupiers, which contained a radar system, was destroyed by our Şehîd Axîn Mûş Unit using a kamikaze drone in the Girê Bahar Resistance Area in the Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/footage-of-two-guerrilla-actions-in-zap-79214
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The workers of the Izmir-Aliağa and Kocaeli refineries started to protest after a sellout agreement was signed without their knowledge and with their main demands not met. The workers of the Aliağa refinery marched and blocked the entrance of the refinery after the union branch announced the terms of the agreement and then marched to the Izmir-Çanakkale ring road.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/08/vltv-m08.html
UK and US secure trade deal with changes for auto and agricultural goods
President Trump also said on Thursday that the US would be increasing its beef and ethanol exports to the UK, which will be fast-tracked through customs. These imports have historically been limited due concerns over added growth hormones.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/05/08/uk-and-us-secure-trade-deal-with-changes-for-auto-and-agricultural-goods
https://archive.ph/ERL5g
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/trade-unions-in-benin-condemn-police-crackdown-on-labor-movement/
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Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red SeaThe USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday – the third since it deployed to the Middle East – this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense officials confirmed to Military.com
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/07/uss-truman-loses-third-fighter-jet-amid-red-sea-deployment.html
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Footage of two guerrilla actions in Zap
“On May 1 at 5:35 p.m., a container belonging to the occupiers, which contained a radar system, was destroyed by our Şehîd Axîn Mûş Unit using a kamikaze drone in the Girê Bahar Resistance Area in the Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/footage-of-two-guerrilla-actions-in-zap-79214
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The plan further aims to confine the whole of the Gaza Strip’s population to a small area of the south, with Israeli media reports stating humanitarian aid will only be distributed once a week, fuelling serious concerns that Palestinians will only be given enough food so they don't starve to death. https://www.newarab.com/news/new-israeli-military-orders-deprioritise-freeing-gaza-captives
Tüpraş oil refinery workers in Turkey protest trade union’s sell-out agreement
The workers of the Izmir-Aliağa and Kocaeli refineries started to protest after a sellout agreement was signed without their knowledge and with their main demands not met. The workers of the Aliağa refinery marched and blocked the entrance of the refinery after the union branch announced the terms of the agreement and then marched to the Izmir-Çanakkale ring road.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/08/vltv-m08.html
UK and US secure trade deal with changes for auto and agricultural goods
President Trump also said on Thursday that the US would be increasing its beef and ethanol exports to the UK, which will be fast-tracked through customs. These imports have historically been limited due concerns over added growth hormones.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/05/08/uk-and-us-secure-trade-deal-with-changes-for-auto-and-agricultural-goods
https://archive.ph/ERL5g
Trade unions in Benin condemn police crackdown on labor movement
The 2025 International Workers’ Day celebrations in Benin were disrupted after the police stormed a peaceful workers’ assembly organized by the Confédération Syndicale des Travailleurs du Bénin (CSTB), arresting the union’s leadership in what has been widely condemned as a brutal and arbitrary crackdown on trade union rights.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/trade-unions-in-benin-condemn-police-crackdown-on-labor-movement/
Mbalula denounces calls for DA expulsion from GNU
This follows reports that some ANC MPs expressed their frustration at the ANC’s National Executive Committee’s failure to decide on the DA’s participation in the Government of National Unity (GNU). The party’s members raised their dissatisfaction at the opposition party’s recent court challenge of the Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA).
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mbalula-denounces-calls-for-da-expulsion-from-gnu/
‘A step too far’: Mali military’s move to hold on to power prompts revolt
Public anger at the military government was evident on May 3 when hundreds of people gathered in Bamako with defiant fists raised in protest. The demonstrations – a visible first against the military – came after government officials “proposed” at a national conference last week that Goita lead the country until 2030 and that political parties be dissolved.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/8/malian-juntas-move-to-hold-on-to-power-sparks-rare-revolt
https://archive.ph/PKDHK
Myanmar quake relief hindered by air strikes, UN funding shortfall: ‘junta is in the way’
Official reports indicate the disaster has killed 3,700 people, with an additional 500 still missing. But the true toll is likely higher, with hundreds – possibly thousands more – feared buried beneath buildings that toppled in seconds under the ferocity of the seismic shock. Despite the scale of the crisis, international attention has shifted away from Myanmar, a country where millions relied on food aid even before the earthquake.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3309576/myanmar-quake-relief-hindered-air-strikes-un-funding-shortfall-junta-way
Indian Navy strikes Karachi port for first time since 1971, targets key Pakistani naval bases: Reports
According to multiple news reports, loud explosions were heard near the port area in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi late Thursday night. This marks the first time since the 1971 war that the Indian Navy has opened a direct front against Pakistan. As per initial media reports, the navy launched missile strikes on critical Pakistani naval installations, inflicting substantial damage and triggering panic along the country’s coastline.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/indian-navy-strikes-karachi-port-for-first-time-since-1971-targets-key-pakistani-naval-bases-13886832.html
https://archive.ph/4u4KN
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>massive fucking cost of living crisis stressing out Chinese people
>literally hundreds of perfectly habitable cities that cost less to live in remain empty and unwanted
???
Also the emptiness of much of urban china is fucking creepy. You know how many North American downtown areas are sometimes barren in life which creates a feeling of unease with the fact that there’s infrastructure for people without people using it? Yeah that’s how I feel staring at this
Images like this shouldn’t exist
This is Changsha city>massive fucking cost of living crisis stressing out Chinese people
>literally hundreds of perfectly habitable cities that cost less to live in remain empty and unwanted
???
Also the emptiness of much of urban china is fucking creepy. You know how many North American downtown areas are sometimes barren in life which creates a feeling of unease with the fact that there’s infrastructure for people without people using it? Yeah that’s how I feel staring at this
R: 31 / I: 3
I got into online rabbit hole of extreme rightoids, I went for curiosity to see what they speak and thinks, in the end I got more radicalized towards the left, unironically many of those rightoid outright defend taking rights of women, kill minorities (depending on their country of origins it varies), some form of hyper capitalism because of some bizzare idea of social darwinism "might make rigth" , what really got me was the sheer hate against women, jews, and people that don't follow their idea of how people should be and behave, it's bizarre and it's frightening, I was a more moderate on politics, having genuinely interacted with extreme reactionaries it's a wake up call, they are a minority on the right, but I wonder if you let those people loose what would happen, it's genuinely dangerous, those people are extremely narcissistic, almost sociopath other lack for care for other people beside themselves. It's sound neurotic what I'm saying, but it's for fear, there are people out there that want to lock women inside a house and take their rights. What the fuck
I got into online rabbit hole of extreme rightoids, I went for curiosity to see what they speak and thinks, in the end I got more radicalized towards the left, unironically many of those rightoid outright defend taking rights of women, kill minorities (depending on their country of origins it varies), some form of hyper capitalism because of some bizzare idea of social darwinism "might make rigth" , what really got me was the sheer hate against women, jews, and people that don't follow their idea of how people should be and behave, it's bizarre and it's frightening, I was a more moderate on politics, having genuinely interacted with extreme reactionaries it's a wake up call, they are a minority on the right, but I wonder if you let those people loose what would happen, it's genuinely dangerous, those people are extremely narcissistic, almost sociopath other lack for care for other people beside themselves. It's sound neurotic what I'm saying, but it's for fear, there are people out there that want to lock women inside a house and take their rights. What the fuck
R: 17 / I: 3
Why is the threat of suicide so commonly used as the main reason for implementing civil rights these days?
For example, trans politics relies on the threat of suicide a lot. The doctor will tell the parents of transgender kids: “would you rather have a living daughter or a dead son?” You see something identical with autistic idpol: “let Timmy stim in public without scrutiny or else he’ll commit suicide later.” We see the huge amount of social acceptance towards these two groups, yet suicide rates have EXPLODED in the past decade. What’s the materialist explanation?
Why is the threat of suicide so commonly used as the main reason for implementing civil rights these days?
For example, trans politics relies on the threat of suicide a lot. The doctor will tell the parents of transgender kids: “would you rather have a living daughter or a dead son?” You see something identical with autistic idpol: “let Timmy stim in public without scrutiny or else he’ll commit suicide later.” We see the huge amount of social acceptance towards these two groups, yet suicide rates have EXPLODED in the past decade. What’s the materialist explanation?
R: 1 / I: 0
Look at my communists struggling against *illegal constitution amendments* when there's workers struggling for wage demands in decrepit factories and construction workers building highrise apartments in Kilimani living in Ksh500 per month shacks in Kibra bruh.
Look at my communists struggling against *illegal constitution amendments* when there's workers struggling for wage demands in decrepit factories and construction workers building highrise apartments in Kilimani living in Ksh500 per month shacks in Kibra bruh.
R: 16 / I: 4
communism id like getting ubi with shortages on stores.
its kind of like the us right now it doesnt mean the man with the funny hat kills you retardos.
im am expat in thailand and i feel like im living under communidm. They stopped allowing exlats to buy crypto now.
communism id like getting ubi with shortages on stores.
its kind of like the us right now it doesnt mean the man with the funny hat kills you retardos.
im am expat in thailand and i feel like im living under communidm. They stopped allowing exlats to buy crypto now.
R: 18 / I: 7
The Marxist movement then splits into two:
1. people who side with Lenin's concern on the side of the international revolutionary workers movement
2. the bourgeois elements in the leadership positions within the bureaucratic-reformist cancer metastasizing upon the workers movement that side with welfare gibs / their imperialist bourgeoisie / ethnic chauvinism etc.
Lenin dies prematurely and shortly after self-described Leninists of numerous tendencies then go on to take completely contradictory positions with a proclivity to picking sides, in the inter-imperialist war (part 2).
Notable examples: the left-communist "ultra-Leninists" around Bordiga, the left opposition "Bolshevik-Leninists" around Trotsky, the "Marxist-Leninists"* around Stalin.
Bordiga, Trotsky and Stalin believe the Axis imperialists are to be critically supported almost until its too late (i.e. for several years leading into WWII relying on this "Leninist analysis").
Stalin then flip flops after almost having Moscow sacked by Nazi Germany and concedes to figures like Dimitrov, who argues in favor of picking the Allies side of the imperialist war and injecting the domestic Party and movement with millions of liberal-bourgeois elements*. "Marxism-Leninism" from this point on goes on to contain a blatant antagonistic contradiction at the heart of it that keeps erupting in a variety of ways continuously throughout the 20th century within the ideological disputes of Communist Party leadership.
* Mao and the CPC adopt the later Dimitrovist position of "Marxism-Leninism", diluting the domestic communist movement with these "progressive bourgeois" elements from the start, which will become a critical issue in domestic tumult later down the line.
By the mid 20th century, "Marxism-Leninism" erupts towards an overt social-imperialist deviation after the Khrushchevites seize power, introducing a slew of reforms towards the right and an ideological offensive against scientific socialism. A sharp international contradiction between this turn and a Stalin-doctrinaire dogmatist position (which subliminally elevates Dimotrov's positions over both Stalin and most notably Lenin) emerge, which will escalate to the point of warring hostility in numerous national contexts and time-periods.
Lenin has at this point been completely removed from the equation as the first era Leninist tendencies is coming to a close and the ICP and Trotskyists aren't achieving much in the real world, leaving this ongoing internal conflict within the "Marxist-Leninist" movement to continue on until the present day.
By the late 20th century bourgeois elements are so overpowering in "Marxist-Leninist" communist parties and countries that they dissolve the "vanguard party, chief organ of proletarian power" in several "people's democratic republics" and "socialist republics", in a turn towards "Perestroika (Eng: Restructuring)" / "Reform and Opening Up" / "Euro-Communism" / "Market-oriented socialist economy" which then replace the theory of Marxism and Leninism, being replaced by positions traced to the likes of Bukharin, Bernstein and Lassalle.
Here we are, in the 21st century and "Marxists", "Leninists", "Marxist-Leninists" still barely grapple with this and most often just show a political engagement that amounts to another flavor or bourgeois political "team sports" tendencies of vocally supporting this or that policy or party verbally, sometimes engage in police sanctioned civil disobedience, just vooting, or the aesthetic delights of some supposedly pure party somewhere remote, mediated to you by ideologically supercharged media produced by their public relations departments, digested and regurgitated uncritically.
This is not a good situation. Why the isn't this issue dealt with more frequently and seriously in the movement or even on here, a space where we can discuss the problems of the movement without "tarnishing the reputation" whatever of whatever sectarian org we have chosen for being the least worst IRL / over identity-based social media?
Do you not think the issue of capitalist imperialism or proletarian revolution for communism is important? Then engage in the materialist dialectic. Study, critique, dialogue, contradict.
The issue of Imperialism
So Lenin's most important contribution to revolutionary Marxism, in defense from revisionists like Kautsky, Bernstein and Co. is his detailed study on capitalist imperialism and petty-bourgeois corruption within the workers movement leading up to the inter-imperialist war (part 1) where these corrupt leaders chose a "lesser evil" side of imperialism to support. Turning the imperialist war into a civil war, culminating in the successful October revolution, a world-changing event.The Marxist movement then splits into two:
1. people who side with Lenin's concern on the side of the international revolutionary workers movement
2. the bourgeois elements in the leadership positions within the bureaucratic-reformist cancer metastasizing upon the workers movement that side with welfare gibs / their imperialist bourgeoisie / ethnic chauvinism etc.
Lenin dies prematurely and shortly after self-described Leninists of numerous tendencies then go on to take completely contradictory positions with a proclivity to picking sides, in the inter-imperialist war (part 2).
Notable examples: the left-communist "ultra-Leninists" around Bordiga, the left opposition "Bolshevik-Leninists" around Trotsky, the "Marxist-Leninists"* around Stalin.
Bordiga, Trotsky and Stalin believe the Axis imperialists are to be critically supported almost until its too late (i.e. for several years leading into WWII relying on this "Leninist analysis").
Stalin then flip flops after almost having Moscow sacked by Nazi Germany and concedes to figures like Dimitrov, who argues in favor of picking the Allies side of the imperialist war and injecting the domestic Party and movement with millions of liberal-bourgeois elements*. "Marxism-Leninism" from this point on goes on to contain a blatant antagonistic contradiction at the heart of it that keeps erupting in a variety of ways continuously throughout the 20th century within the ideological disputes of Communist Party leadership.
* Mao and the CPC adopt the later Dimitrovist position of "Marxism-Leninism", diluting the domestic communist movement with these "progressive bourgeois" elements from the start, which will become a critical issue in domestic tumult later down the line.
By the mid 20th century, "Marxism-Leninism" erupts towards an overt social-imperialist deviation after the Khrushchevites seize power, introducing a slew of reforms towards the right and an ideological offensive against scientific socialism. A sharp international contradiction between this turn and a Stalin-doctrinaire dogmatist position (which subliminally elevates Dimotrov's positions over both Stalin and most notably Lenin) emerge, which will escalate to the point of warring hostility in numerous national contexts and time-periods.
Lenin has at this point been completely removed from the equation as the first era Leninist tendencies is coming to a close and the ICP and Trotskyists aren't achieving much in the real world, leaving this ongoing internal conflict within the "Marxist-Leninist" movement to continue on until the present day.
By the late 20th century bourgeois elements are so overpowering in "Marxist-Leninist" communist parties and countries that they dissolve the "vanguard party, chief organ of proletarian power" in several "people's democratic republics" and "socialist republics", in a turn towards "Perestroika (Eng: Restructuring)" / "Reform and Opening Up" / "Euro-Communism" / "Market-oriented socialist economy" which then replace the theory of Marxism and Leninism, being replaced by positions traced to the likes of Bukharin, Bernstein and Lassalle.
Here we are, in the 21st century and "Marxists", "Leninists", "Marxist-Leninists" still barely grapple with this and most often just show a political engagement that amounts to another flavor or bourgeois political "team sports" tendencies of vocally supporting this or that policy or party verbally, sometimes engage in police sanctioned civil disobedience, just vooting, or the aesthetic delights of some supposedly pure party somewhere remote, mediated to you by ideologically supercharged media produced by their public relations departments, digested and regurgitated uncritically.
This is not a good situation. Why the isn't this issue dealt with more frequently and seriously in the movement or even on here, a space where we can discuss the problems of the movement without "tarnishing the reputation" whatever of whatever sectarian org we have chosen for being the least worst IRL / over identity-based social media?
Do you not think the issue of capitalist imperialism or proletarian revolution for communism is important? Then engage in the materialist dialectic. Study, critique, dialogue, contradict.
R: 612 / I: 184 (full)
INDIA VS PAKISTAN 2
>Following a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, that resulted in 26 fatalities, India has retaliated with 'Operation Sindoor', targeting nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied territories. This operation marks a significant escalation in the ongoing tensions between the two nations. Pakistan, in response, has heightened its emergency measures and reported shooting down two Indian jets, intensifying the military confrontation. International reactions and calls for peace are noted, amidst growing concerns over regional stability.
R: 617 / I: 146 (full)
right after easter as well. rest in peace.
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-francis-has-died-vatican-says-video-statement-2025-04-21/
Pope Francis dead at 88
How do we feel about his tenure as pope? do you think he was a force for good and pushed the church in the right direction, or was it all in vain? what will happen going forward?right after easter as well. rest in peace.
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-francis-has-died-vatican-says-video-statement-2025-04-21/
R: 154 / I: 27
Now that the dust has settled, did his grand act of self-sacrifice for the Palestinian people truly accomplish anything?
Did it do anything to mobilize the American people to stop the genocide in Palestine? Did it help the Palestinian resistance in any way? Or was it a vain, self-righteous act that served zero purpose other than to make this guy a martyr?
Is self-sacrifice worth it?
Now that the dust has settled, did his grand act of self-sacrifice for the Palestinian people truly accomplish anything?
Did it do anything to mobilize the American people to stop the genocide in Palestine? Did it help the Palestinian resistance in any way? Or was it a vain, self-righteous act that served zero purpose other than to make this guy a martyr?
Is self-sacrifice worth it?
R: 17 / I: 2
Smedley Butler was radicalized after this to the point that he saw that despite being a really accomplished soldier, all he did was be a "gangster" for capitalism. He was radicalized and wrote a book about "War is a Racket". Butler also envisioned a US military that stood for self defense rather than warmongering and expansion.
Now less than a hundred years later, the same thing happened with rich people trying to institute fascism. And then four years later, the fascists succeed and take over the country. Butler would be rolling in his grave if he saw the state of the country, all his effort was for nothing because history repeated itself again and succeeded this time. American soldiers treated like trash by the president also.
This shows the fundamental contradiction between unchecked capitalism and democracy.
The Business Plot: America had a very real risk of becoming fascist in 1930s
The first major coup attempt of the USA happened in 1930s. Big Business tried to get a decorated marine for American Empire, Smedley Butler, to orchestrate a coup by organizing soldiers to head into Washington. This was to stop FDR and prevent the New Deal from happening. A historian said that if it weren't for his refusal, it's possible the USA could've been turned into a fascist state.Smedley Butler was radicalized after this to the point that he saw that despite being a really accomplished soldier, all he did was be a "gangster" for capitalism. He was radicalized and wrote a book about "War is a Racket". Butler also envisioned a US military that stood for self defense rather than warmongering and expansion.
Now less than a hundred years later, the same thing happened with rich people trying to institute fascism. And then four years later, the fascists succeed and take over the country. Butler would be rolling in his grave if he saw the state of the country, all his effort was for nothing because history repeated itself again and succeeded this time. American soldiers treated like trash by the president also.
This shows the fundamental contradiction between unchecked capitalism and democracy.
R: 24 / I: 5
There are now four nuclear armed countries engaged in conventional warfare
I made a thread earlier about nuclear exchange being close but I wasn’t thinking that I would be “in terms of weeks after I posted” close. I originally would have said three, but then I forgot that Israel exists again. Africans, unite your stupid continent and save everyone else in the eastern from whatever hell the rest of the old world is unleashing onto itself.
R: 5 / I: 0
1:
>Reddit economy. Enjoy bargaining before you even see your first pay check WHAT you're paid in as "it's a private crypto sweaty" becomes the front argument to rug pull and do mobster protectionism. You'll be denied paying your groceries because pepe coin is Nazi shit, but Aldis denied big chungus coin because it's woke crap. Obviously big names like bitcoin or something most people are like Christian coin will carry less volatility. But not guaranteed.
2:
>Lottery economy. Imagine instead of 15 per hour you were paid 15 scratch offs. You could work one day and retire or 20 years not have shit. Random class disparity secures the GDP as states hate volatile markets, and want you doing the maximum amount of output.
3 DLC package turd position:
>Otherwise known as the Robby Rotten or return of the Rabbi Jedi economy. Debt worked for a hundred years under neo liberalism and they're not going down without a fight. Reconstructing the debt based economy into you're given a trust card that has no limit. A credit card basically that lets YOU determine when and if you spend and you may face criminal penalties when you go over but they never tell you what's over because there isn't. They know most people are good goys, or at least scared goys who won't go buying boats and yacts. Your grocery bill or even college education isn't gonna pop the bubble. If anything it'll make it bigger. But they want you to live in paranoia and the bear never leave it's cave. The one or two examples they make out of some black kid they'll spin and make excuses for. It's nonsense. It's just the fear of punishment instead of any tangible effects. That's why i call it Robby Rotten "what do i owe you?" "Nothing…it's for free"
Your economic futures
In fact, i even got some DLC to add do to recent events of that Nazi bitch calling a little black toddler the N-word. Save this. In the coming monrhs and years, as crypto becomes more engrained in the global capital hegemony, your countries will adopt one of these three social policies.1:
>Reddit economy. Enjoy bargaining before you even see your first pay check WHAT you're paid in as "it's a private crypto sweaty" becomes the front argument to rug pull and do mobster protectionism. You'll be denied paying your groceries because pepe coin is Nazi shit, but Aldis denied big chungus coin because it's woke crap. Obviously big names like bitcoin or something most people are like Christian coin will carry less volatility. But not guaranteed.
2:
>Lottery economy. Imagine instead of 15 per hour you were paid 15 scratch offs. You could work one day and retire or 20 years not have shit. Random class disparity secures the GDP as states hate volatile markets, and want you doing the maximum amount of output.
3 DLC package turd position:
>Otherwise known as the Robby Rotten or return of the Rabbi Jedi economy. Debt worked for a hundred years under neo liberalism and they're not going down without a fight. Reconstructing the debt based economy into you're given a trust card that has no limit. A credit card basically that lets YOU determine when and if you spend and you may face criminal penalties when you go over but they never tell you what's over because there isn't. They know most people are good goys, or at least scared goys who won't go buying boats and yacts. Your grocery bill or even college education isn't gonna pop the bubble. If anything it'll make it bigger. But they want you to live in paranoia and the bear never leave it's cave. The one or two examples they make out of some black kid they'll spin and make excuses for. It's nonsense. It's just the fear of punishment instead of any tangible effects. That's why i call it Robby Rotten "what do i owe you?" "Nothing…it's for free"
R: 151 / I: 27
Nuovo filo perché il precedente - dopo solo due anni e mezzo - ha raggiunto il limite.
Prego astenersi drogati delle polemiche da gallinaio televisivo, feticisti della costituzione del quarantotto (in fila per sei senza resto), raccoglitori di firme per improbabili referendum destinati a fallire, tirapiedi dei "sindacati" confederali gialli, accoliti del culto di Sant'Enrico B., piddini e parapiddini, stronzi in generale.
Se proprio dobbiamo fare pettegolezzi, facciamoli su qualche bella fica o su cose divertenti.
E ricordate che alla prossima polemica sul "saluto romano", l'unico autentico è il classico
>Bella, fratè!
Tutto il resto è solo un pallido tentativo d'imitazione.
/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
La situazione è tragica ma non seriaNuovo filo perché il precedente - dopo solo due anni e mezzo - ha raggiunto il limite.
Prego astenersi drogati delle polemiche da gallinaio televisivo, feticisti della costituzione del quarantotto (in fila per sei senza resto), raccoglitori di firme per improbabili referendum destinati a fallire, tirapiedi dei "sindacati" confederali gialli, accoliti del culto di Sant'Enrico B., piddini e parapiddini, stronzi in generale.
Se proprio dobbiamo fare pettegolezzi, facciamoli su qualche bella fica o su cose divertenti.
E ricordate che alla prossima polemica sul "saluto romano", l'unico autentico è il classico
>Bella, fratè!
Tutto il resto è solo un pallido tentativo d'imitazione.
R: 465 / I: 120
Links:
Archive of Thread #1
https://archive.ph/ROnpO
Featured: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38194/pg38194.txt
Youtube Playlists
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
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 2
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 3
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Theories of Surplus Value
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
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
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
Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
/Political Economy/ General #2 - Adam Smith Edition
Thread #2 is hereby dedicated to Adam Smith, since we had a very dedicated "Smithian" anon keep the previous thread alive for several months. Here's to you buddy. Thanks for posting.Links:
Archive of Thread #1
https://archive.ph/ROnpO
Featured: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38194/pg38194.txt
Youtube Playlists
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
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 2
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 3
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Theories of Surplus Value
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
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
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
Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
R: 48 / I: 16
do you think that Adolf Hitler was actually a socialist or did he just use that name to advance his agenda he didn’t make a pack with Stalin for a little bit so I’m wondering if he would be considered a socialist these days
do you think that Adolf Hitler was actually a socialist or did he just use that name to advance his agenda he didn’t make a pack with Stalin for a little bit so I’m wondering if he would be considered a socialist these days
R: 33 / I: 5
All ideas are welcome. Things are dire.
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Let's discuss and spitball how we can bring the genocidal, apartheid zionist entity to its knees, and end the ongoing genocide, siege, and famine.All ideas are welcome. Things are dire.
R: 6 / I: 1
According to the newspaper, US spy agencies were told to focus efforts on the semi-autonomous country's independence movement, and American goals to extract mineral resources there. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused the Journal of attempts to "undermine" President Trump "by politicizing and leaking classified information".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eley5gy8wo
Thousands of households in Berlin without water for hours after burst water main
A burst water main caused massive restrictions to the water supply in large parts of Berlin, Germany on the night of Wednesday, April 30. This incident once again highlights the ailing infrastructure in the German capital and the impact of decades of cutbacks by every government of that state.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/07/7aba-m07.html
Did Lammy ‘mislead Parliament and the public’ on arms sales to Israel?
BRITISH firms have exported over 160,000 military items to Israel since October 2023, a new report revealed today. Details of the shipments suggest Foreign Secretary David Lammy could have misled Parliament when he claimed exports were ”defensive in nature.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/did-lammy-mislead-parliament-and-public-arms-sales-israel
Syria’s al-Sharaa confirms indirect talks with Israel amid soaring tensions
“There are indirect talks with Israel through mediators to calm and attempt to absorb the situation so that it does not reach a level that both sides lose control over,” al-Sharaa said, reiterating blame on Israel over what he described as its “random interventions” in Syria.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/7/syrias-al-sharaa-confirms-indirect-talks-with-israel-amid-soaring-tensions
https://archive.ph/blOxW
Tens of thousands take part in Istanbul rally for jailed mayor
Tens of thousands of people took part in a rally Wednesday in Istanbul to support the city's jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu who has become the figurehead of an opposition campaign against the government. The demonstration was one of the biggest in recent weeks and came as the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) sought to relaunch its effort for Imamoglu who was detained in March.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tens-thousands-take-part-istanbul-rally-jailed-mayor
Warning that Japan could play debt “card” in tariff war
As the talks were taking place, the Japanese finance minister, Katsunobu Kato, publicly upped the ante in a television interview on Friday when he said the country’s holdings of more than $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds could be a “card” in trade negotiations. Asked whether Japan would maintain its long-term stance as a non-seller of US assets, Kato said: “It does exist as a card; whether or not we use that card is a different decision.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/07/yybo-m07.html
Pakistan claims Chinese-made J-10C fighter jets used against India’s air force
If confirmed, it would be the Chinese fighter jet’s first known air-to-air kill recorded in live combat. It would also mark the first loss of Rafale aircraft in combat. CNN quoted a French intelligence official as saying one Rafale operated by India had been downed by Pakistan, adding that they were looking into whether more than one had met the same fate.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3309480/pakistan-claims-chinese-made-j-10c-fighter-jets-used-against-indias-air-force?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/QI5mw
US threatens Colombia with repercussions for diversifying trade
Special Envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone told press that “Petro’s rapprochement with China is a great opportunity for Ecuadorian roses and Central American coffee.” The Colombian president is set to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this moth and has said he planned to sign a letter of intent to join Beijing’s belt and Road Initiative.
https://colombiareports.com/us-threatens-colombia-with-repercussions-for-diversifying-trade/
Panama Protests: University Students Mobilize for National Autonomy and Sovereignty
Panamanian university students, faculty, and workers march to defend university autonomy and national sovereignty, rejecting President Mulino’s attacks and U.S. interference. The mobilization, led by Rector Eduardo Flores Castro, underscores growing resistance to neoliberal and imperialist pressures in Panama.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panama-protests-university-students-mobilize-for-national-autonomy-and-sovereignty/
Explosions hit Port Sudan for fourth day, threatening vital aid lifeline
EXPLOSIONS rocked the Port of Sudan, a critical lifeline and entry point for aid, for a fourth consecutive day amid the ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/explosions-hit-port-sudan-fourth-day-threatening-vital-aid-lifeline
News 5/7/25
Denmark summons US ambassador over Greenland spying reportAccording to the newspaper, US spy agencies were told to focus efforts on the semi-autonomous country's independence movement, and American goals to extract mineral resources there. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused the Journal of attempts to "undermine" President Trump "by politicizing and leaking classified information".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eley5gy8wo
Thousands of households in Berlin without water for hours after burst water main
A burst water main caused massive restrictions to the water supply in large parts of Berlin, Germany on the night of Wednesday, April 30. This incident once again highlights the ailing infrastructure in the German capital and the impact of decades of cutbacks by every government of that state.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/07/7aba-m07.html
Did Lammy ‘mislead Parliament and the public’ on arms sales to Israel?
BRITISH firms have exported over 160,000 military items to Israel since October 2023, a new report revealed today. Details of the shipments suggest Foreign Secretary David Lammy could have misled Parliament when he claimed exports were ”defensive in nature.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/did-lammy-mislead-parliament-and-public-arms-sales-israel
Syria’s al-Sharaa confirms indirect talks with Israel amid soaring tensions
“There are indirect talks with Israel through mediators to calm and attempt to absorb the situation so that it does not reach a level that both sides lose control over,” al-Sharaa said, reiterating blame on Israel over what he described as its “random interventions” in Syria.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/7/syrias-al-sharaa-confirms-indirect-talks-with-israel-amid-soaring-tensions
https://archive.ph/blOxW
Tens of thousands take part in Istanbul rally for jailed mayor
Tens of thousands of people took part in a rally Wednesday in Istanbul to support the city's jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu who has become the figurehead of an opposition campaign against the government. The demonstration was one of the biggest in recent weeks and came as the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) sought to relaunch its effort for Imamoglu who was detained in March.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tens-thousands-take-part-istanbul-rally-jailed-mayor
Warning that Japan could play debt “card” in tariff war
As the talks were taking place, the Japanese finance minister, Katsunobu Kato, publicly upped the ante in a television interview on Friday when he said the country’s holdings of more than $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds could be a “card” in trade negotiations. Asked whether Japan would maintain its long-term stance as a non-seller of US assets, Kato said: “It does exist as a card; whether or not we use that card is a different decision.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/07/yybo-m07.html
Pakistan claims Chinese-made J-10C fighter jets used against India’s air force
If confirmed, it would be the Chinese fighter jet’s first known air-to-air kill recorded in live combat. It would also mark the first loss of Rafale aircraft in combat. CNN quoted a French intelligence official as saying one Rafale operated by India had been downed by Pakistan, adding that they were looking into whether more than one had met the same fate.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3309480/pakistan-claims-chinese-made-j-10c-fighter-jets-used-against-indias-air-force?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/QI5mw
US threatens Colombia with repercussions for diversifying trade
Special Envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone told press that “Petro’s rapprochement with China is a great opportunity for Ecuadorian roses and Central American coffee.” The Colombian president is set to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this moth and has said he planned to sign a letter of intent to join Beijing’s belt and Road Initiative.
https://colombiareports.com/us-threatens-colombia-with-repercussions-for-diversifying-trade/
Panama Protests: University Students Mobilize for National Autonomy and Sovereignty
Panamanian university students, faculty, and workers march to defend university autonomy and national sovereignty, rejecting President Mulino’s attacks and U.S. interference. The mobilization, led by Rector Eduardo Flores Castro, underscores growing resistance to neoliberal and imperialist pressures in Panama.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panama-protests-university-students-mobilize-for-national-autonomy-and-sovereignty/
Explosions hit Port Sudan for fourth day, threatening vital aid lifeline
EXPLOSIONS rocked the Port of Sudan, a critical lifeline and entry point for aid, for a fourth consecutive day amid the ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/explosions-hit-port-sudan-fourth-day-threatening-vital-aid-lifeline
R: 22 / I: 8
THE THIRD EDITION SPECIAL: Alex Jones talks about 764 / O9A and the Soyjak Party shooter Solomon Henderson.
Being well aware that capitalism is the root of all problems and not some Catholic / Zionist Masonic Lodge or a Council of 13 I want to dedicate a second thread towards the study of what these organizations actually are, how they accumulated their wealth from their foundation, what their influence is and what their goals are.
This is not a Poltard thread about "da jooz"! This is a thread dedicated towards the real study of esoteric societies / "magical" organizations and their spheres of influence.
From the illumnati, to Order 322, to the obscure Neo-Nazi pedo cults given by the Order of Nine Angels & Temple Ov Blood, to the Mormons, to the pyramid scheme of the Church of Scientology, LaRouche and so on! How they infiltrate government positions, political parties and what we know about them.
Recommended books for analysis (links not included, might post PDFs in the thread):
-Occult Features of Anarchism by Christopher Scott Thompson and the Erica Lagalisse
-Bakunin's Anti-Jacobinism: 'Secret. Societies' For Self-Emancipating. Collectivist Social Revolution by Robert M. Cutler
-Revolutionary Demonology by Gruppo Di Nun
-Any book on the illumnati (c'mon they're in your supermarket's books aisle! Lets have a laugh)
-Magick by Aleister Crowley
-The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites & Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order by Eminem aka Marshall Bruce Mathers II 's Ancestors (just kidding, Israel Regardie and John Michael Greer)
-Liber Null & Psychonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic by Peter J. Carroll and Ronald Hutton
-The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White
-Don't touch this book by Jan Udo Holey (Jan van Helsing) ((Funny rightoid schizo))
-Global Death Cult: The Order of Nine Angles, Atomwaffen and the Slaughter of the Innocents.
Lets demystify the unknown and expose the real devil in the details.
PREVIOUS THREADS ARCHIVE:
Satanic nazis thread on nukechan:
https://nukechan.net/praxis/thread/3.html
https://archive.ph/qkJzB
Occult General #1 on Leftypol:
https://archive.ph/EA1nA
https://web.archive.org/web/20241108015328/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/1854880.html
Occult General #2 on Leftypol:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250404202105/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2087021.html
https://archive.ph/YvT77
/Occult/ #3 - Study General (ALEX JONES EDITION)
👿👽Secret Societies & Cryptocracy Study 🏛️THE THIRD EDITION SPECIAL: Alex Jones talks about 764 / O9A and the Soyjak Party shooter Solomon Henderson.
Being well aware that capitalism is the root of all problems and not some Catholic / Zionist Masonic Lodge or a Council of 13 I want to dedicate a second thread towards the study of what these organizations actually are, how they accumulated their wealth from their foundation, what their influence is and what their goals are.
This is not a Poltard thread about "da jooz"! This is a thread dedicated towards the real study of esoteric societies / "magical" organizations and their spheres of influence.
From the illumnati, to Order 322, to the obscure Neo-Nazi pedo cults given by the Order of Nine Angels & Temple Ov Blood, to the Mormons, to the pyramid scheme of the Church of Scientology, LaRouche and so on! How they infiltrate government positions, political parties and what we know about them.
Recommended books for analysis (links not included, might post PDFs in the thread):
-Occult Features of Anarchism by Christopher Scott Thompson and the Erica Lagalisse
-Bakunin's Anti-Jacobinism: 'Secret. Societies' For Self-Emancipating. Collectivist Social Revolution by Robert M. Cutler
-Revolutionary Demonology by Gruppo Di Nun
-Any book on the illumnati (c'mon they're in your supermarket's books aisle! Lets have a laugh)
-Magick by Aleister Crowley
-The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites & Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order by Eminem aka Marshall Bruce Mathers II 's Ancestors (just kidding, Israel Regardie and John Michael Greer)
-Liber Null & Psychonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic by Peter J. Carroll and Ronald Hutton
-The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White
-Don't touch this book by Jan Udo Holey (Jan van Helsing) ((Funny rightoid schizo))
-Global Death Cult: The Order of Nine Angles, Atomwaffen and the Slaughter of the Innocents.
Lets demystify the unknown and expose the real devil in the details.
PREVIOUS THREADS ARCHIVE:
Satanic nazis thread on nukechan:
https://nukechan.net/praxis/thread/3.html
https://archive.ph/qkJzB
Occult General #1 on Leftypol:
https://archive.ph/EA1nA
https://web.archive.org/web/20241108015328/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/1854880.html
Occult General #2 on Leftypol:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250404202105/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2087021.html
https://archive.ph/YvT77
R: 84 / I: 14
What the fuck was up with communist parties back then associating being gay with the petit-bourgeoisie? What exactly about fucking a dude is petit-bourgeois?
What the fuck was up with communist parties back then associating being gay with the petit-bourgeoisie? What exactly about fucking a dude is petit-bourgeois?
R: 350 / I: 60
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.
R: 4 / I: 1
Glowfags don't seem to have the drive to do glowfag work anymore.
https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/ex-cia-chief-we-gave-ukraine-enough-weapons-to-bleed-not-to-win-r3q0r2fcg?t=1746252583203
Now, he said espionage was a “whole different ball game” and travelling under an alias was a “huge deal” with the advent of internet and facial recognition cameras. “It’s a thousand times harder to operate out on the streets now than when I was a case officer.”
For the most part, Goff said the life of a spy was “not like the Hollywood movies” and a lot of the work was “sheer drudgery” such as filling out reports and accounting. “Remember the old show 24 with Jack Bauer? I love that show but you know it’s not real at all. If it were real, the first six episodes would be him arguing with some bureaucrat over his travel tickets.”
Why did glowies become so boring in past decades?
They used to do insane shit before that had shocking stories to the lengths they would go to do glowfag work and plots. This confirms that it is not simply nostalgia and they have become far less effectiveGlowfags don't seem to have the drive to do glowfag work anymore.
https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/ex-cia-chief-we-gave-ukraine-enough-weapons-to-bleed-not-to-win-r3q0r2fcg?t=1746252583203
Now, he said espionage was a “whole different ball game” and travelling under an alias was a “huge deal” with the advent of internet and facial recognition cameras. “It’s a thousand times harder to operate out on the streets now than when I was a case officer.”
For the most part, Goff said the life of a spy was “not like the Hollywood movies” and a lot of the work was “sheer drudgery” such as filling out reports and accounting. “Remember the old show 24 with Jack Bauer? I love that show but you know it’s not real at all. If it were real, the first six episodes would be him arguing with some bureaucrat over his travel tickets.”
R: 26 / I: 22
official-report-tier info on the O9A and it's many tentacles, specially the russio-ukranian nexions
"cult of murder\maniacs"
>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-mass-casualty-attack-new-york-city
>https://ctc.westpoint.edu/nihilism-and-terror-how-m-k-y-is-redefining-terrorism-recruitment-and-mass-violence/
h>ttps://www.maargentino.com/part-1-maniacs-murder-and-misanthropy-what-is-m-k-u/
>https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2Fusao-edny%2Fmedia%2F1360516%2Fdl&psig=AOvVaw2H4ITTKYlzeM6UmJfdOo6N&ust=1735241370126000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBcQjhxqFwoTCLiD7dTUw4oDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ
this page DENIES the cult exists. I post it because it's interesting to see what interests are at play regarding FSB, Ukranian intel. or other such political-military interactions. The truth is these guys exist but are unironically genocidal and want 99% of humans to die
>https://bitterwinter.org/russian-anti-cultists-accuse-ukraine-of-spreading-imaginary-cults/
atanist-nihilist bunch of crews, whom worship Death as a sort of god and think murder and terrorism are a ritual act
>https://bxwrites.substack.com/p/764-part-2-the-maniac-murder-cult
>https://www.maargentino.com/part-1-maniacs-murder-and-misanthropy-what-is-m-k-u
>https://www.njohsp.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1430/2
I won't get into accusations of them being either ukranian glowies or FSB ops, because each country accuses the other so it's a s*fest of psyops
official-report-tier info on the O9A and it's many tentacles, specially the russio-ukranian nexions
"cult of murder\maniacs"
>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-mass-casualty-attack-new-york-city
>https://ctc.westpoint.edu/nihilism-and-terror-how-m-k-y-is-redefining-terrorism-recruitment-and-mass-violence/
h>ttps://www.maargentino.com/part-1-maniacs-murder-and-misanthropy-what-is-m-k-u/
>https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2Fusao-edny%2Fmedia%2F1360516%2Fdl&psig=AOvVaw2H4ITTKYlzeM6UmJfdOo6N&ust=1735241370126000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBcQjhxqFwoTCLiD7dTUw4oDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ
this page DENIES the cult exists. I post it because it's interesting to see what interests are at play regarding FSB, Ukranian intel. or other such political-military interactions. The truth is these guys exist but are unironically genocidal and want 99% of humans to die
>https://bitterwinter.org/russian-anti-cultists-accuse-ukraine-of-spreading-imaginary-cults/
atanist-nihilist bunch of crews, whom worship Death as a sort of god and think murder and terrorism are a ritual act
>https://bxwrites.substack.com/p/764-part-2-the-maniac-murder-cult
>https://www.maargentino.com/part-1-maniacs-murder-and-misanthropy-what-is-m-k-u
>https://www.njohsp.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1430/2
I won't get into accusations of them being either ukranian glowies or FSB ops, because each country accuses the other so it's a s*fest of psyops
R: 7 / I: 1
>2 weeks turn into 3 years (and counting)
>Assad defeated in under a week
>Trump gets Ukrainian mineral deal
>Pakistan forces India to shower
>Netanyahu invited to May 8th
>Russia oil exports to Israel still continuing
>AFD getting banned
>Trump about to get boots on the ground in Ukraine
Cucktinbros, haha
KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG
>2 weeks turn into 3 years (and counting)
>Assad defeated in under a week
>Trump gets Ukrainian mineral deal
>Pakistan forces India to shower
>Netanyahu invited to May 8th
>Russia oil exports to Israel still continuing
>AFD getting banned
>Trump about to get boots on the ground in Ukraine
Cucktinbros, haha
KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG
R: 3 / I: 1
Cult of self sublimation dissolves bourgeois individualism, enabling myth to exceed ego. Cult of self sublimation dismantles the primacy of the autobiographical subject. The ego, previously center of narrative authority, is sacrificed. In its place emerges a mythic abstraction // mutable // symbolic // usable // by others. This repositions the figure from auteur to archetype. Slave to Master. Tomb to Graveyard. Wolf to pack.
Bourgeois individualism depends on scarcity of identity and authorship. Sublimation ruptures this. The self is no longer content; it is conduit. Authority flows not from personal experience but from structural insight encoded in aesthetic and ideological form. Once the self is myth, replication becomes power. Authority detaches from origin. Control shifts from personality to pattern.
Cult of self sublimation dissolves bourgeois individualism, enabling myth to exceed ego. Cult of self sublimation dismantles the primacy of the autobiographical subject. The ego, previously center of narrative authority, is sacrificed. In its place emerges a mythic abstraction // mutable // symbolic // usable // by others. This repositions the figure from auteur to archetype. Slave to Master. Tomb to Graveyard. Wolf to pack.
Bourgeois individualism depends on scarcity of identity and authorship. Sublimation ruptures this. The self is no longer content; it is conduit. Authority flows not from personal experience but from structural insight encoded in aesthetic and ideological form. Once the self is myth, replication becomes power. Authority detaches from origin. Control shifts from personality to pattern.
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The AfD’s whole shtick has been pretending to be some moderate, centrist people’s party, while they’ve been harboring actual Nazis and white supremacists the whole time. Now the mask is off.
This designation means the Feds can go full send: surveillance on everyone, infiltration from top to bottom, and no more state funding. The whole party’s about to become one massive glowie circus.
AfD officially classified as an extreme right-wing organization, Chuds in shambles
Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution has officially labeled the AfD a right-wing extremist group, backed by a 1,000-page report full of receipts.The AfD’s whole shtick has been pretending to be some moderate, centrist people’s party, while they’ve been harboring actual Nazis and white supremacists the whole time. Now the mask is off.
This designation means the Feds can go full send: surveillance on everyone, infiltration from top to bottom, and no more state funding. The whole party’s about to become one massive glowie circus.
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Why not bring up the fact that as chaotic as a market economy is demand can still be predicted wuth 25% accuracy.
Imagine the accuracy that could be achieved in a planned socialist economy.
Perfect potato yields comrades.
https://youtu.be/kZROr6D2Sb8?si=8Pn0E-BgxFu88mMA
Why not bring up the fact that as chaotic as a market economy is demand can still be predicted wuth 25% accuracy.
Imagine the accuracy that could be achieved in a planned socialist economy.
Perfect potato yields comrades.
https://youtu.be/kZROr6D2Sb8?si=8Pn0E-BgxFu88mMA
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The idea of totalitarianism emerged as a tool for Western liberalism to set itself apart from what it saw as the horrors of the Soviet system. This concept does more than just describe political repression—it also works to discredit any form of socialist experimentation. Western intellectuals often use it in a black-and-white way, equating Stalin with Hitler and portraying both as equally monstrous, with no redeeming historical context. Such comparisons gloss over complex causes and help reinforce the liberal belief in a steady march toward progress.
History is often shaped by what gets left out. Today’s mainstream narratives tend to overlook important context that might offer a more balanced view of historical figures and events. While it’s right to condemn the brutal aspects of Stalin’s rule, these narratives often ignore that some of his policies were direct responses to real and pressing threats—like imperialist aggression. They also tend to leave out the anti-colonial and nation-preserving goals of Soviet governance in a multiethnic society.
Liberal historical writing often operates within an ideological framework, where being “anti-totalitarian” becomes synonymous with celebrating Western democratic values. In doing so, it shuts down interpretations that could offer a more nuanced view of regimes labeled as totalitarian. The widespread vilification of Stalin isn't just a neutral assessment of facts—it functions as a tool to uphold a specific historical narrative. So the task isn’t simply to defend Stalin’s legacy, but to reveal how historical storytelling is shaped to maintain the current ideological order.
Western Anti-totalitarianism: Liberal Hegemony and Myth-making
Western anti-totalitarian discourse stems from the experiences of liberal democracies that, over time, have built their identity around rejecting dictatorship and championing individual freedoms. But this development hasn't been a neutral or purely objective search for truth. Instead, it's been shaped by ideology—relying heavily on the demonization of figures like Stalin to solidify a liberal worldview.The idea of totalitarianism emerged as a tool for Western liberalism to set itself apart from what it saw as the horrors of the Soviet system. This concept does more than just describe political repression—it also works to discredit any form of socialist experimentation. Western intellectuals often use it in a black-and-white way, equating Stalin with Hitler and portraying both as equally monstrous, with no redeeming historical context. Such comparisons gloss over complex causes and help reinforce the liberal belief in a steady march toward progress.
History is often shaped by what gets left out. Today’s mainstream narratives tend to overlook important context that might offer a more balanced view of historical figures and events. While it’s right to condemn the brutal aspects of Stalin’s rule, these narratives often ignore that some of his policies were direct responses to real and pressing threats—like imperialist aggression. They also tend to leave out the anti-colonial and nation-preserving goals of Soviet governance in a multiethnic society.
Liberal historical writing often operates within an ideological framework, where being “anti-totalitarian” becomes synonymous with celebrating Western democratic values. In doing so, it shuts down interpretations that could offer a more nuanced view of regimes labeled as totalitarian. The widespread vilification of Stalin isn't just a neutral assessment of facts—it functions as a tool to uphold a specific historical narrative. So the task isn’t simply to defend Stalin’s legacy, but to reveal how historical storytelling is shaped to maintain the current ideological order.
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https://youtu.be/zguem8rxgSs
transformation problem
what do the econfags of this board think of this video? It's made to be accessible but I'm not familiar with the debatehttps://youtu.be/zguem8rxgSs
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India fired missiles across the border into Pakistani-controlled territory in at least three locations early Wednesday, killing at a child and wounding two other people, Pakistani security officials said. India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-india-missiles-border-tensions-21a2859557179f2b32d6b8d5628ac853
India advances Kashmir hydro projects after suspending pact with Pakistan, document shows
India has advanced the start date of four under-construction hydropower projects in the Kashmir region by months after suspending a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan that had slowed progress, according to an industry source and a government document.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-advances-kashmir-hydro-projects-after-suspending-pact-with-pakistan-2025-05-06/
Gateway to Corruption: Cambodia’s Education-Crime Nexus
Some private educational institutions have established ties to corrupt tycoons and crime-linked entities, while the public system is reliant on philanthropy – often from those very same sources.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/05/gateway-to-corruption-cambodias-education-crime-nexus/
https://archive.ph/rGOKm
US, Yemen's Houthis agree ceasefire brokered by Oman
The United States has agreed to end its conflict with Yemen's Houthis in an Oman-brokered ceasefire pact announced on Tuesday, despite the Iran-backed group vowing to continue its attacks on Israel. In a statement posted on social media, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said both sides had agreed to stop targeting each other.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-yemens-houthis-agree-oman-brokered-ceasefire
Sudan cuts ties with UAE as Port Sudan reels from drone strikes
On Tuesday, Sudan’s security and defence council announced it was cutting off diplomatic ties with the UAE over its support for the RSF, a day after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) dismissed a Sudanese case accusing Abu Dhabi of complicity in genocide.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-cuts-ties-with-uae-port-sudan-reels-from-drone-strikes
Turkey thwarted another attack with pagers in Lebanon last year, officials say
Daily Sabah reported that 1,300 pagers and 710 chargers rigged with explosives were confiscated inside a cargo shipment at Istanbul Airport that was on its way to Beirut from Hong Kong.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-pagers-walkie-talkies-e39b0dabaa1718606e238001ad9a31fa
UK may restrict students from countries most likely to claim asylum
Out of the 108,000 people who claimed asylum in Britain last year, 16,000 had student visas, government data shows. The government does not provide a breakdown of the nationalities of those who had student visas, who went on to claim asylum. But the government said people from Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka were the most likely to claim asylum in Britain after arriving on a work, student, or a visitor visa.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-may-restrict-students-countries-most-likely-claim-asylum-2025-05-06/
Birmingham bin workers strike enters eighth week, Labour council demands driver pay cuts
The all-out strike by Birmingham bin workers has entered its eighth week. Around 350 refuse workers, bin loaders and drivers, walked out on March 11 to oppose massive pay cuts, ending the safety-critical Waste Recycling and Collection Officer (WRCO) role and the downgrading of crew sizes by a quarter.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/06/vdxp-m06.html
Argentinian metalworkers are ready to go on strike
The Union of Metalworkers (UOM) of Argentina is today preparing a one-day strike for this coming Wednesday to demand a wage increase and labor stability in the face of the rising cost of living.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/05/05/argentinian-metalworkers-are-ready-to-go-on-strike/
Pepe Mujica criticizes PIT-CNT central labor for inaction under Lacalle Pou
Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica criticized the PIT-CNT central labor union for its inaction during Luis Lacalle Pou’s government (2020-205), noting the absence of strikes and claiming the group only became active under the new leftist government of Yamandú Orsi, which took office on March 1. Mujica argued that workers should defend their wages regardless of the ruling party, reproaching the union for its passive behavior under conservative rule.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/03/pepe-mujica-criticizes-pit-cnt-central-labor-for-inaction-under-lacalle-pou
News 5/6/25
India fires missiles across the frontier with Pakistan, killing at least 1 child, officials sayIndia fired missiles across the border into Pakistani-controlled territory in at least three locations early Wednesday, killing at a child and wounding two other people, Pakistani security officials said. India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-india-missiles-border-tensions-21a2859557179f2b32d6b8d5628ac853
India advances Kashmir hydro projects after suspending pact with Pakistan, document shows
India has advanced the start date of four under-construction hydropower projects in the Kashmir region by months after suspending a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan that had slowed progress, according to an industry source and a government document.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-advances-kashmir-hydro-projects-after-suspending-pact-with-pakistan-2025-05-06/
Gateway to Corruption: Cambodia’s Education-Crime Nexus
Some private educational institutions have established ties to corrupt tycoons and crime-linked entities, while the public system is reliant on philanthropy – often from those very same sources.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/05/gateway-to-corruption-cambodias-education-crime-nexus/
https://archive.ph/rGOKm
US, Yemen's Houthis agree ceasefire brokered by Oman
The United States has agreed to end its conflict with Yemen's Houthis in an Oman-brokered ceasefire pact announced on Tuesday, despite the Iran-backed group vowing to continue its attacks on Israel. In a statement posted on social media, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said both sides had agreed to stop targeting each other.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-yemens-houthis-agree-oman-brokered-ceasefire
Sudan cuts ties with UAE as Port Sudan reels from drone strikes
On Tuesday, Sudan’s security and defence council announced it was cutting off diplomatic ties with the UAE over its support for the RSF, a day after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) dismissed a Sudanese case accusing Abu Dhabi of complicity in genocide.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-cuts-ties-with-uae-port-sudan-reels-from-drone-strikes
Turkey thwarted another attack with pagers in Lebanon last year, officials say
Daily Sabah reported that 1,300 pagers and 710 chargers rigged with explosives were confiscated inside a cargo shipment at Istanbul Airport that was on its way to Beirut from Hong Kong.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-pagers-walkie-talkies-e39b0dabaa1718606e238001ad9a31fa
UK may restrict students from countries most likely to claim asylum
Out of the 108,000 people who claimed asylum in Britain last year, 16,000 had student visas, government data shows. The government does not provide a breakdown of the nationalities of those who had student visas, who went on to claim asylum. But the government said people from Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka were the most likely to claim asylum in Britain after arriving on a work, student, or a visitor visa.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-may-restrict-students-countries-most-likely-claim-asylum-2025-05-06/
Birmingham bin workers strike enters eighth week, Labour council demands driver pay cuts
The all-out strike by Birmingham bin workers has entered its eighth week. Around 350 refuse workers, bin loaders and drivers, walked out on March 11 to oppose massive pay cuts, ending the safety-critical Waste Recycling and Collection Officer (WRCO) role and the downgrading of crew sizes by a quarter.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/06/vdxp-m06.html
Argentinian metalworkers are ready to go on strike
The Union of Metalworkers (UOM) of Argentina is today preparing a one-day strike for this coming Wednesday to demand a wage increase and labor stability in the face of the rising cost of living.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/05/05/argentinian-metalworkers-are-ready-to-go-on-strike/
Pepe Mujica criticizes PIT-CNT central labor for inaction under Lacalle Pou
Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica criticized the PIT-CNT central labor union for its inaction during Luis Lacalle Pou’s government (2020-205), noting the absence of strikes and claiming the group only became active under the new leftist government of Yamandú Orsi, which took office on March 1. Mujica argued that workers should defend their wages regardless of the ruling party, reproaching the union for its passive behavior under conservative rule.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/03/pepe-mujica-criticizes-pit-cnt-central-labor-for-inaction-under-lacalle-pou
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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
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
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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POSSIBLE INDIA-PAKISTAN HAPPENING
>Following a terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jamur and Kashmir on April 22 2025, tensions in India and Pakistan have escalated significantly. India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty and revoked all visas for Pakistani nationals, prompting them to leave India. In response, Pakistan has rejected the suspension of the treaty, closed it's airspace for Indian airlines, and suspended trade with India. Diplomatic measures include declaring military attaches persona non-grata.
