Some questions on Youtube
Aren't Youtubers with employees they pay technically part of the bourgeoisie? Have video platforms been a net gain for the left wing? Why does anarchism tend to have little to no videos covering it on video platforms compared to other camps? If we take streamers to be the equivalent of politicians, aren't video creators the equivalent of theory? Has there been good, "original" theory well edited on YouTube? What specific left wing camp has gained the most popularity from social media?/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅/leftydeutschpol/ - "Seid ihr bereit für den hybriden Krieg?"-Edition
Die Oma mal am Joint ziehen lassen gegen die vaterlandslosen Gesellen./Iran/ - Iran War Thread #49
>Previous BakeThe RCA, sex pests or just Trotskyists
Alright bros, I've joined the RCA. I know they're Trotskyist but I just cannot stand being in an org with morons that haven't read any theory. Should I immediately leave then kill myself? Did I make the right choice?How do i become a mercenary?
Do you fill put an application form or is it a job you make it to through connections? Is there a formula?/PROLE VENT/
Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work./ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General
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./brg/ - Brazil General
EDIÇÃO COLÔNIA CECÍLIAMaterialist analysis: ThirdWorldism - second time as farce.
Recently saw a discussion in regards to "Third Worldism" as in MLM + unequal exchange (a non-Wallerstinian branch of world systems theory) having grown in influence in the anglophone/western, largely online, "communist" spaces.Homeschooling is not inherently bad
I get why people dislike it most of the time; it's used by conservative parents to basically indoctrinate their children and socially isolate them, but thinking that makes homeschooling inherently bad is just like thinking all education is bad because bad people use it sometimes. A form of it could be very useful, especially for us Marxists who are often maligned by those controlling the current educational establishment. It's not like the current public school system is entirely flawless, with it often spewing anti-communist, pro-regime change, right-individualism, and pro-capitalist propaganda. If I had a kid, I wouldn't fully exclude them from public school, but I would perhaps add some sort of extra curriculum at home where I'd teach them Marxist theory, unbiased history of past socialist experiments that doesn't automatically default to (Mao killing 100 billion innocent kulaks in the gulags), and other useful things that may be discouraged elsewhere. I'd kind of be like homework but with studying Marx, Lenin, and even Franz Fanon and perhaps other leftist tendencies like anarchism since it's good to know what your opponents on the left think; marxists.org would be very useful for this, actually. This is especially relevant as it seems like reactionary forces, particularly in the United States, are trying to hijack the school system, such as Project 2025 or PragerU Kids./Political Economy/ General #6 - The Corn of Zhong Guo edition
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Thread for talking about webcomics. Share your favs, discuss latest updates.Questions about dialectics
I recently started reading Lukacs's ontology of a social being and my whole understanding of dialectics has been flipped.
a real dilemma
I just met a girl on the street. She had quite a few piercings (even a septum piercing) and she looked a little bit boyish. She wore a flannel shirt, baggy black jeans, a studded belt and Doc Martens. She was really chill and she does animation as well. She likes anime, especially Full-Metal Alchemist. She is the daughter of one of my dad's breeder friends. But it feels unlikely that i would meet her again soon. What would I do?/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #284
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Contract Hires:/leftybritpol/ - Rising Youth Antisemitism edition
UK Government to Investigate Rising Antisemitism in SchoolsBest religion for trans people
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-gallae-transgender-priestesses-of-ancient-rome/Epstein Fatigue
Am I the only one on here with Epstein fatigue?Art Trade Thread v2.0
/leftypol/ has been nuked Edition (Remade the thread because of it)Not a fan of gay dudes.
