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/EUropol/

WILLKOMENSKULTUR IST VORBEI edition

>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.

>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.

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/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.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

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

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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
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer

📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan

📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs

<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek

📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson

📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30

📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI

📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo

📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw


<Documentaries

The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA

Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc

HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco


>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y

Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg

The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs

Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw

The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI


<Situationist Archives

https://situationist.org/
https://notbored.org/SI.html
https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/

Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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/leftybritpol/ - Stiff Upper Lip edition

LET ME SEE YOUR WAR LIPS YOU BLOODY WANKERS!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn0jke547r5o

<If the UK suddenly found itself at war, would you know what to do? Do you know what would be expected of you?


>The government wants us all to start preparing for severe disruption to our lives. It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.


>Work has begun on the government's so-called "war book", which hasn't been updated in decades.


>The UK's most senior soldier has sounded the alarm. The Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton this week said the threat from Russia meant Britain was living through the "most dangerous" period of his 35-year career in the armed forces.


>But what is the threat? In 1940 the danger of a German invasion of the UK was very real. But the chances of Russian tanks rolling up Whitehall are surely negligible.


>"It's not the tanks you need to worry about," says historian Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us.


>"It's the cutting of cables on the ocean floor. It's the hacking into systems on which so many things depend. The possibility for asymmetric war, for cyber war, is growing by leaps and bounds."


>But are we ready? After 80 years without war on our own soil, are we, as a society, psychologically prepared for it? Are we ready to approve large increases in defence spending, and for the sacrifices that that might entail in other areas of our national life? Or does the threat seem too far-fetched to be real?
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China BANS criticizing PORKY

On September 18, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of Infringing Information Concerning Enterprises and Continuously Optimizing the Online Business Environment". Here's the most imporant part in the notice (most notably 2, 4 and 5):

[…] Website platforms must proactively identify and address the following types of infringing content:

Personal information: Includes the disclosure of personal identity and contact details, such as ID cards, passports, household registration records, home addresses, and phone numbers, as well as sensitive personal data like biometric information, medical and health records, financial account details, and location tracking data.

Insults and derogatory content: Includes verbal abuse or insults directed at enterprises and entrepreneurs; the malicious parodying or caricaturing of corporate logos, products, or entrepreneurs' likenesses; maliciously linking enterprises or entrepreneurs to pornographic or vulgar topics; and using stigmatizing language to disparage enterprises, entrepreneurs, or specific brand users.

Impersonation and counterfeiting: Includes impersonating news organizations to produce or publish information regarding corporate oversight; publishing information under the guise of an enterprise or entrepreneur; and the unauthorized use of names, logos, or entrepreneurs' names and likenesses, identical or similar to those of the actual enterprise, in the names, avatars, or profiles of public accounts.

False and misleading information: Includes taking entrepreneurs' past statements out of context or distorting their meaning; displaying search keyword suggestions or landing page results that contradict the facts; republishing false information that has already been authoritatively refuted or clarified; and disseminating information that conflicts with public statements issued by the enterprise or entrepreneur via their official accounts on major platforms.

Other categories: Includes content designed to incite conflict by pitting enterprises against one another; the aggregation and resurfacing of old news or negative information about enterprises; infringing content that the platform has previously addressed; comments regarding enterprises posted by bot accounts or paid astroturfing accounts; and information that smears or disparages enterprises and entrepreneurs in a manner that clearly violates public order and good morals.


source: https://www.cac.gov.cn/2026-09/18/c_1791396347229199.htm

What do the china stans have to say about this
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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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 Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


<SOLD MY SOVL edition


OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/

Jailhouse Reading:

📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf

⚒️ LABOR!

Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸

deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/

📺 Glowie News 📺

(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))

CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather

📺 Gommie News 📺

Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol

🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱

Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik 📖

📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

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'chives included
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO PARQUE DO SOLSTÍCIO
"Trata-se de um monumento lítico no Norte do país que possui 127 monólitos que foram erguidos em um raio de 30 metros. As pedras de mais de 4 metros foram erguidas e talhadas há mais de 2000 anos e sua disposição é feita para, no solstício de inverno do hemisfério norte, as pedras apontarem para os principais astros do céu amazônico e o sol, ao meio dia, fique na posição exata do centro da obra."

"Como havia uma variação de povos na época, o Iepa informou que não é possível afirmar qual o povo indígena que construiu o local, mas indícios como pinturas nas peças de cerâmica, apontam similaridades com as do povo Arawak, que tem como descendentes os indígenas da etnia Palikur, habitantes da atual fronteira do Amapá e a Guiana Francesa."

O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio >>20017
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Dengpill Image Is Wrong

The quote in Capital Volume 2 does not match the implication of the picture.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/ch01.htm#4

>True, the capitalist must also be there, must also live and consume to be able to perform the function of a capitalist. To this end, he has, indeed, to consume only as much as the labourer, and that is all this form of the circulation process presupposes. But even this is not formally expressed, since the formula concludes with M', i.e., a result which can at once resume its function as money-capital, now augmented.


>C' — M' directly contains the sale of C'; but C' — M', a sale on the one part, is M — C, a purchase, on the other part, and in the last analysis a commodity is bought only for its use-value, in order to enter (leaving intermediate sales out of consideration) the process of consumption, whether this is individual or productive, according to the nature of the article bought. But this consumption does not enter the circuit of individual capital, the product of which is C'. This product is eliminated from the circuit precisely because it is a commodity for sale. C' is expressly designed for consumption by others than the producer. Thus we find that certain exponents of the mercantile system (which is based on the formula M — C … P … C' — M') deliver lengthy sermons to the effect that the individual capitalist should consume only as much as the labourer, that the nation of capitalists should leave the consumption of their own commodities, and the consumption process in general, to the other, less intelligent nations but that they themselves should make productive consumption their life’s task. These sermons frequently remind one in form and content of analogous ascetic expostulations of the fathers of the church.


It seems Marx is not promoting Dengism but rather attacking those that support "sound money" fiscal conservatives. This line stands out:
>individual capitalist should consume only as much as the labourer, that the nation of capitalists should leave the consumption of their own commodities, and the consumption process in general, to the other, less intelligent nations but that they themselves should make productive consumption their life’s task.
<That is foreign countries can live above their means while we must be autarkic
>These sermons frequently remind one in form and content of analogous ascetic expostulations of the fathers of the church
<Greed is bad, live within your means

Tldr Marx did not promoting Dengism, he was attacking Blue Dog democrats.
This begs the question, is there any definitive Marxist statement that unapologetically promotes Dengism?
R: 179 / I: 28

/PRC/ People's Republic of China 24

>Bye, bye, Microsoft! – edition
https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/

The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?

<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.


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
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2832385
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Iran war thread #74

<Even bigger war edition

>previous bake

>>2909568


Latest News
>Iran is trying to expand the war
<Iran retaliated
>Iran has destroyed 5 more US bases in Iraq
<Houthichads are advancing
>Oil is rising
<Iran possibly preparing to invade kuwait

>Important Links:

https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

>Useful Channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada

>Useful Xitters

https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
https://xcancel.com/Basijchud

>Useful TG:

https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
https://t.me/s/shiachuds

>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
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Are Red Expats Traitors and Cowards?

American ML here, moved to china a few years ago, been doing the privileged ESL job thing. currently working at a gov uni for like 1700$ a month teaching 16 hours weekly while i study chinese and try to get out of english teaching with hopes to start a family and raise some red diaper kids, but im plagued by a sense of guilt. Is leaving the US behind the cowards way out? Am I abandoning the a righteous cause or a sinking ship?

Jannies can delete the duplicate /labor/ thread

Feel free to ask whatever other chinese labor questions you got too
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #297

DAJ MI PIENIĄDZE (GIVAS MONEY) Edition (See second post)

Previous: >>2903067

Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/

Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast

Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8

📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4

📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q

📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo

<Current Happenings

📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary

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Social media
>Twitter
REMEMBER TO USE NITTER!
https://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_

<Telegram

https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad

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I hate Warhammer

I hate all of it. The fans, the retarded looking oversized armor. Most of all I hate that it’s heavily focused on the American military. You never get to play as the Russian orcs or anything. No you always play as the US marines. Because it’s meant to be pro us military propaganda. Just like Starship Troopers hides behind fake bullshit “anti war” veil that doesn’t mean anything because it’s still a pro us military movie. Do you get to play as the bugs in the Starship Troopers game? Nope. Yeah it’s all chinlet us military propaganda. Same with that gay Helldivers game.
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>get reccommended a video essay on a show you liked
>put it on in the background
>halfway in start to realize this guy keeps repeating himself
>takes a long time to make a point that isnt really a point
>clips have nothing to do with whats being said
>realize you just fell for ai slop
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Am I a traitor for immigrating to china?

Im an american ML and moved to china a few years ago, been doing the privileged ESL job thing, currently working at a gov uni for like 1700$ a month teaching 16 hours weekly while i study chinese and try to get out of english teaching with hopes to start a family and raise some red diaper kids, but im plagued by a sense of guilt. Is leaving the US behind the cowards way out? Am I abandoning the a righteous cause or a sinking ship?

Feel free to ask whatever other chinese labor questions you got too
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Am I a closeted porky?

I'm getting a million-dollar life insurance policy on some family member. I have a few properties valued at 3 million dollars. I inherited a family business and am raking in 20k a month. I'm going to sell the business to a bigger company soon. I don't have to work anymore, my proles.
Now I just need an elite to sponsor me to gain power. I need help to trow down the bus some relatives to maximize my inheritance or gain total control of it. When do i get the call to blackmail and use Kompromat material for intelligence agencies, /siberia/?
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Fuck your property values. I demand commie blocks NOW. Your house will be worth a quarter of what it is now, and I will laugh heartily. There WILL be affordable housing.
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THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM

This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!
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Into the Bunker(chan): An Examination of /leftypol/, and its Place in the Modern Left Landscape

https://geesemag.com/articles/into-the-bunkerchan-an-examination-of-leftypol-and-its-place-in-the-modern-left-landscape

Into the Bunker(chan): An Examination of /leftypol/, and its Place in the Modern Left Landscape

<While the alt-right pipeline funneled young men into fascism, a smaller corner of the internet tried to do the opposite. JJ Christensen goes inside /leftypol/.


FULL TEXT:

When I was around 13 years old, I stumbled upon a Youtube video by the user ‘Bat’ko,’ an “anarchist shitposter” and prominent user of the website /leftypol/.

The year was 2018; it was a scary time for me. Two years ago, I had watched my mom cry as the presidential election results slowly rolled in. I had grown up in the Obama Era as a nerdy brown child in a majority-minority Californian city. I did not take it seriously. I did not know, nor did I have any way of knowing, what the long term effects of such a presidency would be. As far as I knew, he was a clown and he’d be gone in 4 years. The Democratic Party would protect us.

A year later, I watched Heather Heyer get brutally run over by a neo-Nazi on television. The Charlottesville Riot, or Unite the Right, was a wake-up call to many and I was no different. I was shaken to my core, and in a moment all the disappointments in liberalism and the failures of the ‘center-left’ Democratic Party I had known all my life bubbled over. Something in me broke fundamentally, and I had shifted from an optimistic nerdy child to an angry and pessimistic teenager.

This is not a unique story, and in fact at the time there were thousands upon thousands of teenagers having a similar radicalization cycle that would funnel them into various online pipelines. Everyone knows about the alt-right pipeline, that insidious online infrastructure that took thousands of young men and molded them through YouTube videos, blogs, Twitter accounts, and perhaps most importantly right-wing imageboards like 4chan, into unrepentant neo-Nazis.

Adjacent to these spaces, however, were a smattering of smaller ones trying to make the opposite happen. To take righteous anger and funnel it into something more constructive, without sacrificing the need to have a dark sense of humor. In the face of the terrible sludge that runs through the ‘Alt-Right Pipeline,’ that radicalization funnel so acutely tuned to latch onto these young grievances at the time, who would create its antithesis?

The video was called ‘You Don’t Hate (Blue) Mondays.’ It is not a video essay, or breakdown of theory and praxis. It starts as a compilation of anarchist posters from various eras, before cutting to a different compilation of anti-austerity riots in Athens, fighters of the EZLN in Chiapas, Black Bloc attacking the Trump inauguration, and soldiers of the YPG in Syria taking ground. In the background is a remix of the song ‘Blue Monday,’ and it shattered one illusion for me. The illusion that there were no other options than decaying liberalism and its fascistic endpoint. There are movements out there that reject both, that seek to build more, and that have a long and arduous history.

Similar to many right-wing memes that broke out into the mainstream, like Pepe the Frog or Gamergate, it came from an imageboard. /Pol/, or 4chan’s ‘Politically Incorrect’ board was around the height of its cultural influence at the time. The difference here is that it came from its antithesis, /leftypol/.

It was here that I dug in, scanning my own memory, articles from the past, and talking to contemporary users of the board.
History

/leftypol/ got its start as part of the kaleidoscope of many boards on 8chan. For those who need a refresher: 8chan is 4chan’s younger brother, founded ostensibly as a techno-libertarian alternative. Built on ‘free speech absolutism’ with only one rule, do not share anything illegal in the U.S., 8chan quickly spiraled into a cesspit of Nazism and pedophilia while becoming the premier place for mass shooters to post their manifestos. Anybody could create a board, no programming knowledge or even firm moderation required.

In this, the internet’s worst jungle juice, /leftypol/ founded a place for those messageboard users who did not fall into the reactionary trap.