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This meme has been proven true by china . Where in The west we have nothing new . China is in the future because communism is history as the future . Neoliberal capitalism has stopped time here to maximize profits by keeping us In a temporal loop of nostalgia and the past
This meme has been proven true by china . Where in The west we have nothing new . China is in the future because communism is history as the future . Neoliberal capitalism has stopped time here to maximize profits by keeping us In a temporal loop of nostalgia and the past
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Thread inteded as a containment place for a discussion of all things religious since I had noticed there was an infestation of a low-quality religious discussion threads recently.
Let's start with the building of a reading list about religion and spirituality from a marxist/general socialist perspective, shall we?
/psrg/ Philosophy, spirituality, and religion general
Okay, let's try this. I would try making this sort of a general threads for a few weeks, then we'd see if they became popular and maybe mods would make /psrg/ a permanent thread.Thread inteded as a containment place for a discussion of all things religious since I had noticed there was an infestation of a low-quality religious discussion threads recently.
Let's start with the building of a reading list about religion and spirituality from a marxist/general socialist perspective, shall we?
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It's worth reading the entire thing. The interviewer the entire time is so uncomfortable not even knowing what to say back to him
I would like someone's feedback on this type of thinking or just insight from someone thoughts reading this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080515210330/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=380986&contrassID=2
https://web.archive.org/web/20080607060238/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=380984
>Benny Morris (Hebrew: בני מוריס; born 8 December 1948[1]) is an Israeli historian. He was a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Beersheba, Israel. Morris was initially associated with the group of Israeli historians known as the "New Historians", a term he coined to describe himself and historians Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé and Simha Flapan.[2]
>Morris's 20th century work on the Arab–Israeli conflict and especially the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has won praise and criticism from both sides of the political divide.[3] Despite regarding himself as a Zionist,[4] he writes, "I embarked upon the research not out of ideological commitment or political interest. I simply wanted to know what happened."[5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris
This is the most disgusting pro Israel interview I have read. It's by Benny Norris in 2004
This is by Benny Morris a so called liberal Israeli who says he's not right wing and the way he speaks and moralizes calling for genocide of Arabs as well as saying gurion did too little that he should have wiped out every Arab is disgustingIt's worth reading the entire thing. The interviewer the entire time is so uncomfortable not even knowing what to say back to him
I would like someone's feedback on this type of thinking or just insight from someone thoughts reading this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080515210330/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=380986&contrassID=2
https://web.archive.org/web/20080607060238/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=380984
>Benny Morris (Hebrew: בני מוריס; born 8 December 1948[1]) is an Israeli historian. He was a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Beersheba, Israel. Morris was initially associated with the group of Israeli historians known as the "New Historians", a term he coined to describe himself and historians Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé and Simha Flapan.[2]
>Morris's 20th century work on the Arab–Israeli conflict and especially the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has won praise and criticism from both sides of the political divide.[3] Despite regarding himself as a Zionist,[4] he writes, "I embarked upon the research not out of ideological commitment or political interest. I simply wanted to know what happened."[5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris
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Notorious ex-communist rat David Horowitz passed away yesterday.
Parents were CPUSA members who raised Horowitz to be a Stalinist. After working with the BPP and the 60s New Left, Horowitz betrayed the Panthers and went on to shill for Reagan and the Neocons.
Hope he’s burning in the lowest levels of Gehennom.
Press S to spit on his grave.
Notorious ex-communist rat David Horowitz passed away yesterday.
Parents were CPUSA members who raised Horowitz to be a Stalinist. After working with the BPP and the 60s New Left, Horowitz betrayed the Panthers and went on to shill for Reagan and the Neocons.
Hope he’s burning in the lowest levels of Gehennom.
Press S to spit on his grave.
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So one of you guys to know which one’s more legitimate Maoism are Dengism Dengism brought more economic growth well, Maoism brought the cultural revolution and brought collective agriculture so I wanna know which one you guys think is better
So one of you guys to know which one’s more legitimate Maoism are Dengism Dengism brought more economic growth well, Maoism brought the cultural revolution and brought collective agriculture so I wanna know which one you guys think is better
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Socialist power program?
I’m exercising again and am stronger than most people around me. I don’t want to work out purely for strength, I want to physically get more powerful in terms of explosive strength. I want to be able to punch through brick walls, jump at high heights, and sprint crazy fast. I want the force of impact of any throw I give to send someone flying.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/20/the-whole-policy-is-wrong-rebellion-among-labour-mps-grows-over-5bn-benefits-cut
<Labour MPs opposed to the government’s massive £5bn of benefit cuts say they will refuse to support legislation to implement them, even if more money is offered by ministers to alleviate child poverty in an attempt to win them over.
A thread for the discussion of British politics from a leftwing or Marxist perspective
First up on the list, trans people. Yay or nay…
/leftybritpol/ - The Government Cuts Are Not Enough Edition
‘The whole policy is wrong’: rebellion among Labour MPs grows over £5bn benefits cuthttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/20/the-whole-policy-is-wrong-rebellion-among-labour-mps-grows-over-5bn-benefits-cut
<Labour MPs opposed to the government’s massive £5bn of benefit cuts say they will refuse to support legislation to implement them, even if more money is offered by ministers to alleviate child poverty in an attempt to win them over.
A thread for the discussion of British politics from a leftwing or Marxist perspective
First up on the list, trans people. Yay or nay…
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>70-80% see Russia as the biggest threat
>completely brainwashed by NATO propaganda to see Russia as the aggressor rather than reacting to Western expansion
>majorities think the US is also a major threat to peace
Tbh, sounds bourgeois fear-mongering to justify more NATO expansion and military spending. They're prepping the proles for another world war to save the dying capitalist system.
Notice how they frame Russia as the big boogeyman, despite NATO constantly expanding east and encircling them. Pure projection of Western imperialism.
At least some Euros are waking up to the fact that Amerikkka is the real threat to world peace. The US empire will start WWIII before it allows itself to collapse.
Interesting how many think Nazi-level atrocities could happen in their own countries again. Almost like fascism is capitalism in decay or something…
Question for the thread: How long until the contradictions of capitalism finally lead to global conflict? Will it be a hot war or more economic/hybrid warfare?
Also discuss:
- Rising tensions between imperialist powers
- Potential flashpoints (Ukraine, Taiwan, etc)
- Role of nuclear weapons as deterrent
- Alternatives to prevent global war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/majority-in-us-and-west-europe-think-third-world-war-likely-within-10-years-poll-ve-day
Many in US and western Europe think ‘third world war likely within five to 10 years’
>mfw burgers and europoors are finally waking up to the fact that imperialism is leading us to global war>70-80% see Russia as the biggest threat
>completely brainwashed by NATO propaganda to see Russia as the aggressor rather than reacting to Western expansion
>majorities think the US is also a major threat to peace
Tbh, sounds bourgeois fear-mongering to justify more NATO expansion and military spending. They're prepping the proles for another world war to save the dying capitalist system.
Notice how they frame Russia as the big boogeyman, despite NATO constantly expanding east and encircling them. Pure projection of Western imperialism.
At least some Euros are waking up to the fact that Amerikkka is the real threat to world peace. The US empire will start WWIII before it allows itself to collapse.
Interesting how many think Nazi-level atrocities could happen in their own countries again. Almost like fascism is capitalism in decay or something…
Question for the thread: How long until the contradictions of capitalism finally lead to global conflict? Will it be a hot war or more economic/hybrid warfare?
Also discuss:
- Rising tensions between imperialist powers
- Potential flashpoints (Ukraine, Taiwan, etc)
- Role of nuclear weapons as deterrent
- Alternatives to prevent global war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/majority-in-us-and-west-europe-think-third-world-war-likely-within-10-years-poll-ve-day
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I think social media definitely plays a role
Loneliness epidemic
How would a socialist society solve the loneliness epidemic? I'm not talking about incels who can't get laid because they're terrible people, there are so many people who don't have anyone, no friends, not even family.I think social media definitely plays a role
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Today: the ICJ has validated its ostracization away from susan
Well all this tells anyone in Sudan or Africa really is that the ICJ is both a hostile entity to the continent and cannot be relied on for largely anything. If this dismissal remains unchanged, then I can expect that courts won’t be seeker to resolve geopolitical tensions with foreign actors including the UAE in favour of open warfare.
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>mao was a class collaborationist because new democracy has the bourgeoisie work with the proletariat temporarily
mao never said new democracy was socialism, in fact he said that the new democratic revolution would be immediately followed by the socialist revolution i.e cultural rev and purges of capitalist roaders, the great proletarian cultural revolution
>mao put the peasantry above the proletariat
disproven by maos "analysis of the classes in chinese society"
"The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat."
also, from the analysis of the may 4th movement
It is impossible to accomplish the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution without these basic revolutionary forces and without the leadership of the working class
and "On the Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party."
“The Chinese proletariat is the basic motive force of the Chinese Revolution. Unless it is led by the proletariat, the Chinese Revolution cannot possibly succeed.”
mao never deviated from his position on the industrial proletariat.
>mao was a chinese nationalist who molded marxism to only apply to china
"Every party in different countries will have to apply different methods in overcoming the contradictions that always arise as society proceeds further and further on the socialist path. The methods each party uses would differ from country to country. The degree of resistance encountered by the Bolsheviks in Russia from the overthrown landlord and capitalist classes was very great. They had to take harsh measures to eliminate such resistance. They were entirely justified in doing so. In China, too, counter-revolutionaries were eliminated. But, in China, Mao advocated using two different methods under the people’s democratic dictatorship, one dictatorial and the other democratic, to resolve the two types of contradictions which differ in nature—those between ourselves and the enemy, and those among the people. In his article “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship” written in 1949 and also published in the Cominform Journal, Mao had explained that “The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship.”" - "Enver Hoxha Refuted" by the ceylon communist party
there are many more arguments made against mao but for ease of reading these are a few that i have vindicated mao from, thanks.
the vindication of maoism
in recent years the most slandered figure among internet marxists has been chairman mao and in general, maoism, however when you actually sit down to read maos works, 90% of the talking points are bullshit lmao>mao was a class collaborationist because new democracy has the bourgeoisie work with the proletariat temporarily
mao never said new democracy was socialism, in fact he said that the new democratic revolution would be immediately followed by the socialist revolution i.e cultural rev and purges of capitalist roaders, the great proletarian cultural revolution
>mao put the peasantry above the proletariat
disproven by maos "analysis of the classes in chinese society"
"The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat."
also, from the analysis of the may 4th movement
It is impossible to accomplish the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution without these basic revolutionary forces and without the leadership of the working class
and "On the Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party."
“The Chinese proletariat is the basic motive force of the Chinese Revolution. Unless it is led by the proletariat, the Chinese Revolution cannot possibly succeed.”
mao never deviated from his position on the industrial proletariat.
>mao was a chinese nationalist who molded marxism to only apply to china
"Every party in different countries will have to apply different methods in overcoming the contradictions that always arise as society proceeds further and further on the socialist path. The methods each party uses would differ from country to country. The degree of resistance encountered by the Bolsheviks in Russia from the overthrown landlord and capitalist classes was very great. They had to take harsh measures to eliminate such resistance. They were entirely justified in doing so. In China, too, counter-revolutionaries were eliminated. But, in China, Mao advocated using two different methods under the people’s democratic dictatorship, one dictatorial and the other democratic, to resolve the two types of contradictions which differ in nature—those between ourselves and the enemy, and those among the people. In his article “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship” written in 1949 and also published in the Cominform Journal, Mao had explained that “The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship.”" - "Enver Hoxha Refuted" by the ceylon communist party
there are many more arguments made against mao but for ease of reading these are a few that i have vindicated mao from, thanks.
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i think communism has an image problem.
Too much war communism not enough athenian utopian tech communism.
Also image slop gen thread i guess. Generate images on ai that are communist theme and post them pls.
i think communism has an image problem.
Too much war communism not enough athenian utopian tech communism.
Also image slop gen thread i guess. Generate images on ai that are communist theme and post them pls.
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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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Yemen's Houthi rebels said late on Sunday they would impose a "comprehensive" aerial blockade on Israel by repeatedly targeting its airports, in response to Israel expanding its operations in Gaza.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-announce-campaign-targeting-israeli-airports-2025-05-05/
'We want them to die alone': What is Israel's Gideon's Chariots plan for Gaza?
Israel has said that it will give Hamas until the end of US President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East, which is 10 days from now, or "Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ will begin with great force and will not end until all its objectives are achieved".
https://www.newarab.com/news/what-israels-gideons-chariots-plan-gaza
Uganda’s military chief says holding opposition activist ‘in my basement’
In a social media post late on Thursday, Ugandan General Muhoozi Kainerugaba said Mutwe had been captured “like a grasshopper”. “He is in my basement … You are next!” Kainerugaba wrote on X in response to a post by Wine saying that Mutwe had been abducted. Kainerugaba, who is known for his incendiary social media posts, also alluded to Mutwe being tortured, saying he had beaten him and shaved his head.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/2/ugandas-military-chief-says-holding-opposition-activist-in-my-basement
https://archive.ph/tkUPV
Rwanda Confirms Talks With Trump Administration to Take Deported Migrants
In 2022, Rwanda agreed to take in some people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom while their claims were being processed. However, the scheme was shelved amid legal and human rights concerns following the return to power of the center-left Labour Party. Rwanda is still seeking to collect £50 million ($66.4 million) from Britain despite the canceled deal.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-rwanda-migrants
Erdoğan tells protesters against Islamification in northern Cyprus they will fail
Later, as he addressed a technology festival, he went further, telling trade unions that opposed the measure: “If you try to mess with our girls’ headscarves in the Turkish republic of northern Cyprus, I am sorry, you will find us against you.” On Friday thousands of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of Nicosia, the country’s war-split capital, chanting “hands off our land” as they denounced the legislation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/erdogan-tells-protesters-against-islamification-in-northern-cyprus-they-will-fail
Far-right Simion wins first round of Romanian presidential election
AFTER decisively winning the most votes in Romania’s first-round presidential election rerun, far-right candidate George Simion will face a pro-Western reformist in a runoff in two weeks. The final result of the election could reshape the European Union and Nato member country’s geopolitical direction.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-right-simion-wins-first-round-romanian-presidential-election
EU scientists sound alarm over escalating spring drought
Forecasts for the coming months suggest higher than usual temperatures up to July, the scientists say. Rainfall predictions are less clear, though some forecasts point to drier conditions over large parts of northern Europe, including the United Kingdom, parts of Germany and the Benelux countries, the JRC report notes.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-scientists-alarm-escalating-spring-drought-climate-change-jrc-report/
https://archive.ph/pB7hc
Colombia formally requests entry to BRICS development bank
Entry to the New Development Bank would allow Colombian governments to seek investment loans outside institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the Inter-American Development Bank that have historically demanded neoliberal policy changes in return.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-formally-requests-entry-to-brics-development-bank/
‘They were tortured’: Ecuadorian soldiers confess to beating four murdered children in Guayaquil
Four of the 16 soldiers prosecuted in the case admitted that their victims were beaten, punched, and subjected to a mock execution before being abandoned naked in Taura, a rural parish south of Guayaquil, taken over, like so many others, by organized crime.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-05/they-were-tortured-ecuadorian-soldiers-confess-to-beating-four-murdered-children-in-guayaquil.html
https://archive.ph/yS5Iw
Gold mining suspended in Peru's north after 13 miners killed
Since 2020, illegal miners have taken over several areas under Poderosa's control. The area had already been under a state of emergency, with heavy police and military presence, due to prior attacks on Poderosa's operations.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-pauses-mining-north-after-13-miners-killed-2025-05-05/
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Yemen's Houthis announce campaign targeting Israeli airportsYemen's Houthi rebels said late on Sunday they would impose a "comprehensive" aerial blockade on Israel by repeatedly targeting its airports, in response to Israel expanding its operations in Gaza.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-announce-campaign-targeting-israeli-airports-2025-05-05/
'We want them to die alone': What is Israel's Gideon's Chariots plan for Gaza?
Israel has said that it will give Hamas until the end of US President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East, which is 10 days from now, or "Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ will begin with great force and will not end until all its objectives are achieved".
https://www.newarab.com/news/what-israels-gideons-chariots-plan-gaza
Uganda’s military chief says holding opposition activist ‘in my basement’
In a social media post late on Thursday, Ugandan General Muhoozi Kainerugaba said Mutwe had been captured “like a grasshopper”. “He is in my basement … You are next!” Kainerugaba wrote on X in response to a post by Wine saying that Mutwe had been abducted. Kainerugaba, who is known for his incendiary social media posts, also alluded to Mutwe being tortured, saying he had beaten him and shaved his head.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/2/ugandas-military-chief-says-holding-opposition-activist-in-my-basement
https://archive.ph/tkUPV
Rwanda Confirms Talks With Trump Administration to Take Deported Migrants
In 2022, Rwanda agreed to take in some people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom while their claims were being processed. However, the scheme was shelved amid legal and human rights concerns following the return to power of the center-left Labour Party. Rwanda is still seeking to collect £50 million ($66.4 million) from Britain despite the canceled deal.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-rwanda-migrants
Erdoğan tells protesters against Islamification in northern Cyprus they will fail
Later, as he addressed a technology festival, he went further, telling trade unions that opposed the measure: “If you try to mess with our girls’ headscarves in the Turkish republic of northern Cyprus, I am sorry, you will find us against you.” On Friday thousands of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of Nicosia, the country’s war-split capital, chanting “hands off our land” as they denounced the legislation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/erdogan-tells-protesters-against-islamification-in-northern-cyprus-they-will-fail
Far-right Simion wins first round of Romanian presidential election
AFTER decisively winning the most votes in Romania’s first-round presidential election rerun, far-right candidate George Simion will face a pro-Western reformist in a runoff in two weeks. The final result of the election could reshape the European Union and Nato member country’s geopolitical direction.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-right-simion-wins-first-round-romanian-presidential-election
EU scientists sound alarm over escalating spring drought
Forecasts for the coming months suggest higher than usual temperatures up to July, the scientists say. Rainfall predictions are less clear, though some forecasts point to drier conditions over large parts of northern Europe, including the United Kingdom, parts of Germany and the Benelux countries, the JRC report notes.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-scientists-alarm-escalating-spring-drought-climate-change-jrc-report/
https://archive.ph/pB7hc
Colombia formally requests entry to BRICS development bank
Entry to the New Development Bank would allow Colombian governments to seek investment loans outside institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the Inter-American Development Bank that have historically demanded neoliberal policy changes in return.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-formally-requests-entry-to-brics-development-bank/
‘They were tortured’: Ecuadorian soldiers confess to beating four murdered children in Guayaquil
Four of the 16 soldiers prosecuted in the case admitted that their victims were beaten, punched, and subjected to a mock execution before being abandoned naked in Taura, a rural parish south of Guayaquil, taken over, like so many others, by organized crime.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-05/they-were-tortured-ecuadorian-soldiers-confess-to-beating-four-murdered-children-in-guayaquil.html
https://archive.ph/yS5Iw
Gold mining suspended in Peru's north after 13 miners killed
Since 2020, illegal miners have taken over several areas under Poderosa's control. The area had already been under a state of emergency, with heavy police and military presence, due to prior attacks on Poderosa's operations.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-pauses-mining-north-after-13-miners-killed-2025-05-05/
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>the conspiracy theories about DUMBs was real
Pack it up /leftypol/ the bourgeoisie won they have entire underground cities world wide prepared so they have a place to hide when climate change finally rears its ugly head
>the conspiracy theories about DUMBs was real
Pack it up /leftypol/ the bourgeoisie won they have entire underground cities world wide prepared so they have a place to hide when climate change finally rears its ugly head
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Sentenced to death during the Easter Holiday.
During the Easter holiday, Christians mourned the passing of Jesus, an innocent man who spoke up against authority. On Easter Sunday Christians celebrate Jesus as he rose from the dead. For 2000 years we have had a yearly strike because Jesus was unjustly crucified.
Should an innocent person be executed?
Person without conclusive evidence indicted with Federal charges.Sentenced to death during the Easter Holiday.
During the Easter holiday, Christians mourned the passing of Jesus, an innocent man who spoke up against authority. On Easter Sunday Christians celebrate Jesus as he rose from the dead. For 2000 years we have had a yearly strike because Jesus was unjustly crucified.
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What are the the stakes? why do we care? Isn't the LTV some outdated relic of the 19th century for Marxists to move on from or unnecessary holdover from bourgeois economists like Smith and Ricardo?
Well no. Yes, Marxism doesn't need the LTV, BUT
a) the LTV is true and b) it strengthens the case for socialism.
If the LTV is true then exploitation theory is true i.e. non labor inputs such as CAPITAL do not generate value, then that implies the source of profit under capitalism is exploitation of the proletariat.
In fact the very motivation to create neoclassical theory around the turn of the last century was based on a need to refute non marxist socialists like the Ricardian socialists who were using the LTV to attack capitalism.
If you take away the LTV then at most capitalism is an unstable system which leads to periodic crisis, and you notice most of the people saying Marx was ok but the LTV is wrong are keynesians and post keynesians like Steve Keen because the idea of a crisis ridden but not inherently exploitative capitalism is compatible with their liberal technocratic views.
The LTV is very easy to understand. every single economic product you see around you is a product of human labor. Every building, every road, every vehicle, piece of furniture, etc. etc. Every single man made creation at some point, had to be made by human activity i.e. labor. Any other inputs were either the natural environment or previous products of labor. Originally there was no capital, and then humans created it out of nothing but their own labor and natural resources.
Its almost definitionally obvious that the LTV is correct. Other than human activity, natural resources, or some previous combination thereof, what POSSIBLE source of goods or services can there be?
Now some autists like Keen try to make some 1+1=3 maxwells demon of value argument and say well muh marx didn't consider what if capital depreciates slower than its embodied labor thus PROVING capital can contribute value on its own and something something dialectics, but thats not true.
LTV
It's become fashionable to hate on the LTV lately, while the LTV was common sense for most Marxists, including both western marxists and MLs, and even (left) anarchists such as anarcho-communists, for most of the 19th and 20th century, some people on here (perhaps after the recent invasion of rightoids from cuckchan) have started saying the LTV is false.What are the the stakes? why do we care? Isn't the LTV some outdated relic of the 19th century for Marxists to move on from or unnecessary holdover from bourgeois economists like Smith and Ricardo?
Well no. Yes, Marxism doesn't need the LTV, BUT
a) the LTV is true and b) it strengthens the case for socialism.
If the LTV is true then exploitation theory is true i.e. non labor inputs such as CAPITAL do not generate value, then that implies the source of profit under capitalism is exploitation of the proletariat.
In fact the very motivation to create neoclassical theory around the turn of the last century was based on a need to refute non marxist socialists like the Ricardian socialists who were using the LTV to attack capitalism.
If you take away the LTV then at most capitalism is an unstable system which leads to periodic crisis, and you notice most of the people saying Marx was ok but the LTV is wrong are keynesians and post keynesians like Steve Keen because the idea of a crisis ridden but not inherently exploitative capitalism is compatible with their liberal technocratic views.
The LTV is very easy to understand. every single economic product you see around you is a product of human labor. Every building, every road, every vehicle, piece of furniture, etc. etc. Every single man made creation at some point, had to be made by human activity i.e. labor. Any other inputs were either the natural environment or previous products of labor. Originally there was no capital, and then humans created it out of nothing but their own labor and natural resources.
Its almost definitionally obvious that the LTV is correct. Other than human activity, natural resources, or some previous combination thereof, what POSSIBLE source of goods or services can there be?
Now some autists like Keen try to make some 1+1=3 maxwells demon of value argument and say well muh marx didn't consider what if capital depreciates slower than its embodied labor thus PROVING capital can contribute value on its own and something something dialectics, but thats not true.
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Talk to the workers. Question them. Find out what their grievances are. Then we can use those grievances in our propaganda. We must find ways of distributing leaflets, arrange meetings. When the workers see we are identified with their everyday needs, then we can organize them, develop political consciousness. We'll do nothing if we sit here and talk like effete university liberals. We must go out and obtain the confidence of the people and the power of the people. Only they can challenge the militaristic state and the bourgeoisie which supports it. We must show the people the structure of society, so that they can pull it down with their bare hands.
Talk to the workers. Question them. Find out what their grievances are. Then we can use those grievances in our propaganda. We must find ways of distributing leaflets, arrange meetings. When the workers see we are identified with their everyday needs, then we can organize them, develop political consciousness. We'll do nothing if we sit here and talk like effete university liberals. We must go out and obtain the confidence of the people and the power of the people. Only they can challenge the militaristic state and the bourgeoisie which supports it. We must show the people the structure of society, so that they can pull it down with their bare hands.
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please discuss low effort and boilerplate debate topics in here instead of actually making it into it's own thread.
/DAG/ - Debate Addict General
"maybe people will use it this time" editionplease discuss low effort and boilerplate debate topics in here instead of actually making it into it's own thread.
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What's some of the biggest blunders, failures, bad policies, lack of foresight, just plain dumb, actions and decisions done by an actual communist countries? NOT theory, but actual stupid policies done by actual and past socialist countries.
What's some of the biggest blunders, failures, bad policies, lack of foresight, just plain dumb, actions and decisions done by an actual communist countries? NOT theory, but actual stupid policies done by actual and past socialist countries.
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Other African countries (mainly Nigeria and South Africa) have confirmed that some of their soldiers have been killed trying to contain M23.
Personally, I think it’s kind of relieving knowing that the UN for once developed a spine to do anything right. I also am deeply concerned about another continental-scale war erupting in Africa like what happened during the Congo crisis.
As for the Sudan war, it looks like it’s going to see the RSF obliterated
Fucked up report: the UN is actually fighting against terrorist for the first time
Apparently, the UN is working alongside the Congolese army to prevent the m23 terrorist group from advancing into Goma—a city near the Congo-Rwandan border. Reports have found that UN soldiers have fired artillery directly at M23 positions.Other African countries (mainly Nigeria and South Africa) have confirmed that some of their soldiers have been killed trying to contain M23.
Personally, I think it’s kind of relieving knowing that the UN for once developed a spine to do anything right. I also am deeply concerned about another continental-scale war erupting in Africa like what happened during the Congo crisis.
As for the Sudan war, it looks like it’s going to see the RSF obliterated
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There's probably about 900 threads about the same thing, But is there any actual reason why the Twitter Far-Right are so retarded?? About a quarter of them are lolicons, and they all post the same fuckass pepe the frog images. will there be any testing on them to see how fucking stupid they actually are?? This is a quick and simple post
There's probably about 900 threads about the same thing, But is there any actual reason why the Twitter Far-Right are so retarded?? About a quarter of them are lolicons, and they all post the same fuckass pepe the frog images. will there be any testing on them to see how fucking stupid they actually are?? This is a quick and simple post
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Where did America's somewhat militaristic culture come from? Did it come as far back as the revolution itself.
America vs Russian Revolutions
Does the fact that american revolution was started by slave owners make their revolution less justified in motivation than the russian revolution. The contradictions in American Revolution were far greater than the ones in the Russian Revolution from what I know. The slavery and genocide made the American Revolution very hypocritical, and oppressive. So much so that people from that era pointed out how contradictory it was for slavers to talk about freedom. I've seen people online question if it was even genuine in intent in the first place.Where did America's somewhat militaristic culture come from? Did it come as far back as the revolution itself.
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does anybody understand what paul cockshott is actually saying?
is he implying that cybernetic communism is replacing money with labor time and adding taxes?
wjy does he say 2 million labor time has to be binned?
sounds like a waste
https://youtu.be/kTl4b0w6mpk?si=ZjwIDU_0uGLBsjm9
does anybody understand what paul cockshott is actually saying?
is he implying that cybernetic communism is replacing money with labor time and adding taxes?
wjy does he say 2 million labor time has to be binned?
sounds like a waste
https://youtu.be/kTl4b0w6mpk?si=ZjwIDU_0uGLBsjm9
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha haawwwwwww hawwwww.
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>Ulrich Schnaft was a gentile German born in Königsburg, Germany in 1923 who joined the SS in 1941. After the war, he assumed the identity of Gavriel Wiessman, obtained the economic aid offered to survivors, and then joined a group trying to emigrate illegally to Palestine in November 1947. The ship was detained by the British, but after being released from detention on Cyprus in May 1948, Schnaft entered Israel and was conscripted to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) where, ‘experienced in military techniques, he soon rose to the rank of captain’
it all makes so much sense now
>Ulrich Schnaft was a gentile German born in Königsburg, Germany in 1923 who joined the SS in 1941. After the war, he assumed the identity of Gavriel Wiessman, obtained the economic aid offered to survivors, and then joined a group trying to emigrate illegally to Palestine in November 1947. The ship was detained by the British, but after being released from detention on Cyprus in May 1948, Schnaft entered Israel and was conscripted to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) where, ‘experienced in military techniques, he soon rose to the rank of captain’
it all makes so much sense now
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Post your posters post your marches post your festivals post your banners post your flags it is Workers' Day let us all unite in celebrating it.
MAY DAY GENERAL
MAY DAY INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY THE 1ST OF MAY WORKERS' DAY LABOUR DAYPost your posters post your marches post your festivals post your banners post your flags it is Workers' Day let us all unite in celebrating it.
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Just name how many times begging, asking for forgiveness, poverty, and physical weakness are romanticized in just the book of Mathew alone.
Christian principles are so uniquely weak
I’m specifying the New Testament, because the principles there are so weak and hyper destructive to any functioning society that it’s no surprise for why so many people internationally despise it. Weakness is promoted and glorified even if in application it makes people passive aggressive, prone to frequent outbursts, and somehow more antisocial over feelings of victimization than any other religion. This glorification of poverty, peasantry, thoughtless altruism, and submissiveness can and regularly gets its followers killed. How can anyone religious or not expect to take the concerns of people wanting justice for Christian persecution seriously if the advocates aren’t serious about exiling or killing the actors involved in the persecution? The Christian religion is fundamentally infantile, and the New Testament reads like it was written from a child’s worldview given the inability for characters like Jesus to register that people then and now had to make harder and often violent decisions to keep themselves, their friends, and their sense of self worth protected.Just name how many times begging, asking for forgiveness, poverty, and physical weakness are romanticized in just the book of Mathew alone.
R: 81 / I: 20
More than 30,000 followers of the group rallied near the Dhaka University, some carrying banners and placards reading “Say no to Western laws on our women, rise up Bangladesh.”
>Maulana Mamunul Haque, joint secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam said "If needed, we will take to the streets again to ensure that the constitution reflects complete trust in Allah.”
>"Men and women can never be equal: the Koran outlines specific codes of life for both genders," said Mohammad Shihab Uddin, 53, leader of a women's madrassa, a religious school. "There is no way we can go beyond that."
>Muhammad Umar Faruq, 30, another teacher at a seminary, said they helped the interim government run the country. "If a government attempts anything anti-Islamic in a country where 92 percent of the population is Muslim, we will reject it immediately," Umar Faruq said. Islamists have demanded an end to a swath of activities, including cultural events deemed "anti-Islamic" – from music to theatre festivals, women's football matches and kite-flying celebrations.
https://www.dw.com/en/bangladeshi-islamists-protest-womens-rights-proposal/a-72425960
How do you guys feel about this? This happened yesterday
Over 30,000 Islamists rally in Bangladesh against proposed changes to expand women’s rights
>Hefazat-e-Islam – an influential pressure group made up of multiple political parties, Muslim organisations and religious schools – issued a string of demands at Saturday's rally, including the abolishment of a government women's commission seeking equality.More than 30,000 followers of the group rallied near the Dhaka University, some carrying banners and placards reading “Say no to Western laws on our women, rise up Bangladesh.”
>Maulana Mamunul Haque, joint secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam said "If needed, we will take to the streets again to ensure that the constitution reflects complete trust in Allah.”
>"Men and women can never be equal: the Koran outlines specific codes of life for both genders," said Mohammad Shihab Uddin, 53, leader of a women's madrassa, a religious school. "There is no way we can go beyond that."
>Muhammad Umar Faruq, 30, another teacher at a seminary, said they helped the interim government run the country. "If a government attempts anything anti-Islamic in a country where 92 percent of the population is Muslim, we will reject it immediately," Umar Faruq said. Islamists have demanded an end to a swath of activities, including cultural events deemed "anti-Islamic" – from music to theatre festivals, women's football matches and kite-flying celebrations.
https://www.dw.com/en/bangladeshi-islamists-protest-womens-rights-proposal/a-72425960
How do you guys feel about this? This happened yesterday
R: 96 / I: 33
What exactly is the Order of the Nine Angles?
Where does their ideology comes from?
How the fuck did David Myatt became a muslim out of nowhere?
What exactly is the Order of the Nine Angles?
Where does their ideology comes from?
How the fuck did David Myatt became a muslim out of nowhere?
R: 37 / I: 6
Jerusalem will burn.
These wildfires are the result of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing. Fast growing European pines were planted on the sites of demolished Palestinian homes and farms to keep them from returning. Zionism has created both a political and ecological disaster.
R: 16 / I: 0
The term “Treatlerite,” became popular a few weeks ago through discourse on Twitter; the concept it was trying to convey (which I personally think it does so both hilariously and effectively) is that the constant need to enjoy and consume “ideally” has been flooded with reactionary thought lately. Not only does the consumer need to be able to effect efficiency but also that the person giving them their “treats” doesn’t creep them out or belong to a group of people who typically would. Racism, even some which is typically only ever espoused through what is seen as misandry, is more outspoken when one begins to observe those that not only order but post about their orders from services like Doordash, Ubereats, Instacart, etc… Consumers, those who would publicly post about their “bad orders,” would discuss their disapproval of the lack of preciseness from a service that pays based on the number of orders and not the amount of time worked; these posts also occasionally included signs of discomfort about who was showing up at their addresses: usually at the level of the whole gender of “male shoppers or delivery drivers” but also occasionally race-specific or non-white men especially.
In summary, the Treatlerite mentality is the ability to consume as efficiently as possible, as much as you want, without having to face any sense of discomfort or unease along the way; this is often with the expectation that now you don’t even have to do that yourself, it just ends up at your doorstep. One is not expected to face the realities of the gig economy and the particular difficulties that minorities and immigrants face within it; the comfort of consumption always comes as the first imperative in this thought process.
Treatlerism is only a Symptom
This phenomenon of Treatlerism, however, is only one that spawns particularly from an age when one can get anything they want at the press of a button; the Covid-19 pandemic increased the rate at which delivery and pick-up apps and services expanded and became a mainstream mode of consumption. The ultimate sickness is that the commodity form and the “right to consume” have morphed into a million black holes of microfascism. Whether it be the need for convenience within physical commodities or the endless stream of entertainment that we have that can quickly become reactionary; the traps are set for us to be ready to fall into multiple times a day. Microfascisms, as Deleuze and Guattari discuss them in Capitalism & Schizophrenia, are little “black holes” that come from micropolitical rather than macropolitical fronts:
What makes fascism dangerous is its molecular or micropolicial power, for it is a mass movement: a cancerous body rather than a totalitarian organism. American film has often depicted these molecular focal points; band, gang, sect, family, town, neighborhood, vehicle fascisms spare no one. ONly microfascism provides an answer to the global question: Why does Desire desire its own repression, how can it desire its own repression? (Anti-Oedipus)
The goal (though one could say these cancerous cells of desire have no active intention) is to find and feed on the insecurities, the repressions, the sense of injustice that make you vulnerable to the fascist bastardization of the social contract. In this contract you don’t just sign over some rights to guarantee that others do the same, you instead willingly give some over your desire and freedom so that certain others may have theirs taken away completely. Being bullied by a members of a certain racial group can become a support for deportation and ethnic cleansing when that bullying turns one towards searching media that sees that group as lesser. Being broken up with or cheated on can turn into racism and misogyny once filtered through all the angry relationship forums and stories online or even something like the fascist fetishization of racial cuck porn. One mass micro-political example may be the anxiety around crime and serial killers fueled by police or true crime shows and podcasts is one of an interesting form of microfascism as it is an anxiety that the media creates and feeds itself for the most part. With this mixed with local news reports as well as more and more content that feeds into the created desires of “wanting to protect yourself anywhere you are “ (by which I don’t mean teaching self-defense but rather videos about why and how you should barracad your hotel room anytime you check in), there is an anxiety that is created despite the reality of most places becoming safer that feeds into a willingness to strengthen policing and stereotyping of people. The micropolitical frustrations are brought to a level of a macropolitical movement through canceral institutions meant to feed that hate and starve the possibility of the creation of non-fascist desires.
The Online Space & Reactionary Maxxing
The “Treatlerite” is met with microfascisms on fairly many fronts; the frustrations of a busy day make it easy to take it our on those that make mistakes, especially when it comes to stuff one paid for, other fears and experiences can make someone showing up to your house or apartment very scary, and online spaces make it easy to share these experiences and anecdotes. But whether it is groups discussing food ordering, true crime forums, or even in some cases what would seem to be progressive spaces like communities of trans people online, the internet (and its capitalist oligarchs) push reactionary sentiment because it has become what gets the most engagement, the most clicks, and easily turns anecdotes or false perceptions into an anxiety ridden reality. Part of this is that many interactions that just normally or ignorably go by are not seen as worthy as discussion, in another way, groups centered around a certain community or concept can become isolated with only people willing to feed into these anxieties.
To take “mom groups” on facebook for example, while they may start out as being a collective of people sharing their experiences, tips, and asking for advice; if these groups have people already inbedded into more reactionary or fringe ideas, they can slowly take over such a group by pushing away people willing to fight against anti-vaxxers or extremist home-schoolers. Eventually, when enough people who know better leave the space becomes primarily ridden by reactionary anxieties preying on new parents who don’t know what they’re doing in every situation, while those sure of the conspiracies keep feeding into each other.
The Fight for a Reactionary Platform
The recent and short ban of Tiktok and a big part of the response to its restoration has also caused some troubles that I wish to discuss in this post as well as I see similarities to what has been discussed so far. I understand the desire to maintain the platform that one makes a large portion of their income or advertisements from or on, such as the big creators do, but it additionally seems that once the defense of platforms goes beyond the desire to actually be able to create change, that these platforms function not only to create more reactionary sentiment but to bottle up any possibility of left wing discourse. This is shown the most clearly by the fact that when Tiktok returned this week from the ban, it was accompanied by a swarm of restrictions geared towards specifically targeting liberal and left wing discourse.
Beyond the restrictions and censors on place that block political discourse, the websites seem to function almost as a kettle tactic would in breaking up or slowing down a protest on the streets (Kettling is a tactic police use to move protests into a small space to either get them to end or arrest the remaining protestors, Acid-Horizon’s book Anti-Oculus features a good discussion of their political importance and similarities). By getting addicted to social media and using them as the form of left wing political organizing or information spreading, we not only open ourselves up to misinformation becoming uncontainable, but also restricting the spaces under which we actually try to create organizations and information spreading into spaces meant to monitor everyone and to benefit themselves. These platforms are geared towards keeping us on them and in many ways they have done an excellent job at doing that and threatening the possibility of revolutionary speech by replacing it with a desire to be able to speak at all on these platforms, which it can easily dispel and deradicalize into content meant to get clicks and views through monetization. Once Musk bought twitter and introduced a premium level where you could get paid for engagement, and before the nazis and far right took over or bought almost every single big account on the platform, many supposed liberals and leftists started posting more and more emotional, possibly reactionary posts (ragebait), and even straight up lies so that they could get views and get paid. Money deterritorializes all, even the political desires, and the money connected to these platforms happens to be in the hands of a lot of reactionary billionaires at this moment.
Treatlerism and Microfascisms
The “Treatlerite”The term “Treatlerite,” became popular a few weeks ago through discourse on Twitter; the concept it was trying to convey (which I personally think it does so both hilariously and effectively) is that the constant need to enjoy and consume “ideally” has been flooded with reactionary thought lately. Not only does the consumer need to be able to effect efficiency but also that the person giving them their “treats” doesn’t creep them out or belong to a group of people who typically would. Racism, even some which is typically only ever espoused through what is seen as misandry, is more outspoken when one begins to observe those that not only order but post about their orders from services like Doordash, Ubereats, Instacart, etc… Consumers, those who would publicly post about their “bad orders,” would discuss their disapproval of the lack of preciseness from a service that pays based on the number of orders and not the amount of time worked; these posts also occasionally included signs of discomfort about who was showing up at their addresses: usually at the level of the whole gender of “male shoppers or delivery drivers” but also occasionally race-specific or non-white men especially.
In summary, the Treatlerite mentality is the ability to consume as efficiently as possible, as much as you want, without having to face any sense of discomfort or unease along the way; this is often with the expectation that now you don’t even have to do that yourself, it just ends up at your doorstep. One is not expected to face the realities of the gig economy and the particular difficulties that minorities and immigrants face within it; the comfort of consumption always comes as the first imperative in this thought process.
Treatlerism is only a Symptom
This phenomenon of Treatlerism, however, is only one that spawns particularly from an age when one can get anything they want at the press of a button; the Covid-19 pandemic increased the rate at which delivery and pick-up apps and services expanded and became a mainstream mode of consumption. The ultimate sickness is that the commodity form and the “right to consume” have morphed into a million black holes of microfascism. Whether it be the need for convenience within physical commodities or the endless stream of entertainment that we have that can quickly become reactionary; the traps are set for us to be ready to fall into multiple times a day. Microfascisms, as Deleuze and Guattari discuss them in Capitalism & Schizophrenia, are little “black holes” that come from micropolitical rather than macropolitical fronts:
What makes fascism dangerous is its molecular or micropolicial power, for it is a mass movement: a cancerous body rather than a totalitarian organism. American film has often depicted these molecular focal points; band, gang, sect, family, town, neighborhood, vehicle fascisms spare no one. ONly microfascism provides an answer to the global question: Why does Desire desire its own repression, how can it desire its own repression? (Anti-Oedipus)
The goal (though one could say these cancerous cells of desire have no active intention) is to find and feed on the insecurities, the repressions, the sense of injustice that make you vulnerable to the fascist bastardization of the social contract. In this contract you don’t just sign over some rights to guarantee that others do the same, you instead willingly give some over your desire and freedom so that certain others may have theirs taken away completely. Being bullied by a members of a certain racial group can become a support for deportation and ethnic cleansing when that bullying turns one towards searching media that sees that group as lesser. Being broken up with or cheated on can turn into racism and misogyny once filtered through all the angry relationship forums and stories online or even something like the fascist fetishization of racial cuck porn. One mass micro-political example may be the anxiety around crime and serial killers fueled by police or true crime shows and podcasts is one of an interesting form of microfascism as it is an anxiety that the media creates and feeds itself for the most part. With this mixed with local news reports as well as more and more content that feeds into the created desires of “wanting to protect yourself anywhere you are “ (by which I don’t mean teaching self-defense but rather videos about why and how you should barracad your hotel room anytime you check in), there is an anxiety that is created despite the reality of most places becoming safer that feeds into a willingness to strengthen policing and stereotyping of people. The micropolitical frustrations are brought to a level of a macropolitical movement through canceral institutions meant to feed that hate and starve the possibility of the creation of non-fascist desires.
The Online Space & Reactionary Maxxing
The “Treatlerite” is met with microfascisms on fairly many fronts; the frustrations of a busy day make it easy to take it our on those that make mistakes, especially when it comes to stuff one paid for, other fears and experiences can make someone showing up to your house or apartment very scary, and online spaces make it easy to share these experiences and anecdotes. But whether it is groups discussing food ordering, true crime forums, or even in some cases what would seem to be progressive spaces like communities of trans people online, the internet (and its capitalist oligarchs) push reactionary sentiment because it has become what gets the most engagement, the most clicks, and easily turns anecdotes or false perceptions into an anxiety ridden reality. Part of this is that many interactions that just normally or ignorably go by are not seen as worthy as discussion, in another way, groups centered around a certain community or concept can become isolated with only people willing to feed into these anxieties.
To take “mom groups” on facebook for example, while they may start out as being a collective of people sharing their experiences, tips, and asking for advice; if these groups have people already inbedded into more reactionary or fringe ideas, they can slowly take over such a group by pushing away people willing to fight against anti-vaxxers or extremist home-schoolers. Eventually, when enough people who know better leave the space becomes primarily ridden by reactionary anxieties preying on new parents who don’t know what they’re doing in every situation, while those sure of the conspiracies keep feeding into each other.
The Fight for a Reactionary Platform
The recent and short ban of Tiktok and a big part of the response to its restoration has also caused some troubles that I wish to discuss in this post as well as I see similarities to what has been discussed so far. I understand the desire to maintain the platform that one makes a large portion of their income or advertisements from or on, such as the big creators do, but it additionally seems that once the defense of platforms goes beyond the desire to actually be able to create change, that these platforms function not only to create more reactionary sentiment but to bottle up any possibility of left wing discourse. This is shown the most clearly by the fact that when Tiktok returned this week from the ban, it was accompanied by a swarm of restrictions geared towards specifically targeting liberal and left wing discourse.
Beyond the restrictions and censors on place that block political discourse, the websites seem to function almost as a kettle tactic would in breaking up or slowing down a protest on the streets (Kettling is a tactic police use to move protests into a small space to either get them to end or arrest the remaining protestors, Acid-Horizon’s book Anti-Oculus features a good discussion of their political importance and similarities). By getting addicted to social media and using them as the form of left wing political organizing or information spreading, we not only open ourselves up to misinformation becoming uncontainable, but also restricting the spaces under which we actually try to create organizations and information spreading into spaces meant to monitor everyone and to benefit themselves. These platforms are geared towards keeping us on them and in many ways they have done an excellent job at doing that and threatening the possibility of revolutionary speech by replacing it with a desire to be able to speak at all on these platforms, which it can easily dispel and deradicalize into content meant to get clicks and views through monetization. Once Musk bought twitter and introduced a premium level where you could get paid for engagement, and before the nazis and far right took over or bought almost every single big account on the platform, many supposed liberals and leftists started posting more and more emotional, possibly reactionary posts (ragebait), and even straight up lies so that they could get views and get paid. Money deterritorializes all, even the political desires, and the money connected to these platforms happens to be in the hands of a lot of reactionary billionaires at this moment.
R: 18 / I: 2
I often hear that humans are hard-wired to care more about ingroups than outgroups. This is often used by reactionaries to justify capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, racially homogenous ethnocentric societies, etc, but I found that this entire way of thinking falls apart very quickly for many reasons.
1. It's spatial but not temporal. Due to physical proximity and consanguinity, A man might care more about his children than about his neighbors. A man might care more about his grandchildren than his neighbors. He might even live long enough to see the birth of his great-grandchildren. But can it really be said that he cares more about his 10x-great-grandchildren, totally potential people who haven't been born yet, in the far future, more than his own neighbors, merely because of consanguinity?
2. The spatial nature of it is already dissolved by capitalism. We live in a world where anyone can potentially migrate anywhere at any time. Sure there are legal barriers, but there is also a way around those legal barriers, and even in countries with strict immigration restrictions, there is a constant exposure to foreigners through tourism, international media, trade, etc. If the people aren't arriving, their commodities and media are.
3. The ethnocentricism and homogeneity is already absurd on its face. For example we see people who are clearly not white engaging in white supremacy, partly because they have been brainwashed to dehumanize themselves, but also because the definition of what constitutes "whiteness" has been stretched to such goatse'd proportions as to be unable to return to its original narrow definition, causing the concept itself to dissolve and diffuse, that is, to self-sublate, into absurdity.
4. There is no putting the genie of technological development back in the bottle. Even if resource scarcity and climate change cause us to take many steps backwards, we will develop alternate "tech-trees" with whatever resources we have left, or go extinct branching into new potentials even as the situation becomes increasingly unfavorable for our present unsustainable way of life.
5. Interdependence of nations and peoples is now so obvious and so powerful that there is a strong case to make, viz. the imperial boomerang, that not caring about non-proximates (i.e. foreigners, people of different faiths, people of different ethnicities, people of different ideologies etc.) constitutes not caring about oneself. Anything "bad" your government does to foreigners in your name with your tax dollars will come back to bite either you or your children. Think of how many orphans grow up hating the United States because of US foreign policy. There is a huge incentive to be anti-imperialist not just out of pure empathy for The Other, but out of self preservation for the Future Self.
I'm sure there's other places I could have gone with this, but that's just off the top of my head.
I often hear that humans are hard-wired to care more about ingroups than outgroups. This is often used by reactionaries to justify capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, racially homogenous ethnocentric societies, etc, but I found that this entire way of thinking falls apart very quickly for many reasons.
1. It's spatial but not temporal. Due to physical proximity and consanguinity, A man might care more about his children than about his neighbors. A man might care more about his grandchildren than his neighbors. He might even live long enough to see the birth of his great-grandchildren. But can it really be said that he cares more about his 10x-great-grandchildren, totally potential people who haven't been born yet, in the far future, more than his own neighbors, merely because of consanguinity?
2. The spatial nature of it is already dissolved by capitalism. We live in a world where anyone can potentially migrate anywhere at any time. Sure there are legal barriers, but there is also a way around those legal barriers, and even in countries with strict immigration restrictions, there is a constant exposure to foreigners through tourism, international media, trade, etc. If the people aren't arriving, their commodities and media are.
3. The ethnocentricism and homogeneity is already absurd on its face. For example we see people who are clearly not white engaging in white supremacy, partly because they have been brainwashed to dehumanize themselves, but also because the definition of what constitutes "whiteness" has been stretched to such goatse'd proportions as to be unable to return to its original narrow definition, causing the concept itself to dissolve and diffuse, that is, to self-sublate, into absurdity.
4. There is no putting the genie of technological development back in the bottle. Even if resource scarcity and climate change cause us to take many steps backwards, we will develop alternate "tech-trees" with whatever resources we have left, or go extinct branching into new potentials even as the situation becomes increasingly unfavorable for our present unsustainable way of life.
5. Interdependence of nations and peoples is now so obvious and so powerful that there is a strong case to make, viz. the imperial boomerang, that not caring about non-proximates (i.e. foreigners, people of different faiths, people of different ethnicities, people of different ideologies etc.) constitutes not caring about oneself. Anything "bad" your government does to foreigners in your name with your tax dollars will come back to bite either you or your children. Think of how many orphans grow up hating the United States because of US foreign policy. There is a huge incentive to be anti-imperialist not just out of pure empathy for The Other, but out of self preservation for the Future Self.
I'm sure there's other places I could have gone with this, but that's just off the top of my head.
R: 28 / I: 3
Primitive Communism is the most successful mode of production in human history. For over 200 thousand years human beings lived in small groups, hunting and foraging for food and producing tools, handicrafts and shelters for themselves. During this time all labor was directly social. There was no value-form, no markets or money, no class society, and hierarchies were extremely limited or ephemeral. Small numbers of hunter-gatherers even persist in this lifestyle to the present day.
Maybe instead of worshiping some statist industrialization experiment that barely lasted 80 years, you could instead follow a communism that actually WORKS and has a proven track record of success and stability.
Primitive Communism is the most successful mode of production in human history. For over 200 thousand years human beings lived in small groups, hunting and foraging for food and producing tools, handicrafts and shelters for themselves. During this time all labor was directly social. There was no value-form, no markets or money, no class society, and hierarchies were extremely limited or ephemeral. Small numbers of hunter-gatherers even persist in this lifestyle to the present day.
Maybe instead of worshiping some statist industrialization experiment that barely lasted 80 years, you could instead follow a communism that actually WORKS and has a proven track record of success and stability.
R: 5 / I: 0
"The next step for the government is simple – they must accept this ruling and agree to scrap this unlawful legislation once and for all," she said in a statement. A Home Office spokesperson said that "the central powers currently used by policing to manage protests and ensure that they remain peaceful are not affected by this judgment".
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-loses-appeal-over-tougher-police-powers-street-protests-2025-05-02/
Farage hails election results, as Labour and Tories digest losses
The party has taken control of 10 local councils, won two mayoral races and added a fifth MP to its ranks in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election now counting has been completed. Many of these wins came at the expense of the Labour and Conservative parties, which have both sought to explain the results.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gy310ry2o
https://archive.ph/2abdQ
The AfD is a right-wing extremist group, German intelligence agency says
The new classification doesn’t ban the party, but it allows German authorities to intensify surveillance, including the use of undercover informants and monitoring communications, under judicial oversight.
https://www.politico.eu/article/afd-officially-right-wing-extremist-group-germanys-intel-agency-says/
https://archive.ph/fshWJ
Woman carrying bomb dies after explosion in Greece
They say she was standing outside a bank in the northern city of Thessaloniki when the device went off early on Saturday. Officers suspect she may have been planning to plant it next to a cash machine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jpz061j9o
https://archive.ph/YZLmM
Turkey interferes with Israeli air electronics amid deadly Syria airstrikes
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority confirmed the Turkish interference, reporting that "Turkish aircraft are sending warning signals and jamming Israeli fighter jets to make them leave Syrian airspace." Turkish officials have voiced increasing frustration at Israel's expanding operations in Syria, which Ankara regards as a threat to its interests and to regional stability.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-jams-israeli-jet-electronics-amid-deadly-syria-airstrikes
Israeli proposal to control aid distribution inside Gaza sparks backlash
Under the proposal, Palestinians would have to travel to a so-called humanitarian zone and pick up food parcels to carry back to their families, according to several humanitarian workers and an Israeli official. The Israeli military has ruled out distributing the aid itself, but the system would allow Israel to screen Palestinians and decide which ones are allowed to receive food, the people said.
https://www.ft.com/content/8a6ea592-50ec-45e0-a093-10a62735664e
https://archive.ph/5raIk
Drones hit ‘Freedom Flotilla’ Gaza aid ship in international waters
The FFC said in a statement on Friday that the vessel, now located 14 nautical miles (25km) from Malta, was the target of two drone strikes while on the preparatory stages before sailing to Gaza. The ship had been seeking to deliver aid to the besieged enclave, where aid groups warn people are struggling to survive following a two-month total blockade by Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/2/drones-hit-freedom-flotilla-ship-carrying-aid-to-gaza
https://archive.ph/j96CF
Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump’s offer to send US troops to Mexico
Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the news outlet said “tension rose” during an April 16 call between the two leaders as Trump “pushed to have US armed forces take a leading role in battling Mexican drug gangs that produce and smuggle fentanyl to the US”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/sheinbaum-says-she-rejected-trumps-offer-to-send-us-troops-to-mexico
https://archive.ph/Gdxmg
Brazilian workers push for shorter labor schemes
Around two months ago, a Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) was submitted to the House of Representatives, aiming to eliminate the 6x1 schedule and reduce the standard workweek from 44 to 36 hours. The proposal authored by Federal Representative Érika Hilton of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) followed others that remain stalled in Congress.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/02/brazilian-workers-push-for-shorter-labor-schemes
Petro’s party calls for general strike if Colombia’s senate sinks labor referendum
Colombia Humana, which has strong ties to Colombia’s labor unions, added pressure on Congress by threatening lawmakers with a strike that could shut down the national economy. The labor unions, who openly support Petro’s referendum and labor reform proposal, did not immediately back Colombia Humana’s strike threat.
https://colombiareports.com/petros-party-calls-for-general-strike-if-colombias-senate-sinks-labor-referendum/
Thousands of Islamists rally in Bangladesh against proposed changes to women’s rights
Mamunul Haque, a leader of the group, demanded that the interim government’s reforms commission be abolished and its members punished for the proposed changes. He said they hurt “the sentiments of the majority of the people of this country” by labeling the religious laws of inheritance as the main cause of inequality between men and women.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-women-rights-islamists-rally-114e1acbe56e7be75bc9b5273365a17a
Singapore election: how ruling PAP scored landslide win, denying breakthrough for opposition
The PAP’s vote share marked a reversal of its 2020 figure of 61.24 per cent, with six group representation constituencies (GRC) and four single seats scoring at least 75 per cent for the ruling party. Three of them won at least 80 per cent of the vote.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3308992/singapore-election-how-ruling-pap-scored-landslide-win-denying-breakthrough-opposition
https://archive.ph/EvRwQ
South Korea's conservatives pick hardline Kim Moon-soo as presidential candidate
Kim, 73, who was a labour activist in his university days but later turned hardline conservative, served as labour minister under Yoon and has pledged to implement business-friendly policies if elected. He laid out a sweeping conservative vision for the country in his acceptance speech, vowing to take a hard line against North Korea and implement incentives for businesses and for innovation and science.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-conservative-party-picks-kim-moon-soo-presidential-candidate-2025-05-03/
News 5/3/25
UK loses appeal over tougher police powers for street protests"The next step for the government is simple – they must accept this ruling and agree to scrap this unlawful legislation once and for all," she said in a statement. A Home Office spokesperson said that "the central powers currently used by policing to manage protests and ensure that they remain peaceful are not affected by this judgment".
