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"turns out conservatives and reactionaries are just dumb after all" edition.

news:
- Your Party is suing itself, more at 11.
- The SNP and Plaid are going to form a "progressive alliance" somehow
- The government's going to do a switcheroo by raising income tax slightly and cutting national insurance to balance it out. (But they won't - follow this to its logical conclusion and scrap NI entirely)
- They're also considering cutting VAT on energy bills (which is the least efficient way of lowering bills you can imagine)
- The board of deputies asked Aston Villa for free footy tickets. In a worrying sign of rising antisemitism, Aston said nah.
- Labour is falling behind the Greens in the opinion polls as their strategy of copying Reform drives away their already-begrudging supporters without winning over any Reform voting reprobates. Nobody could have predicted this.
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>>2552468
The third webm is them burning them.

>>2552512
It usually is organised groups doing it tho, not something from scratch. The YCL had their whole "Red Ultras" era post-pandemic, and before that you had outfits like 0161 but they were born out of Momentum and ACORN (I didn't tell you that tho).

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This man was a warmonger.
England should have never involved itself in World War Two.

Do you like the greens leftybritpol? only thing I don't like is they're anti-nuclear and nimby

>>2553646
>england shouldnt have responded to the blitz
clearly this is crypto-fascist rubbish.
>warmonger
the tide really turns in 1941 after hitler's absolutely retarded operation barbarossa, where he violated his pact with the USSR. its only after this that we get "the united nations" or "allies" in 1942, and the official alliance which eventually crushes germany.



/leftypol/

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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Stealth 100 Edition


Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

📺 Glowie News 📺
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>>2553601
arresting the clients is kinda stupid but the pimps should be shot. literally the definition of a lumpenprole scumbag.

>>2553615
they're saying a rich industrialist named engels is funding marx too

Good post


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>not even /pol/ likes Fuentes
I don't understand who constitute his core audience, honestly.



/leftypol/

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Revolution almost always requires a brutal civil war so that a new society emerges from it. But the ideal of a new society never emerges immadietly after. We see it with the french revolution, and then the russian revolution. The american revolution seems like an exemption from this. Why is that?
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All revolutions are partly civil wars, every single one including the american one. It was literally a piece of the british empire breaking off dummy. Their independence war was a civil war

>>2553645
>>2553642

I did not say that america had no civil war

Just that the system of gouvernance was not more authoritarian than under colonial rule. In that sense, it was a success.

>>2553637
the fuck are you trying to say, comrade

>>2553648
You mean no revolutionary dictator who then devours the children of the revolution? I mean, Washington came kinda close, they wanted to make him king after all. But he didn't even really wanna be president, just sit on his farmstead and watch his slaves toil the land. Some people argue it was his personality that caused him not to centralize power and that might very well be, but it always seemed like a bit of a copout answer to me. There's probably more materialist reasons for the success of the american revolution. It being far away from their previous rules, a relatively new country with lots of space and possibilities, it could be many different things

>>2553654

I think if you have monarchs in your country, it's almost impossible to completely remove yourself from it. Indepedence is easier.



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>>2552679
i'm happy knowing that the best the USA can do to maintain its hegemony is pay people to post stale soyjaks

Did we winned yet?

>>2553518
Yes, we are making the economy scream. In reality no one wants any conflict with the imperialists and would much prefer to go along to get along but I suppose it's funny to pretend otherwise.

>>2553542
Preventing war and letting the 1st world suffocate itself instead is good actually.



/games/

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not surprised at all that the studio raising funds for Azov is taking it out on small indie game devs

you can't even see the game store page at the moment anymore

give these people a hand and they'll take an arm

critical support to Platypus Entertainment and their struggle against NATOcucks



/leftypol/

 

Why is leftypol not throwing massive support behind Mamdani?

No one believes he’s an actual socialist, however his victory will be the most important victory of the American left of the past 90 years. Why? Because it shows the Zionist Lobby has NO POWER compared to the power of the MASSES OF PEOPLE and we can defeat the satanic Zionist entity not with a violent revolution but simply with voting. Nobody believes Mamdani is a perfect candidate but that’s not the point.

So why aren’t we backing him en masse? His inevitable win will be the biggest blow to US-Zio imperialism in modern history.
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>>2553388
Isn't she a zionist

>>2553422
She's a Pakistani Muslim. I doubt it

>>2553430
She's an american. A pakistani flavored american, just like iranian flavored americans, cuban flavored americans, chinese flavored americans, etc.

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This is evil by mamdani

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Liberals don‘t understand the importance of revolution, the cost of revolution, how it is misguided to complain about what necessarily happens in revolutions and why reasoning must reject and move past that of the established status quo because liberals are not taught the importance of their own revolution. You may learn about the events that have happened, but you are not philosophically educated about revolutions in themselves and their necessity in moving past a system that is inherently bad and whose rulers and those privileged will fight tooth and nail to keep it, at the cost of everyone else living in misery.

I suggest that if you want to convert liberals to socialism then educate them about the liberal revolution. Make them grasp the necessity and good of a revolution regarding something they wouldn‘t possibly disagree with. Additionally, you could then translate this to our times and make analogies of the current ruling class acting like kings and everyone else having to live like a serf.
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>>2550224
> Liberals don‘t understand the importance of revolution, the cost of revolution, how it is misguided to complain about what necessarily happens in revolutions and why reasoning must reject and move past that of the established status quo because liberals are not taught the importance of their own revolution.
How does this factor in the MLoid failure to understand the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism outside their edgy murder fantasies that end in 90% of the final victim tally being communists saying maybe we should pursue the end of capitalism and not uhhhhhhh woke national socialism? “Ah but you see material conditions made socialism impossible!” Yea that speaks for itself.
> I suggest that if you want to convert liberals to socialism then educate them about the liberal revolution. Make them grasp the necessity and good of a revolution regarding something they wouldn‘t possibly disagree with. Additionally, you could then translate this to our times and make analogies of the current ruling class acting like kings and everyone else having to live like a serf.
Liberals are individualists that believe in metaphysical morality, the odds of getting them to shift substantially are tough

>>2553417
Where was this "moment in leftism" where these revolutionaries talked about having revolutions of love and jubilee in the streets? Who or what is this referencing? Hippie college students? Most leftist understand that revolution is a violent affair no? This is a dumb comic

>>2553647
>>2553417
A true revolution is an extreme intellectual, cultural and economic event, it usually features a lot of violence and horrors but also much fervor and happiness since the shackles of the oppressed are broken. So not incompatible, it's as dumb to think it will purely suck and be only horrific.

