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 No.1110515[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

/Ukraine/ thread #20 - Based Chicago LARP edition

News:
>Russia Has struck multiple AFU groups using cruisemissiles
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-ukraine-on-august-7-2022-map-update/
>US Anti-Radiation Missile secretly sent and used in an attempt to disrupt Russian SAM operations
https://southfront.org/us-anti-radiation-missile-makes-surprise-appearance-in-ukraine-photos/
>N.Macedonia sending su-25s and T-72As to Ukraine
https://southfront.org/north-macedonia-to-supply-ukraine-with-battle-tanks-fighter-jets/
>Zelensky and Poroshenko admit to being undemocratically elected
https://southfront.org/both-zelensky-and-poroshenko-acknowledged-they-came-to-power-illegally/
>French Volunteer Whistleblows n the investigation finding no evidence of Russian blame in Bucha
https://southfront.org/french-volunteer-suggests-bucha-tragedy-was-a-false-flag/
>British L118s spotted in Kiev. Previously a month ago a handful of Ukrainian troops left for Britain to train in their tactics and artillery, these are probably them. In the meantime, Russian counterbattery recently destroyed another M777.
https://southfront.org/british-l118-light-howitzers-spotted-with-kiev-forces-photos/
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 No.1113689

>>1113684
>Why are are pro-Putin Russians so pathologic about your victimhood? It seems that for you the very notion of
>>Russia not being a respected power
>>Russia being in western sphere
>>Russia accepting neoliberalism instead of cleptocratic oligarchy
>Is equal to genocide of Russia.
No, he's an imperial chauvinist, too. Outright demanding Russia succumb to NATO.

 No.1113690

>>1113673
critical support for imperfect socialism trying to live in the real world? or you condemn Cuba because they have privately owned ice cream shops on the beach?

 No.1113692

>>1113670
Ukraine can't "kick Russia out". it is significantly less powerful and Russia will just increase its force strength if it ever needs to. This is why Ukraine should have just implemented the Minsk agreements and not chosen the path of war in the first place. The only thing that will prevent unnecessary deaths now is Ukraine surrendering. but Ukraine is a puppet state of the US and the US wants as many dead Ukrainians as possible and for the conflict to be as prolonged and bloody as possible. Selling tons of weapons and sacrificing as many ukrainians as possible to make russia look bad is all they have left after their efforts to destroy russia through economic war failed completely and is in the process of destroying europe instead (enjoy the coming winter!).

 No.1113694

>>1113690
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot!


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 No.1107562[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

That's a realization that is breaking the brain of many people at this moment tearing them apart looking at every crevice to hide under trying to cope with it and ignore the reality as usa rapidly declines on world stage

What was it like for you when you realized this?
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>>1107562
At birth. I was born hating Americans.

 No.1113464

I don't really know. I'm a white American but I never really grew up having much pride or believing much in America. I was a bit of cringe atheist in middle and thought the pledge was weird, all the constant "greatest country ever" talk when all I saw was the ugly mediocrity that is suburbia. It wasn't till I was about 16 when I started learning about all the shit we've done and continue to do around the world.

 No.1113517

>>1113289
>The USA was never even *trying* to be Socialist. That's the difference.
TIL declaring the law of value and commodity production in your country and insisting it's not a problem means you're trying to be socialist
>and generally lament its passing, because it meant millions of people were plunged into poverty by US-supported neoliberalization under Yeltsin.
so you're indistinguishable from berniebros who "lament" the passing of 60s social democratic welfare states. gotcha
>I never said anything like this.
your theory of imperialism does what i said. "waaah america bad" hey have you considered capitalism bad instead? but of course leninist "anti-imperialism" is more about justifying nationalism than any battle for the international proletariat. it's gotten to the point that many ML parties in the third world explicitly distance themselves from socialism as a program, it's always about fighting the big bad CIA
>Address what I actually said or shut the fuck up.
typical stalinoid tries to silence criticism. unfortunately you don't have a secret police to do the dirty work for you here, although the tankoid mods might
>>1113285
well you should have skipped that parenti since it seems it was enough to give you mindmelt

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>>1113517

 No.1113693

>>1113686
the MLs who scare off normies are probably the glowies


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 No.980455[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

The latest spread of the monkeypox virus has prompted The World Health Organization (WHO) to convene an emergency meeting, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported on Friday. The disease, which is typically confined to forested areas of western and central Africa, has been spreading rapidly in a number of European countries, as well as the US and Australia since early May.

According to the report, high on the meeting’s agenda are the mechanisms behind the virus’ transmission and possible vaccination strategies. Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, is reportedly attending the discussion.

The newspaper claims that the WHO is looking at whether smallpox vaccines could be used effectively to tackle the spread of back to monke.

Meanwhile, the UK government has already ordered additional stocks of the smallpox vaccine, which is being administered to people who may have been exposed to monkeypox, the Telegraph reported. On top of the 5,000 doses the British authorities have on hand at present, an order has been placed for 20,000 more shots, according to the report.
https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.rt.com/news/555825-monkeypox-who-emergency-meeting-report/

In Africa, reports of the risk of death, if untreated, are as high as 10% to 11% in the Central African clade of monkeypox.[1][11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox
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>>1111669
Okay but wages didnt just go up because there were less people. There was a lot or violent clashes and conflict between those events.

 No.1111865

Can you get monkeypox from hookers if you do plain vanilla sex only?

 No.1111876

>>1111795
yes, the flu is one of the biggest killers of humans.

 No.1111908

>>1111865
I wouldn't fuck hookers even without the monkeypox pandemic happening. Literally asking for an STD, yuck

 No.1113691

Female cashier who caught monkeypox in Georgia talking about her experience


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 No.27348[Reply]

post meme templates and objects with transparent backgrounds, etc. for our OC makers to use.
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 No.27728

>>27680
nice stirner collection

 No.27729

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surprised to not see this one

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 No.1113480[Reply]

Guy from Quora deboonks marx. He argues that new products and innovation makes the so called tendency of profits to fall irrelevant. Is there more nuance to this? Of course its not just marx that argued it but people like Smith, Ricardo also said the same. Did they all fail to see the reality? Opinions?
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 No.1113636

>>1113616
>if you haven't read sufficient theory to have a real understanding of what I'm talking about
I can't know what you're talking about if you refuse to talk about it. You haven't even stated whether the argument Feenberg presumably offers is your own.
>this a chan not a debate at oxford
I have no doubt you'd obfuscate in the same way if someone asked you outside of an imageboard. Arguing by hiding behind citations is something like a bad habit in the university.