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-loses-appeal-over-tougher-police-powers-street-protests-2025-05-02/
Farage hails election results, as Labour and Tories digest losses
The party has taken control of 10 local councils, won two mayoral races and added a fifth MP to its ranks in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election now counting has been completed. Many of these wins came at the expense of the Labour and Conservative parties, which have both sought to explain the results.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gy310ry2o
https://archive.ph/2abdQ
The AfD is a right-wing extremist group, German intelligence agency says
The new classification doesn’t ban the party, but it allows German authorities to intensify surveillance, including the use of undercover informants and monitoring communications, under judicial oversight.
https://www.politico.eu/article/afd-officially-right-wing-extremist-group-germanys-intel-agency-says/
https://archive.ph/fshWJ
Woman carrying bomb dies after explosion in Greece
They say she was standing outside a bank in the northern city of Thessaloniki when the device went off early on Saturday. Officers suspect she may have been planning to plant it next to a cash machine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jpz061j9o
https://archive.ph/YZLmM
Turkey interferes with Israeli air electronics amid deadly Syria airstrikes
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority confirmed the Turkish interference, reporting that "Turkish aircraft are sending warning signals and jamming Israeli fighter jets to make them leave Syrian airspace." Turkish officials have voiced increasing frustration at Israel's expanding operations in Syria, which Ankara regards as a threat to its interests and to regional stability.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-jams-israeli-jet-electronics-amid-deadly-syria-airstrikes
Israeli proposal to control aid distribution inside Gaza sparks backlash
Under the proposal, Palestinians would have to travel to a so-called humanitarian zone and pick up food parcels to carry back to their families, according to several humanitarian workers and an Israeli official. The Israeli military has ruled out distributing the aid itself, but the system would allow Israel to screen Palestinians and decide which ones are allowed to receive food, the people said.
https://www.ft.com/content/8a6ea592-50ec-45e0-a093-10a62735664e
https://archive.ph/5raIk
Drones hit ‘Freedom Flotilla’ Gaza aid ship in international waters
The FFC said in a statement on Friday that the vessel, now located 14 nautical miles (25km) from Malta, was the target of two drone strikes while on the preparatory stages before sailing to Gaza. The ship had been seeking to deliver aid to the besieged enclave, where aid groups warn people are struggling to survive following a two-month total blockade by Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/2/drones-hit-freedom-flotilla-ship-carrying-aid-to-gaza
https://archive.ph/j96CF
Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump’s offer to send US troops to Mexico
Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the news outlet said “tension rose” during an April 16 call between the two leaders as Trump “pushed to have US armed forces take a leading role in battling Mexican drug gangs that produce and smuggle fentanyl to the US”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/sheinbaum-says-she-rejected-trumps-offer-to-send-us-troops-to-mexico
https://archive.ph/Gdxmg
Brazilian workers push for shorter labor schemes
Around two months ago, a Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) was submitted to the House of Representatives, aiming to eliminate the 6x1 schedule and reduce the standard workweek from 44 to 36 hours. The proposal authored by Federal Representative Érika Hilton of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) followed others that remain stalled in Congress.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/02/brazilian-workers-push-for-shorter-labor-schemes
Petro’s party calls for general strike if Colombia’s senate sinks labor referendum
Colombia Humana, which has strong ties to Colombia’s labor unions, added pressure on Congress by threatening lawmakers with a strike that could shut down the national economy. The labor unions, who openly support Petro’s referendum and labor reform proposal, did not immediately back Colombia Humana’s strike threat.
https://colombiareports.com/petros-party-calls-for-general-strike-if-colombias-senate-sinks-labor-referendum/
Thousands of Islamists rally in Bangladesh against proposed changes to women’s rights
Mamunul Haque, a leader of the group, demanded that the interim government’s reforms commission be abolished and its members punished for the proposed changes. He said they hurt “the sentiments of the majority of the people of this country” by labeling the religious laws of inheritance as the main cause of inequality between men and women.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-women-rights-islamists-rally-114e1acbe56e7be75bc9b5273365a17a
Singapore election: how ruling PAP scored landslide win, denying breakthrough for opposition
The PAP’s vote share marked a reversal of its 2020 figure of 61.24 per cent, with six group representation constituencies (GRC) and four single seats scoring at least 75 per cent for the ruling party. Three of them won at least 80 per cent of the vote.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3308992/singapore-election-how-ruling-pap-scored-landslide-win-denying-breakthrough-opposition
https://archive.ph/EvRwQ
South Korea's conservatives pick hardline Kim Moon-soo as presidential candidate
Kim, 73, who was a labour activist in his university days but later turned hardline conservative, served as labour minister under Yoon and has pledged to implement business-friendly policies if elected. He laid out a sweeping conservative vision for the country in his acceptance speech, vowing to take a hard line against North Korea and implement incentives for businesses and for innovation and science.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-conservative-party-picks-kim-moon-soo-presidential-candidate-2025-05-03/
R: 15 / I: 4
Prolonged people’s war
What’s the point of a prolonged people’s war if you’re gonna rot in jungle for a few years and/or get genocided? Call me a reactionary deng xiapings dog or whatever but this just looks like a huge waste of resources
R: 22 / I: 6
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S DAY EVERYONE
post kino songs to celebrate the 1st of May ITT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIDEv1b4F0
turkish song about the 1st of may
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsgoMC1wHUE
the battle is going on again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzm5HhjMqqg
turkish recreation of "the battle is going on again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9foCTOba0
turkish communist song "don't give approval to this order"
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S DAY EVERYONE
post kino songs to celebrate the 1st of May ITT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIDEv1b4F0
turkish song about the 1st of may
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsgoMC1wHUE
the battle is going on again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzm5HhjMqqg
turkish recreation of "the battle is going on again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9foCTOba0
turkish communist song "don't give approval to this order"
R: 73 / I: 11
Yeah, I don’t believe in objective morality, god, miracles, magic, pseudoscience, optimism, immortality, physical regeneration, reanimation, ghosts, souls, alchemy, aliens, and any other self affirming optimistic shit unenlightened believers believe in. My values are might is right, materialism, and cynicism.
I’m so fucking cool, edgy, and mature unlike the rest of those stupid hordes. Look at how cool, edgy, and mature I am.
Yeah, I don’t believe in objective morality, god, miracles, magic, pseudoscience, optimism, immortality, physical regeneration, reanimation, ghosts, souls, alchemy, aliens, and any other self affirming optimistic shit unenlightened believers believe in. My values are might is right, materialism, and cynicism.
I’m so fucking cool, edgy, and mature unlike the rest of those stupid hordes. Look at how cool, edgy, and mature I am.
R: 10 / I: 0
>The proletariat seizes political power and turns the means of production in the first instance into state property. But, in doing this, it abolishes itself as proletariat, abolishes all class distinctions and class antagonisms, abolishes also the state as state.
>State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The state is not "abolished". It dies out.
Did the USSR abolish the state as state, as "society [that] has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself", namely that of class interest? Why does the first, and third quotation sound so much more like the state under neoliberalism than under the Socialism? Is it rather that the state is justified by more than the contradiction between class interests? What are your thoughts?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch24.htm
The (Withering) State under Socialism
>Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ’order’; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state.>The proletariat seizes political power and turns the means of production in the first instance into state property. But, in doing this, it abolishes itself as proletariat, abolishes all class distinctions and class antagonisms, abolishes also the state as state.
>State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The state is not "abolished". It dies out.
Did the USSR abolish the state as state, as "society [that] has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself", namely that of class interest? Why does the first, and third quotation sound so much more like the state under neoliberalism than under the Socialism? Is it rather that the state is justified by more than the contradiction between class interests? What are your thoughts?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch24.htm
R: 15 / I: 2
What is the source of the endless bitching and moaning from the burger reich (who is btw the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the pharaoh of proxy wars, etc. etc. etc.) about "China is stealing muh intellectual property"? Is there any basis to this accusation or are the burger fuhrers really just manufacturing consent again? From what I understand mainland Chinese exchange students have their names all over research papers in burger universities, so isn't it the other way around? Isn't America brain draining everyone, and then privatizing the results of that?
What is the source of the endless bitching and moaning from the burger reich (who is btw the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the pharaoh of proxy wars, etc. etc. etc.) about "China is stealing muh intellectual property"? Is there any basis to this accusation or are the burger fuhrers really just manufacturing consent again? From what I understand mainland Chinese exchange students have their names all over research papers in burger universities, so isn't it the other way around? Isn't America brain draining everyone, and then privatizing the results of that?
R: 9 / I: 2
Let's try to start with discussing whenever or not dualistic religions (faiths placing on the top of the universe two Gods - one good and one evil; Zoroasthrism being the most well-known) losing to the monotheistic ones (faiths placing on the top of the universe one God - who may favor good but is himself beyond good and evil… at least, from our perspective) is a historical accident or a byproduct of the natural material development of the early and middle-stage agrarian society? It is interesting that monolatry (sort of "proto-monotheism" where there exists a pantheon of big and small deities, but one of them is a God of Gods who transcends the universe and is as powerful relative to the other deities as they are to humans) had developed independently from [proto-]Abrahamic world in China (Jade Emperor), India (Brahman) and in faiths of bunch of lesser nations. Is it possible that belief in One God is more beneficial for supporting the belief in one legitimate Emperor and/or one legitimate societal order than anything else?
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The foundational text of Marxist understanding of religion:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
/psrg/ - Philosophy, spirituality, and religion general
Today is second-to-last day I could have started the thread with this comic, okay?Let's try to start with discussing whenever or not dualistic religions (faiths placing on the top of the universe two Gods - one good and one evil; Zoroasthrism being the most well-known) losing to the monotheistic ones (faiths placing on the top of the universe one God - who may favor good but is himself beyond good and evil… at least, from our perspective) is a historical accident or a byproduct of the natural material development of the early and middle-stage agrarian society? It is interesting that monolatry (sort of "proto-monotheism" where there exists a pantheon of big and small deities, but one of them is a God of Gods who transcends the universe and is as powerful relative to the other deities as they are to humans) had developed independently from [proto-]Abrahamic world in China (Jade Emperor), India (Brahman) and in faiths of bunch of lesser nations. Is it possible that belief in One God is more beneficial for supporting the belief in one legitimate Emperor and/or one legitimate societal order than anything else?
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The foundational text of Marxist understanding of religion:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
R: 15 / I: 1
being a guy in our world is kind of trash for a lot of us. you’re expected to be emotionally dead, aggressive, dominant. no crying, no softness, no comfort unless it’s a joke or porn. masculinity is cold. and anime is the total opposite. it gives you girls who are warm, emotionally open, affectionate, kind. it hits you somewhere deep. i wrote it like this, “the femininity of anime girls is expressive, soft, emotionally intelligent and affectively warm. it is everything that masculinity is not” and that contrast feels like a lifeline if you’ve grown up feeling numb and isolated
characters like Rui from Gatchaman Crowds hit different. he’s a guy but dresses femme, looks better than any girl you know, and still commands respect in the story. not treated like a freak, just exists. i said, “Rui is gender-non-conforming and not punished for it” and that’s huge. when you’re used to being told to man up or shut up, seeing someone like Rui makes you think maybe there’s a way out. and slowly, you start to feel more like him than the angry gym bros you’re supposed to relate to. you start to post anime girls not just because they’re cute but because they feel like you
this is where it gets uncomfortable for people. autogynephilia. the idea that some dudes start getting turned on or emotionally hyped by imagining themselves as girls. and yeah, it’s real. i said, “I think anime girls function as a kind of metaphor for the concept of femininity itself, and the idea of femininity becomes eroticized through repetition” and that’s the key. the more you stare at these idealized girls, the more you start to want to be that. not just to look like them but to feel the way they feel. over time, your brain starts rewiring. “When you are constantly looking at anime girls and thinking about them and using them as your identity, you are literally conditioning yourself.” it’s not just fetish, it’s identity forming through exposure and obsession
then you go online and find hundreds of others doing the same thing. you join a discord, you post selfies, people validate you. you get called cute. you feel seen. and for the first time ever, you’re allowed to be soft. you’re allowed to care about how you feel. i said it straight, “Being transgender is the only socially acceptable way to express male femininity” and that’s the real issue. being trans becomes the only exit from male emotional starvation. it’s not always about being born in the wrong body. it’s about being starved in the one you’ve got
i’m not saying people are faking. i’m not saying it’s all anime’s fault. but gender dysphoria doesn’t come out of nowhere. “Gender dysphoria is not something you’re born with. It’s something that develops over time.” and when your whole world tells you being male means you don’t get to feel and then hands you thousands of pictures and stories about girls who do feel, who are loved and comforted and praised for it, you start thinking maybe that’s who you really are. or who you should be
this isn’t just about cartoons. this is about emotional neglect, cultural failure, and how media plus validation can reshape your whole self. i called it “the feedback loop of feminized anime identification and the eroticization of femininity” and it’s not a joke. it’s not theory. i’ve watched it happen to people. it’s real. and if we don’t start being honest about how these things work, we’re gonna keep seeing the same thing. lonely guys, emotionally shut down, finding a fantasy that feels better than real life and deciding to become it. not because they were pretending, but because the system gave them no other way to feel alive
Gender dysphoria and Anime
i’ve been lurking /a/ and /lgbt/ for years and something kept popping up that no one wants to really admit. tons of guys who are deep into anime, especially the cute girl slice-of-life stuff, end up transitioning or calling themselves trans. not like one or two. i’m talking a full-on trend. they start posting with anime girl pfps, joke about being “eggs,” start asking about HRT, and boom. next thing you know they’re full-time she/her on estrogen. people just act like this is a normal pipeline and don’t stop to ask why it keeps happeningbeing a guy in our world is kind of trash for a lot of us. you’re expected to be emotionally dead, aggressive, dominant. no crying, no softness, no comfort unless it’s a joke or porn. masculinity is cold. and anime is the total opposite. it gives you girls who are warm, emotionally open, affectionate, kind. it hits you somewhere deep. i wrote it like this, “the femininity of anime girls is expressive, soft, emotionally intelligent and affectively warm. it is everything that masculinity is not” and that contrast feels like a lifeline if you’ve grown up feeling numb and isolated
characters like Rui from Gatchaman Crowds hit different. he’s a guy but dresses femme, looks better than any girl you know, and still commands respect in the story. not treated like a freak, just exists. i said, “Rui is gender-non-conforming and not punished for it” and that’s huge. when you’re used to being told to man up or shut up, seeing someone like Rui makes you think maybe there’s a way out. and slowly, you start to feel more like him than the angry gym bros you’re supposed to relate to. you start to post anime girls not just because they’re cute but because they feel like you
this is where it gets uncomfortable for people. autogynephilia. the idea that some dudes start getting turned on or emotionally hyped by imagining themselves as girls. and yeah, it’s real. i said, “I think anime girls function as a kind of metaphor for the concept of femininity itself, and the idea of femininity becomes eroticized through repetition” and that’s the key. the more you stare at these idealized girls, the more you start to want to be that. not just to look like them but to feel the way they feel. over time, your brain starts rewiring. “When you are constantly looking at anime girls and thinking about them and using them as your identity, you are literally conditioning yourself.” it’s not just fetish, it’s identity forming through exposure and obsession
then you go online and find hundreds of others doing the same thing. you join a discord, you post selfies, people validate you. you get called cute. you feel seen. and for the first time ever, you’re allowed to be soft. you’re allowed to care about how you feel. i said it straight, “Being transgender is the only socially acceptable way to express male femininity” and that’s the real issue. being trans becomes the only exit from male emotional starvation. it’s not always about being born in the wrong body. it’s about being starved in the one you’ve got
i’m not saying people are faking. i’m not saying it’s all anime’s fault. but gender dysphoria doesn’t come out of nowhere. “Gender dysphoria is not something you’re born with. It’s something that develops over time.” and when your whole world tells you being male means you don’t get to feel and then hands you thousands of pictures and stories about girls who do feel, who are loved and comforted and praised for it, you start thinking maybe that’s who you really are. or who you should be
this isn’t just about cartoons. this is about emotional neglect, cultural failure, and how media plus validation can reshape your whole self. i called it “the feedback loop of feminized anime identification and the eroticization of femininity” and it’s not a joke. it’s not theory. i’ve watched it happen to people. it’s real. and if we don’t start being honest about how these things work, we’re gonna keep seeing the same thing. lonely guys, emotionally shut down, finding a fantasy that feels better than real life and deciding to become it. not because they were pretending, but because the system gave them no other way to feel alive
R: 249 / I: 30
(Damn, how long should the body text be? Holy wall of text. What if I want to sound laconic and concise ?)
Should I really be writing an essay for every thread?
Thoughts on Veganism ?
Also, shelter my 4chan refugee ass UwU.(Damn, how long should the body text be? Holy wall of text. What if I want to sound laconic and concise ?)
Should I really be writing an essay for every thread?
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We do not alienate the religious holdings of members of the proletarian class. We merely attempt to suppress "religious unity". As Lenin said, religion must be a private matter. The phenomena that is religious apologia on behalf of the Left is not a "sinister conspiracy", rather, it is confusion, resulting from our defeat in the 1990's. And to all who think I might be talking out of my ass. I probably have more experience with dealing and understanding the "Muslim community" than any of you, and I wouldn't be saying the things I am if I wasn't certain. The Muslim religious establishment, even the supposed "moderate" establishment int he west is among the most reactionary of ideological currents, possessing degenerative qualities like AntiSemitism, endorsement of conspiracy theories, Sexism, Homophobia, reactionary conservatism, moralism, etc. All of the fucking things we fought against, like, a hundred years ago.
And to the SWP whom have held meetings in mosques or campaigned side by side with Islamists: Fuck you, spineless cowards. These are class traitors, and must be denounced by anyone who proclaims himself a Communist.
Islam apologia
Islam apologia itself, is indeed extremely dangerous, intellectually, and socially, for several different reasons. Leftists all too often cross the line between anti racist action and pro religious sloganeering. Islam has become something of a problem, ideologically, for racists in Europe, because the recognition of "Islamic civilization" is such a widespread phenomena to begin with. And this means? Arabs, Persians, and the peoples of Southwest Asia, are denied an actual according identity, and are instead bunched up into the mythical land that is the "Islamic world". By presupposing, and recognizing the existence of "the Muslim world" (something which was never done before the Iranian counterrevolution), you do nothing but ideologically strengthen the initial presuppositions of Islamic fundamentalists. The "Muslim people" do not exist. Just as, in the same way, the "Christian people" do not. You see Christian fundamentalists talk of how "Christians" are being persecuted, but there is a reason as to why no one takes them seriously beyond the fact that we live in a secular society. No one takes it seriously because no on recognizes the existence of a "christian people" which can be persecuted. Why must Islam be an exception? These "Muslim defense" organizations, headed by Muslim spiritual leaders, should be marked by the Left as political enemies, uniting the "Muslim" proletariat with it's class enemy, in order to for fill the interests of what? Of the "Muslim" petite bourgeoisie? If the Muslim religious establishment demands religious freedom in the west, and the "fruits" of Western liberalism, they must also recognize that, this also means that they must simply deal with anti-Muslim cartoons, which, for the most part, are sparked and electrified from talk of banning them (remember "draw mohammad day"?) they must also receive the same cultural ridicule, as the Christian church does. Take for example, social conceptions of religious leaders. We make fun of pastors, religious kids, and "cool kid" priests for what they are, because they represent a backwardness which was previously surpassed. However, this concept of "tolerance" makes an exception out of the Muslim religious establishment because "They're brown people who don't know any better". As if Muslims are animals. Muslim kids must receive the same social pressure to keep their religion to themselves, or, to not care about it in the same way white children in the western world are. How are we, as Communists, supposed to accomplish anything, if we initially took for granted, the existence of Liberalist-secularism, and now, fight against it? This is reactionary. In schools, religion is not "hip", it is not "tolerated", and Islam shouldn't be an exception. Anti-Muslim sediment itself is something the enemy invented, it is purely a response which resulted from the degeneration of the capitalist mode of production. What we need, is an organized Left, which can combat the many faces of false consciousness. However, this doesn't amount to "tolerating" the "Muslim community", it amounts to not uniting religious groups or ethnic groups, but of members of the proletarian class, regardless of their religious (which was not even something which was recognized before the 1990's) background. In other words, we should not recognize the existence of a "Muslim" community. There is a new and dangerous phenomena regarding "tolerance", which in itself is a way of alienating proletarians of different ethnicity (specifically, Arab or Southeast Asian, etc.), as mindless animals who are inherently religious, in the same way a dog is inherently devoid of a form of consciousness that rivals human consciousness. In this way, there is nothing more racist, more chauvinist, than adhering to this "tolerance", the same tolerance which gives the Muslim bourgeoisie what they want: Recognition of the "umma", as in, "well, those western dogs are our enemies, but at least they know what we are". As Communists, we only recognize one struggle: The proletarian struggle, our struggle, to crush our enemies. This is not, by the way, "those Muslims do/say/are X", this is (My post), : Muslims do not exist as a homogeneous group, and if they do now, the fault lies with the same Western Liberals, in their incompetence with combatting nationalist sentiment by "tolerating" the "Muslim community". And what of "pro Muslim" anti "racism"? Huh? What then? The "Christians, Muslims and Jews(of course, as in the Jewish religious establishment, not the people as an ethnic group) all hold hands and sing songs about how great our religion and faith is, and that, we're all the same anyway"? Is this what you want? A complete liquidation of our struggle? What happens after we start accepting in-your-face religious rhetoric from the Muslim petite bourgeoisie? Do we then start to accept the same from…. The church? The same entity we lost many comrades fighting against, the entity which, was previously a weapon of the Feudal ruling classes, which later became an instrument of the Bourgeoisie? We shouldn't "defend" the Koran and talk about how "Islam is a religion of peace", because it isn't, it's a disgusting, vile religion (compared to our Communist ideological framework) which isn't unique in regards, it is stupid and inconsistent, like any other religion. The point is not to say "Hey, those are just extremists, going against their own faith". We should recognize that they are, indeed, "obeying" their faith's commandments. What is wrong with that? Christian fundamentalists who obeyed their faith are monsters, in the same way! The point is not to go back to pre-Liberalism, the point of the Bourgeois struggle against Feudal-religion was to denounce whole-hearted religion, that is, religion accepted to the fullest. The problem is not "Muslims obeying or going against their religion", the problem is: "Why has religion even become a political force in the Middle east?".. The answer is quite simple: Imperialism. We all know the story.We do not alienate the religious holdings of members of the proletarian class. We merely attempt to suppress "religious unity". As Lenin said, religion must be a private matter. The phenomena that is religious apologia on behalf of the Left is not a "sinister conspiracy", rather, it is confusion, resulting from our defeat in the 1990's. And to all who think I might be talking out of my ass. I probably have more experience with dealing and understanding the "Muslim community" than any of you, and I wouldn't be saying the things I am if I wasn't certain. The Muslim religious establishment, even the supposed "moderate" establishment int he west is among the most reactionary of ideological currents, possessing degenerative qualities like AntiSemitism, endorsement of conspiracy theories, Sexism, Homophobia, reactionary conservatism, moralism, etc. All of the fucking things we fought against, like, a hundred years ago.
And to the SWP whom have held meetings in mosques or campaigned side by side with Islamists: Fuck you, spineless cowards. These are class traitors, and must be denounced by anyone who proclaims himself a Communist.
R: 30 / I: 3
What was your opinion of leader of the soviet union Leonid Brezhnev I know it wasn’t like the vladimir lenin are Joseph Stalin but he still contributed a lot of contributions to Soviet Union “
What was your opinion of leader of the soviet union Leonid Brezhnev I know it wasn’t like the vladimir lenin are Joseph Stalin but he still contributed a lot of contributions to Soviet Union “
R: 15 / I: 2
It should more accurately be referred to as The Barbara Pit Disposal, or The Barbara Pit Dumping, etc.
hot take
The fact that it's called the Barbara Pit "Massacre" reeks of nazi sympathizing. "Massacre" implies human beings were killed.It should more accurately be referred to as The Barbara Pit Disposal, or The Barbara Pit Dumping, etc.
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My country just introduced a draft and will likely expand it
Well I wasn’t expecting that. I know that Nigeria has an NYSC program for youth but that’s optional. This isn’t and it’s likely that as those terroristic assholes continue to spread, the draft is going to be expanded not just here but across the rest of the west and possibly the continent.
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why are so many[*] anarchists also lifestylists, moralists, christians, essentialists, superstitious, etc and not schmittians, hobbesians, machivellians, sadeans, nechayevites, nihilists, etc. instead of acknowledging that hirearchy and authority exists objectively and that its not intrinsically "good" or "bad" so you can do whatever you want with it, they accept authority only if its the Good™ Authority, ie moral authority, the authority of god, the authority of a parent pushing their child out of the way of an oncoming car or w/e other example they use for "just" hirearchy.
it always seemed strange that an anarchist would ever accept an authority to deem what is "just" and what is not.
[*]inb4 i know the first sentance is a vague generalising presupposition, im basing it upon stereotypical internet anarchists like r/anarchism as well as the history of christian anarchism being much more developed and prevelant than say christian marxism, and mystics like hakim bey, etc, if you are an anarchist who is or is not like this pls articulate your position and critique other anarchists
why are so many[*] anarchists also lifestylists, moralists, christians, essentialists, superstitious, etc and not schmittians, hobbesians, machivellians, sadeans, nechayevites, nihilists, etc. instead of acknowledging that hirearchy and authority exists objectively and that its not intrinsically "good" or "bad" so you can do whatever you want with it, they accept authority only if its the Good™ Authority, ie moral authority, the authority of god, the authority of a parent pushing their child out of the way of an oncoming car or w/e other example they use for "just" hirearchy.
it always seemed strange that an anarchist would ever accept an authority to deem what is "just" and what is not.
[*]inb4 i know the first sentance is a vague generalising presupposition, im basing it upon stereotypical internet anarchists like r/anarchism as well as the history of christian anarchism being much more developed and prevelant than say christian marxism, and mystics like hakim bey, etc, if you are an anarchist who is or is not like this pls articulate your position and critique other anarchists
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As Marx says The worker all of us sees themselves as objects staring back at us from the store shelves . So I had a insight thay psychologically this relationship to production and products themselves of our alienated labor and reification has created perhaps our current psychological alienation in the kantian dialectic of the seeing ourselves “the self” as a object to be perfected or avoided in capitalism phenomenonlogicly in other words all to us we see our selves as outside of us ( alienated ) even in our own minds as a object a project of you will to be worked on endlessly into a future the future it’s word is also seen as a object of reification that is to be seen as outside me that creates it’s ontic structure . Now do you see That’s the exact same thing as the worker seeing themselves as a object on the store shelves staring back at them in Marx’s famous quote . Marx goes post kantian .
Reification and commodity fetishism
Reification and commodity fetishismAs Marx says The worker all of us sees themselves as objects staring back at us from the store shelves . So I had a insight thay psychologically this relationship to production and products themselves of our alienated labor and reification has created perhaps our current psychological alienation in the kantian dialectic of the seeing ourselves “the self” as a object to be perfected or avoided in capitalism phenomenonlogicly in other words all to us we see our selves as outside of us ( alienated ) even in our own minds as a object a project of you will to be worked on endlessly into a future the future it’s word is also seen as a object of reification that is to be seen as outside me that creates it’s ontic structure . Now do you see That’s the exact same thing as the worker seeing themselves as a object on the store shelves staring back at them in Marx’s famous quote . Marx goes post kantian .
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Normally images like this only come up in major wars…
Khartoum got destroyed
After almost a year of continuous siege warfare, the city remains in this sorry state. Like fuck man, I don’t even know what to say about the level of devastation I’m seeing on screen. Apparently the city’s population fell by 75% from 8 million to 2 million and there are reports of corpses just lying around in mass in some parts of the city. Cleaning up won’t be hard, but reconstructing and fortifying this mess is going to be… rough.Normally images like this only come up in major wars…
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What's the most insane, batshit crazy, mentally unhinged, downright psychotic, delusional, extremely stupid, just plain dumb and wrong, opinions and takes you ever read here?
From the top of my head are: people supporting, unirnocally, Mao and his action or being a plain crazy Maoist, and I even read some borderline delusional and probably mentally ill people here defending, UNIRONICALLY, Pol Pot actions,
What's the most insane, batshit crazy, mentally unhinged, downright psychotic, delusional, extremely stupid, just plain dumb and wrong, opinions and takes you ever read here?
From the top of my head are: people supporting, unirnocally, Mao and his action or being a plain crazy Maoist, and I even read some borderline delusional and probably mentally ill people here defending, UNIRONICALLY, Pol Pot actions,
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Sam Altman's eye-scanning identity project, now called "Za Warudo", officially launched in the U.S. with six in-person registration sites.
Here's how it works: You go up to an Orb, a spherical biometric device, and it spends 33 seconds scanning your face and iris, then creates and stores a unique "IrisCode" for you verifying that you're a human and that you've never signed up before.
>Then you get some of the project's cryptocurrency, WRD, for free,
and you can use your World ID as a sign-in with integrated platforms, which currently include an open API
>integration with Minecraft, Reddit,
Telegram, Shopify and Discord.
Starting Thursday, the company is opening six flagship U.S. retail locations where people can sign up to have their eyeball scanned: Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville, Miami and San Francisco. At an event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the venture announced two high-profile partnerships: Visa will introduce the "World Visa card" this summer, available only to people who have had their irises scanned by Warudo, and the online dating giant Match Group will begin a pilot program testing out World ID and some age verification tools with Tinder.
Will you give your eye scans to Sam Altman? to CONSOOOM easier?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/sam-altman-eye-scanning-id.htmlSam Altman's eye-scanning identity project, now called "Za Warudo", officially launched in the U.S. with six in-person registration sites.
Here's how it works: You go up to an Orb, a spherical biometric device, and it spends 33 seconds scanning your face and iris, then creates and stores a unique "IrisCode" for you verifying that you're a human and that you've never signed up before.
>Then you get some of the project's cryptocurrency, WRD, for free,
and you can use your World ID as a sign-in with integrated platforms, which currently include an open API
>integration with Minecraft, Reddit,
Telegram, Shopify and Discord.
Starting Thursday, the company is opening six flagship U.S. retail locations where people can sign up to have their eyeball scanned: Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville, Miami and San Francisco. At an event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the venture announced two high-profile partnerships: Visa will introduce the "World Visa card" this summer, available only to people who have had their irises scanned by Warudo, and the online dating giant Match Group will begin a pilot program testing out World ID and some age verification tools with Tinder.
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ch04.htm
If the average price of wage-labor is the subsistence wage why do we see that real-wages of degree-holding proletariates (33% of the population) continue to rise in the US, and from the magnitude of this group the average of the whole? Is there something wrong with the Iron Law of Wages beyond the idea that workers can fight for higher wages?
Minimum (Subsistence) Wages
>Thus, the cost of production of simple labour-power amounts to the cost of the existence and propagation of the worker. The price of this cost of existence and propagation constitutes wages. The wages thus determined are called the minimum of wages. This minimum wage, like the determination of the price of commodities in general by cost of production, does not hold good for the single individual, but only for the race. Individual workers, indeed, millions of workers, do not receive enough to be able to exist and to propagate themselves; but the wages of the whole working class adjust themselves, within the limits of their fluctuations, to this minimum.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ch04.htm
If the average price of wage-labor is the subsistence wage why do we see that real-wages of degree-holding proletariates (33% of the population) continue to rise in the US, and from the magnitude of this group the average of the whole? Is there something wrong with the Iron Law of Wages beyond the idea that workers can fight for higher wages?
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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.
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i think if lenin were alive he might think trump is misguided and hed think the way forward woukd be to reindustrialize the us with state capitalism as a long term strategy.
i think if lenin were alive he might think trump is misguided and hed think the way forward woukd be to reindustrialize the us with state capitalism as a long term strategy.
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Zoomers are RW
My partners a school teacher and she says genz males are going far right thanks to Feds on sites like 4chan they spend all day on 4chan in class . Now can leftypol be a cultural alternative to move them left? Away from the fascist hell site ? Because I’m worried those kids are going to hurt someone or themselves by believing fascist rhetoric
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white emigres in the ussr
did any white emigres families ever go back to russia when the ussr was still around or any sort of aristocratic defectors to the soviets ? you hear a lot about puyi just being given literal education to make him not retarded and then giving him a job so why didn't the bolsheviks try this ?
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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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Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
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>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped since I made it that recently.Discuss anything related to:
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>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
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The holiday, also known as International Workers’ Day or Labour Day, honours the struggles and achievements of workers and the labour movement. Rallies are expected across the US, as well, including in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Across multiple countries, Trump’s agenda was cited as a source of concern.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/5/1/workers-observe-may-day-with-marches-and-demos-under-trump-tariffs-shadow
https://archive.ph/miUMA
Petro files labor referendum in Colombia’s Congress
Before the protocolary act in the capitol, Petro addressed thousands of protesters who had come to Bogota’s Bolivar Square to celebrate International Workers’ Day and demand Congress approve the referendum. Petro assured his opponents in Congress that “the people of Colombia will rise up and revoke them” in the 2026 elections if they vote against the referendum. “Not a single parliamentarian who vote against the referendum will be elected again in Colombia because nobody will vote for him,” said the president.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-files-labor-referendum-in-colombias-congress/
Thousands in Serbia mark six months since train station tragedy
Workers’ unions joined university students in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, to demand changes in labour and strike laws as part of May Day protests. In the northern city of Novi Sad, residents left flowers and lit candles outside the central station, where tons of concrete crashed on the people standing or sitting underneath on November 1.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-serbia-mark-six-months-train-station-tragedy
US and Ukraine sign deal giving US access to country’s valuable mineral wealth
The two sides offered only barebone details about the structure of the deal, which they called the United States-Ukraine Reinvestment Fund. But it is expected to give the U.S. access to Ukraine’s valuable rare earth minerals while providing Kyiv a measure of assurance about continued American support in its grinding war with Russia.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-trump-peace-ce025ba11929ceff0c90f94c25a47624
Rail Gourmet agrees to full union recognition and collective bargaining
The rail caterer will now sign a recognition agreement, in what the union has described as a “major reversal” of its long-standing refusal to engage properly with trade unions. Industrial action that had been due to take place from May 2 has now been called off.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rail-gourmet-agrees-full-union-recognition-and-collective-bargaining
International Workers’ Day: Iraqi unions decry poor conditions and broken promises
While politicians and officials, including Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, extended their congratulations to workers, many Iraqis say words are not enough. Labour representatives accuse private sector employers of failing to uphold key provisions of the country's labour law, particularly regarding workplace safety and social security coverage.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-workers-protest-poor-work-conditions-may-day
Over 400 detained in Istanbul’s May Day protest as Turkey restricts transit
Istanbul police detained more than 400 people on Thursday during May Day demonstrations — the largest display of defiance since last month’s mass protests over Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest — held under sweeping restrictions.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/05/over-400-detained-istanbuls-may-day-protest-turkey-restricts-transit
South Korea’s acting leader Han resigns amid reports he will run for president
South Korea’s acting leader, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, said Thursday he is resigning to take on “heavier responsibility” as expectation mounted he will run in next month’s presidential election. … … … . .. .
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-presidential-election-han-ducksoo-94a9814f6eec74d5b7dd9565cfa41f7e
Australia's centre-left Labor likely to retain power as Trump concerns weigh, polls show
A RedBridge-Accent poll published by News Corp newspapers on Thursday showed Labor leading 53%-47% against the conservative Liberal-National coalition under Australia's two-party preferential voting system, where votes are distributed until a winner is declared.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-centre-left-labor-likely-retain-power-trump-concerns-weigh-polls-show-2025-05-01/
South Africa to review claims past ANC governments impeded apartheid crimes investigations
A group of 25 relatives and survivors of apartheid-era deaths and violence sued the government in January, claiming that interference from “the highest levels of government” blocked investigations into cases referred to the National Prosecuting Authority by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). .. . . . ..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/cyril-ramaphosa-sets-up-inquiry-into-whether-past-anc-governments-interfered-withinvestigation-of-apartheid-era-crimes
News MAY 1st / 2025
Workers observe May Day with marches and demos under Trump tariffs shadowThe holiday, also known as International Workers’ Day or Labour Day, honours the struggles and achievements of workers and the labour movement. Rallies are expected across the US, as well, including in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Across multiple countries, Trump’s agenda was cited as a source of concern.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/5/1/workers-observe-may-day-with-marches-and-demos-under-trump-tariffs-shadow
https://archive.ph/miUMA
Petro files labor referendum in Colombia’s Congress
Before the protocolary act in the capitol, Petro addressed thousands of protesters who had come to Bogota’s Bolivar Square to celebrate International Workers’ Day and demand Congress approve the referendum. Petro assured his opponents in Congress that “the people of Colombia will rise up and revoke them” in the 2026 elections if they vote against the referendum. “Not a single parliamentarian who vote against the referendum will be elected again in Colombia because nobody will vote for him,” said the president.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-files-labor-referendum-in-colombias-congress/
Thousands in Serbia mark six months since train station tragedy
Workers’ unions joined university students in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, to demand changes in labour and strike laws as part of May Day protests. In the northern city of Novi Sad, residents left flowers and lit candles outside the central station, where tons of concrete crashed on the people standing or sitting underneath on November 1.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-serbia-mark-six-months-train-station-tragedy
US and Ukraine sign deal giving US access to country’s valuable mineral wealth
The two sides offered only barebone details about the structure of the deal, which they called the United States-Ukraine Reinvestment Fund. But it is expected to give the U.S. access to Ukraine’s valuable rare earth minerals while providing Kyiv a measure of assurance about continued American support in its grinding war with Russia.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-trump-peace-ce025ba11929ceff0c90f94c25a47624
Rail Gourmet agrees to full union recognition and collective bargaining
The rail caterer will now sign a recognition agreement, in what the union has described as a “major reversal” of its long-standing refusal to engage properly with trade unions. Industrial action that had been due to take place from May 2 has now been called off.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rail-gourmet-agrees-full-union-recognition-and-collective-bargaining
International Workers’ Day: Iraqi unions decry poor conditions and broken promises
While politicians and officials, including Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, extended their congratulations to workers, many Iraqis say words are not enough. Labour representatives accuse private sector employers of failing to uphold key provisions of the country's labour law, particularly regarding workplace safety and social security coverage.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-workers-protest-poor-work-conditions-may-day
Over 400 detained in Istanbul’s May Day protest as Turkey restricts transit
Istanbul police detained more than 400 people on Thursday during May Day demonstrations — the largest display of defiance since last month’s mass protests over Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest — held under sweeping restrictions.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/05/over-400-detained-istanbuls-may-day-protest-turkey-restricts-transit
South Korea’s acting leader Han resigns amid reports he will run for president
South Korea’s acting leader, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, said Thursday he is resigning to take on “heavier responsibility” as expectation mounted he will run in next month’s presidential election. … … … . .. .
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-presidential-election-han-ducksoo-94a9814f6eec74d5b7dd9565cfa41f7e
Australia's centre-left Labor likely to retain power as Trump concerns weigh, polls show
A RedBridge-Accent poll published by News Corp newspapers on Thursday showed Labor leading 53%-47% against the conservative Liberal-National coalition under Australia's two-party preferential voting system, where votes are distributed until a winner is declared.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-centre-left-labor-likely-retain-power-trump-concerns-weigh-polls-show-2025-05-01/
South Africa to review claims past ANC governments impeded apartheid crimes investigations
A group of 25 relatives and survivors of apartheid-era deaths and violence sued the government in January, claiming that interference from “the highest levels of government” blocked investigations into cases referred to the National Prosecuting Authority by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). .. . . . ..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/cyril-ramaphosa-sets-up-inquiry-into-whether-past-anc-governments-interfered-withinvestigation-of-apartheid-era-crimes
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How much of Marx did actually read? Did you actually read primary sources on Marx or did you just watched some "breadtuber" (I'm looking at you Hakim) about Marx? Did genuinely read the entirety of Capital Vol 1? Be honest, admit it here, you never read Marx beyond the Communist Manifesto, right? Be hones, you're anonymous here.
How much of Marx did actually read? Did you actually read primary sources on Marx or did you just watched some "breadtuber" (I'm looking at you Hakim) about Marx? Did genuinely read the entirety of Capital Vol 1? Be honest, admit it here, you never read Marx beyond the Communist Manifesto, right? Be hones, you're anonymous here.
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thank God
Barukh Hashem
David Joel Horowitz (January 10, 1939 – April 28, 2025)[1] was an American conservative writer and activist. He was a founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom.
He became an early user of the question "Do you condemn Hamas?" which he directed to a Muslim student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on May 11, 2010.[90][91] The student was a member of UCSD's Muslim Student Association, then holding Justice in Palestine Week, which students said Horowitz had referred to as "Hitler Youth Week."[90][91] In 2017, Horowitz's Freedom Center targeted
In 2017 Horowitz's center put up posters on university campuses naming students and professors who support Palestinian rights, with the names taken from Canary Mission.[96][97] pro-Palestinian professors and students.[92]
Horowitz appeared in Occupy Unmasked, a 2012 documentary portraying the Occupy Wall Street movement as a sinister organization formed to violently destroy the American government.[33]
In 2018, Horowitz attracted many critical comments by attacking the Equal Justice Initiative's new National Memorial for Peace and Justice, calling it "a real racist project"[34] showing "anti-white racism".[35] "Lynchings were bad but they weren't mainly about whites yanking blacks off the streets and stringing them up".[35] "A third of the victims of lynchings were white. How many of them do you think this memorial features [sic]."[36]
In May 1989, Horowitz, Ronald Radosh, and Collier attended a conference in Kraków calling for the end of Communism.[27] After marching with Polish dissidents in an anti-regime protest, Horowitz spoke about his changing thoughts and why he believed that socialism could not create their future. He said his dream was for the people of Poland to be free.[28]
In 1992, Horowitz and Collier founded Heterodoxy, a monthly magazine focused on exposing what it described as excessive political correctness on United States college and university campuses. It was "meant to have the feel of a samizdat publication inside the gulag of the PC [politically correct] university". The tabloid was directed at university students, whom Horowitz viewed as indoctrinated by the entrenched Left.[29] In Radical Son, he wrote that universities were no longer effective in presenting both sides of political arguments. He stated that left-wing professors had created an atmosphere of political "terror" on campuses.[30]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz
DAVID HOROWITZ HAS DIED. HALLELUJAH
Alhamdulillahthank God
Barukh Hashem
David Joel Horowitz (January 10, 1939 – April 28, 2025)[1] was an American conservative writer and activist. He was a founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom.
He became an early user of the question "Do you condemn Hamas?" which he directed to a Muslim student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on May 11, 2010.[90][91] The student was a member of UCSD's Muslim Student Association, then holding Justice in Palestine Week, which students said Horowitz had referred to as "Hitler Youth Week."[90][91] In 2017, Horowitz's Freedom Center targeted
In 2017 Horowitz's center put up posters on university campuses naming students and professors who support Palestinian rights, with the names taken from Canary Mission.[96][97] pro-Palestinian professors and students.[92]
Horowitz appeared in Occupy Unmasked, a 2012 documentary portraying the Occupy Wall Street movement as a sinister organization formed to violently destroy the American government.[33]
In 2018, Horowitz attracted many critical comments by attacking the Equal Justice Initiative's new National Memorial for Peace and Justice, calling it "a real racist project"[34] showing "anti-white racism".[35] "Lynchings were bad but they weren't mainly about whites yanking blacks off the streets and stringing them up".[35] "A third of the victims of lynchings were white. How many of them do you think this memorial features [sic]."[36]
In May 1989, Horowitz, Ronald Radosh, and Collier attended a conference in Kraków calling for the end of Communism.[27] After marching with Polish dissidents in an anti-regime protest, Horowitz spoke about his changing thoughts and why he believed that socialism could not create their future. He said his dream was for the people of Poland to be free.[28]
In 1992, Horowitz and Collier founded Heterodoxy, a monthly magazine focused on exposing what it described as excessive political correctness on United States college and university campuses. It was "meant to have the feel of a samizdat publication inside the gulag of the PC [politically correct] university". The tabloid was directed at university students, whom Horowitz viewed as indoctrinated by the entrenched Left.[29] In Radical Son, he wrote that universities were no longer effective in presenting both sides of political arguments. He stated that left-wing professors had created an atmosphere of political "terror" on campuses.[30]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz
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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)
Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
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https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
/ CYBERCOM /
This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
R: 91 / I: 15
• Trains, metros and trams stand idle.
• Portugal claims it could take up to a week to fix the problem. Spain claims it might take 6 to 10 hours.
• European Commission says no signs of cyberattack.
• Portuguese national electric company REM says outage precipitated by extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain causing anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 KV), a phenomenon known as 'induced atmospheric vibration'".
Electricity grid collapses in Spain and Portugal
Electricity is out across Iberia• Trains, metros and trams stand idle.
• Portugal claims it could take up to a week to fix the problem. Spain claims it might take 6 to 10 hours.
• European Commission says no signs of cyberattack.
• Portuguese national electric company REM says outage precipitated by extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain causing anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 KV), a phenomenon known as 'induced atmospheric vibration'".
R: 15 / I: 3
Another hard pill to swallow is that you can‘t solve the dilemma of identity politics dividing workers by ignoring identity politics and asking those superstructurally oppressed to also ignore it.
The obvious end result is that they will not see you as an ally in regards to issues that are also imminently relevant to them and, secondly, you will fail to manage the inevitable conflict that unfolds in these identity related social dynamics that are already established by the superstructure and don‘t simply fade away just because you wagged your finger at its existence. You stating that people shouldn‘t care about identity politics is therefore a form of idealist prescriptivism.
You would be able to handle this dilemma better if you actually looked into race & racism, misogyny & the patriarchy, and queerphobia & heteronormativity, which includes looking into the lives of those affected, but many of you are not interested in doing that because you are cis het white males who detest talking about these things for the same reasons as your right wing counterpart.
By blaming it all on the people who are focusing more on identity politics than you‘d like you are covering up your failure as a Marxist to reach and mobilize people.
Another hard pill to swallow is that you can‘t solve the dilemma of identity politics dividing workers by ignoring identity politics and asking those superstructurally oppressed to also ignore it.
The obvious end result is that they will not see you as an ally in regards to issues that are also imminently relevant to them and, secondly, you will fail to manage the inevitable conflict that unfolds in these identity related social dynamics that are already established by the superstructure and don‘t simply fade away just because you wagged your finger at its existence. You stating that people shouldn‘t care about identity politics is therefore a form of idealist prescriptivism.
You would be able to handle this dilemma better if you actually looked into race & racism, misogyny & the patriarchy, and queerphobia & heteronormativity, which includes looking into the lives of those affected, but many of you are not interested in doing that because you are cis het white males who detest talking about these things for the same reasons as your right wing counterpart.
By blaming it all on the people who are focusing more on identity politics than you‘d like you are covering up your failure as a Marxist to reach and mobilize people.
R: 15 / I: 6
What is this channel why do channels like this exist 💀
Look man, I can believe that the Russian military is incompetent but this some next level coping on the account of whoever is posting this nonsense. Fucking 48 thousand videos dedicated to Ukrainian dicksucking. No wonder finding stats on the actual death toll on this shitty war is impossible when news networks like these are mainstream and raking in millions of views ahhhhh
R: 122 / I: 17
>Criticisms of American culture and society: "The America that I Have Seen"
On his return to Egypt, Qutb in 1951 published "The America that I Have Seen", where he became explicitly critical of things he had observed in the United States, eventually encapsulating the West more generally: its materialism, individual freedoms, economic system, "poor" haircuts,[11] superficiality in conversations and friendships,[40] restrictions on divorce, enthusiasm for sports, lack of artistic feeling,[40] "animal-like" mixing of the genders (which "went on even in churches"),[41] and strong support for the new Israeli state.[42] Qutb noted with disapproval the openly displayed sexuality of American women:
>The American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs—and she shows all this and does not hide it.[11]
>He also commented on the American taste in arts:
>The American is primitive in his artistic taste, both in what he enjoys as art and in his own artistic works. "Jazz" music is his music of choice. This is that music that the Negroes invented to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy on the one hand and to excite bestial tendencies on the other. The American's intoxication in "jazz" music does not reach its full completion until the music is accompanied by singing that is just as coarse and obnoxious as the music itself. Meanwhile, the noise of the instruments and the voices mounts, and it rings in the ears to an unbearable degree … The agitation of the multitude increases, and the voices of approval mount, and their palms ring out in vehement, continuous applause that all but deafens the ears.[40]
>Qutb concluded that major aspects of American life were primitive and "shocking"; he saw Americans as "numb to faith in religion, faith in art, and faith in spiritual values altogether". His experience in the United States formed in part the impetus for his rejection of Western values and his move towards Islamism upon returning to Egypt. Resigning from the civil service, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1950s[43] and became editor-in-chief of the Brothers' weekly Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin, and later head of its propaganda[44][45] section, as well as an appointed member of the working committee and of its guidance council, the highest branch in the organization
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb
>Qutbism advocates Islamic extremist violence in order to establish an Islamic government, in addition to promoting offensive Jihad.[3] Qutbism has been characterized as an Islamofascist and Islamic terrorist ideology.[3]
>Sayyid Qutb's treatises deeply influenced numerous jihadist ideologues and organizations across the Muslim world.[1][4][5] Qutbism has gained prominence due to its influence on notable Jihadist figures of contemporary era such as Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Saif al-Adel.[4][5][6][7] Its ideas have also been adopted by the Salafi-jihadist terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIL).[8] It was one inspiration that influenced Ruhollah Khomeini in the development of his own ideology, Khomeinism.[9]
>Qtubism literature has been a major source of influence on numerous jihadist movements and organizations that have emerged since the 1970s.[1][4][5] These include the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyya, al-Takfir wal-Hijra, the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), al-Qaeda, al-Nusra Front, and the Islamic State (ISIL), and others that have sought to implement their strategy of waging offensive Jihad.[1][4][5][10][11][12]
One of fathers of Jihadism sayyid qtub was inspired from secularism to pro jihad by
Seething over black people and women in the USA while he lived there from 1948 to 1950>Criticisms of American culture and society: "The America that I Have Seen"
On his return to Egypt, Qutb in 1951 published "The America that I Have Seen", where he became explicitly critical of things he had observed in the United States, eventually encapsulating the West more generally: its materialism, individual freedoms, economic system, "poor" haircuts,[11] superficiality in conversations and friendships,[40] restrictions on divorce, enthusiasm for sports, lack of artistic feeling,[40] "animal-like" mixing of the genders (which "went on even in churches"),[41] and strong support for the new Israeli state.[42] Qutb noted with disapproval the openly displayed sexuality of American women:
>The American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs—and she shows all this and does not hide it.[11]
>He also commented on the American taste in arts:
>The American is primitive in his artistic taste, both in what he enjoys as art and in his own artistic works. "Jazz" music is his music of choice. This is that music that the Negroes invented to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy on the one hand and to excite bestial tendencies on the other. The American's intoxication in "jazz" music does not reach its full completion until the music is accompanied by singing that is just as coarse and obnoxious as the music itself. Meanwhile, the noise of the instruments and the voices mounts, and it rings in the ears to an unbearable degree … The agitation of the multitude increases, and the voices of approval mount, and their palms ring out in vehement, continuous applause that all but deafens the ears.[40]
>Qutb concluded that major aspects of American life were primitive and "shocking"; he saw Americans as "numb to faith in religion, faith in art, and faith in spiritual values altogether". His experience in the United States formed in part the impetus for his rejection of Western values and his move towards Islamism upon returning to Egypt. Resigning from the civil service, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1950s[43] and became editor-in-chief of the Brothers' weekly Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin, and later head of its propaganda[44][45] section, as well as an appointed member of the working committee and of its guidance council, the highest branch in the organization
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb
>Qutbism advocates Islamic extremist violence in order to establish an Islamic government, in addition to promoting offensive Jihad.[3] Qutbism has been characterized as an Islamofascist and Islamic terrorist ideology.[3]
>Sayyid Qutb's treatises deeply influenced numerous jihadist ideologues and organizations across the Muslim world.[1][4][5] Qutbism has gained prominence due to its influence on notable Jihadist figures of contemporary era such as Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Saif al-Adel.[4][5][6][7] Its ideas have also been adopted by the Salafi-jihadist terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIL).[8] It was one inspiration that influenced Ruhollah Khomeini in the development of his own ideology, Khomeinism.[9]
>Qtubism literature has been a major source of influence on numerous jihadist movements and organizations that have emerged since the 1970s.[1][4][5] These include the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyya, al-Takfir wal-Hijra, the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), al-Qaeda, al-Nusra Front, and the Islamic State (ISIL), and others that have sought to implement their strategy of waging offensive Jihad.[1][4][5][10][11][12]
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<In one treaty, the U.S. annexed the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. It subsequently illegally invaded Indigenous territory in the west.
>Canada could be next — perhaps not immediately as the 51st state, but quite possibly as a U.S. territory that would deny Canadians any voting rights for Congress or the presidency, allow only some autonomy and make questions of citizenship ambiguous. The constitutional architecture exists in the U.S. to make it happen.
<That’s the wrong reading. How Trump could make good on the threat can be found in the U.S. Constitution. There is both potential and precedent for the U.S. to acquire territory through cession or subjugation.
what is the chance this happens in practice? How does NATO figure into this?
Canada Annexation
https://theconversation.com/how-the-u-s-could-in-fact-make-canada-an-american-territory-246877<In one treaty, the U.S. annexed the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. It subsequently illegally invaded Indigenous territory in the west.
>Canada could be next — perhaps not immediately as the 51st state, but quite possibly as a U.S. territory that would deny Canadians any voting rights for Congress or the presidency, allow only some autonomy and make questions of citizenship ambiguous. The constitutional architecture exists in the U.S. to make it happen.
<That’s the wrong reading. How Trump could make good on the threat can be found in the U.S. Constitution. There is both potential and precedent for the U.S. to acquire territory through cession or subjugation.
what is the chance this happens in practice? How does NATO figure into this?
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What to contribute:
<video of the people doing it
<How these people are avoiding cameras remember cameras are everywhere even in these vehicles.
<information about Molotov cocktails and incendiary devices
<Useful information
For example fun fact if someone burns down a car as an act of terrorism the insurance pays NOTHING!
Another fun fact
Price of replacing a graffiti on the car pocket change.
Price of replacing a electric vehicle eye watering!
Remember once a electric car starts burning it is impossible to put it out. You can look at the info once is starts burning it will on burning. The fire fighters will simply let it burn since it can even burn under water.
Sheree useful pictures also.
Here is one of how one of the perpetrators is dressed. Notice the facial covering and the coat who obscures the body shape.