>>2553651
Of course, I'm not saying there'll be no jubilation. It's just a dumb comic trying to create a strawman of people only seeing this extremely multifaceted event from one angle, even though irl the vast majority of leftist don't do that

stop the larp



/leftypol/

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https://www.businessinsider.com/older-american-workers-health-issues-challenges-disabilities-2025-11

Patricia Willson, 93, stares intently at her leg as her nurse unwraps layers of bandages, revealing a scar that, to Willson's elation, is nowhere near as gruesome as it had been months ago.

Hunched over from a fractured back, Willson scrolls through her phone to remind her nurse what the scar had looked like. Last December, she sliced her leg open on a box. A few months later, the three-inch gash got infected.

"It scared me so bad when my legs started hurting," Willson tells her nurse, as Business Insider visited her home in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, earlier this year.

"You're a medical masterpiece," her nurse says. "You've been through a lot. Did you mention how many times you've broken a bone?"

"Well, I've had 14 broken arms," Willson replies.

As she inches back to her desk once her leg is tended to, Willson stops to clear off a stack of papers. Nestled between bills and medical records on one side of the desk sits a stapled-together printout of 50 websites for finding freelance work. Tucked away on the other side is a slightly wrinkled cover letter she's been sending to companies.

"I really need a job," she says under her breath.
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My oldest coworker was 84. Fucking forklift hit the dude at full speed and he flew like 2 meters before hitting the floor. Grandpa just got up as if nothing have happened and kept on working.



/hobby/

 

How do you feel about it (and its creator)?
also please spam Charlie pics
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>>46707
Mite b cool
Generic as hell trailer though


>>46707
it out it ok

Based on first 4 episodes, season 2 is an improvement over first one. Also the musical numbers are a little more diverse, one goes into metalcore, so maybe I will get my wish of a proper metal number sang by a pentagram-headed demon.

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Ok, I decided to finish watching season 2 of Helluva Boss, and I must say, the music in it is so fucking awful compared to Hazbin Hotel. They even introduced Satan there, has the classic goat demon design but dressed like he is really into Motorhead, and his song is still some shitty Disney knock-off.



/music/

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Anyone like Ariel Pink? He references Stirner a lot. I sent his album pom pom to a closeted trans friend of mine and turned her gay. What's the /leftypol/ take?

I never heard of it, what are some of the spookman references?



/music/

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I was tripping on acid alone and discovered him & Ariel. Some people have called him a nazi… I disagree. What's the take here? I kinda like him but I'm a dolt

>>16332
I think he is a left, if you listen to his songs it's against the rich such as 'outer space' and has liberal views such as in 'rights for gays' but morally he is Christian

>>16334
He's clearly some kind of christian anarchist

>>16335
I don't think Ariel is politically sensitive seeing as he supported Trump he also comes from a bourgeois background, his father was some kind of rich fraudster of which Ariel was a trust fund of



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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!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs

—————————————————–

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
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>>2553283
Hijab is a funny guy, I'm gonna guess he's gonna run circles around ol Steven


>>2553283
>A music degree dropout debates Islam with a guy who has a MA in Islamic Studies and a theology degree from the University of Oxford.
Who won?

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>>2553640
Limfao hindus are the biggest weapons of jews online



/games/

 

How are we feeling about it?

I am cautiously optimistic from the all the gameplay footage released. It genuinely looks like it will be a fun multifaceted game.
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EUV haters are covert manaslop lovers who are mad that EUV isn't manaslop.

>>44778
my criticism is like how the game and mechanics are piss poor or how the UI is ugly, while EUIV tards probably are complaining how the game is "complex" cuz they will use more than 1 neuron aka mana spending/dev clicking, some guy got butthurt over mixing CK3 and VIC3 systems when 90% of the problems are over the barebones incomplete AI and lack of national strategies/flavor past 1550

its very good

>>42775
Hated this garbage, I'm going back to eu4

My pc is too trash for this



/leftypol/

 

I'm a PhD candidate who actually understands Hegel and has a grasp the broad history/development of left wing thought from Rousseau to Zizek. I'm sick today and remembered this place existed. If you are trying to get a better handle on theory of any kind and have questions on how to go about understanding something, go ahead. I imagine this makes me sound like an ass, but I promise that I'm being totally sincere
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>>2553320
Dialectics is the answer to the chicken and egg problem

>>2553176
>This isn't just analytic pedantry—it's a profound epistemological point.
ftfy

>>2553209
I'd call it patently ridiculous rather than bold.
And that's all there is to say about this ideological construct and its constitutive parts. Too bad, so sad.

>>2552890
>
>Say more! I'm unsure what you're asking. You may wish to read "Dreamworld and Catastrophe" by the great Susan Buck-Morss though (heaven knows who's gonna replace her when she dies, she's one of the last real dialecticians left in America).

Just a vulgar "things have to get worse, to get better" to get better type of thing. The book seems interresting thank you

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>>2553631
>Just a vulgar "things have to get worse, to get better" to get better type of thing.



/leftypol/

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>Planned withdrawal from Kiev
Do Ziggers really believe this cope

>>2552974
looks like the beginning of the gamer uprising

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I dunno. Any recent funny comments?

>>2552523
How did Russia get its hands on so many redditors?