 No.1113639

>>1113636

suck me dumbass, read a fucking book

 No.1113646

>>1113639
lol. For philosophy of technology, which is more what I would have considered a book like Feenberg's, I am actually familiar with that. I just don't consider myself familiar with the history of science and technology. At the same time, you've just hemmed and hawed about this without saying anything for yourself. That and your apparent insecurity are revealing enough for me to be satisfied you have nothing to say for yourself.

 No.1113648

>>1113639
I'm with the other anon. What does the book even say? What are the general ideas? Share what you know. What's the point of mentioning shit if you just namedrop fields and concepts without any elaboration. What does this Feenberg have to say? It doesn't even have to be very specific, just what are the general themes. Really anything.

I don't see the point in being smug about other people not reading. Just share what you know. Doesn't even matter much if its wrong, just share.

 No.1113682

>>1113639
The consensus is actually that Marx's Fragment on Machines is based and correct. I think you are talking out your ass.


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 No.761253[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan

https://nitter.net/cpimspeak
https://nitter.net/cpimlliberation
https://nitter.net/IMTPakistan
https://nitter.net/PMKPOfficial
https://nitter.net/cmprachanda
https://nitter.net/CPN_Nepal
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/N07-Critique-of-Brahmanism-2nd-Printing.pdf
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/N08-Operation-Green-Hunt.pdf
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S18-Historic-Eight-Documents-3rd-Printing.pdf
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S14-Urban-Perspective-7th-Printing.pdf
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S05-Azad-Maoists-in-India-6th-Printing.pdf
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S02-Philosophical-Trends-in-the-Feminist-Movement-9th-Printing.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bhagat-singh/index.htm
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>>1091308
They are simply called "The Underworld" and yes it does exist. See 1993 Bombay blasts.

 No.1112205

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuOyf9smG9cv8k52NvCkz_Lyel7kthkYh

Anyone ever seen the C-Word series by BlackFlag India

>tfw we live in Drigisme society

 No.1113495

>>1112205
good find, we discussed BFI in an older desi thread

 No.1113675

they are forcing poor people to buy flags to get ration
patriotism is a sin

this is what all those forced "stand up for the national anthem in cinema" leads to

fucking brainrot, what is a nation without its people? brainless bureaucrats and their mindless minions

 No.1113679

>>1113495
have you watched them all? i got up till the poverty video
neolibs defend capitalism but with a metric of their own stupid system

36 Rs. a day to live on is above poverty line? Stupid as hell line


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 No.941093[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's hyper-normalization of petty internet drama.

Reminder that none of this is real!
Society of the Spectacle
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
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>>1113580
As much of a prediction as people decades ago saying there would be a pandemic.

 No.1113652

Comfy comrade Roo fallout 76 stream
https://youtu.be/TTaIoTTBvq0
Will we ever get comfy streams where Comrade Maup and Comrade Roo are shooting the breeze again?

 No.1113660

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leftypol btfo

 No.1113676

>>1113660
Another banger from Dr. Bombacci

 No.1113678

So haz is just openly flaunting LaRouche people on his channel now?


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 No.416549[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Letzter Pfaden wurde dank der /Pol/acken vom Brett gepusht. Deshalb ein neues Deutschland General.
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 No.1113621

I am trying to find the original German version of Feuerbach Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit, but the only one I could find is 1848 version written in Old German font (Fraktur). Are there possibly any German-specific websites or trackers with books where it can be present?

 No.1113653

Dear german anons, do you have any opinion on MLPD/KABD? From what I understand they were essentialy Hoaxist org in their early days, but I can't find many sources on how they are now. Anyone can help?

 No.1113661

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>>1111168
Rein akademisches Kreisgewichse à la Wertkritik. Für selbsterklärte Marxisten haben sie auch eine seltsam individualistisch-psychologische Denkweise, wie >>1111996 schon sagte.

 No.1113671

>>1113621
AFAIK piracy of books is near non-existant. You probably found scans of public domain books, often from US universities. Some organizations typeset their own editions and https://ludwig-feuerbach.de/ did that for some books, but not the one you need. The most recent physical copies of his collected works are also long out of print. You will need to get used to it.

 No.1113677

>>1113653
they're western mautists i.e. a cult


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 No.1112416[Reply]

I see a lot of praise and some criticism of the BPP on here, but not much in depth discussion of the different theories developed by the group. The Panthers were by no means a unified block, and different chapters and leaders all had different theory with regards to Black Liberation and Communism in amerikkka. As I understand it, they started out influenced by the earlier black nationalists, as well as theorists and revolutionaries such as Frantz Fanon and Malcom X, but over time, some chapters became more focused on Communism as a whole, while some went further in the direction of Black nationalism. Fred Hampton is who I see referenced the most because of the Rainbow Coalition though he was by no means "anti-idpol" or "anti-woke" as groups like the CPI try to claim, nor was he a patriot by any stretch; Eldridge Cleaver was more of a traditional Revolutionary Black Nationalist who saw Black people in amerikkka as a nation and believed that they needed to work together with other colonized people in the world and prepare for guerilla warfare (before he contracted chr*stoid brainworms at least); but one person I rarely see discussed is Huey P Newton.

Huey didn't necessarily believe that Black people in amerikkka constituted a nation in the traditional sense because they were geographically dispersed and spread out into various communities, so with this in mind, he developed a theory called Intercommunalism, which viewed the world and nations at the time as a series of communities fractured by multinational corporations and imperialist aggression. He also posited that there exists a reactionary Intercommunalism composed of small communities and cliques of the bourgeoisie (which we see take the form of imperialist and aspiring imperialist powers). This theory sought to bring about Communism by forming a united front against imperialism composed of distinct liberated zones.