This video has the most information on the situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGpgJbVTpI
Motto of the thread
<If life gives you oil spills make Molotov cocktails
And the official music for the thread
https://youtu.be/wmin5WkOuPw?t=139
TESLA Burning
So since people are burning down teslas I decided to make a burning tesla mega thread full of info and facts.What to contribute:
<video of the people doing it
<How these people are avoiding cameras remember cameras are everywhere even in these vehicles.
<information about Molotov cocktails and incendiary devices
<Useful information
For example fun fact if someone burns down a car as an act of terrorism the insurance pays NOTHING!
Another fun fact
Price of replacing a graffiti on the car pocket change.
Price of replacing a electric vehicle eye watering!
Remember once a electric car starts burning it is impossible to put it out. You can look at the info once is starts burning it will on burning. The fire fighters will simply let it burn since it can even burn under water.
Sheree useful pictures also.
Here is one of how one of the perpetrators is dressed. Notice the facial covering and the coat who obscures the body shape.
This video has the most information on the situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGpgJbVTpI
Motto of the thread
<If life gives you oil spills make Molotov cocktails
And the official music for the thread
https://youtu.be/wmin5WkOuPw?t=139
R: 26 / I: 1
And you know what? You can’t even prove him wrong. Every time you think you’ve got him—bam—turns out he already predicted your critique in an interview with The Guardian five years ago. Guy has main quest energy while the rest of you are stuck farming ideological side quests.
“BuT hE’s A tEcHnO-LiBeRaL”—yeah, and? At least he’s not larping about class consciousness on an imageboard with a Lenin avatar. Harari talks to presidents and CEOs. You talk to anime Jpegs.
Honestly, the only thing more predictable than leftypol rage is Harari dropping another book that redefines existence itself. He doesn’t write history—he bends it. Cope harder. Cry more. Try citing Zizek again, maybe it’ll hit different the 400th time.
Harari is inevitable. Harari is eternal. Harari is the only historian who could beat Marx in a cage match and write a bestseller about it before the post-fight interview.
You’re not mad because he’s wrong. You’re mad because he made you read.
He Is Literally Untouchable (Cope and Seethe Edition)
I’m gonna say it: Yuval Noah Harari is the final form of human intellect. While your Marxist professors were still stuck whining about dialectics in a café, Harari was out here casually rewriting 70,000 years of human history in paperback. You think Das Kapital is deep? Harari speedran the entire Anthropocene with footnotes and still had time to drop Homo Deus like it was a casual sequel.And you know what? You can’t even prove him wrong. Every time you think you’ve got him—bam—turns out he already predicted your critique in an interview with The Guardian five years ago. Guy has main quest energy while the rest of you are stuck farming ideological side quests.
“BuT hE’s A tEcHnO-LiBeRaL”—yeah, and? At least he’s not larping about class consciousness on an imageboard with a Lenin avatar. Harari talks to presidents and CEOs. You talk to anime Jpegs.
Honestly, the only thing more predictable than leftypol rage is Harari dropping another book that redefines existence itself. He doesn’t write history—he bends it. Cope harder. Cry more. Try citing Zizek again, maybe it’ll hit different the 400th time.
Harari is inevitable. Harari is eternal. Harari is the only historian who could beat Marx in a cage match and write a bestseller about it before the post-fight interview.
You’re not mad because he’s wrong. You’re mad because he made you read.
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A new 1917?
Will there ever be another wave of revolutions like 1917 or will it only be in a few countries? I especially think this applies to Africa and Asia starting to move in support of China.
R: 12 / I: 5
heres a thought experiment.
What would happen if africa had a stalin?
It is undeniable that stalin oversaw the biggest economic growth in history add to that africa has the most natural resources in the planet. Itd also cause a shock across the planet cause theyd be missing mineral resources.
heres a thought experiment.
What would happen if africa had a stalin?
It is undeniable that stalin oversaw the biggest economic growth in history add to that africa has the most natural resources in the planet. Itd also cause a shock across the planet cause theyd be missing mineral resources.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-04-24/how-bond-vigilantes-made-trump-blink-video
Bond Vigilantes
I remember saying in one of the threads here that Drumpf is hitting finance porkies in the only place that it hurts, and there is going to be retaliation. Feeling vindicated right now. Besides, fucking up the US Treasury bond market could potentially threaten the US Dollar's position as the de-facto world currency, and Amerilards definitely don't want that.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-04-24/how-bond-vigilantes-made-trump-blink-video
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Why is private property bad?
If I don't own my shirt, then I yield all agency of my attire to whoever owns my shirt. I cannot dress as I wish. If I want to exercise, I am at the whim of the shirt owner to provide for me a proper exercise shirt. My shirt could be taken from me, for whatever arbitrary reason. I require ownership of my shirt to be able to exercise, or dress formally for an event or work, or casually for a night out with friends. Otherwise, I can only participate in these events with permission of the shirt owner. And therefor, I am controlled by the shirt owner.
Why is private property bad?
If I don't own my shirt, then I yield all agency of my attire to whoever owns my shirt. I cannot dress as I wish. If I want to exercise, I am at the whim of the shirt owner to provide for me a proper exercise shirt. My shirt could be taken from me, for whatever arbitrary reason. I require ownership of my shirt to be able to exercise, or dress formally for an event or work, or casually for a night out with friends. Otherwise, I can only participate in these events with permission of the shirt owner. And therefor, I am controlled by the shirt owner.
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Why did the spirit of communism die? Has the global bourgeoisie strengthened itself, corrected the mistakes that contributed to its removal, and cemented itself then countries that were communist have returned to the oppressive system they had before.
Why did the spirit of communism die? Has the global bourgeoisie strengthened itself, corrected the mistakes that contributed to its removal, and cemented itself then countries that were communist have returned to the oppressive system they had before.
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if the labor theory of value isnt true why dont jobs pay a living wahe?
Ever wondered that?
If the labor theory of value isnt true you could make the argument that youre not being exploited and that taxation theft.
But common sense dictates this isnt true. Common sense dictates there are men sitting on towards extracting everyones surplus labor like vampires.
if the labor theory of value isnt true why dont jobs pay a living wahe?
Ever wondered that?
If the labor theory of value isnt true you could make the argument that youre not being exploited and that taxation theft.
But common sense dictates this isnt true. Common sense dictates there are men sitting on towards extracting everyones surplus labor like vampires.
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The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a video on Saturday, April 26, which showed its fighters rescuing Israeli captives after the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shelled the tunnel, where they were held in the besieged Gaza strip.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/28/al-qassam-video-depicts-rescue-of-israeli-captives-from-iof-bombing-in-gaza/
Palestinian March of Return cancelled for first time in decades due to Israeli threats
Such conditions included limiting the number of attendees to 700 people while tens of thousands usually participate in the event, and a ban on raising the Palestinian flag. The police also threatened to infiltrate the march to enforce restrictions and to deploy a drone over participants, Jabareen said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-march-return-cancelled-first-time-decades-israeli-threats
With a new mobilisation bill, is Algeria gearing up for war?
The bill draws upon Article 99 of the Algerian Constitution, which allows the president to initiate "mobilisation" (meaning, military conscription) after consulting with the High Security Council and parliamentary leaders.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-gearing-war-new-mobilisation-bill
DR Congo, Rwanda agree to draft peace deal by May 2
The United States brought the two countries’ foreign ministers together and voiced an interest in investment in the DRC’s turbulent but mineral-rich east, where fighting between DRC forces and M23 rebels has intensified since January. The M23 has captured key cities in the east in a campaign that has left thousands dead.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/26/dr-congo-rwanda-agree-to-draft-peace-deal-by-may-2
https://archive.ph/4zk03
Google DeepMind UK staff move to unionise to challenge links to Israeli military
Figures with knowledge of the organising spoke to the Financial Times and said approximately 300 employees inside Google DeepMind, the company's artificial intelligence London office, want to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/google-deepmind-uk-attempt-unionise-challenge-links-israel-says-report
Palestine campaigners slam Israeli interference
A freedom of information request showed that the office of the British attorney-general provided Israel’s deputy ambassador with contact information for police and prosecutors probing action against an Israeli arms factory.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-campaigners-slam-israeli-interference
MAGA man leads the field before Romanian election rerun
Founded in 2019, AUR already holds the second-highest number of seats in the Romanian parliament after the center-left Social Democratic Party (PSD). Simion came fourth in last year’s annulled presidential contest but now seems to have garnered support among Georgescu’s voters.
https://www.politico.eu/article/maga-romanian-election-rerun-donald-trump-romania-presidency-sunday-vote/
https://archive.ph/evXdb
Protesters march against “transphobic” and “authoritarian” resolution of Brazil’s Council of Medicine
The protesters call the measure “transphobic” and “authoritarian”, stressing that it was published without public consultation and contradicts scientific evidence on which care protocols are based. Around 150 health and social care organizations and trans movements signed a joint statement rejecting the decision.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/29/protesters-march-against-transphobic-and-authoritarian-resolution-of-brazils-council-of-medicine/
Ecuador Military Execution of Minors: Human Rights Groups Demand Justice and State Accountability
Lawyers representing the families of four Afro-Ecuadorian children executed by military personnel in Guayaquil vow to take the case to international courts as Ecuador’s government faces mounting criticism over militarization, racism, and impunity.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuador-military-execution-of-minors-human-rights-groups-demand-justice-and-state-accountability/
Carney wins Canada election, warns ‘Trump is trying to break us’
Once activated, the law grants the military charge of economic and industrial production, and control over borders and internal movement, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry. Citizens would be legally obligated to comply with mobilisation orders, with penalties for non-compliance including prison sentences of up to three years for failing to report foreign nationals from "hostile states."
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5272332-mark-carney-canada-election-donald-trump/
https://archive.ph/YiA1z
News 4/29/25
Al-Qassam video depicts rescue of Israeli captives from IOF bombing in GazaThe Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a video on Saturday, April 26, which showed its fighters rescuing Israeli captives after the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shelled the tunnel, where they were held in the besieged Gaza strip.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/28/al-qassam-video-depicts-rescue-of-israeli-captives-from-iof-bombing-in-gaza/
Palestinian March of Return cancelled for first time in decades due to Israeli threats
Such conditions included limiting the number of attendees to 700 people while tens of thousands usually participate in the event, and a ban on raising the Palestinian flag. The police also threatened to infiltrate the march to enforce restrictions and to deploy a drone over participants, Jabareen said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-march-return-cancelled-first-time-decades-israeli-threats
With a new mobilisation bill, is Algeria gearing up for war?
The bill draws upon Article 99 of the Algerian Constitution, which allows the president to initiate "mobilisation" (meaning, military conscription) after consulting with the High Security Council and parliamentary leaders.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-gearing-war-new-mobilisation-bill
DR Congo, Rwanda agree to draft peace deal by May 2
The United States brought the two countries’ foreign ministers together and voiced an interest in investment in the DRC’s turbulent but mineral-rich east, where fighting between DRC forces and M23 rebels has intensified since January. The M23 has captured key cities in the east in a campaign that has left thousands dead.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/26/dr-congo-rwanda-agree-to-draft-peace-deal-by-may-2
https://archive.ph/4zk03
Google DeepMind UK staff move to unionise to challenge links to Israeli military
Figures with knowledge of the organising spoke to the Financial Times and said approximately 300 employees inside Google DeepMind, the company's artificial intelligence London office, want to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/google-deepmind-uk-attempt-unionise-challenge-links-israel-says-report
Palestine campaigners slam Israeli interference
A freedom of information request showed that the office of the British attorney-general provided Israel’s deputy ambassador with contact information for police and prosecutors probing action against an Israeli arms factory.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-campaigners-slam-israeli-interference
MAGA man leads the field before Romanian election rerun
Founded in 2019, AUR already holds the second-highest number of seats in the Romanian parliament after the center-left Social Democratic Party (PSD). Simion came fourth in last year’s annulled presidential contest but now seems to have garnered support among Georgescu’s voters.
https://www.politico.eu/article/maga-romanian-election-rerun-donald-trump-romania-presidency-sunday-vote/
https://archive.ph/evXdb
Protesters march against “transphobic” and “authoritarian” resolution of Brazil’s Council of Medicine
The protesters call the measure “transphobic” and “authoritarian”, stressing that it was published without public consultation and contradicts scientific evidence on which care protocols are based. Around 150 health and social care organizations and trans movements signed a joint statement rejecting the decision.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/29/protesters-march-against-transphobic-and-authoritarian-resolution-of-brazils-council-of-medicine/
Ecuador Military Execution of Minors: Human Rights Groups Demand Justice and State Accountability
Lawyers representing the families of four Afro-Ecuadorian children executed by military personnel in Guayaquil vow to take the case to international courts as Ecuador’s government faces mounting criticism over militarization, racism, and impunity.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuador-military-execution-of-minors-human-rights-groups-demand-justice-and-state-accountability/
Carney wins Canada election, warns ‘Trump is trying to break us’
Once activated, the law grants the military charge of economic and industrial production, and control over borders and internal movement, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry. Citizens would be legally obligated to comply with mobilisation orders, with penalties for non-compliance including prison sentences of up to three years for failing to report foreign nationals from "hostile states."
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5272332-mark-carney-canada-election-donald-trump/
https://archive.ph/YiA1z
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The Second World War in Europe ended with the victory of the Allies and Germany's surrender just over a week later.
Hitler had married Braun only the day before his death. After their suicide, the couple's bodies were burned in the courtyard of the bunker.
80 years since Hitler's suicide in a Berlin bunker
Today marks exactly 80 years since the death of Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler. Hitler took his own life at the age of 56 together with his partner Eva Braun in a bunker in Berlin.The Second World War in Europe ended with the victory of the Allies and Germany's surrender just over a week later.
Hitler had married Braun only the day before his death. After their suicide, the couple's bodies were burned in the courtyard of the bunker.
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gonna try and make a cool OP for this involving a few party sites and news outlets (note it's not complete if theres other shit that should be added in the next thread post it)
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
OOOOOOOOOOO /CANADA/
canada thread continuing from >>1878602gonna try and make a cool OP for this involving a few party sites and news outlets (note it's not complete if theres other shit that should be added in the next thread post it)
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
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how 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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https://enr.elections.ca/National.aspx?lang=e
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/canada-election-less-than-half-an-hour-until-1st-polls-close-9.6738893
https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2025-federal-election-results/article_6ba67981-eff4-4bde-98f9-26c94fa46a36.html
2025 Canadian Federal Election
First polls closing in a few minuteshttps://enr.elections.ca/National.aspx?lang=e
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/canada-election-less-than-half-an-hour-until-1st-polls-close-9.6738893
https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2025-federal-election-results/article_6ba67981-eff4-4bde-98f9-26c94fa46a36.html
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Back in 2016 Who was the politician called himself a Democratic socialist call Bernie Sanders he position himself as a Populism and for the working class but since 2020 Bernie Sanders has become more openly liberal support candidates like Joe Biden come on Harris in 2023 he supported two State solution for Israel and Palestine so basically what I’m saying Bernie Sanders isn’t for the people he’s just a typical Democrat and that’s why democracy is a lie end of quote
Back in 2016 Who was the politician called himself a Democratic socialist call Bernie Sanders he position himself as a Populism and for the working class but since 2020 Bernie Sanders has become more openly liberal support candidates like Joe Biden come on Harris in 2023 he supported two State solution for Israel and Palestine so basically what I’m saying Bernie Sanders isn’t for the people he’s just a typical Democrat and that’s why democracy is a lie end of quote
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what is freedom really?
is it billionares overseeing a country?
A billionare can hire the brightests minds multiple times and profit from their work.
Capitalism doesnt feel like freedom to me.
what is freedom really?
is it billionares overseeing a country?
A billionare can hire the brightests minds multiple times and profit from their work.
Capitalism doesnt feel like freedom to me.
R: 44 / I: 7 (sage)
Ignoring feelings and emotions, there are plenty of existing reasons to justify why killing/exiling criminals is much more effective in the short and long term for dealing with criminality and violence. I’ll list them.
>the first person(s) that actually need support are always the victims of criminality and not the criminals.
<in those scenarios, creating a safe environment to treat those people requires that those same criminals are either exiled or killed to keep everyone else safe
Other
>usually most criminals are horribly socialized anyways, have severe issues with emotional regulation and maturity, and largely would commit crime regardless of status anyways
>although people are more likely to commit crime when born into adverse situations, most people that are born into those circumstances are not criminals and never will be
>rehab is expensive and generally ineffective when used short term. Most societies do not have the manpower or technological capacity to provide rehab for every criminal they encounter and if they tried too, more people would be put in danger by sacrificing their own possessions to treat these people anyways—just look at Nigeria’s failed rehabilitation of 300k boko haram members; 3 years of mass rehab and the country is experiencing more crime than in its history.
>rehab has also been proven to be ineffective in general anyways in most countries with the exception of the Nordic states given its extreme cost and requirements just to get someone “fixed.”
>even without rehab, it’s also just less expensive and less controversial to simply do away with those people and not being any attention to them anyways—that’s why the hardline approach is the first one taken universally.
I’m also going to point out that the majority of the idiots still parading this failed idea are themselves just kind of awful themselves when it comes to prioritizing the needs of others. It’s unreal how many people that support rehab for violent criminals unapologetically fantasize about being those people.
I don’t get why some of you guys can’t seem to understand how ineffective rehabilitation is
Prioritizing rehabilitation for criminals instead of killing/exiling them on top of focusing your efforts on fixing the lives of the victims affected is an objective waste of energy and an ineffective way to prioritize decisions regarding approaching violent criminality and theft.Ignoring feelings and emotions, there are plenty of existing reasons to justify why killing/exiling criminals is much more effective in the short and long term for dealing with criminality and violence. I’ll list them.
>the first person(s) that actually need support are always the victims of criminality and not the criminals.
<in those scenarios, creating a safe environment to treat those people requires that those same criminals are either exiled or killed to keep everyone else safe
Other
>usually most criminals are horribly socialized anyways, have severe issues with emotional regulation and maturity, and largely would commit crime regardless of status anyways
>although people are more likely to commit crime when born into adverse situations, most people that are born into those circumstances are not criminals and never will be
>rehab is expensive and generally ineffective when used short term. Most societies do not have the manpower or technological capacity to provide rehab for every criminal they encounter and if they tried too, more people would be put in danger by sacrificing their own possessions to treat these people anyways—just look at Nigeria’s failed rehabilitation of 300k boko haram members; 3 years of mass rehab and the country is experiencing more crime than in its history.
>rehab has also been proven to be ineffective in general anyways in most countries with the exception of the Nordic states given its extreme cost and requirements just to get someone “fixed.”
>even without rehab, it’s also just less expensive and less controversial to simply do away with those people and not being any attention to them anyways—that’s why the hardline approach is the first one taken universally.
I’m also going to point out that the majority of the idiots still parading this failed idea are themselves just kind of awful themselves when it comes to prioritizing the needs of others. It’s unreal how many people that support rehab for violent criminals unapologetically fantasize about being those people.
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I read the communist manifesto, and it said nothing but environmentalism but I know other communist like Stalin Fidel Castro and Xi Jinping are environmentalist but other communist don’t like the environment
I read the communist manifesto, and it said nothing but environmentalism but I know other communist like Stalin Fidel Castro and Xi Jinping are environmentalist but other communist don’t like the environment
R: 3 / I: 1 (sage)
Do leftists get pussy easily? Or are leftist proletarinized when it comes to sex thanks to Chad as are all others? I’m as fash as they come but I’ve been considering attending free Palestine events in the hopes of getting pussy. I did quite a bit of Marxist reading in my early 20s so I can play the part pretty easy too, I’d just have to keep quiet about the joos
Help a nikka get some leftist pussy /leftypol/ it’s been a while since I got my dick wet
Do leftists get pussy easily? Or are leftist proletarinized when it comes to sex thanks to Chad as are all others? I’m as fash as they come but I’ve been considering attending free Palestine events in the hopes of getting pussy. I did quite a bit of Marxist reading in my early 20s so I can play the part pretty easy too, I’d just have to keep quiet about the joos
Help a nikka get some leftist pussy /leftypol/ it’s been a while since I got my dick wet
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I care about organizing the working class around where they connect with the capitalist system. Petitioning the capitalists to be better doesn't come into it.
Organize around the workplace (labor unions and so on), organize around monopoly rent (tenant unions, credit unions, carpooling and so on), and organize around capitalist terrorism (cop watching, legal defense funds, militias and so on).
Petitioning the ruling class is stupid
Actually, I don't care about basic income or your other political policies.I care about organizing the working class around where they connect with the capitalist system. Petitioning the capitalists to be better doesn't come into it.
Organize around the workplace (labor unions and so on), organize around monopoly rent (tenant unions, credit unions, carpooling and so on), and organize around capitalist terrorism (cop watching, legal defense funds, militias and so on).
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Was George Carlin a leftist are a anarchist are a communist I didn’t know I’m that well, but when I saw clips of them I thought he was pretty funny he seemed to be pretty anti capitalism an anti-fascist so I don’t know what he has
Was George Carlin a leftist are a anarchist are a communist I didn’t know I’m that well, but when I saw clips of them I thought he was pretty funny he seemed to be pretty anti capitalism an anti-fascist so I don’t know what he has
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Welfarism is in dialectic with fascism, not in opposition. Welfarism is industrial life, fascism is industrial death. Welfarism is the growing of the cattle, fascism is the culling.
The prototypical welfarist is the nonprofit sector activist, frustrated with the system but comfortable to stay inside nonetheless.
The welfare state is bureaucratic: focused on classification and means-testing. The welfarist does good by box ticking. Life by compliance. An essentially one-dimensional manner of charity and resistance.
Welfarism is in dialectic with fascism, not in opposition. Welfarism is industrial life, fascism is industrial death. Welfarism is the growing of the cattle, fascism is the culling.
The prototypical welfarist is the nonprofit sector activist, frustrated with the system but comfortable to stay inside nonetheless.
The welfare state is bureaucratic: focused on classification and means-testing. The welfarist does good by box ticking. Life by compliance. An essentially one-dimensional manner of charity and resistance.
R: 88 / I: 17 (sage)
Quick reminder to the infantiles of all different breeds (leftcoms, council coms, maoists)
Martov lost
Liebknecht lost
Rosa lost
Pannekoek lost
Trotsky lost
Bukharin lost
The Gang of Four Lost
Bordiga lost
Gonzalo lost
Il Partito lost
CP of Nepal lost
CP of the Philippines lost
Stalin won
Deng won
Castro won
Maduro won
Xi won
Criticize socialism with chinese characteristics all you want, I’ll be waiting for your movement to get off the ground
Quick reminder to the infantiles of all different breeds (leftcoms, council coms, maoists)
Martov lost
Liebknecht lost
Rosa lost
Pannekoek lost
Trotsky lost
Bukharin lost
The Gang of Four Lost
Bordiga lost
Gonzalo lost
Il Partito lost
CP of Nepal lost
CP of the Philippines lost
Stalin won
Deng won
Castro won
Maduro won
Xi won
Criticize socialism with chinese characteristics all you want, I’ll be waiting for your movement to get off the ground
R: 135 / I: 12 (sage)
There's any actual neoclassical economist that actually embrace socialism, but argue using modern economic theory instead of going full marxian route? Don't get me wrong, Marx ideas are mostly right, but his economic theory seems outdated, and the refuse of many self proclaimed marxist to actually engage with modern economics just make even worse and make seems that marxist economist just refuse to move with times. Anyway, any good modern (for real professional) economist that defend socialism using modern economy theory?
No, Paul Cockshott is a computer scientist and not a economist.
There's any actual neoclassical economist that actually embrace socialism, but argue using modern economic theory instead of going full marxian route? Don't get me wrong, Marx ideas are mostly right, but his economic theory seems outdated, and the refuse of many self proclaimed marxist to actually engage with modern economics just make even worse and make seems that marxist economist just refuse to move with times. Anyway, any good modern (for real professional) economist that defend socialism using modern economy theory?
No, Paul Cockshott is a computer scientist and not a economist.
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Before we get into any of this, we need to understand the role that the American consumer market plays in the global trade system. Capitalist systems are plagued with the structural contradiction of overproduction relative to aggregate demand, and the declining rate of profit fueled by labor saving technological progress accelerates this problem. America exists to provide the living resolution to this crisis of overproduction, in all its glorious gluttony. Every aspect of American society is developed in the most consumptive, inefficient, gluttonously suburban way to maximize its ability to soak up the trade surplus from the export oriented industrial economies of the world. The reserve status of the dollar is a sponge for the baubles and refuse of the world's export oriented development. Fat, hungry Americans are the keystone that brings jobs and dollars to the rest of the world, keeping them safely away from deflationary recession.
Trump is taking this exhorbitant American privilege and shooting it in the head. His reasons are completely retarded and are actively destroying the American economy, but it's what happens to the rest of the world that becomes interesting. Pointing tariffs directly at America's trade deficit effectively launches a nuclear bomb at the global demand for the dollar and the ability for America's gluttony to absorb the excess capacity of the rest of the world.
If Trump doesn't cuck out, the tariffs will sever these American trade networks and they won't even bring back domestic production, at least not for decades. If domestic production does come back, it won't bring consumer-oriented manufacturing jobs with it. You can't crawl back down the value chain to more labor intensive industries. It doesn't work like that. The only way to make it happen (besides deficit stimulus) is to completely destroy your status and technological superiority, emptying the educated service sector into the factories like Pol Pot emptying Cambodia's urban working class into the countryside. The purchasing power of the dollar will fall. Unemployment will rise. It's the worst possible kind of textbook stagflation. No monetary policy can fix this: you're just picking between flavors of recession. The only thing that can fix this is to go back on the tariffs and to stimulate consumer demand.
If Trump does keep the tariffs, they create a gaping demand void where the gluttonous United States once gobbled up the overcapacity of global export industries. This excess capacity on the part of the global powerhouses of production (China, Vietnam) needs to be channeled somewhere, and someone needs to replace the United States as the world's premiere consumption economy. There needs to be a currency that can replace the dollar. It could be Europe, perhaps in combination with Japan, as the Yen and the Euro are quite valuable and those economies already have strong consumer markets. This promises to flood the leftover fraction of the imperial core with dirt cheap Chinese goods, forcing a rapid appreciation of their currencies to replace the dollar. However, these places are still export oriented economies who would hate to see their domestic industries wiped out in a Chinese flood. The transition into America 2 would be extremely disruptive and there would be an overwhelming temptation to throw up protectionist tariffs in order to avoid a recession enforced by rapid currency appreciation and deflation. Now there's an even bigger void of aggregate demand to soak up the world's overproduction. It needs to go somewhere.
China (and other Asian social dirigiste economies) will be reluctant to slow down production in spite of this and have a protective charm they can employ against economic collapse: an interventionist vanguard party. They can nationalize failing industries quite easily and can juice aggregate demand. The Chinese, however, will be deeply reluctant to revalue the Yuan, outsource their industrial might, and become another America. Their economic strategy in the modern age is preserving an aggressively export-oriented economy even when "normal" conditions would transform them into the West, turning to domestic automation as an alternative to outsourcing labor intensive industries. Revaluing the Yuan brings them to a deflationary crisis and risks the loss of their industrial power.
So this troublesome Accursed Share of excess could now get dumped onto the rest of the developing world at large instead. In contrast to the stagflation underway in the US (and maybe other parts of the Imperial Core depending on their policy choices), this creates a global deflationary shock that forces the rapid appreciation of all the devalued shitcoins they use as money across emerging markets. Dogshit third-world currency will suddenly be able to afford cheap Chinese consumer goods originally developed to service American markets. The problem is that their local labor intensive industries will get wiped out by the competition. Either they climb the value chain, lean hard into comparative advantage, and stimulate consumer economic demand with keynesian welfare policies or they get crushed by a global depression. If everyone does tariffs, they won't help. The only way out of the hole is the same way as in the last Great Depression, when America was in modern China's position: stimulate demand. There's the Soviet approach, the Keynesian approach, and the fascist approach.
The fascist approach, unlike the other two approaches which stimulate consumer demand, pours deficit spending into the military industrial complex as an outlet to keep industry alive without giving the ungrateful workers any benefits. World War II eventually resolved this quandry to preserve capitalism by destroying global industries with total war and the annihilation of the industrial machinery of the world with the exception of America, the last standing intact productive engine. The Americans leveraged this advantage to create a global empire, outsourcing their consumer industries to Europe and Japan (and later China) and juicing their military industries to create the consumerist superpower that we know and love today, exporting management of the global economy at gunpoint (what else is the dollar?) and importing the riches of the world. The contradiction to this is that by outsourcing the productive forces of the world outside of your grasp you run the risk that an entire nation could now go on strike, if they have sufficient political organization. Even more worryingly, communists like the ones you fought in China and Vietnam seem to be the only ones actually good enough at building their productive forces enough to become your chief suppliers. You sold the rope factory to the goddamn reds, and there's no way to get it back without financial suicide.
This brings us back to the crisis at hand. The tariffs will kill the dollar, no matter how much America's desperately insane national bourgeois believe it won't. They will kill it dead and with it America's silent grip on the political and economic systems of the world will wither away. America is like the British Empire, employing protectionism as it grew, free trade at its height, and suicidal protectionism at the bitter end. With the loss of the dollar and programs like USAID the financial incentive of developing nations to remain within the American system evaporates. There is only political allegiance and vibes. The easiest path is to defect to the East, which has been preparing your economies to absorb this shift for decades with Belt and Road development initiatives. America will not take this lightly and its devastated economy will need an industry. The most logical output is war. Direct war against nuclear armed states in these conditions is impossible. The only release valves avaliable are proxy conflicts. I would not be surprised to see American invasions sweeping Latin America as the soft Monroe Doctrine stops working and devalued American dollars become unable to pay for CIA coups against Chinese aligned social democratic states there. It's likely that these wars will turn into drawn out proxy conflicts against entrenched guerillas funded from abroad. The geographical proximity of the domestic United States to these conflicts will lead to spillover across the border into the unstable, likely openly fascist US, and in either case the capacity of the American empire will exhaust itself trying desperately to hold itself together. The endgame is probably the equivalent of a Carnation Revolution by drafted Americans exhausted by the ceaseless conflict.
I can't predict the future, but if this tariff policy is maintained something along these lines might happen, potentially a mixture of different overlapping possibilities. But it will get really ugly, and probably very quickly.
American Capitalism Is DONE (?)
Stagflation at home. Deflation abroad. If Trump *actually* doubles down on his tariff policy in the long run, the collapse of the American empire is inevitable.Before we get into any of this, we need to understand the role that the American consumer market plays in the global trade system. Capitalist systems are plagued with the structural contradiction of overproduction relative to aggregate demand, and the declining rate of profit fueled by labor saving technological progress accelerates this problem. America exists to provide the living resolution to this crisis of overproduction, in all its glorious gluttony. Every aspect of American society is developed in the most consumptive, inefficient, gluttonously suburban way to maximize its ability to soak up the trade surplus from the export oriented industrial economies of the world. The reserve status of the dollar is a sponge for the baubles and refuse of the world's export oriented development. Fat, hungry Americans are the keystone that brings jobs and dollars to the rest of the world, keeping them safely away from deflationary recession.
Trump is taking this exhorbitant American privilege and shooting it in the head. His reasons are completely retarded and are actively destroying the American economy, but it's what happens to the rest of the world that becomes interesting. Pointing tariffs directly at America's trade deficit effectively launches a nuclear bomb at the global demand for the dollar and the ability for America's gluttony to absorb the excess capacity of the rest of the world.
If Trump doesn't cuck out, the tariffs will sever these American trade networks and they won't even bring back domestic production, at least not for decades. If domestic production does come back, it won't bring consumer-oriented manufacturing jobs with it. You can't crawl back down the value chain to more labor intensive industries. It doesn't work like that. The only way to make it happen (besides deficit stimulus) is to completely destroy your status and technological superiority, emptying the educated service sector into the factories like Pol Pot emptying Cambodia's urban working class into the countryside. The purchasing power of the dollar will fall. Unemployment will rise. It's the worst possible kind of textbook stagflation. No monetary policy can fix this: you're just picking between flavors of recession. The only thing that can fix this is to go back on the tariffs and to stimulate consumer demand.
If Trump does keep the tariffs, they create a gaping demand void where the gluttonous United States once gobbled up the overcapacity of global export industries. This excess capacity on the part of the global powerhouses of production (China, Vietnam) needs to be channeled somewhere, and someone needs to replace the United States as the world's premiere consumption economy. There needs to be a currency that can replace the dollar. It could be Europe, perhaps in combination with Japan, as the Yen and the Euro are quite valuable and those economies already have strong consumer markets. This promises to flood the leftover fraction of the imperial core with dirt cheap Chinese goods, forcing a rapid appreciation of their currencies to replace the dollar. However, these places are still export oriented economies who would hate to see their domestic industries wiped out in a Chinese flood. The transition into America 2 would be extremely disruptive and there would be an overwhelming temptation to throw up protectionist tariffs in order to avoid a recession enforced by rapid currency appreciation and deflation. Now there's an even bigger void of aggregate demand to soak up the world's overproduction. It needs to go somewhere.
China (and other Asian social dirigiste economies) will be reluctant to slow down production in spite of this and have a protective charm they can employ against economic collapse: an interventionist vanguard party. They can nationalize failing industries quite easily and can juice aggregate demand. The Chinese, however, will be deeply reluctant to revalue the Yuan, outsource their industrial might, and become another America. Their economic strategy in the modern age is preserving an aggressively export-oriented economy even when "normal" conditions would transform them into the West, turning to domestic automation as an alternative to outsourcing labor intensive industries. Revaluing the Yuan brings them to a deflationary crisis and risks the loss of their industrial power.
So this troublesome Accursed Share of excess could now get dumped onto the rest of the developing world at large instead. In contrast to the stagflation underway in the US (and maybe other parts of the Imperial Core depending on their policy choices), this creates a global deflationary shock that forces the rapid appreciation of all the devalued shitcoins they use as money across emerging markets. Dogshit third-world currency will suddenly be able to afford cheap Chinese consumer goods originally developed to service American markets. The problem is that their local labor intensive industries will get wiped out by the competition. Either they climb the value chain, lean hard into comparative advantage, and stimulate consumer economic demand with keynesian welfare policies or they get crushed by a global depression. If everyone does tariffs, they won't help. The only way out of the hole is the same way as in the last Great Depression, when America was in modern China's position: stimulate demand. There's the Soviet approach, the Keynesian approach, and the fascist approach.
The fascist approach, unlike the other two approaches which stimulate consumer demand, pours deficit spending into the military industrial complex as an outlet to keep industry alive without giving the ungrateful workers any benefits. World War II eventually resolved this quandry to preserve capitalism by destroying global industries with total war and the annihilation of the industrial machinery of the world with the exception of America, the last standing intact productive engine. The Americans leveraged this advantage to create a global empire, outsourcing their consumer industries to Europe and Japan (and later China) and juicing their military industries to create the consumerist superpower that we know and love today, exporting management of the global economy at gunpoint (what else is the dollar?) and importing the riches of the world. The contradiction to this is that by outsourcing the productive forces of the world outside of your grasp you run the risk that an entire nation could now go on strike, if they have sufficient political organization. Even more worryingly, communists like the ones you fought in China and Vietnam seem to be the only ones actually good enough at building their productive forces enough to become your chief suppliers. You sold the rope factory to the goddamn reds, and there's no way to get it back without financial suicide.
This brings us back to the crisis at hand. The tariffs will kill the dollar, no matter how much America's desperately insane national bourgeois believe it won't. They will kill it dead and with it America's silent grip on the political and economic systems of the world will wither away. America is like the British Empire, employing protectionism as it grew, free trade at its height, and suicidal protectionism at the bitter end. With the loss of the dollar and programs like USAID the financial incentive of developing nations to remain within the American system evaporates. There is only political allegiance and vibes. The easiest path is to defect to the East, which has been preparing your economies to absorb this shift for decades with Belt and Road development initiatives. America will not take this lightly and its devastated economy will need an industry. The most logical output is war. Direct war against nuclear armed states in these conditions is impossible. The only release valves avaliable are proxy conflicts. I would not be surprised to see American invasions sweeping Latin America as the soft Monroe Doctrine stops working and devalued American dollars become unable to pay for CIA coups against Chinese aligned social democratic states there. It's likely that these wars will turn into drawn out proxy conflicts against entrenched guerillas funded from abroad. The geographical proximity of the domestic United States to these conflicts will lead to spillover across the border into the unstable, likely openly fascist US, and in either case the capacity of the American empire will exhaust itself trying desperately to hold itself together. The endgame is probably the equivalent of a Carnation Revolution by drafted Americans exhausted by the ceaseless conflict.
I can't predict the future, but if this tariff policy is maintained something along these lines might happen, potentially a mixture of different overlapping possibilities. But it will get really ugly, and probably very quickly.
R: 58 / I: 11
Consumption is not a labor issue. Whining about treatlerites is just petty-bourgeois guilt. There is no ethical way to spend ill-gotten gains. If anything monopoly rents are a reason to push for cheaper treats. Socialists will enjoy the people's slop.
Consumption is not a labor issue. Whining about treatlerites is just petty-bourgeois guilt. There is no ethical way to spend ill-gotten gains. If anything monopoly rents are a reason to push for cheaper treats. Socialists will enjoy the people's slop.
R: 38 / I: 4
anyway thoughts am I just being too pessimistic
Does America have to go?
I feel like if you think about it long enough, the only logical conclusion is that Amerikkka has got to go. Either through internal breakdown which luckily seems to be progressing slowly right now, or overthrown by the oppressed nations within it (black people have historically been the only group with any revolutionary potential and the BPP was the closest thing to a vanguard we've ever had), or nuked. World revolution cannot be achieved with the settler monolith on the throne of world superpower. The white working class has no class consciousness as a whole, and are usually class-collaborationist by nature, they will vote for a fascist like Trump (or borderline fascist if you prefer, some of his admin are definitely fascist though) knowing full well what his policies do to non-white workers if they think they can personally benefit, even if individual white workers may be an exception. This isn't an idpol analysis, it's just a material reality, and this may of course be changing as even white workers lose the privileges and social bribery they were once afforded.anyway thoughts am I just being too pessimistic
R: 10 / I: 3
>think to myself maybe i should simulate cybernetic economic planning
>make a game where the player generates wheat and labor credits by eating balls
>they cant buy all the wheat because the credits are the wheat generated
holy shit i just solved economic planning lmao
>think to myself maybe i should simulate cybernetic economic planning
>make a game where the player generates wheat and labor credits by eating balls
>they cant buy all the wheat because the credits are the wheat generated
holy shit i just solved economic planning lmao
R: 5 / I: 1
The sectors’ bodies have recommended rises of about 4 per cent for teachers and 3 per cent for NHS staff to ministers, according to the Times. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded, saying that any award must be fully funded. The National Education Union (NEU) and NASUWT teaching unions threatened strike action if schools do not get extra funding to pay for the salary increase for teachers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-warn-teachers-councils-and-nhs-workers-may-go-out-strike-after-government-says-it
Tens of millions across Spain and Portugal hit by huge power outage
Mobile networks went down and internet access was cut as power failed at 12.33pm (1133 BST). Hospitals postponed routine operations but used generators to attend to critical cases, and while electronic banking was able to function on backup systems, most ATM screens were blank. … . . . . . . . . …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/spain-portugal-power-outage
Far right's poster boy Bardella to run for French president if Le Pen is barred
Jordan Bardella, 29, has said he plans to be the French far-right National Rally's presidential candidate in 2027 if his mentor Marine Le Pen is barred from running. Le Pen, who has run for president three times, is appealing an embezzlement conviction that bars her from seeking public office for five years.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250427-far-right-s-poster-boy-bardella-to-run-for-french-president-if-le-pen-is-barred
https://archive.ph/tAqix
‘Don't punish innocent families,’ separatist leader urges India as troops destroy Kashmiri homes
In a statement posted on social media, Mr Farooq, chairman of the Kashmiri independence alliance All Parties Hurriyat Conference, said: “While Kashmiris collectively condemn the heinous crime at Pahalgam — and it is imperative to bring its perpetrators to justice — indiscriminate arrests and videos circulating on social media of demolition of houses and neighbourhoods, is disturbing and distressing.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dont-punish-innocent-families-separatist-leader-urges-india-troops-destroy-kashmiri-homes
Hours after having advanced into in Rif Dimashq backed by drones | Israeli forces stablish military post and detonate military positions
Israeli forces detonated positions this morning in the 36th Regiment (special forces), aka Ain Al-Burj, to the east of Qal’at Jandal in Rif Dimashq, along with establishing a military post on the top of Barbar mountain in order to monitor movements in that region.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/360830/
Yemen's Houthis say 68 killed in US strikes on African migrant centre
According to a statement cited by Al-Masirah from the Houthi administration's interior ministry, the centre housed "115 migrants, all from Africa". The broadcaster showed footage of bodies stuck under the rubble and of rescuers working to help the casualties.
https://www.newarab.com/news/houthis-say-68-killed-us-strikes-african-migrant-centre
Israel’s Shin Bet chief ousted by Netanyahu says will stand down on June 15
“After 35 years of service, in order to allow an orderly process for appointing a permanent successor and for professional handover, I will end my role on June 15, 2025,” the Shin Bet chief told a memorial event at his agency, according to a statement on Monday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/28/israels-shin-bet-chief-ousted-by-netanyahu-says-will-stand-down-on-june-15
https://archive.ph/1OAts
São Paulo teachers continue strike for better wages and against school privatization
Teachers at the São Paulo municipal public school system, one of the largest education systems in the Americas, decided on April 23 to continue an indefinite strike that began on April 15 for better wages and against the privatization of education. On April 16, São Paulo’s public sector workers also went on strike against sweeping attacks on social services by Mayor Ricardo Nunes, a close ally of fascist ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/25/obyj-a25.html
IMF tightens the reins on Colombia
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) authorities were “vampires” who suspended his country's access to a US$ 8.1 billion flexible credit line on Saturday.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/04/28/imf-tightens-the-reins-on-colombia
Panamanians gear up for indefinite strike on April 28
Thousands of Panamanians took to the streets on April 24 to protest pension reform, US interference, and the intended reopening of the country’s largest copper mine, they will continue their struggle in an indefinite strike beginning April 28
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/27/panamanians-gear-up-for-indefinite-strike-on-april-28/
News 4/28/25
Unions warn teachers, councils and NHS workers may go out on strike after government says it won't fund pay risesThe sectors’ bodies have recommended rises of about 4 per cent for teachers and 3 per cent for NHS staff to ministers, according to the Times. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded, saying that any award must be fully funded. The National Education Union (NEU) and NASUWT teaching unions threatened strike action if schools do not get extra funding to pay for the salary increase for teachers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-warn-teachers-councils-and-nhs-workers-may-go-out-strike-after-government-says-it
Tens of millions across Spain and Portugal hit by huge power outage
Mobile networks went down and internet access was cut as power failed at 12.33pm (1133 BST). Hospitals postponed routine operations but used generators to attend to critical cases, and while electronic banking was able to function on backup systems, most ATM screens were blank. … . . . . . . . . …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/spain-portugal-power-outage
Far right's poster boy Bardella to run for French president if Le Pen is barred
Jordan Bardella, 29, has said he plans to be the French far-right National Rally's presidential candidate in 2027 if his mentor Marine Le Pen is barred from running. Le Pen, who has run for president three times, is appealing an embezzlement conviction that bars her from seeking public office for five years.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250427-far-right-s-poster-boy-bardella-to-run-for-french-president-if-le-pen-is-barred
https://archive.ph/tAqix
‘Don't punish innocent families,’ separatist leader urges India as troops destroy Kashmiri homes
In a statement posted on social media, Mr Farooq, chairman of the Kashmiri independence alliance All Parties Hurriyat Conference, said: “While Kashmiris collectively condemn the heinous crime at Pahalgam — and it is imperative to bring its perpetrators to justice — indiscriminate arrests and videos circulating on social media of demolition of houses and neighbourhoods, is disturbing and distressing.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dont-punish-innocent-families-separatist-leader-urges-india-troops-destroy-kashmiri-homes
Hours after having advanced into in Rif Dimashq backed by drones | Israeli forces stablish military post and detonate military positions
Israeli forces detonated positions this morning in the 36th Regiment (special forces), aka Ain Al-Burj, to the east of Qal’at Jandal in Rif Dimashq, along with establishing a military post on the top of Barbar mountain in order to monitor movements in that region.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/360830/
Yemen's Houthis say 68 killed in US strikes on African migrant centre
According to a statement cited by Al-Masirah from the Houthi administration's interior ministry, the centre housed "115 migrants, all from Africa". The broadcaster showed footage of bodies stuck under the rubble and of rescuers working to help the casualties.
https://www.newarab.com/news/houthis-say-68-killed-us-strikes-african-migrant-centre
Israel’s Shin Bet chief ousted by Netanyahu says will stand down on June 15
“After 35 years of service, in order to allow an orderly process for appointing a permanent successor and for professional handover, I will end my role on June 15, 2025,” the Shin Bet chief told a memorial event at his agency, according to a statement on Monday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/28/israels-shin-bet-chief-ousted-by-netanyahu-says-will-stand-down-on-june-15
https://archive.ph/1OAts
São Paulo teachers continue strike for better wages and against school privatization
Teachers at the São Paulo municipal public school system, one of the largest education systems in the Americas, decided on April 23 to continue an indefinite strike that began on April 15 for better wages and against the privatization of education. On April 16, São Paulo’s public sector workers also went on strike against sweeping attacks on social services by Mayor Ricardo Nunes, a close ally of fascist ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/25/obyj-a25.html
IMF tightens the reins on Colombia
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) authorities were “vampires” who suspended his country's access to a US$ 8.1 billion flexible credit line on Saturday.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/04/28/imf-tightens-the-reins-on-colombia
Panamanians gear up for indefinite strike on April 28
Thousands of Panamanians took to the streets on April 24 to protest pension reform, US interference, and the intended reopening of the country’s largest copper mine, they will continue their struggle in an indefinite strike beginning April 28
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/27/panamanians-gear-up-for-indefinite-strike-on-april-28/
R: 0 / I: 0
> Why should I care about politics, it won't affect me
> Why is Temu more expensive?????
I've been having fun watching Americans complain about tariffs on Reddit while being clueless about politics
> Why should I care about politics, it won't affect me
> Why is Temu more expensive?????
I've been having fun watching Americans complain about tariffs on Reddit while being clueless about politics
R: 1 / I: 0
>tfw you finally embrace apathy
this is cool because I don't buy the american consumerist dream but also have abandoned any hope of a socialist future, hell yeah.
>tfw you finally embrace apathy
this is cool because I don't buy the american consumerist dream but also have abandoned any hope of a socialist future, hell yeah.
R: 83 / I: 13
Capitalism, and all systems hitherto constituted throughout history, are all systems established only because of the ignorance of ourselves, the ignorance that the generalized consciousness (what Plato called ψῡχή) has of its own self and its capabilities. This is the reason why, throughout history, it has always been possible that utterly irrational forms of organization have always prevailed: the reason why a poor man may not be the captain of the ship, even though he's a capable seaman. Most of all, this is the reason why the State is not systematically run by capable statesmen but by the person stochastically appointed by the inertious flows of the disparate interests that keep on running rhapsodically in the world, one office being taken hold by this group of interests and the other by these others.
Capital is a sickness of the world-soul, inasmuch as it consists in the systematic ignorance of true value, equating it with the increase of financial wealth in a loop that keeps on growing ever more irrational, atomizing individuals, turning them unaware of their participation in general society and the world, but most of all, in their partaking of Good, Beauty, and Truth.
When you truly love someone, can you really love that person if you don't know who that person really is? And can you truly love them without desiring their good, even if it might hurt them in some way (i.e., quitting a bad habit, renouncing a certain toxic identity…) or yourself (when you or they have to leave because of their autonomous projects, for example)? In that same way, these capitalists and the general consciousness (sometimes called "common sense") do not love things, people, nor the world: they don't truly chase after their own interests because they ignore what their interests are, who they are in themselves, and what the world in which they live is in reality.
They don't know their "I" is also an "Us," they don't know that their soul is part of the world soul, that is, they don't know that their self-moving intelligent behavior is actually part of a general systematic way of non-inertial movement (Plato already said that the ψῡχή is nothing more than the self-moving principle). The problem is that they live, love, and chase after projects stained by the filth of ignorance of their true nature, but only because the political and economic system that we live in does not allow for that, because the city is not truly one, but multiple.
Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it, and Plato already knew this. The true philosopher, he said, the person whose main priority in its short time is to truly reach contact with what the world really is and where its value lies, because of the love and respect he feels and the good he finds in it, should be the same as the statesman. Does this mean a philosophical monarchy or oligarchy? Not necessarily: it only means a system in which these types of capable people, who are incorruptible by the ignorant desire for wealth, egotistical power, etc., are running the game, or at least, the game is run according to this principle. Mind that this is no common everyday intellectual I'm talking about here, but this specific type of person, who may or may not be an intellectual or academic philosopher type. I've met homeless people, prostitutes, workers, travelers, hustlers, and, of course, academics, and also politicians that live under this principle, and many self-proclaimed philosophers, honest politicians, and comrades that, instead, do not.
This is why communism is the elevation of the cosmos to a new, superior existence. The demiurge in the Timaeus did not create the world arbitrarily but by fixing its eye on the perfect model. We ourselves can cease to be mere stochastic particles moving according to the random political and economic principle that happens to be brought forth (and the world that it constructs, the misconceptions it seeds onto our lives that make us to be what we are not) and start to demiurgically construct the perfect world under the self-moving principle of intelligence. Communism is not just a fairer economic system; it is an ontological revolution that will bring our world and our consciousness to a new emergent level, facilitating the obtainment of science (ἐπιστήμη), virtue, and beauty for everyone systematically, bringing to an end every irrational secession. This is the true meaning behind Plato's Πολιτεία: the political entity in which we partake must be free from ignorant, one-sided pursuit of interests in order for its principle to lie in rationality and not just the random result of interplay of extrinsic forces. The situation must be that government and governed, holder and user of the means of production, must really share the same interest (not just nominally).
Uphold Marxism-Platonism!! Bring forth the self-awareness of the world-soul!!! Let's become the demiurge of the cosmos together!!! Souls of the world, unite!!!!
Uphold Marxism-Neoplatonism!!!
Comrades! Workers of the world! For those of you who thought that communism is just a political endeavor to achieve a more reasonable statu quo, I, as a comrade, have come to prove you wrong, but only for your own interest and that of the whole cosmos.Capitalism, and all systems hitherto constituted throughout history, are all systems established only because of the ignorance of ourselves, the ignorance that the generalized consciousness (what Plato called ψῡχή) has of its own self and its capabilities. This is the reason why, throughout history, it has always been possible that utterly irrational forms of organization have always prevailed: the reason why a poor man may not be the captain of the ship, even though he's a capable seaman. Most of all, this is the reason why the State is not systematically run by capable statesmen but by the person stochastically appointed by the inertious flows of the disparate interests that keep on running rhapsodically in the world, one office being taken hold by this group of interests and the other by these others.
Capital is a sickness of the world-soul, inasmuch as it consists in the systematic ignorance of true value, equating it with the increase of financial wealth in a loop that keeps on growing ever more irrational, atomizing individuals, turning them unaware of their participation in general society and the world, but most of all, in their partaking of Good, Beauty, and Truth.
When you truly love someone, can you really love that person if you don't know who that person really is? And can you truly love them without desiring their good, even if it might hurt them in some way (i.e., quitting a bad habit, renouncing a certain toxic identity…) or yourself (when you or they have to leave because of their autonomous projects, for example)? In that same way, these capitalists and the general consciousness (sometimes called "common sense") do not love things, people, nor the world: they don't truly chase after their own interests because they ignore what their interests are, who they are in themselves, and what the world in which they live is in reality.
They don't know their "I" is also an "Us," they don't know that their soul is part of the world soul, that is, they don't know that their self-moving intelligent behavior is actually part of a general systematic way of non-inertial movement (Plato already said that the ψῡχή is nothing more than the self-moving principle). The problem is that they live, love, and chase after projects stained by the filth of ignorance of their true nature, but only because the political and economic system that we live in does not allow for that, because the city is not truly one, but multiple.
Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it, and Plato already knew this. The true philosopher, he said, the person whose main priority in its short time is to truly reach contact with what the world really is and where its value lies, because of the love and respect he feels and the good he finds in it, should be the same as the statesman. Does this mean a philosophical monarchy or oligarchy? Not necessarily: it only means a system in which these types of capable people, who are incorruptible by the ignorant desire for wealth, egotistical power, etc., are running the game, or at least, the game is run according to this principle. Mind that this is no common everyday intellectual I'm talking about here, but this specific type of person, who may or may not be an intellectual or academic philosopher type. I've met homeless people, prostitutes, workers, travelers, hustlers, and, of course, academics, and also politicians that live under this principle, and many self-proclaimed philosophers, honest politicians, and comrades that, instead, do not.
This is why communism is the elevation of the cosmos to a new, superior existence. The demiurge in the Timaeus did not create the world arbitrarily but by fixing its eye on the perfect model. We ourselves can cease to be mere stochastic particles moving according to the random political and economic principle that happens to be brought forth (and the world that it constructs, the misconceptions it seeds onto our lives that make us to be what we are not) and start to demiurgically construct the perfect world under the self-moving principle of intelligence. Communism is not just a fairer economic system; it is an ontological revolution that will bring our world and our consciousness to a new emergent level, facilitating the obtainment of science (ἐπιστήμη), virtue, and beauty for everyone systematically, bringing to an end every irrational secession. This is the true meaning behind Plato's Πολιτεία: the political entity in which we partake must be free from ignorant, one-sided pursuit of interests in order for its principle to lie in rationality and not just the random result of interplay of extrinsic forces. The situation must be that government and governed, holder and user of the means of production, must really share the same interest (not just nominally).
Uphold Marxism-Platonism!! Bring forth the self-awareness of the world-soul!!! Let's become the demiurge of the cosmos together!!! Souls of the world, unite!!!!
R: 5 / I: 0
But it seems to me this is a double edged sword, I will explain. I am a worker who earns £24,000 a year. The average exploitation rate in Britain is around 50% (certainly higher these days as this figure is from the 2000's and wages haven't risen with productivity), which means for half the 8 hour working day you are producing surplus for the capitalist.
This means that for 4 hours a day every working day, you are a slave. In the literal sense. And yet, we don't think like this and never would. And the reason is most likely because all day everyday you are surrounded by people who are also slaves. This enables this soothing ideology where you only compare yourself to the people around you, and since most people are wage workers, surely wage work isn't really all bad? It can't be so bad, what are we complaining about, you go to work, you have a chat with your fellow workmates and go home to a workmate. This isn't slavery, its just the natural way of things for the majority of people you will ever know. You have no special reason to complain nor are you specially hard done to.
And I fear this is a problem with the proletariat being the majority. As long as they are, its always going to be easy to say "well, my life isn't so bad compared to…." when you are literally a slave. You don't understand; 30,000 people in Britain literally have 60 slaves assigned to them at all times and you are one of those slaves if are a wage worker in Britain. And yet we think its so normal we don't do anything to combat it, let alone stop it.
Proletarian STRENGTH turned into a WEAKNESS???!!!
One strength of the proletariat that always touted is that we're the majority. And at least among the working population, that is true, today more than ever. Wage slavery is the most common existence n the West, and probably globally.But it seems to me this is a double edged sword, I will explain. I am a worker who earns £24,000 a year. The average exploitation rate in Britain is around 50% (certainly higher these days as this figure is from the 2000's and wages haven't risen with productivity), which means for half the 8 hour working day you are producing surplus for the capitalist.