I’ve been out (trans woman) for around a decade now and throughout most of those years I’ve had a generally bad taste in my mouth for gay men. the majority of the ones I’ve met through organizing have been useless, the ones I’ve met through ‘queer groups’ have been insufferable, a weird amount are landlords. They just seem like a completely soulless people the majority of the time. Almost a mimicry of a person.Mamdani Fatigue
Fuck this guy. I’m tired of seeing liberals and even “principled” leftists like Jacobin Mag prop him up as the greatest thing to happen to American leftism, like he’s sone kind of modern-Day William Z Foster.preventing circular arguments
third world proletarians, the most exploited on earth, regularly ask why 1st world proletarians don't do more. why don't they rebel? why don't they have revolutions? why have the first world proletariat not lifted a finger against their governments? the conclusion is treatlerism. they are willing and gleeful collaborators who benefit from plunder and so have become a "bourgeois proletariat" (engels said this about english workers in the late 19th century) fine. but it is a futile effort to ask someone who supposedly benefits from imperialism to fight it. they are your oppressor. do not beg your oppressor to stop oppressing you. that's naive cuckoldry at best. the next question then becomes, why do the third world proletariat not destroy the first world? the answer is they are too weak. they lack sovereignty. they don't have nukes. the imperial core sanctions, coups, embargoes, invades, bombs them every time they try to rise up. the only one brave enough to rise up seem to be the hyper religious ones who have no interest in communism, and they tend to get destroyed because they don't have a materialist understanding and just vibe based on the idea that god will give them the strength to win against impossible odds. not good… ok so what we have is a pretty bleak situation. the 1st world proletariat won't revolt because they benefit, and the 3rd world proletariat can't revolt because they're weak. What is left? bernsteinism? thinking capitalism will destroy itself if you wait long enough? embracing climate collapse and post apocalyptic scavenger theses? well that's anticommunist and opportunist. anprim ideology?/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅Buddhism doesn't get enough flack
Buddhism is fucking predatory as shit, only saved by the fact that its buzzwords are parroted around. Seems like it was rightfully criticized since early Hinduism until the 1900s where it got syncretized because of opportunism. Really don't believe it's compatible with socialism, especially with it's buzzwords like "mindfullness" and "manifestation" becoming commonplace.Multipolaroids won. Now what?
Sakaism, ethnic reductionism and mutipolar theory are now the mainstream opinion of the Western Left. There are divisions between them of course. Most importantly between the "US centric" and the "China centric". But it's safe to say that the new socialism of the fools is up and popular in the leftwing sects. How can communists work in this enviroment?OC Thread 18.0
Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content./PRC/ People's Republic of China 21🇨🇳
>Lantern Rite editionNostalgia cartoons that hold up
I was watching a cartoon from my child and realized that the saturday morning cartoon generation lucked out. Other than some outliers like avatar or adventuretime, the good stuff was 90s-early naughty aughties. This is not just nostalgia but demonstrably true as merch from these cartoons is still popular as ever for kids. I work as a substitute teacher and they still watch our old cartoons and it's actually super weird, I didn't watch captain kangaroo or whatever boomer crap my mom watched when i was a kid.most evil legal jobs
What are the most EVIL (non-violent so; petty, cowardly..not like at least being a (((soldier))) on the frontline) 100% Legal jobs, under American Capitalism?
News 4/3/26
Moscow plans to send 2nd oil tanker to Cuba, Russian energy minister says/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #48
>Previous BakeModeration Feedback
Come dispute bans, complain, get jannified, and other such things related to /leftypol/ here. Please try not to spam this thread or make multiple posts on the same issue, as this makes it harder for us to respond to issues.I had a dream
I had to go back to school and my middle school enemies were there making fun of my conetits and my hoodiePeeves bout general leftist sentiment around drugs
I'm not the biggest fan of how drugs and things of that sort are often uncritically idealized among "leftist" spaces. Now, don't get me wrong; I'm not some kind of puritan who wants to ban all drugs or weed or something. After all, the america's war on drugs shows that total prohibition brute force is often counterproductive and often built on misinformation, but it's not like drugs are an inherently liberatory thing. Hasn't it been well-documented how often reactionary forces weaponize drugs to harm certain communities and peoples? What about the opium wars, where britain smuggled in tons of opium in response to being banned from getting tea to reverse a massive trade deficit caused by high demand for chinese tea, and in response to china banning opium, went to war and occupied hong kong and basically jump-started the century of humiliation? or what about the involvement of intelligence agencies? again i do not belive drugs are inherently harmful, but too many people often paint the situation with a broad brush and think it's solely black and white. I've been getting more critical of some of the sentiments around it lately, especially with it being known that paul krasner, member of the merry pranksters and founding founding member of the yippies, has been associated with epstein. theres also the book and accompanying documentary "drugs as Weapons Against Us" by john potash although i haven't read/watched it yet plus i heard that the doucumentary uses text to speech which dosen't give me high hopes, oh well.No Kings?