>>2553568
Shitposter in chief



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Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.
>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
https://xcancel.com/leftypol_org

previous thread: >>1945100
>>>/leftypol_archive/1945100 (if it gets archived by mods, don't hold your breath)

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!
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>>2548454
the random cis guy is actually not random. he is the world record holder for being able to open his mouth widest lol

>>2532907
>Commemorating the leftypol vs metokur midoff from yesterday
what? what happened?

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A Snack On Burger



/anime/

 

Is Attack on Titan fash?
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>>6766
>if a story depicts something that means it condones it
are you sure?

Shingeki geki, gek-geki-gek-geki, no Kyojin


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We've got titans pouring over the border. They eat people, they're mindless monsters, but some, I assume are good people. Nobody knows where they came from. We gotta plug up wall Maria until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

We're building 3 big beautiful walls name after king Fritz's 3 beautiful daughters, who have very nice figures by the way, and Marley is going to pay for each one of them.

We're the greatest country in the history of the planet, and we're getting a terrible deal. All the other countries have been very very nasty, very very unfair, rude and disrespectful towards us, and we've been giving them everything, and getting nothing back, but that's going to change really soon, believe me.

Sleepy Zeke wants to negotiate with me. He thinks he has the cards but he has none of the cards. He has royal blood and very very useful spinal fluid, but I think we'll be using that instead of him. He thinks he's going to sterilize Eldia, well guess what? Eldia's not getting sterilized. the founder Ymir agrees with me and has given me the power of the founding Titan. Now I am a giant hideous skeleton marching across the Earth. Eldia's going to be having billions and billions of beautiful babies far into the future, and the rest of the planet? They're getting rumbling. We're doing rumbling. It's coming, folks. They're calling it rumbling, and it will Make Eldia Great Again.

Ms. Ackerman is very upset with me, but she's still kissing me on the mouth and mourning for me for a whole decade, which i think is a very good deal. Lots of very beautiful women, like Mikasa Ackerman, and Armin Arlert in that one episode where he cross dresses, are giving sweet tender kisses to my decapitated head, and having long thoughtful conversations about the wonderful time we had committing war crimes together in The Paths with founder Ymir.

Captain Levi is very upset, he got a very bad deal. Maybe he should have thought twice before rigging a guy with explosives only a few feet from him.

At the end of the day lots of people in Eldia are very very upset with MEGA and the Jaegerists, and all the winning we've been doing. They're killing Floch, they're stealing the airship, they're saying please sir, Mr. Jaeger, we're tired of winning, but you have to ask yourself: Was winning all bad? The power of the Titans is gone, and what remains of humanity is free to rebuild without the fear of their return. Except for OnyankPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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What do you think about German far-left political party named Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice aka BSW?
Are they true communist redpilled comrades? Do they have any future? Will they replace Die Linke and would/will you vote for that party if were/are a German?
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>>2553361
That's fine as an argument, but I'm not sure how much it matters, we've been going around in circles about this for years. I really don't think any of these people openly supporting Russia are on the upswing outside of Russia anyways, yeah? Doing that tends to have a self-marginalizing effect on people compared to taking more of a neutralist position (if you really wanted to stay out of it).

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>>2553133
>No integrity, huh bud?
Have you not thinked about how exactly it is because i have integrity? If i get with her i will pump my integrity in to her and she will no longer be pro-israel, fixed, if you will.

>>2553382
Sahra does not support Israel.

I voted them into EU and state parliament. Not gonna do so anymore.

Sahra is based. I like her. She is not "far-left" but based af anyway.

Do not believe the lies about her being funded by Putin or something like that. It's just propaganda against the only existing pacifist force in politics.
She's not pro-russian or anything like that. She's just against NATO and doesn't want to keep funding the war machine. She wants peace and more diplomacy with Russia.

She isn't "anti-immigrant" or even "racist" as some people call her, she just, like any sane person, recognizes that we simply can't just let trillions of immigrants into the country without providing any resources to them - that will just lead to poverty, crime, etc. She recognizes that this will just result in people developing actual racist tendencies, not in helping any immigrants.

She was against obscure regulations during covid that everyone now knows didn't actually help anyone. She wanted more transparency and reason.

She refuses to participate in any stupid identity politics that don't actually help anyone. She doesn't use gender and queers as a shield, token and thing to center everything around. While I disagree with some of the things she said about trans ppl, they are overblown by the media to portray her as a transphobe.

These are the reasons the "The Left" party decided she was an enemy. She left the party before she could even get kicked out and made her own one.
Unfortunately, I think there are some major problems with it.
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>>2553369
I think wether or not you are taking the von der Leyen/pro NATO stance vis-a-vis Russia does matter to an extent, whether the general public is more or less accepting of a pro Russia stance it's hard to say. From what I can tell attrition and the effects of Russian propeganda have done a decent bit to swing people towards an anti nato position, but it's still nowhere near the majority. It's not gonna win the revolution or anything, nor is it like some tool for recruiting or something, but getting upset at people, even denouncing people, casting them out for not denouncing the enemies of your own ruling class is counter productive and shows that you are still a shauvinist/imperialist at heart



/music/

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Post music to cry to.
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Pain of Salvation - Undertow



making a game episode based on the duality and the aufheben between neofolk and punk from 2 perspectives about loss and grief.

nihilist tantrum, the powerlessness of the will to power:
https://youtu.be/vvFD7urcHZE

dyonysian remembrance, the very tangible power of feels:
https://youtu.be/Ic_KKMSfufA


synthesis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc7ZPcHwIME




/lgbt/

 

I feel like such a failure as gay guy. the only thing other gay people seem to talk about is sex, yet im 19 and still havent ever experienced sex. I havent even ever been able to get a boyfriend. I cant relate at all to all the things other gays talk about because of how I have no experience. It makes me feel so pathetic and out of place in any online gay community.
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>>4638
sweetheart i'm about to 30 and i'm still a virgin

>>4691
i logged on my fabulousrot account and I was just locked out of it. I got a friend request from some weird account with no pfp and a hour after accepting it i was locked out, but idk if that has anything to do with it. Cant even do shit about it since i signed up for the account with a fake email, sorry

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>>4693
oh well

>>4692
same but 33

>>4638
Sex is not that important, it's just one of many enjoyable things to do in life. If they only care about sex, that's weird. Sex as a thing to brag about is so weird to me because it's just a way to pleasure yourself (not much different from masturbating, or laying in the sun or savoring a good meal) and possibly bond with another person. The second part is just between you and them, like why should anyone else care or it be an ego thing? Brag on your hobbies, brag on your friends, brag on your education, but sex can stay personal. Do it with someone you like and are okay feeling attached to, especially if you bottom.