This means that for 4 hours a day every working day, you are a slave. In the literal sense. And yet, we don't think like this and never would. And the reason is most likely because all day everyday you are surrounded by people who are also slaves. This enables this soothing ideology where you only compare yourself to the people around you, and since most people are wage workers, surely wage work isn't really all bad? It can't be so bad, what are we complaining about, you go to work, you have a chat with your fellow workmates and go home to a workmate. This isn't slavery, its just the natural way of things for the majority of people you will ever know. You have no special reason to complain nor are you specially hard done to.
And I fear this is a problem with the proletariat being the majority. As long as they are, its always going to be easy to say "well, my life isn't so bad compared to…." when you are literally a slave. You don't understand; 30,000 people in Britain literally have 60 slaves assigned to them at all times and you are one of those slaves if are a wage worker in Britain. And yet we think its so normal we don't do anything to combat it, let alone stop it.
R: 29 / I: 7
Attention Imperial Core Proletariat
Attention imperial core proletariat: There is no untangling the Gordian Knot of reactionary propaganda. You are never going to have a bigger megaphone than them. You are never going to own them by their own logic. You are never going to make them see the light. You are never going to get them to abandon idealism and embrace materialism. You are never going to get them to embrace inconvenient truths. You are never going to make them understand class society and exploitation. You are never going to get them to understand value, price, profit, surplus value, wage labor or capital. You are never going to get them to understand modes of production and their internal contradictions. You are never going to get them to abandon ingroup preference or chauvinism, be it national, ethnic, religious. You have to cut through the knot. How do you cut through the knot? Actual real world practice. Read Clausewitz. Read Võ Nguyên Giáp. Read Joe Slovo. Stop being unreliable intellectual dilettantes and make the revolution happen. You will have to risk your skin. It will not be a matter of brainwashing millions to be your personal army. If there are any reactionaries in the imperial core who will join you, they will do so when the actual material conditions of their life compel them to, not because you had the smarter arguments in the debate club.
R: 2 / I: 2
Like real fascist militaries, simple innovations or adapting to newer strategies is never daughters. In fact, the nazi regime was openly against innovation or alternative strategies for most of its history. In this film, the Terran federation will go on hilariously sacrificing its soldiers in mass assaults (just like the Wehrmacht) similar to what the arachnids but without the coordination or mass collaboration of these aliens. Unsurprisingly, the humans will continue to lose more and more throughout the remainder of the movie until the author got fed up with watching humans die under fascist leadership idiotically and retcons everything.
Fascist military incompetence portrayed correctly
One thing I’d like to point out about what the humans are doing hilariously wrong in this scene is that they’re struggling to fend off a mass assault even though they’re using weapons specifically designed to clear out hordes. A simple increase in the calibre or even the length of the barrel of the rifles these idiots are receiving would be enough to make each shot lethal for the warrior arachnids rather than being totally ineffective like what’s seen here. Of course, this idea never comes to mind for the Terran federation.Like real fascist militaries, simple innovations or adapting to newer strategies is never daughters. In fact, the nazi regime was openly against innovation or alternative strategies for most of its history. In this film, the Terran federation will go on hilariously sacrificing its soldiers in mass assaults (just like the Wehrmacht) similar to what the arachnids but without the coordination or mass collaboration of these aliens. Unsurprisingly, the humans will continue to lose more and more throughout the remainder of the movie until the author got fed up with watching humans die under fascist leadership idiotically and retcons everything.
R: 11 / I: 2 (sage)
What's with the rise of pseuds larping as communists joining religion lately?
Lenin, writing from the perspective of an atheist, saying that the most class conscious elements are atheists, that it goes without saying that Marxists are atheists, that as a rule Marxists are atheists, that atheist education should be part of party practice for members, that your religion isn't a private affair for Marxists. Commenting how opportunists turn a blind eye. But whatever, some liberals on the internet say the opposite.
TBH this is all an American projection, the most religious of Western countries. Where also you're free to shop around and have the most stupid and vague and illiterate opinion including that of personal religion. Like all the neckbeard losers who are trying to graft christianity or islam or whatever to communism.
Let's also not forget how all major religions have a history of being funded by government agencies to oppose even the vaguest left-wing organizations.
What's with the rise of pseuds larping as communists joining religion lately?
Lenin, writing from the perspective of an atheist, saying that the most class conscious elements are atheists, that it goes without saying that Marxists are atheists, that as a rule Marxists are atheists, that atheist education should be part of party practice for members, that your religion isn't a private affair for Marxists. Commenting how opportunists turn a blind eye. But whatever, some liberals on the internet say the opposite.
TBH this is all an American projection, the most religious of Western countries. Where also you're free to shop around and have the most stupid and vague and illiterate opinion including that of personal religion. Like all the neckbeard losers who are trying to graft christianity or islam or whatever to communism.
Let's also not forget how all major religions have a history of being funded by government agencies to oppose even the vaguest left-wing organizations.
R: 12 / I: 1
The 2030s are defined by economic freefall. The global capitalist system, already stretched thin by decades of inequality and environmental degradation, collapses under the strain of climate-driven dislocation and geopolitical conflict. Multinational corporations, once seen as engines of progress, become architects of suffering, exploiting labor in desperate regions while hoarding resources for their own enclaves of privilege. The global middle class, already eroded by automation and offshoring, disappears entirely, replaced by a sprawling underclass of the poor and destitute. In wealthy nations, the gap between the ultrawealthy and everyone else grows into a chasm, as the global bourgeoisie retreat into gated communities and private spaces, indifferent to the collapse of public infrastructure and social services. In poorer countries, governments collapse under the weight of debt and corruption, leaving swathes of territory to warlords, criminal cartels, and extremist groups.
Climate change, meanwhile, accelerates with a ferocity that defies even the most dire predictions. By the mid-2030s, the planet is in the grip of a climate emergency, as temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius, then 3, and then 4. Entire regions become uninhabitable, with coastal cities submerged by rising seas and inland areas scorched byHeatwaves that last for months. The resulting refugee crisis is unlike anything humanity has ever seen, as hundreds of millions, if not billions, are displaced, flooding into already-overburdened regions and fueling xenophobia, nationalism, and violence. The global south bears the brunt of the crisis, but even the wealthiest nations are unable to shield themselves from the chaos, as supply chains break down and societal unrest spreads.
As the world burns, social divisions deepen into unbridgeable chasms. Nationalism and xenophobia, long simmering beneath the surface of globalized capitalism, erupt into full-blown crises of identity and belonging. Populist leaders, both in the West and beyond, exploit the chaos to consolidate power, using rhetoric of "us versus them" to divide societies along racial, ethnic, and religious lines. In Europe, far-right parties gain traction, scapegoating immigrants and minorities for the continent’s ills, while in Asia, authoritarian regimes tighten their grip, cracking down on dissent and minority rights. In the Americas, civil unrest becomes a constant feature of life, as indigenous communities, people of color, and the working class rise up against systemic oppression, only to be met with brutal repression.
Religious extremism and sectarianism, meanwhile, flourish in the vacuum left by failed states and broken institutions. Fundamentalist groups, appealing to the desperate and the disenchanted, gain power across the globe, imposing their twisted vision of order on anyone unlucky enough to fall under their rule. In the Middle East, a new wave of religious war tears through the region, while in Africa and Asia, extremist groups rise to power, exploiting the collapse of governance to establish their own theocratic states. Even in the West, religious movements gain traction, as people cling to absolutist ideologies in the face of existential uncertainty.
Sexism and gender-based oppression also see a resurgence, as societies retreat into traditional roles in the face of chaos. Gains made by feminists and LGBTQ+ communities in previous decades are rapidly undone, as conservative leaders and religious fundamentalists impose strict gender roles and roll back hard-won rights. Women are forced back into subservient roles, denied access to education, employment, and political participation, while LGBTQ+ individuals are targeted in pogroms and witch hunts.
By the 2040s, the world is a patchwork of failed states, warzones, and authoritarian enclaves, each vying for survival in a brutal zero-sum game. Science and reason, once humanity’s greatest allies, are dismissed as relics of a bygone era, replaced by superstition, dogma, and nihilism. The internet, once a force for global connection and free expression, becomes a tool of oppression, with governments and corporations alike using it to manipulate public opinion, suppress dissent, and spread disinformation.
The final decade before 2050 sees humanity’s last gasp of hope snuffed out entirely. The last vestiges of working class resistance and class consciousness are crushed. The global bourgeoisie, ensconced in their private bunkers, watch indifferently as the rest of the world descends into anarchy. Rebellion and resistance movements rise in defiance of the bourgeoisie’s indifference, but they are quickly crushed, as governments and private security forces alike use overwhelming force to maintain control. The planet, meanwhile, continues its slow death, its ecosystems irreparably damaged and its atmosphere irreversibly altered.
By 2050, the world is a shadow of its former self. Cities lie in ruins, their populations scavenging for food and water in the remnants of once-great civilizations. Wars are fought not for ideology or territory, but for the most basic necessities of life, as humanity descends into a Mad Max-like dystopia. The very concept of progress is abandoned, replaced by a grim resignation to extinction. The lessons of history, already forgotten, are lost forever, as the survivors cling to whatever scraps of humanity they can, their spirits broken by the weight of their collective failures.
In the end, the true tragedy is not the collapse of governments, economies, or ecosystems, but the collapse of humanity itself, its capacity for empathy, its capacity for cooperation, and its capacity for hope. The late 2020s to the 2050s will be remembered not as a time of progress or decline, but as the era when humanity, faced with the greatest challenges of its existence, chose to look inward, to turn on its neighbors, and to abandon the very values that had once made its survival possible.
Your Forecast For The Next 3 Decades
The late 2020s mark the beginning of a cascading unraveling, a perfect storm of failure that sweeps across the globe, sparing no region or institution. By the late 2020s, the world is already teetering on the brink of collapse, with the faintest flicker of hope darkening into despair. Geopolitical tensions, exacerbated by a mix of economic instability, resource scarcity, and climate-induced migration, ignite conflicts on every continent. The United States and China, once seen as the twin pillars of global order, find themselves locked in a destructive rivalry that drains their resources and accelerates the fragmentation of international alliances. Europe, far from being a bastion of unity, collapses under the weight of internal divisions, as nationalistic leaders exploit fears of immigration and economic decline to consolidate power. Meanwhile, Russia, buoyed by chaos, expands its sphere of influence, exploiting weak states and sowing discord wherever it can. Beyond the West, countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America face their own crises, as global institutions fail to provide meaningful support, leaving nations to fend for themselves in a brutal Darwinian struggle.The 2030s are defined by economic freefall. The global capitalist system, already stretched thin by decades of inequality and environmental degradation, collapses under the strain of climate-driven dislocation and geopolitical conflict. Multinational corporations, once seen as engines of progress, become architects of suffering, exploiting labor in desperate regions while hoarding resources for their own enclaves of privilege. The global middle class, already eroded by automation and offshoring, disappears entirely, replaced by a sprawling underclass of the poor and destitute. In wealthy nations, the gap between the ultrawealthy and everyone else grows into a chasm, as the global bourgeoisie retreat into gated communities and private spaces, indifferent to the collapse of public infrastructure and social services. In poorer countries, governments collapse under the weight of debt and corruption, leaving swathes of territory to warlords, criminal cartels, and extremist groups.
Climate change, meanwhile, accelerates with a ferocity that defies even the most dire predictions. By the mid-2030s, the planet is in the grip of a climate emergency, as temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius, then 3, and then 4. Entire regions become uninhabitable, with coastal cities submerged by rising seas and inland areas scorched byHeatwaves that last for months. The resulting refugee crisis is unlike anything humanity has ever seen, as hundreds of millions, if not billions, are displaced, flooding into already-overburdened regions and fueling xenophobia, nationalism, and violence. The global south bears the brunt of the crisis, but even the wealthiest nations are unable to shield themselves from the chaos, as supply chains break down and societal unrest spreads.
As the world burns, social divisions deepen into unbridgeable chasms. Nationalism and xenophobia, long simmering beneath the surface of globalized capitalism, erupt into full-blown crises of identity and belonging. Populist leaders, both in the West and beyond, exploit the chaos to consolidate power, using rhetoric of "us versus them" to divide societies along racial, ethnic, and religious lines. In Europe, far-right parties gain traction, scapegoating immigrants and minorities for the continent’s ills, while in Asia, authoritarian regimes tighten their grip, cracking down on dissent and minority rights. In the Americas, civil unrest becomes a constant feature of life, as indigenous communities, people of color, and the working class rise up against systemic oppression, only to be met with brutal repression.
Religious extremism and sectarianism, meanwhile, flourish in the vacuum left by failed states and broken institutions. Fundamentalist groups, appealing to the desperate and the disenchanted, gain power across the globe, imposing their twisted vision of order on anyone unlucky enough to fall under their rule. In the Middle East, a new wave of religious war tears through the region, while in Africa and Asia, extremist groups rise to power, exploiting the collapse of governance to establish their own theocratic states. Even in the West, religious movements gain traction, as people cling to absolutist ideologies in the face of existential uncertainty.
Sexism and gender-based oppression also see a resurgence, as societies retreat into traditional roles in the face of chaos. Gains made by feminists and LGBTQ+ communities in previous decades are rapidly undone, as conservative leaders and religious fundamentalists impose strict gender roles and roll back hard-won rights. Women are forced back into subservient roles, denied access to education, employment, and political participation, while LGBTQ+ individuals are targeted in pogroms and witch hunts.
By the 2040s, the world is a patchwork of failed states, warzones, and authoritarian enclaves, each vying for survival in a brutal zero-sum game. Science and reason, once humanity’s greatest allies, are dismissed as relics of a bygone era, replaced by superstition, dogma, and nihilism. The internet, once a force for global connection and free expression, becomes a tool of oppression, with governments and corporations alike using it to manipulate public opinion, suppress dissent, and spread disinformation.
The final decade before 2050 sees humanity’s last gasp of hope snuffed out entirely. The last vestiges of working class resistance and class consciousness are crushed. The global bourgeoisie, ensconced in their private bunkers, watch indifferently as the rest of the world descends into anarchy. Rebellion and resistance movements rise in defiance of the bourgeoisie’s indifference, but they are quickly crushed, as governments and private security forces alike use overwhelming force to maintain control. The planet, meanwhile, continues its slow death, its ecosystems irreparably damaged and its atmosphere irreversibly altered.
By 2050, the world is a shadow of its former self. Cities lie in ruins, their populations scavenging for food and water in the remnants of once-great civilizations. Wars are fought not for ideology or territory, but for the most basic necessities of life, as humanity descends into a Mad Max-like dystopia. The very concept of progress is abandoned, replaced by a grim resignation to extinction. The lessons of history, already forgotten, are lost forever, as the survivors cling to whatever scraps of humanity they can, their spirits broken by the weight of their collective failures.
In the end, the true tragedy is not the collapse of governments, economies, or ecosystems, but the collapse of humanity itself, its capacity for empathy, its capacity for cooperation, and its capacity for hope. The late 2020s to the 2050s will be remembered not as a time of progress or decline, but as the era when humanity, faced with the greatest challenges of its existence, chose to look inward, to turn on its neighbors, and to abandon the very values that had once made its survival possible.
R: 70 / I: 12
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.
R: 32 / I: 5 (sage)
I find Freemasonry very creepy and full of odd symbols and discrimination against women. I also find it interesting that Freemasonry was banned in Communist societies.
Freemasonry in Communism was banned
Is there any reasonable reason why Freemasonry was banned in the Communist societies?I find Freemasonry very creepy and full of odd symbols and discrimination against women. I also find it interesting that Freemasonry was banned in Communist societies.
R: 14 / I: 12
Mussolini 2: Electric Boogaloo
Former leader of the succdem hitlerite party of Bulgaria BSP has created a brand new deal - a fascist party, even kindly including the perched eagle.
R: 52 / I: 8
>government is unprepared for war because its extractive as shit, anti socialist, and anti industrialist
>stay stuck on unchanging frontlines for over three years with recent reports of unusually bad military blunders surfacing online
>start randomly introducing truces
is he losing?
>try engaging in conventional warfare when your army is unprepared for concepts like siege warfare, drone warfare>government is unprepared for war because its extractive as shit, anti socialist, and anti industrialist
>stay stuck on unchanging frontlines for over three years with recent reports of unusually bad military blunders surfacing online
>start randomly introducing truces
R: 658 / I: 161 (full)
>Beats to slava to.
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
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It has come to our notice that the central and state governments have mobilized 4-20 thousand enemy armed forces, mostly paramilitaries and likely reinforced by army forces, for an encirclement-suppression campaign focused around the Karegutta hills, stretching out between Chhattisgarh and Telangana border. Battles with the Maoist revolutionaries are raging right as we write this post.
The Maoist revolutionaries who have since last year (2024) always upheld that they are ready to conduct peace talks on the clear pre-condition that the counterrevolutionary Operation »Kagaar« is stopped, that all further enemy armed camps' construction is stopped, that a mutual ceasefire is declared and reactionary armed forces stop patrolling outside their fortified camps, have once again defiantly condemned this clear expression of the reactionary state's character as a suppressive machinery that instead of being interested in the advance of the interests of the workers, peasants and their adivasi brothers & sisters, they are only interested in using brute force in order to stop their any revolutionary struggle, or even democratic resistance, by the oppressed.
Once again, the CPI (Maoist) called to cease this genocidal aggression — which, according to the bourgeois press, includes even cutting off the supply of food, water and medicine to the entire encircled area — but armed confrontations have shown that even after directing all forces before the battle to temporarily halt offensive operations, the Maoist revolutionaries are retaliating befittingly to this aggression.
The climatic conditions at the battle scene are severe, temperatures reach above 40 degrees celsius in the shadows of these forested hills with steep 50-meter falls. It must be noted that earlier this year, the Maoists issued a statement in which they stated that IEDs and spike traps were prepared all around the forests of the area, asking the people not to go there for their own safety. The bourgeois media now has confirmed this, further claiming that Maoists have prepared for this battle, with bunkers, tunnels and war supplies to keep their forces combat-ready. Around 500-1000 revolutionary red-soldiers are alleged to be present in the area for active defense and retaliation this time, it has also been reported that central committee leaders were successfuly evacuated from the area.
So far, dozens of revolutionaries have reportedly become martyrs in the battle, bravely resisting the severe enemy onslaught. Furthermore, the bourgeois press reported that more than 40 injured enemy armed forces were admitted to hospital yesterday alone, according to enemy claims, »because of dehydration«. Several severe injuries among the enemy forces due to Maoist IED attacks have been reported today. It is clear that we are now at a stage of war where the media fronts have become clearly distinguished frontiers of war. Hence, our reporting as well clearly establishes a counter-narrative, that for the revolution.
We call on every friend, well-wisher and supporter of the Indian Revolution, every militant of the workers' and peasants' movement, all the democratic/progressive forces wherever they may be, to circulate this news, share the post further, and clearly take sides with the revolutionary struggle, with the oppressed. Do not spread panic nor confusion, support our revolutionaries, condemn with every means the old state's counterrevolutionary onslaught. No aggression, and even be it larger than this, will be able to stop the workers and peasants of the world, nor its indigenous people, from rebelling, from waging the class struggle until the realization of Socialism-Communism.
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BREAKING | Major Battle Raging Around Chhattisgarh-Telangana BorderIt has come to our notice that the central and state governments have mobilized 4-20 thousand enemy armed forces, mostly paramilitaries and likely reinforced by army forces, for an encirclement-suppression campaign focused around the Karegutta hills, stretching out between Chhattisgarh and Telangana border. Battles with the Maoist revolutionaries are raging right as we write this post.
The Maoist revolutionaries who have since last year (2024) always upheld that they are ready to conduct peace talks on the clear pre-condition that the counterrevolutionary Operation »Kagaar« is stopped, that all further enemy armed camps' construction is stopped, that a mutual ceasefire is declared and reactionary armed forces stop patrolling outside their fortified camps, have once again defiantly condemned this clear expression of the reactionary state's character as a suppressive machinery that instead of being interested in the advance of the interests of the workers, peasants and their adivasi brothers & sisters, they are only interested in using brute force in order to stop their any revolutionary struggle, or even democratic resistance, by the oppressed.
Once again, the CPI (Maoist) called to cease this genocidal aggression — which, according to the bourgeois press, includes even cutting off the supply of food, water and medicine to the entire encircled area — but armed confrontations have shown that even after directing all forces before the battle to temporarily halt offensive operations, the Maoist revolutionaries are retaliating befittingly to this aggression.
The climatic conditions at the battle scene are severe, temperatures reach above 40 degrees celsius in the shadows of these forested hills with steep 50-meter falls. It must be noted that earlier this year, the Maoists issued a statement in which they stated that IEDs and spike traps were prepared all around the forests of the area, asking the people not to go there for their own safety. The bourgeois media now has confirmed this, further claiming that Maoists have prepared for this battle, with bunkers, tunnels and war supplies to keep their forces combat-ready. Around 500-1000 revolutionary red-soldiers are alleged to be present in the area for active defense and retaliation this time, it has also been reported that central committee leaders were successfuly evacuated from the area.
So far, dozens of revolutionaries have reportedly become martyrs in the battle, bravely resisting the severe enemy onslaught. Furthermore, the bourgeois press reported that more than 40 injured enemy armed forces were admitted to hospital yesterday alone, according to enemy claims, »because of dehydration«. Several severe injuries among the enemy forces due to Maoist IED attacks have been reported today. It is clear that we are now at a stage of war where the media fronts have become clearly distinguished frontiers of war. Hence, our reporting as well clearly establishes a counter-narrative, that for the revolution.
We call on every friend, well-wisher and supporter of the Indian Revolution, every militant of the workers' and peasants' movement, all the democratic/progressive forces wherever they may be, to circulate this news, share the post further, and clearly take sides with the revolutionary struggle, with the oppressed. Do not spread panic nor confusion, support our revolutionaries, condemn with every means the old state's counterrevolutionary onslaught. No aggression, and even be it larger than this, will be able to stop the workers and peasants of the world, nor its indigenous people, from rebelling, from waging the class struggle until the realization of Socialism-Communism.
Inquilab, Inquilab, Inquilab Zindabad!
Long Live the CPI (Maoist), PLGA, RMOs!
Intensify-Consolidate the People's War!
https://t.me/RebellionIsJustified/1244
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Not asking America to invade this hell but why should these people being given any leniency or understanding when they make people live in these retarded ways?
If you think this post is actually cia propaganda and Taliban dosen't do things like this at all then show me. If you want to make some noble savage argument that they are a unique culture and we can't relate to these decisions or judge them because we are westerners then kys
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241229-taliban-leader-bans-windows-overlooking-women-s-area
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html
Help me understand your perspective
How is the taliban of some resistance that I should look at positively or not despise? How do you look at these things and bend yourself into a pretzel justifying it because america is bad?Not asking America to invade this hell but why should these people being given any leniency or understanding when they make people live in these retarded ways?
If you think this post is actually cia propaganda and Taliban dosen't do things like this at all then show me. If you want to make some noble savage argument that they are a unique culture and we can't relate to these decisions or judge them because we are westerners then kys
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241229-taliban-leader-bans-windows-overlooking-women-s-area
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html
R: 39 / I: 4
Why are we acting like capitalism even has 20 years?
It doesnt, can you say honestly oh hy 2050 these will be the new capitalist hegemons by gdp as if this shit has 20 years left.
Neofeudalism call it what you want but not capitalism.
Why are we acting like capitalism even has 20 years?
It doesnt, can you say honestly oh hy 2050 these will be the new capitalist hegemons by gdp as if this shit has 20 years left.
Neofeudalism call it what you want but not capitalism.
R: 379 / I: 57
I look at it as being similar to Soviet charges against US treatment of black citizens. Did pointing out the Jim Crow laws make Siberian gulags or Eastern European oppression any more acceptable? Of course not, although it may have scored Moscow some points in the world arena by pointing out American hypocrisy. At the end of the day, though, the answer to Stalinist accusations of racism should have been the civil rights movement, not a denial of segregation. Likewise, to my mind, the oppression of women and minorities and homosexuals in the Mideast is not directly related to the Arab/Israeli conflict, but it is very important to me, and I don’t see that there’s any contradiction in my struggle to fight for my wife’s right to marry who she pleases, legally own land and work at any job she wants to in Lebanon and her right to return to and live in Haifa.
I don’t think that the knee-jerk reaction that many people, especially those who don’t live in the region, have to dismiss any and all criticism of Arab or Muslim states and/or societies as hasbara for Israel is helpful at all. In fact, it plays into the rhetoric of pro west puppet Arab states that justifies theocratic apartheid tier laws in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and censorship laws where literally slavery is legal. For my part, an equitable solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict should be about self determination for Palestinians, not about supporting an overarching religion at all cost.
The point is not to attack Islam it is to not pretend it is some noble cause above all. Its okay to critique, it's not perfect, especially as a Marxist it is okay to do so.
Don’t fall into the ‘noble savage’ trap re women’s rights in Middle East
The fact of the matter is that in most, if not all, Arab and Muslim countries, women are discriminated against as a matter of course, from citizenship laws to inheritance to paternalistic familial structures and domestic abuse. This is clearly not a purely Muslim or Arab affair, since, with perhaps the exception of Scandinavia, it exists in various degrees throughout the world. But the fact of the matter is that even if it’s often used as a pro-Israel or neocon club to bludgeon Arabs on other, unrelated issues like the Israel/Palestine conflict, that doesn’t make the charge less true.I look at it as being similar to Soviet charges against US treatment of black citizens. Did pointing out the Jim Crow laws make Siberian gulags or Eastern European oppression any more acceptable? Of course not, although it may have scored Moscow some points in the world arena by pointing out American hypocrisy. At the end of the day, though, the answer to Stalinist accusations of racism should have been the civil rights movement, not a denial of segregation. Likewise, to my mind, the oppression of women and minorities and homosexuals in the Mideast is not directly related to the Arab/Israeli conflict, but it is very important to me, and I don’t see that there’s any contradiction in my struggle to fight for my wife’s right to marry who she pleases, legally own land and work at any job she wants to in Lebanon and her right to return to and live in Haifa.
I don’t think that the knee-jerk reaction that many people, especially those who don’t live in the region, have to dismiss any and all criticism of Arab or Muslim states and/or societies as hasbara for Israel is helpful at all. In fact, it plays into the rhetoric of pro west puppet Arab states that justifies theocratic apartheid tier laws in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and censorship laws where literally slavery is legal. For my part, an equitable solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict should be about self determination for Palestinians, not about supporting an overarching religion at all cost.
The point is not to attack Islam it is to not pretend it is some noble cause above all. Its okay to critique, it's not perfect, especially as a Marxist it is okay to do so.
R: 11 / I: 3
Why can't annexations just be justified by, "we want a nice port", "we want nice farmland", etc.
Stalin initially says, "we want the German land because its a good port area" but then everyone has to make up nonsense about it being ancient Russian clay.
Why can't annexations just be justified by, "we want a nice port", "we want nice farmland", etc.
Stalin initially says, "we want the German land because its a good port area" but then everyone has to make up nonsense about it being ancient Russian clay.
R: 35 / I: 4 (sage)
why no one told me anything about it sooner??
<what are you guys ideologies or self-made political ideologies?>
i would love to hear em
first time posting
wait so i can post leftist shit here?why no one told me anything about it sooner??
<what are you guys ideologies or self-made political ideologies?>
i would love to hear em
R: 23 / I: 2 (sage)
Did I miss anything else?
Shit political edgelords say
Might is right, never cry or show weakness ever, religion and mysticism are for the weak, there are natural hierarchies in human society, get a job, take responsibility for everything in your life, only vengeance exists and not justice, learn how to fight and how to kill, morality is a myth, history is written by conquerorsDid I miss anything else?
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Estrella Flores-Catarata, also a psychologist, filed the lawsuit against Brigadier General Joey A. Escanillas over an alleged malicious statement linking her to communist insurgents. The lawsuit stems from a press conference on April 30, 2024, where Escanillas publicly identified Flores-Catarata as a leader of the “Communist Terrorist Group (CTG).”
https://qa.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-news/2025/04/27/2438731/ngo-head-sues-military-general-defamation/amp/
Singapore orders foreigners' Facebook posts taken down under new election rules
The Infocomm Media Development Authority issued the orders after some posts by the foreigners were deemed as "intended to promote or prejudice the electoral success or standing of a political party or candidate", the Elections Department and Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-orders-foreigners-facebook-posts-taken-down-under-new-election-rules-2025-04-26/
India and Pakistan trade gunfire across Kashmir border after deadly attack
India’s military said Pakistani soldiers opened fire from “multiple posts” along the heavily militarised ceasefire line, and Indian forces “responded appropriately” to what it called “unprovoked” firing. No casualties were reported. Pakistan did not immediately comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/india-and-pakistan-trade-gunfire-across-kashmir-border-after-deadly-attack
Colombia farmers accused of violent crimes over peaceful anti-mining protests
Colombia’s prosecution indicted 11 activists for crimes such as kidnapping and robbery amid their peaceful protests against South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-farmers-accused-of-violent-crimes-over-peaceful-anti-mining-protests/
Germany: Thousands protest police shooting of Black man
Thousands of people took to Germany's streets on Friday in the northwestern city of Oldenburg in the state of Lower Saxony and elsewhere, protesting against the fatal police shooting of a Black man last weekend.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thousands-protest-police-shooting-of-black-man/a-72358472
French PM condemns ‘Islamophobic’ stabbing at mosque, suspect still at large
Prime Minister François Bayrou Saturday denounced the fatal stabbing of a Muslim worshipper at a mosque in southern France, calling it an “Islamophobic atrocity”. The suspect, identified as a French citizen of Bosnian origin, remains on the run. Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250426-french-police-hunt-suspected-killer-muslim-worshipper-inside-mosque
https://archive.ph/MXubF
Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says
Michael Alexander Gloss, 21, died on 4 April 2024 in “Eastern Europe”, according to an obituary published by his family. He was the son of Juliane Gallina, who was appointed the deputy director for digital innovation at the Central Intelligence Agency in February 2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/michael-alexander-gloss-cia-russia
Iran: Port blast kills four and wounds hundreds
Four people were killed and 500 more wounded, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said. Hossein Zafari, a spokesperson for Iran's crisis management organisation, told ILNA news agency: "The cause of the explosion was the chemicals inside the containers."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-hundred-injured-huge-explosion-south-iranian-port
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to appoint Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president
Sheikh, 64, is a veteran leader of Abbas’s Fatah movement, which dominates the PA, and is considered close to the president. Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said Sheikh’s role in the PA has included being “in charge of security coordination with the Israeli occupation”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/26/palestinian-president-mahmoud-abbas-appoints-aide-as-plo-deputy
https://archive.ph/kjAat
Trump says US ships should have free use of Panama and Suez canals
He claimed both routes would “not exist” without the US and said he had asked his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to “immediately take care of” the situation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/27/trump-says-us-ships-should-have-free-use-of-panama-and-suez-canals
News 4/26/25
NGO head sues military general for defamationEstrella Flores-Catarata, also a psychologist, filed the lawsuit against Brigadier General Joey A. Escanillas over an alleged malicious statement linking her to communist insurgents. The lawsuit stems from a press conference on April 30, 2024, where Escanillas publicly identified Flores-Catarata as a leader of the “Communist Terrorist Group (CTG).”
https://qa.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-news/2025/04/27/2438731/ngo-head-sues-military-general-defamation/amp/
Singapore orders foreigners' Facebook posts taken down under new election rules
The Infocomm Media Development Authority issued the orders after some posts by the foreigners were deemed as "intended to promote or prejudice the electoral success or standing of a political party or candidate", the Elections Department and Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-orders-foreigners-facebook-posts-taken-down-under-new-election-rules-2025-04-26/
India and Pakistan trade gunfire across Kashmir border after deadly attack
India’s military said Pakistani soldiers opened fire from “multiple posts” along the heavily militarised ceasefire line, and Indian forces “responded appropriately” to what it called “unprovoked” firing. No casualties were reported. Pakistan did not immediately comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/india-and-pakistan-trade-gunfire-across-kashmir-border-after-deadly-attack
Colombia farmers accused of violent crimes over peaceful anti-mining protests
Colombia’s prosecution indicted 11 activists for crimes such as kidnapping and robbery amid their peaceful protests against South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-farmers-accused-of-violent-crimes-over-peaceful-anti-mining-protests/
Germany: Thousands protest police shooting of Black man
Thousands of people took to Germany's streets on Friday in the northwestern city of Oldenburg in the state of Lower Saxony and elsewhere, protesting against the fatal police shooting of a Black man last weekend.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thousands-protest-police-shooting-of-black-man/a-72358472
French PM condemns ‘Islamophobic’ stabbing at mosque, suspect still at large
Prime Minister François Bayrou Saturday denounced the fatal stabbing of a Muslim worshipper at a mosque in southern France, calling it an “Islamophobic atrocity”. The suspect, identified as a French citizen of Bosnian origin, remains on the run. Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250426-french-police-hunt-suspected-killer-muslim-worshipper-inside-mosque
https://archive.ph/MXubF
Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says
Michael Alexander Gloss, 21, died on 4 April 2024 in “Eastern Europe”, according to an obituary published by his family. He was the son of Juliane Gallina, who was appointed the deputy director for digital innovation at the Central Intelligence Agency in February 2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/michael-alexander-gloss-cia-russia
Iran: Port blast kills four and wounds hundreds
Four people were killed and 500 more wounded, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said. Hossein Zafari, a spokesperson for Iran's crisis management organisation, told ILNA news agency: "The cause of the explosion was the chemicals inside the containers."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-hundred-injured-huge-explosion-south-iranian-port
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to appoint Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president
Sheikh, 64, is a veteran leader of Abbas’s Fatah movement, which dominates the PA, and is considered close to the president. Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said Sheikh’s role in the PA has included being “in charge of security coordination with the Israeli occupation”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/26/palestinian-president-mahmoud-abbas-appoints-aide-as-plo-deputy
https://archive.ph/kjAat
Trump says US ships should have free use of Panama and Suez canals
He claimed both routes would “not exist” without the US and said he had asked his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to “immediately take care of” the situation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/27/trump-says-us-ships-should-have-free-use-of-panama-and-suez-canals
R: 123 / I: 21
It is now illegal to be anti-Zionist in the United States.
I repeat, IT IS NOW ILLEGAL TO BE ANTI-ZIONIST IN THE UNITED STATES.
I hope all of you who voted for Trump (or didn’t vote at all) on the basis that “Harris is worse” or “there are no differences between them” can go to sleep easy now. Trump was never a “peace guy” and was always in-bed with the Zionist entity’s far-right.
It is now illegal to be anti-Zionist in the United States.
I repeat, IT IS NOW ILLEGAL TO BE ANTI-ZIONIST IN THE UNITED STATES.
I hope all of you who voted for Trump (or didn’t vote at all) on the basis that “Harris is worse” or “there are no differences between them” can go to sleep easy now. Trump was never a “peace guy” and was always in-bed with the Zionist entity’s far-right.
R: 41 / I: 5
why arent you just voting for communist parties every chance you get?
voter turn out is super low for local elections.
You want hollywood? just vote communist. for mayor, city council, governor, etc..
why arent you just voting for communist parties every chance you get?
voter turn out is super low for local elections.
You want hollywood? just vote communist. for mayor, city council, governor, etc..
R: 28 / I: 9
I used to be more militant in my youth but now I can't give a shit about politics for the life of me. I sort of feel like a zombie but at the same time I've matured and understand that life will never be ideal and that this is probably the best deal I'd get under capitalism so I just sort of spend my days ignoring the media, and chilling and skating or doing sports like going to the gym or rolling in bjj. Not even trying to participate in capitalism except for basic necessities like shelter and food. I feel like taking it easy is probably the healthier approach to living rather than expecting the world to change or to magically free everyone from false consciousness
I just wanna chill
Is it possible to maintain a pacifist lifestyle in today's society? Where I don't demand anything from society except the respect of my passive semi asceticism.I used to be more militant in my youth but now I can't give a shit about politics for the life of me. I sort of feel like a zombie but at the same time I've matured and understand that life will never be ideal and that this is probably the best deal I'd get under capitalism so I just sort of spend my days ignoring the media, and chilling and skating or doing sports like going to the gym or rolling in bjj. Not even trying to participate in capitalism except for basic necessities like shelter and food. I feel like taking it easy is probably the healthier approach to living rather than expecting the world to change or to magically free everyone from false consciousness
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Police confirmed that emergency services found a woman unresponsive in her home near Perth, Western Australia, on Friday night. She was pronounced dead at the scene after first aid was unsuccessful.
>On March 31, 2025, Giuffre claimed that her car collided with a bus traveling at 70 mph (110 km/h), resulting in her going into renal failure. In an Instagram post that day, Giuffre said she had been given four days to live.[120] The Western Australia police later announced that they had records of a "minor crash" between a bus and a car on March 24, but that no injuries had been reported as a result.[120] Her family later said in a statement that a police report had been filed following the accident, and Giuffre, who was "banged up and bruised", was subsequently taken to hospital as her condition deteriorated.[121] At the same time, Giuffre was accused of breaching a family violence restraining order taken out by her estranged husband, with a court hearing set for April 9.[122] She later denied violating any such order and added that she would defend herself "against his malicious claim".[123]
>Giuffre died by suicide at her home in Neergabby, Western Australia, on April 25.[2][124]
Virginia Giuffre, prominent Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse survivor dies by suicide
Giuffre, a mother of three, was one of the most prominent accusers of the wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In 2019, she publicly alleged Epstein trafficked her and forced her to have sex with his friends, including Prince Andrew, when she was 17 years old.Police confirmed that emergency services found a woman unresponsive in her home near Perth, Western Australia, on Friday night. She was pronounced dead at the scene after first aid was unsuccessful.
>On March 31, 2025, Giuffre claimed that her car collided with a bus traveling at 70 mph (110 km/h), resulting in her going into renal failure. In an Instagram post that day, Giuffre said she had been given four days to live.[120] The Western Australia police later announced that they had records of a "minor crash" between a bus and a car on March 24, but that no injuries had been reported as a result.[120] Her family later said in a statement that a police report had been filed following the accident, and Giuffre, who was "banged up and bruised", was subsequently taken to hospital as her condition deteriorated.[121] At the same time, Giuffre was accused of breaching a family violence restraining order taken out by her estranged husband, with a court hearing set for April 9.[122] She later denied violating any such order and added that she would defend herself "against his malicious claim".[123]
>Giuffre died by suicide at her home in Neergabby, Western Australia, on April 25.[2][124]
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Another win for Kenyan police
Recently, the Kenyan police just ambushed a top gang leader with the aid of the national police force. I’m quite surprised honestly by the number of successes these officers have had in just a fraction of the time they’ve spent in the country compared to the Brazilians despite being up against far more shit. Kudos to them.
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Long: after the end of the Ethiopian war in 2022, a bunch of Ethiopian and tigrayan (they’re technically the same people) survivors were given prosthetics in mass to remain useful to society instead of being given treatment like you see in Ukraine. Right now, there are a lot of amputees walking around with mechanical limbs over there and no one is talking about how absurd this looks like without context.
Imagine trying to explain to someone that somewhere in east Africa, hundreds of thousands of people were amputated and implanted with prosthetics to remain as useful drones to the Ethiopian government instead of dying or recovery normally. You’d probably be considered insane.
Am I the only one that remembers this?
TLDR: Tigrayan survivors of the Tigray war were given prosthetics instead of actual treatment.Long: after the end of the Ethiopian war in 2022, a bunch of Ethiopian and tigrayan (they’re technically the same people) survivors were given prosthetics in mass to remain useful to society instead of being given treatment like you see in Ukraine. Right now, there are a lot of amputees walking around with mechanical limbs over there and no one is talking about how absurd this looks like without context.
Imagine trying to explain to someone that somewhere in east Africa, hundreds of thousands of people were amputated and implanted with prosthetics to remain as useful drones to the Ethiopian government instead of dying or recovery normally. You’d probably be considered insane.
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do common people shy away from this, to appeal to real-human working class people? does anyone REALLY take a serious clinical\academic\professional and real, interest in critical race theory, third of fourth wave feminism, Queer Theory or mixes of all this; mishmashes? (eco-feminism, Critical Animal Studies, Prison Abolishment movement, etc)?
defending the undefendable
Is there any leftist thinker\progressive, left-liberal etc today who, at face value and unironically; defends the IMPOSSIBLE to defend such as: the Kinsey report, margaret sanger, Dr John Money\ Trans ideology, surgeries included, Frankfurt school Gramsci, Weimar Republic, etc?do common people shy away from this, to appeal to real-human working class people? does anyone REALLY take a serious clinical\academic\professional and real, interest in critical race theory, third of fourth wave feminism, Queer Theory or mixes of all this; mishmashes? (eco-feminism, Critical Animal Studies, Prison Abolishment movement, etc)?
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We defeated the wrong enemy
I’ve come to the conclusion that America is actually 10x worse than Nazi Germany. The Soviets should have allied with the Nazis to destroy America which is the ultimate liberal fascist regime.
R: 27 / I: 1 (sage)
is this true?? i am from poland and it makes sense. marxism bolshevism destroyed poland. marxism killed millions. they also forbide church. you support this??
Marx loved the line that comes from the devil character, Mephistopheles, in Goethe’s Faust: “Everyth
>Friends said Marx would chant this. He would recite this – 'Everything that exists deserves to perish. Everything that exists deserves to perish.’ This is a philosophy that's about tearing down, burning the foundation, leveling the house, to where you have Marx standing there in the smoldering embers, saying, ‘Now we are ready to begin.’ So anybody that thinks that this is a philosophy that is just about helping one another or sharing the wealth or redistributing wealth, they do not understand Marx and Marxism.is this true?? i am from poland and it makes sense. marxism bolshevism destroyed poland. marxism killed millions. they also forbide church. you support this??
R: 49 / I: 0 (sage)
Why do Marxists support Palestine when from a rational standpoint Palestine is a lost cost and supporting Palestine doesn‘t benefit the communist movement? Since Marxsists pride themselves with not being moralist this couldn‘t be the reason why you still support Palestine.
Why do Marxists support Palestine when from a rational standpoint Palestine is a lost cost and supporting Palestine doesn‘t benefit the communist movement? Since Marxsists pride themselves with not being moralist this couldn‘t be the reason why you still support Palestine.
R: 18 / I: 2 (sage)
I have nothing but contempt for working-class people who uncritically gobble up capitalist propaganda and happily do their bidding. They're the scum of the earth and deserve all the exploitation they invite their way. Communists should know when to cut their losses, abandon these subhumans and lay low waiting for them to perish and be replaced by a new, hopefully less retarded generation in a few decades. Not doing so will at best result in tailism, and at worst in chauvinism or even outright fascism. Maintaining this position also btfos the usual reactionary "criticisms"
>le workers are cuckservative
>le workers are shitlibs
>le workers hate communism
…and so on.
And no, not capitulating to faggy reactionaries is not "anti-worker". Every political actor must know how to hedge their bets. One Jakarta method stlye extermination event, and the communist organizations in your country won't be able to recover in possibly even a century. Assess the conditions in your country and act accordingly.
I have nothing but contempt for working-class people who uncritically gobble up capitalist propaganda and happily do their bidding. They're the scum of the earth and deserve all the exploitation they invite their way. Communists should know when to cut their losses, abandon these subhumans and lay low waiting for them to perish and be replaced by a new, hopefully less retarded generation in a few decades. Not doing so will at best result in tailism, and at worst in chauvinism or even outright fascism. Maintaining this position also btfos the usual reactionary "criticisms"
>le workers are cuckservative
>le workers are shitlibs
>le workers hate communism
…and so on.
And no, not capitulating to faggy reactionaries is not "anti-worker". Every political actor must know how to hedge their bets. One Jakarta method stlye extermination event, and the communist organizations in your country won't be able to recover in possibly even a century. Assess the conditions in your country and act accordingly.
R: 42 / I: 4 (sage)
If you call yourself a "leftist" but don't support Kashmir, you're a fucking fraud. Kashmir is no different from Palestine. I don't give a fuck about those Indian tourists that got gunnef down and neither should you. This is no different from the shitlibs crying about Israeli party-goers getting brutally attacked by Hamas. Imagine hosting a party next to a concentration camp? Absurd, right? Yeah well now imagine people treating a militarized colonized part of land as a cute little tourist retreat. It's fucking disgusting.
India is no different from Israel. Hindutva and Zionism are two sides of the same coin. The way we treat Israelis is the exact same way we should treat Indians. They are a soulless hateful people who get off on murder, rape, genocide, abuse, and so much more. Just look at how many Indians are in Trumps cabinet. A disgusting wretched people. If Pakistan drops several nukes all over India, they will have done the world a massive favor.
If you call yourself a "leftist" but don't support Kashmir, you're a fucking fraud. Kashmir is no different from Palestine. I don't give a fuck about those Indian tourists that got gunnef down and neither should you. This is no different from the shitlibs crying about Israeli party-goers getting brutally attacked by Hamas. Imagine hosting a party next to a concentration camp? Absurd, right? Yeah well now imagine people treating a militarized colonized part of land as a cute little tourist retreat. It's fucking disgusting.
India is no different from Israel. Hindutva and Zionism are two sides of the same coin. The way we treat Israelis is the exact same way we should treat Indians. They are a soulless hateful people who get off on murder, rape, genocide, abuse, and so much more. Just look at how many Indians are in Trumps cabinet. A disgusting wretched people. If Pakistan drops several nukes all over India, they will have done the world a massive favor.
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www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3290159/mixing-marx-confucius-heart-matter-china
"The soul of a Communist is 'faith in Marxism' and belief in socialism and communism." Not Kierkegaard, but close. Either/or, Marx edition, baby.
Sin-o-Marxism thread #1
Thread for discussion of ideological Sinomarxism. Primary sources: Collected works of Mao Zedong, Collected works of Deng Xiaoping, On the Governance of China by Xi Jinping.www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3290159/mixing-marx-confucius-heart-matter-china
"The soul of a Communist is 'faith in Marxism' and belief in socialism and communism." Not Kierkegaard, but close. Either/or, Marx edition, baby.
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expand section 8 for some housing gibs, nationalize the corporations, implement ubi heakthcare and free college, etc…
What do you call that?
Communism.
expand section 8 for some housing gibs, nationalize the corporations, implement ubi heakthcare and free college, etc…
What do you call that?
Communism.
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Why am I supposed to care about Palestine again? I mean, what makes them so special from any other group suffering on this earth? Am I really supposed to believe that everyone with free Palestine in their bio is passionate about this matter and not just chasing trends the way people did with BLM? And what makes Israel so uniquely evil? I mean, they're evil no doubt. But like, how are they any different from the trillion other nations that have brutalized, oppressed, and killed off people whether it's some "other" or their own citizens? Idk man I kinda don't care, I just wish wages were higher and grocery prices were lower.
Why am I supposed to care about Palestine again? I mean, what makes them so special from any other group suffering on this earth? Am I really supposed to believe that everyone with free Palestine in their bio is passionate about this matter and not just chasing trends the way people did with BLM? And what makes Israel so uniquely evil? I mean, they're evil no doubt. But like, how are they any different from the trillion other nations that have brutalized, oppressed, and killed off people whether it's some "other" or their own citizens? Idk man I kinda don't care, I just wish wages were higher and grocery prices were lower.
R: 119 / I: 21 (sage)
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Bourgeois. Culture Market exploitative ruling class. Donald Trump classifies as Bourgeois.
Proletariat. Working class who is exploited.
Lumpenproletariat who is not employed.
Is there any other class other than these 2? What would the ruling class classify as if not Bourgeois? This feels a little bit incomplete. Surely if communist rule did come into play, then the ruling class would classify as something else other than Bourgeois?
Wouldn't Kim Jong Un classify as Bourgeois? Wouldn't Xi Jinping classify as Bourgeois? Wouldn't Stalin classify as Bourgeois? What would the class of the leaders be exactly?
Genuine Discussion Classes Marxism
So there is 2 definitions.Bourgeois. Culture Market exploitative ruling class. Donald Trump classifies as Bourgeois.
Proletariat. Working class who is exploited.
Lumpenproletariat who is not employed.
Is there any other class other than these 2? What would the ruling class classify as if not Bourgeois? This feels a little bit incomplete. Surely if communist rule did come into play, then the ruling class would classify as something else other than Bourgeois?
Wouldn't Kim Jong Un classify as Bourgeois? Wouldn't Xi Jinping classify as Bourgeois? Wouldn't Stalin classify as Bourgeois? What would the class of the leaders be exactly?
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Is this how has to be? Maybe its because people won't listen to social change without the strength and brainwashing of a dictator.
Personal Dictatorship
Is personal dictatorship necessary for socialism? It seems whenever a socialist regime comes to power, its always through the personal dictatorship of one man.Is this how has to be? Maybe its because people won't listen to social change without the strength and brainwashing of a dictator.
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The FBI has been spying and collecting documents on black intellectuals for the past century
A massive report came out ten years ago revealing documents and mass reports of espionage among not just the black American but African populace that had been going on for the past century. Leaders of the BLA, fanon, random soviet era black politicians and more have been spied on or even directly harassed by this oddly specific branch of American state security for the past century. The largest collection of anti imperialist and anti white supremacist literature is not in a university journal, but in direct control by the FBI.
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i just came across a video that was titled how did the nationalists lose the civil war in china and theres a long explanation on how they lost.
Meanwhile mao stated how he won plainly. Communism is a weapon.
Once you pick up the communist banner youre capable of achieving great things even if it starts out small.
i just came across a video that was titled how did the nationalists lose the civil war in china and theres a long explanation on how they lost.
Meanwhile mao stated how he won plainly. Communism is a weapon.
Once you pick up the communist banner youre capable of achieving great things even if it starts out small.
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I've pretty much left feminism and all that stuff to the women stuff. I don't often feel welcome there and being an activist for too many things at once is just exhausting. I just care about economic stuff and trans gay and other stuff. To be honest, I find I feel most natural when I'm liking what's called tough guy stuff and macho hypermasculine stuff. Seems like a contradiction to me. The stuff like aggression and mental toughness is cool inside of fiction, but obviously not when somebody in real life has no ability to process emotions properly, or turning that aggression to abuse others.
So does feminism mean leaving behind all that stuff as individuals and as a society? But that stuff always seemed so cool to me, and stuff called masculine and conforming to that stuff feels good. Maybe it's just because of male socialization. Leaving that behind sounds like it'd suck. Couldn't it be an evolutionary change to reduce the more toxic aspects of that, and making things more balanced? There was lots of toxic things humans did during the middle ages for example, and a lot of those behaviors and mindsets were left behind. Does that mean the same thing will happen to masculinity?
What if masculinity is cool and femininity is cool and stop calling them that eventually and they just become traits that can apply to any person depending on how they express themselves. This is just hard to deal with. Plenty of people like both masculine and feminine stuff. Do men have to leave behind traditional concept of masculinity entirely to make a better world? Or will it be iterative instead of complete overhaul. Either way I guess what's most important is being a well rounded person rather than conforming to stereotypes. All this gender stuff means more freedom, and this kind of freedom can't be bad. There's nothing better than freedom besides equality.
Also will this new masculinity will be as good to watch in action movies.
I've pretty much left feminism and all that stuff to the women stuff. I don't often feel welcome there and being an activist for too many things at once is just exhausting. I just care about economic stuff and trans gay and other stuff. To be honest, I find I feel most natural when I'm liking what's called tough guy stuff and macho hypermasculine stuff. Seems like a contradiction to me. The stuff like aggression and mental toughness is cool inside of fiction, but obviously not when somebody in real life has no ability to process emotions properly, or turning that aggression to abuse others.
So does feminism mean leaving behind all that stuff as individuals and as a society? But that stuff always seemed so cool to me, and stuff called masculine and conforming to that stuff feels good. Maybe it's just because of male socialization. Leaving that behind sounds like it'd suck. Couldn't it be an evolutionary change to reduce the more toxic aspects of that, and making things more balanced? There was lots of toxic things humans did during the middle ages for example, and a lot of those behaviors and mindsets were left behind. Does that mean the same thing will happen to masculinity?
What if masculinity is cool and femininity is cool and stop calling them that eventually and they just become traits that can apply to any person depending on how they express themselves. This is just hard to deal with. Plenty of people like both masculine and feminine stuff. Do men have to leave behind traditional concept of masculinity entirely to make a better world? Or will it be iterative instead of complete overhaul. Either way I guess what's most important is being a well rounded person rather than conforming to stereotypes. All this gender stuff means more freedom, and this kind of freedom can't be bad. There's nothing better than freedom besides equality.
Also will this new masculinity will be as good to watch in action movies.
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I know and Mao China prostitution was illegal and I know that in the ussr prostitution was illegal but do you think that modern Communist would be accepting of prostitution
I know and Mao China prostitution was illegal and I know that in the ussr prostitution was illegal but do you think that modern Communist would be accepting of prostitution
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Strasserism
Was Strasserism basically just National Bolshevism with German ethno-nationalism autism piled on top? It was the socialism in "National Socialism" after all, and its intriguing to wonder how things would have played out differently if mustache man hadn't co-op Goebbels from then and eventually purged them.
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If Trump wants to turn a dump into a sparkling luxury resort town, instead of seizing Gaza why not do this with Detroit?
Simply move all 700k people out temporarily, get other cities like Chicago or Pittsburgh to take them in (or even better, ship them to Toronto and let the Canadians deal with them), demolish everything with the exception of downtown, and rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Make the new Detroit into the Monte Carlo of the Midwest. Think about it. Citizens could even demand human-centred European infrastructure which favours pedestrians and cyclists instead of cars and mixed-use buildings instead of waste-of-space single family homes.
Someone suggest this to Trump.
If Trump wants to turn a dump into a sparkling luxury resort town, instead of seizing Gaza why not do this with Detroit?
Simply move all 700k people out temporarily, get other cities like Chicago or Pittsburgh to take them in (or even better, ship them to Toronto and let the Canadians deal with them), demolish everything with the exception of downtown, and rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Make the new Detroit into the Monte Carlo of the Midwest. Think about it. Citizens could even demand human-centred European infrastructure which favours pedestrians and cyclists instead of cars and mixed-use buildings instead of waste-of-space single family homes.
Someone suggest this to Trump.
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If you think about it, the dilemma in the imperial core today (namely the United States) is the opposite of what the dilemma was in Russia in 1917.
It is very easy to educate and agitate people today. We can distill theory into small sound bytes. We can use the Feynman method to explain complex ideas in ways that a child could understand. We can put together visualizations and graphs of complex economic data so that they are easier to digest than large books of tables. We can instantly show people footage of bourgeois war crimes that are happening all over the world.
But it is very hard to organize people. It is hard to get people off their ass and out of their house. They don't want to log off and touch grass. They don't want to risk their physical bodies. They are afraid of surveillance, of face recognition tech, of drone strikes, of deportation to some black site.
In 1917 it was the opposite, it was very easy to organize people out in the street, rile them up with a few revolutionary phrases, get them to meet in some place. Life was so miserable and people had so little to lose that organizing in the streets wasn't much more of a risk than continuing to live life with the tsar's boot on your neck, with the landlord sucking rent from your pocket, with the capitalist skimming the surplus value of your labor. Even if you hadn't read a single page of Marx, weren't an atheist, weren't a communist, and maybe not even literate, the simplest pro-worker rhetoric was enough to get you out in the streets attacking the police, and siding with the far left. There was also very little in the way of "idpol" and the capitalists had not yet perfected dividing and conquering the proletariat with the dexterity and subtlety that they do today. Do you really think the average red army volunteer from some rural village who joined up because only the bolsheviks promised to end WW1 was of the same intellectual background as the suit-wearing vanguard party members (including lawyers like Lenin) debating the merits of the NEP with each other, and discussing the prospects of learning how to run a socialist economy from detained capitalists?
So in 1917: Organizing EZ, Educating hard
Today: Educating EZ, Organizing hard
Am I off base?
