/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2284139
>The poll was boycotted both by right-wing opposition and the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)
the "X.com" pcv. The PCV was on the electoral ballots, supporting PSUV candidates where they didn't have a chance, and having their own candidates where they knew they could win something.
just a reminded:

>>2284146
The PCV on the ballots is not the real PCV. It is a group the PSUV gave the ballot to. The same happened to the Tupamaro party.
http://solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Venezuela-Nicolas-Maduros-government-takes-over-the-Communist-Party-of-Venezuela-by-storm/
>"The Government of Nicolás Maduro has consummated the assault against the Communist Party of Venezuela through an arbitrary judicial sentence that endorses the imposition of a directive composed of mercenaries at the service of the leadership that runs the PSUV," denounced the Political Bureau of the PCV through a publication in its official accounts on social networks. 8/14/23

US faces another summer of extreme heat as fears rise over Trump cuts
This year’s summer months promise to be among the hottest on record across the United States, continuing a worsening trend of extreme weather, and amid concern over the impacts of Trump administration cuts to key agencies. The extreme heat could be widespread and unrelenting: only far northern Alaska may escape unusually warm temperatures from June through August, according to the latest seasonal forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/26/extreme-heat-summer-weather-forecast

The US military spent $6 billion in the past 3 years to recruit and retain troops
The military services have routinely poured money into recruiting and retention bonuses over the years. But the totals spiked as Pentagon leaders tried to reverse falling enlistment numbers, particularly as COVID-19 restrictions locked down public events, fairs and school visits that recruiters relied on to meet with young people.
https://apnews.com/article/military-pentagon-recruit-retention-bonuses-3569f3ff290a39a8f5bae8d64e167cea

23 arrests at heated ‘Fascist Family Values’ protest in Seattle
Protesters had aimed to counter the “well-funded anti-trans, anti-queer event that is led by far-right Christian activists. The Mayday USA rally in Seattle is provocatively being held in the heart of the Queer community,” according to organizers.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/arrests-made-at-heated-fascist-family-values-protest-in-seattle/
https://archive.ph/A94eW

Trump’s mass federal cuts disrupt LA wildfire recovery: ‘It’s coming tumbling down’
More than 400 AmeriCorps staff and volunteers were deployed in the aftermath of the January megafires that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and killed 30 people. They helped 26,000 households affected by the fires and packed 21,000 food boxes. But in April, the agency placed about 90% of its staff on immediate leave.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/26/trump-doge-la-wildfire-recovery

Soaring Chicago police lawsuit payouts hit record amount
Many of the most expensive police-related cases involve wrongful convictions and imprisonments related to confessions detectives allegedly forced from suspects through torture and coercion, as well as car chases that violate strict CPD pursuit policies and end in injuries or deaths.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/police-misconduct-cases-chicago-cost/
https://archive.ph/ZUvJc

is the far right in the room with us right now, communist-wannabe libshit?

Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank
Amid a flood of industry lobbying in Washington, DC, and Democrats’ capitulation, the Senate is set to pass the GENIUS Act, a sweeping cryptocurrency law that could spread fraud-ridden, destabilizing digital currencies across the banking system. But lawmakers and consumer protection experts warn that the bill has an even more serious problem: it would allow Elon Musk and other Big Tech tycoons to issue their own private currencies. That means we could soon live in a world where all online transactions will require us to pay for goods in billionaires’ own made-up monopoly money, for which tech giants will be able to charge exorbitant transaction fees. This scenario isn’t just a pipe dream. It’s a long-running project by tech platforms to control payment networks. In the past few weeks, Meta began laying the groundwork once again to launch its own cryptocurrency. What’s more, thanks to a bipartisan “compromise” that convinced Democratic holdouts to support the legislation, the latest version of the bill could stop the government’s top financial and tech regulator from overseeing any of these potential tech currencies. The GENIUS Act, which stands for Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins, was designed to create light-touch regulations for stablecoins, a more commonly used form of crypto token that is often pegged to the US dollar in an equivalent value (one stablecoin is redeemable to one dollar). If it becomes law, any banking or even nonbanking enterprise could get a license to deal stablecoins with minimal oversight. This could riddle the entire financial system with volatility and make illicit activity like fraud and terrorism undetectable while providing major new markets to the companies issuing the cryptocurrencies. The El Salvador–based firm Tether is currently the largest trading platform for these currencies and has faced numerous US lawsuits for fraud.
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/zuckerberg-musk-banking-crypto-tech