/leftypol/

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There is no single case of political leadership ever remaining stable under any centralized force no matter what country where talking. The most stable societies have always worked with the local leaders of various regions and had the majority of administrative and bureaucratic work delegated to small collaborative teams of men and women working together to build a stabler society. Is decentralized authority slow and often inefficient? Yeah. Is it stable and otherwise reliable on steady civilizational progress? Yes. With the era of communication, paper, and digital communication, it’s a better era than ever to decentralize authority. The world doesnt need and never needed autocrats, aristocracies, strongmen, dictators, or oligarchs. We need a society of people working and talking to each other consistently on what to do to make life easier for one another.
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>>2552919
oh yeah the famous stability of feudal or warlord states constant clusterfucks vs big empires that could keep internal peace for centuries

>>2552864
>There is no single case of political leadership
I found our problem. Less heroic individualism more collective action.

>>2553030
you will never be a technocrat

>>2553030
>political leadership but it's planned so it don't count

>>2552864
What you're talking about exists even in centralized organizations. Never in any centralized command structure has/does/can the top leadership tell every lower body the minutia of every single task they need to carry out, and then monitor and enforce those tasks. What centralization is is a division of labor in a way that also fosters coordinated action. The leadership's job is twofold: determine the general strategy to follow, the immediate goals, and what sorts of methods to to follow to achieve the goals, and secondly to communicate this singular message to a variety of smaller bodies whose job it is to apply this unified message. They then need to use their brains too and figure out what that means in practice, for their specific conditions and means. They might all do things slightly differently, with different results, but the beauty of the system is that more or less everyone is moving in the same direction, towards the same goals. If more coordination is needed, it can be set up, either top-down or bottom-up. A tertiary role of leadership is to gather feedback and results from the lower bodies and assess if their directives have been successful or not and why, and then either change direction, or give more refined and granular direction, facilitate coordination, and so on. That's what good leadership does, at least.



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Spartan society is unique and rare in slave societies through history. The majority of its society was made of slaves: 100 000 Helots, and only around 8000 Spartans. The question naturally arises: How comes the minority rule over the majority?

Humanity is facing a similar situation, power in the hands of a few thousands, yet billions of people can't free themselves. So the question remains: how comes the minority rule over the majority?

David Hume attempted to wisely answer such question:

"Nothing is more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than to see the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and to observe the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.

When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded."

As such, to change society masses to change opinion. It is, therefore, political education the most important task of the revolutionary.
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its because the state is backed up by paid mercenaries of the ruling class.

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>>2548238
What's stopping me from turning around, taking the whip and whipping they instead?
>>2548386
Yes but police and soldiers are a minority. In the US especially people have easy access to weapons

>>2549932
>What's stopping me from turning around, taking the whip and whipping they instead?
The five other guys with guns watching you get whipped.
>Yes but police and soldiers are a minority. In the US especially people have easy access to weapons
yes but those cops have the technological infrastructure, the military grade gear, and the support of local government to enforce their might that is right.

>>2549932
>What's stopping me from turning around, taking the whip and whipping they instead?

The fear of getting whipped again. I don't care how tough you are, it won't take more than a few good licks on the bare back with a bullwhip or a birch switch to drive all those silly thoughts of rebellion out of your mind and make you realize what is actually most important to you in your life, which is to not get whipped again.

1. divide and conquer
- incentivize atomized, subservient behavior cooperative to occupation
- punish or remove the strong, charismatic, intelligent and outspoken
- this creates levels of privilege and misery, with the goal of not falling further down, and maybe being able to climb up. The outcome is controlled by the ruling class, putting them in charge of the actions of any rational and self-serving individual

2. supremacy ideology
- with the material foundation of drastic differences in living condition, convince both the ruling and ruled classes of fundamental differences that must cause this division. The rulers are superior and untouchable, the ruled are weak, stupid, and selfish
- the rulers see the condition of the oppressed as natural
- the ruled believe there's no way they could ever beat the rulers
- some ruled worship or want to become the rulers, despising their own class. It creates solidarity among the rulers and dissolves solidarity among the ruled

3. manipulating people with the effects of trauma
- use terror and deprivation on the ruled to make them obedient, make them grateful to barely (but at least) survive
- makes individuals less outgoing, therefore less likely to organize
- keep them only thinking about survival, and the easiest way to survive the next day is to obey and not do anything differently than before
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The left's memes aren't popular and people often replay with The left Can't Meme phrase,which is also true. I've never get the joke out of left-wing meme. It just doesn't have any tastes like right-wing memes. When this phrase will disappear and the left will meme again?
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The idea that the "the left can't meme" is entirely a product of rightoids being illiterate and in their infinite retardation being proud of the fact.

>inb4 OP thinks wojak, pepe and nazoid cringe are the height of comedy

>>2553544
Nah, 90% of left wing memes just suck, it's always some anime girl saying some shit about trans rights, it's boring and unfunny, right wing memes are just retarded and you can laugh at them because of how stupid they are, but neither side make actually good humor most of the time.

>>2553525
Well first I think you need to understand that the left inherently memes differently than the right does. Yes the right is very good at its simple and blunt memes, that's why they normalize on TikTok, that's why most chuds are gooners. They're very simple creatures and yes that works with normies who are even more simplistic than they are.