I propose that Intercommunalism is applicable to modern conditions, and with some adaptation, it can be of use to the Communist cause as a whole. Capitalism and imperialism are thoroughly hegemonic at this point, and the sorts of revolutions proposed by Marx and Engels and carried out by the Bolsheviks are no longer feasible. The revolutions of national liberation that occurred during the 20th century are no longer possible either, as the imperial core has demonstrated that it has the capability to crush them like we saw in Grenada, suppress thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>1112520
How much was Hueys drug addiction a contributing factor do you think?
I don’t see that discussed often.

 No.1112810

>>1112452
Burgerland works 2

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>>1112416
> Capitalism and imperialism are thoroughly hegemonic at this point, and the sorts of revolutions proposed by Marx and Engels and carried out by the Bolsheviks are no longer feasible.
I'm curious what exactly you mean by the sorts of revolutions proposed by M&E etc, and why you think it's no longer feasible?

My understanding is that a true proletarian revolution is more feasible than ever now, and will be even more in the future due to a more multi-polar world. The revolution carried out by the bolsheviks had to compromise heavily (an extremely important alliance with peasants, turning "councils of workers delegates" to "workers and soldiers", federation of self-governing nations rather than coming together as one force, etc. - all of these were necessary and beneficial to the situation at hand, but also undermined the ability of the revolution to carry out a socialist plan long term).

One point of critique rather than just questions: if you liberate a community by force, the state will do just about anything to wipe you and potentially your whole liberated community out. In the case of much of the western world, there's really no chance for guerrilla tactics. You would just be faced with an overwhelming force, sans a supportive peasant base spread through difficult mountain/jungle terrain. On the other hand, the legal establishment of liberated communities is essentially traditional tactics - building up bases of support in proletarian communities. I mean this sort of happens naturally in the course of class struggle + socialist agitation as well. There are scattered neighborhoods or cities with a high density of approval, among a backdrop of bourgeois dominated communities. If this is what you mean, then this insight is very useful and necessary to keep in mind, though not original. If you mean liberating communities through dual power, elections, etc. then I will say, this is not going to be possible (this is my prediction, based on the fact that it's never worked, and the communists who did gain power had an antithetical idea), and is directly in contrast with the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The DotP means the suppression of one class by another. You might get this by voting or setting up peaceful institutions, but more likely you'd have to concede the fact that it makPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>1112520
i think huey describes cleaver pretty well in his revolutionary suicide book very well

 No.1113668

Intercommunalism just seems to be looking less at a state level in their relationships with one another, and focus moreso on local geographies to find who is the victims of imperialism and the identity of the local elite. That sort of micro look at class geography is relevant into how one organizes and how one leads a revolution, just as the Russian and Chinese and every other successful revolutionary tends to go about enacting change. It is no more and no less.


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 No.1113614[Reply]

A few days ago, the name of George Orwell came to the spotlight during a discussion in the Greek Parliament. In one of their usual dogfights, Prime Minister Mitsotakis and major opposition-Syriza leader Tsipras referred to Orwell's concept of “totalitarianism” in order to attack each other. Mitsotakis quoted the novelist's aversion towards “left totalitarianism”, while Tsipras replied that his party has always been critical towards the actually existing socialism. Their reference to Orwell is no accidental: Despite their particular differences, bourgeois politicians find themselves on the same camp when it comes to anti-communism.

Eric Arthur Blair, commonly known as George Orwell, has been a symbol of enmity against the 20th century socialism. Under the pretext of “anti-totalitarianism”, conservatives, neoliberals, social democrats, progressive leftists and opportunists have idolized Orwell as an uncompromising intellectual who deserves to be respected. His famous allegorical novella, the “Animal Farm”, is considered a masterpiece of literature against Stalin's “totalitarian regime” in the Soviet Union. The so-called Orwell Foundation, based in London, which aims “to perpetuate the achievements of the British writer George Orwell” runs the Orwell Prize seeking to reward books and journalism that “making political writing into an art”.

However, the reality about Blair is quite different from the one the bourgeois propaganda presents. Orwell wasn't merely anti-stalinist or anti-soviet; he was an anti-communist who became an informer on behalf of the British intelligence agencies.

A former officer of the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, Blair joined the collaborationist trotskyite Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) during the Spanish Civil War, fighting against communists and anti-fascists. Orwell's participation in POUM shaped his fiercely anti-communist views, covered under the burden of “anti-stalinism”. Between 1941 and 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, he worked in the BBC's Eastern Service. During this period, he wrote a review for Hitler's “Mein Kampf” where he shamelessly admitted: “I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler”.

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 No.1113658

>>1113655
This website isn't like hardcore ML from what I have seen.

 No.1113659

Saying he's merely promoted is an understatement. Orwell is a staple in western schools. I personally had to read both 1984 and Animal Farm. Shit writer btw

 No.1113663

>>1113659
True

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>>1113655
The more MLs seethe about Orwell the more I'm inclined to agree with this.

 No.1113666

>>1113665
What is it that you agree with exactly?


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 No.15233[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Old /co/ thread is dead and buried.
Let's have a new thread to talk about comics and animation.
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 No.27711

>>27710
peeter pee tarker
no, pee taker

 No.27713

>>27693
were arachnids even around when dinosaurs existed

 No.27725

Did Saban or Disney treat Power Rangers workers worse?
Have they ever been unionized

 No.27727

>>27710
why is the p silent?

>>27711
all poo poo
no pee pee makes teter tarker a bitter biter

>>27713
i bet they did, insects are the true owners of this planet

you hear about how cockroaches survived the extinction event?

 No.27730

>>27713
Yeah, but they couldn't spin silk back then, so spider-dino's power set would be a little reduced.

>>27727
>why is the p silent?
Because it is in pterodactyl, English doesn't really do 'pt' sound clusters so we just do 't'.


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 No.1112988[Reply]

>As a result, from then until the Ceaușescu regime fell in 1989, about 1,500 Jews a year were granted exit visas to Israel in exchange for a payment of cash for every Jew allowed to leave, in addition to other Israeli aid. The exact payments were determined by the age, education, profession, employment, and family status of the emigrant. Israel paid a minimum of $2,000 per head for every emigrant, and paid prices in the range of $25,000 for doctors or scientists. In addition to these payments, Israel also secured loans for Romania and paid off the interest itself, and supplied the Romanian Army with military equipment

When one of your main exports is jews lmao, Hitler should take notes
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>>1113339
>>1113405
This, honestly.
Selling off vital staff for that little sounds like debt spiral invitation.