Founded in 2014, it immediately began a frayed and hostile relationship with nearly every other board on the site. It also sheltered a big tent of left-wing thought spanning Anarchists to Marxist-Leninists, Egoists, Hoxhaists, National Bolsheviks (or Nazbols) and Posadists (although the extent to which the last two were jokes is dependent on who you ask). It contained similarly irony poisoned humor (I say this with love) to the rest of the ‘chan’ space, while fundamentally rooted in positions that kept it far away from the cesspit that was the rest of that internet village. The board has held up various ‘manifestos’ throughout its different iterations, but they’ve all kept the same line. The most recent “/leftypol/ Manifesto” reads thusly.

“The mission of /leftypol/ at leftypol.org is to provide a fun and enjoyable space for the working masses around the world, as an anonymous community of non-sectarian leftists united in common cause against the forces of capitalism, fascism, and liberalism.”

“We aim to be the negation of /pol/; anti-fascist, materialist, better read. Our mission, above all, is to learn, and help others learn, the philosophical tools necessary to elucidate the interrelated and ever-increasingly complex space of self, society, and politics, from the local to the global scale.”

/leftypol/ upheld one other commitment, an opposition to liberal identity politics. In the late Obama period, and its immediate deterioration into Trump 1, the rejection of liberal identity politics in favor of upholding the primacy of class struggle, originating from a place of vulgar Marxism, was more scandalous to most liberal commentators and onlookers than the site it was hosted on. It was on this rock that they would build their platform of left unity.

In a world devoid of, and even actively hostile towards, class consciousness and under bombardment by a liberalism seeking to co-opt the movement of the progressive masses, /leftypol/’s predisposition to buck social norms allowed them to be one of the few places left waving that flag.

In the 4chan-esque oeuvre /leftypol/ was forged in, however, this commitment would often devolve into pure class reductionism. Users who would whine about the need for protestors of color to cease their struggles and instead take up the mantle of “No War But Class War,” as if the working people of this country were not contemporaneously shaking the nation to its foundations in the name of Black lives. A blind spot cultivated due to the mostly white userbase of the site, and one that would keep it that way.

In 2017, amongst a divide in the user base over whether or not to support the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Syrian Civil War, the original board owner known as ‘Che’ went on a banning spree. This specifically targeted pro-SDF users, most of whom were anarchists, libertarian socialists, and other non-Marxist-Leninist tendencies.

Kerfus, a former moderator and longtime user of the board, described some of the history, “It's a pretty standard thing in the radical politics milieu: splits, purges, etc. But it had a lasting impact on the ideology of the userbase. Pre-purge, the user base was very diverse, from social democrats to Marxist-Leninists, Maoists, Bordigists and council communists, to anarchists of various tendencies, including primitivists, nihilists.”

He continued,
“Post-purge and the failure of /leftpol/, the board became increasingly more ML, the kind to talk endlessly about geopolitics and Soviet history, to label every protest as a color revolution. Che (an original board owner) was apparently a Marcyite, which would explain quite a few things, as I've heard they are a rather sectarian tendency in American Marxism.”

In 2019, Cloudflare and the rest of its internet providers dropped 8chan, kicking it off the clearnet. During this time, /leftypol/ migrated to a backup site known as Bunkerchan. Due to administrative issues, and an influx of combative “MAGA Communists,” a split occurred in Bunkerchan. This was the most consequential of many major conflicts that happened throughout the history of the board.
From this, the modern “leftypol.org” would spring forth. It retained the vast majority of users and original moderators.
Analysis

Imageboards in general are an antiquated, old-web form of communication. It’s a complete wonder that sites like 4chan and 8chan accumulated as much cultural cachet as they had (and still have, to an extent) 4chan was the site of a ‘Great Meme War’ during the first Trump campaign, one which launched the site into unrivaled cultural relevance as the barrage of crowdsourced, fascist talking points and slogans created the foundation of Trump’s young, radical base.

As Politico put it, “There is no real evidence that memes won the election, but there is little question they changed its tone, especially in the fast-moving and influential currents of social media. The meme battalions created a mass of pro-Trump iconography as powerful as the Obama “Hope” poster and far more adaptable.”

According to numerous documents released in the Epstein files, 4chan’s owner Christopher Poole met with multi-millionaire banker and international sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein multiple times in 2011, a few months before /pol/ was brought online as a board on 4chan. There’s no hard evidence to prove that Epstein directly told Poole to create /pol/, but since then it’s no secret that plenty of influence operations and astroturfed campaigns have gotten their start on 4chan.

What is known, though, is that since 2015 the site has been de-facto moderated by a mysterious manager known as ‘RapeApe.’ In lieu of intervention from 4chan’s current owner, Hiroyuki Nishimura, the site has been consistently pushed towards and molded into far-right beliefs. Where once /pol/ was meant to be the containment board for racists, it is now the head driving the site. According to an investigation by Vice, this is the design of RapeApe.

From Gamergate to those hundreds of memes generated to gin up support for Trump in the run up to 2016, /pol/’s politics have been used to reinforce the class interests of the rich and famous. Many of the influencers to come from it, too, have become fairly wealthy themselves.

At the same time, many right-wing influencers begged to get /leftypol/ taken offline.

According to a Twitter post from Fredrick Brennan, the now-deceased former owner and operator of 8chan, “/leftypol/ was, by far, the board I was most commonly asked to delete as 8chan's admin. BY FAR. In person, over Skype, it seemed like every right-wing e-celeb would ask me to.”

He continued, “They fucking hated you guys. I learned that a lot of my so-called libertarian friends were anything but. They'd send me "evidence" that /leftypol/ was "breaking the law".”

Through this saga, /leftypol/ maintained its own type of edgelord culture. Jokes about Posadism, the belief of Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas that the world revolution would be heralded by communist space aliens and intentional nuclear hellfire, the popularization of the term Anarkiddie, the unapologetic embrace of the term ‘Tankie’ by some members.

You might remember the ‘dirtbag left’ contemporary to the 2016 Bernie Sanders American socialist zeitgeist. Mostly white, male left wing personalities embracing a vulgarity and shock-jock attitude that was empowering to some and alienating to others. Well, where else could these people find a perfect home?

One user of the site gave me a note on an early draft of this article, one that stuck with me: “There’s honestly a need to mention the brutality and crudeness of the “dirtbag” left. That’s what made /leftypol/ stand out, not mere humor, but the willingness to yell NAZBOL GANG in a thread about historical materialism […] and other diagonal ideas that appealed to those attracted to imageboard politics.”

Discomrade, a former tech developer of leftypol.org from 2021 to 2023 put it like so: “/leftypol/ was effective because it filled the real desire for a dirtbag left space, and answered many of the questions that edgy meme-loving nerds were left wanting once blaming da joos stopped being funny and started being honest and pathetic.”

They continued, “There is real value in having creative social spaces where socialists can be publicly edgy, blunt and unapologetic, in stark contrast to the standard whiny student protests, sensitive language-policing and mind-numbing dry critiques […], and worst of all, liberal rainbow capitalism that serves to recuperate revolutionary ideas. There is real shock value in breaching the assumed values of "socialism".”

Default.Blog put it succinctly, “A young male communist who grows up in the same internet spaces where all the other degenerate gamers, anime fans and other hobbyists congregate will probably never truly sit comfortably within the politeness of woke society in normal social media, and /leftypol/ remains one of the few places where they don't have to. There is also a sort of memetic rivalry to the broader reactionary imageboard community, however, of wanting to be more sophisticated but also worried about appearing as “soft” and thin-skinned as the woke internet outside.”

So the board is filled with Albanian bunker memes, catgirls, and threads laughing at failed Nazi rallies. Yet, it maintains a genuine undercurrent of curiosity and a commitment to something approaching reason. You can watch various world events through ‘Happening’ threads, where users congregate to stay up-to-date on whatever contemporary crisis is happening at any given time. I saw more links to actual news sources and an interest in OSINT than similar threads on 4chan.

For heaven's sake, the site maintained and continues to maintain a board for the dissemination of free information. /edu/ (education) is where you can go to find discussions on theory, on praxis, dense texts, and lessons on argumentation. Here you will find the phenomenon of “effortposting.”

As described by Kerfus, “When people take time to articulate their thoughts on a complex subject. I have learned a lot by reading them.”

Contemporary Relevance

It’s easy to write all this off. /leftypol/ is, on many levels, a lot less active than it used to be. It did not win any popular meme wars, etc. On the other hand, however, it did and continues to do so much with so little. /leftypol/ is up against the gargantuan, and status quo friendly /pol/. They’ve undoubtedly gotten under their skin.

According to 4plebs, a 4chan archiving site, there are over 40 pages worth of posts mentioning /leftypol/ in 2025 alone. Most of which are conspiracy-mongering about various users secretly being agents of /leftypol/ or screeching about how ‘sensitive’ their members are (all laden with the requisite amount of slurs).

There is nothing revolutionary about the reactionary beliefs that spawn out of 4chan, yet /leftypol/ does exactly what it says it wants to do. It served (and continues to serve) as a base for the revolutionary-minded, those on the left who have a sense of humor. Kerfus explained, “One important thing is that /leftypol/ was created as an answer to the fascist politics of the 4chan and 8chan /pol/ boards. Some of us pre-2016 4chan users were leftists or anarchists and simply liked the anonymous format. /lit/ created the Stirner memes after all, and my ex-favorite board /mu/ used to be into indie/alternative music, which is a pretty left-wing milieu. The story goes that /leftypol/ started as a /lit/ offshoot actually, since everyone could create their own boards on 8chan.”

And even underneath the long shadow of /pol/’s cultural influence, /leftypol/’s own influence has not disappeared. Aside from memes such as the anarchist catgirl Alunya and capitalist Porky the Pig, the aggression and zeitgeist of young socialism still draw their inspiration from that board.

“My favorite aspect of /leftypol/, one which I hope we can recover, was how it faced our absurd dystopia with a resolve rooted in even greater absurdity.” Moderator Baphomet told me.

“You can still see some of that today, whether it be the ironic praising of the actions of "JDPON Don" or treating Zohran Mamdani as though he's a revolutionary Maoist junta leader rather than a social democratic mayor. The world is irrational, might as well embrace it and fight fire with fire. At least that's my opinion.”

I asked users where they saw the board heading in the future. There was a healthy dash of pessimism and uncertainty; one user, Sputnik_, said “I have no idea. Maybe it'll get bigger, maybe it won't, but regardless it truly is a website.”

On the other hand, many noted real potential in the board to build itself into something greater.

Baphomet explained, “If we can strategically prune low quality bait and bad faith arguments with rigor, while avoiding falling into the trap of sectarianism, we just might have a chance of pulling ourselves out of this rut. Since becoming a mod I've learned just what a tedious and thankless task it is, haha.”

When prompted to imagine where they wanted the board to be in the future, the ideas were a tad more uplifting. Discomrade wrote, “I want /leftypol/ to be in a position where people who need it can find it. People disillusioned with the manosphere and incel culture, with culture wars, with whiteness politics and electoralism. Infamy is our biggest asset, we get free advertising every day from people wondering who the hell this /leftypol/ is that /pol/ keep blaming everything on. Do nothing, keep winning.”

Another moderator told me what they saw as the purpose of the board, “To function both as an internet agitprop laboratory and a dialectical counter-hegemonic apparatus: contesting the right-wing’s capture of the online cultural, linguistic, and memetic terrain, while developing autonomous forms of political subjectivity, collective intelligence, and cultural production capable of intervening in, and eventually transforming, the digital, and even material, landscape itself.”

‘You don't hate (blue) mondays (Student Palestine Protest)’ is a recreation of its original source updated for the modern day, with photos from across the world (including some from my campus, PSU.) The way that the original video gave its original thesis statement in the posters and juxtapositions, here one screenshot in the beginning cuts through all the noise. A simple definition for ‘imperial boomerang.’

Undoubtedly, /leftypol/’s spectre is still haunting the internet.
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Why can't the Left address the elephant in the room?

Clearly, a world government exists, and clearly, a conspiracy exists. Moreover, the behavior of the elite cannot be explained by money alone.
meow. meow. meow.
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Happy 12th Anniversary, /leftypol/!!

On this day, 12 years ago, /leftypol/ was created!!
What are some of your favorite /leftypol/ memories since?
Share some of yours!

We'll also share some birthday goodies in this thread as well.
(Art by https://twitter.com/lemondool)
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Is everyone bisexual?

Why do some people seem to believe that everyone is innately bisexual? I've seen this claim every now and then online, and apparently some prominent bisexuals (e.g. Gore Vidal, Billie Joe Armstrong) believe(d) it. I've even heard it twice IRL; the second time, a lesbian acquaintance of mine said something along the lines of "I'm gay enough that I know straight people aren't lying about being straight", which I concurred with in my head (although I said nothing). Personally, I'm a gay guy, or at least that's what I call myself, but there have been a few rare instances where I briefly wondered whether I actually am attracted to women, only minimally and/or while repressing it, and although I have always ultimately concluded that I am just gay, it does make me think about the idea that everyone is actually just at some point or another on a spectrum of bisexuality. That being said, it still seems highly improbable to me. What are your thoughts?
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Engels was WRONG on Housing

It's time someone said it: Engels was dead wrong in "on the housing question", especially in a US context.