Ok so like what's the left good at besides yapping and autistically explaining? Well we tend to like theatrics. We also organize better. So why not stage a troll Broadway show kind of meme? Like I've been wanting to develop Brown Town on CS to control the skin market. Inspired by Cruelty Squad and kind of combining the two.

Brown Town is a parody of the poltards biggest fear of a world without whites. There was originally two factions but I made more.
>The Arabs aka "the terrorists" blasting Nasheed after a bomb at high volumes and speaking middle eastern babble at players and eachoher.
>The Turks "counter terrorists" who always seem to look and sound just like the Muslims but get pissed if you point that out.

So like let's say a custom mission is nab the dog and eat it to complete a holy prophecy. The Turks want it to eat it just so Muslims can't eat it but it's totally different. We're white we swear…

But than to add extra comedy to Brown Town there's more brown factions.
>Jeets. Noone like jeets SAAR show bob and vagene SAAR or you owe the IRS 67 gift cards. They wanna molest the dog because dog have Booba.
>The Italians who just yell and fuck middle school girls. No wonder the white supremacists see them as one of their own. They want to obtain the dog to lure girls because girls like dogs. Dog pilled.
>The Mexicans who also just yell and play loud music but are also very violent and mean. They wanna hold the dog ransom for money and make others pay good dollar to get it back.
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eternal 2016



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Knowing the real history of American radical left-wing groups, this film is far too generous about their capabilities. In reality, they wouldn’t have killed any political figure higher than a superintendent, would likely have set off a bomb that killed a good portion of their members or been shot dead and arrested if they actually tried fighting against an armed resistance.
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>>2553498
I come from a family of dirt peasants not too long ago. My grandfather joined the Army as a young man for career purposes, which got his family access to housing and education. He later helped his sons join the Army as well, but this time as officers. I grew up in a military middle-class household. When I was a teenager, my dad got a well-paying job through someone he knew and suddenly our family became upper-middle class. (and I’m not blind to the fact that I’m incredibly privileged in my country.)
During my time at university, I was deeply involved in activism(and that's where I met many Americans) I had a lot of naive ideas (though perhaps not as naive as some of the Americans) that were eroded through the reality of politics in my country.
Now, I work in a field unrelated to professional activism, but I still keep in touch with my old colleagues. Their cynicism seems to grow by the day, yet they continue the fight, and I have tremendous respect for them.

>>2553552
Then your reading is very wrong. Or we are talking past each other here.
As the other guy mentioned, it's not something that is quite explainable in the abstract.
One of the pastimes I engage in from time to time is look at how much more Trump is tethered to reality than most westoids. And he is of course famously chauvinistic.

>>2553584
I was talking about specifically Leftists, obviously I wasn't referring to the RW

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>>2553587
My point, such as it is, being that it almost doesn't matter. There is a nominal left wing and a nominal right wing here. The basic assumptions don't differ enough to make a difference to me.
The higher-order principle ordering their thinking is the same.

>Paul Thomas Anderson is less revolutionary than Paul WS Anderson who has made countless Resident Evil movies about the evil of mega-corporations like Amazon that are destroying the world. His hot wife Milla Jovovich doing karate kicks to fight mutant dogs is true world-historic proletarian culture
(Infrared Haz) "facts"

>>2539943
>Pynchon's book Vineland is way harsher in his critique of the New Left
>>2544451
>The thesis of this thread [is that western left are decadent for some unexplained reason]
Marxism 101: our material conditions determine consciousness.
The post-WWII imperialist privilege of these "labor aristocrat" baby boomer workers turned them into complacent liberals who were the vanguard of the neoliberal counter-revolution cheering individualism rather than collective struggle:
https://gnosticpulp.substack.com/p/we-are-pynchons-fail-sons-and-thot
<While there were real revolutionary actions occurring in the sixties, such as the anti-Vietnam War effort and the black liberation movement, a fictional contingent of which (Black Afro-American Division (or BAAD)) visits the hippie counter culture who is occupying a campus where they have formed a sort of temporary autonomous zone known as The People’s Republic of Rock and Roll. PR3, in its search for allies, reaches out to BAAD who sends a small party to the seaside campus. BAAD’s arrival cuts a stark difference between themselves and the hippie students. Their discipline and commitment to the movement is immediately evident, for they arrive wearing matching uniforms of “Shiny black Vietnam boots, black-on-black camo fatigues, and velvet-black berets with off-black wide-point stars on them” (230).
<BAAD enters into a long debate with the students, who they brush off as “children of the surfing class” (230), that is to say, unserious. The New Deal, one suspects, was quite purposefully not for everyone. It successfully played on race divisions, a favorite move by the good ol’ US of A, by elevatiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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Interested to see if we have any contrarians here who can explain why the RSF is good and anti-imperialist actually. They're secular and portrayed as the bad guys in western media, so they're probably the good guys?
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>>2541190
This changed, both Russia and Ukraine are supporting the government

Saw it in newsanon's thread

Exclusive: Egypt and Turkey boost support for Sudan's army following RSF capture of el-Fasher

When the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized el-Fasher in Darfur, Egypt did not just see another battle in Sudan’s war, it saw a potential breach in its own defences.

As RSF fighters subject the people of el-Fasher to a litany of abuses, Cairo is reimagining its southern borders as a first line of defence.

The fall of North Darfur’s capital is a turning point. Egypt has always played a part in this war. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which has been fighting the RSF since April 2023, enjoys a longstanding relationship with Egypt’s military, and Cairo has helped its ally throughout the war.

But the RSF's capture of the Sudanese section of the arid triangle border region that includes parts of Egypt and Libya in June, followed by the horrors of el-Fasher, represents a turning point.

Fearing that, unchecked, the war could spill over its frontiers, the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is redrawing its security map, combining military coordination with diplomacy to contain the fallout.