 No.1113624

>>1112988
This is the most Romanian shit I've ever read.

>"Heiiii, prietene, ce faci? I've got these Jews… two thousand dollar. Good deal. Listen, they're driving us nuts over here. Scoate din pepeni!"

 No.1113628

It's like a really politically incorrect joke about "the only way to beat the Jew is to become the Jew."

Oh crap, did you hear about Romanian literally selling Jews?

Jews: "How much are they asking?"

Oh around $2,000 per Jew.

Jews: "Hmm. Good deal…"

 No.1113630

>>1113628
I wonder how much they haggled him down

 No.1113664

>>1113466
The west had 'good' relations with any socialist nation they believed had broken off of Soviet influence and could be manipulated.


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 No.805130[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

🗽United States Politics🦅

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MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8PhLsUcFEegalitarianism
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Karen, but wants to talk with the FBI manager.

 No.1113647

Am I the only one that thinks DeSantis coming out so fast and forcefully against the FBI raid just makes him more suspicious?

 No.1113650

>>1113398
As dumb as Trumpoids are, I still can't believe people will see clips like this and somehow tell themselves the USA isn't in steep political decline. I had forgotten how wacky the last two years have really gotten.

 No.1113654

>>1113647
The way the media obsesses over him reminds me of the buildup to 2016. Can you imagine any leftie getting this much coverage?

 No.1113662

>>1113650
I adopted a little bit of a "Confucianist" analysis (without being one) to look at this, because the Trumpfags are not really conservatives in the sense of trying to preserve the social order. Okay, they might subjectively believe that's what they're doing, but by smashing up the rituals and traditions of the American state (like the transfer of power) they are undermining a very important source that the order draws on to reproduce itself.

I think it's like fascism or a similar phenomena of a reactive, nihilistic and irrational embrace of the abyss that is rising out of the declining empire's stricken heart. There's no real future there, it's the sound of the freefall.

It's related to liberalism, but when I say that liberalism and fascism are related, I don't mean it primarily as a condemnation of liberalism. More like fascism being one of the internal possibilities of its self-movement, and already we see the Democrats competing with the Republicans on their hostility toward China or Russia as the sinister foe in the shadows rigging the elections. There are enemies everywhere!!! And Trump has failed by any conventional logic, but by another measure, Trumpian-style politics seems to be succeeding at changing the atmosphere.


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 No.6555[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

ITT "villains" who did nothing wrong.
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 No.27649

>>27640
You do realize that the CIA has its traitors too yes? Ames ring a bell?

 No.27695

>>18674
> That's not what it was at all. Imagine you have a girlfriend or wife, who promises loyalty as you do your duty to her and the people of the sea, then you come back after waiting and working so long to find her gone, abandoning you and your sacrifice and betraying your love and efforts. Are you supposed to just accept it lying down like a dog? Or does this only matter if its the man who betrays the woman?

So you just
>Point out that Davy Jones got cucked
<Continue arguing he wasn’t a cuck

 No.27703

>>27695
How is it cuckoldry if there's no BVLL doing the cucking? Otherwise it's just your gf leaving you.

 No.27718

>>27695
>Point out that Davy Jones got cucked
Cuckoldry: the practice of making cuckolds; SEXUAL conquests of married women.
Cuckold: A man whose wife is SEXUALLY unfaithful, often regarded as an object of derision.
Calypso was not sexually unfaithful, she reneged on their agreement by not standing by him as he had stood by her. This is not cuckoldry.

 No.27726

>>27648
i actually had this image saved from another site and didn't know it was also posted in the avatar thread lol


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 No.1015618[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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.

>>>/leftypol_archive/559552

This is the place where you can find all /leftypol/ memes n' shit:
https://lefty.booru.org/
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 No.1113334

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>>1113247

 No.1113357

>>1113302
Well the old guard communists warned us about the blood-thirsty liberals, so this is not entirely unexpected, but why did this guy make a comedy sketch about shooting miners ?

Did his class hatred for laborers blind him about the fact that he's basically standing on stage arguing for murdering a bunch of people.

 No.1113391

>>1113357
>Did his class hatred for laborers blind him
yes

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 No.1113645

>>1113334
>norm was a bushcuck
sad


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 No.1109503[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post rants about how much you hate those spoiled faggots. Probably one of the most brainwashed political class in human history, far more than retarded Christian peasants.
I'll post some shit that infuriated me past couple of months
>landlord wants me to pay for repairs despite the house being broken before I settled in
>boss at work says he'll leave the country if Bernie ever wins
>girlfriend's parents, both landlords, said they're pissed because minorities moved into their building now property price might go down
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 No.1113463

>>1110799
>bourgeois PMC
Aren't PMCs a part of the working class? I thought that they were proletarians with bourgeois aspirations.

 No.1113465

>>1113462
Programmers and other tech "workers" are the perfect slaves of the bourgeoisie.
>Paid just enough to make more than 75% of people but not enough that they'll ever be bourgeois themselves
>Terminally online and unable to affect any real change even if they wanted to
>Can be used to parrot bourgeois talking points to a massive audience through the use of social media and the Internet

 No.1113519

>>1113463
no they're a seperate class that has replaced the petty bourgeoisie according to the theory

 No.1113537

>>1113463
Yeah it's sub-optimal that PMC stuck as a term, it's not a class from a Marxist theoretical perspective. (and it used to mean professional military contractor)
Class is determined by the relation to the means of production. It would have been more correct to just say managerial strata. (A strata is a group of people with shared life-experience.) Call it PMS maybe ?

Overall if you are trying to find out whether a worker will support socialism or not, you have to look at how many labor hours they put into the system, and compare it to how many labor hours they get back in the form of goods and services. A small part of the working class gets more out then they put in, and that part will not support socialism. Of course you will always have people that betray their interests. Exploited workers can become counter revolutionary and people with a bourgeois class status can be revolutionary (for example: Friedrich Engels, Marx's best friend, sponsor and Co-Author of "The political economy of Capital" was a capitalist who owned a textile factory). So this, lets call it "labor time coefficient" is a pretty good indicator, but it is meant to describe societal flows not individual people.