If you think about it, the dilemma in the imperial core today (namely the United States) is the opposite of what the dilemma was in Russia in 1917.
It is very easy to educate and agitate people today. We can distill theory into small sound bytes. We can use the Feynman method to explain complex ideas in ways that a child could understand. We can put together visualizations and graphs of complex economic data so that they are easier to digest than large books of tables. We can instantly show people footage of bourgeois war crimes that are happening all over the world.
But it is very hard to organize people. It is hard to get people off their ass and out of their house. They don't want to log off and touch grass. They don't want to risk their physical bodies. They are afraid of surveillance, of face recognition tech, of drone strikes, of deportation to some black site.
In 1917 it was the opposite, it was very easy to organize people out in the street, rile them up with a few revolutionary phrases, get them to meet in some place. Life was so miserable and people had so little to lose that organizing in the streets wasn't much more of a risk than continuing to live life with the tsar's boot on your neck, with the landlord sucking rent from your pocket, with the capitalist skimming the surplus value of your labor. Even if you hadn't read a single page of Marx, weren't an atheist, weren't a communist, and maybe not even literate, the simplest pro-worker rhetoric was enough to get you out in the streets attacking the police, and siding with the far left. There was also very little in the way of "idpol" and the capitalists had not yet perfected dividing and conquering the proletariat with the dexterity and subtlety that they do today. Do you really think the average red army volunteer from some rural village who joined up because only the bolsheviks promised to end WW1 was of the same intellectual background as the suit-wearing vanguard party members (including lawyers like Lenin) debating the merits of the NEP with each other, and discussing the prospects of learning how to run a socialist economy from detained capitalists?
So in 1917: Organizing EZ, Educating hard
Today: Educating EZ, Organizing hard
Am I off base?
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The center-left government of Orsi, who is a history professor, promised during the presidential campaign that his administration would tirelessly search for the remains of those detained and disappeared from the past military dictatorship.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/24/uruguays-broad-front-government-renews-search-for-those-disappeared-by-military-dictatorship/
Four hours under fire from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel: ‘We’re going to have a party’
El Mencho ordered trailers to be set alight and highways blocked in Michoacán, Jalisco, and Guanajuato. Two police officers were killed, but no arrests were made: ‘We’ve never seen blockades of this scale’
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-25/four-hours-under-fire-from-the-jalisco-new-generation-cartel-were-going-to-have-a-party.html
https://archive.ph/rej4W
Dominican Republic under fire as deportations of pregnant and breastfeeding women to Haiti rise
The increase in those deportations comes as the administration of Dominican President Luis Abinader implemented a new measure this week requiring hospital staff to ask patients for their identification, work permits and proof of residence.
https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-pregnant-women-deportations-haiti-gangs-32ba22db6d957f02de7b77e16d51dd6c
New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal Contains “Red Lines” for Hamas on Continued Israeli Occupation and Disarmament
The current draft effectively asks Hamas to agree to continued military occupation of Gaza and disarmament. While the original ceasefire deal stipulated the total withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza in the second phase, the new Egyptian draft refers only to “Israeli military redeployment” and an agreed upon “security perimeter.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/new-gaza-ceasefire-deal-red-lines-hamas
Qatar to join Saudi Arabia in paying off Syria's World Bank debt
"Saudi Arabia and Qatar have agreed to pay Syria’s debt to the World Bank, amounting to $15 million", Hosri said in exclusive comments to The New Arab's Arabic sister outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
https://www.newarab.com/news/qatar-join-saudi-arabia-paying-syrias-world-bank-debt
More than 1,800 migrants expelled from Algeria into Niger, rights group says
Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as “Point Zero” after being apprehended in Algerian cities. Abdou Aziz Chehou, the group’s national coordinator, told The Associated Press on Thursday that 1,845 migrants without legal status in Algeria had been counted, arriving in Niger’s border town of Assamaka after the April 19 mass expulsion.
https://apnews.com/article/algeria-niger-migrants-expulsions-alarmphone-sahara-eb1e88277e5a5b7d696b4ff7502ca998
France accused of working with Israel to 'voluntarily' evacuate over 100 Gaza academics
In a statement provided to the Gaza-based Safa agency, Euro-Med director Dr Ramy Abdu said that the French consulate had been involved with Israel to "implement a plan to displace Palestinian professionals and their families from the Gaza Strip," calling the move "dangerous".
https://www.newarab.com/news/france-working-israel-voluntarily-evacuate-gazans
Unions and campaigners deliver joint letter to Bangladeshi commission on 12th anniversary of Rana Plaza factory collapse
TRADE unions and civil society groups delivered a joint letter to the Bangladeshi High Commission in London on Thursday to mark anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, calling on its government to address sweatshop workers’ wages and assure their trade union freedoms.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-and-campaigners-deliver-joint-letter-bangladeshi-commission-12th-anniversary-rana
Progressive forces in South Asia condemn rising regional tensions and communalism in wake of Pahalgam attack
Large scale rallies were organized on Wednesday by Kashmiris across the state to oppose the attacks on civilians and the retaliatory attacks against Kashmiris and Muslims.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/24/progressive-forces-in-south-asia-condemn-rising-regional-tensions-and-communalism-in-wake-of-pahalgam-attack/
Australian PM condemns anti-Indigenous protests during Anzac commemorations
The protests come during a heightened political atmosphere ahead of general elections on May 3 in which indigenous rights are a campaign issue. April 25 1915 was the day when the newly formed Australia and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the beaches of Gallipoli, in north-west Turkey, in a disastrous campaign that was the soldiers’ first combat of World War I.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australian-pm-condemns-anti-indigenous-protests-during-anzac-commemorations
News 4/25/25
Uruguay’s Broad Front government renews search for those disappeared by military dictatorshipThe center-left government of Orsi, who is a history professor, promised during the presidential campaign that his administration would tirelessly search for the remains of those detained and disappeared from the past military dictatorship.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/24/uruguays-broad-front-government-renews-search-for-those-disappeared-by-military-dictatorship/
Four hours under fire from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel: ‘We’re going to have a party’
El Mencho ordered trailers to be set alight and highways blocked in Michoacán, Jalisco, and Guanajuato. Two police officers were killed, but no arrests were made: ‘We’ve never seen blockades of this scale’
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-25/four-hours-under-fire-from-the-jalisco-new-generation-cartel-were-going-to-have-a-party.html
https://archive.ph/rej4W
Dominican Republic under fire as deportations of pregnant and breastfeeding women to Haiti rise
The increase in those deportations comes as the administration of Dominican President Luis Abinader implemented a new measure this week requiring hospital staff to ask patients for their identification, work permits and proof of residence.
https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-pregnant-women-deportations-haiti-gangs-32ba22db6d957f02de7b77e16d51dd6c
New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal Contains “Red Lines” for Hamas on Continued Israeli Occupation and Disarmament
The current draft effectively asks Hamas to agree to continued military occupation of Gaza and disarmament. While the original ceasefire deal stipulated the total withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza in the second phase, the new Egyptian draft refers only to “Israeli military redeployment” and an agreed upon “security perimeter.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/new-gaza-ceasefire-deal-red-lines-hamas
Qatar to join Saudi Arabia in paying off Syria's World Bank debt
"Saudi Arabia and Qatar have agreed to pay Syria’s debt to the World Bank, amounting to $15 million", Hosri said in exclusive comments to The New Arab's Arabic sister outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
https://www.newarab.com/news/qatar-join-saudi-arabia-paying-syrias-world-bank-debt
More than 1,800 migrants expelled from Algeria into Niger, rights group says
Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as “Point Zero” after being apprehended in Algerian cities. Abdou Aziz Chehou, the group’s national coordinator, told The Associated Press on Thursday that 1,845 migrants without legal status in Algeria had been counted, arriving in Niger’s border town of Assamaka after the April 19 mass expulsion.
https://apnews.com/article/algeria-niger-migrants-expulsions-alarmphone-sahara-eb1e88277e5a5b7d696b4ff7502ca998
France accused of working with Israel to 'voluntarily' evacuate over 100 Gaza academics
In a statement provided to the Gaza-based Safa agency, Euro-Med director Dr Ramy Abdu said that the French consulate had been involved with Israel to "implement a plan to displace Palestinian professionals and their families from the Gaza Strip," calling the move "dangerous".
https://www.newarab.com/news/france-working-israel-voluntarily-evacuate-gazans
Unions and campaigners deliver joint letter to Bangladeshi commission on 12th anniversary of Rana Plaza factory collapse
TRADE unions and civil society groups delivered a joint letter to the Bangladeshi High Commission in London on Thursday to mark anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, calling on its government to address sweatshop workers’ wages and assure their trade union freedoms.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-and-campaigners-deliver-joint-letter-bangladeshi-commission-12th-anniversary-rana
Progressive forces in South Asia condemn rising regional tensions and communalism in wake of Pahalgam attack
Large scale rallies were organized on Wednesday by Kashmiris across the state to oppose the attacks on civilians and the retaliatory attacks against Kashmiris and Muslims.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/24/progressive-forces-in-south-asia-condemn-rising-regional-tensions-and-communalism-in-wake-of-pahalgam-attack/
Australian PM condemns anti-Indigenous protests during Anzac commemorations
The protests come during a heightened political atmosphere ahead of general elections on May 3 in which indigenous rights are a campaign issue. April 25 1915 was the day when the newly formed Australia and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the beaches of Gallipoli, in north-west Turkey, in a disastrous campaign that was the soldiers’ first combat of World War I.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australian-pm-condemns-anti-indigenous-protests-during-anzac-commemorations
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Yes, NATO is the single reason the Ukraine War happened.
I know this has been beaten to death in /ukraine/ but I still see people talk about the Russian "invasion" like its an unassailable fact. People like to claim that the two countries and blocs are equally at fault. In reality, such takes are as "fair and balanced" as Fox News. Look at how NATO has encircled Russia and the bad-faith negotiations that had taken place over the preceding 32 years. How else could it have ended? It wouldn't have mattered if the tricolor or rainbow flags or red flags flew from the Kremlin. It would have led to war no matter if Russia was capitalist or socialist because no sovereign nation could ever tolerate such hostile encroachment and survive, especially in light of Russian history, where geopolitical moves like the ones NATO is doing were the prelude to invasion. For that matter, a socialist Ukraine (Or at least one led by somebody like Alexander Lukashenko) would not have persued this maximalist pro-NATO/pro-EU policy or discriminated against Russians and thus wouldn't have precipitated the war. Even if Russia did invade this socialist Ukraine, they would have a real army because they would not have stripped the copper wire from their rhetorical walls to fund Hunter Biden's coke addiction and gain the dubious honor of being the EU's "Mexico" while begging for 40 year-old tanks and F-16s.
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>Owing to the constantly increasing concentration of leaseholds, Ireland constantly sends her own surplus to the English labor market, and thus forces down wages and lowers the material and moral position of the English working class.
>And most important of all! Every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself. He cherishes religious, social, and national prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude towards him is much the same as that of the “poor whites” to the Negroes in the former slave states of the U.S.A. The Irishman pays him back with interest in his own money. He sees in the English worker both the accomplice and the stupid tool of the English rulers in Ireland.
>This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organization. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this.
>In reducing the Irish population by eviction and forcible emigration, to such a small number that English capital (capital invested in land leased for farming) can function there with “security.” It has the same interest in clearing the estates of Ireland as it had in the clearing of the agricultural districts of England and Scotland. The £6,000-10,000 absentee-landlord and other Irish revenues which at present flow annually to London have also to be taken into account.
>Ireland is the bulwark of the English landed aristocracy. The exploitation of that country is not only one of the main sources of their material wealth; it is their greatest moral strength. They, in fact, represent the domination over Ireland. Ireland is therefore the cardinal means by which the English aristocracy maintain their domination in England itself.
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/02/01/marx-on-immigration/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1870/letters/70_04_09.htm
Marx on Immigration via the Irish Question
We're all principled Marxist here right? Marx's position is somewhat nuanced but it seems to basically be that one should oppose immigration and support immigrants, e.g. we should work and advocate with immigrants for immigrant and worker rights in a collective struggle against the capitalist class, and the imperialist forces which create pressure for immigration, while also opposing this mechanism of lowering wages. Is this really a strong position though, it seems under sympathetic to me? Does it really just imply a cooperation with other nations to avoid expatriation, while working with those individuals that happen to arrive anyway? This is at least non-violent.>Owing to the constantly increasing concentration of leaseholds, Ireland constantly sends her own surplus to the English labor market, and thus forces down wages and lowers the material and moral position of the English working class.
>And most important of all! Every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself. He cherishes religious, social, and national prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude towards him is much the same as that of the “poor whites” to the Negroes in the former slave states of the U.S.A. The Irishman pays him back with interest in his own money. He sees in the English worker both the accomplice and the stupid tool of the English rulers in Ireland.
>This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organization. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this.
>In reducing the Irish population by eviction and forcible emigration, to such a small number that English capital (capital invested in land leased for farming) can function there with “security.” It has the same interest in clearing the estates of Ireland as it had in the clearing of the agricultural districts of England and Scotland. The £6,000-10,000 absentee-landlord and other Irish revenues which at present flow annually to London have also to be taken into account.
>Ireland is the bulwark of the English landed aristocracy. The exploitation of that country is not only one of the main sources of their material wealth; it is their greatest moral strength. They, in fact, represent the domination over Ireland. Ireland is therefore the cardinal means by which the English aristocracy maintain their domination in England itself.
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/02/01/marx-on-immigration/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1870/letters/70_04_09.htm
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I'm ashamed to live in Poland, if Poland shills for another Slav-killing war (not saying I don't hate Putin or Zelensky).
I'd like to watch some anti-Polish content on YT, then.
Do you have the best Poland-hate content on YouTube?
I'm tired of living in this country, for some reason. I will ask the same question on 4chan, but honestly it's a neo-nazi imageboard.I'm ashamed to live in Poland, if Poland shills for another Slav-killing war (not saying I don't hate Putin or Zelensky).
I'd like to watch some anti-Polish content on YT, then.
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Could you imagine what it would be like trying to organize preparations for an invasion, or encouraging people to work together to save people stuck in war zones, or even just to develop a coherent industrial program if the only motivator for why people would ever contribute to the cause was exclusively how large their paycheques were? There’s no constructive decision making or reason to preserve society itself at that point. Literally nothing would ever get accomplished in any moment of cash shortage, or a monetary collapse, or if people stopped trading in a specific currency, or if a bank collapsed, etc.
Whatever, this isn’t the biggest priority one should make regarding money given how many people don’t get paid for their work anyways, are enslaved, are held at gunpoint to work, or simply get paid less than the sum of money that they agreed too for their employers
Do you guys think that most people have an infantile attitude of money
For the jobs and enterprises that aren’t dedicated to consumerism—and even then some fields in art actually do matter quite a bit to public affairs—money alone cannot serve as the only motivation to pursue professionalism—especially in the long term. I’m not asking people to work for free, but disregarding the stability, growth, and health of society itself in favour of short term financial gains sounds both impulsive and dismissive of the reality of inflation and the limits of what money can actually buy depending on where you live.Could you imagine what it would be like trying to organize preparations for an invasion, or encouraging people to work together to save people stuck in war zones, or even just to develop a coherent industrial program if the only motivator for why people would ever contribute to the cause was exclusively how large their paycheques were? There’s no constructive decision making or reason to preserve society itself at that point. Literally nothing would ever get accomplished in any moment of cash shortage, or a monetary collapse, or if people stopped trading in a specific currency, or if a bank collapsed, etc.
Whatever, this isn’t the biggest priority one should make regarding money given how many people don’t get paid for their work anyways, are enslaved, are held at gunpoint to work, or simply get paid less than the sum of money that they agreed too for their employers
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Another hard pill to swallow is that Western socialists should rather work on destroying the West than actually trying to build socialism in the imperial core, which is futile for obvious reasons. By destroying the West other regions of the world who are more receptive to socialism have their opportunities to do so. It goes without saying that you should also aid socialist movements in the third world. Once the West falls and the third world blooms you can just move to one of the 150+ third world countries. Choosing not to is either due to emotionality making you too invested in the random region you were born in as if it were an essential part of you or closeted racism.
Another hard pill to swallow is that Western socialists should rather work on destroying the West than actually trying to build socialism in the imperial core, which is futile for obvious reasons. By destroying the West other regions of the world who are more receptive to socialism have their opportunities to do so. It goes without saying that you should also aid socialist movements in the third world. Once the West falls and the third world blooms you can just move to one of the 150+ third world countries. Choosing not to is either due to emotionality making you too invested in the random region you were born in as if it were an essential part of you or closeted racism.
R: 10 / I: 3
Socialist: Building won't make enough affordable housing.
Yglesias: To what degree do you think conservative states are more affordable because they build more?
Socialist: You're missing the point. It's complicated, let's just talk about multiple ideas.
Yglesias: I like multiple ideas, but let me just ask the same question again.
Socialist: MULTIPLE FACTORS
Yglesias: Again, zoning seems to be the most important thing.
Socialist: <crickets>
Stoller: Here's a completely different question that I'm injecting because I hate markets and hope to distract you.
Rando: The premise of your question isn't even correct.
The anti-YIMBY people have no arguments. They just hate markets so much that when they're beaten they'll deflect, try to change the subject, claim the moral high ground, or do anything it takes to not admit they're wrong.
Exchange here that exemplifies every conversation about housing on the left
Socialist: Building won't make enough affordable housing.
Yglesias: To what degree do you think conservative states are more affordable because they build more?
Socialist: You're missing the point. It's complicated, let's just talk about multiple ideas.
Yglesias: I like multiple ideas, but let me just ask the same question again.
Socialist: MULTIPLE FACTORS
Yglesias: Again, zoning seems to be the most important thing.
Socialist: <crickets>
Stoller: Here's a completely different question that I'm injecting because I hate markets and hope to distract you.
Rando: The premise of your question isn't even correct.
The anti-YIMBY people have no arguments. They just hate markets so much that when they're beaten they'll deflect, try to change the subject, claim the moral high ground, or do anything it takes to not admit they're wrong.
R: 90 / I: 22
Trans Christianity
What are the cases to be made for trans and LGBTQ+ Christianity? I was raised Christian and I believe in Christian socialist values, but I also identify as a man despite being biofem. How does this fit into broader leftist worldview?
R: 3 / I: 1
Trump said in a post on Truth Social this week that nobody was asking Zelenskiy to recognize Crimea, as he lashed out at the Ukrainian president and accused him of harming peace negotiations with Russia. On Thursday, he criticized Putin for the latest round of attacks on Ukraine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/us-to-demand-putin-accept-ukraine-s-right-to-military-force
https://archive.ph/594Tu
Not enough NHS staff to ensure safe care for maternity patients or those recovering from injury or illness
More than half of all shifts involved a “red flag” safety event, such as delays of over 30 minutes in administering pain relief, with such incidents more common where staff felt there were too few workers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/not-enough-nhs-staff-ensure-safe-care-maternity-patients-or-those-recovering-injury-or
Spain scraps €6.6m arms order from Israeli company after outcry
Spain has scrapped a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company after the junior partners in its coalition government denounced it as a “flagrant breach” of the alliance agreement that jeopardised the country’s sustained efforts to hold Israel accountable for its actions in Gaza.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/24/spain-scraps-arms-order-from-israeli-company-after-outcry
Revealed: UAE deploys Israeli radar in Somalia under secret deal
The United Arab Emirates deployed a military radar in Somalia’s Puntland earlier this year to defend Bosaso airport against potential Houthi attacks from Yemen, sources familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye. Satellite imagery from early March reveals that the Israeli-made ELM-2084 3D Active Electronically Scanned Array Multi-Mission Radar was installed near the airport.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-uae-deploys-israeli-radar-somalia-under-secret-deal
Renewed RSF shelling kills at least 55 in North Darfur
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been accused of killing at least eight civilians and injuring dozens in a shelling of residential neighbourhoods in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, on Tuesday. A day earlier, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) reported that a separate RSF artillery barrage had killed 47 civilians.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/renewed-rsf-shelling-kills-at-least-55-in-north-darfur
EFF calls for withdrawal of 2025 fiscal framework
The party joined the Democratic Alliance (DA) in a Western Cape High Court application to interdict the VAT increase, arguing that the adoption of the budget was done via deceitful and unprocedural means.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-calls-for-withdrawal-of-2025-fiscal-framework/
Pahalgam attack: Provincial minister calls it ‘false flag drama’, says Pakistan prepared for any aggression
Pakistan threatened to suspend its participation in all bilateral agreements with India, including the 1972 Simla Agreement, on Thursday in a retaliatory move after India said it would suspend its own participation in the Indus Water Treaty and close the land border the day before.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/24/india-and-pakistan-head-towards-a-strategic-standoff-after-pahalgam-attack
https://archive.ph/Clq5t
Fatal police shooting in Melbourne triggers widespread outrage
Two police officers shot dead a homeless man on April 17 in the inner-west Melbourne suburb of Footscray, in front of horrified Easter shoppers. Abdifatah Ahmed, 35, who had no fixed address and suffered mental health problems, was well-known in the busy Footscray centre, an area where rough sleepers tend to gather.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/24/rxpt-a24.html
Argentine Police Repress Weekly Retiree Protests: Arrests and Pepper Spray Are Deployed Against Milei Government Critics
Riot police fired pepper spray and detained demonstrators during Argentina’s weekly retiree protest on Wednesday, continuing a pattern of repression that has drawn international condemnation since journalist Pablo Grillo was critically injured by a tear gas canister in March.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-police-repress-weekly-retiree-protests-arrests-and-pepper-spray-are-deployed-against-milei-government-critics/
Colombian movements condemn assassination attempt against peasant leader
Roa was shot several times on the night of April 22 near his home in Saravena, Colombia by unidentified gunmen. The peasant leader was then rushed to a local hospital where he received treatment and is currently in recovery, according to the Joel Sierra Human Rights Foundation, based in Saravena.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/23/colombian-movements-condemn-assassination-attempt-against-peasant-leader/
Petro lifts State of Exception in northeast Colombia
The president could have asked Congress to extend the emergency measures for another three months, but decided to only maintain “exceptional measures to disengage families dependent on illicit crop cultivation.” These exceptional measures include a crop substitution program, which would allow farmers in Catatumbo, a notorious coca growing region, access to the legal economy.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-lifts-state-of-exception-in-northeast-colombia/
News 4/24/25
‘US to Demand Putin Accept Ukraine’s Right to Military ForceTrump said in a post on Truth Social this week that nobody was asking Zelenskiy to recognize Crimea, as he lashed out at the Ukrainian president and accused him of harming peace negotiations with Russia. On Thursday, he criticized Putin for the latest round of attacks on Ukraine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/us-to-demand-putin-accept-ukraine-s-right-to-military-force
https://archive.ph/594Tu
Not enough NHS staff to ensure safe care for maternity patients or those recovering from injury or illness
More than half of all shifts involved a “red flag” safety event, such as delays of over 30 minutes in administering pain relief, with such incidents more common where staff felt there were too few workers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/not-enough-nhs-staff-ensure-safe-care-maternity-patients-or-those-recovering-injury-or
Spain scraps €6.6m arms order from Israeli company after outcry
Spain has scrapped a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company after the junior partners in its coalition government denounced it as a “flagrant breach” of the alliance agreement that jeopardised the country’s sustained efforts to hold Israel accountable for its actions in Gaza.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/24/spain-scraps-arms-order-from-israeli-company-after-outcry
Revealed: UAE deploys Israeli radar in Somalia under secret deal
The United Arab Emirates deployed a military radar in Somalia’s Puntland earlier this year to defend Bosaso airport against potential Houthi attacks from Yemen, sources familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye. Satellite imagery from early March reveals that the Israeli-made ELM-2084 3D Active Electronically Scanned Array Multi-Mission Radar was installed near the airport.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-uae-deploys-israeli-radar-somalia-under-secret-deal
Renewed RSF shelling kills at least 55 in North Darfur
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been accused of killing at least eight civilians and injuring dozens in a shelling of residential neighbourhoods in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, on Tuesday. A day earlier, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) reported that a separate RSF artillery barrage had killed 47 civilians.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/renewed-rsf-shelling-kills-at-least-55-in-north-darfur
EFF calls for withdrawal of 2025 fiscal framework
The party joined the Democratic Alliance (DA) in a Western Cape High Court application to interdict the VAT increase, arguing that the adoption of the budget was done via deceitful and unprocedural means.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-calls-for-withdrawal-of-2025-fiscal-framework/
Pahalgam attack: Provincial minister calls it ‘false flag drama’, says Pakistan prepared for any aggression
Pakistan threatened to suspend its participation in all bilateral agreements with India, including the 1972 Simla Agreement, on Thursday in a retaliatory move after India said it would suspend its own participation in the Indus Water Treaty and close the land border the day before.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/24/india-and-pakistan-head-towards-a-strategic-standoff-after-pahalgam-attack
https://archive.ph/Clq5t
Fatal police shooting in Melbourne triggers widespread outrage
Two police officers shot dead a homeless man on April 17 in the inner-west Melbourne suburb of Footscray, in front of horrified Easter shoppers. Abdifatah Ahmed, 35, who had no fixed address and suffered mental health problems, was well-known in the busy Footscray centre, an area where rough sleepers tend to gather.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/24/rxpt-a24.html
Argentine Police Repress Weekly Retiree Protests: Arrests and Pepper Spray Are Deployed Against Milei Government Critics
Riot police fired pepper spray and detained demonstrators during Argentina’s weekly retiree protest on Wednesday, continuing a pattern of repression that has drawn international condemnation since journalist Pablo Grillo was critically injured by a tear gas canister in March.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-police-repress-weekly-retiree-protests-arrests-and-pepper-spray-are-deployed-against-milei-government-critics/
Colombian movements condemn assassination attempt against peasant leader
Roa was shot several times on the night of April 22 near his home in Saravena, Colombia by unidentified gunmen. The peasant leader was then rushed to a local hospital where he received treatment and is currently in recovery, according to the Joel Sierra Human Rights Foundation, based in Saravena.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/23/colombian-movements-condemn-assassination-attempt-against-peasant-leader/
Petro lifts State of Exception in northeast Colombia
The president could have asked Congress to extend the emergency measures for another three months, but decided to only maintain “exceptional measures to disengage families dependent on illicit crop cultivation.” These exceptional measures include a crop substitution program, which would allow farmers in Catatumbo, a notorious coca growing region, access to the legal economy.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-lifts-state-of-exception-in-northeast-colombia/
R: 61 / I: 4
Can some a Chinsese or China expert anon kindly educate me what would be the most correct way to describe the majority religion of China for the most of its history? National polytheism not unlike one of a pre-Christian Rome? Monotheism? (With one true God being called by the name that is usually translated in English as "Heaven" as in "Mandate of Heaven") Syncretism of two atheistic religions (Buddhism and Taoism) with the cult of the Chinese state/Emperor?
Can some a Chinsese or China expert anon kindly educate me what would be the most correct way to describe the majority religion of China for the most of its history? National polytheism not unlike one of a pre-Christian Rome? Monotheism? (With one true God being called by the name that is usually translated in English as "Heaven" as in "Mandate of Heaven") Syncretism of two atheistic religions (Buddhism and Taoism) with the cult of the Chinese state/Emperor?
R: 21 / I: 3
In capitalism, the main incentive is threat of firing, and how effective that is depends on job market. In socialist economy with no unemployment, the severity of this punishment lessens considerably. Now there could be sort of short-term barring from working at any job, the person in question being provided only with absolute minimum wage for subsistence. But this is obviously something that can be only used sparingly, to discipline the most anti-social elements, and as such isnt a solution to common laziness.
In Towards The New Socialism, Cockshott suggested grading system for worker's performance, where above-average workers would receive slightly higher wage, under-average slightly lower. The issue I see here is, because you are grading on a curve, how to prevent the average from slipping down? In socialist society, promise of more purchasing power is simply not going to be sufficient motivator for portion of workforce. Absent of any incentives, the workers will do the minimum they think they can get away with.
Standards for performance could be enforced top-down, as it is now, by management. But then you run into the exactly same problem, why should management care? Reward and punishment of promotion/demotion is blunted by egalitarian payment system, there are no owners with personal vested interest in extracting surplus overseeing them, demanding they discipline the employees. There is no incentive for a manager to care about performance, but there is in maintaining good relationships with others in the workplace, not being known as an asshole who reprimands co-workers for watching TikToks while on the clock.
So that is my question. How does a socialist planned economy maintain labour discipline?
Socialism and labour discipline
How would a socialist economy get workers to perform adequately and keep them from slacking off too much? There are cultural and psychological factors at play, it can be expected that no longer working for the sake of personal enrichment of your boss will have positive effect on morale, but relying on fervor for common good is most likely not going to be sufficient, certainly not in jobs that are by their nature boring, repetitive and unpleasant.In capitalism, the main incentive is threat of firing, and how effective that is depends on job market. In socialist economy with no unemployment, the severity of this punishment lessens considerably. Now there could be sort of short-term barring from working at any job, the person in question being provided only with absolute minimum wage for subsistence. But this is obviously something that can be only used sparingly, to discipline the most anti-social elements, and as such isnt a solution to common laziness.
In Towards The New Socialism, Cockshott suggested grading system for worker's performance, where above-average workers would receive slightly higher wage, under-average slightly lower. The issue I see here is, because you are grading on a curve, how to prevent the average from slipping down? In socialist society, promise of more purchasing power is simply not going to be sufficient motivator for portion of workforce. Absent of any incentives, the workers will do the minimum they think they can get away with.
Standards for performance could be enforced top-down, as it is now, by management. But then you run into the exactly same problem, why should management care? Reward and punishment of promotion/demotion is blunted by egalitarian payment system, there are no owners with personal vested interest in extracting surplus overseeing them, demanding they discipline the employees. There is no incentive for a manager to care about performance, but there is in maintaining good relationships with others in the workplace, not being known as an asshole who reprimands co-workers for watching TikToks while on the clock.
So that is my question. How does a socialist planned economy maintain labour discipline?
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Autistic people in the US, especially queer autistic people, are in immediate danger of genocide. Today RFK Jr made a speech saying autistic people are totally unproductive and have no place in society. This is blatant genocidal eugenicist rhetoric.
Trump and RFK want to send autistic people to Salvadoran concentration camps
Just received this warning from an irl friend.Autistic people in the US, especially queer autistic people, are in immediate danger of genocide. Today RFK Jr made a speech saying autistic people are totally unproductive and have no place in society. This is blatant genocidal eugenicist rhetoric.
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>George Washington
>Napoleon Bonaparte
>Fidel Castro
>Vladimir Lenin
>Lucius Junius Brutus
>Oliver Cromwell
>Sun Yat-sen
>Kamehameha
>Jacob (son of Isaac)
>Ruhollah Khomeini
Exceptions:
>Julius Caesar (no brothers)
>Mao Zedong (oldest of three brothers)
>Muammar Gaddafi (oldest surviving son, don't know how long his older brothers lived though)
Birth Order and Revolutionaries
These seem to be a strange correlation to second-born sons leading revolutions, I looked up a good number of revolutionaries and a good chunk of them were done by second born sons, but I did find some exemptions.>George Washington
>Napoleon Bonaparte
>Fidel Castro
>Vladimir Lenin
>Lucius Junius Brutus
>Oliver Cromwell
>Sun Yat-sen
>Kamehameha
>Jacob (son of Isaac)
>Ruhollah Khomeini
Exceptions:
>Julius Caesar (no brothers)
>Mao Zedong (oldest of three brothers)
>Muammar Gaddafi (oldest surviving son, don't know how long his older brothers lived though)
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what are the odds and the outcome of the governor of calufornia turning communist?
i woukdnt write it off i can see it happening.
Itd probably lead to a civil war.
what are the odds and the outcome of the governor of calufornia turning communist?
i woukdnt write it off i can see it happening.
Itd probably lead to a civil war.
R: 36 / I: 4
I think it's true that there is a slowing birthrate in doveloped counties and that could cause issues but its obvious that the only reason rightoids want this is because they need more worker drones.
What's your take on this growing aspect of the right?
Leftist take on pronatalism and birth rate
So recently a bunch of chuds in Austin had a large pronatalism conference and it's a sector of the right that the tech oriented types seem to be most heavily gravitated towards currently.I think it's true that there is a slowing birthrate in doveloped counties and that could cause issues but its obvious that the only reason rightoids want this is because they need more worker drones.
What's your take on this growing aspect of the right?
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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?
R: 30 / I: 1
Recently, we've seen loads of dirt come out about family vloggers, such as the 8 Passengers/Ruby Franke scandal. Not to mention parents using their kids for monetized content over Instagram and TikTok. These kids are almost never compensated for their work (because, let's face it, what they're doing for social media counts as child labour) and their parents are making all the money from the content these kids are featured in.
Not to mention, in the case of Gekyume Onfroy (vid related), this kid's grief over the loss of his famous SoundCloud rapper father is being blatantly exploited for views. This kid has been treated as a product his entire life and his sadness is now being turned into a public spectacle. Part of me says the people doing this deserve punishment.
There have also been several laws against using kids for social media in California and most recently in Utah. Does anyone know enough details to give a materialist/Marxist analysis of these laws?
Child influencers on social media
What's the best approach to the issue of child influencers (or "kidfluencers") being used and abused by their parents on social media?Recently, we've seen loads of dirt come out about family vloggers, such as the 8 Passengers/Ruby Franke scandal. Not to mention parents using their kids for monetized content over Instagram and TikTok. These kids are almost never compensated for their work (because, let's face it, what they're doing for social media counts as child labour) and their parents are making all the money from the content these kids are featured in.
Not to mention, in the case of Gekyume Onfroy (vid related), this kid's grief over the loss of his famous SoundCloud rapper father is being blatantly exploited for views. This kid has been treated as a product his entire life and his sadness is now being turned into a public spectacle. Part of me says the people doing this deserve punishment.
There have also been several laws against using kids for social media in California and most recently in Utah. Does anyone know enough details to give a materialist/Marxist analysis of these laws?
R: 4 / I: 0
Think Blue, Count Two.
Cordwainer Smith thread
Considering that Paul Linebarger was a CIA man specializing in psychological warfare, what does the Instrumentality of Mankind series say about how glowies view the world and what their ideal society should be?Think Blue, Count Two.
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as far as praxis i think troskyism might be the way to go. Were not ready for cybercom just yet but well get there.
What is troskyism as far as praxis?
The militant workers are the backbone, the party is just to enable them.
Thats my understanding.
as far as praxis i think troskyism might be the way to go. Were not ready for cybercom just yet but well get there.
What is troskyism as far as praxis?
The militant workers are the backbone, the party is just to enable them.
Thats my understanding.
R: 91 / I: 15
Why are ziggies allied with the US & Israel? Thats kinda weird, I thought Russia was supposed to btfo the US and help Gaza and Assad and the Global South and shit, where is Putin's help (besides sending funds to the AfD) 🤔
Why are ziggies allied with the US & Israel? Thats kinda weird, I thought Russia was supposed to btfo the US and help Gaza and Assad and the Global South and shit, where is Putin's help (besides sending funds to the AfD) 🤔
R: 33 / I: 6
Why in the world do we have A billionaire ruling class in the USA and we can’t even get universal healthcare make me sick when people like Elon Musk Jeff Bezos Bill Gates and Donald Trump get to happy when people are starving
Why in the world do we have A billionaire ruling class in the USA and we can’t even get universal healthcare make me sick when people like Elon Musk Jeff Bezos Bill Gates and Donald Trump get to happy when people are starving
R: 82 / I: 19
>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
R: 12 / I: 1
Man look at this shit bro. I hate Althusser so much, calling Marx a Hegelian just because of the epistemological break thing, which was just Althusser’s schizophrenia acting up for attention from fellow intellectuals.
The fact I once called myself a structural Marxist will forever go down as one of the periods of my life I despise the most, even more than when I was an ML. It’s always this senseless philosophical jerkoff about semantics and “who agrees with who”.
Man look at this shit bro. I hate Althusser so much, calling Marx a Hegelian just because of the epistemological break thing, which was just Althusser’s schizophrenia acting up for attention from fellow intellectuals.
The fact I once called myself a structural Marxist will forever go down as one of the periods of my life I despise the most, even more than when I was an ML. It’s always this senseless philosophical jerkoff about semantics and “who agrees with who”.
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You're talking to a friendly guy and he asks you
>Why are you a communist? Hasn't communism always failed?
How do you respond? The guy is not especially into politics and is genuinely interested in your perspective.
You're talking to a friendly guy and he asks you
>Why are you a communist? Hasn't communism always failed?
How do you respond? The guy is not especially into politics and is genuinely interested in your perspective.
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For comrades who are well-versed in American communist history: how important were former CPUSA members-turned-snitches like Whittaker Chambers and Bella Dodd in taking down the Party during McCarthyism?
I ask, because I know snitches and rats are usually the main reason gangs and the mafia are taken down. Im not talking about FBI informants who infiltrate said groups, but former group members who betray the group and turn state. How much of this was true for CPUSA?
Also, Chambers is highly revered by Neocons to this day (Witness is required reading at Hillsdale College) and there are plenty of TradCaths who propagate Bella Dodd’s story about CPUSA allegedly infiltrating the Catholic Church.
For comrades who are well-versed in American communist history: how important were former CPUSA members-turned-snitches like Whittaker Chambers and Bella Dodd in taking down the Party during McCarthyism?
I ask, because I know snitches and rats are usually the main reason gangs and the mafia are taken down. Im not talking about FBI informants who infiltrate said groups, but former group members who betray the group and turn state. How much of this was true for CPUSA?
Also, Chambers is highly revered by Neocons to this day (Witness is required reading at Hillsdale College) and there are plenty of TradCaths who propagate Bella Dodd’s story about CPUSA allegedly infiltrating the Catholic Church.
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People in North America think maturity exists in a vacuum and doesn’t require an entire community’s worth of support to achieve for the average person.
I was angry writing this
You cannot convince me that everything I listed here isnt real and isnt widespread in NA at this point. The sheer amount of humiliation content, voyeurism, infantilizing media, and infantilized job seekers on this continent compared to other places is largely not accidental. No one on this stupid continent is being raised or even supported in developing any semblance of self supportiveness or emotional maturity. We’re a continent of screen- and drug-addicted orphans trying to do what other normal people do all the time without having the societal consciousness to support each other developmentally.People in North America think maturity exists in a vacuum and doesn’t require an entire community’s worth of support to achieve for the average person.
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Why do consistently duped Trump supporters continue to think he has their best interests in mind? What creates such blind devotion? Why have faith in a leader who doesn’t lead you to anything you desire?
Why do consistently duped Trump supporters continue to think he has their best interests in mind? What creates such blind devotion? Why have faith in a leader who doesn’t lead you to anything you desire?
R: 137 / I: 15
To this day in Russia, there are circuses with animals, interestingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tskbF6cM0G4
And mostly outcry about circuses with animals is in capitalistic countries.
Back then in communist Poland, circuses with animals used to be liked as well. And up till 90s, 2000s and 2021, they used to be popular for children.
What happened? And please, no reactionary liberal rhetoric.
Why were the circuses with animals popular in USSR?
Seriously, during the communist days, many people liked going to see the animals in the circuses and nobody saw it as something wrong, before PETA ever existed.To this day in Russia, there are circuses with animals, interestingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tskbF6cM0G4
And mostly outcry about circuses with animals is in capitalistic countries.
Back then in communist Poland, circuses with animals used to be liked as well. And up till 90s, 2000s and 2021, they used to be popular for children.
What happened? And please, no reactionary liberal rhetoric.
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what would happen to the economy if everyone turned very frugal and started buying only from their own community, farmers markets, second hand etc?
I feel a great deal of damage could be made without the risks of other types of direct action like violence or strikes.
how effective is not consooming as praxis?
ever since I got fired and got into unemployment I have become absolutely frugal in my expenses, I never order food or eat out, and I mostly avoid shopping at a supermarket. I haven't bought a bottle of coke in 3 months.what would happen to the economy if everyone turned very frugal and started buying only from their own community, farmers markets, second hand etc?
I feel a great deal of damage could be made without the risks of other types of direct action like violence or strikes.
R: 4 / I: 1
On April 19, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Bolivia registered 11 parties and five electoral alliances that will participate in the presidential elections on August 17, 2025. This does not guarantee 16 candidates, but that these parties and alliances will participate in the electoral campaign. Further alliances and partnerships are expected to form around political figures aiming for the presidential chair at the Palacio Quemado. The final list of presidential candidates will be announced on May 19.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/22/new-faces-old-rivalries-bolivias-upcoming-presidential-elections/
Families of detainees in El Salvador and Venezuela decry Bukele’s prisoner swap offer
Sebastián García Casique, whose 24-year-old brother Francisco was also sent to the prison in El Salvador, also condemned the proposed trade. “Why are you using human beings in a negotiation as if they were toys?” he asked Bukele in a post on Instagram.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/el-salvador-bukele-venezuela-prisoners
Israel faked Gaza tunnel discovery to prevent ceasefire: Gallant
"It was not a tunnel, but an attempt to prevent a ceasefire agreement," he said, adding "it was promoted to the public as a deep tunnel to prevent reaching a deal with Hamas". Egypt has denied that there were active tunnels on its border with Gaza throughout the duration of the war.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-faked-gaza-tunnel-discovery-prevent-ceasefire-gallant
Jordan outlaws Muslim Brotherhood group, confiscates assets
Jordan has imposed a sweeping ban on the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most vocal opposition group, after members of the group were found to be linked to a sabotage plot, Minister of the Interior Mazin Fraya said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/23/jordan-outlaws-muslim-brotherhood-group-confiscates-assets
https://archive.ph/YiQco
Syrian Kurds set to hold unified conference to discuss future, rights
Syrian Kurds are set to hold a unified conference on 26 April, which will include parties linked the Autonomous Administration in northeastern Syria as well as the rival Kurdish National Council (KCK), in an effort to outline their key demands from the Syrian government and discuss their future and rights.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syrian-kurds-set-hold-unified-conference-discuss-future
Spanish deputy PM’s party calls for cancellation of Israeli arms order
The leftwing junior partners in Spain’s socialist-led coalition government have called on the interior ministry to cancel a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company, claiming the deal breaches coalition agreements and undermines efforts to hold Israel to account over its actions in Gaza.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/spain-government-calls-for-interior-ministry-to-cancel-israeli-arms-order
Opponents of the Gaza genocide successfully defend themselves in German courts
On Thursday last week, the Dortmund Labour Court declared Ahmad Othman’s dismissal unlawful. The activist had been sacked by his employer, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), because he had been involved in the Palestine Solidarity Duisburg (PSDU), which was banned by the North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Ministry under Herbert Reul (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) on May 16 last year.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/21/hsbt-a21.html
Google, X next targets as Europe stays tough on tech regulation
EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday imposed the first penalties under landmark EU legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech, doling out total fines of 700 million euros ($797 million) to Apple and Meta (META.O) for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and orders to stop anti-competitive practices.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-x-next-targets-europe-stays-tough-tech-regulation-2025-04-23/
India closes land border with Pakistan after 26 tourists killed in Kashmir attack
Announcing the downgrading of relations with Pakistan, the Indian foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, told a media briefing that cross-border connections to the attack had been “brought out” at a special meeting of the security cabinet, after which it was decided to act.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/indian-security-forces-hunt-militants-after-tourists-killed-in-kashmir-attack
Bengal: Teachers’ Protest Intensifies; WBSSC Fails to Publish List
The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has failed to publish the list of eligible and ineligible candidates, as promised. As a result, thousands of unemployed teaching and non-teaching staff remain in limbo and have intensified their protests.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-teachers-protest-intensifies-wbssc-fails-publish-list
News 4/23/25
New faces, old rivalries: Bolivia’s upcoming presidential electionsOn April 19, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Bolivia registered 11 parties and five electoral alliances that will participate in the presidential elections on August 17, 2025. This does not guarantee 16 candidates, but that these parties and alliances will participate in the electoral campaign. Further alliances and partnerships are expected to form around political figures aiming for the presidential chair at the Palacio Quemado. The final list of presidential candidates will be announced on May 19.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/22/new-faces-old-rivalries-bolivias-upcoming-presidential-elections/
Families of detainees in El Salvador and Venezuela decry Bukele’s prisoner swap offer
Sebastián García Casique, whose 24-year-old brother Francisco was also sent to the prison in El Salvador, also condemned the proposed trade. “Why are you using human beings in a negotiation as if they were toys?” he asked Bukele in a post on Instagram.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/el-salvador-bukele-venezuela-prisoners
Israel faked Gaza tunnel discovery to prevent ceasefire: Gallant
"It was not a tunnel, but an attempt to prevent a ceasefire agreement," he said, adding "it was promoted to the public as a deep tunnel to prevent reaching a deal with Hamas". Egypt has denied that there were active tunnels on its border with Gaza throughout the duration of the war.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-faked-gaza-tunnel-discovery-prevent-ceasefire-gallant
Jordan outlaws Muslim Brotherhood group, confiscates assets
Jordan has imposed a sweeping ban on the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most vocal opposition group, after members of the group were found to be linked to a sabotage plot, Minister of the Interior Mazin Fraya said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/23/jordan-outlaws-muslim-brotherhood-group-confiscates-assets
https://archive.ph/YiQco
Syrian Kurds set to hold unified conference to discuss future, rights
Syrian Kurds are set to hold a unified conference on 26 April, which will include parties linked the Autonomous Administration in northeastern Syria as well as the rival Kurdish National Council (KCK), in an effort to outline their key demands from the Syrian government and discuss their future and rights.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syrian-kurds-set-hold-unified-conference-discuss-future
Spanish deputy PM’s party calls for cancellation of Israeli arms order
The leftwing junior partners in Spain’s socialist-led coalition government have called on the interior ministry to cancel a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company, claiming the deal breaches coalition agreements and undermines efforts to hold Israel to account over its actions in Gaza.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/spain-government-calls-for-interior-ministry-to-cancel-israeli-arms-order
Opponents of the Gaza genocide successfully defend themselves in German courts
On Thursday last week, the Dortmund Labour Court declared Ahmad Othman’s dismissal unlawful. The activist had been sacked by his employer, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), because he had been involved in the Palestine Solidarity Duisburg (PSDU), which was banned by the North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Ministry under Herbert Reul (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) on May 16 last year.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/21/hsbt-a21.html
Google, X next targets as Europe stays tough on tech regulation
EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday imposed the first penalties under landmark EU legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech, doling out total fines of 700 million euros ($797 million) to Apple and Meta (META.O) for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and orders to stop anti-competitive practices.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-x-next-targets-europe-stays-tough-tech-regulation-2025-04-23/
India closes land border with Pakistan after 26 tourists killed in Kashmir attack
Announcing the downgrading of relations with Pakistan, the Indian foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, told a media briefing that cross-border connections to the attack had been “brought out” at a special meeting of the security cabinet, after which it was decided to act.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/indian-security-forces-hunt-militants-after-tourists-killed-in-kashmir-attack
Bengal: Teachers’ Protest Intensifies; WBSSC Fails to Publish List
The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has failed to publish the list of eligible and ineligible candidates, as promised. As a result, thousands of unemployed teaching and non-teaching staff remain in limbo and have intensified their protests.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-teachers-protest-intensifies-wbssc-fails-publish-list
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Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "The proletariat love you. Do you believe in the proletariat?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a communist or a socialist?" He said, "A communist." I said, "Me, too! Marxist-Leninist or anarchist?" He said, "Marxist-Leninist." I said, "Me, too! What kind of thought?" He said, "Trotskyist." I said, "Me, too! Intersectional Trotskyist or Classical Trotskyist?" He said, "Intersectional Trotskyist." I said, "Me, too! Socialist Action (United States), Socialist Alternative (United States), or Socialist Equality Party (United States)?"
He said, "Socialist Action (United States)." I said, "Me, too! Socialist Resurgence splinter group, or Socialist Action mainline?" He said, "Socialist Resurgence splinter group." I said, "Me, too!"
"Socialist Resurgence committee of 2019, or Socialist Resurgence committee of 2021?" He said, "Socialist Resurgence committee of 2021." I said, "Die, bourgeois revisionist!" And I pushed him over.
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "The proletariat love you. Do you believe in the proletariat?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a communist or a socialist?" He said, "A communist." I said, "Me, too! Marxist-Leninist or anarchist?" He said, "Marxist-Leninist." I said, "Me, too! What kind of thought?" He said, "Trotskyist." I said, "Me, too! Intersectional Trotskyist or Classical Trotskyist?" He said, "Intersectional Trotskyist." I said, "Me, too! Socialist Action (United States), Socialist Alternative (United States), or Socialist Equality Party (United States)?"
He said, "Socialist Action (United States)." I said, "Me, too! Socialist Resurgence splinter group, or Socialist Action mainline?" He said, "Socialist Resurgence splinter group." I said, "Me, too!"
"Socialist Resurgence committee of 2019, or Socialist Resurgence committee of 2021?" He said, "Socialist Resurgence committee of 2021." I said, "Die, bourgeois revisionist!" And I pushed him over.
R: 13 / I: 0 (sage)
why do tankies claim to be the most well read when theyre the least well read?
evrn orthodox marxism intended to be done by tyranny of the majority than a regular tyranny.
lenin was also a neptard, only stalin was what we know of today as a full blown tyrannical communist.
Thats not to say there wasnt a method to his madness. Had the soviet union stayed the course until 1970 they would have surpassed the us in gdp and wed all be speakibg russian.
Anyways none of that applies to the modern reality.
why do tankies claim to be the most well read when theyre the least well read?
evrn orthodox marxism intended to be done by tyranny of the majority than a regular tyranny.
lenin was also a neptard, only stalin was what we know of today as a full blown tyrannical communist.
Thats not to say there wasnt a method to his madness. Had the soviet union stayed the course until 1970 they would have surpassed the us in gdp and wed all be speakibg russian.
Anyways none of that applies to the modern reality.
R: 1 / I: 0
>You know, I was really looking forward to the revolution and everything-
<What? Was? The fuck happened?
>You didn't hear? Twitter power user found out about immanent critique. It's over.
>You know, I was really looking forward to the revolution and everything-
<What? Was? The fuck happened?
>You didn't hear? Twitter power user found out about immanent critique. It's over.
R: 613 / I: 164 (full)
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/crisis/ - high roller's suite edition
104% tariffs on China are IN EFFECT
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TREATS WILL NOT FLOW
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/crisis/ - high roller's suite edition
104% tariffs on China are IN EFFECT
nothing ever happens (says the frog in the boiling pot)
TREATS WILL NOT FLOW
$649 USD NINTENDO SWITCH 2
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discuss the state of the "Axis of Resistance" and its future: Iran, Hezbollah, formerly Syria (what is SDF's role? critical support or no?), and Hamas, Houthis, various other militias.
relevant listening:
Radio War Nerd EP 487 — Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire + Syria Collapse, feat. Cyrus
https://www.audacy.com/podcast/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-c4cea/episodes/radio-war-nerd-ep-487-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-syria-collapse-feat-cyrus-guest-co-host-aamer-ef7a4
Axis of Resistance Twilight: Syria Has Fallen
sequel to "What went wrong?",discuss the state of the "Axis of Resistance" and its future: Iran, Hezbollah, formerly Syria (what is SDF's role? critical support or no?), and Hamas, Houthis, various other militias.
relevant listening:
Radio War Nerd EP 487 — Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire + Syria Collapse, feat. Cyrus
https://www.audacy.com/podcast/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-c4cea/episodes/radio-war-nerd-ep-487-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-syria-collapse-feat-cyrus-guest-co-host-aamer-ef7a4
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thoughts on militancy in labor unions?
Like no bs you give us a raise or your dead boss man.
werent the teamsters backed by the mafia?
Not sure if that was just extorting unions though.
thoughts on militancy in labor unions?
Like no bs you give us a raise or your dead boss man.
werent the teamsters backed by the mafia?
Not sure if that was just extorting unions though.
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Whats the point of communist parties in the us when theyre all just end up being democrat cops?
Why dont they all band together into one unified democrat cops party?
Whats the point of communist parties in the us when theyre all just end up being democrat cops?
Why dont they all band together into one unified democrat cops party?
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How does leftypol stay lefty?
I was expecting to see actual /pol/ refugees flooding this board with 4chan going down but that doesn't seem to have happened? Do you guys like have jannies manually looking at every post to determine if it's leftist enough or something?
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Hippies suck too. Sobriety shouldn't be banned but sober snobbism is cringe. Anti-addiction shouldn't be a narrative. Anti-addiction preachers only increase mental health problems and are a detriment for your psyche, deterring from the real issue of the war on drugs and its repressions. Not saying the end goal of life is to be literate but every sober snob I know from high school has seriously failed to learn even the most basic of texts from Marx and is generally a liberal or a nazi, though there isn't much of a difference. It's why the crusty sober preacher who reeks of sweat and farts is a well known stereotype.
/s
The serious question is why do mods allow this shit on the main board >>2238383 and why don't they enforce their own rules 7), 11), 14) a) b) c) d) e) f) g), 15) when it comes to anti drug idpol?
Is sobriety destructive to society?
Can we admit that sober "culture" sucks and is actually destructive for society's well being?Hippies suck too. Sobriety shouldn't be banned but sober snobbism is cringe. Anti-addiction shouldn't be a narrative. Anti-addiction preachers only increase mental health problems and are a detriment for your psyche, deterring from the real issue of the war on drugs and its repressions. Not saying the end goal of life is to be literate but every sober snob I know from high school has seriously failed to learn even the most basic of texts from Marx and is generally a liberal or a nazi, though there isn't much of a difference. It's why the crusty sober preacher who reeks of sweat and farts is a well known stereotype.
/s
The serious question is why do mods allow this shit on the main board >>2238383 and why don't they enforce their own rules 7), 11), 14) a) b) c) d) e) f) g), 15) when it comes to anti drug idpol?
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<The Easy Sells:
>Worker Ownership of the Means of Production.
>(Opposition to the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie.)
>Anti-imperialism and Anti-chauvinism
>Central planning? (Opposition to the chaos of the markets).
<The Hard Sells:
>Dictatorship of the Proletariate
>Democratic Centralism
>Dialectic Materialism (Opposition to ideal space, no ideal oppression).
>Opposition to Bourgeois Freedoms
>Organize (Opposition to consumerism, online, etc.)
The Hard Sells.
It seems that it's much easier to make a principled Socialist than it is to make something that conforms to ML or similar. How do you deal with the "Hard Sells"? What other "Hard Sells" can you think of?<The Easy Sells:
>Worker Ownership of the Means of Production.
>(Opposition to the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie.)
>Anti-imperialism and Anti-chauvinism
>Central planning? (Opposition to the chaos of the markets).
<The Hard Sells:
>Dictatorship of the Proletariate
>Democratic Centralism
>Dialectic Materialism (Opposition to ideal space, no ideal oppression).
>Opposition to Bourgeois Freedoms
>Organize (Opposition to consumerism, online, etc.)
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Eastern Europe
I hate what capitalism has done to eastern Europe. It has destroyed my people, workers have no power and nationalism has destroyed the once united people. The Left now, is made out of liberals who want destroy the people's legacy and be puppets of Berlin and London. The populations of eastern Europe are now full of retards who are racist against migrants while at the same time, we were not considered white for a very long time.
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Remember to say thank you Israel you’re my greatest ally, since Russia getting weapons from them. Without Israeli merchants, Russia will lose the war.
Ziggabros….
>Russia is absolutely based and anti-imp…… uhm….Remember to say thank you Israel you’re my greatest ally, since Russia getting weapons from them. Without Israeli merchants, Russia will lose the war.
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Given their vastly disproportionate wealth and power, including making up 40% of US billionaires, and the way that Israel is able to get away with war crimes and literal genocide, and the fact that "antisemitism" is regularly used as a cudgel against decolonial and social justice movements, would it be accurate to say that Jews are a privileged oppressor category, just like Christians, whites and men?