Meanwhile, the SAF and its Joint Forces allies, which were outgunned in el-Fasher by superior weaponry and technology provided by Egypt's ally the United Arab Emirates, is in search of more help, according to Sudanese diplomats who briefed MEE.
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>>2545699
what a soul killing thing to read

Newly built runways and ports offer snapshot of Abu Dhabi's regional ambitions and deepening strategic ties with Israel

From the islands of Socotra in the Indian Ocean to the coasts of Somalia and Yemen, satellite imagery analysed by Middle East Eye reveals a greatly expanded network of military and intelligence bases built by the United Arab Emirates.

This ring of control, in and around one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, has escalated rapidly since the 7 October Hamas-led attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.

The UAE’s allies, including Israel and the US, have been party to the creation and expansion of the bases.

Israeli officers have been on the ground in the islands and Israeli radar systems and other military and security apparatus allow the UAE to monitor and thwart attacks launched by the Houthis, the Iran-aligned movement that has fired missiles at Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians and targeted ships going through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

The UAE and Israel have an intelligence-sharing platform known as Crystal Ball, whereby they "design, deploy and enable regional intelligence enhancement” in partnership, according to a slide show designed to promote the pact.

“The relationship between the UAE and Israel was very developed even before formal diplomatic relations were established, but it was kept quiet. Not secret, just quiet,” Alon Pinkas, an Israeli diplomat who served as an adviser to four foreign ministers, told MEE.

The bases have not been constructed on territory formally held by the UAE.
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>>2553594
>Runways and rocks

While work was being carried out on Abd al-Kuri, it was also proceeding apace at Samhah, the smallest of Socotra’s three inhabited islands, located deep in the Arabian Sea.

Satellite imagery shows that the UAE began constructing an airstrip on the island in 2024, with the runway completed in April 2025, alongside the paving of roads and establishment of essential support facilities.

Samhah’s rocky, mountainous terrain does not allow for the easy construction of longer runways, so it is most likely used for rapid, periodic surveillance operations rather than heavy transport. It can receive and operate the Hermes 900 and is able to support electronic reconnaissance and maritime surveillance operations.

The island’s location is ideal for monitoring the maritime passage between the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea, through which about 12 percent of worldwide trade passes.

Between 25 March and 4 April 2025, satellite imagery revealed the appearance of a temporary sandbar on the western side of Samhah, which was not visible in previous images seen by MEE. This small sandbar appears to have been formed for temporary marine drainage, a common pattern in isolated military construction projects.

While this was taking place, the Young Star, a Comoros-flagged landing craft with IMO number 1095973, which was most likely being used to unload equipment used to prepare the runway, could be seen anchored off the island’s west coast.

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NEVER FORGET THAT BEAUTIFUL DAY!

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>2442214

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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨
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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Saw it on newsanon's thread

Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords with Israel in symbolic move to boost the Trump initiative

Kazakhstan is set to join the Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab and Muslim majority countries in a symbolic move aimed at boosting the initiative that was a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s first administration.

The action, announced Thursday, is largely symbolic as Kazakhstan has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1992 and is much farther geographically from Israel than the other Abraham Accord nations — Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.

Those countries agreed to normalize relations with Israel as a result of joining the accords, something Kazakhstan did shortly after gaining independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Those countries agreed to normalize relations with Israel as a result of joining the accords, something Kazakhstan did shortly after gaining independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Trump called Kazakhstan joining “a major step forward in building bridges across the World” and said “more Nations are lining up to embrace Peace and Prosperity through my Abraham Accords.”

A signing ceremony would soon make it official, Trump, and “there are many more Countries trying to join this club of STRENGTH.”
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Centrifugal & Centripetal Forces

>I. Forces


Broadly, the centripetal-centrifugal framework is about scale. Much in our lives cannot be determined by us as individuals — we inadvertently must coordinate with others (or otherwise participate in coordination as consumers, followers, etc).2 Generally, such coordination is often done through recursive hierarchies.3 I refer to forces that increase the size of this coordinating body as centripetal, in that they are pushing for a centralization of coordination through a single larger hierarchy. An alternative terminology could refer to a ‘scaling up’ of coordination.

On the other hand, there are forces running counter to this — which render it more difficult to coordinate at large scales.4 These forces are centrifugal, as they disperse coordination (and therefore power) away from the center on to new smaller hierarchies on the periphery, or even on to individuals. These forces reduce the scale of coordination.

An important claim in the previous essay (and foundational to the rest of the argument) is that the balance between centrifugal and centripetal forces has tipped strongly towards the former. I didn’t expand on this greatly, but this is referring to several trends. The first pertain to local factors, such as the internal pathologies of the Islamic Republic’s ruling clique and the external war being waged against it by foreign powers. But more importantly, it is referring to the general crisis in coordination throughout the world.

This is a somewhat slippery issue to define, but in broad strokes it is the decline in the ability of those without power to coordinate in order to advance their collective interests. While economic inequality has deepened in the last few decades, those on the lower levels of the economic and power hierarchy have become less able to impose their collective will.5

Climate change is probably the easiest prism for understanding this issue. On one side, a growing proportion of humanity has an immediate short-term interest in reducing carbon emissions, while everyone has a long-term interest in doing so. On the other side, a proportion of the capitalist class (already a minority) has a short-term interest in maintaining business-as-usual, or at least not being a first-mover in reducing their own emissions. This is actually a staggeringly uneven balance of forces. NonethelesPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2511968
Israhell is a literal modern crusader state and their fate will eventually be the same

Newly built runways and ports offer snapshot of Abu Dhabi's regional ambitions and deepening strategic ties with Israel

From the islands of Socotra in the Indian Ocean to the coasts of Somalia and Yemen, satellite imagery analysed by Middle East Eye reveals a greatly expanded network of military and intelligence bases built by the United Arab Emirates.