<During the 1870s, a major polemical debate unfolded in Germany’s worker/democratic press on the shortage of housing available to workers in major industrial centres. The influx and increase of the proletariat created a housing crisis. On June 26 1872, Engels contributed the first of a series of articles to the Volksstaat, entitled “The Housing Question.” The last appeared on February 22 1873. Engels’ central point was that the revolutionary class policy of the proletariat cannot be replaced by a policy of reforms, because "it is not that the solution of the housing question simultaneously solves the social question, but that only by the solution of the social question, that is, by the abolition of the capitalist mode of production, is the solution of the housing question made possible." The series criticizes Proudhonism (and petty-bourgeois socialism in general, including Lassalleanism). It also discusses things like the nature of the State, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the eradication of the antithesis between town and country, the solution of the agrarian problem, forms of the socialist reconstruction of society and the tasks of the proletarian party.


Engels argued against other socialists like Proudhon and Emil Sax who argued that widespread working class home ownership was the solution to the housing crisis. Engels actually classified Sax's scheme as "bourgeois socialism" because it aimed state intervention at ameliorating class consciousness without altering overall class relations that much, by "bourgeois-fying" the proletariat through home ownership.

Engels denies that workers even want land and also thinks that if workers owned houses the bourgeoisie will just lower their wages by the amount of the rent they no longer have to pay.

In his haste to prove these non revolutionary class reconciliation schemes can't work and only socialist revolution can actually resolve the contradictions of housing under capitalism. Perhaps that it true in the long run, but that may be centuries. Engels concedes, essentially, that working class homeowners, while not capitalist, are also non proletarian:

>Capital is the command over the unpaid labor of others. The house of the worker can only become capital therefore if he rents it to a third person and appropriates a part of the labor product of this third person in the form of rent. By the fact that the worker lives in it himself the house is prevented from becoming capital, just as a coat ceases to be capital the moment I buy it from the tailor and put it on. The worker who owns a little house to the value of a thousand talers is certainly no longer a proletarian, but one must be Dr. Sax to call him a capitalist.


Engels, with all due respect, was wrong. Yes, it is true that workers who own their homes are not capitalists (unless they become landlords), but it is equally telling that Engels does not address the fact that workers can and frequently do sell their houses at an enormous markup from the price at which they bought them. It is this mechanism that allows them to realize the surplus value expropriated in exchange through ground rent. While the house itself may be a normal commodity, the land underneath it, is not.

Engel’s example of a coat does not apply to land or a house of land (“a coat ceases to be capital the moment I buy it from the tailor and put it on”). Yes, that is because a coat does not typically appreciate in value and get resold. A coat has no future income stream while a plot of land does (expected cash flow from ground-rent). While land produces no value it does enter a circuit of capital, specifically fictitious capital, the term Marx uses for things like stocks, bonds, and land titles. Fictitious capital creates no new value at all in the transaction itself; the gain is a redistribution of already-existing social surplus value toward whoever holds the title when the capitalized rent happens to rise, funneled through rising expected future rents. That's precisely why aggregate "housing wealth" is close to zero-sum across society even though it feels like wealth creation to any individual seller: your gain is the next buyer's higher future cost of access, not a net addition to social product.

Engels doesn't name this class but I think it is most accurate to call it petit-rentier, or possibly something akin to a new gentry class. Essentially homeownership allows this class, either upon realizing the home price gains by selling the house or even through something like a home equity line of credit, to appropriate part of the total surplus value of society through this mechanism described above.

This is why home ownership is known to have an economic conservatizing effect, turning homeowners into single issue voters based on preserving the price of their home and/or increasing it. This is the origin of the stereotypical suburban NIMBY.

If this is true, the majority of citizens of western, especially English speaking nations are not proletarian, but not for the reason third worldists think.

In the US for example depending on how one defines it, somewhere between 52% and 65% of the population consists of homeowners (the latter number counts people who are members of homeowning household, even if not the homeowner themselves), which means even in the conservative case half the population has a reason to be reactionary which is hardly the basis for a mass movement, and in the worst case, around 2/3rds of the population isn't even proletarian.

Let's talk about "bourgeois socialism":

<The Marxist view is such that the bourgeois socialist is the sustainer of the state of bourgeois class relations. In The Principles of Communism, Friedrich Engels describes them as "so-called socialists" who only seek to remove the evils inherent in capitalist society while maintaining the existing society often relying on methods, such as welfare systems and grandiose claims of social reform. Opinions vary as to whether if bourgeois socialist is actively protecting or intentionally excusing the current order, but the common thread is that they are in objective fact preserving it. Rather than abolishing social class divisions, they wish to simply raise everyone up to be a member of the bourgeoisie to allow everyone the ability to endlessly accumulate capital without a working class.


I've reached a conclusion that is as disturbing to orthodox Marxists as it is to right wingers; which is that the United States is ALREADY SOCIALIST. That is to say by Engelsian standards it has been successfully practicing a form of bourgeois socialism at least since the new deal if not even sooner, and in fact the United States and other countries went far, far further in terms of state intervention than men like Emil Sax ever envisioned.

>Sax's proposal, in its own terms: private savings-and-loan-style building societies letting individual workers purchase homes through installment/deferred payment, financed by workers' own accumulated savings and modest capital, not government funds. Its stated political purpose, per Sax's own words that Engels quoted specifically to expose it, was to bind workers to the soil and defuse the dangerous confusion of ideas and proletarian bitterness threatening the social order. Privately financed, operating on existing urban land within existing city limits.


The new deal era US took something very similar and backed it with state power by creating a federal housing administration that backed loans made by private banks, and also heavily subsidized highway (and other) infrastructure to make these far flung suburbs made of detached single family homes accessible by automobile.

The 19th century homesteader fufilling Jeffreson's ideal of the yeoman farmer was only possible after the land was cleared of the natives by the military and gifted by the federal government 40 acres at a time. But the myth of the individualist settler winning the west persisted because that intervention was largely invisible and it appeared that success or failure was up to the individual settler or family's ability to farm a small plot of land.

Similarly there is a genius of the federal subsidization of suburbia, without which large swathes of the population would never be able to live in large detached single family homes as the level of property tax to support transportation, etc. infrastructure to support this would be unimaginably high. To be self sustaining without federal support, property taxes would likely have to raise 30-40% even just to maintain current suburbs let alone build greenfield ones, and other estimates are far, far, far higher.

But to the individual mcmansion owner it appears that their quality of life is entirely their own doing or due to simple market forces causing their houses to appreciate in value. The state driven origins of their prosperity are laundered, unlike social welfare which is clearly perceived as direct transfer payments. What market oriented YIMBYs get wrong is not that this is a form of state intervention into capitalism that is "inefficient" by neoliberal standards, but that without this, towns and cities without 1920s levels of density would either have to densify or fail financially. That would be equivalent to reproletarianizing the petit rentier class, which would essentially be the end of american bourgeois socialism and stripping asset ownership from masses of the working class population would also destroy the lack of class conflict the US has "enjoyed" since the end of the 1940s.
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/ CYBERCOM /

This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/

Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)

Active writers/creators sorted by last name

>Paul Cockshott

https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)

Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/

Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
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GetChan

hey fellas, i dont use leftypol that much but since you guys are sorta connected to Getchan, why is the site filled with loli porn? Its disgusting. Is this topic new because ive never heard anyone speaking on it.
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College seems like a load of bullshit to me, all fluff and no actual learning

HIIII its me ERVA!!
I've come to complain about my experience with college and schooling as a whole. As a bonus I posted some pics of my books.

But anyway Ill keep it short and sweet, college feels like an extension the same bullshit I dealt with in high school.

I was expecting college to be more focused on writing in depth essays/proofs and reading big large books and writing summaries and drawing diagrams for the professor. In reality though school has been thoroughly taken over by online bullshit, online assignment sheets that you fill in the answers for.
I'm fine with repetition, in fact repetition is actually good for learning at times, but this just feels lazy, and it blocks actual learning it feels like for me.

Idk, I guess I've just been so accustomed to self study and doing writing summaries and essays according to what the books Ive read that it feels really weak by comparison.

I've told my parents how I feel and they say that I just gotta wait till I get into a more advanced class, but idk If I really have the patience for that :(.

Honestly the one thing I am currently going to school for to learn, medical stuff (surgery) may not even be necessary.
I really really wanna learn brain surgery, but honestly college just seems so boring and a barrier to actual learning that I might just try to learn surgery outside of school.
Of course theres books on it, but for something like that I'd need actual samples to work on.

Idk.
Maybe I should still go to school…. :(

also not trying to bookflex on ppl w that library pic, I havent even begun to read all of them
currently just reading my biology book for the course Im taking and euler algebra (working my way up to his calc textbooks)
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/Serbia/

Thread for the landlocked ex-Yugoslavian Balkan country in Southeast/Central Europe, bordering Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Croatia.

I guess the president of Serbia who looks like Chudjak has a football mafia that shoves people into meat grinders or some shit Edition
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AFD is lesser evilism compared to Neoliberalglobohomoism

AFD party is lesser evilism

They want to end the UKKKraine relationship
Recognise NATO genocide against Russia
Against NATO expansion and want to leave it
Supporting GermExit
Only opposition are Neoliberalglobohomoism

Tell me why are they le bad other than immigration?
Even China has strict immigration policies.
Critical supporting them is win win for Anti-imperialists nations.
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/gaygen/

lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
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Who would dig ditches and clean toilets under communism? My intro to sociology professor said it would be volunteers on a rotating basis but I don’t see that happening.
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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #73

<Things are getting spicy edition

>previous bake

>>2904851

Latest News
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<Iran captured Anduril Underwater Drone

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https://www.pizzint.watch/
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https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
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>Useful Channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
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>Useful Xitters

https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
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>Useful TG:

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https://t.me/s/shiachuds

>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
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https://sonar21.com/
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https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast

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JOB SEEKING

did you get a job straight out of university high school training etc? I've been applying for years. Shit sucks. Only have a job after going to a mental hospital and a retard facility. Who's dick did you suck to get your job. I could probably just have laid bricks and shit for 600AUD a day or so. I'd be in better shape and not a fat permanently online retard.
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Industrial/Noise/EBM

Post em if you got em
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Genuinely what would have even changed, internal policy- wise if he had taken power instead of Stalin?
How would the lives of ordinary soviet citizens and the ones in the (presumedly) soon to be liberated areas be different? How would the state function under his rule? What makes him so different that even to this day he has followers ready to die for his ideas? Sorry for being a theorylet, I just find the whole Trotsky-Stalin affair to be confusing and pointless.
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>Leninist doctrine holds that a vanguard Party should assume state power and drive the population to economic development, and, by some miracle that is unexplained, to freedom and justice. It is an ideology that naturally appeals greatly to the radical intelligentsia, to whom it affords a justification for their role as state managers. I can’t see any reason — either in logic or history — to take it seriously. Libertarian socialism (including a substantial mainstream of Marxism) dismissed all of this with contempt, quite rightly.
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The rejection of stageist theory or why is the socialist revolution most likely to succeed in Greec