Given their vastly disproportionate wealth and power, including making up 40% of US billionaires, and the way that Israel is able to get away with war crimes and literal genocide, and the fact that "antisemitism" is regularly used as a cudgel against decolonial and social justice movements, would it be accurate to say that Jews are a privileged oppressor category, just like Christians, whites and men?
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The second group includes the former presidential foreign affairs adviser Filipe Martins, retired Gen Mario Fernandes, former federal highway police director Silvinei Vasques, former presidential aide Col Marcelo Câmara and two federal police officers, Fernando Oliveira and Marilia Alencar.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/22/brazil-bolsonaro-coup-charges-supreme-court
Colombia’s government presents questions for labor reform referendum
Colombia’s interior minister presented the questions for a referendum on a labor reform that was struck down by a Senate commission earlier this year. The 12 questions of the referendum were presented on social media platform X by Interior Minister Armando Benedetti.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-presents-questions-for-labor-reform-referendum/
Ecuador opposition has asked electoral council to review presidential vote counts from 1,729 ballot boxes, council says
The party of Ecuadorean opposition leader and former presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez on Tuesday asked the country's electoral council to review presidential vote tallies from 1,729 ballot boxes, part of its effort to prove what it says was a massive fraud.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuador-opposition-has-asked-electoral-council-review-presidential-vote-counts-2025-04-22/
Manufacturer cuts all ties with Israeli weapons firm weeks after Palestine Action campaign
PALESTINE ACTION hailed another victory against Elbit Systems today after metal components manufacturer Dean Group International confirmed it has severed all ties with the Israeli weapons firm’s British subsidiary Instro Precision.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/manufacturer-cuts-all-ties-israeli-weapons-firm-weeks-after-palestine-action-campaign
Turkey's opposition set to defy protest ban on Wednesday
A month after the arrest of Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest political rival - the president of Imamoglu's Republican People's Party (CHP) said he would speak outside parliament as the country marks National Sovereignty Day.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkeys-opposition-set-defy-protest-ban-wednesday
Syria arrests senior PIJ officials after US sets demands for sanctions relief
Al-Quds Brigades said the arrests occurred “without any explanation” and in “a manner we would not have hoped to see from our brothers, whose land has always been a haven for loyal and free people”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-arrests-senior-pij-officials-after-us-sets-demands-sanctions-relief
Houthis say group downed US drone in northwest Yemen as US strikes continue
In a statement on Tuesday, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group’s “air defence shot down a hostile American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Hajjah Governorate”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/22/houthis-say-group-downed-us-drone-in-northwest-yemen-as-us-strikes-continue
https://archive.ph/3u816
EFF and SACP demand answers after attack on Deputy President Mashatile
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have condemned the reported shooting that targeted Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s convoy on March 30, 2025.
https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-04-22-eff-and-sacp-demand-answers-after-attack-on-deputy-president-mashatile/
Pay Your Electricity Bills, Regime Tells Mandalay Earthquake Victims
Power in Myanmar’s second-largest city was restored about a week after the earthquake. Notices that have since been distributed in affected neighborhoods tell households with undamaged electricity meters to pay their March electricity bill as usual. For homes that suffered damage, the March and April electricity bills will be collected together in May.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/pay-your-electricity-bills-regime-tells-mandalay-earthquake-victims.html
Indian police say gunmen kill at least 26 tourists at a resort in disputed Kashmir
Police said it was a “terror attack” and blamed militants fighting against Indian rule. “This attack is much larger than anything we’ve seen directed at civilians in recent years,” Omar Abdullah, the region’s top elected official, wrote on social media.
https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-tourist-attack-dc7067a18899d9e7ff7726d4e05982c3
News 4/22/25
Brazilian judges accept coup plot charges against more Bolsonaro alliesThe second group includes the former presidential foreign affairs adviser Filipe Martins, retired Gen Mario Fernandes, former federal highway police director Silvinei Vasques, former presidential aide Col Marcelo Câmara and two federal police officers, Fernando Oliveira and Marilia Alencar.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/22/brazil-bolsonaro-coup-charges-supreme-court
Colombia’s government presents questions for labor reform referendum
Colombia’s interior minister presented the questions for a referendum on a labor reform that was struck down by a Senate commission earlier this year. The 12 questions of the referendum were presented on social media platform X by Interior Minister Armando Benedetti.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-presents-questions-for-labor-reform-referendum/
Ecuador opposition has asked electoral council to review presidential vote counts from 1,729 ballot boxes, council says
The party of Ecuadorean opposition leader and former presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez on Tuesday asked the country's electoral council to review presidential vote tallies from 1,729 ballot boxes, part of its effort to prove what it says was a massive fraud.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuador-opposition-has-asked-electoral-council-review-presidential-vote-counts-2025-04-22/
Manufacturer cuts all ties with Israeli weapons firm weeks after Palestine Action campaign
PALESTINE ACTION hailed another victory against Elbit Systems today after metal components manufacturer Dean Group International confirmed it has severed all ties with the Israeli weapons firm’s British subsidiary Instro Precision.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/manufacturer-cuts-all-ties-israeli-weapons-firm-weeks-after-palestine-action-campaign
Turkey's opposition set to defy protest ban on Wednesday
A month after the arrest of Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest political rival - the president of Imamoglu's Republican People's Party (CHP) said he would speak outside parliament as the country marks National Sovereignty Day.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkeys-opposition-set-defy-protest-ban-wednesday
Syria arrests senior PIJ officials after US sets demands for sanctions relief
Al-Quds Brigades said the arrests occurred “without any explanation” and in “a manner we would not have hoped to see from our brothers, whose land has always been a haven for loyal and free people”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-arrests-senior-pij-officials-after-us-sets-demands-sanctions-relief
Houthis say group downed US drone in northwest Yemen as US strikes continue
In a statement on Tuesday, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group’s “air defence shot down a hostile American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Hajjah Governorate”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/22/houthis-say-group-downed-us-drone-in-northwest-yemen-as-us-strikes-continue
https://archive.ph/3u816
EFF and SACP demand answers after attack on Deputy President Mashatile
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have condemned the reported shooting that targeted Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s convoy on March 30, 2025.
https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-04-22-eff-and-sacp-demand-answers-after-attack-on-deputy-president-mashatile/
Pay Your Electricity Bills, Regime Tells Mandalay Earthquake Victims
Power in Myanmar’s second-largest city was restored about a week after the earthquake. Notices that have since been distributed in affected neighborhoods tell households with undamaged electricity meters to pay their March electricity bill as usual. For homes that suffered damage, the March and April electricity bills will be collected together in May.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/pay-your-electricity-bills-regime-tells-mandalay-earthquake-victims.html
Indian police say gunmen kill at least 26 tourists at a resort in disputed Kashmir
Police said it was a “terror attack” and blamed militants fighting against Indian rule. “This attack is much larger than anything we’ve seen directed at civilians in recent years,” Omar Abdullah, the region’s top elected official, wrote on social media.
https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-tourist-attack-dc7067a18899d9e7ff7726d4e05982c3
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History has shown that the demographics question is uniquely a capitalist issue with even economists during the industrial revolution coming up with Malthusian economics. It’s particularly unique to industrial capitalism since capitalism requires growth and a growing population is required to continue to absorb the ever increasing number of commodities coming to market.
Declining birth rates/ Demographics crisis is a capitalist issue
Declining birth rates or the demographics crisis is strictly a capitalist phenomenon. Anthropology will show that never in history has demographics been the cause of a declining society ever. The evidence shows that highly stratified societies are what led to stagnation and societal collapse beyond just invasion or war or natural catastrophe. Over and over again as societies have grown stronger and stronger you saw the rise of a highly stratified society with a small class at the top owning everything and poor toiling for very little.History has shown that the demographics question is uniquely a capitalist issue with even economists during the industrial revolution coming up with Malthusian economics. It’s particularly unique to industrial capitalism since capitalism requires growth and a growing population is required to continue to absorb the ever increasing number of commodities coming to market.
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The Zapatistas
So im rather ashamed to admit this, but i know very little about the Zapatistas actual ideology and how they make things function on the ground. I am rather in awe at the fact they have managed to survive for so long, and they seem very interesting in a way for people who wish to succeed in a revolution in the long term. Also they have the best flag. What do you all think of them? What could they do better at? What have they failed at?
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Am I reactionary if I want to burn all tobacco plantations and start a moral war against cigarette smokers?
Nicotine question
Nicotine dependency is the one of the biggest killers in history causing poor health among people of all nations. It is enabled only by the industrial scale tobbaco plantations and marketing.Am I reactionary if I want to burn all tobacco plantations and start a moral war against cigarette smokers?
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>PUK Calls on Socialist International to Support Kurds in Fighting Terrorism & Extremism
>PUK urged Socialist International (SI) parties to assist the Kurds in combating terrorism and extremism during the Council of SI Meeting, which culminated with the adoption of the Rabat Declaration.
>The Council of SI Meeting took place in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, on December 22 and 23, 2024, with members from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in attendance. The meeting was also attended by SI President Pedro Sánchez, and 196 parties from 116 world countries.
>Fryal Abdullah, a member of the PUK Leadership Council and a party representative at the meeting, informed PUKMEDIA: "The declaration underscored the necessity of respecting state sovereignty and territorial integrity, the significance of international collaboration to address economic and climate challenges, and the emphasis on equality, social justice, and adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement."
>She emphasised that as the PUK, they underscored the significance of safeguarding democracy and human rights, upholding the rule of law, conducting transparent elections, and denouncing the manipulation of their outcomes.
>Concerning women's rights, she said: "We emphasised the necessity of promoting gender equality and empowering women to attain decision-making roles, while highlighting the importance of opposing factions that resist women's rights and incorporating women into peace processes to guarantee the comprehensiveness and efficacy of agreements that promote global peace."
>She asserted that "the PUK's address at the meeting effectively alerted attendees to the ongoing threats posed by terrorist organisations in Iraqi Kurdistan and the surrounding region, emphasising the necessity of continued support for combating extremism and terrorism, which have emerged as significant threats to regional security and stability."
>She further emphasised that the PUK members also mentioned "the Kurds in Syria, particularly in Rojava, oversee the largest prison for terrorists, and it is vital that this facility receives enhanced support to mitigate its potential dangers to neighbouring countries."
>Abdullah noted that "the PUK's proposals, which emphasise the adherence to democratic values, the respect for state sovereignty, and the enhancement of regional integration as a strategy to address the political and economic crises affecting the participating nations, as well as to confront the escalating violations of fundamental freedoms and to address armed conflicts, were acknowledged by the socialist parties attending the meeting."
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A thread to discuss methods and means to assist with with Volunteer work>PUK Calls on Socialist International to Support Kurds in Fighting Terrorism & Extremism
>PUK urged Socialist International (SI) parties to assist the Kurds in combating terrorism and extremism during the Council of SI Meeting, which culminated with the adoption of the Rabat Declaration.
>The Council of SI Meeting took place in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, on December 22 and 23, 2024, with members from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in attendance. The meeting was also attended by SI President Pedro Sánchez, and 196 parties from 116 world countries.
>Fryal Abdullah, a member of the PUK Leadership Council and a party representative at the meeting, informed PUKMEDIA: "The declaration underscored the necessity of respecting state sovereignty and territorial integrity, the significance of international collaboration to address economic and climate challenges, and the emphasis on equality, social justice, and adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement."
>She emphasised that as the PUK, they underscored the significance of safeguarding democracy and human rights, upholding the rule of law, conducting transparent elections, and denouncing the manipulation of their outcomes.
>Concerning women's rights, she said: "We emphasised the necessity of promoting gender equality and empowering women to attain decision-making roles, while highlighting the importance of opposing factions that resist women's rights and incorporating women into peace processes to guarantee the comprehensiveness and efficacy of agreements that promote global peace."
>She asserted that "the PUK's address at the meeting effectively alerted attendees to the ongoing threats posed by terrorist organisations in Iraqi Kurdistan and the surrounding region, emphasising the necessity of continued support for combating extremism and terrorism, which have emerged as significant threats to regional security and stability."
>She further emphasised that the PUK members also mentioned "the Kurds in Syria, particularly in Rojava, oversee the largest prison for terrorists, and it is vital that this facility receives enhanced support to mitigate its potential dangers to neighbouring countries."
>Abdullah noted that "the PUK's proposals, which emphasise the adherence to democratic values, the respect for state sovereignty, and the enhancement of regional integration as a strategy to address the political and economic crises affecting the participating nations, as well as to confront the escalating violations of fundamental freedoms and to address armed conflicts, were acknowledged by the socialist parties attending the meeting."
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
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📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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Why the mere concept of an Cultural Revolution not advocated by non-Maoist Marxists? Even with all the flaws the chinese experiment had, why so many brush it off as a "adventurist mistake"?
Why the mere concept of an Cultural Revolution not advocated by non-Maoist Marxists? Even with all the flaws the chinese experiment had, why so many brush it off as a "adventurist mistake"?
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How do we deal with the issue of gusano immigration in the imperial core? It feels like particularly with the settler-states we get a lot of petty-bourgeois immigrants. For example, my grandpa was a Hungarian gusano. I guess this relates to the whole whiteness inflation thing. Also operation paperclip kind of stuff. It just leads to a larger and larger concentration of reactionaries and reactionary sentiment in the settler-states.
I know uncle Joe tells us to be nice to the declassed petty-bourgeoisie but I'm more interested in discussing the details of how to deal with the issue than complaining about gusanos. I guess this is part of a deeper issue with settler-colonies in how they attract the constant immigration of gusanos.
How do we deal with the issue of gusano immigration in the imperial core? It feels like particularly with the settler-states we get a lot of petty-bourgeois immigrants. For example, my grandpa was a Hungarian gusano. I guess this relates to the whole whiteness inflation thing. Also operation paperclip kind of stuff. It just leads to a larger and larger concentration of reactionaries and reactionary sentiment in the settler-states.
I know uncle Joe tells us to be nice to the declassed petty-bourgeoisie but I'm more interested in discussing the details of how to deal with the issue than complaining about gusanos. I guess this is part of a deeper issue with settler-colonies in how they attract the constant immigration of gusanos.
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I used to think that the point of investing and having your money earn money meant that you earn a passive income when you’re not working, that way you can supplement your income and over time when you retire you earn a large enough passive income that you can comfortably live on. But apparently stocks aren’t a way to earn a passive income which makes no sense. Shareholders earn a passive income simply by owning a company. But apparently stocks aren’t passive income. They are just assets you speculate on. So what is the actual purpose of stocks? And why do people lie when they say you can earn passive income with it? Apparently the only way to actually earn money with stocks is by selling them all off which defeats the purpose of a passive income. What the fuck is a stock? I’ve checked the definitions on investopedia, I’ve looked everywhere and no one can be straight forward, the definition claim that you can earn passive income but that isn’t true.
Stocks
What is the point of stocks? Or owning stocks? What’s the point of a 401k? The point of earning an income is for you have money to spend, the point of money is to spend, there is no point in having a massive pile of cash saved without ever using it. What’s the point of having your “money make money” if you can never use that money even if it grows. At least with a salary or a wage it’s always a guaranteed income, you work and you earn money, you spend that money then work some more and earn more income. If stocks are just an asset that you buy cheap and sell dear then it’s just purely gambling and not a way of earning passive income.I used to think that the point of investing and having your money earn money meant that you earn a passive income when you’re not working, that way you can supplement your income and over time when you retire you earn a large enough passive income that you can comfortably live on. But apparently stocks aren’t a way to earn a passive income which makes no sense. Shareholders earn a passive income simply by owning a company. But apparently stocks aren’t passive income. They are just assets you speculate on. So what is the actual purpose of stocks? And why do people lie when they say you can earn passive income with it? Apparently the only way to actually earn money with stocks is by selling them all off which defeats the purpose of a passive income. What the fuck is a stock? I’ve checked the definitions on investopedia, I’ve looked everywhere and no one can be straight forward, the definition claim that you can earn passive income but that isn’t true.
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You can't defeat nihilism
Ok, you know that class struggle and the fight against capitalism is just another one of caine's adventures, just to distract yourself from the fact that you exist? And beside that, let's assume we will someday overcome capitalism and class antagonism. Well, our existence is still empty!!! Even if Marx is 100% right with his theory, communism is not immune against nihilism. As long we exist, nihilism will live on, no matter if we change da world. R: 90 / I: 15
IMO i think its a little ridicoulous. i agree that identity politics is 90% of the time a pseudo politics of our neoliberal age but at the same time i think people just saying
>we outta have been focusing on worker power
a little ridiculous. isnt more than half the reason "woke" politics came about because neoliberalism had squeezed out the traditional locations of workers power of all their radical ability? doesnt seem to me like it was just a simple equation of minus identity politics plus class struggle
is "wokeism"/identity politics really at fault?
ive started seeing a trend iirc since the trump victory of people saying that it and other reasons that the right are "winning" and shit is because the left is too obsessed with "wokeism" or identity politics. an example of this i believe is ash sankara on yt basically saying that in an interview.IMO i think its a little ridicoulous. i agree that identity politics is 90% of the time a pseudo politics of our neoliberal age but at the same time i think people just saying
>we outta have been focusing on worker power
a little ridiculous. isnt more than half the reason "woke" politics came about because neoliberalism had squeezed out the traditional locations of workers power of all their radical ability? doesnt seem to me like it was just a simple equation of minus identity politics plus class struggle
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Putin, Elon, trump, and many others billionaires are all either single or have gone through multiple divorces despite their supposed success in life. Most liberal democracies are failing and are ill prepared to handle any violent dissent or invasions. Health crises that were resolved centuries ago and severe deficits in social supports is rampant in nearly all countries that adopt western ideas voluntarily. Although most abrahamic religions aren’t western, the societies and institutions that run them are and constantly fall into issues with justifying their presence past serving as substitutes for whatever real social supports people used to have.
There are so many countries so far that have already fallen into failed state status or dissolved at this point despite adopting western practices—it’s not even funny. How the fuck do you even respond to such weakness and fragility?
The afropessimists were right about weakness
I know that you don’t know what I’m talking about when I say that “western values are weak.” I mean that the majority of the perpetrators of most capitalist shitbaggery are in general pathetic people that promote generally fragile ideas.Putin, Elon, trump, and many others billionaires are all either single or have gone through multiple divorces despite their supposed success in life. Most liberal democracies are failing and are ill prepared to handle any violent dissent or invasions. Health crises that were resolved centuries ago and severe deficits in social supports is rampant in nearly all countries that adopt western ideas voluntarily. Although most abrahamic religions aren’t western, the societies and institutions that run them are and constantly fall into issues with justifying their presence past serving as substitutes for whatever real social supports people used to have.
There are so many countries so far that have already fallen into failed state status or dissolved at this point despite adopting western practices—it’s not even funny. How the fuck do you even respond to such weakness and fragility?
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what is a fascist? is it anyone who agrees with "fascist ideology"? I think that definition works for a lot of contexts (e.g. random white supremacists on the internet who love hitler) but is far from an adequate definition in the context of world politics. a truly scientific definition of terms like fascist, capitalist, bourgeois, liberal, etc cannot be absolute or subjective but must be *relational*. It must define the specific place in the base and/or superstructure that the person in question has in relation to everyone else.
example: non-class conscious proletarians sometimes call themselves "capitalists" because they mistakenly identify the interests of the class enemy with their own and take this subjective identity to define their objective social being. however when a marxist speaks of capitalists, he does not mean our confused proletarians in the example above. a marxist uses the term capitalist in a scientific sense, meaning it denotes objective features. the features that make someone a capitalist, namely their private ownership of the means of production, exist regardless of whether the capitalist considers himself an entrepreneur and a job provider or whether they are fully conscious of their role as exploiters.
it is just the same with the term fascist or any other. for someone like the president in the united states to be a fascist, in a marxist sense, it's not enough to believe things that fascists also believe. he would need to play the *role* of a fascist strongman in relation to the rest of society, which is just not what trump is doing. Now, we can quibble about which aspects of fascism were historical peculiarities and which are essential but I would posit that through all its incarnations the essence of fascism is its role as a battering ram to smash working class organization through naked use of force. trump is certainly no friend to the working class, but his attacks on workers don't go beyond that which is possible under bourgeois democracy.
the class balance of forces that would allow a fascist reaction to liquidate communist and socialist parties, trade unions, etc is just not there.
what is a fascist? is it anyone who agrees with "fascist ideology"? I think that definition works for a lot of contexts (e.g. random white supremacists on the internet who love hitler) but is far from an adequate definition in the context of world politics. a truly scientific definition of terms like fascist, capitalist, bourgeois, liberal, etc cannot be absolute or subjective but must be *relational*. It must define the specific place in the base and/or superstructure that the person in question has in relation to everyone else.
example: non-class conscious proletarians sometimes call themselves "capitalists" because they mistakenly identify the interests of the class enemy with their own and take this subjective identity to define their objective social being. however when a marxist speaks of capitalists, he does not mean our confused proletarians in the example above. a marxist uses the term capitalist in a scientific sense, meaning it denotes objective features. the features that make someone a capitalist, namely their private ownership of the means of production, exist regardless of whether the capitalist considers himself an entrepreneur and a job provider or whether they are fully conscious of their role as exploiters.
it is just the same with the term fascist or any other. for someone like the president in the united states to be a fascist, in a marxist sense, it's not enough to believe things that fascists also believe. he would need to play the *role* of a fascist strongman in relation to the rest of society, which is just not what trump is doing. Now, we can quibble about which aspects of fascism were historical peculiarities and which are essential but I would posit that through all its incarnations the essence of fascism is its role as a battering ram to smash working class organization through naked use of force. trump is certainly no friend to the working class, but his attacks on workers don't go beyond that which is possible under bourgeois democracy.
the class balance of forces that would allow a fascist reaction to liquidate communist and socialist parties, trade unions, etc is just not there.
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i am all against fascism and trump, but i am skeptical of this communism thing. i come from poland and the soviets tried to starve us and crush our identity. sure, the good sides of soviet occupation were that they eliminated illiteracy, did land reform, introduced free education and health service and equal rights for women. Unfortunetly there was also negatives :
Loss of Sovereignty
Political Repression
Economic Inefficiency
Suppression of the Catholic Church and National Identity
so how can i support communism? i think that we can fight nazis in the streets and vote more radically to end fascism. communism is bad
i am all against fascism and trump, but i am skeptical of this communism thing. i come from poland and the soviets tried to starve us and crush our identity. sure, the good sides of soviet occupation were that they eliminated illiteracy, did land reform, introduced free education and health service and equal rights for women. Unfortunetly there was also negatives :
Loss of Sovereignty
Political Repression
Economic Inefficiency
Suppression of the Catholic Church and National Identity
so how can i support communism? i think that we can fight nazis in the streets and vote more radically to end fascism. communism is bad
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I don't read many 'marxist' authors. Besides the 5 guys and a few other like Parenti or Losurdo. Most of the time I'm reading from primary sources directly. I don't think that academic Marxism (you know what tendencies I'm describing) has anything to offer practically and that it's just a way to pacify the working class by producing ideology which suits the bourgeoisie. I also read the news. Am I in the wrong to dismiss all modernizes on the spot?
I don't read many 'marxist' authors. Besides the 5 guys and a few other like Parenti or Losurdo. Most of the time I'm reading from primary sources directly. I don't think that academic Marxism (you know what tendencies I'm describing) has anything to offer practically and that it's just a way to pacify the working class by producing ideology which suits the bourgeoisie. I also read the news. Am I in the wrong to dismiss all modernizes on the spot?
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Why can i find a good video on the falling rate of profit?
its always some stuff people insert their opinion into.
Does anybody actually understand the falling rate of profit?
Why can i find a good video on the falling rate of profit?
its always some stuff people insert their opinion into.
Does anybody actually understand the falling rate of profit?
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But why are right-wing citizen investors operating under the belief that these techbro billionaires are motivated to hand them a memecoin or a memestock that will rocket the crumbling middle class up to their level?
Why wouldn't they actually be contemptuous of people who think that by simply buying and hodling some token on an app makes them deserving of billions of dollars as well?
Especially if the billionaire techbros are lucid of the fact that all they *really* needed to start their entrepreneurial careers was a bit of education in a new technology and some family-provided financial stability (something most cryptobros and memestock hodlers presumably have if they're able to drop thousands on buying stock and coins but also have a slapped ass over IT Consultancy not buying its workers lambos like it used to), they'd of course want to eliminate these people as being potential competition in the future if they decided to take on entrepreneurship, by scamming them out of whatever financial stability they have left, but based on their Ted Talks and shit you get the feeling they'd be actually disgusted by people who *had* the financial stability to become entrepreneurs but instead chose to blow their wads on get rich quick schemes instead.
And yet these "investors" kind of cheer on that attitude that only the extraordinarily hard-working and super-intelligent deserve lambos, while also thinking there's an exception being made for them where they're going to the moon because, what, they had faith and trust that Musk is as smart and hard-working as he claims he is and thus are now going to be personally rewarded by him by making them as rich as him? Like wtf is that?
Techbros as messiahs for the tenuously middle-class
What I don't get about the current state of the meme stock and cryptobro right is how there is the obvious self-created mythos that people like Elon Musk or Ryan Cohen are as wealthy as they are because they had the work ethic and smarts to produce a superhuman level of productivity, which they certainly believe to be the truth about themselves, and that's presented as the reason for why you can trust following them.But why are right-wing citizen investors operating under the belief that these techbro billionaires are motivated to hand them a memecoin or a memestock that will rocket the crumbling middle class up to their level?
Why wouldn't they actually be contemptuous of people who think that by simply buying and hodling some token on an app makes them deserving of billions of dollars as well?
Especially if the billionaire techbros are lucid of the fact that all they *really* needed to start their entrepreneurial careers was a bit of education in a new technology and some family-provided financial stability (something most cryptobros and memestock hodlers presumably have if they're able to drop thousands on buying stock and coins but also have a slapped ass over IT Consultancy not buying its workers lambos like it used to), they'd of course want to eliminate these people as being potential competition in the future if they decided to take on entrepreneurship, by scamming them out of whatever financial stability they have left, but based on their Ted Talks and shit you get the feeling they'd be actually disgusted by people who *had* the financial stability to become entrepreneurs but instead chose to blow their wads on get rich quick schemes instead.
And yet these "investors" kind of cheer on that attitude that only the extraordinarily hard-working and super-intelligent deserve lambos, while also thinking there's an exception being made for them where they're going to the moon because, what, they had faith and trust that Musk is as smart and hard-working as he claims he is and thus are now going to be personally rewarded by him by making them as rich as him? Like wtf is that?
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Bukele wrote on social media platform X on Sunday that the men could be sent to Venezuela in exchange for the same number of “political prisoners” being held by the regime of President Nicolás Maduro under a “humanitarian agreement”.
https://www.ft.com/content/9c0e05f1-9da8-462c-adf5-cd5a86014046
https://archive.ph/IElbH
Chile’s Government Scraps Plans to Raise Income Taxes on High Earners
President Gabriel Boric’s administration will instead focus its efforts on other bills, including legislation that helps simplify regulations and proposals that strengthen the tourism and construction sectors, Marcel said. He added that global economic uncertainty has increased in recent weeks.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-21/chile-s-scraps-plans-for-income-tax-reform
https://archive.ph/dYybR
Netanyahu demanded loyalty before trying to fire me, Shin Bet chief claims
Among the most serious allegations made in Bar’s affidavit was the claim that “on several occasions” Netanyahu explicitly told Shin Bet to conduct surveillance on citizens involved in anti-government protests, which he refused to do. Bar said the prime minister demanded the agency “provide details regarding the identities of Israeli citizens, protest activists” involved in any demonstrations against the Netanyahu government, and monitor those deemed to be “protest funders”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/netanyahu-demanded-loyalty-trying-fire-me-shin-bet-chief-israel
Moroccans rally against Maersk cargo ship carrying F-35 parts for Israel
Though the port mainly handles ferries and passenger traffic, its location near the old medina made it a potent symbol of Tangier's strategic coastal role and, according to the Moroccan Front for Palestine, its "responsibility not to become a gateway for facilitating genocide".
https://www.newarab.com/news/moroccans-protest-maersk-ship-carrying-f-35-parts-israel
Israel cancels visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers ahead of visit
Israel cancelled visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers and officials days before their planned Sunday visit to Israel and Palestinian territories, the group said. The move comes days after Israel barred two UK Labour MPs from entering the country and amid tensions after Macron said France would soon recognise a Palestinian state, pressuring Netanyahu over Gaza conditions.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250420-israel-visas-french-left-wing-lawmakers
https://archive.ph/rbZrx
Scottish Water workers launch two-day strike over pay
Unison, which represents more than 1,000 staff, warned emergency repairs and water quality checks will not be carried out until the walkout ends on Thursday. The action follow a one-day strike last month after Unison rejected a 2.6 per cent pay offer it said “fails to compensate staff for a decade of real-terms pay cuts."
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-water-workers-launch-two-day-strike-over-pay
Ultra-Nationalist Russian Lawmaker Sets Sights on Uzbek Community Leader
Slutsky accused Ismailov, who is ethnically Uzbek and now a Russian citizen, of promoting illegal migration and questioned his loyalty. “He got our citizenship, but his heart seems to be in another country,” Slutsky said. “We will check everything from how he entered Russia and legalized his stay, to how he received his education, built his business, and interacted with the Uzbek diaspora.”
https://timesca.com/ultra-nationalist-russian-lawmaker-sets-sights-on-uzbek-community-leader/
https://archive.ph/2RdgK
Indian farmers protest visit of JD Vance and opening of country to US agriculture
Thousands of farmers and working-class people in cities and villages across India took to the streets on Monday, April 21 to protest the visit of US Vice President JD Vance. They claim he has come to finalize an agreement which will be a disaster for India’s agriculture and small industries.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/21/indian-farmers-protest-visit-of-jd-vance-and-opening-of-country-to-us-agriculture/
China issues warning against appeasement of the US over trade bullying
“Appeasement cannot bring peace and compromise cannot win respect,” it added. “For one’s own temporary selfish interests, sacrificing the interests of others in exchange for so-called exemptions is like seeking the skin from a tiger. It will ultimately only fail on both ends and harm others without benefiting themselves.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/china-issues-warning-against-appeasement-us-over-trade-bullying
Australia’s biggest industrial polluter receives millions in carbon credits despite rising emissions
Australia’s biggest industrial climate polluter – Chevron’s Gorgon gas export plant in Western Australia – received the equivalent of millions of dollars in carbon credits from the federal government last year, despite increasing its emissions.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/21/australias-biggest-industrial-polluter-receives-millions-in-carbon-credits-despite-rising-emissions
News 4/21/25
El Salvador offers to swap Venezuelan US deportees for political prisonersBukele wrote on social media platform X on Sunday that the men could be sent to Venezuela in exchange for the same number of “political prisoners” being held by the regime of President Nicolás Maduro under a “humanitarian agreement”.
https://www.ft.com/content/9c0e05f1-9da8-462c-adf5-cd5a86014046
https://archive.ph/IElbH
Chile’s Government Scraps Plans to Raise Income Taxes on High Earners
President Gabriel Boric’s administration will instead focus its efforts on other bills, including legislation that helps simplify regulations and proposals that strengthen the tourism and construction sectors, Marcel said. He added that global economic uncertainty has increased in recent weeks.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-21/chile-s-scraps-plans-for-income-tax-reform
https://archive.ph/dYybR
Netanyahu demanded loyalty before trying to fire me, Shin Bet chief claims
Among the most serious allegations made in Bar’s affidavit was the claim that “on several occasions” Netanyahu explicitly told Shin Bet to conduct surveillance on citizens involved in anti-government protests, which he refused to do. Bar said the prime minister demanded the agency “provide details regarding the identities of Israeli citizens, protest activists” involved in any demonstrations against the Netanyahu government, and monitor those deemed to be “protest funders”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/netanyahu-demanded-loyalty-trying-fire-me-shin-bet-chief-israel
Moroccans rally against Maersk cargo ship carrying F-35 parts for Israel
Though the port mainly handles ferries and passenger traffic, its location near the old medina made it a potent symbol of Tangier's strategic coastal role and, according to the Moroccan Front for Palestine, its "responsibility not to become a gateway for facilitating genocide".
https://www.newarab.com/news/moroccans-protest-maersk-ship-carrying-f-35-parts-israel
Israel cancels visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers ahead of visit
Israel cancelled visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers and officials days before their planned Sunday visit to Israel and Palestinian territories, the group said. The move comes days after Israel barred two UK Labour MPs from entering the country and amid tensions after Macron said France would soon recognise a Palestinian state, pressuring Netanyahu over Gaza conditions.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250420-israel-visas-french-left-wing-lawmakers
https://archive.ph/rbZrx
Scottish Water workers launch two-day strike over pay
Unison, which represents more than 1,000 staff, warned emergency repairs and water quality checks will not be carried out until the walkout ends on Thursday. The action follow a one-day strike last month after Unison rejected a 2.6 per cent pay offer it said “fails to compensate staff for a decade of real-terms pay cuts."
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-water-workers-launch-two-day-strike-over-pay
Ultra-Nationalist Russian Lawmaker Sets Sights on Uzbek Community Leader
Slutsky accused Ismailov, who is ethnically Uzbek and now a Russian citizen, of promoting illegal migration and questioned his loyalty. “He got our citizenship, but his heart seems to be in another country,” Slutsky said. “We will check everything from how he entered Russia and legalized his stay, to how he received his education, built his business, and interacted with the Uzbek diaspora.”
https://timesca.com/ultra-nationalist-russian-lawmaker-sets-sights-on-uzbek-community-leader/
https://archive.ph/2RdgK
Indian farmers protest visit of JD Vance and opening of country to US agriculture
Thousands of farmers and working-class people in cities and villages across India took to the streets on Monday, April 21 to protest the visit of US Vice President JD Vance. They claim he has come to finalize an agreement which will be a disaster for India’s agriculture and small industries.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/21/indian-farmers-protest-visit-of-jd-vance-and-opening-of-country-to-us-agriculture/
China issues warning against appeasement of the US over trade bullying
“Appeasement cannot bring peace and compromise cannot win respect,” it added. “For one’s own temporary selfish interests, sacrificing the interests of others in exchange for so-called exemptions is like seeking the skin from a tiger. It will ultimately only fail on both ends and harm others without benefiting themselves.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/china-issues-warning-against-appeasement-us-over-trade-bullying
Australia’s biggest industrial polluter receives millions in carbon credits despite rising emissions
Australia’s biggest industrial climate polluter – Chevron’s Gorgon gas export plant in Western Australia – received the equivalent of millions of dollars in carbon credits from the federal government last year, despite increasing its emissions.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/21/australias-biggest-industrial-polluter-receives-millions-in-carbon-credits-despite-rising-emissions
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I have seen what a long time true active communist looks like, they are never happy, why would I subject myself to that?
the happiest people I know are apolitical and chose to invest their time into personal fullfillment and relationships.
how do you revolution when it sucks and I could be doing something else?
I can't see the point in organizing if I can spend my time in other things that will bring me happyness and fullfillment.I have seen what a long time true active communist looks like, they are never happy, why would I subject myself to that?
the happiest people I know are apolitical and chose to invest their time into personal fullfillment and relationships.
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Schizophrenia requires at least 2 symptoms, Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized speech, Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, Negative symptoms (such as reduced emotional expression). Based on the reports I made to the school and what I told the UNCG counselor about the harassment and bullying, it would result in me being labeled delusional (because of the intentional plausible deniability) , but not schizophrenic as I don't have any other symptoms. I made an instagram account called staticventifact.documentation to record evidence of neighbors and other people loudly driving past where I live (look up Rick and Cindy Krlich, they experienced a more severe version of this harassment) at times referencing my social media post/followers/following and any number that appears in my username, references to numeric hate symbols, and numeric references to the pedo edp445 (more than likely as an attempt to falsely associate him with me when I had no idea who he was until he was exposed as a predator).
In addition, beginning in November 2023, I started feeling a vibration in the floors of the house, my chair, and my bed (to the point where it can wake me up and prevent me from sleeping. I type this without having been to sleep last night because of this harassment). I used a spectrogram and a linear accelerometer in a separate room to prove that the vibrations were independent of me and the spectrogram showed clear signs of vibrations and since then I have been posting the videos to instagram. The peak frequencies of the vibrations also contain the same numeric references as the vehicle harassment, further supporting my claims. I felt these vibrations in the parking lot of a grocery store and the waiting room of a hospital, which rules out HVACS and construction work. My best guess is an Long Range Acoustic Device, a modded subwoofer, or a deterrent device.
Jumping back to 2022 when I was a student at UNCG, I have reason to believe that someone falsely accused me of stalking them, but I have at least 4 pieces of evidence (3 of which are physical items) that prove that someone was trying to send a message that I had a secret admirer.
Not only that, the two people who most likely accused me of something intentionally moved to the dorm beside mine when one of them likely knew I had a special housing assignment that allowed me to stay in Bailey Hall.
During Spirng 2022 (when I took art 120 with my former classmate), I frequently wore a hat and necklace with a Tron reference on it. Later at the end of the year gaming event, I sat at the arcade station and played Galaga and when I got up, my art 120 classmate was directly behind me. During an event at the quad, one of them was taking a photo of Hinshaw for a social media post and she moved to the other Hinshaw door across from Bailey like she was letting me know she was moving in. Later in the summer, she posted a photo of herself playing Galaga at an arcade beside a Tron Machine. That seemed like too much of a coincidence so started entertaining the idea of us playing video games together, over the summer.
At the start of the Fall 2022 semester, I asked her out to an animation event at the Arts Building and I was left on sent so I assumed rejection and went to the event alone. Because of a time conflict and procrastination, I went to a dorm meeting for another hall and my art classmate sat right beside me at the meeting but I didn't say anything to her because I knew I was rejected and it was suspicious that she intentionally sat beside me. After that, every so often, I would leave my dorm and see one of them leave exactly when I did and at first I thought they were giving me an opportunity to talk to them but I knew something was off about so I stayed away and rode on my scooter to class. I saw one of them waiting in the first floor laundry room or trash room one time, and that person got up the moment they saw me and we left our dorms at the same time.
When I joined UNCG's ESports and Gaming club to make friends to play with (I grew up without a lot of irl social contact) and I got banned from the Splatoon club (which was the game closest to the types I play and I used to play Splatoon 2 with my former best friend at their house on their Wii U), UNCG Esports club, and the entire University of North Carolina System (without a warning or explanation but to be fair I think that was allowed based on the esports club rules) for replying "team grass cat" in reference to a Pokemon when someone posted about Pokemon Scarlet/Violet starters. I had social anxiety so I didn't talk much aside from one other message which was also non-problematic. My best guess is that my former art classmate was in the discord and made up lies about me to get me booted. I won't be falsely accused of being a pedo for trying to make friends around my age to play games with in a college gaming club.
In addition, during the of Fall 2022, multiple people were using the anonymous app YikYak to bully me, post racist, sexist, and just generally offensive content and I used to post overly positive content to combat it. I also posted "11:11" at 11:11pm which was a habit I got from a special limited time Snapchat filter with no intent or meaning (I don't believe in numerology or astrology or take it seriously). Near the end of October, a club I was in was going to a Ghost Tour event on campus and my art 120 classmate came and while we were walking, she moved near me and started talking to a friend then moved to directly beside me then I tried to talk to her but she speed walked up to the front of the group and then I knew she was messing with me so I turned around and left the event on kick scooter and rode around campus to exercise and I ended up passing the group but I pushed myself too hard and started vomiting on College Ave further up from where they were. After that, I made the decision to focus on my school work and only use dating apps (I can't even use dating apps now without women liking, matching, and sending messages at times using the same numeric references as the other harassment forms).
During the Spring 23 semester, even though I had no intention of interacting with my classmates (I knew better than to try to date a professor and I sat at the front of my classes because of sensory processing issues), I was still treated like I was (and even my ceramics professor went out of her way to show off her wedding ring during a one on one demonstration at the table I was at) to the point where every time I left my dorm, a UNCG truck would be in sight more than likely as an attempt to monitor me, and a vehicle would drive off the moment I got inside my dorm from my night class. My best guess is that someone made false allegations against me and UNCG hired a safety patrol to keep track of me.
On one occasion a pair of students intentionally made noises on the other side of my wall shared by the common lounge and while they were doing so, I silently snuck out of my room and took a photo of one of the people who rushed away when they saw me and reported it to the Dean of Students but nothing was done about it and I was referred to the UNCG counseling center.
On another occasion, someone with a key to my dorm placed an invite to a paid NCA&T Aggie Fest Event several feet into my dormroom so it couldn't have been slipped under and when I took a bus to the venue and was about the cross the street, a suv drove in front of me and yelled "freak" at me and turned into the venue so I turned around and walked back. The only people I know of with access to the dorm keys are Housing and Residence Life and RAs.
On April 5th, 2023, well after this situation had started, I struck a police suv with my elbow twice with just enough force to make a sound to replicate the sound people on the 3rd and 2nd floors of Bailey Hall and eventually all around campus started harassing me with (The people on the 3rd floor of Bailey used the sound of opening and closing doors in weird ways and the sound was likely amplified with some type of speaker as I never had an issue with the sound of the doors until my last two semesters). I rode back to my dorm on my scooter, and an officer came to the room. I ran, but he threatened to use a taser, so I went to the parlor to talk with the officers where I told the officers I had no intention of harming anyone. In addition, earlier in the day, I took a ladder from a uncg truck, and a large blonde woman and child in a yellow dress followed me as I walked the ladder to the quad police tower. Later, they sat outside, by the parlor on a bench right in front of me. I had no interaction with them, and they were not involved. This was likely done to frame me as a pedo and I had no interaction with any children on or off campus or online (with the exception of random people who join a looking for group for a Destiny 2 raid but even then it's rare and I only talk when it's necessary for the completion of an encounter), and everyone I was interested in was verified as 18 or above with a max age gap of three years. After the suv incident, I had to fill out a form that had me list my triggers and I wrote a very specific thing on that list and since then, when I'm in public I've had people deliberately do that specific thing meaning my mental health records were leaked and used for harassment purposes and or someone with access to them is involved in this harassment campaign.
Someone likely profiled me as a potential threat, maybe even a terrorist, because I'm black, officially autistic (possibly have ADHD too), an intersectional feminist, a leftist, I have high empathy and emotional intelligence, I basically had one friend at UNCG, I didn't speak in classes, I'm ace/demisexual, and I play Destiny 2, a mmofpsrpg game that has guns.
(In the lobby of the Assistant Dean's Office, I posted "This ends today" on the uncg snapchat story, just before I was supposed to have a meeting to address the harassment on campus. During the meeting, the Assistant Dean asked me what games I played, and I mentioned Destiny 2 and he asked me what genre it was and I called it an rpg and he emphasized that it was a first person shooter. At the end of the meeting an officer came in and asked me a few questions about the post and I explained that it was in reference to the meeting I was in).
It seems like someone was trying to engineer a "me vs everyone" situation by getting as many people involved and going through my contacts and getting people I know to join in. They likely wanted me to lash out and harm someone but I knew better than that and had no interest in harming anyone. When they couldn't get me to harm anyone, I was likely falsely accused of being a nazi and pedo in secret to deliberately sabotage my credibility and to isolate me.
I've already reported this to a lot of places including the Feds but no progress has been made. I tried reporting a harassment instance to a police tip hotline and the numeric info I submitted was used to harass me following the same pattern as previous harassment instances.
Once again, I document my evidence on my instagram staticventifact.documentation where I have more details about specific incidents. Pic unrelated.
University of North Carolina Greensboro and Neighborhood Targeted Harassment
Long story short, I have reason to believe that I'm the target of a police supported harassment campaign.This began in 2022 when someone spread deliberate false accusations and rumors about me around the University of North Carolina Greensboro to justify having students, staff, and police go out of their way to plausibly denialably provoke me, avoid me (to the point of sprinting away at full speed from me in a large crowd of people in the middle of the day in front of a main building when I had and showed no interest in interacting), and to overtly monitor me to create a sense of paranoia so I'd tell a counselor so they could use that to label me as delusional or schizophrenic, so that no one would believe me when I tell people about what happened.Schizophrenia requires at least 2 symptoms, Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized speech, Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, Negative symptoms (such as reduced emotional expression). Based on the reports I made to the school and what I told the UNCG counselor about the harassment and bullying, it would result in me being labeled delusional (because of the intentional plausible deniability) , but not schizophrenic as I don't have any other symptoms. I made an instagram account called staticventifact.documentation to record evidence of neighbors and other people loudly driving past where I live (look up Rick and Cindy Krlich, they experienced a more severe version of this harassment) at times referencing my social media post/followers/following and any number that appears in my username, references to numeric hate symbols, and numeric references to the pedo edp445 (more than likely as an attempt to falsely associate him with me when I had no idea who he was until he was exposed as a predator).
In addition, beginning in November 2023, I started feeling a vibration in the floors of the house, my chair, and my bed (to the point where it can wake me up and prevent me from sleeping. I type this without having been to sleep last night because of this harassment). I used a spectrogram and a linear accelerometer in a separate room to prove that the vibrations were independent of me and the spectrogram showed clear signs of vibrations and since then I have been posting the videos to instagram. The peak frequencies of the vibrations also contain the same numeric references as the vehicle harassment, further supporting my claims. I felt these vibrations in the parking lot of a grocery store and the waiting room of a hospital, which rules out HVACS and construction work. My best guess is an Long Range Acoustic Device, a modded subwoofer, or a deterrent device.
Jumping back to 2022 when I was a student at UNCG, I have reason to believe that someone falsely accused me of stalking them, but I have at least 4 pieces of evidence (3 of which are physical items) that prove that someone was trying to send a message that I had a secret admirer.
Not only that, the two people who most likely accused me of something intentionally moved to the dorm beside mine when one of them likely knew I had a special housing assignment that allowed me to stay in Bailey Hall.
During Spirng 2022 (when I took art 120 with my former classmate), I frequently wore a hat and necklace with a Tron reference on it. Later at the end of the year gaming event, I sat at the arcade station and played Galaga and when I got up, my art 120 classmate was directly behind me. During an event at the quad, one of them was taking a photo of Hinshaw for a social media post and she moved to the other Hinshaw door across from Bailey like she was letting me know she was moving in. Later in the summer, she posted a photo of herself playing Galaga at an arcade beside a Tron Machine. That seemed like too much of a coincidence so started entertaining the idea of us playing video games together, over the summer.
At the start of the Fall 2022 semester, I asked her out to an animation event at the Arts Building and I was left on sent so I assumed rejection and went to the event alone. Because of a time conflict and procrastination, I went to a dorm meeting for another hall and my art classmate sat right beside me at the meeting but I didn't say anything to her because I knew I was rejected and it was suspicious that she intentionally sat beside me. After that, every so often, I would leave my dorm and see one of them leave exactly when I did and at first I thought they were giving me an opportunity to talk to them but I knew something was off about so I stayed away and rode on my scooter to class. I saw one of them waiting in the first floor laundry room or trash room one time, and that person got up the moment they saw me and we left our dorms at the same time.
When I joined UNCG's ESports and Gaming club to make friends to play with (I grew up without a lot of irl social contact) and I got banned from the Splatoon club (which was the game closest to the types I play and I used to play Splatoon 2 with my former best friend at their house on their Wii U), UNCG Esports club, and the entire University of North Carolina System (without a warning or explanation but to be fair I think that was allowed based on the esports club rules) for replying "team grass cat" in reference to a Pokemon when someone posted about Pokemon Scarlet/Violet starters. I had social anxiety so I didn't talk much aside from one other message which was also non-problematic. My best guess is that my former art classmate was in the discord and made up lies about me to get me booted. I won't be falsely accused of being a pedo for trying to make friends around my age to play games with in a college gaming club.
In addition, during the of Fall 2022, multiple people were using the anonymous app YikYak to bully me, post racist, sexist, and just generally offensive content and I used to post overly positive content to combat it. I also posted "11:11" at 11:11pm which was a habit I got from a special limited time Snapchat filter with no intent or meaning (I don't believe in numerology or astrology or take it seriously). Near the end of October, a club I was in was going to a Ghost Tour event on campus and my art 120 classmate came and while we were walking, she moved near me and started talking to a friend then moved to directly beside me then I tried to talk to her but she speed walked up to the front of the group and then I knew she was messing with me so I turned around and left the event on kick scooter and rode around campus to exercise and I ended up passing the group but I pushed myself too hard and started vomiting on College Ave further up from where they were. After that, I made the decision to focus on my school work and only use dating apps (I can't even use dating apps now without women liking, matching, and sending messages at times using the same numeric references as the other harassment forms).
During the Spring 23 semester, even though I had no intention of interacting with my classmates (I knew better than to try to date a professor and I sat at the front of my classes because of sensory processing issues), I was still treated like I was (and even my ceramics professor went out of her way to show off her wedding ring during a one on one demonstration at the table I was at) to the point where every time I left my dorm, a UNCG truck would be in sight more than likely as an attempt to monitor me, and a vehicle would drive off the moment I got inside my dorm from my night class. My best guess is that someone made false allegations against me and UNCG hired a safety patrol to keep track of me.
On one occasion a pair of students intentionally made noises on the other side of my wall shared by the common lounge and while they were doing so, I silently snuck out of my room and took a photo of one of the people who rushed away when they saw me and reported it to the Dean of Students but nothing was done about it and I was referred to the UNCG counseling center.
On another occasion, someone with a key to my dorm placed an invite to a paid NCA&T Aggie Fest Event several feet into my dormroom so it couldn't have been slipped under and when I took a bus to the venue and was about the cross the street, a suv drove in front of me and yelled "freak" at me and turned into the venue so I turned around and walked back. The only people I know of with access to the dorm keys are Housing and Residence Life and RAs.
On April 5th, 2023, well after this situation had started, I struck a police suv with my elbow twice with just enough force to make a sound to replicate the sound people on the 3rd and 2nd floors of Bailey Hall and eventually all around campus started harassing me with (The people on the 3rd floor of Bailey used the sound of opening and closing doors in weird ways and the sound was likely amplified with some type of speaker as I never had an issue with the sound of the doors until my last two semesters). I rode back to my dorm on my scooter, and an officer came to the room. I ran, but he threatened to use a taser, so I went to the parlor to talk with the officers where I told the officers I had no intention of harming anyone. In addition, earlier in the day, I took a ladder from a uncg truck, and a large blonde woman and child in a yellow dress followed me as I walked the ladder to the quad police tower. Later, they sat outside, by the parlor on a bench right in front of me. I had no interaction with them, and they were not involved. This was likely done to frame me as a pedo and I had no interaction with any children on or off campus or online (with the exception of random people who join a looking for group for a Destiny 2 raid but even then it's rare and I only talk when it's necessary for the completion of an encounter), and everyone I was interested in was verified as 18 or above with a max age gap of three years. After the suv incident, I had to fill out a form that had me list my triggers and I wrote a very specific thing on that list and since then, when I'm in public I've had people deliberately do that specific thing meaning my mental health records were leaked and used for harassment purposes and or someone with access to them is involved in this harassment campaign.
Someone likely profiled me as a potential threat, maybe even a terrorist, because I'm black, officially autistic (possibly have ADHD too), an intersectional feminist, a leftist, I have high empathy and emotional intelligence, I basically had one friend at UNCG, I didn't speak in classes, I'm ace/demisexual, and I play Destiny 2, a mmofpsrpg game that has guns.
(In the lobby of the Assistant Dean's Office, I posted "This ends today" on the uncg snapchat story, just before I was supposed to have a meeting to address the harassment on campus. During the meeting, the Assistant Dean asked me what games I played, and I mentioned Destiny 2 and he asked me what genre it was and I called it an rpg and he emphasized that it was a first person shooter. At the end of the meeting an officer came in and asked me a few questions about the post and I explained that it was in reference to the meeting I was in).
It seems like someone was trying to engineer a "me vs everyone" situation by getting as many people involved and going through my contacts and getting people I know to join in. They likely wanted me to lash out and harm someone but I knew better than that and had no interest in harming anyone. When they couldn't get me to harm anyone, I was likely falsely accused of being a nazi and pedo in secret to deliberately sabotage my credibility and to isolate me.
I've already reported this to a lot of places including the Feds but no progress has been made. I tried reporting a harassment instance to a police tip hotline and the numeric info I submitted was used to harass me following the same pattern as previous harassment instances.
Once again, I document my evidence on my instagram staticventifact.documentation where I have more details about specific incidents. Pic unrelated.
R: 45 / I: 31 (sage)
Machismo shows an unhinged attitude that is feared, faggotry is a display of softness, which might seem appropriate for the current cultural zeitgeist, but let me tell you it is not, because the status quo simply cannot be held by the effeminate and gender politik oriented liberals. It might seem appropriate to express yourself in these times since it is being accepted and commodified, but an attitude against the present state of affairs requires you to be like rambo.
You need a good kayfabe, remember the poster on here who complained about kayfabe and then self-immolated over the simpsons show (the dipshit papers)? Lmao, I remember that, I remember posting about him having been on here and ranting about kayfabe. He was a schizophrenic, but he had a point. The movement and the organizations which seek to affiliate themselves with the workers need a sort of manly attitude if they are to appeal to the blue collars who tend towards reactionary attitudes out of aesthetic, they see the appeal in physical strength since it relates to them.
If you want to appeal to white collars and arty faggots then you can act effeminate, but you need the strong burly workers on your side first as a priority. Not that the onion was wrong that the life of one gay is worth seven soldiers, but you need to get the burly ones on the front.
The retard from ordinance 1. is an example, all of his unhinged followers are in it for the aesthetic, they are retarded but they like the attitude, it is pure kayfabe. The fascist / reactionary aesthetic for a LaRouche-like fraud can do wonders. It's not even good to give the looks to the fascists. What is a fascist? One who advocates for class collaboration, corporatism, national syndicalism and these kinds of aesthetics (italian futurism has long gone away it seems) and thrives on warmongering, its a variety of criteria, they look cool but they need to be exterminated.
You need bulky men with beards in the front of any organization and to hide away the slim faggoty colored hair piercing types and Bukharin forbid you let someone use pronouns in public appearances. It seems discriminatory but its rather proficient to not express yourself in the front of an organization, if you're aware that workers won't like it. Especially the lumpen, who also tend to influence their peers. From my country, the average worker is a christian construction worker, who yells at his wife because he is miserable and doesn't earn enough and also likes to complain about faggots and foreigners. Of course a vermin like that should be exterminated, alongside with the religious foreigners, not because they are foreign, because they're religious vermin (but that's another discussion), so it is best to draw him closer and use similar animals like him as canon fodder to rally towards your view without even having to understand it, purely out of aesthetic, because they cannot read and have them commit what no other laptop linux faggot will commit.
Most workers worldwide, except for the faggy jobs, are masculine uyghas who identify with reactionary retardation, it seems. It may not be appropriate to call them proletariat (workers) because they don't have class consciousness and are too retarded, like most meathead blue collar workers to be bothered to learn how the world works. Letalone understand and accept the way of material analysis.
The meatheads love being burly, fascist clubs are now sports oriented and trying to appeal to youths. Whatever organizations you're in should be trying that as well, even if you cannot compete, to at least establish a tradition of having taken away the exclusivity of roid rage away from the reactionary untermensch.
The /swoletariat/ meme just won't cut it. It is like looking at a faggot trying to be macho, you need an entirely different attitude. I would describe what I'm seeing with that as a (transgender slur) trying to look appealing, even though the identity is built on androgynous and feminine attitude. As I wrote earlier on the thread, femininity and such attitudes are alright, but they should remain on the back of any organization. An example of it not being on the back would be the DSA Hiterlite conference, where they were all weirdo gender freaks and refused to clap to avoid "offending". That is an untermensch liberal organization, don't ever try to replicate it. It is untermensch. And we should call it subhuman and untermensch because its a funny way to dehumanize opposition, DSA are a liberal bourgeois thing, like an extension of the democrats and they are untermensch and they are faggots and retarded and reactionary too and very very ugly and I think they would be ugly even if they tried to look like the LaRouche Hitlerite from ordinance 1 because they will always be reactionary faggots, because their views are built on Lasalle and shit. Its that simple, sorry, not sorry.