This ring of control, in and around one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, has escalated rapidly since the 7 October Hamas-led attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.

The UAE’s allies, including Israel and the US, have been party to the creation and expansion of the bases.

Israeli officers have been on the ground in the islands and Israeli radar systems and other military and security apparatus allow the UAE to monitor and thwart attacks launched by the Houthis, the Iran-aligned movement that has fired missiles at Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians and targeted ships going through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

The UAE and Israel have an intelligence-sharing platform known as Crystal Ball, whereby they "design, deploy and enable regional intelligence enhancement” in partnership, according to a slide show designed to promote the pact.

“The relationship between the UAE and Israel was very developed even before formal diplomatic relations were established, but it was kept quiet. Not secret, just quiet,” Alon Pinkas, an Israeli diplomat who served as an adviser to four foreign ministers, told MEE.

The bases have not been constructed on territory formally held by the UAE.
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>>2553592
>Runways and rocks

While work was being carried out on Abd al-Kuri, it was also proceeding apace at Samhah, the smallest of Socotra’s three inhabited islands, located deep in the Arabian Sea.

Satellite imagery shows that the UAE began constructing an airstrip on the island in 2024, with the runway completed in April 2025, alongside the paving of roads and establishment of essential support facilities.

Samhah’s rocky, mountainous terrain does not allow for the easy construction of longer runways, so it is most likely used for rapid, periodic surveillance operations rather than heavy transport. It can receive and operate the Hermes 900 and is able to support electronic reconnaissance and maritime surveillance operations.

The island’s location is ideal for monitoring the maritime passage between the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea, through which about 12 percent of worldwide trade passes.

Between 25 March and 4 April 2025, satellite imagery revealed the appearance of a temporary sandbar on the western side of Samhah, which was not visible in previous images seen by MEE. This small sandbar appears to have been formed for temporary marine drainage, a common pattern in isolated military construction projects.

While this was taking place, the Young Star, a Comoros-flagged landing craft with IMO number 1095973, which was most likely being used to unload equipment used to prepare the runway, could be seen anchored off the island’s west coast.

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Lo siento me siento excluido no se si hay un tablon dedicado a europa pero me gusta hablar con gente que sabe español coño bueno si alguien es de españa que opine o hable en este hilo y si no eres tambien puedes participar.
Pueden hablar del franquismo la republica o pueden hacer incluso un what if… y coño si hay alguien nazbol que hable.
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>>13413
Un partido NazBol fuera del contexto de los países ex-URSS es imposible.

devuelvan el oro

>>13405
Eres Etarra?

>>13411
>>13413
¿Eso no sería básicamente Vanguardia Española? el movimiento de Armesilla. Son nacionalistas y "marxistas".

>>13401
Creen que si vox gana van a deportar todos los maroquies y luego los latinos?



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Recent news:
STG sets up roadblocks on the roads leading to Suwayda, pursuant to the ceasefire agreement.
Remaining tribals in Suwayda governorate launch a last-ditch attack on Suwayda city.
Tribals enter some of the city's northwest areas. They suffer heavy casualties and retreat from the city on the same day.
Straggler tribals launch a few attacks on Druze villages here and there, nothing significant.
Overall ceasefire holds up after that. STG prevents further entry of tribals and their numbers keep dwindling.
STG releases their report on the massacres of Alawites in March of this year. They say that they aren't directly responsible.
Saudi announces they will buy a bunch of property in Syria.
Israeli and Syrian officials meet in Paris. A second meeting in Baku was cancelled.
Accusations that the STG is doing a soft siege on Suwayda governorate and worsening the humanitarian situation.
Turkey/SNA starts threatening the SDF and launches a few attacks against them in Deir Hafer and Tishreen dam.

Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
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>>2547858
Iran has better luck funding militias to fuck with STG than ever be friends with them. Cucklani is visiting Trump anyways. This is FUD to make Syrianoids look better than what they really are

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Persistence in socialism
Socialist movements around the world, as well as individuals or circles concerned with this question, experienced the most intense diversity of views and debates on socialism in the nineteenth century. The nineteenth century is marked as the century in which the main theoretical framework of socialism began to be constructed.

Those who study socialism generally converge on one common point: they take the “Enlightenment Period,” when the concept of socialism began to develop theoretically, as their reference. At that time, the viewpoints that prioritized social problems were accepted as the main starting point. In this regard, the views of Jacques Rousseau hold an important place. It is also necessary to mention that Pierre Leroux, assumed to be the first to use the concept of socialism at the beginning of the nineteenth century, as well as Marie Roch Louis and Robert Owen, were among the followers of Henri de Saint Simon (1760–1825).

The Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalist modernity intensified contradictions and conflicts, while thinkers of the time systematized their views on socialism and engaged in heated debates among themselves. As a result, a turning point emerged in the development of socialist thought, a new era, so to speak. Saint Simon, Robert Owen, and Charles Fourier began to be considered “Utopians” in this phase and were defined as “Utopian Socialists.” François-Noel Babeuf (1760–1797), who took a revolutionary stance against the Directory period during the 1789 French Revolution, was also included among those in this line. This did not stop there: those who developed views on socialism sought to systematize and conceptualize their ideas. Within this scope, those who embraced or sympathized with these views began to be referred to as followers. Intensifying social problems, class contradictions, and conflicts further expanded and spread these ideas. The fact that numerous ideas were defended in the name of socialism in the nineteenth century is itself evidence of this.

Proudhonian, Bakuninian, Blanquist, Lassallean, Bernsteinian, and Marxist interpretations and evaluations of socialism emerged and developed within such a historical process. By its nature, intense and relentless ideological struggle also occurred among these theoreticians and those who defended them. Arguments were developed and employed to refute one another’s ideas. Countless aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Rumors that the US will establish a military base in Damascus has been denied by the STG.

>>2552637 (samefag)
Denied by US officials now.