Don’t Blame the Palestine Movement or the Left for the Jewish Museum Shooting
On Wednesday evening, two Israeli embassy staffers were shot to death outside the Washington, D.C. Jewish Museum, where a “young diplomats reception” was being held. The suspected shooter, Elias Rodriguez, who reportedly had a Keffiyeh and shouted “Free free Palestine,” and “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” was almost immediately arrested without further incident. Although it seems highly likely, even to the State Department, that Rodriguez acted entirely alone and on his own initiative, this hasn’t stopped the mainstream media, the Trump administration, or the Israeli government from attempting to use the shooting to silence its critics, sanctify and romanticize the lives of the victims (a privilege denied to the more than 60,000 people murdered by Israel in Gaza), and to actively propagate the lie that the movement for Palestine is a violent and antisemitic threat to domestic peace. The New York Times, for instance, has repeatedly stated, without evidence, that the shooting was an act of antisemitism, despite the fact that both of the victims were employed by the Israeli state, and that reports suggest Rodriguez chose his targets deliberately. Furthermore, as his manifesto makes plain, his actions were clearly driven by his outrage at the ongoing genocide in Gaza and had nothing to do with hatred of any ethnic or racial group. Such knee-jerk conflations of anti-zionism and antisemitism have by now become standard practice for most of the U.S. media.
https://www.leftvoice.org/dont-blame-the-palestine-movement-or-the-left-for-the-jewish-museum-shooting/

MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY: What is primitive accumulation?
“PRIMITIVE accumulation” means the acquisition of capital (physical or financial) by expropriation rather than through exploitation. Exploitation — paying workers less than the value they create (the difference, surplus value, is accumulated as profit) — is the characteristic and universal feature of “mature” capitalism. Expropriation means seizure, confiscation, robbery; it is direct. The term primitive accumulation (Marx didn’t like the term, itself a mistranslation of Adam Smith’s “previous” or “original” accumulation) refers to the historical process of divorcing producers from the means of production by the appropriation of land, and taking captives as slaves, in tribal societies. It appears as primitive, because the expropriation of the agricultural producer, the peasant, from the soil, forms a preliminary stage of the capitalist mode of production, effectively generating the preconditions for the ongoing accumulation of capital. In the words of Marx, it is “not the result of the capitalistic mode of production, but its starting point,” playing “in political economy a similar role to original sin in theology.” He continues: “The expropriation of the agricultural producer, of the peasant, from the soil, is the basis of the whole process. “The history of this expropriation, in different countries, assumes different aspects, and runs through its various phases in different orders of succession, and at different periods.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/what-primitive-accumulation

TYBNA

>>2284165
Nicolas Maduro didn't "take over" the real PCV, it was an internal infight between members, where the rules were violated by Figuera and their clan, while leaving aside the rest of the party. There are institutions here where you can go and force the ousting of such a party leadership, because in Venezuela all political parties are a legal entity subject to governmental institutions.

and ask to solidnet and IDC people how lovely of them to back up an anti-communist as Enrique Marquez.
Do you want me to spam the hundreds of posts of Enrique Marquez showing his "communist" conviction to which the figuera's pcv a.k.a. x.com pcv decided to adhere by naming Enrique Marquez his presidential candidate?
will solidnet and InDefenceofCommunism will ever address they were duped like a bunch of morons or double down?

>>2284165
this is just one of the many posts I can bring to prove how x.com pcv, the one you are now accusing of being "taken over" Maduro are just a bunch of co-opted ned/cia/usaid people.
https://x.com/enriquemarquezp/status/433648050809356288
it reads, in 2014
<We cannot resign ourselves to communism taking us deeper into hell. Let us fight to change our destiny.
I dare you to address this nonsense and come to my face and tell me this is a hill you are willing to die on.