I guess i'm going with it's not good theory.

 No.1113642

>>1113537
Isn't this theory kinda btfo by the fact that university students who suckle value from their parents and society seem to be the biggest supporters of Marxism?


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 No.1096970[Reply]

Fuck politics and their movements, Marxism is a part of politics. Politics is a failure, im not gonna take up failure. You say communism isnt an end goal:
>Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself
And actually it's a journey
>We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
But journeys and movements have destinations and you follow that up with saying "people in 2050 or the 22nd and 23rd centuries will bear its fruits" so there is a goal.

The other day I have realised the reason why I keep disagreeing with Marxism. It's because communism and marxism are political, they are seeking political action. It's about working within the current circumstances and material conditions, ergo working within the system.
As an anarchist, I reject everything inherently political. I've left politics in 2017, it's been many years since I saw how politics infiltrated anarchy and saw what politics is. I cannot unsee it, this is like when I left the Church and religion over a decade ago. I'm not going back to praying to jeebuz.

Communism is a result of class struggle within the system. I'm long past working with the system or within it, I'm interested in post-scarcity and full automation instead. JFK was one big proof of failure, that working within a system is futile. But then also thousands of years of trying to make a peaceful world through politics has resulted in more wars than ever. I'm not that ignorant as to ignore such a wealth of results to bash my head against the wall repeating the same prayer like a retard theist thinking god will help.
Marxism is a real movement working within the confines of the current situation of material conditions, solving the problems through dealing with the system, but I'm done with that shit. Other people that are long dead have tried this, but I don't want to waste my life on politics, I just want to live and thrive. I'm not gonna pursue shit that had failed in the past, I've found a solution that is realistic and possible within my own lifetime.

I ain't about to fight the same fight Marx fought and died of old age doing, and others after him also died of old age. What, ya'll wanna grow old and achieve little to fuck all? That's insanityPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.1113399

>>1104177
Because of this I've come back to destroy everyone in this thread. Feel free to come at me.

>>1102339
>evidently not, given you are currently participating in political discussion. an agnostic doesn't talk about their agnosticism.
this isn't a political discussion its just a discussion, not everything we're talking about is politics even within that discussion as some of it is economic or philosophical or sociological or whatever else (technological), i'm not talking about how to do politics when i talk about how to not do politics

>>1102843
>How will one implement the policies needed to make these things available for a society without having a political stake within that society is beyond me.
Policies are inherently a political invention they cannot be implemented without politics. Post-scarcity is an engineering problem not a political one

>>1103417
>According to this definition, every type of change would be "reform". Even "leaving politics in 2017" would be a "reform" of your political participation. Otherwise, explain to me when change stops being "reform".
i dont have a definition of reform i clearly stated i'm using the original definition not just the political one, im not the author of the word and no, not all change is reform sometimes when things change new things happen and they form, not reform

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>>1096970
And how are you gonna magically create post scarcity automation without the bourgeoisie owning it all?

 No.1113631

>>1096970
>It's about working within the current circumstances and material conditions, ergo working within the system
What system? Reality? Yeah, you have to work within reality, anarchist.

 No.1113637

>>1113399
>I dont know why you assume being beyond politics is a movement, or that anarchy is a movement, neither are i'm not part of a movement i just want to be free and live in peace and luckily for my own species want the same for them
So you are a vague liberal with little to no actual desire to help others except yourself. You're basically functionally identical to an ancap or whatever other individualist idealist nonsense.

 No.1113638

>>1113399
>It was never the intent to be anti-political, but apolitical originally. If the entire planet is politicized someone apolitical is naturally pushed into being anti-political, and thats the fault of politicos. If there was free habitable land and men and women were free to go make their own lives using their own means, it wouldn't be necessary to be anti-political, but the problem arises when politics makes slavery of the entire planet and we have to live under globalised legal regulation, living under the threat of violence (imprisonment if we dont obey the rules and do things the legal capitalist way)
This is your brain on having never read Marx, or anyone else


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 No.20699[Reply]

>"You ever listen to the word of Okran?"

Luv Okran,
Luv the holy lord Phoenix,
Luv prayer day,
Luv bread
Luv the paladins fighting those Narkoite's (Go get em boys!)
'Ate Bugs and Shreks (Not a racist, Just don't like em!, maybe they should try to reincarnate harder next time eh!?)
'Ate those fall of man causing 'Skeleton' abominations against Okran He's right you know

Discuss anything Kenshi related ITT (Greentexts, your base, your squad, debate favourite starts, Lore etc)
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 No.20797

So let me get this straight about this whole plot of kenshis history
Apparently after the ancients died out for over a thousand fucking years in kenshis version of the Holocene. No one not a god damb faggot in the wasteland that formed soon after thought of reunderstanding the sciences and repairing the old machines and tech lying around the moon? No one bother learning math, or the basics of mechanics, or materials or anything else around them in favour of empire wars and bandit brawls?

Listen I know I’m being nit picky but humans really aren’t stupid especially in groups and thanks to post modernists there’s a lot more information that suggests a lot of the discoveries made we consider “modern” have been known for thousands of years or even longer like mechanics and to a smaller extent electrodynamics

 No.20799

>>20797
I think the research labs are supposed to be more dangerous to loot than they're depicted in-game and the schematics themselves should be pretty much impossible to decipher without specialized knowledge, but tech hunters and machinists have made progress in things like hydroponics. The world is so dangerous and inhospitable that it's difficult to support large, interconnected populations and research centers, so it wouldn't surprise me that information sharing and innovation is limited. The one thing that bothers me is apparently no one knows how explosives work and are instead using high-tech machinery to make really sharp swords.
Also the ancients were wiped out (or left) a few thousand years ago, in the wake of that civilization's collapse the world was left scarred and dangerously polluted. When the skeletons tried to fix things they made initial progress, even setting up their own research and engineering centers, but eventually they got fucked by multiple overlapping cataclysms (like whatever created the Grid) outside of their control and things started unraveling quickly. Initially there was a resource shortage leading to the Mk-II skeleton body, and rebellions started soon after.
They may have created the cannibals in a lab to deal with the Deadcat rebels, and some disaster (?) created the canyon in Wend that flooded the skeleton manufacturing centers and put a complete stop to their production and essentially doomed their kind, as they didn't have the technology to create CPU units on their own and relied on ancient labs to do so. After the fall of that empire the world was left even more dangerous and even more polluted. There's also the fact that a couple skeletons are working diligently to ensure some of the information about the past, and possibly its technology, stays lost. There's a lot of suspicion around skeletons and technology in general, and the Holy Nation is dedicated to making sure that information is destroyed as well.