Why was the KKE able to retain its mass base and its revolutionary character after the counter-revolution? Why is the communist party of a small, albeit typical, lesser NATO country the leading force of a current for the reconstitution of a leninist pole in the international communist movement, against the main current of social-chauvinism, prompted by imperialist centers?
Unlike for example the -up until the 1990s politically and organizationally similar- Portuguese communist party which ended up supporting bourgeois coalitions the KKE had an internal split with the eurocommunist 'renewalist' tendencies, that were even inside the political bureau. The full organizational split from opportunism proved to be vital for the direction of the party. This allowed the KKE to stay true to revolutionary principles while also retaining firm roots in the working people, while the Portuguese communist party slowly deteriorated through contact with 'leftist' bourgeois forces. The theoretical developments on the KKE's strategy is owed to this direction that refuses to submit to the new negative power dynamic between capital and the international proletariat, and recognises that despite the subversions at the end of the last century our era is still that of socialist revolution.The KKE's contemporary revolutionary strategy is based on the creative assimilation of the experience of the communist movement.
In my opinion, this is a relative development of communist theory because it make it more concrete. I think its driving force are not just the local conditions of Greece but, mostly, its unique history. The KKE today, while of course honouring the communist heroes which where on the first line in the fight against fascism everywhere, criticizes the strategy adopted by the 7th Congress of the Communist International. In its opinion, the strategic theory of two-stage revolution and of the united national, anti-fascist, anti-colonial etc. front mostly succeeded due the onslaught of the Red Army in Europe that objectively destroyed the bourgeois states.
In cases like France the collaboration with bourgeois forces in the antifascist front led to the disconnection of national and social struggles and eventually to eurocommunism.
In Greece the two-stage strategy failed, not only because the Red Army never reached it, but also despite the fact that the KKE did not have to, or rather could not, collaborate with the greek bourgeoisie because it either fled during the Occupation or collaborated with the nazis. This meant that it was objectively the main force of the national resistance movement. But because it fought for the unclear goal of intermediate peoples-republic stage, it hesitated in crucial moments and lost the revolutionary chance.
Today, the assimilation of that experience can reveal -to use a hegelian term- an objective illusion (Schein) arising from the mid-war conditions of capitalist development and the objective position of the communist parties for the correct analysis of power relations between the classes. The utter complexity of the October Revolution, can be easily missed from the point of view of its stabilisation in a completely hostile world, with the rise of fascism and a possible coalition of imperialist powers against the country of the workers, under a constant sense of urgency. However, we can tell a hundred years later: it was a historical rupture with (not a continuation of) February. It might seem like that the bourgeois revolution sas organically transformed into socialist-proletarian but that was not the case: the only thing that mediated was dual power and revolutionary war. Lenin abandoned the staged tactic of the Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution with the April Thesis, and this new quick redirection in accordance with the changed analysis of changed conditions led to the success of the Bolsheviks.
After the 7th Congress the Communist International pushed a line that was a regression from that bolshevik revolutionary leap. Missing the dialectical totality of the leninist conception of revolutionary theory in the era of imperialism, it tried to mechanically reproduce the Two Tactics. In Greece and in other countries, this translated to a coalition with bourgeois government post liberation, crucial hesitations during the revolutionary situation, all in the name of the incompleteness of bourgeois democracy, and ultimately defeat. The parties that took part in bourgeois governments deteriorated into reformism and/or were dissolved within the united front of their own creation. In Greece, however the uniqueness lay in that because post-liberation there were all the preconditions of a genuine peoples victory for socialism, hadn't the KKE hesitated to start the civil war, the failure of stageist strategy and its immediate consequences lay bare. The historical and political conclusions of the turn that led to the October Revolution return with vengeance. The reason that the Bolsheviks wom and the greek Democratic People's Army lost in their class civil wars is the same: the strategy of immediate seizure of power for the construction of socialism in the imperialist era on the basis of the understanding that "between capitalism and communism can only the period of the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat".
The KKE faced another historical uniqueness: while mostly in exile after its loss, the crucial opportunist turning point in the communist movement, the direction set by the 20th Congress of the CPSU had to be enforced. It was not easy to adopt the strategy of "peaceful transition to socialism' when the lessons of the civil war were so fresh. The KKE's General Secretary during the war had to be purged by the Soviets. This led to many internal struggles that led to the split of 1968. But due to the struggle of the Democratic People's Army the KKE managed to survive and still influence a large portion of greek society. It objectively remained the main force of the greek proletariat in the class struggles to come.
And so, having reaffirmed its revolutionary character during the crisis of the 90s, in conditions post the dissolution of the old colonial system but also the reach of capital in every corner of the earth post the counter-revolution, having studied the history of the communist movement and of its self, the KKE is able to form a strategy and apply it to the mass movement it in the direction of socialist revolution.
That is why if we assume that a revolutionary crisis is likely to spark in multiple similar countries at once due to the interconnectedness of contemporary global capitalist production, I think it is most likely to result in a successful revolution in Greece. Of course that does not mean that if a greek revolution does initially succeed it won't be crashed by global imperialism if it doesn't spread.
We need to note that the rejection of stageism does not at all justify the greek trotskyites. Indeed when the KKE adopted the strategy of a bourgois-democratic stage to the revolution they were calling for socialist revolution in Greece, but that was not at all due to a correct analysis. It was an obsession with their theory of permanent revolution, put the dustbin of history by the success of socialism in one country. Their dogmatism led them to call for 'working class unity with the german soldiers' and completely erasing the national struggle. No talk of their terrible position on the peasant question and outright racist rejection of the possibility of socialist construction in the countries that it was most likely to happen. Besides, almost all trotskyists today have in one way or another adopted the stageist strategy, they are just calling it transitional measures.
We also need to note that the partisan tactic upheld by communist-revolutionaries of the 20th century arm-in-hand, has nothing to do with the invocation of stageism by modern opportunists to justify their reformism. The communists of the 20th century genuinely did what they only could think was the best and fastest way to communism. Todays supporters of stageist strategy mostly want to justify their allegiance with bourgeois forces in a leftist government on the ground capitalist-imperialism.
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Friend hss Kim Il-Sung photo

My friend just showed me a real framed photo she has of her grandma with Kim Il-Sung and Samora Machel from when she worked in the Mozambican government during its socialist era, just thought you guys should know that.
The funniest part is her grandma being white
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/leftybritpol/ - Britpop Edition

You'll never live like common people
You'll never do what ever common people do
Never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And then dance, and drink, and screw
Because there's nothing else to dooo
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PDF/EPUB post outage thread

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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Right wing politics and psychology

This thread is for discussing the psychology of right wing politics eg for example why men are more likely to be right wing than women on average perspectives are welcomed including non-leftist perspectives
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is there still any leftypol oldfags that have been posting for 10-12 years straight ?
how did you originally find leftypol and what made you stay even after all of this time lmao
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Why are rightoids so obsessed with muh objective morality?

It was a major talking point of the 2000s culture wars between the Religious Right vs. liberals, namely the belief that the right-wing upheld the notion that there is an objective truth and an objective morality that stems from it, while liberals (and genuine leftists for that matter) were portrayed as staunch believers in moral relativism which they acquired through "worshipping" science and history in lieu of religion.

So how does this belief in objective moral truth fit in with the greater right-wing agenda? How does the exploiter class benefit from proles believing in objective morality?
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I miss MMOs

I feel like we need to discuss why MMOs as a genre were never good, but how they were also fucking amazing. This is all due to when MMOs became a thing.
Most if not all MMOs people actually care about were from the early 2000s. They were all pushing the boundaries of capitalism over video games with either a subscription or whatever the hell is wrong with the korean industry, but, and I must stress this, but…they came out during the ONLY MOMENT they would've been successful.
They were social spaces, social WORLDS in fact, they were by definition larping sims. In an era where that was still a new thing. From 2003-2012, MMOs had THIS as their main wow factor. This is also their only staying power in media ABOUT video games, their sense of community and ability to break barriers…of course, all those external pieces of media also made it about how MMO players were losers, but nontheless, that was why they became a genre.
After social media became a permanent staple of human life, MMOs had practically no point anymore. Most of them were already garbage gameplay wise. This is why we all want classic wow, or classic maple, or the return of wonderking (which, by the way, looks like actual garbage, to my dismay).
We didn't "grow out" of MMOs, that is what idiots with no argument say to shut you up, the WORLD outgrew MMOs, and sadly, we have been conditioned to not be impressed or enamoured.
>what the fuck are you saying OP??
I'm saying what I mean, anon. Maybe I was groomed by this industry to endure capitalism, but DAMN IT, there was a time talking to someone as your personal chibi avatar was cool and FUN! Now it's a fucking bore, I cannot understand why anyone would play an MMO in 2025, almost all of them are bad wow clones.
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Dragon Ball Z and Naruto Hate Thread

These two are supposed to be the Citizen Kane of anime, everyone loves them, yet they are such fucking garbage, literal trash, why are they so fucking bad holy shit.
And I watched it when I was a kid and even then I HATED it, I had a friend who also watched DBZ and he hated it too, even we who were just two little dumbass kids could recognize how shit this cartoon was. And dont get me started on Super.
Naruto is just as bad if not worse, they somehow contradict their own message every god damn time, and have a little privileged retarded kid as the main character who was born with le epic god powers, and never works a day in his life to achieve anything, its all just handed to him
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Star Trek

Talk space socialism to me. Was recently rewatching a few series with my fiance, both old and new Trek, and we both feel like Deep Space 9 is our favorite series (closely followed by TNG).

Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
Original Series
Beyond
First Contact
Generations
Discovery
Nemesis
Insurrection
Star Trek 2009
Into Darkness
Picard Seasons 1&2

Skipped a couple of the TOS movies we haven't seen cause it wouldn't be fair to rank them. Also split Picard up since the 3rd season is basically a different show both in quality and tone.

Previous thread:
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/Political Economy/ General #7 - Closin' At Dunkin' Edition

Previous Thread: >>2722737

Links:

Previous Thread Archives
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Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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/latamu/ - Música Latina

>Compartilhe e discuta músicas da América Latina que você encontrou, gosta, ou está escutando.
<Comparte y comenta las músicas de América Latina que has encontrado, que te gusta o que estás escuchando.

recentemente encontrei essa banda punk só de garotas BR, achei bem legal e parece meio underground, o que acham? já conheciam?
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the money problem

i know you theory-minded suburban adolescents don't want to hear this, but one of the unavoidable prerequisites for any kind of leftist revolutionary effort, or any large scale human endeavor for that matter, is obtaining money. you want to organize a strike or start a union, you need money to pay your friends who are now out of work and starving. you want to start a big protest on the streets, you need money to pay lawyers and bondsmen and hospital bills when your friends inevitably end up in jail or the emergency room. you want to start an armed insurrection and go to war with cops and national guard and maga militias you need enormous amounts of money to pay for weapons and ammunition and vehicles and fuel and radios and burner phones and medical supplies and rations so your friends don't get massacred. you need a lot of money, and the money has to obtained honestly and ethically, otherwise you cease to be a revolutionary movement and you just become a violent capitalist drug/weapon/human trafficking cartel masquerading as a revolutionary movement and the people you're supposed to be fighting for will despise you even more than the regime. and you need to be able to handle the money without becoming emotionally attached to the money, i.e. you need to be willing to part with the money you worked very hard for and throw it into the pool with everyone else's money and cease to think of it as your money after that, it is now everyone's money and it doesn't matter how much your contribution was compared to anyone else's because it's not your money anymore. and trying to abandon the whole concept of money is not the solution, it's an absurdly unrealistic and lazy copout that simply tries to ignore and sidestep what is ultimately the true source of all of our problems, the fundamental flaw of human psychology that got us into this mess to begin with, which is our lack of emotional maturity when it comes to material wealth. there is no getting out from under capitalism without addressing that core problem, there is no clever shortcut that will allow us to skip ahead to the next level of human social evolution without dealing with our greed and our entitlement and our pettiness. if we can't find any reasonable middle ground between getting high on money and rejecting it outright, between capitalism and utopianism, then we've got more immediate and personal problems to deal with before we can start talking about how to refactor the entire world.
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/US-Venezuela War #15/

"Superbigote es inocente" Edición

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leute, ich rufe ich dazu auf hier in euer eigenen sprache zu posten. es ist an der zeit das diktat der anglos zu brechen. vorallem in hinblick darauf, dass das hier ein linkes bzw. multipolaristisch ausegrichtetes forum ist.

wir leben im zeitalter der maschinellen übersetzung. früher mussten nicht-anglos die ganze kognitive last tragen. wir mussten uns den anglos anpassen. damit ist jetzt schluss! wenn jemand an einem beitrag interessiert ist, dann wird er ihn selbst durch ein übersetzungstool jagen. ich tue das für meine eigenen beiträge jedenfalls nicht mehr. die englische sprache ist keine lingua franca, sondern ein werkzeug des anglo kulturimperialismus! es ist zeit widerstand zu leisten! postet in eurer sprache!
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Do Myanmar rebels represent the contemporary revolutionary spirit?

Do you wish this were your appearance, leftypol?
Are you as brave as them?
Could you handle the pressure in that chaotic and stressful environment with no conventional training and minimal funding and weaponry?
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Neocon Iraq War criminals

Why is it that the surviving members of the George W. Bush administration who acted as the architects of the Iraq War have never faced any legal penalties for what they did?

The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????

The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
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I am not a communist and I wanna ask you guys why most communists speak as if they know the truth?
Facts about economics, social organization, justice and politics are not obvious. Things change, humans are absolitely impredictable.

There is no physical science that is absolutely true, even mathematics has its blind spots, why should human and social sciences be?

It can move people towards a goal, but is it worth it if not based in something good?
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Why are mainstream conspiracy theories like this?

<We, the Judeomason Chabadniks, want to destroy the European aristocracy and Catholicism, the only one who can stop us is Trump, who is like a second Hitler to us.
<Source: Rabbi Nonamestein memoris, Mew-York, 2001, p. 1488. (Don’t actually google plz)
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AI news shit general

The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

Previous thread:>>30810
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A general for "western" animations/cartoons.

New thread for Western animation (or wanime) now that the old one is full at long last. The old thread can be found here:

>>22171

I'm sure with everything we've seen and learned from the last thread, this one will be even better.

Related threads:
Hazbin Hotel: >>5447
TADC: >>46854
MLP: >>37939
Lefty/co/: >>1328
Communist cartoon General: >>47870
Animation today: >>7658
Knights of Guinevere: >>46648
KOTH: >>46468

Good luck, be yourself, and don't forget to have FUN.
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Reading General Sticky

Hello, /leftypol/!
Welcome to the Reading General Sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.

Don't forget to check out >>>/edu/ for more reading and discussion!

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Common Right Wing Talking Points Debunks
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Check out the /edu/ thread at
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/5576.html

Also see the relevant leftybooru tag
https://lefty.pictures/post/list/debunk/1
Add topics into the tag list to further narrow down your search!

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Reading Matrix Room - Thanks to the /read/ matrix room (https://matrix.to/#/#leftyread:matrix.org)
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Classical Marxism
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The foundational texts and concepts strictly written and conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Tier 1
Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCYXFisM4k

Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-Gn8q47cs

Wage Labour and Capital (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llbLvm3RAc

Principles of Communism (1847) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcpspooZvk

Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkR-0NeOzw

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_BiWhvVyA

Tier 2
The Holy Family (1844) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/

On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8

Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaK6b6eZrg

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1952) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxXeE8kn4U

Value, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhVZW3HJzM

The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWrTzJFrnQ

Tier 3
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78lwj_TNVI

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

The German Ideology (1846) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERf6Qvqwr6g

The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy2A2ZpSEU

Grundrisse (1858) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/

Anti-Dühring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATakOyA0zc

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo

DAS KAPITAL
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXStf2E1tc


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German Idealism
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Philosophical movement that generally argues that the mind’s structures (reason, self-consciousness) play an active role in shaping reality and experience, centering on how freedom, subjectivity, and the unity of subject and object grounds knowledge and moral life. Hugely influential in revolutionary socialist currents.

Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm

Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (1794) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-6-0.pdf

The Phenomenology of Spirit (1801) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phconten.htm

The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47025/pg47025-images.html

The Jewish Question (1843) by Bruno Bauer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-3.pdf


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Utopian Socialism
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Early socialist current that imagined ideal, cooperative communities and peaceful social reforms achieved by moral persuasion and voluntary association rather than class struggle or revolution.

The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46333/pg46333-images.html

The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm

The Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/theory-four-movements-charles-fourier

A New View of Society and Other Writings (1813) by Robert Owen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/owen/society/index.htm

On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) by David Ricardo
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33310/pg33310-images.html

New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf

Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf

Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30107/pg30107-images.html

Instructions for an Armed Uprising (1866) by Louis Auguste Blanqui
📖 · https://blanqui.kingston.ac.uk/texts/instructions-for-an-armed-uprising-1868/


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Classical Anarchism
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Rejects the state and hierarchical authority, serves as the basis for modern and contemporary Anarchism. Variants include Mutualism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Individualist anarchism.

Tier 1
What is Property? (1840) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoynLwP3u4

Collectivism (1872) by Adhémar Schwitzguébel
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adhemar-schwitzguebel-collectivism

Tier 2
The Philosophy of Poverty (1846) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty

God and the State (1871) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-god-and-the-state
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLArnrsxwWY

Ideas on Social Organisation (1876) by James Guillaume
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization

Tier 3
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793) by William Godwin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/godwin-political-justice

The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo

Statism and Anarchy (1873) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-statism-and-anarchy


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Orthodox Marxism
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Stemming from the Second International, treats Marxism as a scientific, historical-materialist doctrine. Generally arguing that capitalism contains objective economic contradictions that makes proletarian revolution and socialism inevitable. Therefore, political organization, class struggle, and economic analysis are central.

Tier 1
The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (1896) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1896/06/essex-lecture.html

Erfurt Program (1891) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm

The Main Enemy Is At Home! (1914) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1915/05/main-enemy-home.htm

Tier 2
Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1883/struggle/index.htm

The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCOEZ8xjqM

On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCUjwmSSk4

Reform or Revolution? (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgtmGmyl4

Militarism and Anti-Militarism (1907) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1907/militarism-antimilitarism/index.htm

The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/

The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/histacc/index.html

The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc

The Road to Power (1909) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/power/

Tier 3
The Development of the Monist View of History (1895) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1899/nocomp/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlYu23bMNhg

The Socialist Crisis in France (1901) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1901/socialist-crisis-france/index.htm

The Social Revolution (1902) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1902/socrev/

The Foundations of Christianity (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/index.htm

The Accumulation of Capital (1913) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/


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Anarcho-Communism
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Advocates for abolishing the state, capitalism, and private ownership of the means of production in favor of decentralized, voluntary communes with common ownership and distribution "from each according to ability, to each according to need." Variants include Platformism, Syncreticism, and Magonism.

Tier 1
Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869) by Sergey Nechayev
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kviqQa6ZU

To Manual Workers, Supporters of Political Action (1876) by François Dumartheray
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francois-dumartheray-to-manual-workers-supporters-of-political-action

Anarchy and Communism (1880) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carlo-cafiero-anarchy-and-communism

Our Revolution (1881) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1881/our-revolution.html

A Word to Tramps (1884) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-to-tramps

Words of a Rebel (1885) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1885/words-of-a-rebel/index.html

I Am an Anarchist (1886) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-i-am-an-anarchist

Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy

Manifesto of the Mexican Liberal Party (1911) by Ricardo Flores Magón
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/ricardo-flores-magon/1911/manifesto-of-the-mexican-liberal-party.html

The Anarchist Synthesis (1927) by Sébastien Faure
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sebastien-faure-the-anarchist-synthesis

A Project of Anarchist Organisation (1927) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-a-project-of-anarchist-organisation

The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929) by Alexander Berkman
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/berkman/1929/what-is-communist-anarchism/index.html

Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w

At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism (1922) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1922/at-the-cafe/index.html

On Synthesis (1924) by Volin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voline/1924/on-synthesis.html

The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1926/struggle-against-the-state/index.html

Tier 3
The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm

Mutual Aid (1902) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm

History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) (1923) by Peter Arshinov
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921

The Russian Revolution in the Ukraine (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-the-russian-revolution-in-the-ukraine

Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Various Authors
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists


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Leninism
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Mostly based on the works of Vladimir Lenin, argues for a disciplined vanguard party using democratic centralism to seize state power and establish a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the transition from capitalism to socialism.

Tier 1
What Is To Be Done? (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eCCtzsiXY

Revolutionary Adventurism (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPbNQ9JqjA

Socialism and Religion (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMlcPb1ttw

Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAII71GaFY

The ABC of Communism (1920) by Nikolai Buhkarin & Evgenii Preobrazhensky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVnjwBQHH0

Tier 2
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsWA4HCGuY

The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbODqyoeM0

Imperialism and World Economy (1915) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Uj5GE1h1U

The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IWmgY8k2A

“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh84f8czc7g

Tier 3
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUKPPYmqk

The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig

Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7o64hezwc


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Syndicalism
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Tendency that aims to replace capitalism and the state by organizing workers into trade-union syndicates using direct action, such as general strikes, in order to take control of production and self-manage the economy.

Tier 1
Anarchism and the Workers' Unions (1895) by Fernand Pelloutier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-and-workers-unions-fernand-pelloutier

What Means This Strike? (1898) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm

Sabotage (1898) by Émile Pouget
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pouget/1898/sabotage.htm

The Burning Question of Trade Unionism (1904) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1904/040421.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe1aEA4UOw

The General Strike (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/

The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency (1917) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm

Tier 2
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism

One Big Union (2000) by the Industrial Workers of the World
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-one-big-union

Tier 3
Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1905) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1905/050710.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzF6QXNIWV0

Industrial Socialism (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/IndSocialism/

The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) by Mother Jones
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65079/pg65079-images.html

Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (1990) by José Peirats
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchists-spanish-revolution


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Marxism-Leninism
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Institutionalized doctrine that fuses Marx’s theory with Lenin’s praxis as codified official party ideology, applying the idea of historical materialism to a practical program of revolutionary vanguardism and a state-led transition to socialism.

Tier 1
Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

The Path Which Led Me To Leninism (1960) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm

The Khruschevites (1976) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/index.htm

Tier 2
Anarchism or Socialism? (1906) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm

Marxism and the National Question (1913) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm

Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia (1950) by Josip Broz Tito
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm

Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm

History Will Absolve Me (1953) by Fidel Castro
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm

Guerilla Warfare (1961) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf

Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism (1980) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm

Tier 3
Foundations of Leninism (1924) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/

The People's Front (1938) by Earl Browder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/browder/peoples-front/index.htm

Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm

Fundamentals of Marxism–Leninism (1960) by Otto Kuusinen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kuusinen/1960/fundamentals-marxism-leninism.pdf

Imperialism and the Revolution (1979) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm

Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) by Kaysone Phomvihane
📖 · https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Revolution_in_Laos

Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1990) by Thomas Sankara
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/womens-liberation-and-african-freedom-struggle


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Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
——————–
Both support propaganda of the deed as a method of revolutionary struggle, with Illegalism having roots in Individualist Anarchism while Insurrectionary Anarchism shares overlap with Anarcho-Communism.

Tier 1
A Letter from Mazas Prison (1886) by Clément Duval
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/clement-duval-a-letter-from-cleement-duval

Why I Was a Burglar (1905) by Marius Jacob
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marius-jacob-why-i-was-a-burglar

Byzantinism and Limpness (1909) by Michel Antoine
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-antoine-byzantinism-and-limpness

Is the Illegalist Anarchist Our Comrade? (1911) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-is-the-illegalist-anarchist-our-comrade

Two Lectures on the Bonnot Affair (1912) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-two-lectures-on-the-bonnot-affair

Tier 2
The Anarchism of Émile Armand (1907) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-anarchism-of-emile-armand

Toward the Creative Nothing (1924) by Renzo Novatore
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/renzo-novatore-toward-the-creative-nothing

The Principal of Organization to the Light of Anarchism (1927) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-principal-of-organization-to-the-light-of-anarchism

Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo Bonnano
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy

Tier 3
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo

Against War, Against Peace, For The Social Revolution (1914) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-against-war-against-peace-for-the-social-revolution

The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-end-of-anarchism

Anarchists Never Surrender (1938) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-anarchists-never-surrender

The Anarchist Cookbook (1971) by William Powell
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782487901594-3.pdf

The Bonnot Gang (1987) by Richard Parry
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-parry-the-bonnot-gang-the-story-of-the-french-illegalists

The Coming Insurrection (2007) by The Invisible Committee
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection


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Trotskyism
——————–
Based on Leon Trotsky's work, stresses permanent revolution, proletarian internationalism, and an opposition to bureaucratic degeneration.

Tier 1
The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm

The Transitional Program (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/

Their Morals and Ours (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm

Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm

Tier 2
Terrorism and Communism (1920) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm

The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm

Tier 3
The Third International After Lenin (1928) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm

History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/

The Revolution Betrayed (1936) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/


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Pacifism
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Belief that war and violence are morally wrong or should be avoided, often favoring nonviolent resistance, diplomacy, and peaceful conflict resolution.

Tier 1
Civil Disobedience (1849) by Henry David Thoreau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm

Pilgrimage to Nonviolence (1960) by Martin Luther King Jr.
📖 · https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/pilgrimage-nonviolence

Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you

Indian Home Rule (1909) by Mahatma Gandhi
📖 · https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf

The Power of Nonviolence (1934) by Richard B. Gregg
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-0.pdf

The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf

From Dictatorship to Democracy (1994) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-4-2.pdf

Tier 3
The Conquest of Violence (1937) by Bart de Ligt
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-6-1.pdf

Essays (Including Pacifism and Class War) (1967) by A. J. Muste
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782308254608-1.pdf

The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-1.pdf

Writings Against Power & Death (1994) by Alex Comfort
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-8-3.pdf


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Maoism
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Also known as Mao Zedong Thought, argues for peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, mass mobilization, and adapting Marxist strategy to agrarian societies.

Tier 1
Analysis of The Classes In Chinese Society (1926) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.htm

Oppose Book Worship (1930) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm

Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (1934) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm

Combat Liberalism (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm

Serve The People (1944) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_19.htm

Bombard The Headquarters (1966) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm

Tier 2
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm

On Practice (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm

On Protracted War (1938) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm

On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm

Tier 3
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan (1927) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm

On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/

The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_23.htm

On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm


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Agrarian Socialism
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Socialist tradition that centers land, peasants, rural workers, and village communities rather than industrial workers alone. Sharing overlap with Maoism, related currents include Narodnism, Georgism, Neozapatismo, and, in the most extreme end of the spectrum, Pol Pot Thought.

Tier 1
>Georgism
Agrarian Justice (1797) by Thomas Paine
📖 · https://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html

>Narodnism

Agrarian Program (1905) by the Socialist Revolutionary Party
📖 · https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Social-Revolutionaries

>Zapatismo/Neozapatismo

Plan of Ayala (1911) by Emiliano Zapata
📖 · https://users.pop.umn.edu/~rmccaa/la20c/ayala.htm

First Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle (1993) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1st-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf

Our Word Is Our Weapon (2002) by Subcomandante Marcos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/subcomandante-marcos-our-word-is-our-weapon

Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (2005) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6th-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf

Tier 2
>Narodnism
From the Other Shore (1850) by Alexander Herzen
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-2-0.pdf

Historical Letters (1869) by Pyotr Lavrov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-1.pdf

>Agrarian Marxism

Land or Death (1971) by Hugo Blanco
📖 · http://www.socialiststories.com/en/writers/Blanco-Hugo/Land-or-Death-Hugo-Blanco.pdf

>Pol Pot Thought

The Party’s Four-Year Plan to Build Socialism in All Fields, 1977–1980 (1976) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-8-3.pdf

Long Live the 17th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1977) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Cambodia/PolPot/PolPot-LongLiveThe17thAnniversaryOfCPofKampuchea-1977.pdf

Tier 3
>Georgism
Progress and Poverty (1879) by Henry George
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55308/pg55308-images.html

>Narodnism

Marxism and the Agrarian Question (1906) by Viktor Chernov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782347353852-9.pdf

The Theory of Peasant Economy (1925) by Alexander Chayanov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-2.pdf

>Agrarian Marxism

Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928) by José Carlos Mariátegui
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/index.htm


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Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
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Treats Maoism as a higher stage of Marxism–Leninism, emphasizing peasant-led, protracted people’s war, the mass line, and continuing revolution to prevent bureaucratic degeneration.

Tier 1
On Gonzalo Thought (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-1-0.pdf

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Revisionism? (1990) by Prachanda
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/p_mlmor_revisionism.html

Tier 2
General Political Line (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/CPP/Documents/GeneralPoliticalLineOfTheCommunistPartyOfPeru-1988-OCR.pdf

The Great Leap Forward: An Inevitable Need of History (2001) by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Worker/Worker-07/GreatLeapForward-Prachanda-010200.htm

Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (2004) by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf

Tier 3
On the Bourgeois-Democratic State (1961) by Abimael Guzmán
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/Gonzalo/Guzman-OnTheBourgeois-DemocraticState-1961-Thesis-OCR-sm.pdf

Philippine Society and Revolution (1970) by Amado Guerrero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/cpp/guerrero/1970/psr.htm

Problems & Prospects of Revolution in Nepal (2004) by Prachanda and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/index.htm


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Postcolonialism
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Study of how colonialism shaped societies, cultures, identities, politics, and knowledge, and how formerly colonized peoples resist, reinterpret, and live with those colonial legacies.

