/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>684775
Welcome!

>>684775
Cheers lad.

>i love u
>but i’m not a leftist! B-baka!
…that’s good, I think?

>>684817
I agree with this quote. By economic freedom I meant stuff like free markets.
>>684823
Okay, maybe centre-left.

>>684775
welcome OP, now read some marxist theories

hi i also used to be a libertarian, then i read east asia model shit, then i read ha joon chang, and then i started thinking maybe theres something to marxism

so im here

>>684817
i read political activist as political autist

>>684775
Oh look it's me five years ago.
Check out the booru maybe. https://lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=all
There's some stuff on there that is shit in my opinion (like the 29658923 poljak edits) (also there's porn but you can filter it out if you want) but there's plenty of little factoids and quotes etc. you can see from all sorts of topics.

>>684855
>five years ago
You mean two months ago when you found out north korea doesn't let people have personal computers and you left leftypol forever for two days?

>>684858
Do you have to make such a biting comment out of nowhere. No, I mean OP seems like how I was when I first found /leftypol/.
Study the left, its history, and its current real-world applications (from any tendency) closely enough and you will find its pitfalls. Some of them sicken me. As of late the pitfalls of capitalism are particularly seeming much worse. Particularly after re-reading some Parenti plus mulling over the past two years of pandemic drama some more.
I even remarked yesterday that I am increasingly sympathetic to the Internet being reduced to the functions that the DPRK utilizes its intranet for. I'm not at the position though. It's just that the Internet today is creating some truly disgusting scenarios that deface human integrity. I have no idea what a world wide Web would be like under global socialism, though.

>>684858
>>684865
Also after reading Einstein defending Lenin + Stalin in letters, relistening to an emotional post-liberation song by Holocaust survivors, reading more how Stalin and the Red Army saved millions of Jews and other captives. Then how the Western alliance took in Nazis among its ranks (e.g. Operation Paperclip) and legally forgave Japanese war crimes.
There's probably an emotional aspect to it now, that I've felt enough tug toward MLs after soaking in all that information lately, that I'm completely sympathetic to every tendency contributing to /leftypol/ now, to fight for all of you with my whole heart.
A jude meandered before finding home. And she who always learns always changes. I could change again, but I won't unlearn certain things, only it will become less fresh in my mind.

>>684865
Okay, that's fair. But it did seem really short sighted and childish at the time that you used a socdem flag over something as petty as computers, out of all the things you could hate the DPRK for, personal convenience is where you drew the line.
But at least you're willing to develop.

>>684871
It wasn't just about computer regulations. I'll just leave it at that cus I don't need to derail the thread anymore

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>no "fuck succdems" or picrels
I'm actually surprised.
I concurrently support almost everything "left" of populist "left-liberalism", including succdem; they're all a livable improvement.

>>684891
>I concurrently support almost everything "left" of populist "left-liberalism", including succdem; they're all a livable improvement.

Social democracy IS left liberalism; they've long since shed the stated goal of socialism through bourgeois institutions, and even if they hadn't, history is clear about the general trajectory of the socdem approach.


The only good thing about social democracy is it may, depending on the circumstance, allow for the actual left to organize more freely and effectively. This is still totally contingent on specific historical instances, though - it may have been the case if, say, bernie sanders won the presidency somehow, but was infamously NOT the case in the Weimar era.