 No.20822

>>20797
Basically it goes like this.
>First empire / Ancients.
Space fairing tier civilisation that collapsed for hazy reasons, we don't know exactly why, maybe a bronze age collapse on a universal scale, skeleton rebellion or some convergence of all the head-canons the fandom has come up with - We don't even know that the world of 'Kenshi' was the capital planet of this empire, it could have just been some periphery penal colony or some shit.
**My headcanon has always been that potentially after Obedience and the Skeletons on 'Kenshi' revolted whatever galactic empire Kenshi was part of declared some sort of 'quarantine' (think the way systems with [REDACTED] presence is treated if your a fan of starsector - Anything trying to get off world is detected by some sort of autonomous weapons system like the eye and gets blown the fuck out of the sky, thus why there's so much industrial / ship wreckage all around the planets surface - This galatic
>First Interregnum
After shit collapsed everything was absolutely tits up for a while - this is never really expanded upon
>Second Empire.
Cat-Lon and his skeleton army unify most the continent asides from the shek cities and the hives, Cat-Lon is pretty cool for a while and the population began growing again, Labs were re-established 'Pretty good!'
But then a combination of crisis's like the 'Northern humans turning to cannibalism' among other things made Lon act more and more like a DICKtator until whoever Okran actually was led an uprising, taking over 'Okran's pride' (One of the most fertile places on the continent, with accessible fresh water) - Effectively shattering the empire, Cat-Lon essentially runs away to the Ashlands to go insane and whatever territory was still held by the 'empire' was reorganised into the 'united cities' with its system of local nobility / feudalism with puppet emperor's
>Second interregnum
Modern day.

 No.20831

>>20797
>>20822
Kenshi (as in the planet you play on) was almost certainly a periphery world in the ancient space-empire, otherwise there would likely be many more relics of that age other than stuff like the Eye, the busted (nuclear?) generators in the eastern desert, and the shards of I-frames from skyscrapers you can find in parts of the desert, so on.

Plus Stobe's sacrifice was against the 1st Empire trying to destroy the planet for unknown reasons (maybe some kind of degenerative plague, which eventually made all of the northern human tribes into feral cannibals) on top of the Eye satellites which were put in orbit to basically scourge all life from the planet but failed, hence why large chunks of the continent are just desert and the sea level fell - the Swamps were originally a massive port city, according to a Skeleton.

As such you can presume that the continent Kenshi takes place on has grown across the years as the Eyes kept working their heat-ray magic and evaporating more of the water, making a decent chunk of the Atlantaeuropa hellscape deserts which the UC lives on come into being, which explains why so much of it is just dead and can't grow anything - shit is literally salt-sands.

Also since the 1st Empire was so hilariously advanced, its pretty likely that a lot of the most powerful tech was far beyond the reach of common people, and simpler, easier to recreate tech like firearms had simply ceased to exist because they were so ineffective compared to the death lasers they were using. Advanced bionics made melee weapons viable again, Metal Gear Rising style, which is why you have the super-advanced Meitou weapons lying around as well. There are probably so few due to the 1st Empire taking a lot of their shit with them when they left the planet, so there is really only scraps to work with for rebuilding civilization. Even the 2nd Empire realized this - with the means of making new skeletons lost, and loads of skeletons committing mass suicide after the [REDACTED], they knew they were a dying race and tried to use the remaining technology to create new races to inherit the functions of the Empire after they fell - hence the Shek to act as legal enforces, and the Hivers to act as producers for goods and materials (this is more specuPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.21035

wish i could play the game but i only have a shitty laptop


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 No.1004370[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Thread mainly for discussing the war in Ukraine, but discussion of other geopolitical issues such as Yemen CIvil War, the China-US conflict or Iran-US conflict or any X-US conflict is also appreciated.

Previous thread >>818936

For previous threads, check >>>/leftypol_archive/

LIVE MAPS AND UPDATES

>N.B. liveuamap.com is not to be trusted, they mostly parrot Ministry of Defence, these others may not be better, check their reporting first

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/28/russia-ukraine-crisis-in-maps-and-charts-live-news-interactive

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/europe/ukraine-maps.html
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>>1096664
and i don't mean the "not a country" in a serbian nationalist way, but in a material reality way: without EU, UN etc. presence and bureaucrats and stuff they could not be able to exist as a country.

 No.1096716

>>1096667
how was this joke from yesterday
a Serb, a German and a Kosovan go into a bar and have a drunken time. They decide to measure who has the longest dick (dudes rock)
The Serb: 14 good centimeters!
The German: ha! Thats nothing! Almost 16 here
The Kosovan: wait until you see Americas!

 No.1099269

>>1096667
Without Russian support the DPR and LPR wouldn't be able to exist either. I support them and I support the Russians bombing Kiev for trying to ethnically cleanse the region.
Guess what my reaction will be when sharts bomb Belgrade again in Operation Z: NATO edition

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Today marked the 5th anniversary of the martyrdom of Mohsen Hojaji, beheaded by IS terrorists. A fearless warrior and martyr of the Axis of Resistance, multipolarity, and anti-ZioWahhabi terrorism

 No.1113609

How do you guys think a conventional war between the US and China pre-2030 would go?