Thanks News Anon

>>2284483
>There are institutions here where you can go and force the ousting of such a party leadership, because in Venezuela all political parties are a legal entity subject to governmental institutions.
Anon they could have just kicked him out in the next party election like in any other Communist party ML or Trot. Instead a small group of people who said they were members of the party threw out democratic centralism and went to the government rather than internal party channels. And I don't care about Marquez no one in the PCV or Popular Revolutionary Alternative said the guy was a communist so i don't understand the point in bringing him up.

>>2284510
Not willing to die on any hill here. I'm not gunna defend every tactical choice the PCV makes. But it is concerning seeing the Madurista faction of the PSUV and now Arce's faction of the MAS in Bolivia spend more time attacking their left rather then the US-backed right wing that only needs to get lucky once to start tearing down the hard won attachments of the last 2 decades of social democracy and both nations.

>>2284649
>But it is concerning seeing the Madurista faction of the PSUV and now Arce's faction of the MAS in Bolivia spend more time attacking their left rather then the US-backed right wing that only needs to get lucky once to start tearing down the hard won attachments of the last 2 decades of social democracy and both nations.

just three days ago they arrested another right-winger, named guanipa, after months of different right wing collaborators arrested. guaido has its own arrest warranty, the same with the guaido 2.0 a.k.a. edmundo gonzalez. they act upon the legal frame, until they make mistakes and leave knowing the bureaucratic times.
Arce is a very different thing. one of his ministers attacked Venezuela saying "the roads of Bolivia cannot be like those in Venezuela" which Evo correctly said that's not leftist in a The Gray Zone interview.
We don't do that in Venezuela. No Maduro ministers will say something like that from a brotherly nation, specially if they are clearly sovereign and lefty.

>>2284649
I have to come back to expand this conversation, in particular because you are throwing rather ridiculous claims.
>government rather than internal party channels
Parra, the current leader of the PCV explained they depleted the internal party channels, that they won't allow the party to be co-opted by a leadership that pretends it's good idea to divide votes, when it's necessary to give 0 inches to any opposition politician.

you know what the x.com pcv never did? address EACH POINT BY POINT, WITH PROOF PROVING PARRA WRONG, specially when Parra stated that the subversive leadership of the x.com pcv ignored the procedures of the leadership election
I can bring Parra's words and reasoning.
>Parra indicated that they filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court because they believe the current leadership of the PCV is illegitimate and illegal, having been elected at a Congress in which "more than 80% of the party's membership did not participate."


I HAVE NEVER SEEN the x.com pcv stating their internal rules, the acts of the electoral procedures Parra claimed were viciously violated, NEVER, pure deflection and hiding behind wall of texts. Is that dialectical materialism? is it all that with pseudo-Marxism talk communism? is that revolutionary?
go on, ask the x.com pcv proofs proving wrong Parra, ask the solidnet evidence of the same. Ask indefenseofcommunism too, evidence showing how le evil government took over the PCV. no? no evidence? no solid evidence?
excuse you, but fuck you, fuck solidnet, fuck indefenseofcommunism, and fuck all of those paleolithic creatures unwilling to wake up to undeniable evidence that the x.com pcv has no legitimacy, no moral ground, and no reason or whatsoever to be used in a socialist or communistic debate about what my country is, does or wants to achieve.
>And I don't care about Marquez no one in the PCV or Popular Revolutionary Alternative said the guy was a communist so i don't understand the point in bringing him up.
because people like (You) is giving some face of value what the x.com pcv has to say or do. are you mad that I brought him up? get real, their decision needs to face the wall, and assume their consequences, including those who get mad about that.
>I'm not gunna defend every tactical choice the PCV makes.
<tactical
FUCKING TACTICAL
tactical was to split always from Chavez, tactical was never go and train people about communism and socialism, because they had that option, the PSUV has never been and it isn't an teaching party, it has been and it is a mobilization party, thus the x.com pcv could've gone a train, agitprop, debate and contribute with more revolutionary training. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE X.COM PCV MEMBER NEAR A PRIVATE COMPANY RECRUITING WORKERS. NEVER. They are armchair lords. this wasn't tactical, this was subversive, and god I wish Maduro was the horror person the liberals and anti-communists accuse him of being, to see all those people hanging on with a literal anti-communist like enrique marquez with a inverse neck-tie made up of rope choking off a bridge.