Centrifugal & Centripetal Forces

>I. Forces


Broadly, the centripetal-centrifugal framework is about scale. Much in our lives cannot be determined by us as individuals — we inadvertently must coordinate with others (or otherwise participate in coordination as consumers, followers, etc).2 Generally, such coordination is often done through recursive hierarchies.3 I refer to forces that increase the size of this coordinating body as centripetal, in that they are pushing for a centralization of coordination through a single larger hierarchy. An alternative terminology could refer to a ‘scaling up’ of coordination.

On the other hand, there are forces running counter to this — which render it more difficult to coordinate at large scales.4 These forces are centrifugal, as they disperse coordination (and therefore power) away from the center on to new smaller hierarchies on the periphery, or even on to individuals. These forces reduce the scale of coordination.

An important claim in the previous essay (and foundational to the rest of the argument) is that the balance between centrifugal and centripetal forces has tipped strongly towards the former. I didn’t expand on this greatly, but this is referring to several trends. The first pertain to local factors, such as the internal pathologies of the Islamic Republic’s ruling clique and the external war being waged against it by foreign powers. But more importantly, it is referring to the general crisis in coordination throughout the world.

This is a somewhat slippery issue to define, but in broad strokes it is the decline in the ability of those without power to coordinate in order to advance their collective interests. While economic inequality has deepened in the last few decades, those on the lower levels of the economic and power hierarchy have become less able to impose their collective will.5

Climate change is probably the easiest prism for understanding this issue. On one side, a growing proportion of humanity has an immediate short-term interest in reducing carbon emissions, while everyone has a long-term interest in doing so. On the other side, a proportion of the capitalist class (already a minority) has a short-term interest in maintaining business-as-usual, or at least not being a first-mover in reducing their own emissions. This is actually a staggeringly uneven balance of forces. NonethelesPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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Besides Cockshott and maybe Richard Wolff, are there any good, academic, Marxist economists who are worth reading and can be used in debates to defend Marxism?
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>>2551301 (me)
>Marx says the result is quantitatively the same as what a certain type of simple calculation results in. He is NOT saying that this simple calculation resembles the actual process.
To elaborate on that, it's a bit like having to stay within a weight limit for transporting items and facing the question whether one is below that without data in hand about the individual weights, but only with data about the average item weight and the number of items. From that one can trivially compute the total weight of the pile. But it would be asinine to assume that the things themselves actually get uniform in weight.

>>2551309
>You already conceded that value is transferred
I did not "concede" that, at no point did I assume otherwise.
>you have yet to tell us what you think in your interpretation the source of this value is
This shouldn't be necessary in a thread on Marxist economics: labor power. (There are complications in that you can't directly use time, because people work at different speed, and there is labor power at different skill levels, and there is overproduction and mismanagement.) I'm not making a new definition of value. I'm telling you that at some point the value has to be embodied in something to be transferred.
>you just repeatedly ask the same inane question
Well at least now you don't claim anymore I'm constantly changing the topic, so finally you are making a tiny bit of progress.

Third-worldists say first-worlders live the nice life on the back of third-world workers. You live the nice life (any life really) by consuming use-values. Hence to make a compelling case for the third-worldist claim being true, value transfer can at best only play one part in a bigger argument about use-values constructed wholly or in crucial parts in the third world ending up being consumed in the first world. The value transfer described volume III from industries with low organic composition of capital to industries with high organic composition of capital all by itself does not work as proof or almost-proof for the third-worldist claim. Marx did not construct that to argue for giga-profiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2552541 (me)
>The value transfer described volume III
*The value transfer described in volume III

>>2552541
>I did not "concede" that
>>2552541
>value transfer described volume III from industries with low organic composition of capital to industries with high organic composition of capital
>labor power
So when I talk about wage differentials, ie the price of labor power, that is something meaningfully different to you? and you say im splitting hairs and not reading the context of the whole post
>at least now you don't claim anymore I'm constantly changing the topic
and then you immediately change the topic back to
>Third-worldists
>first-worlders live the nice life on the back of third-world workers
>>2544920
>sounds to me like you are jumping to conclusions and making assumptions.
>labor aristocracy and unequal exchange can exist without third-worldism.
>i never said that workers in the first world take share in the looting.
this can also be read as "i am not a third-worldist"
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i wonder if it could have anything to do with the term being coined by the author lmao

>>2552574
>you say im splitting hairs
No. I'm guessing in >>2550311 that it would amount to splitting hairs over edge cases if you actually made some effort in your posts and bothered to flesh out your argument.
>so third world nations dont have a lower composition of organic capital than first world nations?
What would be the relevance of this, given that Marx argues in Volume III that the value transfer to firms with high organic composition merely gives them a normal profit?

Make the case for the book. What's the gist of it. "Here take these 500 pages he is not a lib or a zio" is not very compelling.



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I'm not posting pictures of myself but my (ftm) abdomen currently pretty much looks like picrel and my 0.81 whr makes me extremely dysphoric. I'm not anorexic but I've been underweight nearly my whole life, and testosterone just made it so that I have more muscle than before with an extremely low body fat percentage.
I want to avoid gaining body fat as much as possible because body fat increases your aromatization and I also don't want to get wider hips or lose any muscle definition or vascularity.
I've tried working obliques and it seems like it's done something, but I've only really gained in the lower halves of my obliques. Do I need to target the upper half separately?
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>>4699
But that pixar mom build has more to do with hip to shoulder ratio, rather than waist. Bodybuilders have high hip:waist ratio, but nobody would call them feminine.

>>4701
true, i failed to consider that one ;-;
so you're suggesting OP/other trans men possibly itt to focus on building shoulder muscle?

>>4702
Yeah, low bodyfat and lot of upper body workouts. And dont neglect lower either, you want tight and firm, not loose and flabby.

To further add to my point, in male fashion high waste pants are worn to visually narrow the waist in order to achieve more masculine figure.
Btw, does anyone know where can I buy black pants like picrel? They look great, but I have never seen them is clothing stores.

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