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 No.1113110[Reply]

Why is the education in America so fucking shit? Thinking back to my experiences in High School, History was the most bare bones garbage that I'd ever experienced. Things like the Korean War and the Cold War were skipped over (I didn't even know we had a war in Korea until Middle School) and important events like the Civil Rights movement was very quickly glossed over or ignored. PE was "just walk around the gym until the class is over" and Health was the most worthless bullshit (I learned about DRIVING then the human body) Sex Ed (from the first one we had in 5th Grade) was piss poor always being extremely rushed (we had it again in 7th and 8th grade and we didn't even finish because it was shoehorned in. Lemme seperate these because this will be too long and drony
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 No.1113386

>>1113167
>does this happen in your country?
In my country there's something closely related to Computer Sciences. 12th grade and we're learning goddamn Excel (instead of any FUCKING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE!!!) Ughhhh

 No.1113393

>>1113284
><furless, gillless, flightless and tailless
>forgot no venom

 No.1113591

>>1113205
for those who want to learn
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2109889812

 No.1113598

Itt: uneducated American complains

 No.1113604

>>1113166
Lol this narrative breaks apart once you realize the Japanese and later korean school systems influenced by Prussia was way fucking better
Lmao


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 No.2562[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Thread for discussing ATLA and LoK or rather analyzing both, appreciating the effort of creating the former and shitting on the lazy liberalism of the latter
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>>27655
YES

 No.27674

>>23883
Fucking hate this smug libtard.

 No.27716

>>23883
>>27674
Dropped this the moment he claimed Korra Season 3 is "as good if not better than Last Airbender at times"

 No.27719

>>23883
>3/4th of an hour video doing fanfiction attempting to make Korra not complete shit

>>25007
>Frankly it'd be a much more compelling idea to have him defeat Ozai and convince the Fire Lord to repent (much like Naruto did to many of his enemies) using this defeat as a practical demonstration of his ideology of Peace being better and stronger than Ozai's ideology of Domination and Destruction.
To do that justice would probably require the whole season, which honestly might have been better than the season 3 we actually got. Instead of building up Ozai as some ultimate anime villain, he and Aang cross paths a few times or something like that and Aang works his way through the Fire Nation sabotaging the war effort and solving people's problems, undermining morale on the home front. By the time of the comet maybe they just can't hold up the war machine any longer because of the combination of sabotage and Aang subverting their loyalty to the war effort. Like the episode where he wins over the school kids, but for the whole season.

 No.27724

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>>27719
>To do that justice would probably require the whole season, which honestly might have been better than the season 3 we actually got.
Perhaps, but honestly even if you only changed the final episodes of S3 you could still have Aang do the entire curbstomp of Ozai, then deactivate his avatar mode and talk, casually slapping aside Ozai's attempts and finally taking his abilities, not through energy bending from a special turtle, but perhaps an advanced version of Ty Lee's abilities that he uses to shut the Chakra-gates he already learned of, and in taking this non-fatal route finally prove to Ozai, that HIS idea of peace and non-violence is superior and that he proved it by beating Ozai at his violent game and then displaying mercy.

But expanding on my 'Talk no Jutsu' analogy, Talk no Jutsu works usually because of the enemy’s inherit contradiction in their beliefs and actions. That's the reason it didn't have relevance to a character like Madara or Deidara or Hidan. Ozai is supposed to be a generic fascist, and that's honestly fine, Lily Orchard's one good video talks about this.

BUT your idea could function. Aang could use perhaps some Spirit bending thing to demonstrate to Ozai the things he saw and felt, hiding in the Fire Nation and other nations, the squalor and hatred and abuse and death and misery, all wrought by has actions even for his people. To demonstrate that his idea of conquest brought nothing but destruction and would eventually destroy him too.


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 No.211384[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

A general thread for all China related discussion.

Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
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 No.1113483

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Another blow to u.s. "diplomacy".
https://twitter.com/dobahi/status/1556877692368486401

 No.1113510

>>1113483
https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1557140019411791872?s=20&t=ozzRonCF5bVhRVAOko0QfQ

Life savings drugs becoming more affordable in PRC

 No.1113511

oops replied an anon by mistake

 No.1113582

GLOWIE TALK
Sponsored by the yt algo

 No.1113593

https://english.news.cn/20220808/74ca1b1e548d4c4ca01ceb723d3f411d/c.html

Private sector planning in PRC


/leftypol/

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 No.1112945[Reply]

What explains why the proletariat is so bluepilled?

In Marxist theory, false consciousness is a term describing the ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members of the proletariat and other class actors within capitalist societies, concealing the exploitation intrinsic to the social relations between classes. Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) used the term "false consciousness" in an 1893 letter to Franz Mehring to address the scenario where a subordinate class willfully embodies the ideology of the ruling class. Engels dubs this consciousness "false" because the class is asserting itself towards goals that do not benefit it.

"Consciousness", in this context, reflects a class's ability to politically identify and assert its will. The subordinate class is conscious: it plays a major role in society and can assert its will due to being sufficiently unified in ideas and action.

Even after all these years what explains why false consciousness is still so dominant among the workers? What is the materialist explanation?
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 No.1113549

Those who think it is false consciousness, I do not have numbers and may be I'm wrong, but how will explain that with wide access to the Internet with tones of com propaganda, worker organization did not increase?

 No.1113558

>>1113549
play metal gear 2

 No.1113571

I'd say that false consciousness predominately grows out of material insulation. Which is to say, you're well-off enough to afford to be stupid. You've got enough distance from actual danger to let your brain craft gods and monsters you obey and fear.

I think a recent scientific agreed with this for the most part. I'll try to find it later. Essentially it said there's very little "coherence" or "principles" in modern politics, rather they're used as a post-hoc justification for why you do what you do. Those who were better educated (and by extent, likely raised in a better material environment) were more not less likely to fall for this post-hoc justification. Essentially, scientists discovered Marx was right when he saw the superstructure as reinforcing but not making up, the material base of society.

But as Marxists we've got to wonder how we can deal with workers not being conscious of their needs, especially in the first world? If I had to throw in my two cents, I think it's fundamentally a division in reality. Which is to say in The West, reality appears to be individually created rather than collectively observed. Through the effort of marketers, the internet, social media, the reality we inhabit is not as a collective body or class, but as individual consumers. This may explain to some extent the bizarre divergence between Conservatives and Liberals, they're fundamentally looking at two completely different realities constructed from their own individual imagination. Conservatives just happen to be more batshit crazy most of the time (a la thinking Trump is anything other than a self-serving coward.)

The only antidote I can come up with to this, is that some kind of common society or community has to be restored. This is particularly difficult in America because individualism is cancer out here: we ride individual transportation, work in individual little cubicles, earn individual wages, live in individual homes, watch individual television shows. We're submerged in our own reality, not the reality of our fellows.