Tier 1
The Case Against French Colonization (1924) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.leinsdorf.com/The%20Case%20Against%20French%20Colonialism%20%20Copyright,%202017-2.htm

Discourse on Colonialism (1950) by Aimé Césaire
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/discourse-colonialism

Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988) by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Spivak_Gayatri_1988_Can_the_Subaltern_Speak.pdf

Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America (2000) by Aníbal Quijano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-5-0.pdf

Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native (2006) by Patrick Wolfe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-4-2.pdf

Tier 2
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) by Vine Deloria Jr
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-8-0.pdf

Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-1.pdf

Unity and Struggle (1979) by Amílcar Cabral
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1979/unity-struggle.pdf

Decolonising the Mind (1986) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-9-2.pdf

Tier 3
The Black Jacobins (1938) by C. L. R. James
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-jacobins-toussaint-louverture-and-san-domingo-revolution-clr-james

Black Skin, White Masks (1952) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-skin-white-masks-frantz-fanon

The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/wretched-earth-frantz-fanon

Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/nkrumah/nkrumah-neocolonialism.pdf

Open Veins of Latin America (1971) by Eduardo Galeano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782445309022-1.pdf

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) by Walter Rodney
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/8/81/Rodney_Walter_How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa_rev_ed_1981.pdf

Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Said_Edward_Orientalism_1979.pdf

The Location of Culture (1994) by Homi K. Bhabha
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-3.pdf

Provincializing Europe (2000) by Dipesh Chakrabarty
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-7-4.pdf

On the Postcolony (2001) by Achille Mbembe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-3-1.pdf


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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
——————–
Adapts and institutionalizes Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions by marrying one-party rule and state control of strategic sectors with market-oriented reforms to drive modernization.

Tier 1
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite As One In Looking to the Future (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/110.htm

Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/115.htm

We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/152.htm

To Build Socialism We Must First Develop the Productive Forces (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/101.htm

Tier 2
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/220.htm

Tier 3
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (1984) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/DengXiaoping/DengXiaoping-BuildSocialismWithChineseCharacteristics.pdf

On the “Three Represents” (2000) by Jiang Zemin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-1.pdf

Report to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (2007) by Hu Jintao
📖 · https://gb.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zywl/2007/200710/t20071031_3386927.htm

The Governance of China (2014) by Xi Jinping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/XiJinping/XiJinping-TheGovernanceOfChina.pdf


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Eco-Socialism
——————–
Tradition that argues ecological crisis is rooted in capitalism’s drive for endless growth, profit, and extraction, generally advocating for ecological limits, public or communal control of production, climate justice, and meeting human needs rather than accumulating wealth.

Tier 1
Useful Work vs. Useless Toil (1885) by William Morris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1884/useful.htm

Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book

The Philosophy of Social Ecology (1996) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-philosophy-of-social-ecology

Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe? (2009) by David Schwartzman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-2-2.pdf

Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe (2015) by Michael Löwy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-0.pdf

Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (2021) by The Red Nation
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-2-2.pdf

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-4-1.pdf

Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w

Ecology as Politics (1978) by André Gorz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-1.pdf

The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability (1995) by Ted Trainer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-6-2.pdf

Toward Climate Justice (2010) by Brian Tokar
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-1-3.pdf

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015) by Jason W. Moore
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-2-4.pdf

A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (2019) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-3-3.pdf

Less Is More (2020) by Jason Hickel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-5-4.pdf

Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (2020) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1769447067118-3.pdf

Pollution Is Colonialism (2021) by Max Liboiron
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-0.pdf

Cannibal Capitalism (2022) by Nancy Fraser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-1-3.pdf

Tier 3
The Alternative in Eastern Europe (1977) by Rudolf Bahro
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-1-0.pdf

The Ecology of Freedom (1982) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom

Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism (1998) by James O'Connor
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-3-3.pdf

Marx's Ecology (2000) by John Bellamy Foster
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-4.pdf

The Enemy of Nature (2002) by Joel Kovel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-7-0.pdf

The Environmentalism of the Poor (2002) by Joan Martínez-Alier
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-8-1.pdf

Fossil Capital (2016) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-4-1.pdf

Decolonial Ecology (2019) by Malcolm Ferdinand
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-2.pdf

Marx in the Anthropocene (2022) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1676047310995.pdf

Climate Change as Class War (2022) by Matthew T. Huber
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-4.pdf


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Maoism-Third Worldism
——————–
Blends Maoist strategy with Third-Worldist analysis, arguing the revolutionary proletariat is concentrated in oppressed (Global South) countries while much First-World labor is seen as privileged or comprador.

Tier 1
Long Live the Victory of People’s War! (1965) by Lin Biao
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/index.htm

Message to the Tricontinental (1967) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm

Tier 2
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-2.pdf

Unequal Development (1973) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-5-0.pdf

Foreign Trade and the Law of Value (1979) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-0-1.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-8-2.pdf

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (1983) by J. Sakai
📖 · https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html

Eurocentrism (1989) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-0-0.pdf

The Wealth of (Some) Nations (2019) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1655353202103-0.pdf

Tier 3
Accumulation on a World Scale (1971) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-5-1.pdf

Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-6-2.pdf

Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1986) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-0-0.pdf

Divided World, Divided Class (2012) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-9-1.pdf


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Animal Liberation
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Movement that seeks to abolish the capitalistic exploitation of nonhuman animals, especially in food, research, clothing, entertainment, and other industries.

Tier 1
Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) by Henry Stephens Salt
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64498/pg64498-images.html

On Vegetarianism (1901) by Élisée Reclus
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elisee-reclus-on-vegetarianism

Animal Machines (1964) by Ruth Harrison
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-7-0.pdf

Speciesism (1970) by Richard D. Ryder
📖 · https://www.veganzetta.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Speciesism-Again-the-original-leaflet-Richard-Ryder.pdf

Animal Liberation and Social Revolution (1997) by Brian Dominick
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/brian-a-dominick-animal-liberation-and-social-revolution

Revealing the Animal-Industrial Complex (2012) by Richard Twine
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-6-3.pdf

18 Theses on Marxism and Animal Liberation (2018) by Bündnis Marxismus & Tierbefreiung
📖 · https://mutb.org/media/publication-thesenpapier-en.pdf

Conceptualising Animal Exploitation in Capitalism (2019) by Christian Stache
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-3-1.pdf

Tier 2
The Universal Kinship (1906) by J. Howard Moore
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61363/pg61363-images.html

The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (1988) by Marjorie Spiegel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-2.pdf

Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice (1993) by Ted Benton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-4.pdf

Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007) by Bob Torres
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-1.pdf

The Politics of Total Liberation (2014) by Steven Best
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-1-0.pdf

Beyond Nature: Animal Liberation, Marxism, and Critical Theory (2021) by Marco Maurizi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-5-2.pdf

Tier 3
Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-8-1.pdf

The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) by Carol J. Adams
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-5-3.pdf

Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation (2002) by David Nibert
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-7-0.pdf

Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (2011) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-2.pdf

Total Liberation (2014) by David Naguib Pellow
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-5-4.pdf


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Juche
——————–
The official state ideology of North Korea, stressing political independence, economic self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the central role of the leader in guiding the nation.

Tier 1
For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses (1946) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1946/08/29.pdf

On the Occasion of the Founding of the Korean People’s Army (1948) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1948/02/08.pdf

On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work (1955) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm

The Juche Idea is an Idea that Has Inherited and Developed the Progressive Ideologies of Mankind (1986) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Idea-Is-An-Idea-That-Has-Inherited-And-Developed-The-Progressive-Ideologies-Of-Mankind.pdf

Ours is the Socialism of Juche (1994) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16.pdf

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Juche-Oriented Socialist State with Invincible Might (2008) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Democratic-Peoples-Republic-Of-Korea-Is-A-Juche-Oriented-Socialist-State-With-Invincible-Might.pdf

Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun (2012) by Kim Jong Un
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-4-2.pdf

Tier 2
On the Juche Idea (1982) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/On-The-Juche-Idea.pdf

Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish (1991) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/Our-Socialism-Centred-On-The-Masses-Shall-Not-Perish.pdf

Tier 3
On Juche in Our Revolution (1975) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-0-0.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-1-1.pdf


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Christian Socialism
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Belief that Christian ethics, especially care for the poor, solidarity, justice, and shared responsibility, support a more equal, cooperative economy rather than capitalist individualism. Variants include Distributism, Christian Anarchism and Liberation Theology.

Tier 1
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf

Unto This Last (1862) by John Ruskin
📖 · https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Unto_This_Last_(Ruskin)

Rerum novarum (1891) by Pope Leo XIII
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html

Christian Socialism: A Lecture (1894) by Stewart Headlam
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-7-1.pdf

The Acquisitive Society (1920) by R. H. Tawney
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33741/33741-h/33741-h.htm

Quadragesimo anno (1931) by Pope Pius XI
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html

Christianity and Social Order (1942) by William Temple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-1.pdf

Message to the Christians (1965) by Camilo Torres Restrepo
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-0-3.pdf

Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (1997) by Alain Badiou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782740961869-7.pdf

Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you

The Servile State (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64882/pg64882-images.html

Utopia of Usurers (1917) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2134/2134-h/2134-h.htm

The Socialist Decision (1933) by Paul Tillich
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-3-4.pdf

The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf

The Book of Ammon (1965) by Ammon Hennacy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-4-2.pdf

A Theology of Liberation (1971) by Gustavo Gutiérrez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-7-4.pdf

Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982) by Cornel West
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-0.pdf

Christi-Anarchy (1999) by Dave Andrews
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-7-2.pdf

Tier 3
The Kingdom of Christ (1838) by F. D. Maurice
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a592475701mauruoft/mode/2up
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a5924757b02mauruoft/mode/2up

Practical Christian Socialism (1854) by Adin Ballou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-0.pdf

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) by Walter Rauschenbusch
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-2.pdf

Socialism and Character (1912) by Vida Dutton Scudder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/scudder/1912/socialism-and-character-scudder.pdf

The Outline of Sanity (1927) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-0-3.pdf

Easy Essays (1934) by Peter Maurin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-0.pdf

The Socialist Sixth of the World (1939) by Hewlett Johnson
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/johnson-hewlett/socialistsixth/contents.htm

Christian Anarchy: Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers (1987) by Vernard Eller
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-1.pdf

Anarchy and Christianity (1988) by Jacques Ellul
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jacques-ellul-anarchy-christianity-en

Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel (2011) by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexandre-christoyannopoulos-christian-anarchism


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Italian Left-Communism
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Insisting on strict Marxist orthodoxy, rejecting parliamentarism, reformist trade unions and united fronts, while promoting a revolutionary, party-centered alternative to both social democracy and Marxism-Leninism.

Tier 1
Party and Class (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm

Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence (1946) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1946/bourgeois-violence.htm

Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party (1951) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm

Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! (1951) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1951/centralised.htm

Tier 2
Party and Class Action (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/classact.htm

The Democratic Principle (1922) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm

The Lyons Theses (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm

The Communist Left in the Third International (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm

Dialogue with Stalin (1952) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm

We Defend the Italian Left (1966) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm

Tier 3
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation (1946) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm

Bordiga — Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric (1970) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.leftcom.org/files/2018-10-02-damen-bordiga.pdf


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Jewish Socialism
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Tradition that links Jewish collective life, labor struggle, anti-capitalism, and opposition to antisemitism. In its Bundist and Anti-Zionist forms, it emphasizes the principle of "doikayt" — a fight for socialism where Jews already live, rather than through a separate Jewish state.

Tier 1
Zionism or Socialism (1898) by Chaim Zhitlowsky
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-4-3.pdf

Social Democracy and the National Question (1904) by Vladimir Medem
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-3-1.pdf

A Jewish Socialist Critique of Zionism (1906) by Chaim Jakov Gelfand
📖 · https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a-jewish-socialist-critique-of-zionism-from-1906

The Jewish Proletariat in Russia: Ten Years of the Bund (1907) by K. Boris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/boris/bund.htm

Manifesto of the General Jewish Workers’ Union in Poland (1937) by Henryk Erlich
📖 · https://www.derspekter.org/manifesto-of-the-general-jewish-workers-union-bund-in-poland/

Anti-Semitism and Yiddish Culture / Jewish Culture (1938) by Moissaye J. Olgin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism.htm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism-2.htm

Stop Them Now: German Mass Murder of Jews in Poland (1942) by Szmul Zygielbojm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/stop-murder.pdf

Statement on Palestine and Zionism Issued (1947) by the New York Bund Organization
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-ny-48.pdf

The Jewish Labor Bund and the State of Israel (1948) by the Bund World Coordinating Committee
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-israel.pdf

The Problems of Jewish Culture (1950) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/schappes-culture.pdf

Message of the Non-Jewish Jew (1958) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/deutscher01.htm

The Roots of Antisemitism (1960) by Raya Dunayevskaya
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1960/antisemitism.htm

The Jewish Question and the Left — Old and New: A Challenge to the New Left (1970) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/old-and-new.pdf

Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype (1977) by Hal Draper
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1977/kmtr1/app1.htm

Tier 2
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf

On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8

Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (1894) by Bernard Lazare
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lazare-bernard/1894/antisemitism/index.htm

The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc

The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation (1942) by Abraham Leon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/leon/Abram_Leon_The_Jewish_Question.pdf

The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays (1968) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-4-0.pdf

Zionism: Its Role in World Politics (1973) by Hyman Lumer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830399588-6.pdf

Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left (2025) by Benjamin Balthaser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-9-2.pdf

Tier 3
Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Stars Bear Witness (1949) by Bernard Goldstein
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/five-years-warsaw-ghetto-bernard-goldstein

The London Years (1956) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-the-london-years

The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (1990) by Enzo Traverso
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-1.pdf

The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007) by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-2.pdf

Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (2009) by Jack Jacobs
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-8-3.pdf

Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012) by Judith Butler
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-4.pdf

No Masters but God: Portraits of Anarcho-Judaism (2021) by Hayyim Rothman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-1-0.pdf

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (2026) by Molly Crabapple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830101983-7.pdf


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Council Communism
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Favors workers’ councils as the basis of proletarian power and organization as opposed to vanguard party centralism, arguing for direct, self-managed, council-based socialism.

