/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Consider the evidence before us. North Korea long held up as the last redoubt of a world that was supposed to be constructing something fundamentally other than the liberal order is now quietly assembling a police force modeled directly on the institutional templates of Western social democracy. It has renamed its secret police, purging “socialist” from its nomenclature, amended “Socialist” from its constitution, and begun training its officers to cooperate with Interpol. It is inching toward social democracy because even its leadership has recognized that the only viable path to survival lies in becoming a normal administrative state; normal police, normal bureaucracy, and, inevitably, the normalization of commercial franchises on every corner.

Nearly every existing institution that still breathes and functions has been consumed and reshaped into an instrument of this new synthesis; social democratic capital wedded to technological surveillance. The emergent order is global cyberpunk social democracy, a more competent, more inclusive fascism, one willing to accommodate diversity precisely because diversity no longer poses any threat. Figures like Gavin Newsom represent its acceptable face, and the vast majority of the political class, including most of what calls itself the left, will eagerly consume it and accept the bigger slices of the pie. They will shout at those who actively oppose it, as violators of the new global collective. Leftism is dead, just about everywhere. It's over.

Which brings us to the so called revolutionary left; this can apply to most regions around the globe. In the United States, what passes for leftism is a collection of people who have convinced themselves that the highest political calling is electoral work. They invest their energies in symbolic revolutionary gestures, while the actual machinery of empire and social control grinds on unperturbed. They are not revolutionaries; they are advocates of social democracy, a force that will be completely consumed and assimilated into this new future, globally. They have been consumed not by traditional state violence but by liberalism, a process of absorption far more thorough than any open repression could achieve. Every institution that once claimed to oppose capital now functions as a servant of capital and liberalism. There is no revolutionary left. There has not been for a long time. What remains is a hobby for those who need to feel righteous while the world is systematically pacified into a new order of something far beyond the old industrial capitalism.

I am therefore finished, not with politics, which is the management of our passivity, but with the pretense that the left is anything other than a wing of the state, the bourgeois and global liberalism. North Korea becomes a normal country. The U.S. left stays functioning as normal NGOs, who are moved by election cycles. Liberalism has triumphed not by defeating its antagonists openly but by existing in such a high function that it can end up absorbing them so thoroughly that the very memory of antagonism becomes an aesthetic. It assimilates every molecule of life, and subjects it to capital, ruling elite authority, and commodity. I am disassociating from the corpse. Let it fucking rot. The future is a high‑tech police‑state with a Burger King on every block, and the only real choice is to get in line or disappear. I am not getting in line. My comrades and I will be holding a meeting about this soon (we actually run a print like Houdini, just decided not to post it here). I will no longer be using the Juche tag, I am formally leaving the KFA, and I'll advise my folk to do the same.

>>2756622
what exactly do you plan on doing now then

>>2756624

The weight of this realization is not theoretical; it is sedimented from decades of observing every would‑be alternative absorbed, neutralized, and redeployed as a functional component of the system it once opposed. North Korea was the final stone left unturned, the one fucking site that still appeared to embody the principle that a distinct, non‑capitalist, anti‑imperialist formation had been not merely imagined but materially constructed, sustained against overwhelming odds, and defended as a living refutation of the inevitability of globalized liberal capitalism. To witness that edifice now being quietly dismantled from within, its constitution stripped of “Socialist,” its secret police rebranded to cooperate with Interpol, its ruling party inching toward the institutional templates of social democracy, is to confront the accumulated evidence of a century; that every revolutionary project, without exception, has been metabolized by the very order it sought to transcend. What remains is not the substance of liberation but its aesthetic, repurposed as yet another global method of bourgeois containment.

It is from this realization that I declare myself finished with the left, not as a turn toward some other label (anarchist, or whatever), but as a recognition that “leftism” as a category of political identity has ceased to designate anything other than a resource to be extracted. The organizations, the campaigns, the rituals of solidarity, the interminable debates over which tendency retains the correct lineage of a revolution that never arrives, these are not instruments of emancipation. They are pieces on a board, and I have concluded that the board is not mine to claim, only to play.

From this point forward, my relation to organized left spaces will be strictly instrumental. If a demonstration offers a good space for intelligence collection, I will use it. If a fundraising apparatus can be redirected toward autonomous infrastructure off grid, I will redirect it. If a party’s organizational resources & bodies can be extracted to build something liberal civilization does not control, I will extract them. I will not join. I will not pledge allegiances to corpses long since stripped down to bare bone by maggots. I will not pretend that the inhabitants of these spaces are comrades in any sense beyond mutual convenience. They are pieces, and I will move them accordingly, to benefit true negation, that is refusal to assimilate.