 No.1113572

If you look at where the organized workers work, from the news, where strikes happen, it is Deer factory, aviation, docks, etc where workers gather in big numbers.

With capital movement to China, there is not that many domestic big factories left. Somehow it looks imporant that many workers gather at the same place, although I do not have data on small companies.

Immigrants. Immigrants in Poland work as self-employed, although they work at factories, but labor laws somehow do not apply fully to them. They can work 16 h/day no problem from the law point, 12 h/day is common. They travel from Ukraine to Poland, work for something like 4 months and go home.
To understand, the number of immigrants is huge, this can't be ignored.

Gig economy. So the question: 4 hours work day no wage cut.. Is jut not interesting to gig workers.

Some full time workers actually work less than 8 hours/day.

 No.1113587

Sheep always think wolves are immoral


/music/

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 No.4666[Reply]

ITT we talk about anything related to punk, hardcore, and any subgenres of punk and hardcore.
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 No.5957

yeah, i'm a terrorist

 No.5968

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anyone use this shit still?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sB7oMYqwwg

 No.5969

>>5920
Never bothered listening to his music but this is surprisingly good

 No.5971

>>5969
yeah, they were solid, dig their cover of 7&7 too.

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/leftypol/

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 No.1111540[Reply]

Small businesses are a romanticized petit bourgeois fantasy who often exploit workers worse due to laxer labor laws, "we're a family" dynamic in which you'll often do work for free, and are the biggest impediment to minimum wage increases.
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 No.1113532

>>1111540
that pic
>when you buy from the petty bourgeoisie you're actually giving to charity

 No.1113535

>>1111590
yeah it's just petty bourgeois ideology

 No.1113563

>>1111557 >>1111562 >>1111563
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/small-business-employees-are-more-likely-to-face-abuse-study-finds-2016-01-25

 No.1113565

reminder that """temporally embarrassed capitalists""" are historically the backbone of the blackest reaction, be they labor aristos or petty piglets

 No.1113569

>>1111637
>Many people in the petit bourgeoisie are simply people who try to avoid getting proletarianized, those are mostly harmless.
Ardent anti-communism and middle-class neuroses aren't harmless.


/leftypol/

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 No.982208[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Sonic for President of Brazil Edition
Cause Brazil gotta go fast!
Feeling our beautiful country is too slow and it needs to accelerate? Tired of being ruled by the Centrão lead by Dr. Robotnik Sarney?
Vote for Sonic the Hedgehog and Brazil will go fast!
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 No.1110064

>>1109876
I thought most of the new immigrants come from hispanic america

 No.1111288

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https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/recorde-historico-pobreza-atinge-quase-20-milhoes-nas-metropoles

Uma boa segunda feira pra (Você).

>>1110064
Most hispanics don't stay for long, they come here and then go to Europe or the US.
I'm from a metropolitan area and remember meeting a lot of bolivians and peruvians, back in 2019. The last I heard, only a couple of them are still around.

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>>1082288
>>1083956
>>1083960

 No.1112397

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>>1107075
Ajudar diplomaticamente Cuba, Honduras e Venezuela
Nacionalizar o petróleo
Trazer algum avanço no caso da Marielle e do Anderson
Acho que só isso pode acontecer.

 No.1113555

>The problem is that selecting such a specific set of candidates is most likely not a coincidence and it is implicitly an endorsement of neomarxist/eurocom ideology, something that I can’t stand for as it is highly anti-revolutionary and arguably goes against the national party program.
You do know that Stalin and many other bolsheviks were elected and appointed due to their minority status right?


/tech/

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 No.13548[Reply]

Stop using propietary hardware.
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 No.13658

>>13657
I have two separate machines. Both use linux but one is meant for vidya under wine/proton.

 No.13660

>>13658
What is the other machine for? I wan to t build a new Linux PC for games that windows 7 won't run, but i hear it's not a good time to build a PC because of Chip shortages and crypto inflation.

 No.13661

>>13660
All pc parts are more or less the same price except for gpus, at least where I live (not America).
I'd suggest buying a cpu from a trusted vendor in aliexpress if you don't mind waiting.

 No.16208

>>13548
>>13549
>Over 1k
>4 gigs of ram
There is NO excuse. Trackball is neat though.

 No.16210

>>16208
no recently manufactured laptop is gonna be under 1k
doesn’t even matter if it has potato specs


/leftypol/

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 No.1112256[Reply]

Broke: The Cold War began with McCarthyism

Nope.

Joke: The Cold War began with the Palmer Raids.

Nope.

Bespoke Woke Toke: The cold war right after the American Civil War. OPEN YOUR EYES.

Read through any substantial history of reconstruction and you will find that negative mentions of communism and socialism and anarchism begin happening constantly in the American media during this period. Previous periods neglected to mention it. Once the civil war was over though, and the frontier began to get smaller, the incentive to push out bourgeois propaganda against striking workers was increased. The paris commune spooked the fuck out of the American bourgeois and I think there is a strong case that reconstruction, emancipation, and the overseas spectacle of the Paris Commune and the 1st international were enough to trigger unprecedented class warfare in the USA.
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 No.1113317

>>1112291
see >>1112274

 No.1113319

>>1112820
> leninoid
opinion discarded

 No.1113521

>>1113319
sorry for disrupting your echo chamber

 No.1113524

>>1112256
The 'cold war' is inherent in capitalism if you redefine things enough.

 No.1113525

>>1113521
>shits uncontrollably
Heh, guess they can't handle being challenged.


/leftypol/

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 No.1109701[Reply]

How much longer will be bound by markets?
They literally don't work if you think about it more than 5 seconds. I can't stand the market driven life anymore its so nonsensical
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 No.1112718

>>1112406
exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.

 No.1112739

>>1112406
In fact I am correct, gift economies never existed

: something voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation

There is always expectation of repayment in symbiotic exchange, or the "gifts" stop or worse

 No.1112822

>>1112739
>money came into being to make gifts easier

 No.1112862

>>1112822
Is that true?

 No.1113522

>>1112862
it is a category error on your part if you can't differentiate between gifts and exchanges. all anthropologists can do this but the online ancap/Agent Kochinskiite can't so i guess they're actually the same


/tech/

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 No.16209

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRwSjDcnCmI


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