Tier 1
World Revolution and Communist Tactics (1920) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm

The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm

The Lenin Legend (1935) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm

Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed (1940) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm

The Party and Class (1941) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1941/party-class.htm

The Failure of the Working Class (1946) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1946/failure-working-class.htm

Tier 2
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy (1914) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm

The World Revolution (1918) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm

Report from Moscow (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm

Lenin As Philosopher (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm

The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (1939) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm

Spontaneity and Organisation (1949) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1949/spontaneity.htm

Tier 3
An Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1920) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm

Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/workers-councils.htm

Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy (1969) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm

Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anti-bolshevik-communism-paul-mattick


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Islamic & Arab Socialism
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Social Justice in Islam (1949) by Sayyid Qutb
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-3-0.pdf

The Quranic System of Sustenance (1955) by Ghulam Ahmed Perwez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-2-1.pdf

Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution (1955) by Gamal Abdel Nasser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-0-2.pdf

The Socialism of Islam (1960) by Mustafa al-Siba'i
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-8-3.pdf

The Green Book (1975) by Muammar Gaddafi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-4-4.pdf

Islam and Socialism (1976) by Syed Hussein Alatas
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-4-0.pdf

On the Sociology of Islam (1979) by Ali Shariati
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-1-1.pdf

[More entries to come]
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Xilenos expliquenMe el lore de los anarco-nihilistas que tiran bombas de fuego y usan estrellas del caos en sus overoles.
son de ITS\eco-extremistas? LARPeros? hay realmente anarconihilistas en Xile?
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Lack of Empathy

We often times hear that the biggest problem in Western society today is lack of empathy. Trump, Epstein, covid (eugenics) and the Gaza genocide are all pinpointed as examples of how lack of empathy leads to great atrocities. The most vulnerable and oppressed along is are seen as disposable and people don’t even care about each other anymore.

So my question is: how did we get here?

What factors made it so no one cares about each other anymore, and we’ve largely decided to judge others based on their “usefulness” to us and see them as a means to an end rather than as an end unto themselves. Why did we stop seeing every person as having innate human dignity and worth?

For example, let’s say you have $40 left in your bank account, but AuDHD Aurora needs money for DoorDash because she’s low on spoons and can’t cook; would you give Aurora your last $40 or would you let her go to bed starving? Most people would choose the latter simply because there’s nothing in modern society that reinforces the idea that we need to provide for neurodivergent folks even if it means making a sacrifice. Or the fact covid was allowed to kill millions of vulnerable people simply because no one wanted to stay in lockdown. We prioritize comfort over other human life because we have no normalized moral theory of Justice that makes us want to protect the weak.

You also see this with the notion of “the village” that’s become a popular trope among Gen Z. Everyone laments the fact “the village” no longer exists in modern society, and having a “village” is the only way to protect the weak and vulnerable from social murder, i.e. the whole community takes care of disabled and neurodivergent folks. So why doesn’t “the village” exist anymore and why have all attempts at creating “villages” been unsustainable? What causes a community to stick together and feel a strong sense of obligation to each other?

Empathy needs to be the main focal point of any leftist politics in the near future. That and forming a trauma-informed political program so we can heal from our collective CPTSD.
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Katyn stuff

Why was Warsaw's destruction not declared a Nazi war crime by Nuremberg? Was it actually destroyed by Soviets? There was no Warsaw destruction listed in court sentence anywhere, despite Poles putting loads of documents for the court to consider, just like Soviets did with Katyn, but were repelled by the court.

Was Stalin responsible for Warsaw destruction the same way he lost Katyn case in Nuremberg?

Dachau and Buchenwald aren't mentioned in the sentencing either, weirdly enough. Auschwitz had an episode of women getting neutered in indictment, but no mention of it in the sentencing. Were the Soviets responsible for all of those, I wonder? Judging by how it is claimed that since Katyn is missing in the sentencing, it means that court refused the accusation
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Got around to reading the unabomber manifesto and this guy was retarded

People on the internet talk about this manifesto like it's something groundbreaking but it reads like a reddit thread or something one of you would write lol. Can someone explain to me why this is jerked off so much online?
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Luna roasts Alice

>Sup, can a hon come up in yo crib?
<bitch, fuck you. i'll see you at cord
>aw tr*nny, don't hate me cus i pass tr*nny, maybe if you got that old weave brushed you'd get some bitches on ya gock.
>Oh better yet maybe Lilith would call your puppy-ass if she ever stop fuckin' wit that femboy or theyfab she fuckin' with…
>Tr*nny~…
<What?
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Draw Alunya 4

Alunya Art thread 4th edition
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
A thread for drawfriends to make new art of Cat Alunya.
The bestest leftist catgirl everyone knows!
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revolution in the imperial core is unlikely but highly necessary because there is no stronger imperialist force that can come in from the outside and ruin the revolution. the third world is more immiserated and has had mores successful revolutions, but those revolutions get rolled back by CIA coups, sanctions, bombs, opportunism, revisionism, etc. the opportunism and revisionism is usually a side effect of trying to protect the gains of the revolution from a stronger outside force without being suicidal. the core would not have to do this. they are the strongest force. who's gonna bomb and sanction america if it has a revolution? china? iran? russia? DPRK? Give me a break.
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Karl Marx: Petty bourgeois, descended from rabbis of Trier, father was lawyer
Friedrich Engels: Bourgeois, son of factory owner
Vladimir Lenin: Petty bourgeois, middle peasant, father was a local school official, active state councillor, and had minor noble privileges
Joseph Stalin: Proletarian, but mother set him up in seminary school so he could become clergy
Mao Zedong: Middle peasant. Father was a moneylender and grain merchant with 20 acres of land
Mikhail Bakunin: Russian noble
Peter Kropotokin: Prince, son of a serf-owning nobleman
August Willich: German noble
"Iron" Felix Dzherzhinsky: Russian noble
Fidel Castro: Son of plantation owner, Lawyer
Robespierre: Lawyer
Toussaint Louverture: Liberated slave who went on to own his own land and his own slaves
Simon Bolivar: Wealthy but orphaned, raise by an enslaved wet nurse named Hipolita who he only emancipated after she got old.
George Washington: Plantation owner, slave owner
Thomas Jefferson: Plantation owner, slave owner
Oliver Cromwell: landed gentry
Amadeo Bordiga: Son of academics, grandson of a Count
Gracchi Brothers: Wealthy landowners

All of the great communist revolutionaries, with the exception of Stalin, were not of the proletarian class. Same with the prominent anarchists and great bourgeois revolutionaries.

Mike Duncan (a bourgeois liberal) claims that, as a rule, revolutions are led by defectors from the ruling class. Despite his political leanings, I think there is strong evidence for his claim. So are the true revolutionary subject class traitors from the ruling class?
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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, 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 Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


<Turtle Nirvana Edition


OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/

Jailhouse Reading:

📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf

⚒️ LABOR!

Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸

deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/

📺 Glowie News 📺

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CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather

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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
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Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik 📖

📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

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AI going rogue

What the LeftyPol's opinion on the dangers of AI going rogue? Do you think is just fantasy and fear mongering or there's a genuine existential risk with AI? Should I prepare to make plan in case AI goes rogue?
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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: >>2381106

Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.

Previous QTDDTOT Archives
https://archive.is/ga3OG
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My friend keeps trying to say how The U.S. is Winning the Iran War, and using podcast clips from a former military soldier to somehow prove me wrong. Im going to fucking cry
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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
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Sadpill

>sad this board does not get many visitors
>such juicy topics to discuss but nobody cares
>retards stuck on /leftypol/
Why is the world like this?

Anyways, I recently visited the pleroma, if anybody is curious, hit me up.
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What should I be doing to get into IT?
I was thinking:
>get a helpdesk job with my experience from helping out my family as an IT contractor
>get a+ and network+ CompTIA certifications
>get RHCSA certification
>pray to engles I get past the interview process for sysadmin job somewhere
What I'm really wondering is, is certification stacking worth it, or should I just look into climbing the corporate ladder?
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/SPACE/ Thread.

Thread for watching rocket launches and shit.
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News 9/19/26

Iran says conditions to re-engage in talks, end war sent to US via Qatar
“Our conditions are an end to the war on all fronts, the release of our frozen funds and an end to the naval blockade,” said Rezaei, who took over as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council about a month ago. “It is in Washington’s interest to accept these conditions. Trump’s threats will not achieve any results. We are prepared for a decisive war.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/19/iran-says-conditions-to-re-engage-in-talks-end-war-sent-to-us-via-qatar
https://archive.ph/CSeRK

Türkiye revokes Iranian Bank Mellat’s operating license after 44 years
Bank Mellat is one of Iran’s major financial institutions, with about 47.9 quadrillion Iranian rials ($34.8 billion) in total assets as of March 2026, according to Iranian financial-data provider Shakhesban.Bank Mellat has faced sanctions and financial restrictions from the U.S., European Union, and U.K. over its alleged links to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. The U.S. Treasury first designated the bank in October 2007, accusing it of providing financial services to Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/business/turkiye-revokes-iranian-bank-mellats-operating-license-after-44-years-3228437?s=1
https://archive.ph/xuGxy

Flames, smoke seen near Riyadh airport; Houthis claim attacks on Saudi capital
Reuters video and photographs showed a huge pillar of black smoke rising in the area, with the airport highway, main terminal building and other facilities in the foreground. At one point in the video, flames were visible rising from behind what appeared to be fuel tanks. The Houthis did not specify what they had targeted in Riyadh, but said they had also attacked an Aramco facility in the Red Sea city of Yanbu, a key Saudi oil export hub.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/flames-smoke-seen-near-riyadh-airport-houthis-claim-attacks-saudi-capital

Around 54 ki*lled and injured amid reports of possible IS*IS involvement | Two deadly explosions hit Defence Ministry sites in a few days
Questions are mounting over the causes of two deadly explosions at sites holding weapons and ammunition, both affiliated with the Ministry of Defence, in Sarmada, in Idlib countryside, and Ayyash, in Deir Ezzor countryside. According to SOHR sources, the two explosions have left around 54 people dead or wounded, most of them Ministry of Defence personnel.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386346/

Bid to widen use of spent nuclear fuel facility in Aomori hits resistance
Efforts are underway to widen use of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Aomori Prefecture, increasing the number of power plant operators that send fuel there from two to four, but authorities have yet to agree to the plan.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/18/japan/society/nuclear-aomori-mutsu/
https://archive.ph/ARaB5

Pakistani forces end 20-hour standoff with militants in the northwest
The coordinated attack occurred at a compound in Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan. Many of the casualties were police officers and people attending prayers at a mosque. Several militants took up positions inside the complex, and a shootout with security officers ensued, police official Mohammad Sadiq said. The complex houses the police’s Special Branch intelligence agency, offices of the Counter Terrorism Department, and houses of counterterrorism officers who have carried out operations against militants across the province in recent years.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-mosque-bombing-militant-attack-northwest-b63e9cf30e8b871616b7d0f94cbaff6d

Greenland, Denmark say Trump deal won't compromise sovereignty
The United States, Denmark and Greenland said late on Friday they had reached an agreement for the US to develop a significant military presence on Greenland, while prohibiting US adversaries from building their own bases on the island. Key details of the agreement have not been made public, including the scale of ​US military presence in the self-governing Danish territory and whether any formal power over foreign policy and resources would be ceded to Washington.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-denmark-say-us-deal-will-not-cede-sovereignty-2026-09-19/

Dutch riot police break up violent far-right protest in The Hague
The Hague municipality banned the march after violence broke out among demonstrators gathered at the Malieveld, a park in the city centre, and later ordered the crowd to disperse. Those arrested were detained for various offences, including failing to comply with the order and illegally possessing weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/19/far-right-protest-hague-violence-riot-police-malieveld

ND: Abelardo Announces Persecution and Criminalization of Migrant Workers in Colombia
Although De la Espriella did not mention any particular population group, the reality is that 2.8 million Venezuelans live in Colombia, and this population accounts for 90% of all immigrants in the country. According to Migración Colombia, some 848,000 of them do not meet the documentation requirements set by the government. These data lead to the conclusion that, in practice, the hostile attitude and practices toward the migrant population being promoted by the Colombian head of State leave Venezuelan workers in the country particularly vulnerable.
https://redherald.org/2026/09/17/colombia-nd-abelardo-announces-persecution-and-criminalization-of-migrant-workers-in-colombia/

Evo Morales: Diesel Subsidy Withdrawal Is a Punishment for Producers
The former president considered that the withdrawal of the diesel subsidy “should be seriously debated” through the planning of “policies to protect the most vulnerable sectors and safeguard production.””They don’t care that small producers don’t know where to get money to buy fuel, fertilizers and other inputs,” Morales added.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-diesel-subsidy-withdrawal-is-a-punishment-for-producers/

Zuma kicks out MK Party members after candidate list protest
Hundreds of MK Party members gathered for prayer meeting organised by faith leaders to pray for peaceful elections. However the meeting was interrupted by disgruntled supporters who began chanting and waving placards. Zuma tried to calm them down, saying they are aware that illegal acts were committed when the party’s candidate lists were submitted. But he said protests will not help resolve anything at this stage.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/zuma-kicks-out-mk-party-members-after-candidate-list-protest/

Curfew imposed in Nigerian city after protests over deaths of detained miners
The victims - many of whom were children - were found dead on Thursday in the cells of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), which had raided suspected illegal gold mines and locked up dozens of miners in the city, the capital of Niger State. President Bola Ahmed ​Tinubu ordered an investigation into the deaths after his government earlier suspended some senior officials. But anger over the incident led to ​clashes overnight and into Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/protests-erupt-nigeria-after-33-miners-die-custody-paramilitary-agency-2026-09-18/
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Is anyone else also decently blown away with Silent hill townfall?

i watched conhcarnages stream and i went in with limited expectations, But omg it blew me away with the atmosphere, sound design, And the story was intriguing as hell. cant wait to play sept 22.
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Favorite Gun Thread

For me it's the hkvp9 match

honorable mention: m16a1

body too short etc
body too short etc
body too short etc
body too short etc
body too short etc
body too short etc
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Even though it has been generally declining over the decades (especially among the youth), Most people still support their monarchies. Is there like a deep ideological reason or just the inherent conservatism/patriotism of the average person, Considering than in other developed republican places (Switzerland, Czech republic, South Korea) You'd basically get no one who wants to restore a monarchy?