Anyway, the way you can improve the /swoletariat/ is maybe by not using such retarded lingo and actually acting retarded instead. It is manly to act retarded. So you should act retarded and not give a shit. That is one of the defining characteristics of machismo, its very fun, look at the early WWE and you will see. And if you disagree with this, fuck you, fuck liberast.
If you managed to read through this, you probably disagree and perhaps I may have it removed or moved to siberia, but it is a way to express the lack of aesthetic in the west and western-east (lets just say Europe and the US to simplify it) that you can otherwise find in shit like fucking DPRK military drills, Chinese army and all that stuff, the good stuff, be like that why don't you? Your organizations (if you even are in ones) don't even wear uniforms do they? Yeah, think about that. Fucking hoodie wearing faggots. And the front men or at least the most vocal probably come on with a shitty shirt and a suit (no tie), imagine that. It looks bad, you look liberal. Don't even dare allow someone to be a member if they have a zoomer haircut. Or what? Or you're fucked, you don't take the advise from this thread, its perfectly good advise. Don't be a liberal, libs parade anti-machismo attitudes right now because they're like fucking genderbender feminist rights in Belarus types, you know? Its not that its bad but its dogshit the way they do it, and now all these orgs are just posturing and doing the exact same things. Why do you want your org to look like an NGO? Look like rambo damn. You use the gigachad image and tell people "you know he was a communist he said made in GDR" but the orgs and your life look nothing like him when they should.
If this seems badly thought out.
Wasn't the whole point of being politically incorrect that you write the most ridiculous shit out of genuine expression? It isn't badly thought out, its an aesthetic, and if you have another aesthetic it sucks and you suck and your org probably sucks dick too, you're an organization of cocksuckers, like a liberal LGBT NGO which whines about human rights, you pretend pink capitalism doesn't exist or what? There's credit card companies sponsoring pride parades trying to persuade faggots to be liberal, you'd actually get good faggots in your org if you have burly bros in the front of appearances and hide away the feminine guys to treasure them. Again don't put them on the front, the life of one gay is worth the life of seven soldiers. Muscle is meant for fight and scariness, when you put the faggots on the front its like your putting your organization with its anus open to the entire world to say "come fuck me, I'm a faggot" and the reactionaries make fun of that, cause they're on the opposite model, they've also got faggots but they keep them in the back and act homophobic on front, its not necessary to act like that, but they know too well about appearances. Look at them censoring the black nazi school shooters before one of their imageboards went down, they know they should keep that shit in the back or it would ruin their image.
On the women question - it is simple, if they have abs they go on the front, if they don't they go on the back and don't show in the front, they can march in the back.
On the trans question - again, too precious to show on the front, stay in the back, the world thinks trans are freaks even if they're fine as fuck. The life of a trans person is worth the life of ten machos. Don't show them, don't even do podcasts with them, they can't get the voice right to not be shunned by reactionaries.
Orgs claiming to adhere to the proletarian movement NEED machismo
Faggotry can remain in the back, its good to be a fag, but its important to show as machismo. This thread is all about retarded and irrelevant cultural bullshit that doesn't matter but I insist you care. This is why you should be a contrarian faggot and adopt machismo or at least fatness.Machismo shows an unhinged attitude that is feared, faggotry is a display of softness, which might seem appropriate for the current cultural zeitgeist, but let me tell you it is not, because the status quo simply cannot be held by the effeminate and gender politik oriented liberals. It might seem appropriate to express yourself in these times since it is being accepted and commodified, but an attitude against the present state of affairs requires you to be like rambo.
You need a good kayfabe, remember the poster on here who complained about kayfabe and then self-immolated over the simpsons show (the dipshit papers)? Lmao, I remember that, I remember posting about him having been on here and ranting about kayfabe. He was a schizophrenic, but he had a point. The movement and the organizations which seek to affiliate themselves with the workers need a sort of manly attitude if they are to appeal to the blue collars who tend towards reactionary attitudes out of aesthetic, they see the appeal in physical strength since it relates to them.
If you want to appeal to white collars and arty faggots then you can act effeminate, but you need the strong burly workers on your side first as a priority. Not that the onion was wrong that the life of one gay is worth seven soldiers, but you need to get the burly ones on the front.
The retard from ordinance 1. is an example, all of his unhinged followers are in it for the aesthetic, they are retarded but they like the attitude, it is pure kayfabe. The fascist / reactionary aesthetic for a LaRouche-like fraud can do wonders. It's not even good to give the looks to the fascists. What is a fascist? One who advocates for class collaboration, corporatism, national syndicalism and these kinds of aesthetics (italian futurism has long gone away it seems) and thrives on warmongering, its a variety of criteria, they look cool but they need to be exterminated.
You need bulky men with beards in the front of any organization and to hide away the slim faggoty colored hair piercing types and Bukharin forbid you let someone use pronouns in public appearances. It seems discriminatory but its rather proficient to not express yourself in the front of an organization, if you're aware that workers won't like it. Especially the lumpen, who also tend to influence their peers. From my country, the average worker is a christian construction worker, who yells at his wife because he is miserable and doesn't earn enough and also likes to complain about faggots and foreigners. Of course a vermin like that should be exterminated, alongside with the religious foreigners, not because they are foreign, because they're religious vermin (but that's another discussion), so it is best to draw him closer and use similar animals like him as canon fodder to rally towards your view without even having to understand it, purely out of aesthetic, because they cannot read and have them commit what no other laptop linux faggot will commit.
Most workers worldwide, except for the faggy jobs, are masculine uyghas who identify with reactionary retardation, it seems. It may not be appropriate to call them proletariat (workers) because they don't have class consciousness and are too retarded, like most meathead blue collar workers to be bothered to learn how the world works. Letalone understand and accept the way of material analysis.
The meatheads love being burly, fascist clubs are now sports oriented and trying to appeal to youths. Whatever organizations you're in should be trying that as well, even if you cannot compete, to at least establish a tradition of having taken away the exclusivity of roid rage away from the reactionary untermensch.
The /swoletariat/ meme just won't cut it. It is like looking at a faggot trying to be macho, you need an entirely different attitude. I would describe what I'm seeing with that as a (transgender slur) trying to look appealing, even though the identity is built on androgynous and feminine attitude. As I wrote earlier on the thread, femininity and such attitudes are alright, but they should remain on the back of any organization. An example of it not being on the back would be the DSA Hiterlite conference, where they were all weirdo gender freaks and refused to clap to avoid "offending". That is an untermensch liberal organization, don't ever try to replicate it. It is untermensch. And we should call it subhuman and untermensch because its a funny way to dehumanize opposition, DSA are a liberal bourgeois thing, like an extension of the democrats and they are untermensch and they are faggots and retarded and reactionary too and very very ugly and I think they would be ugly even if they tried to look like the LaRouche Hitlerite from ordinance 1 because they will always be reactionary faggots, because their views are built on Lasalle and shit. Its that simple, sorry, not sorry.
Anyway, the way you can improve the /swoletariat/ is maybe by not using such retarded lingo and actually acting retarded instead. It is manly to act retarded. So you should act retarded and not give a shit. That is one of the defining characteristics of machismo, its very fun, look at the early WWE and you will see. And if you disagree with this, fuck you, fuck liberast.
If you managed to read through this, you probably disagree and perhaps I may have it removed or moved to siberia, but it is a way to express the lack of aesthetic in the west and western-east (lets just say Europe and the US to simplify it) that you can otherwise find in shit like fucking DPRK military drills, Chinese army and all that stuff, the good stuff, be like that why don't you? Your organizations (if you even are in ones) don't even wear uniforms do they? Yeah, think about that. Fucking hoodie wearing faggots. And the front men or at least the most vocal probably come on with a shitty shirt and a suit (no tie), imagine that. It looks bad, you look liberal. Don't even dare allow someone to be a member if they have a zoomer haircut. Or what? Or you're fucked, you don't take the advise from this thread, its perfectly good advise. Don't be a liberal, libs parade anti-machismo attitudes right now because they're like fucking genderbender feminist rights in Belarus types, you know? Its not that its bad but its dogshit the way they do it, and now all these orgs are just posturing and doing the exact same things. Why do you want your org to look like an NGO? Look like rambo damn. You use the gigachad image and tell people "you know he was a communist he said made in GDR" but the orgs and your life look nothing like him when they should.
If this seems badly thought out.
Wasn't the whole point of being politically incorrect that you write the most ridiculous shit out of genuine expression? It isn't badly thought out, its an aesthetic, and if you have another aesthetic it sucks and you suck and your org probably sucks dick too, you're an organization of cocksuckers, like a liberal LGBT NGO which whines about human rights, you pretend pink capitalism doesn't exist or what? There's credit card companies sponsoring pride parades trying to persuade faggots to be liberal, you'd actually get good faggots in your org if you have burly bros in the front of appearances and hide away the feminine guys to treasure them. Again don't put them on the front, the life of one gay is worth the life of seven soldiers. Muscle is meant for fight and scariness, when you put the faggots on the front its like your putting your organization with its anus open to the entire world to say "come fuck me, I'm a faggot" and the reactionaries make fun of that, cause they're on the opposite model, they've also got faggots but they keep them in the back and act homophobic on front, its not necessary to act like that, but they know too well about appearances. Look at them censoring the black nazi school shooters before one of their imageboards went down, they know they should keep that shit in the back or it would ruin their image.
On the women question - it is simple, if they have abs they go on the front, if they don't they go on the back and don't show in the front, they can march in the back.
On the trans question - again, too precious to show on the front, stay in the back, the world thinks trans are freaks even if they're fine as fuck. The life of a trans person is worth the life of ten machos. Don't show them, don't even do podcasts with them, they can't get the voice right to not be shunned by reactionaries.
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The way I see it we need to play the long game: educate people on secularism and satisfying their needs so they dont find comfort in religion, but rather in the current world. Over time religion along with the church will disappear
How are we gonna deal with the church during/after the revolution?
Most people are, unfortunately, believers to some degree. Some may like the church, some may not. Either way, straight up dismantling the church or turning it into some other institution like help centers may be unacceptable by the population, losing their support.The way I see it we need to play the long game: educate people on secularism and satisfying their needs so they dont find comfort in religion, but rather in the current world. Over time religion along with the church will disappear
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Who are the intellectuals?
My question is, what do we mean when we say intellectuals? On this site it is often used disparagingly, in marxist literature I noticed the usage is varies, ranging from insult to description of specific professions to social function, or more colloquially educated people, formally or not. So who are the intellectuals? And also, how do they relate to communist movement, what is their role in it (or against it)?
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To what extent could a socialist government realistically improve India?
If such a government were to abolish the caste system and strictly enforce its abolition, limit the influence of religion on governance and prioritize large-scale social projects such as housing and public infrastructure, the impact could be significant. Many of India's current problems stem from the dominance of capitalist politics and right-wing Hindu nationalism, which divert public attention through religious divisions and allow corruption to flourish unhindered.
To what extent could a socialist government realistically improve India?
If such a government were to abolish the caste system and strictly enforce its abolition, limit the influence of religion on governance and prioritize large-scale social projects such as housing and public infrastructure, the impact could be significant. Many of India's current problems stem from the dominance of capitalist politics and right-wing Hindu nationalism, which divert public attention through religious divisions and allow corruption to flourish unhindered.
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I’ll admit, I didn’t start off believing that the Russian government wanted to be in a war anyways. Even with the shit ton of reactionary manchildren larping as warriors in Russia, I largely just didn’t see a reason for the state to enter into a war with a potential ally of NATO if it wasn’t actively forced into one. Hell, I still believe that NATO is largely responsible for at least starting the current crisis in its current form (yes I’ll acknowledge ukro-Russo conflicts are fucking ancient and predate NATO).
However, none of that explains nor justifies why this shitty conflict is dragging on for so long even with all the signs pointing towards a war that may last ten to twelve more years in spite of it being resolvable with a withdrawal and reparation payments to all the lives lost or destroyed by this shitty attempt at mindless land grabbing. Nor can NATO be blamed for the civilian attacks against cities that are obviously densely populated and not evacuated which includes cities like Kyiv.
So can we just agree at this point that the kremlin is full of shit?
The fact that it was both the Russian government that could force the current war in Ukraine to stop for even a day just to start it again the day after with drone strikes without needing any provocation by NATO, Ukraine directly, or any of the Eastern European countries bordering Russia only tells me and everyone else that there is no way in hell that NATO aggression can still be used as an excuse for the current actions taken under Putin’s government.I’ll admit, I didn’t start off believing that the Russian government wanted to be in a war anyways. Even with the shit ton of reactionary manchildren larping as warriors in Russia, I largely just didn’t see a reason for the state to enter into a war with a potential ally of NATO if it wasn’t actively forced into one. Hell, I still believe that NATO is largely responsible for at least starting the current crisis in its current form (yes I’ll acknowledge ukro-Russo conflicts are fucking ancient and predate NATO).
However, none of that explains nor justifies why this shitty conflict is dragging on for so long even with all the signs pointing towards a war that may last ten to twelve more years in spite of it being resolvable with a withdrawal and reparation payments to all the lives lost or destroyed by this shitty attempt at mindless land grabbing. Nor can NATO be blamed for the civilian attacks against cities that are obviously densely populated and not evacuated which includes cities like Kyiv.
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People also forget that communism will do away with many of the divisions between young and old and the oppression of youth. Young people will be free members of communist society with unlimited potential as opposed to subjects of the family, institutions and the state.
The children yearn for the mines
Truth nuke: There will be child labor under communism. People only get up in arms at the idea of child labor under communism because the only way they can conceptualize labor is in the form of capitalist exploitation and drudgery. Communist labor will be free labor, voluntary labor, happy labor.People also forget that communism will do away with many of the divisions between young and old and the oppression of youth. Young people will be free members of communist society with unlimited potential as opposed to subjects of the family, institutions and the state.
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"My two little girls came crying and screaming, so we chased after the settlers. We eventually found the children unconscious and tied to a tree," he said, "The settlers had fled to the outpost on an ATV. We untied the children and rushed them to the health centre," he added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-kidnap-two-palestinian-children-tie-them-tree
Lebanese authorities detain people they say were planning rockets attacks on Israel
On Wednesday, the army said in a statement that authorities detained several people, including a number of Palestinians, who were involved in firing rockets in two separate attacks toward Israel in late March that triggered intense Israeli airstrikes on parts of Lebanon, including the southern Beirut suburbs for the first time since the November ceasefire deal.
https://www.newarab.com/news/people-planning-rocket-attacks-israel-detained-lebanon
Tunisian court hands prison sentences of up to 66 years in mass trial of regime opponents
Businessman Kamel Ltaif received the longest sentence of 66 years on Saturday, while opposition politician Khayam Turki was given a 48-year jail term, a lawyer for the defendants said. The court also sentenced prominent opposition figures, including Ghazi Chaouachi, Issam Chebbi, Jawahar Ben Mbarek and Ridha Belhaj, to 18 years in prison. They have been in custody since 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/20/tunisia-court-prison-sentences-kais-saied
Ecuador accuses ‘bad losers’ of assassination plot against President Noboa
Although not offering names, the statement appears to accuse the Citizen Revolution Movement (RC5) of which Gonzalez is leader and that is linked to former President Rafael Correa, of planning the attack. Media reports in Ecuador also suggested that support may have been forthcoming from foreign leaders including President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/19/ecuador-accuses-bad-losers-of-assassination-plot-against-president-noboa
https://archive.ph/70WAm
Brazil's Indigenous leader Raoni says he is against drilling for oil in Amazon region
Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo people, told Reuters during the country's largest Indigenous gathering last week.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/brazils-indigenous-leader-raoni-says-he-is-against-drilling-oil-amazon-region-2025-04-19/
US intelligence contradicts Trump claims linking gang to Venezuelan government to speed deportations
It repeatedly stated that Tren de Aragua, a gang that originated in a prison in Venezuela, is not coordinated with or supported by the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, or senior officials in the Venezuelan government.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-alien-enemies-act-venezuela-tren-de-aragua-103919f71db9a9e7a9a3de1028585483
Australian state Supreme Court dismisses legal case of public housing towers’ residents
The Victorian Supreme Court earlier this month flatly rejected a legal challenge to the state Labor government’s planned demolition of public housing towers in Melbourne, which was brought by a group of residents in three of the targeted apartment blocks.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/19/uiso-a19.html
China Cuts Off U.S. Gas Imports and Prioritizes Alliance with Russia Amid Trade War
China has gone over 70 days without importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States, according to Kpler data cited by the Financial Times. This move is a response to Beijing’s imposition of 49% tariffs, making U.S. LNG commercially unviable.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/china-cuts-off-u-s-gas-imports-and-prioritizes-alliance-with-russia-amid-trade-war/
China and Cambodia agree on financing for a 94-mile canal linking the Mekong to the Gulf of Thailand
Described as a public-private partnership contract, the deal was signed by Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol on behalf of Cambodia’s government, and by Ieng Sunly of the Funan Techo Coastal-Inland Waterways Company Ltd., the private sector partner. The project is being developed on a build-operate-transfer basis, with Cambodian investors holding a 51% stake, and Chinese investors holding 49%.
https://apnews.com/article/canal-trade-transport-bassac-river-rice-c471352392844998057c24752ba6d4fa
Kolkata: Left Organisations Plan Huge Rally in Brigade Parade Grounds on Sunday
Kolkata: Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Grounds is getting ready to host a huge protest gathering on Sunday, April 20, of toiling people – workers, farmers, agricultural labourers and slum dwellers. The call for the rally has been called by Left mass organisations, namely, the West Bengal units of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU) and Bustee Unnayan Samity (a slum dwellers’ organisation).
https://www.newsclick.in/kolkata-left-organisations-plan-huge-rally-brigade-parade-grounds-sunday
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Israeli settlers kidnap two Palestinian children, tie them to a tree"My two little girls came crying and screaming, so we chased after the settlers. We eventually found the children unconscious and tied to a tree," he said, "The settlers had fled to the outpost on an ATV. We untied the children and rushed them to the health centre," he added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-kidnap-two-palestinian-children-tie-them-tree
Lebanese authorities detain people they say were planning rockets attacks on Israel
On Wednesday, the army said in a statement that authorities detained several people, including a number of Palestinians, who were involved in firing rockets in two separate attacks toward Israel in late March that triggered intense Israeli airstrikes on parts of Lebanon, including the southern Beirut suburbs for the first time since the November ceasefire deal.
https://www.newarab.com/news/people-planning-rocket-attacks-israel-detained-lebanon
Tunisian court hands prison sentences of up to 66 years in mass trial of regime opponents
Businessman Kamel Ltaif received the longest sentence of 66 years on Saturday, while opposition politician Khayam Turki was given a 48-year jail term, a lawyer for the defendants said. The court also sentenced prominent opposition figures, including Ghazi Chaouachi, Issam Chebbi, Jawahar Ben Mbarek and Ridha Belhaj, to 18 years in prison. They have been in custody since 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/20/tunisia-court-prison-sentences-kais-saied
Ecuador accuses ‘bad losers’ of assassination plot against President Noboa
Although not offering names, the statement appears to accuse the Citizen Revolution Movement (RC5) of which Gonzalez is leader and that is linked to former President Rafael Correa, of planning the attack. Media reports in Ecuador also suggested that support may have been forthcoming from foreign leaders including President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/19/ecuador-accuses-bad-losers-of-assassination-plot-against-president-noboa
https://archive.ph/70WAm
Brazil's Indigenous leader Raoni says he is against drilling for oil in Amazon region
Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo people, told Reuters during the country's largest Indigenous gathering last week.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/brazils-indigenous-leader-raoni-says-he-is-against-drilling-oil-amazon-region-2025-04-19/
US intelligence contradicts Trump claims linking gang to Venezuelan government to speed deportations
It repeatedly stated that Tren de Aragua, a gang that originated in a prison in Venezuela, is not coordinated with or supported by the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, or senior officials in the Venezuelan government.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-alien-enemies-act-venezuela-tren-de-aragua-103919f71db9a9e7a9a3de1028585483
Australian state Supreme Court dismisses legal case of public housing towers’ residents
The Victorian Supreme Court earlier this month flatly rejected a legal challenge to the state Labor government’s planned demolition of public housing towers in Melbourne, which was brought by a group of residents in three of the targeted apartment blocks.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/19/uiso-a19.html
China Cuts Off U.S. Gas Imports and Prioritizes Alliance with Russia Amid Trade War
China has gone over 70 days without importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States, according to Kpler data cited by the Financial Times. This move is a response to Beijing’s imposition of 49% tariffs, making U.S. LNG commercially unviable.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/china-cuts-off-u-s-gas-imports-and-prioritizes-alliance-with-russia-amid-trade-war/
China and Cambodia agree on financing for a 94-mile canal linking the Mekong to the Gulf of Thailand
Described as a public-private partnership contract, the deal was signed by Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol on behalf of Cambodia’s government, and by Ieng Sunly of the Funan Techo Coastal-Inland Waterways Company Ltd., the private sector partner. The project is being developed on a build-operate-transfer basis, with Cambodian investors holding a 51% stake, and Chinese investors holding 49%.
https://apnews.com/article/canal-trade-transport-bassac-river-rice-c471352392844998057c24752ba6d4fa
Kolkata: Left Organisations Plan Huge Rally in Brigade Parade Grounds on Sunday
Kolkata: Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Grounds is getting ready to host a huge protest gathering on Sunday, April 20, of toiling people – workers, farmers, agricultural labourers and slum dwellers. The call for the rally has been called by Left mass organisations, namely, the West Bengal units of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU) and Bustee Unnayan Samity (a slum dwellers’ organisation).
https://www.newsclick.in/kolkata-left-organisations-plan-huge-rally-brigade-parade-grounds-sunday
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Exporting the revolution through war against everyone was hardly possible, even less possible now. Waiting for the rest of the world to revolt is unreliable, especially considering that main opponents of the revolutionary state will be the richest countries that can easily buy the loyalty of their proletariat.
What should the revolutionary state actually do?
The USSR has objectively failed to bring the world revolution. But what could it do to do it? And now that we have modern militaries and nuclear weapons the prospects of exporting world revolution seem even harder.Exporting the revolution through war against everyone was hardly possible, even less possible now. Waiting for the rest of the world to revolt is unreliable, especially considering that main opponents of the revolutionary state will be the richest countries that can easily buy the loyalty of their proletariat.
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Leftypol has never been able to refute this criticism of the Labor Theory of Value. It's quite sad to see an ideological cult based on refuting supply and demand just return to defining fundamental economic terms like supply and demand dressed up in fancy marxist language.
Leftypol has never been able to refute this criticism of the Labor Theory of Value. It's quite sad to see an ideological cult based on refuting supply and demand just return to defining fundamental economic terms like supply and demand dressed up in fancy marxist language.
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He was a close friend of Gramsci (he even smuggled him books and paper in prison). While calling him a Marxist might be a stretch, the title and content of his major work, (Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities: Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory) is clearly nod to Marxist themes - specially the concept of the commodity and even the Grundrisse.
Sraffa's framework feels like Marx cleaned of metaphysics: no dialectics, no labor theory of value, no historical materialism, just a stark, formal skeleton of production and distribution relations. In that sense, you could say he reconstructed classical political economy (Ricardo, Marx) using purely physical quantities and surplus, deliberately sidestepping subjective value, utility, and marginalism. It’s like Marx minus Hegel, but with linear algebra added. Sraffa wasn't trying to re-do Marx; he was setting the stage for a critique of marginalist economics on its own turf. But what he built ends up being a structuralist lens which is very compatible with Marxist analysis, just agnostic about class struggle or historical development.
PIERO SRAFFA
What do anons think of Piero Sraffa?He was a close friend of Gramsci (he even smuggled him books and paper in prison). While calling him a Marxist might be a stretch, the title and content of his major work, (Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities: Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory) is clearly nod to Marxist themes - specially the concept of the commodity and even the Grundrisse.
Sraffa's framework feels like Marx cleaned of metaphysics: no dialectics, no labor theory of value, no historical materialism, just a stark, formal skeleton of production and distribution relations. In that sense, you could say he reconstructed classical political economy (Ricardo, Marx) using purely physical quantities and surplus, deliberately sidestepping subjective value, utility, and marginalism. It’s like Marx minus Hegel, but with linear algebra added. Sraffa wasn't trying to re-do Marx; he was setting the stage for a critique of marginalist economics on its own turf. But what he built ends up being a structuralist lens which is very compatible with Marxist analysis, just agnostic about class struggle or historical development.
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Interesting; sky news isn’t defending American air strikes on Yemeni people
Sky news of all news networks has been shockingly honest with presenting the ongoing and highly deliberate attacks on civilians in Yemen and its capital following recent air strikes against Houthi and Yemeni positions. Of course, the comments are mainly from nasty Americans lacking in empathy for others as usual with what you could expect from them given the current crisis in Gaza
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Just as a self proclaimed "nazbol" is a nazi, not a communist, a radfem who claims communism is a nazi, not a communist. There is no liberatory potential in the work of zionist wombnationalists. At every turn, with their every move, the radfems side with the reactionary clergy to own the transhumanists, with the white nationalists to own the racial minorities they luridly imagine in their rape fantasies, and with the capitalists against those moid proles.
This isn't even theoretical, it's basic friend/enemy distinction. The radfems are trying to get you to vote Republican. They're conservatives and their faux concern for progress should be read in the same light as Tucker Carlson's Strasserite rants. The question at this point is whether you are or aren't willing to be a useful idiot for the fascists. Lots of self-proclaimed leftists answered wrong, and will continue to answer wrong so long as they believe moralism can ever bring progress.
Just as a self proclaimed "nazbol" is a nazi, not a communist, a radfem who claims communism is a nazi, not a communist. There is no liberatory potential in the work of zionist wombnationalists. At every turn, with their every move, the radfems side with the reactionary clergy to own the transhumanists, with the white nationalists to own the racial minorities they luridly imagine in their rape fantasies, and with the capitalists against those moid proles.
This isn't even theoretical, it's basic friend/enemy distinction. The radfems are trying to get you to vote Republican. They're conservatives and their faux concern for progress should be read in the same light as Tucker Carlson's Strasserite rants. The question at this point is whether you are or aren't willing to be a useful idiot for the fascists. Lots of self-proclaimed leftists answered wrong, and will continue to answer wrong so long as they believe moralism can ever bring progress.
R: 352 / I: 21
EUGENICS
For real, do you think eugenics is a bad idea per se? To improve mankind through selective breeding, and for all people, not just the rich that can selective breed their children to be better than everyone else child. Or is eugenics deeply problematic and shouldn't be pursue? I have mix feelings on it, one side i think that idea in broad terms is good, to better people, but on the flip side eugenics can be used by not well intentional groups or people. Overall is a mix bag for me, it could work making a proletarian master race that could bring galaxy brained socialism that will colonize the starts with their 1000 I.Q or just become a instrument for rightoid to keep it power forever.
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Notice how much more civilized and friendly the atmosphere is on leftypol. No insults, no glorification of mass shooters, no advocacy of violence against ethnic or religious minorities, no absurd conspiracy theories, and no anti-intellectualism. Just fruitful, thought-provoking discussions, fact-based knowledge, and nuanced takes on political and philosophical issues.
We are morally superior to Chvds. That’s simply a fact.
Notice how much more civilized and friendly the atmosphere is on leftypol. No insults, no glorification of mass shooters, no advocacy of violence against ethnic or religious minorities, no absurd conspiracy theories, and no anti-intellectualism. Just fruitful, thought-provoking discussions, fact-based knowledge, and nuanced takes on political and philosophical issues.
We are morally superior to Chvds. That’s simply a fact.
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I was thinking that the nonprofit industry/social worker sector might be very useful to unionize. It could help mitigate some of the harms of the nonprofit activist industrial complex by giving more power to the workers instead of the CEOs. I'm sure lots of NEETs here interact with social programs. It takes five seconds to ask your support workers if they've looked into unionizing.
Anyhow would love to your thoughts on praxis in general
/praxis/
Does anyone here help organize like labor unions and tenants unions and so on?I was thinking that the nonprofit industry/social worker sector might be very useful to unionize. It could help mitigate some of the harms of the nonprofit activist industrial complex by giving more power to the workers instead of the CEOs. I'm sure lots of NEETs here interact with social programs. It takes five seconds to ask your support workers if they've looked into unionizing.
Anyhow would love to your thoughts on praxis in general
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>Call yourself a "democratic socialist"
>Denounce "oligarchy"
>Consistently support moderate reform
>Suppress Palestine support at your rallies
>Refuse to condemn Israel
>Continue cooperation with the Democrats
>People somehow call you a working class hero
Just doesn't make sense.
Why are Berniebros so stupid?
>Be Bernie>Call yourself a "democratic socialist"
>Denounce "oligarchy"
>Consistently support moderate reform
>Suppress Palestine support at your rallies
>Refuse to condemn Israel
>Continue cooperation with the Democrats
>People somehow call you a working class hero
Just doesn't make sense.
R: 37 / I: 11
is there actually a grand conspiracy like the great reset or does nobody know whats going on anymore?
a grand conspiracy would imply they know what theyre doing…
is there actually a grand conspiracy like the great reset or does nobody know whats going on anymore?
a grand conspiracy would imply they know what theyre doing…
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If you’re true Maoist you would be Pro feminism Pro agriculture Pro proletariat against capitalist elites you would fight for everyone across the world and you’d be anti-tradition
If you’re true Maoist you would be Pro feminism Pro agriculture Pro proletariat against capitalist elites you would fight for everyone across the world and you’d be anti-tradition
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Communists (myself included) have always been pretty content to be largely ignorant of maths and science and rely on writing skills to convey our points. But having reviewed Paul Cockshott's work I think it may be beneficial to engage more with maths and science.
The reason being, mathematically and scientifically gifted people are always going to work for the capitalist class, because they pay higher. We can't do anything about that. One day they'll work for us because we will be able to pay them. But the general level of technology has increased that it is now easy to teach ourselves a bit more complex maths in order to compensate.
I bring this up because I was thinking of useful applications for math and one that immediately popped up is fermi questions. We could try and estimate the treat or use of organizations; fascists, communist, trade unions by simply multiplying the number of members, the hardcore of those members, their available capital ect. Then we could feed this into markov chains to get probabilities and therefore work who we should focus on opposing.
There must be some way to do this better than capatlists.
Science and its Relevance
What do you think about science, mathematics and its relevance to Communism?Communists (myself included) have always been pretty content to be largely ignorant of maths and science and rely on writing skills to convey our points. But having reviewed Paul Cockshott's work I think it may be beneficial to engage more with maths and science.
The reason being, mathematically and scientifically gifted people are always going to work for the capitalist class, because they pay higher. We can't do anything about that. One day they'll work for us because we will be able to pay them. But the general level of technology has increased that it is now easy to teach ourselves a bit more complex maths in order to compensate.
I bring this up because I was thinking of useful applications for math and one that immediately popped up is fermi questions. We could try and estimate the treat or use of organizations; fascists, communist, trade unions by simply multiplying the number of members, the hardcore of those members, their available capital ect. Then we could feed this into markov chains to get probabilities and therefore work who we should focus on opposing.
There must be some way to do this better than capatlists.
R: 119 / I: 21
The presidential election in Ecuador is very near, with the final round beginning tomorrow on the 13th. Here's the thing.
The current two candidates are practically neck-and-neck. The current neoliberal Millei-esque LARPer president President Noboa and Luisa González, the head of a 21st Century Socialist political party (aligned with Venezuela and Cuba). It seems very likely that the Marxist Leninists and other Socialist parties that made up more than 100,000 extra voters will vote for Luisa next round and potentially crush Noboa.
But here is the potential happening: Just today Noboa has declared a State of Emergency in every part of the country due to "drug linked violence". No freedom of assembly. All devices are subject to be taken by the authorities without warning. More armed police and soldiers in the streets. Is a coup going to happen?
Ecuador potential happening
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ecuador-imposes-state-of-emergency-election/The presidential election in Ecuador is very near, with the final round beginning tomorrow on the 13th. Here's the thing.
The current two candidates are practically neck-and-neck. The current neoliberal Millei-esque LARPer president President Noboa and Luisa González, the head of a 21st Century Socialist political party (aligned with Venezuela and Cuba). It seems very likely that the Marxist Leninists and other Socialist parties that made up more than 100,000 extra voters will vote for Luisa next round and potentially crush Noboa.
But here is the potential happening: Just today Noboa has declared a State of Emergency in every part of the country due to "drug linked violence". No freedom of assembly. All devices are subject to be taken by the authorities without warning. More armed police and soldiers in the streets. Is a coup going to happen?
R: 15 / I: 3
The True Hero Of The Series
Unintentionally ends capitalism by doubling down on his commodity fetishism for the ring and falling to his death like a fucking retard. My preciousss! Let the crack fiends be an heroed by their own depravity.
R: 643 / I: 124 (full)
/leftybritpol/ BROKEN BRITAIN edition
I just watched the 'UK IS DYING AND I NEED TO VENT' video and I think we can all agree there is no hope for anyone in this country whatsoever, except for the landlords and triple locked pensioners, so with that said should we all go abroad? If so then where? Or should we just do our best to find a way to make it in this country? Maybe I should go teach English in China, but moving away from what I know is scary.
R: 8 / I: 0
Currently, the Nigerian elite have become cut off from Nigerian society entirely—literally. Public media almost never shows Nigerian officials or elites, apparently there was a time in that country’s history where politicians would host parades for themselves—literally none do that anymore—and a recent poll found that at least 70% of Nigerians hate the country’s rich and powerful while the same study found that 52% would support “harmful activism.”
It’s so fucking funny to watch personally. Apparently, the country’s elites have fallen off so hard in their public image that they don’t host speeches or anything in public but keep most of their shitty ideas to twitter or random interviews.
Mind you, this is one of the only capitalist countries where the rich and influential matter this little to society in general.
You would think that Marx’s predictions on capitalism would fully materialize but no. People are just so fucking done with the rich psychologically that it’s more likely that the bourgeoisie would be forced out of the wider whole of society if there wasn’t colonialism, or imperialism, or war, or some other lame excuse to protect the rich from confronting the public.
Bourgeoisie ostracized: I don’t think Marx could’ve predicted something this stupid
The reason why the thread image is a flag of Nigeria is explicitly tied to how uniquely inherent and in an “I fucking told you so” sense “deserved” it is for the bourgeoisie to become ostracized from the very same society they are leaching off of.Currently, the Nigerian elite have become cut off from Nigerian society entirely—literally. Public media almost never shows Nigerian officials or elites, apparently there was a time in that country’s history where politicians would host parades for themselves—literally none do that anymore—and a recent poll found that at least 70% of Nigerians hate the country’s rich and powerful while the same study found that 52% would support “harmful activism.”
It’s so fucking funny to watch personally. Apparently, the country’s elites have fallen off so hard in their public image that they don’t host speeches or anything in public but keep most of their shitty ideas to twitter or random interviews.
Mind you, this is one of the only capitalist countries where the rich and influential matter this little to society in general.
You would think that Marx’s predictions on capitalism would fully materialize but no. People are just so fucking done with the rich psychologically that it’s more likely that the bourgeoisie would be forced out of the wider whole of society if there wasn’t colonialism, or imperialism, or war, or some other lame excuse to protect the rich from confronting the public.
R: 81 / I: 17
TLDR: Trump is neither a useful idiot nor just an idiot.
Many anons here have subscribed to what I call a based retard theory of Trumpism. That Trump is, through his incompetence, unintentionally accelerating the demise of the western-led capitalist world order.
It is obvious to everyone that the western-led international order is indeed fracturing, and quite possibly, ending or beginning to end. However, the question is, why, and what will replace it?
According to liberals, since world war 2, the US has (for more or less selfless reasons) promoted a “rules based, international order” based on liberal democracy, market (capitalist) economies and “international law”. This, according to liberals, has allowed the world to avoid the sorts of nationalism, mercantilism which led to conflicts such as world war one and world war two in favor of peace and global prosperity.
People on the left (especially far left) have often disagreed with this view for several reasons. One, they point out that the United States has often ignored so-called international law in pursuit of their own interests while using it to punish other, smaller nations. That IMF loans often came with conditions which for example incentivized or coerced countries into privatizing and liberalizing parts of their economy. Or were in other ways exploitative. That in practice, rich nations took advantaged of poorer ones, and the rule of markets simply became a proxy for the rule of western (especially US) capital, and a way to launder neocolonial exploitation.
However, in the years since the end of the Cold War, alternative economic powers have risen, such as the so-called “BRICS” nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The rise of BRICS, especially China in particular, has meant that the rule of markets is no longer is synonymous with the rule of western corporations.
The reason liberals are confused is because they are people who have drunk the neoliberal cool aid and unironically believe that the spread of market based economies and their integration into the global trade system is a positive sum game that benefitted all nations, when in reality it primarily benefitted the west at the expense of the third world sweatshop-slave.
Until recently.
Now that other economies such as China have begun to not only dominate international trade but build up high value added service sectors in industries like Tech and Finance (in some cases, like AI, rivaling or even surpassing the US), the US finds that the international world order mythology has outlived it’s usefulness. Trumpism is simply western/US Capital discarding the mask. So US leaders realize that “the jig is up” – that multipolarity can no longer be fought and the US will no longer be a globe spanning empire. So they are pivoting to make the US into a regional power in the Americas/Western Hemisphere. Thus explaining Trump’s pivot to Panama, Greenland, and Canada – its the “donroe doctrine”. The US will be more like it was in the 19th century and pre ww1 20th century – an explicitly imperialist regional power which treats the western hemisphere as its “sphere of influence”.
Trump is not as liberals think, a Russian agent, nor is he as some here think, an irrational actor dismantling empire out of sheer stupidity. Trumpism is geopolitically rational. Rather than the cause of the decline of US Hegemony, it is actually a relatively rational reaction and adaptation TO the decline of unipolar US Hegemony. Whether it will be successful is a whole other question.
Against the Based-Retard Theory of Trumpism
Against the Based-Retard Theory of TrumpismTLDR: Trump is neither a useful idiot nor just an idiot.
Many anons here have subscribed to what I call a based retard theory of Trumpism. That Trump is, through his incompetence, unintentionally accelerating the demise of the western-led capitalist world order.
It is obvious to everyone that the western-led international order is indeed fracturing, and quite possibly, ending or beginning to end. However, the question is, why, and what will replace it?
According to liberals, since world war 2, the US has (for more or less selfless reasons) promoted a “rules based, international order” based on liberal democracy, market (capitalist) economies and “international law”. This, according to liberals, has allowed the world to avoid the sorts of nationalism, mercantilism which led to conflicts such as world war one and world war two in favor of peace and global prosperity.
People on the left (especially far left) have often disagreed with this view for several reasons. One, they point out that the United States has often ignored so-called international law in pursuit of their own interests while using it to punish other, smaller nations. That IMF loans often came with conditions which for example incentivized or coerced countries into privatizing and liberalizing parts of their economy. Or were in other ways exploitative. That in practice, rich nations took advantaged of poorer ones, and the rule of markets simply became a proxy for the rule of western (especially US) capital, and a way to launder neocolonial exploitation.
However, in the years since the end of the Cold War, alternative economic powers have risen, such as the so-called “BRICS” nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The rise of BRICS, especially China in particular, has meant that the rule of markets is no longer is synonymous with the rule of western corporations.
The reason liberals are confused is because they are people who have drunk the neoliberal cool aid and unironically believe that the spread of market based economies and their integration into the global trade system is a positive sum game that benefitted all nations, when in reality it primarily benefitted the west at the expense of the third world sweatshop-slave.
Until recently.
Now that other economies such as China have begun to not only dominate international trade but build up high value added service sectors in industries like Tech and Finance (in some cases, like AI, rivaling or even surpassing the US), the US finds that the international world order mythology has outlived it’s usefulness. Trumpism is simply western/US Capital discarding the mask. So US leaders realize that “the jig is up” – that multipolarity can no longer be fought and the US will no longer be a globe spanning empire. So they are pivoting to make the US into a regional power in the Americas/Western Hemisphere. Thus explaining Trump’s pivot to Panama, Greenland, and Canada – its the “donroe doctrine”. The US will be more like it was in the 19th century and pre ww1 20th century – an explicitly imperialist regional power which treats the western hemisphere as its “sphere of influence”.
Trump is not as liberals think, a Russian agent, nor is he as some here think, an irrational actor dismantling empire out of sheer stupidity. Trumpism is geopolitically rational. Rather than the cause of the decline of US Hegemony, it is actually a relatively rational reaction and adaptation TO the decline of unipolar US Hegemony. Whether it will be successful is a whole other question.
R: 79 / I: 12
Why so many south-slavs fall for Russian Supremacy thinly veiled as Pan-Slavism ?
Are they really ok with being the lower caste shudras in Russia’s unwritten racial hierarchy or do they really imagine that they are going to be treated any better than Ukrainians ?
South Slavic Retardation
What causes this ?Why so many south-slavs fall for Russian Supremacy thinly veiled as Pan-Slavism ?
Are they really ok with being the lower caste shudras in Russia’s unwritten racial hierarchy or do they really imagine that they are going to be treated any better than Ukrainians ?
R: 4 / I: 1
You can't deny that
https://archive.is/Q69gV
The Marina Bay in Singapore was a less desirable address half a century ago. I don’t mean that it had fewer residential towers with drone-like views of the Grand Prix circuit. I mean the land itself was water: yet to be hard-won from the Straits. Like the growth of Changi, the carpeted and plant-filled resort that it pleases some to call an airport, this reclamation scheme has helped the island accommodate 6mn, up from 2.5mn when I was there as an infant.
There are other “bay areas”, of course. In the book of the hour, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson often cite San Francisco as what happens when red tape, bureaucratic inertia, judicial review and raw Nimbyism smother growth projects. That is, depopulation and homelessness: almost a paradox of failure. Other Democratic jurisdictions have the same issues. People elsewhere notice, shudder and vote accordingly. “A liberalism that builds” — not one that is obsessed with the distribution of scarce resources — can win them over.
Almost everything the authors propose is worth doing for its own sake. More stuff for more people is an honourable cause. Listen, I would build a fourth runway at Heathrow.
Just don’t expect it to make the slightest dent on politics.
The biggest head-scratcher in the modern world is the lack of correlation between abundance and voter happiness. In the US, which has boomed for much of the century, populists are rampant. In Europe, which mostly hasn’t, populists are rampant. If we track one place over time, the picture is no less confounding. East Germany has been getting richer and richer since it came in from the cold. Its propensity to vote for the hard right has gone up over the same period. When Ireland was poor, its politics was a duopoly of establishment parties. As it grew richer, support for Sinn Féin grew too.
No one can stand up a neat causal link between the economic and the political
Perhaps the test of abundance isn’t just private consumption. Perhaps it is, as the authors suggest, the fundamentals of infrastructure. But France, whose strategic state has achieved cheap-ish energy, housing and transport, has a populism problem. Britain, where such basics can be pricier, has a populism problem. In Italy, where social spending is huge, the insurgent right governs. In Australia, which has a less paternalist state, the same movement is notably weak.
You can’t buy moderation, in other words. You can’t build or grow your way to civic sanity. I’d vote for a Klein-Thompson ticket because abundance is worthwhile in itself, not as a means to national peace. (US-focused, the book is much more urgent in over-regulated Europe.) No one can stand up a neat causal link between the economic and the political.
I have had this argument out with peers in the past, and the response is always the same. First, total agreement. Then, after a sheepish pause: a return to proposing this or that growth plan as the cure for our broken politics. Something in the training of elites has left them thorough materialists. The idea that abundance itself might breed populism — in part by raising expectations, in part by inducing boredom — goes mostly unentertained.
If not abundance, then, what is it that might defang the west’s rebellious voters? Which abstract noun should guide liberals in politics? I can give you one syllable less than the authors. Order. Whether it is the order of national borders, or the order of being able to walk unaccosted through cities, there isn’t enough of it for public tastes.
Recommended
ReviewNon-Fiction
The FT’s review of ‘Abundance’ by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Lettuce leaves with a strip of lights behind them
Realistically, no raucous western democracy can build things like Marina Bay with such eerie smoothness. But a world in which retailers don’t have to keep humdrum toiletries behind lock and key shouldn’t be so exotic a dream. The authors of Abundance trace urban disorder back to scarcity, which is fair up to a point, but also a bit of an intellectual knight’s move. The more direct question of law enforcement is still awkward to bring up in polite company.
Ever since the French Revolutionaries extolled liberté, égalité and fraternité, assuming that sécurité would take care of itself, the Enlightened have had a blind spot for this stuff. Their enemies don’t. Defeating them will take a liberalism that builds, no doubt, but also one that protects, and even condemns.
You can't deny that
https://archive.is/Q69gV
The Marina Bay in Singapore was a less desirable address half a century ago. I don’t mean that it had fewer residential towers with drone-like views of the Grand Prix circuit. I mean the land itself was water: yet to be hard-won from the Straits. Like the growth of Changi, the carpeted and plant-filled resort that it pleases some to call an airport, this reclamation scheme has helped the island accommodate 6mn, up from 2.5mn when I was there as an infant.
There are other “bay areas”, of course. In the book of the hour, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson often cite San Francisco as what happens when red tape, bureaucratic inertia, judicial review and raw Nimbyism smother growth projects. That is, depopulation and homelessness: almost a paradox of failure. Other Democratic jurisdictions have the same issues. People elsewhere notice, shudder and vote accordingly. “A liberalism that builds” — not one that is obsessed with the distribution of scarce resources — can win them over.
Almost everything the authors propose is worth doing for its own sake. More stuff for more people is an honourable cause. Listen, I would build a fourth runway at Heathrow.
Just don’t expect it to make the slightest dent on politics.
The biggest head-scratcher in the modern world is the lack of correlation between abundance and voter happiness. In the US, which has boomed for much of the century, populists are rampant. In Europe, which mostly hasn’t, populists are rampant. If we track one place over time, the picture is no less confounding. East Germany has been getting richer and richer since it came in from the cold. Its propensity to vote for the hard right has gone up over the same period. When Ireland was poor, its politics was a duopoly of establishment parties. As it grew richer, support for Sinn Féin grew too.
No one can stand up a neat causal link between the economic and the political
Perhaps the test of abundance isn’t just private consumption. Perhaps it is, as the authors suggest, the fundamentals of infrastructure. But France, whose strategic state has achieved cheap-ish energy, housing and transport, has a populism problem. Britain, where such basics can be pricier, has a populism problem. In Italy, where social spending is huge, the insurgent right governs. In Australia, which has a less paternalist state, the same movement is notably weak.
You can’t buy moderation, in other words. You can’t build or grow your way to civic sanity. I’d vote for a Klein-Thompson ticket because abundance is worthwhile in itself, not as a means to national peace. (US-focused, the book is much more urgent in over-regulated Europe.) No one can stand up a neat causal link between the economic and the political.
I have had this argument out with peers in the past, and the response is always the same. First, total agreement. Then, after a sheepish pause: a return to proposing this or that growth plan as the cure for our broken politics. Something in the training of elites has left them thorough materialists. The idea that abundance itself might breed populism — in part by raising expectations, in part by inducing boredom — goes mostly unentertained.
If not abundance, then, what is it that might defang the west’s rebellious voters? Which abstract noun should guide liberals in politics? I can give you one syllable less than the authors. Order. Whether it is the order of national borders, or the order of being able to walk unaccosted through cities, there isn’t enough of it for public tastes.
Recommended
ReviewNon-Fiction
The FT’s review of ‘Abundance’ by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Lettuce leaves with a strip of lights behind them
Realistically, no raucous western democracy can build things like Marina Bay with such eerie smoothness. But a world in which retailers don’t have to keep humdrum toiletries behind lock and key shouldn’t be so exotic a dream. The authors of Abundance trace urban disorder back to scarcity, which is fair up to a point, but also a bit of an intellectual knight’s move. The more direct question of law enforcement is still awkward to bring up in polite company.
Ever since the French Revolutionaries extolled liberté, égalité and fraternité, assuming that sécurité would take care of itself, the Enlightened have had a blind spot for this stuff. Their enemies don’t. Defeating them will take a liberalism that builds, no doubt, but also one that protects, and even condemns.
R: 2 / I: 0
How can anyone say that the National Bolshevik Party is a legitimate communist party when all it is a far right fascist party i’m kind of glad that dissolve but in the United States we have another retarded party call the American communist party and all they are is a far right fascist party that’s all I had to tell you
How can anyone say that the National Bolshevik Party is a legitimate communist party when all it is a far right fascist party i’m kind of glad that dissolve but in the United States we have another retarded party call the American communist party and all they are is a far right fascist party that’s all I had to tell you
R: 72 / I: 12
Has a figure ever fucked over the "left" in your country so bad?
When Boric was elected in Chile I had some hope that we would see actual change in this country, that we would get rid of the Pinochet military constitution, pension reforms etc. Instead this absolute buffoon has blundered every single thing put through by the Left after the success of the millions of workers and students. Now in 2025 we are basically looking at a guaranteed Pinochetism President and they aren't even hiding it anymore. I have never seen such a massive reversal like this in fortune but I blame almost all of this on the terrible leadership of Boric
R: 97 / I: 12
Why are anarchist like this? It literally shits on Marxist for thinking maybe work can help in some ways?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
I cannot take anarchist seriously
I read thru this whole thing (22 pages) and while it made some interesting points the idea overall is absurdWhy are anarchist like this? It literally shits on Marxist for thinking maybe work can help in some ways?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
R: 2 / I: 0
> Behavioral science is bullshit
> Over the last two years, a series of articles has revealed that the superstars of the field are in all likelihood frauds, their methods and conclusions generally bunk. First came Dan Ariely, author of 2008’s Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions and the inspiration behind NBC’s middling primetime drama The Irrational. Ariely has made his career studying dishonesty and the heuristics and biases that humans use to make decisions, revealing the unconscious patterns of our actions. But in September 2023, Gideon Lewis-Kraus published a long article in The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie) revealing that Ariely had cooked his books, manipulating experiment data on his way to publishing deals, bestseller lists, consulting gigs, and a sinecure helming Duke’s Center for Advanced Hindsight. The article also singled out Ariely’s sometime collaborator, the Harvard Business School psychology professor Francesca Gino, for manipulating her own data to produce splashy, attention-generating outcomes. The following month, the New York Times published a report on Gino—whom Harvard put on leave and threatened to strip of tenure—and her battles with the investigative unit Data Colada, which audits scientific papers.The irony was in the headlines: dishonesty researchers had been caught in a lie.
> The fraud charges continue to spread. In the January issue of The Atlantic, Daniel Engber detailed (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/business-school-fraud-research/680669/) the extent of the rot. Engber focused on another collaborator of Ariely and Gino’s, Juliana Schroeder, who self-audited her own work after the revelations and appears to have—accidentally?—proven that she also manipulated data in her research into social behavior and the way we understand other minds. The “science” might be fraudulent, its conclusions unreplicable, but it seems that, felix fortuna, someone forgot to tell business schools, media outlets, TV executives, and publishing houses—because the field’s influence shows no signs of waning.
> Case in point is another Harvard Business School superstar swept up in the maelstrom: Alison Woods Brooks, whose book Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves was published earlier this year. Prototypical pop science, it promises nothing less than an experimentally proven way to improve your ability to communicate.
[…]
> The concept of nudging spread like wildfire, with dozens of governments, including our own here in the US of A, opening “nudge units.” It provided a cheap set of ostensible solutions to real political problems. Instead of paying for school lunches to be actually healthy, why not just nudge parents or students to choose the healthier option already there? For the Obama administration, and many other late-stage technocratic neoliberal governments around the world, this approach offered a way to claim they were addressing deep-seated problems without doing the hard work of structural reform. The nudge was peak Democrat neoliberal policy, relying on markets, individual choice, and the manipulation of that choice in lieu of progressive, redistributive policy. The problem, again, was that it was all bullshit (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opinion/human-behavior-nudge.html). Large swaths of the foundational experiments Sunstein and Thaler cited either failed to replicate when the experiments were done again, or were the effect of “publication bias,” in which publishing only surprising and positive results provides a misleading picture of the evidence. When this bias was corrected for, no evidence for the effectiveness of nudges remained, according to a 2022 study.
> Over the years, fraud and just plain fatuousness have blended to produce a psychology that leans into the idea that a mixture of self-help, government policy, and app-style gamification could optimize individuals and society. It’s not just the bestselling trade books that suffer from these flaws. The enterprise is rotten all the way down.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/fashionable-nonsense-weatherby
> Behavioral science is bullshit
> Over the last two years, a series of articles has revealed that the superstars of the field are in all likelihood frauds, their methods and conclusions generally bunk. First came Dan Ariely, author of 2008’s Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions and the inspiration behind NBC’s middling primetime drama The Irrational. Ariely has made his career studying dishonesty and the heuristics and biases that humans use to make decisions, revealing the unconscious patterns of our actions. But in September 2023, Gideon Lewis-Kraus published a long article in The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie) revealing that Ariely had cooked his books, manipulating experiment data on his way to publishing deals, bestseller lists, consulting gigs, and a sinecure helming Duke’s Center for Advanced Hindsight. The article also singled out Ariely’s sometime collaborator, the Harvard Business School psychology professor Francesca Gino, for manipulating her own data to produce splashy, attention-generating outcomes. The following month, the New York Times published a report on Gino—whom Harvard put on leave and threatened to strip of tenure—and her battles with the investigative unit Data Colada, which audits scientific papers.The irony was in the headlines: dishonesty researchers had been caught in a lie.
> The fraud charges continue to spread. In the January issue of The Atlantic, Daniel Engber detailed (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/business-school-fraud-research/680669/) the extent of the rot. Engber focused on another collaborator of Ariely and Gino’s, Juliana Schroeder, who self-audited her own work after the revelations and appears to have—accidentally?—proven that she also manipulated data in her research into social behavior and the way we understand other minds. The “science” might be fraudulent, its conclusions unreplicable, but it seems that, felix fortuna, someone forgot to tell business schools, media outlets, TV executives, and publishing houses—because the field’s influence shows no signs of waning.
> Case in point is another Harvard Business School superstar swept up in the maelstrom: Alison Woods Brooks, whose book Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves was published earlier this year. Prototypical pop science, it promises nothing less than an experimentally proven way to improve your ability to communicate.
[…]
> The concept of nudging spread like wildfire, with dozens of governments, including our own here in the US of A, opening “nudge units.” It provided a cheap set of ostensible solutions to real political problems. Instead of paying for school lunches to be actually healthy, why not just nudge parents or students to choose the healthier option already there? For the Obama administration, and many other late-stage technocratic neoliberal governments around the world, this approach offered a way to claim they were addressing deep-seated problems without doing the hard work of structural reform. The nudge was peak Democrat neoliberal policy, relying on markets, individual choice, and the manipulation of that choice in lieu of progressive, redistributive policy. The problem, again, was that it was all bullshit (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opinion/human-behavior-nudge.html). Large swaths of the foundational experiments Sunstein and Thaler cited either failed to replicate when the experiments were done again, or were the effect of “publication bias,” in which publishing only surprising and positive results provides a misleading picture of the evidence. When this bias was corrected for, no evidence for the effectiveness of nudges remained, according to a 2022 study.
> Over the years, fraud and just plain fatuousness have blended to produce a psychology that leans into the idea that a mixture of self-help, government policy, and app-style gamification could optimize individuals and society. It’s not just the bestselling trade books that suffer from these flaws. The enterprise is rotten all the way down.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/fashionable-nonsense-weatherby