The real work lies elsewhere, in the patient, unglamorous labor of learning to live off the map they are building. I have already mastered the art of surviving without submitting to the rhythms of waged labor, working enough to stay afloat, moving enough to avoid being pinned. That was the first step. The next is to scale it all, to convert this existence of mine into a sustainable infrastructure that does not depend on the circuits of capital, the permission of the bourgeois state, or the charity of a left that has become indistinguishable from both. This requires funds, not for consumption but for capacity, for land, for tools.

I am not building a movement. I am building a life, and I am building it for the few who understand that the old left is not a resource to be rehabilitated but a corpse to be looted for whatever usable parts remain. When the surveillance apparatus tightens further, when the high‑tech police‑state becomes the universal condition, those who have already learned to live off the grid and actively negate the new order, not as hermits but as nodes in a distributed network of survival, will possess a margin of maneuver the rest will have forfeited.

This is not cynicism. It is materialism applied to the evidence of the last century the revolutionary left as a political force is dead What remains is either assimilation or negation. Nothing more. And I will wait, not for the revolution, which is not coming, but for the opening that always appears when the system overextends. Even if no new world is possible, even if the arc of history bends only toward administered consumption and the slow suffocation of every alternative, we all can still ensure that those who engineered this terminal order do not enjoy its final hours. The collapse, when it comes, will not be a smooth transition to a higher stage; it will be the messy, erratic unspooling of a system that exhausted every resource. Any worker who truly values freedom, over assimilation, they intend to be there, not as a builder of utopias, but as a reminder that the debt was never forgiven. Those who truly refuse to assimilate must ensure the monstrous have no peaceful twilight, no quiet victory lap. The time that remains should be made costly. If the only choice is between assimilation and disappearance, the wage-slaves who refuse this hellscape should consider a third option, that is to make the bourgeois eternal victory as bitter as the defeat they handed us.


The thought of some revolution occurring, is not realistic, that too would be consumed. I am done pretending otherwise.

>>2756622
Pretty much, it doesn't matter much anyway as industrial society will largely crumble under the weight of climate change. If the choice was socialism or barbarism, barbarism has won already, it's up to yourself to adapt to this and change your strategy

It is pleasant to see CPC and Juche heading communism out of peripheric despotism and junta irredentism into what the USSR wouldve done has its existence continued.

>>2756603
That's really sad because now (with the Iran war and cascading imperial decline/violence) is probably the worst possible time for Best Korea to liberalize in any way (even if it would mean a less repressive society)

> On March 19, US presidential envoy John Cole arrived in Minsk, where he met with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
> Lukashanko appears in DPRK
>police reforms
this is too much of a co-incidence, theres some sort of shuttle diplomacy going on with the US, cucktin, trump.

I'll be honest bros, I'm not cut for this new world.

Mortality is likely my most valuable possession from now on.

>>2756806
You would like it if it looked like Blade Runner Akira Night City Mirrors Edge and not the Montreal-Buffalo-Syracuse-Krakow axis.

>>2756603
North Korea is not really that important in the grand scheme of things.

Police states are good actually. Where would you rather live Somalia or Singapore? Exactly.

>>2756882
Men would choose Somalia as it gives the possibility to do cool violence in order to civilize the area eventually. Women, girldads and most LGBT would choose Singapore because it's safe and have a sensible egalitarian moral code.

I don't know about the police thing, but the amendment of the constitution doesn't seem like a cause of concern to me.

>The reporter said that the past five years were the years of great changes when the Korean-style socialist construction definitely entered the stage of comprehensive development and remarkable progress was made in the struggle for the prosperity of the country and the wellbeing of the people, adding that this proud success is the brilliant fruition of the outstanding leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un who clearly indicated the main tasks and ways for carrying out the economic construction and has energetically guided it.

>He said that the historic Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea set it as a primary task for the socialist economic construction at the present stage to lay the developmental foundations for the stable and sustainable growth of the country's economy and substantially improve the people's living standards while consolidating the successes made during the eighth term of the Party Central Committee. And he referred to the Cabinet's action program and ways for thoroughly implementing the task.

>The tasks facing us are huge, but we are sure to win as the Party and the people and socialism are united by the same destiny and there are tens of millions of people supporting the WPK leadership wholeheartedly, he said, expressing the firm will to unconditionally fulfill the new five-year plan for national economic development by enhancing the role of the Cabinet as an economic control tower in every way.

>Comrade Kim Jong Un made a historic policy speech.