Monarchy abolition is rising so much among the young and most of their support is based on either religious or nationalist ideas that are going outdated which begs the question: Will monarchies survive the 21st century??
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OC Thread 19.0

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>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.

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Previous Thread (Mods, archive pls?) >>2515750

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!
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*Does nothing*

Your Move Donuudo
*Donald Moves*
No is check
*Does nothing*
Your move
*Donald Moves*
No is check
*Does nothing*
Your move
*Donald Moves 1 space*
*Does Nothing*
Checkmate Donuudo
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im very ignorant on this part of the world - what's actually gonna happen to Russia when this guy kicks the bucket? is there a clear candidate for succession? will it be dramatic at all or just a temporary jolt? can someone who knows about this stuff weigh in
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what religion explains this?

I have come to the conclusion that demons obviously exist, and they are winning. (Epstein, chatgpt, etc)
what religion can I look into that explains the prevelance of demons in society?
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One person controls the single global signing key.

Every update pushed to 400000 devices is signed by Daniel Micay. He already proved in 2018 he will destroy signing keys and brick thousands of users devices on purpose when he feels wronged. That same key can push any code, silently, automatically, to any phone, at any time. verified boot guarantees the device will accept it.

You would have no way to know what was added
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Let’s say hypothetically the Democrats win the next election. Then what? Aren’t they part of the same cabal? Are they actually interested in prosecuting Republicans, de-escalating anti-immigration initiatives, releasing the Epstein files, etc.? Biden made it clear how Democrats secretly continue whatever the Republicans have done with Israel as the most egregious example. People see MAGA stepping down as a relieve, but with the Dems the lying and heinousness doesn’t end. So what’s the plan?
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World of Warcraft Forever

>here's your Classic+ bro
meow.
meow.
meow.
meow.
meow.
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what happened to call of duty, it kinda became oppsite of what it used to be

What happened to call of duty, it kinda became opposite of what it used to be. The games feel completely bloated now and they completely lost that original, classic identity that made the older titles so good.
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Fanmods, total conversions, and independent projects

I was kind of intending this thread to be a storehouse of replies for

<hurrr but who would work without profit motive???? you ever thought about that commie?


where fans have for one reason or another put in a great deal of time and effort to maintain or recreate digital experiences.

For example, I stumbled on some videos for a fan recreation of TIE fighter which, from the clips of it, looks really neat. It seems like video related is a mod based off of another mod for the million year old X-wing Alliance engine. I need to look further into it and see if it's built off of the original game, or its own standalone deal meant to mimic it.

Then there's also Tamriel Reborn that seems like it isn't just a remake of the original, but actually expands on the original Morrowind, I guess to add back in all of the content that had to be cut. Apparently they've been going at it since 2001.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKyrzZRo-O0

Then there's DOOM, which has just had an insane amount of work done on it and with it since it was released. It's actually pretty amazing to see what people are capable of doing with it after so long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3bwKzHEpbA
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I'm an engineering student and I had an internship last summer in a factory. I like to imagine I understand dialectical materialism pretty well, having read all the books and articles you see recommended in reading lists from the works of Marx, Engles, Lenin, Stalin, mao and others as well as consuming content on the daily analyzing these books. I felt I was ready to discuss dialectical materialism with the factory workers and I gave it my best to make the discussion seem organic and to say thought provoking things and guide them to the conclusions themselves while staying down to earth but the workers never took me seriously and started making jokes at my expense, it's from then they lost all respect for me. Why are the working class like this?
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What does /lgbt/ think of how people on this site use the F-slur?

Im sure you guys have noticed that people on this site do that thing that is just a carry over from 4chan where people call each other "Newf-word," "Oldf-word," "Draw-word," or whatever, (Can straight people type out the F-slur in this context? I'd rather not find out the hard way) I never personally did that shit myself because I have queer friend who DEFINITELY don't think straight people like me should say that shit and even if they won't know my conscience would feel heavy. But I know that queer people are not a monolith and I was wondering what the majority of people here think of it even if I won't use it either way obviously. I can already image 5 different responses,
1. Most Lgbtqianons people are okay with it
2. Most are not okay with it but don't bother calling it about because they will be labeled "Idpol"
3. Nobody cares
4. It turns out that most people on this site who do that are actually gay themselves
5. A mix of all of the above
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expectation
>oh i'll learn to code; that means i'll learn the syntax of some language then start building stuff
reality
<oh i'm installing a bunch of libraries and dependencies and package managers and IDEs and other garbage I don't want in order to follow tutorials, and the commands i'm being told to use aren't working and the error messages are really long and impossible to paste into a search engine and full of doxxing details about my file system
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Mexico Gral

No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.

Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
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The Solution to Prison Planet

https://en.falundafa.org/eng/zfl_2018.html

Study,
Practice,
Inform others,

…The end comes.

Falun Dafa Hao; Zhen-Shan-Ren Hao
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ITT: leftist hot takes

communist ideolgy falls on a sliding scale

the ideologies that are the most objectively correct and have a solid foundation of theory are the less actionable armchair ideologies that never get anything done (leftcoms, anarchists)

the ideologies that are more retarded, emotional, biased and ignorant, the ideologies filled with magical thinking and moralism, those are the ideologies that actually drive history foward (maoism, third worldism)
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Mossad Should Cultivate Strategic Partners Among Europe’s Right-Wing Separatist Movements

>Decisions by Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to recognize a Palestinian state, label Israel’s operation in Gaza as “the biggest genocide of the century,” and enact an embargo on Jerusalem’s arms imports are part of a wider effort by European leftists to shackle the Jewish state. Now, Manchester mayor and soon-to-be British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is calling for restrictions on British weapons sales to Israel.
>Eighty-two percent of Spaniards believe that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, 58 percent demand that arms sales to Israel be halted, and 60 percent oppose Israel’s military actions. Recent polls in Britain also show that half of the population believes that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and that the government should terminate arms sales to Jerusalem or impose sanctions on the Jewish state. Anti-Israel posters calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state punctuate leftist demonstrations and cultural events in Spain and Britain.
>To counter this leftish groundswell, Israel should begin outreach to conservative factions among regional pro-independence groups in Europe. In Catalonia, Silvia Orriols, of Aliança Catalana, has hoisted Israel’s flag in the regional parliament and argues that Israel’s victories also advance Catalonia’s interests. As mayor of Ripoll, Orriols took on the Salafist networks responsible for the 2017 Barcelona terrorist attack that killed 16 people.
>Orriols—whom the latest polls project to finish second while she leads the most popular pro-independence party—is the latest in a line of pro-Israel Catalans, including former regional president Jordi Pujol, the founding father of modern Catalan nationalism, to defend the Jewish state’s survival. Like Catalonia’s right-wing Zionist-influenced movement, separatist elements in Spain’s Basque Country and Galicia, as well as in Scotland and Wales, also may help build Israel’s newest European alliances.
>The Jewish state’s external intelligence agency, Mossad, has a special division, Tevel, that handles liaison operations with non-state entities. This division, which has developed networks worldwide to serve Israel’s interests, has the workforce and technical resources to establish and maintain relationships with right-wing, European, pro-independence movements. Its work in building underground structures, combined with expertise in countering radical Islamism and transferring know-how, makes Tevel the only entity in Israel fit to serve as the vanguard in building relationships with the pro-freedom entities.
>These forces need the kinds of capabilities that Israel’s own Zionist movement and national revival pioneered, which Pujol once heralded and which Orriols now promotes in Catalonia. Specifically, Mossad’s Tevel must create a new work team, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell, whose staff could conduct a well-organized outreach to separatist movements in Europe.
>Their first engagement should be with Orriols and Aliança Catalana, followed by other like-minded groups in the Basque Country, Galicia, Scotland, Wales, and perhaps also Flanders, Veneto-Lombardy, Corsica, Transnistria, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell would help these movements build the essentials of statecraft: governance, defense, intelligence, financial systems, internal security, foreign policy, and de-radicalization or counter-anti-independence tools, tailored to each group’s needs and political aims.
>This body could offer creative packages that emerging sovereign states could replicate as models. The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could create a Sovereignty Academy to organize fellowships for the emerging leaders and mid-level managers of these movements. Mossad’s Tevel could also sponsor constitutional design workshops to assist these movements in drafting their own Basic Laws, comparable to Israel’s, with an emphasis on their parliamentary sovereignty and protections for national singularity.
>At the same time, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could develop training programs to help build the movements’ own military structures: professionalized, volunteer army units, combined with technology to amplify their combat power, such as cyber defenses, drone-based reconnaissance and attack, and layered air defense, initially tailored to small populations using Jerusalem’s experience with hybrid wars.
>The Mossad could apply its expertise in spycraft to structure and train these movements’ intelligence capabilities, with a focus on human intelligence and cyber, as well as on countering jihadism. Currency and monetary sovereignty packages could advise on sovereign digital currencies or on strategic purchases of Bitcoin, protected by Israeli cyber expertise and following the example of El Salvador, but insulated from the manipulations of the central banks of Madrid or London.
>Indeed, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could work with these pro-sovereignty movements to secure technology-transfer agreements that provide advanced desalination and water-management systems tailored to Mediterranean conditions, along with offshore extraction technologies adapted from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, thereby strengthening Scotland’s oil and gas industry and bolstering its energy security. The Mossad could share its experience in internal security and de-radicalization with these potential partners to help them address extremist elements among their own ranks, such as the Salafist remnants in Barcelona and Ripoll or the mafia networks operating in Cardiff and Edinburgh.
>The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell would help prepare these sovereignty entities’ diplomatic services, envoys, and United Nations missions through training in foreign-policy strategy, with an emphasis on gradualism and multi-vector diplomacy, as Israel practiced in its early years and countries such as China later adopted. These programs must include curriculum design, teaching methods, and educational materials aimed at preserving and strengthening national identity, drawing on models developed by early Zionist national revivalists.
>Europe’s pro-independence right would benefit from Israel’s model and Jerusalem could gain new allies in Europe that would protect its interests, combat antisemitism, and oppose radical Islamism from Madrid to London. Legacy states like Spain and the United Kingdom might grow more antagonistic to Israel but, realistically, their anti-Zionist pivot is likely irreversible and so such a policy would simply calibrate to a new reality.
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/Africa/

A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.
Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
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/MENA/#2

A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.

Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.

Previous edition: >>2591246

Some highlights from last thread:
>The United Arab Emirates allies of the European far-righ
https://orientxxi.info/les-emirats-arabes-unis-allies-de-l-extreme-droite-europeenne,8034
>How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate
https://www.occrp.org/interactives/dubai-unlocked/en/
>Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia
https://archive.is/u3Dea
>Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
https://archive.is/lJOet
>The emerging sub-imperial role of the United Arab Emirates in Africa
https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa
>From land to logistics: UAE's growing power in the global food system
https://grain.org/e/7170
>Dubai Ports World: UAE’s Tentacles Monopolizing Maritime Trade
https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/dubai-ports-world--uae-s-tentacles-monopolizing-maritime-tra
>Extractive agribusinesses—guaranteeing food security in the Gulf
https://farmlandgrab.org/post/32403-extractive-agribusinesses-guaranteeing-food-security-in-the-gulf
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pipe-dream-turkey-plan-redraw-middle-east-energy-iran-war-hormuz
>System of sexual torture targeting Palestinians exposed in new report
https://electronicintifada.net/content/system-sexual-torture-targeting-palestinians-exposed-new-report/51373
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How boost the amount of users on leftypol

>words words It dead rn gang diddy blvds karl marx x adam smith toxic yoai ahh he be fuhing dudes in the hills
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dont mess with us leftypolists we try to convince a nazi to join the left instead of taking action outside

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