The most recent iteration of the No Kings protests represents a significant strategic convergence within the anti-capitalist bloc, marking what appears to be the broadest coalition participation to date across the United States. Preliminary reports from multiple jurisdictions indicate that while tactical unity was largely maintained during the march itself, significant ideological and strategic cleavages emerged regarding questions of praxis and mass leftist work./ttg/ - Tech Team General
This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues (bug reports, suggestions).Veganism and Communism
Before I start about whole topic of this post I would like to point out that this post mainly focus on Communists and not other tendencies among "radical leftism" because their justification may systematically vary and require different approach so I would like to keep it rather focused on concrete mindset in certain group of people.medley of questions
I deeply lament the Revisionist Deviation of the MPCP, as I consider Shining Path an ACTUAL org which DOES DO stuff-besides starbucks college discussions-I’m not white so I have to ask
This book was written for a primarily white audience and throughout it, an idea that white Americans or white westerners tend to struggle in social settings in general stuck out to me. This wasn’t explicit, but a lot of the problems the author complained about did follow the patterns of what I’d expect of someone with generally poor social skills:Combat Baby-Blood Drinkers
In effort to defend their epstein lies and behaviors, euroamerikans, like israelis, often say they are not colonizers. Leninless Reddit revisionist cry that this scientific socialist understanding is "idpol." They are wrong. They defy scientific socialism. Lenin's Teachings swiftly refute their lies.Leftist Counter-Insurgents
I have noticed that many of my comrades receive push-back, both from organic voices and from deliberate, planted ones typically directed at our language, our rhetoric, and the concepts we work with that extend beyond what is considered acceptable within mainstream society. We operate outside the bounds of liberal civility between class and political opponents. We step beyond moralism and speak in terms of power, power that stands in opposition to existing institutions, with the aim of toppling them, not entering them./brg/ - Brazil General
EDIÇÃO SINFONIA AMAZÔNICA/lang/ - language learning general #1
Choosing a language editionIs all radfem literature like this?
Is all radfem literature like this?The Holy Bible
What's the leftypol take on this book? I'm not trolling - it's existence has haunted my life. I was raised catholic… Christianity has both ruined & saved my life and my opinions on it have only gotten more complex.Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney
Previous thread:Redeemable and Morally Gray Villains Are Midwit Slop
It's boring and toothless to make villains "well intentioned extremists" or "good guys deep down but troubled" or any other variation. There is essentially one main problem with this type of character, and it's expressed on a spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, they are too villainous, making any notion of grayness or redemption laughable or insulting to the audience. At the other end, they don't do enough villainous things to warrant their status as a villain, so you can't take them seriously. In most cases, these characters fall somewhere in the middle. Theoretically that should make them more balanced, but instead the archetype is just massively overdone. It has become predictable and boring because so many writers use the formula as a crutch to make the character "interesting" instead of giving the characters something actually interesting about them. If you're going to have a villain, you can make them interesting without resorting to this cheap tactic, and if you really want morally gray characters you don't need to bother framing the story as heroes vs villains.Western Animation
A general for "western" animations/cartoons.How did you realize?
Do you remember when you realized you were gay or trans?Reading General Sticky
Hello, /leftypol/!autism blocks server 2026
helo gamers, i invite u to a fuckin autismic political minecraft server u should come play. we are running factions on 1.21.11 and have a plugin that lets you pick up and throw people. teh texture pack is meant to represent autists across the political spectrum btw.damn WW3 really is here
I'm kinda hoping for boots on the ground as a cheerleader for American collapse, and an enjoyer of seeing goycattle coming back home in goyboxes; but at the same time there's basically no way that happens without the Iranian casualties getting into the tens/hundreds of thousands of dead civilians.the fundamental flaw of marxism
the fundamental flaw of marxism is that it is built around the idea of ONE contradiction being the motor of capitalism's development, namely what is manifest in the value form. this is merely the contradiction between proletariat and capitalist. but of course there is the contradiction between the capitalist and the capitalist, as well as the contradiction between the form of bourgeois institutions and their actual content insofar as they are in a material relationship with the capitalist classHas anyone here ever played the British anti-extremism game?
I have and I sucks. If you didn't know the British government in response to all of the white nationalism growing in their country mad a computer game to encourage kids not to be Nazis, ill link it here https://www.shoutoutuk.org/pathways/ but the thing is that it backfired and Chuds started making rule 34 of the female antagonist, since it became a meme I wanted to play the game to see if it is any good and its not. Since its a liberal game instead of being able to confront your Nazi friends and make new leftist friends if they part ways with you you just fucking loose all of your friends! I don't know what I expected, this is the UK after all and its been amerikkka's cuck for decades.