>He congratulated all the deputies who were elected as members of the 15th supreme power body of our dignified state by the deep trust and support of all the people across the country, and reviewed the state affairs during the 14th Supreme People's Assembly which brought about successful years through the arduous struggle. And he set forth important tasks and ways for the DPRK government to promote the prosperity of the state and the wellbeing of the people in keeping with the requirement of the reality in which the socialist cause of our style has entered a new phase.

>Stressing the importance of more dynamically stepping up the three revolutions - ideological, technical and cultural - in keeping with the present phase of socialist construction while consistently adhering to the principle of independent politics, self-supporting economy and self-reliant defence and the people-first principle in state building and activities, he called upon the SPA deputies to make painstaking efforts as befitting the masters of state affairs and representatives of the people so as to turn the future five years into the ones of better and more worthwhile transformation and for the future of the DPRK which will grow stronger.

For me it sounds more like a case of "we've had the constitution guide us towards socialist construction, but now that we've fulfilled it and are in an advanced stage of socialist construction, it serves as less of a blueprint" or something. Maybe it's more clear in Korean. But the announcement really doesn't sound to me like they're slyly dropping the whole socialism thing.

>>2756885
Yeah but singapore will be underwater in a decade or two

>>2757381
>noooo you can't have a police state underwater!!!
check your privilege surfaceoid

>>2757392
Mermaids aren't real people and don't deserve anything, they're basically fish

The near future, yeah, maybe. But the near future is irrelevant. What's relevant is how convinced you are in socialism's inevitability. Leftists who only fight for socialism provided that they get to see it in their lifetimes are barely better than social democrats.

>>2756885
>girldads aren't men
clever ragebait

>>2757323
That is actually accurate to what is going on after looking into it. Keep in mind every year since 2012 you can find an article written saying that the DPRK is about to drop socialism and turns out wrong or misinterpretation of something written by the WPK.

>>2756689
>pic
can i get the text without the image. it's good text

>>2758054

Used an text extractor, didnt double check all.

>You are being systematically robbed of the same opportunities which previous generations were entitled to by simple virtue of having been born in eras with lower global population.
>Proponents of malthusian-inspired deregulation propaganda aren't really worried about the Earth, knowing full well that it could easily support a much higher number of humans if political corruption, systemic inequality, and purposeful waste of resources were brought to heel.
>A meaningful career, life partner, family, house, car, and possibly even food & water can be dangled just beyond your grasp by strategic maneuvering of forces and organizations which you'll never see, and of whom you've likely never even heard. They consider you to be a kind of living, animate refuse, whose only use is the production of capital and the taxable income which follows.
>Your elected leaders are almost all fully aware of the scale of the upcoming social upheavals that this will cause, when enough of you realize that your impotent groaning and whing in public forums won't save you from your fate - one worse than that of a medieval peon who at least had the courage to rise up and murder their oppressors under desperate circumstances. Instead you'll permit them to withdraw even dignified modes of living, contrive diversionary scandal after scandal as though they were pre-prepared and drawn from a ready supply, turn you against your brothers and sisters, and consume farmed insect protein because you believe that it will halt the already irreversible climate change devastation caused by unchecked industry and suppression of clean energy tecchnology. Even worse, the half of you would rather suicide than fight to keep what's already been earned by your predecessors. If your ancestors could see you now, they'd spit in your worthless face.


makes a good copy pasta for sure

>>2758149
>>2756689
the view of the past presented here is rose tinted nonsense. most people didn't have a meaningful career, they just had no choice but to look for meaning in being the guy who moves boxes from line A to line B in the box factory. as for a family, the primary reason that is more difficult is because we've successfully won much of the war on boredom and on dire poverty. you are no longer compelled to find a partner as a means of not starving to death, and you are no longer compelled to find a partner as a means of fucking the boredom away. net result? - revealed preference, as economists call it? - people argue on 4chan dot org or twitter dot com instead of going out and finding someone. (indeed: how could overpopulation possibly explain a lack of partners? by definition there are more potential partners than ever!)
housing, granted, is an issue but the problem is not overall population but population distribution (and construction, but everyone knows about construction).
everyone wants to live in LA because it's cool and nobody wants to live in ohio because it's lame. (and so far as people have to live in ohio, they want to live in Columbus, not Rendville) net result: a bunch of wasted houses in podunk shitholes with no jobs, and a big deficit in coolsville USA.
car? not only do most have one, but they need one, which is itself the problem - the manipulation of unseen forces trying to screw over the reader - in any civilized country "you won't be able to own a car" would be no more inconvenient than "you won't be able to own a 2-in-1 VHS/TV combo unit"